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If one woman is going, everyone tends to go so they don't cause multiple interruptions. Some women feel awkward about having to excuse themselves individually. There is obviously a component here that women almost always could use a visit to the restroom, where a lot of men don't. But I've heard the more often you go, the more often you have to.
Maybe the other women leave in order to avoid the inevitable quoting from "Dirty, Rotten Scoundrels" that will inevitably follow any such announcement.
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Now that I think about this logically, it makes perfect sense. Let's say it's a party of three couples.
Woman #1 needs to pee, but she doesn't want to go alone for fear of rapists, etc. She casts a meaningful look at woman #2 as she stands up. Woman #2, taking the hint, stands up. Not wanting to be left alone with three men, two (or three) of whom she hardly knows, woman #3 also stands.
The men, being utterly incapable of detecting hints of any kind, talk about peeing with French women after they leave.
And to think my dad told me women were incomprehensible.
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In some countries, homosexual marriage is legal. Then again, in some countries, such as this one, both polygamy and polyandry are legal. So, does me mentioning my husband really say anything about my gender? :dontknow: Posts: 83 | Registered: Nov 2004
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That's because you're ignorant of how male marriage partners are addressed by other male marriage partners, meaning that you aren't in such a marriage.
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Do gay men ever affect or enhance the inability to find their way around a building? I guess since their hypothalami are small, and that is the direction center in rats, it is possible.
It's not that they do all have to pee simultaneously, but they know they will at some point during the next couple of hours, so why not now?
The DRS quote I was thinking of was "Brother, may I go to the bathroom?" "Yes, Ruprecht".
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There's the story of the vow of silence at the monastery, where the monks spoke only for a minute every twenty years, where the first question a monk asked was, "Where's the bathroom?"
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You missed the best part after "Yes Ruprecht.": "Thank you." followed with a relived facial expression.
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Hey trousercruit, question for you. I write for the 100 Hour Board, and we just received a question about you. Or, rather, we just received a question about Mr. Writing Person. The question reads:
I've been reading Mr. Writing Person (mr-writing-person.blogspot.com). As he suggests, I'm working on using subjugular normative form for emphasis in my writing. ("Swang" for "swing," and "brang" for "bring," for example. In use: "Suddenly, the door swang open!!!") I'm having problems identifying others, especially since some seem to be doing double duty with past tense forms, like "sang" for "sing." Also, "thank" seems to be the subjugular normative form of "think," but I'm not sure. "He thank about it long and hard" reads funny. . . .
[I]s Mr. Writing Person related to Mister Language Person? If he's not, who is he?
-Continually Learning Mom [edited for length and . . . stuff]
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I sent an email. It had problems the first time, so I sent it again. The second email, which appears to have gotten to you, may have some formatting issues. If so, I apologize.
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I knew a speaker of another language who produced "thank" as a past tense of "think" once.
So does this thread come up if you google "Mr. Writing Person"? Or is Ambrosia an alias that trousercuit set up? I'm so skeptical, it really is a shame I can't enjoy the wonder of life more.
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It's okay to be jealous of women and fame and glory and millions in advertising revenue, pooka. EDIT: And hoptoad. By the way, the acid test will be whether the question shows up on the 100 Hour Board. Or maybe not, because I could secretly be in on that, too. But then, why would I post here under a pseudonym looking for myself if that were true?
Anyway, right now, it turns up when you Google for "mr. writing person" subjugular normative, but not mr. writing person subjugular normative or "mr. writing person" or mr. writing person (with or without quotes).
I checked out the 100 Hour Board before sending my response to ambrosia. It's a Q&A thingy hosted by the BYU Linguistics department, and really quite interesting to read. (About 1/2 of the questions may be interesting only to Mormons, BYU students, or Provo residents, though.) I also discovered that the guy who wrote "Life, by Dan Brown," that Da Vinci Code parody, knows a lot of these people in real life (not just online - I think). Also, a couple of them linked to Hatrack from their blogrolls.
It's a small, small, interconnected world. I'd love to run some graph analysis on this stuff.
Has this ever gotten off-topic. Peeing French women, anyone?
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I was going to make comment on single women bathroom-herding vs. married woman bathroom-herding, but I'm afraid I came into the conversation too late and the topic is moot. ;P
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Hum-Kay. I think the inital assertation that women go in to check their make-up and hair usually, not always, applies to single women. Married women, unless trying to impress husband's bosses or clandestine lovers or future sisters-in-laws, are going to the bathroom to go to the bathroom. Women in general tends towards herding because we want to talk to other women about what women like to talk about. If a woman get stuck alone at the table with the men, then we're forced to talk about things men like to talk about, which isn't any fun to anyone but a man.
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Alrighty, since I asked for help, I thought some of you would be interested that I've finally posted the column that deals with this, er, "issue."
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The world isn't populated with just heroin addicts and kissing practicers, Beth.
It's populated with heroin addicts, kissing practicers, and nit chewers. I'd be lying to my readers if I didn't produce examples that were representative in the aggregate.
Actually, here's the deal: heroin addicts aren't funny to portray, just to talk about. (A lot of humorous stuff is like that.) And the kissing practice... I just plum forgot. I could have had one of the guys snogging a spigot and everything. D'oh!
EDIT: Hmm... it's not too late to change it...
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Bah! Curse that Mr. Writing Person and his actions and gestures! I can't get the full comedic effect of "snogging a spigot" in the first example because it's not supposed to use descriptive verbs. It doesn't fit in the second, and in the third, Mr. Writing Person is so utterly clueless that he wouldn't even come close to having the ladies practice kissing. They're too busy making mutagen-injected nuclear garden lizards jealous...
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I found the real truth in the Q and A on a friend's website:
quote:--Why do girls always go to the bathroom in groups? What's up with that? Are they scared they'll fall in or something, and need a friend to rescue them?
I believe it is because in the girls bathrooms there are enchanted portals into another realm, a realm in which the females are in a desperate battle against an ambigous alien oppressor, and "having to pee" is just code for "I have to go save the alternate universe, my commander just contacted me via internal communicating system," a system I can only speculate is in one of the regions specific to girls only. I also believe that one Sian Ricketts must be an otherworldly Joan of Arc, as she is called into battle far too many times for there to be any other explanation.
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Your fatal mistake was trying to pretend that women would have actual bodily functions just like men. Of course, it would seem logical for men to believe it, but the concept is simply so contrary to a man's fundamental sense of reality that no man truly believes it. When you use such a fundamantally unbelievable story as your cover, it's sure to fall apart sooner rather than later.
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They do exactly the same thing that men do in the bathroom, except they wash their hands afterward.
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I always go to the restroom with other women to plot the next phase of our world takeover plan. The bathroom is the safest location for plotting, but first we discuss boring things like lipstick in case anyone is listening in. By the time we get to, "Honey Rose stays on better than Frosted Pink," it's a sure bet no one is listening anymore.
Well, sometimes we go in groups to plot talking our dates out of going to a horror movie. Then we make them watch a grainy foreign film with eye-straining yellow subtitles instead.
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Oh darn, I've said too much, It was okay to talk about bathroom plans for world takeover, but our fiendish use of yellow foreign film subtitles was a secret! Posts: 187 | Registered: Jun 2006
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Oh, fine. Now I suppose you are going to reveal the fact that ChickFlick films are actually our source of imbedded, subliminal secret code information, which is where we get our command orders from the Galactic Interpol Revolutionary Liberation Squad (GIRLS). Way to go with spilling the beans... Posts: 2026 | Registered: Mar 2005
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Blast you, Elan, you're a member of those upstarts? GIRLS wages psychological warfare not only on men but on rival women's organizations such as TAMPON (Tough Active Menacing People Overawing Nations). Yeah, I know, we're working on the name, okay? The problem is these darn committees can't come to an agreement on anything.
The point is, chick flicks destroy the brain cells of both men and women and can cause undignified bouts of crying and giggling. It's like dropping a nuke. Sure it kills your enemy, but the fallout kills everyone else around, too.
Never mind, we'll deal with your sort at the international level. WOMB (The Women's Oversight-committee on Mental Bombs), having finally realized the devastating effects of chick flicks, is sure to declare their use a crime against humanity.
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EDIT: And hoptoad. By the way, the acid test will be whether the question shows up on the 100 Hour Board. Or maybe not, because I could secretly be in on that, too. But then, why would I post here under a pseudonym looking for myself if that were true?
