Why do men always know best?

[Becky]

We had bee to SRS and bought a Mastervolt battery moitor, which HWMBO had been after for ages. But, when we got it home, and he had been studying the wiring diagram for ages, I heard the following grunts.
'Why have they wired it like that? They should not have commoned up those two wires. That is silly; (actually he used a word that means roughly the same) I will do it properly'.
Now I do realise that men are genetically programmed to automatically know all there is to know about electronics and engines and suchlike, but by reading and following the instructions exactly, I have far fewer problems than he does.
So, do the men on this forum ever read instructions before fitting something new, or do they really know it already?/forums/images/icons/smile.gif

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[Rowana]

Because we do! Just accept it ! !

And we all know the motto -
"If all else fails, read the instructions"

Now get back to your accustomed place, Woman !

(But don't tell my wife I said so)


Jim
Tongue firmly in cheek, and hard-hat on!


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[mikewilkes]

Why do you ladies want to take all the fun out of things by expecting us to read the instructions first !!



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[Twister_Ken]

Instructions - destructions

The problem is often that the instructions are written in, say, Japanese, translated by a translation agency that knows nothing about boats into French, from French into Spanish, from Spanish into Serbo-Croat, from Serbo-Croat into Finnish, and then from Finnish into English.

I've made a shilling or two in the past by putting into 'proper' English some horrific gobbledegook which importers thought was Queen's English. My favourite was one manual which, presumably, never made it into a final version in the land of its fathers, because the copy I got started "DAFT INSTRUCTIONS"

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[Peppermint]

Re: Hang on

It sounds like he read the instructions and took issue with them. Are you sure he's a real man?

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[Parsonsheath]

Bless you child for your naiveity, only to be expected in one so young!

When you grow older you will realise that he probably does not read as well as you, and in any event does have that male congenital fault that if he cannot follow it then it is wrong/broke etc.

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[Becky]

Re: Hang on

Oh, he's a real man, no doubt about that. He just knows better, that is all.

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[powerskipper]

I think its just a man thing!
They like blundering on ,
feet first into something,
while we sit back read the instructions,
see what they are doing wrong and then just before it goes bang or some such thing,
we step in and join a wire or some such thing and it work,

Just a woman thing , the females touch!!!

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Julie

 

[Ohdrat]

they don't .. they just think they do.. we aquiesce 'cus we can usually persude that other methods might work once their method fails.. the really clever convince that our method was their plan B

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[Becky]

Julie, you are sooo right. They would be totally lost without us. Do you know that HWMBO buys cheap so-called curry sauces and tips some tinned tuna into it, heats it up with some rice, and calls that a meal? And what is worse, he threatens to make some for me!!
He also eats pot noodles. Yuk.

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[muchy_]

When all else fails "R.T.F.M." --------(read the f*****g manual)

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[Phoenix of Hamble]

"They would be totally lost without us"......

That'll be a reference to the high quality of Female map reading skills then....... /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

PS... last time I looked, the road atlas sadly lacked instructions...../forums/images/icons/wink.gif

Now I'll withdraw both gracefully and bloody quickly......

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[powerskipper]

Wise decision /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

but will point out that if you listen to us you would get there it's when you do not believe our map reading that you GET LOST!

sorry Becky had to answer that one

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Julie

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

lol.... glad you took it with the good humour with which it was intended /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

PS, I know I am safe in saying these things, as my wife is, after 2 years, still trying to decipher the chinese instruction book for the mouse....so unlikely to read my non PC post - phew!

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[Crewgirl]

Jeepers, I must be a man in disguise then - I read the instructions when all else fails!

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[webcraft]

Just lucky, I guess.

- Nick

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[tcm]

ah well, partly that's cos of years of automatically going off and and a making cup of tea whilst hubby does the spannering has meant that generations of wimmin have lost the skills of bodging things up (apart from cups of tea).

Also, when wimmin break new things they say "oh heck, i've broken it, sorry" which is a defeatist windup. Men say "what a ripoff, hardly out of the box and it's broken, bloody rubbish!" then hastily stash the whole lot in the bin, and wait for the aforementioned cup of tea.



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[Crewgirl]

Hee - I like it!! So you admit that men don't always do it right then!!

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[ParaHandy]

hmmm ... when fitting some new gadget, the maker assumes, when writing the instructions, that there is some logic to the disposition of the other pieces of kit that the gadget interfaces/connects with. women rarely seem to grasp this vital fact and are prone to illogical arrangements which render the instructions useless and which test the mettle of ourselves and hence lead to the circumstances you describe ...

hope that helps ...

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[TheBoatman]

Ouch that hurt.

I hate it when someone gets to near the truth!!

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