h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

That's true enough too, it does come down to the people we meet, and this *is* only the net, where people are generally nicer to each other anyway...but that's the thing, behind all of those clickable links are real people, we aren't some sort of freak race...it's always been considered naive to say "Why can't people just be nice to each other"...but here we are, it's just unfortunate that you haven't met the sort of people that are on h2g2 irl...I haven't met many male friends irl that are like the majority of guys (or unknowns ) on h2g2, so I tend to have a lower opinion of males as friends, but I know that there must be males out there that can be trusted, and relied upon, I just haven't come across any yet...

Well, I guess it depends on whether you guys are thinking with your brains or some other part of your anatomy...
agcB

I doubt the majority of guys were thinking with any other part of their anatomy when talking to me... Don't you go getting insulting and ruining your own point...

Actually i have to say that I have had to ditch an awful lot of female friends over the last few years who have turned out to be so toxic, that Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth protest against them!

Didn't mean it like that. Can't actually think with my own brain today. I am full of headcold.

Aaaaaahhhhh-tiiiiish-oooooo!

a pink-nosed snot-baby called Ben

Both views are right. The jaundiced view of males and the jaundiced view of females. Actually - there shouldn't be apportioning of blame because that's the way we've evolved. Women behave in a highly supportive way towards other females of the group, unless there is competition for males. Men have evolved to be crude and violent. It's a shame. They can't help it, but it doesn't mean we have to like it. The nice thing is that human behaviour is very diverse and there are always those who go against the general trend.

I'll say one thing, whether girls are more toxic than guys, or guys are less reliable friends, or whatever the case may be; females are generally *much* better at vitriolic descriptions of ex-friends...

*looks innocent*

Actually, a friend of mine (who is letting me sleep in her son's bed and putting up with sharing her bed with a 10 year old boy so I can stay here at low cost), and I were talking about this subject at the w/e.

She reckons that if there is an even number of women they will tend to be supportive of each other, but an odd number (3, 5, 7, etc) tend to polarise more, and may gang up on each other. I don't know if I agree with her, but I am going to start watching to see if I think she is right.

Maybe it is an age thing. I didn't know how to make friends with other girls when I was in my teens, I didn't feel the need to in my 20s. Now, as I said, if I had to live the rest of my life without men or without women, I would live it without men. And - hey - I LIKE men!

So maybe as you get older, you get more aware of how much we need and can help each other. S**t happens, and all that.

Hell, I dunno.

*sneezes, blows nose, gulps honey and lemon, feels sorry for self*

the pink-nosed snot-baby called Ben

You can always tell the guilty ones by how innocent they look when you turn around to try and spot them after you've had a blackboard duster thrown at the back of your head...I wonder if such a lesson has any applicability here...

poor Ben - that looks like a helluva cold!

I've just got over one, and it sounds worse than mine...*offers blanket-sized hanky*

How did they get hold of the blackboard rubber in the first place?

BBS

Dunno how they got the blackboard rubber - but I got my cold from a man....!

*grins evilly, and then tries to look innocent*

agcB

Well I got sick because I was so stressed about a girl, so I guess the sexes are even... And you'd be amazed at the number of people carrying unlicensed concealed dusters...

*nods in agreement*

I always get my heart broken and always go into a massive sulk for a few days which culminates in a migraine

Happily my stress was unfounded, or at least not as well founded as I feared...there haven't exactly been pledges of undying love, but she hasn't given me the cold shoulder as I thought she had been, so I should at least get to know her well enough to find out if she's worth stressing over...

I´d say that uneven number goes for both sexes. It get less stable with uneven numbers. Which is why you usually don´t have stuff like expeditions of 3 people.

Males might be violent, but they´re not violent against their friends. While women are evil to the ones they call their friends. That´s where I think the difference is. I´d like to think women are all about sisterhood and that kind of stuff, but that just isn´t the picture I´ve gotten. And that´s what I have to go with.

And about where I meet women, I don´t mean these are women I meet in a bar. Just basically women everywhere of all ages.

Most guys are morons, I have to agree with that. But you can´t blame someone for being stupid, only for being cruel. Like women.

No wonder Apollo 13 went wrong then...

So, as this thread would have it, or at least these last two leds would have it, females are cruel backstabbers and men are violent morons...makes you wonder why we even bother, really, we should all just get on the 'B' Ark and crashland on another planet...

And I seem to remember a fellowship of nine that eventually turned out okay...