Wives don't understand home repair.

Nope, that wasn't a *political* statement. Palin's idiocy, illiteracy, and ignorance just grates on me however.

nate

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Nate Nagel
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Men are much better at spatial relationships. For a couple of million years, the hunters who could more accurately judge the flight of a spear brought home more food, thereby ensuring the survival of his offspring and, perforce, passing the gene on.

Map reading is one residual of that gene. A male usually rotates the map in his head; most women have an easier time rotating the map itself.

[Conversely, women, who had no evolutionary advantage for a spatial relationship gene, didn't select for that trait. They had another. Females were the "gatherers" in the society. The female who "enjoyed" gathering, and did it better than her contemporaries, stood a better chance of her children surviving (on nuts and berries) when the men-folk staggered back home empty-handed and smelling of beer. This gene has NOT fallen away and explains why women enjoy shopping!]
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HeyBub

Yup. My wife has absolutely zero spatial aptitude. If two roads don't cross she asks if one can take the second to get to the other side of the first. When we moved to a large(er) city for a contracting job (Akron, OH) I got her a GPS because I knew she'd be perpetually lost otherwise.

That doesn't even help. She just can't "get" the relationship between the map and reality. The "box" tells her, "turn right in 2 miles" and if it's wrong (not unusual) she's toast. I gave up on her navigation 40 years ago.

;-)

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krw

Liar. It *was* a political statement (as was mine).

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krw

What, does it keep falling down? I hate it when that happens! ;-)

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krw

Yeah. She's too filled up with the idea that you have to live on what you bring in that she can't grasp the concept of having a spending account with no bottom, and leaving it for your children, grandchildren, and all future progeny to pay off your debt. Definitely not political cloth.

Steve

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Steve B

"HeyBub" wrote in news:_JCdnbUfKIIMUYnQnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.com:

We were on vacation when I was a kid. My father was driving. We were lost. My mother got out the map to navigate. Then my father blurted out "let's pick a direction and drive in it". That was before she even had a chance to look at the map. Too funny.

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RobertPatrick

I realize that you may find this hard to believe, but it really wasn't a political statement. I just can't stand her. Listening to her speak is like being forced to listen to Justin Bieber on endless repeat. How anyone could find that admirable escapes me.

nate

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Nate Nagel

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Take away her looks and she would be instantly exposed for the empty- headed bubble brain she is. That she thinks she has a hope in hell of ever being president only shows her moronicity (see I can make up words too, can I be president?)

Harry K

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Harry K

"h" wrote in news:if4tvc$u22$ snipped-for-privacy@speranza.aioe.org:

You need to learn how to snip messages. I didn't write anything you included here. I did reply to this thread once, tho.

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RobertPatrick

What the hell have you been smoking or drinking? Looks?

She isn't butt**** ugly but I would not chase it in a bar.

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Colbyt

Nate Nagel wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news3.newsguy.com:

Palin reminds me of the parents you never see in the Charlie Brown movies. Just the wah-wah-wah sound. Very borning and annoying. Also, she's a bad actor. She's trying to act a certain way in public. It's just not real. I don't know about her TV show. I've never watched it.

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frag

Because, politically, you hate what (you think) she stands for. That *is* a political statement.

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krw

No, I don't. In fact, *politically* I may have more in common with her than you think. She's just a mouthbreathing idiot, and I find that grating at best.

nate

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Nate Nagel

Agree, but her looks are the best thing she's got going for her.

nate

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Nate Nagel

Then you're just clueless.

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krw

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Steve B

You're going to argue that she's actually intelligent and articulate then? I don't think in that case that we have anything more to discuss,

nate

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Nate Nagel

Could be. But for those who scoff at evolution and hold that the world was created 4,800 years ago, I'll remind them it was MOSES (a male) who led the Israelites to the promised land (admittedly after wandering around in the wrong direction for 40 years), not his wife Zipporah.

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HeyBub

I agree. She's a stunner for a woman who's 70 (born March 26, 1940).

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HeyBub

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