Probably because it smells.
Many of you don't seem to understand that you don't just need to wash, you need to put on clean clothes. An anti-underarm would help too ...
But you still make smells ...
I like that one.
That's a man's choice.
So why do you still smell?
Mary Thanks for a nice post :-)
You should smell a man-who-has-eaten-asparagus's urine, if you think that normal men's urine is bad.
I've heard that but it doesn't affect Spouse. Or me. I understand that it's genetic, but don't quote me, I have no evidence.
Mary
According to Harold McGee's superb "On food and cooking - the science and lore of the kitchen" it was long thought to be a genetic trait that determined whether you *produced* methyl mercaptain in urine after eating asparagus, but it now seems to be a genetic trait whether you can "*detect* the smell or not.
-- LSR
It does me. However, opinions vary on cause and detection
Ah - so genetics are involved somewhere along the line.
Possibly.
:-)
Thank you!
Mary
Well well well!
Isn't it amazingwhat you learn from thread drift!
Thank you, it seems we can have it both ways :-)
But it doesn't answer my first question ...
Mary
I don't think anyone answered the question in the title either....
Oh bugger that, mine was a serious question!
Mary
To answer your question Mary.......
I imagine men face something for the same reason that ladies sit with their legs together....because someone taught us to.
I would also suggest it's for modesty/privacy/to reduce the possibility of getting hauled before the courts for exposing yourself.
Eh???
I don't remember that ...
Yes, but a man in a wide open space with no-one around will find a shrub or tall grass. I suspect it's more about practising their aim ...
Mary
So does a male dog and a tom cat.
I suspect it's more evolutionary. The men that didn't do this probably all got their dangly pieces bitten off by some passing animal, so they would have died out pretty quickly. Darwin at work...
Yes, I meant to add that.
Fancy at work :-)
Mary
On a more serious note.....
Hmmm.
Took a long time to load, I got fed up of the introductory screens but I persevered - for what? It didn't tell me much except that Yates Wine Lodge suffered from blockages.
The system doesn't address the fact that men miss.
Mary
Take a look at this. I think that all will be explained.....
Bursts of energy are avoided or reduced to an absolute minimum. Males are especially lazy and waste no effort on territorial defence or social interactions.
They avoid energy sapping confrontations by scent marking, which maintains a physical distance between individuals.
Males even urinate against trees while doing handstands; the higher the pee the more dominant the signal.
That I'd like to see, I assume it's restricted to the hidden mysteries of the GENTS.
No wonder it smells ...
Mary
All together everybody
"Take yer 'and off of yer 'apenny, and i'll give you a lovely surprise!"
Oh - I never heard that!
Nobody ever said it to me :-(
Just as well really ...
Mary
Culled from the net......
By mothernature on Friday, 19 December, 2003 12:00:37 PM
We call 'it' hape-ney as in 'Halfpenny' it was a song beleive it or not where I come from a long time ago, a mother telling her daughter 'keep yer hand on yer hape-ney, cover it well with yer palm, keep yer hand on yer hape-ney and molly will come to no harm.' Very wise words me think's..... slopes off before anyone realises she from up north.....
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