s'lut tlm !!!!

en arrivant au labo un matin, j'ai trouve une blague sur mon bureau avec ce p'tit mot : 'you guys probably deserve this'...

THE FRENCH LANGUAGE AND GENDER OF THE COMPUTER

a language instructor was explaining to her French class that in French, nouns unlike their English counterparts, are grammatically designated as either masculine or feminine.
'house', in French, is feminine : 'la maison' whereas 'pencil', in French, is masculine : 'le crayon'. Puzzled, one student asked : 'What gender is a computer ?'. The teacher did not know, and the word wasn't in her French dictionnary.

So for fun she split the class into two groups by gender and asked them to decide wether 'computer' should be a masculine or feminine noun. Both groups were required to give four reasons for their recommendation.

The men's group decided that computers should definitely be of the feminine gender ('la computer'), because :
1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic
2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else
3. The smallest mistakes are stored in long-term memory for possible later retrieval
4. As soos as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your pay check on accessories for it.

The women's group, however, concluded that computers should be masculine ('le computer'), because :
1. In order to get their attention, you have to turn them on
2. They have a lot of data but they are still clueless
3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem
4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you'd waited another week you could have got a better model for less.

The women won.

j'espere que vous avez aimez, et merci graeme....

@ la prochaine tlm !!!!

-Reno

Merci beaucoup Reno,

Je vais l'apporter avec moi ce soir pour mes amis hehe

Kate

On voit bien qu'elles ne connaissent pas d'homme francais !!



Laurent

je comprends pas, c'est exactement la description des femmes ça :

.... Well,

It depends on what Australian women want...

.....Because "What Women Want is ....."
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/ ... 42830.html

.....

s'lut !!!!



pauvre suggar daddy.... et apres, on dit que les mecs sont des obsedes....

-Reno

Merci Marc for finding these this article...if only so I can say....so much rubbish! I didn't believe that a 'real' newspaper would publish such trash and try to pass it off as facts and statistics...the newspaper I worked for for 10 years would never have got away with publishing something like this!
Just look at all the insults, to both men and women....

What women want is a younger man

January 12 2003

It could be an extension of girl power,
(Girl Power???) what are we? The Spice Girls?!!!!)
or maybe young women are finally waking up to the fact that blokes over 40 don't cut the mustard in the stud stakes.

Ok, so seems to say that after the age of 40, your sex life is over......
(In reality, I would say reduction in popularity would more likely happen if a guy went bald, than if he was getting a bit older )

Whatever the reason, statistics show that women are increasingly pursuing younger partners.

In 1981, 3.7 per cent of women were partnered with men aged in their 20s. By 2001, this had risen to 4.7 per cent. It is not hard to understand why this should be so.

Ok, so the statistics have risen 1% in 20 years...and they call this an 'increasingly' popular trend....??? C'est ridicule!

"It is well known that older men who go for the Baywatch trophy partner largely do so for the sex."
K: To some modern Australian guys who are trying to become and be seen as more sensitive, I think this would be a real insult to read.

"Generation gaps are most evident in such things as shared books, films, political awareness and even history."
K: Ok, I admit this, since I've got a 9 year age gap entre moi et mon mari.
But even my mother in law, who is 73, is very modern and listens to some 90's and 200's movieset la semaine passe, ell avait vu 'Terminator 3"!
It's not impossible for really old men to be modern in their thinking, so this quote is rubbish too.

"...There is nothing more pathetic than an over-tanned Seniors Card-holder desperately trying to hide the flab beneath a flowing Hawaiian shirt, gold chains chinking in grizzled chest hair, as he holds hands with someone barely out of school".
K - rather nasty!

"Then there is the music.
If there is a one single example of generational incompatibility then it has to be music. Try putting on Phil Collins to set the mood with a 20-something of either sex. How very '80s. Today, its all silverchair, Shakira or Eminem."
K: I disagree totally! L'auteur est un moron!
Even I still listen to The Beatles sometimes, in between my Silverchair!

..."But do grandpa sugar daddies with delusions of being a chick magnet
- and that's who we're talking about here - really listen to that?"
K: Chick magnet???? Ce phrase n'existe pas!

"...You can call it defeat at the hands of younger women shopping around for leaner meat, but the reality is that women are tired of sexual failures and want disposable partners who are not squinting into the glare of blue Viagra days..."
C'est pas vrai! Ce phrase est un mensonge aussi!

"But for many older men who have girded their creaking loins and played the field, the party's over..."

Christopher Bantick is a Melbourne writer. (K: et il est bizarre!)

Ok, so having shot this article to pieces and disagreed with all of it, I believe on behalf of a very large % of Australian women...what do Oz women really want then?

Maybe it's easier to start with what sort of man they DON'T want.

They don't want aussie guys who do not do much more than drink a lot of beer and grunt into their drinks. They want intelligent conversation....besides other things, of course.
I know Australian women often have a lot of trouble with Oz guys who can't express feelings too well, which happens a lot.
Otherwise, Australian women just want normal things - normal relationships.

Kate

I have to disagree on this one
"Chick magnet" does exists, as well as "Babe conductor" or "algorithm for the ladies"
see http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail56.html


What's wrong with becoming bald ???? It's not my fault, it is in my genes !!


Are you trying to say that the world have changed and it is time for men to realize it ??


Laurent

et bien, partir d'une pauvre blague sur le genre des ordis francais, et se retrouver a parler des desirs de la femme australienne... si j'avais su, je l'aurais mise plus tot cette blague !!!!



t'inquietes pas tompouce, il y a de tres bonnes techniques maintenant, chirurgicales ou non...



elles existent encore elles ????

@ la prochaine !!!!!

-Reno

......... Well,

It depends on what young Australian women do at night...

....Because, "What many young women do in SYDNEY is getting...."



...

WHAO !!

These are the parts that really get to me. I accidentally turned on the tv and caught the second half of the programme, the part about Katie, and found it really shocking. She really was wasted, and she really did think she was having a great time.
But one thing in the mess that is the binge drinking problem which had often eluded me became a little more clear: the 'Why do it?'
Maybe one of them had the answer.
The one who said because when they drink, they don't feel shy any more. They feel and look confident, and they feel cool.
I felt really sad at that. At that age, so many kids are very shy. And it's not a crime. But at that age, I guess in any culture, at school, peer group pressure is a huge thing. It certainly is in Australian culture. Everybody wants to fit in. Nobody wants to be left out. Nobody wants to be different. They want to be popular and have lots of friends.
For many, this doesn't work, not everyone can be hugely popular and have a large group of friends, and maybe they see alcohol as giving them something they feel they lack.
And at school, I remember, everybody wanted to try and get into night clubs. Why? Just because they wanted to look older and try to get away with it. When they turned 18, a lot of them didn't care any more and hardly went there. They'd already been going to nightclubs for years (before the days of photo ID)
Same with alcohol. It's often not a part of the family culture - Australian parents I observed in my small town while growing up didn't let their kids drink alcohol at special gatherings, but just told them to 'wait till you're 18 or you won't appreciate it'. In some ways it was right, but in other ways it just makes kids want now what they're told to wait for.
And it doesn't always end with school, though for many, once you leave, and are out in the real working world, the peer group pressure eases a rather lot, thank goodness.
I worked in a large newspaper office for 10 years, a so called responsible, professional working environment, yet we still had some who continued the 'getting wasted' from their school days.
They would share all the gory details of their weekend each Monday morning, including how much they vomited afterwards and how they could barely get up at all on Sundays.
Sure, drinking is fun, and Aussies are great at it, but I just had to wonder a little bit when I could see that the main aim of the game was to get 'absolutely blind' including being really sick, and to do this as often as possible.
Some of the stories were really good and funny....yet others a little sad, I thought.
As responsible 'professionals' Friday morning team meetings with the boss in the board room often didn't go down so well for some, because 'going out and getting blind' starts on Thursday nights and goes till Sunday morning. Friday is often just a day in the way.
One boss even compiled a list of all the various inventive excuses he'd received over the course of a year as to why employees had missed meetings.
These included "Got so blind I could barely see (if I was them, I'd think of something less likely to possibly get you fired!)
"Oh, was I meant to be there too?"
and "There weren't any more chairs."

Kate

Oops, c'est a dire...I think for a lot of woman it could be the actual fear of it, not its actual happening. For my husband, when he first started getting 'Anti-balding herbal shampoo' for Christmas, he was a little surprised LOL, but after 2 years and it didn't get worse and I decided the shampoo had nothing to do with it, I stopped buying it. And even if it had, there's lots more ways to fix it now, including one ad I saw on tv the very same day we did this forum: "New for men! Spray on hair! Undetectable even at close range! Won't run in the rain, won't blow off in the wind!" etc etc. Rather amusing, that they put in the 'close range' thing, as though women are going to inspect guys to make sure their hair is real LOL.
My husband keeps asking me "How come every time I see Stuart Howie's photo, he's got more hair??" (=Balding youngish editor of our city's newspaper). Me: it's either Photoshop or he's doing the 'strand by strand replacement therapy thing'!.

As for women, to be fair, I'd have to say I think a lot of them worry about getting old, but are only scared at the mere thought of it, and it seems like when they're actually There, it's not important any more.
As for the 'chick magnet' , I stand corrected (though you'd never see those words in our newspaper - there are so many anti-discrimination laws - new ones all the time - that there would be an outcry if too many such words appeared in an article, even if they aren't THAT bad. I can only guess this guy got away with it because he's from a very large newspaper with a large circulation, which can afford to alienate a few unwanted readers (ie everyone over 40, especially men!)
And as for the 'Spice Girls' comment...I meant to say, that this guy is talking about 'girl power' as if the Spice Girls hadn't disappeared years ago! (ie he's a dinosaur not up with modern times)

Kate

Now because we lost our way a bit...I thought I'd bring it back to the original subject (just to make things really confusing LOL )

Desolee in advance Laurent si tu le connais deja!

Relationships - The Computer Way.
What you should know before making upgrades

Last year a friend of mine upgraded from Girlfriend 4.0 to Wife 1.0 and found that it's a memory hog leaving few system resources for other applications. He is not noticing that Wife 1.0 is also spawning child processes which are further consuming valuable resources. No mention of this particular phenomenon was included in the product documentation, though other users have informed me that this is to be expected, due to the nature of the applicaton.

Not only that, Wife 1.0 installs itself so that it is always launched at system initialization where it can monitor all other system activity. Some applications such as PokerNite 10.3, Bachelor Party 2.5 and Pubnite 7.0 are no longer able to run on the system at all, causing the system to lock up when launched (even though the apps worked fine before).

Wife 1.0 provides no installation options. Thus, the installation of undesired plug-ins such as Mother-in-law 55.8 and the Brother In Law Beta is unavoidable. Also, system performance seems to diminish with each passing day.

Some features my friend would like to see in the upcoming Wife 2.0:

* A 'don't remind me again' button
* a minimize button
* Ability to delete the 'headache' file
* Uninstall option that provides the ability to uninstall without loss of system resources
* An option to run the network driver to run in the shared mode to allow the system's hardware probe feature to be much more useful and effective.

I myself have decided to avoid all of the headaches associated with Wife 1.0 by sticking with Girlfriend 3.0. Even here, however, I have found many problems. Apparently, you cannot install Girlfriend 4.0 on top of Girlfriend 3.0.

You must first uninstall Girlfriend 3.0, or conflicts will result from the shared use of the I/O port. Other users have told me that this is a long-standing problem that I should have been aware of.

Guess that explains what happened to versions 1 and 2. To make matters worse, the uninstall program for Girlfriend doesn't work very well, leaving undesirable traces of the application hanging in the system.

Another identified problem is that all version of Girlfriend have annoying little messages about upgrading to Wife 1.0!

VIRUS ALERT: All users should be aware that Wife 1.0 has an undocumented bug. If you try to install Mistress 1.1 before uninstalling Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0 will delete MSMoney files before doing the uninstall itself. Once that happens, Mistress 1.1 won't install and you will get an "insufficient system resources" error message. To avoid the aforementioned bug, try installing Mistress 1.1 on a different system and
NEVER run any file transfer applications (such as Laplink) between the two systems.
Don't even think about a shared directory!

Don't know why I've just loved this one for years! Though I'm sure a couple of the jokes in it are beyond me....
Kate