MEN VS. WOMEN SCIENTIFIC STUDIES TO EXPLAIN THE OBVIOUS UPDATE

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[Trystan Shout]

OhpleaseOhpleaseOhpleaseOhplease

F I R S T !

[MOTW]

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Bubba - Here ya go, Lurlene! I found this jewel at moonpig.com and when I saw'd it, it reminded me of yew.
Lurlene - moonpig.com reminded yew of ME? Why you ...!

Query: MEN are twice as likely as women to forget a partner's birthday, according to research.
What if both partners are men? They both forget all the time.

[MOTW]

*ahem* First with a comment that relates to the actual article.

[Trystan Shout]

About one in five men (19 per cent) forget at least one special occasion a year - be it a birthday, anniversary or Valentine's Day.

My birthday IS Valentine's Day. Does that make it a double whammy?

[Chianca At Large]

Another interesting statistic: 100 percent of women remember every single time those 19 percent of men forgot an event. For the rest of those men's sorry lives.

[insomniac]

'the survey by a greeting card company said women preferred a good greeting card from their partners over jewels, help in the kitchen , and cunnilingus'

[Trystan Shout]

MOTW -- If I only typed faster. Note the time stamp on both of our posts.

By the way: MOTW? WTF? (read: what does that stand for?)

[Trystan Shout]

If both partners are men they would NEVER forget. Gay guys generally tend to LIKE shopping for cards, gifts, flowers and so on.

[MOTW]

don't go there, Trys. It's never been revealed on to the blog population in general.

Funny point about being a Sweetheart baby.

Want to know another funny thing? Mr MOTW's b-day is the day after mine. I've always joked with him that if he ever forgets my birthday, I'll 'forget' his. (P.S. He never has.)

[Eleanor]

Women, and I include myself in that group, do NOT need a calendar or anything to remember the date of an important occasion involving a loved one.
WE REMEMBER BECAUSE WE CARE!!!

[seatazzz]

I remember because it's engraved on the metal plate in my head.

[MOTW]

Oh, Eleanor, did you have to say that?

I think it's because women have more empathy. We'd know how it would feel if someone forgot our special occasion.

[Morty]

Eleanor-
I care about my wife deeply and I cherish or marriage, but, even after 19 years I am still foggy about the exact date of our nuptuals. I know it was in February, late in February. I don't believe that it is a matter of caring (or the lack there of)....

Uh? --- I'm sorry...What were we talking about?....

[kibby F5™]

Someone having a birthday?

[crossgirl]

eleanor, i may be alone in this, but i'm never real sure when my youngest son's birthday is. without a calendar i'd just have to pick some day in december pre-christmas. i am a woman. although i've been told on more than one occasion that i think like a guy. happily, i do not look like one.

[kibby F5™]

That's like asking the priest at the wedding to repeat the last line because you weren't listening.

It's natural.

it isn't???

[Gary]

After 43 years my dad still thinks I was born on June 21st (it was the 22nd).

OTOH, I always remember the day of the week my son was born - a Tuesday. That's because during my wife's labor, I sat in a recliner and watched the Redskins get pounded by the Dolphins on Monday Night Football and then fell asleep. It was tough, but I like to be a caring, supportive kind of guy.

[a woman]

what was the final score, Gary?

[Gary]

AW: 17-10, although I recall the game was not nearly as close as the score indicates. I have a hard time remembering because that was 1993.

[Morty]

MOTW
My Opulent Thighs Wow?

Mini Ostirch That's Wonderful?

Messy Oscillating Timber Wolf?

[MOTW]

Mrs. Oswald Thwacker Weasel

[kibby F5™]

MOTW = ?

I remember going through this before. "Mother Of The Week"

[crossgirl]

heres a test for those of you who think that you think like a guy. or girl. but need proof to use in your own defense.

[crossgirl]

and cant link right.

[crossgirl]

comes from not reading the directions i suppose.

[Sean]

They write important dates in a diary ? Like on a carton of milk or a wheel of cheese ?

[queensbee]

women are just better organized, period. and that is probably why we keep track of stuff in the first place. i got a nice dinner this year because sweetie pie sorta 'forgot' my birthday. i didnt think i needed to remind him... they just cant keep that stuff in their brains.

[KOW]

I always thought it stood for Message Of The Week.

[Sean]

Just get married on an important date like Christmas , Chaunaka , St. Patricks day or Cinco de Mayo ..Then we wont forget...And it's helpful to marry someone born on the same date as you then we certainly won't forget your birthday ..

[Morty]

Or maybe it's a clever poly to divert our attention off the subject......which is ....uuh...hmm something or other...My Old Thinker is Weak....

[crossgirl]

if i were to remarry, it would be on sept. 19th. arrrgh.

[M.C.]

Why is it not that the relationship itself is more important than marking it with expensive occasions and gifts? Instead of being tied down to forcibly romantic Valentines Days and Anniversaries why can't we simply act as we feel at the time that we feel it? And why are men made to feel stupid and selfish when they miss these occasions, even if they make up for it later because they honestly, and simply, 'forgot'?

Never mind. I think I figured it out. And it means I'm obsolved of guilt.

In lieu, what about when Studies Show That Studies About the Obvious Are a Money Pit With No Applicable Value?

Oh, wait. I think the applicable value is that I can show her this study the next day and everything will be just fine.

Never mind this post.

[kibby F5™]

You know the couples that "re-tie" the knot? Maybe it's really a ploy by the guy to get a better-to-remember date?

I would.

[Mahatma Kane Jeeves]

Computer calendar saved my life on this issue, it never misses one . . .

[Mike]

Perhaps I would remember birthdays if someone could explain to me the rationale of celebrating our debilitating advancement towards entropy?

"What a beautiful day!"
  "You just turned 45."
"Damn! My butt fell off!"

[Somewhere North]

I always forget my anniversary and I even forget how many years I've been married. I remember one memorable conversation:

Nice Bystander: So, how long have you been married?
Me: 9 years.
Hubby: Well, she may have only been married 9 years but I've been married 10.

[Somewhere North]

He didn't let me live it down either.

[Charlotte]

Don't feel bad North, I can't remember the year either. Date, I'm okay with. As a matter of fact, I'm right now trying to figure out what year I was married...

[Somewhere North]

Gasp? I'm married?? Oh, wait... yeah, I think I remember...

[Cheesewiz]

Yet Dave remembered Judi's birthday. Curiouser and curiouser.
Intrepreting "partner," in the business sense.

[Dave R]

My anniversary is engraved on the inside of my wedding band. When someome asks me how long I've been married, I start to take off the ring to check. My wife usually answers by the time I get the second or third layer of skin off to read the inscription.

I forget the three kids' birthdays, my wife's birthday, my birthday, and pretty much every holiday. It isn't as much that I don't care, it is that I just don't notice.

[Somewhere North]

Silly. That is because she is his research department and therefore his career. Whereas his wife just bears his children.

[Moe]

I think this year on her birthday (in keeping with Mike's thoughts on celebrating "our debilitating advancement towards entropy"), I'll make my fiancee (wife by that time) a home made card with the following lines from "Time" by Pink Floyd:

...you run and you run
to catch up with the sun
but it's[(not its)] sinking
and racing around
to come up behind you again
the sun is the same
in a relative way
but you're older,
shorter of breath,
and one day closer to death

Happy birthday, Baby. I love you!

[Gary]

I remember when I was in college (at a big university in a hick town in VA) one of the fraternity brothers was in a 7-11 and the clerk asked one of the townies how old they were. The townie thought for a minute and then gave their age. We thought that was hilarious: the stupid townie doesn't even know how old they are.

Fast forward 20 years: Now I have to do the same thing, of course. In fact, several posts ago I incorrectly gave my age as 43: that was a math error, 2005-1961 is 44. We mistook our college student ignorance for townie ignorance.

[Eleanor]

*zips in*

SORRY!!!
I certainly didn't intend to cause ire so I take back and totally renounce my remark that I was speaking for "women" as a group - my bad :(

I will add however, that I still remember the birthday of my college boyfriend although I do not publicly admit that and college was mumblegrummblemumble years ago!

*zips out*
goes where everybody knows your name, and they're always glad you came

[slyeyes]

After 43 years my dad still thinks I was born on June 21st (it was the 22nd).

Gary, my oldest daughter was born on March 22, shortly after 1:00 am. However, I went into labor on the 21st shortly after midnight, so her dad and I tend to think of the 21st as her birthday since that was the day when all of the work was done.

[Pablo]

Oh, that reminds me ... Happy birthday Judi!

I forgot to do it yesterday ....

[Bumble]

Sean- If only one could. I've met only one guy my age who had the same birthday that I do. Had a crush on him, too. Turned out he was... how to put it nicely? Not interested in my gender. :-) As for the date thing, I'm horrible at remembering exactly when birthdays are. Took me years to memorize the birthdays of my immediate family. Sometimes I still forget. So I'd go easy on the guys.

[Bumble]

And I know a guy who is much better at remembering dates than I am. I went to prom with him my junior year as a blind date, and saw him maybe twice after that. We talk online occasionally, and one night we got to talking about birthdays for some reason, and he knew when mine was. I was shocked. I had no clue when his was. Made me feel like a heel.

[Somewhere North]

However the real kicker is do you know what they want for their birthday/anniversary/other signficant moment? If you buy the right gift at the wrong time, you still win.

[Sean]

Maybe instead of getting your spouses last name when you get married you could get their birthday instead ..

[judi]

bumble: if the shoe fits... get it? bwahahahaha... ok. sorry.

[seatazzz]

Then again, Bumble, not to frighten you or anything, could be he has a shrine to you in his basement with ALL your pertinent information, all the better to stalk you with. Ya never know.

[Bumble]

judi~ *snork*

seatazzz~ I... doubt it. But, you never know. He wanted to keep going out with me, but I broke it off because he came on too strong. Is it weird to say he liked me too much?

[Aunt Nancy]

Several years ago, an antique hoosier cabinet came up for auction on eBay, and my husband let me buy it as my Valentines-Anniversary-Mother's Day-Birthday-Christmas gift for that year. I like the way it worked out. I got what I wanted, and he was off the hook for the rest of the year.

Ain't love grand?

[seatazzz]

*nods knowingly* been there done that...

Auntie, WTF is a "hoosier" cabinet???

[Bumble]

Yeah, what is that Aunt Nancy? I live in Indiana. Does that make all my cabinets hoosier ones?

[Susan]

I can usually remember birthdays...if I think about it.

Although I can never remember my fathers birthday...I remember the month...but is it the 3rd or the 6th?

[LindyLou]

I'm female and I'm horrible at remembering birthdays and anniversaries. In fact, my 14th anniversary is coming up either August 30th or 31st and I can't remember which. Of course - hubby can't either, so it's no big deal. We'll probably just go out to eat both days, buy ourselves each a present and live happily on to the next one (whenever that is!). :o)