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

.... touch the radiator and then say 'cor blimey it's hot in here, like a ing sauna'!

Why do they have to touch a raditor to apparently know it's hot in a room?

It drives me nuts and if BigR does it one more time I'll chop his ing hands of

Ha!

I was once in a sauna in a hotel gym and *every single one* of the guys who came in said...

...well I hardly need complete the sentence, do I?

I mean you'd have thought that if the wooden benches, the bucket of water with ladle and the sweaty men wearing only towels and trying to avoid looking one another in the eye hadn't given it away, maybe the sign saying 'Sauna' would have.

Oh. And some moron threw Olbas oil onto the hot coals.

Why is it that men feel the need to check when a sign says "Wet Paint "?

Why do men never multi-task? They insist on doing only one thing properly at a time, when they could make a half-arsed attempt to do several at once.

Strange they normally do one thing half-assed at a time in the hope that a woman will never ask them to do that job again

I've never known a man do this... Nor, for that matter, felt the need to touch a radiator myself to know the room is warm... I'm more likely to touch the radiator if the room is cold, to assertaine how recently the radiator has been on, or weather it is in the process of coming on, before twiddling the thermostat to put the heating on

2 legs I thought we'd agreed that you're an experiment therefore you are not going to follow normal person procedure

>>only one thing properly at a time<<

Ah well, see, it's like this

Aim for acceptable & you'll get rubbish
aim for perfection & you might get acceptable

>>Why is it that men feel the need to check when a sign says "Wet Paint "?

You mean it's a warning, not an instruction?

I keep forgetting I'm an experiment... More a prototype I think than a finished article...
Can most men really not multitask? hmmm.... does thinking about sex whilst doing something else get classified as multitasking?

Hmm, I also can't remember seeing men going around touching radiators. Except to check if the reason it's so cold in the room is because it has stopped working.

"Why do men never multi-task? They insist on doing only one thing properly at a time, when they could make a half-arsed attempt to do several at once" [quotes]

But the result of doing several things in a mediocre fashion would be that the women in their lives would then redo the tasks to get them right.

In any event, science is on the side of those who don't multitask. It would actually *save time* and *result in better performance* if the tasks were done one at a time, regardless of the gender doing them.

Having said that, there are some men who multitask (and do it well), and some women who can't. The range within each gender is pretty wide, just as with intleligence or math skills or anything else.

However, the world is the way we find it. You just have to multitask sometimes. There's just no avoiding it. if there's someone in your life [male, female, other] who can do it well and who wants to do it for you, you're golden.

For the record, I'm a guy, and I have never said "Cor climey, it's hot in here." I've never said "Cor blimey" at all.

If those words came out of my mouth I'd have to kill myself.

I only ever touch a radiator to make sure it's acutally working (i.e. giving out even heat from top to bottom).

Maybe radiators, like, you know, enjoy being touched...

depends what one means by multitasking. Thinking about several, unrelated things, at the same time, whilst doing something more hands-on is surely still multitasking.... Most multitasking isn't really multitasking anyhow, its side-by-side-tasking... ; Having several documents open, your only working on one at a time, but flicking between them, or doing several chores about the house at the time, your relaly only doing one at a time (Like when I'm making bread, and doing other stuff in the big long bits of waiting for stuff to happen, useually making two or three differnt breads 'at the same time', plus doing laundry, hoovering and dusting etc, listenign to the radio, etc., etc., But, again at any one point in time your only doing one of the several tasks which are all underway...) I think

Bleeding radiators!

I have to do it regularly.

Like what Icy said - Men touch the top of a radiator to establish if "Bleeding" is required. Top of Rad cold + bottom hot = Bleed rad

Men then would be free to roam the house, checking the top cold/bottom hot ratio before deciding that there is a problem to resolve. Problem can be resolved by quic trip to B&Q (Via the local for a or )

Not pointless at all......

"Why is it that men feel the need to check when a sign says "Wet Paint "?"

This is not a man thing. It's a specifically English, or possibly Western, man thing.

There's a possibly apocryphal story that engineers tell about the first Japanese car plants in the West. After much expensive installation and testing, the factory is ready for inspection. Safety inspector does the rounds, and admires the huge, rapidly moving robots whizzing the massive, heavy panels to and fro as the cars are assembled. Inspector turns to the Japanese factory manager and asks, "Where are the guards?". Japanese factory manager indicates a line painted on the floor labelled "Do not cross". All workers are instructed that they do not cross the line, and they do not cross the line.

Inspector chuckles, and points out that this is not Japan, where people have a long cultural tradition of conformity to authority. Here, he tells them, if you put up a sign saying "Wet Paint", the FIRST thing most people will do is touch the paint to see if it's wet. Japanese nod understandingly, and install proper guards around their robots.

Not sure if the story happened as portrayed, but it's an accurate representation of a real cultural difference.

"watch out its hot"
*puts hand on hotplate*
yep... its hot