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Old 12-11-2013, 07:09 AM
 
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Another in my series of threads where I'll take a quote or phrase which relates to dating/relationships and ask what you guys think.

This is from Chris Rock's Kill the Messenger special


http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3dGhsRsHXP8

Obviously this is comedy so you have to take it with a grain of salt but I've always said the funniest things tend to have elements of truth in them
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Old 12-11-2013, 07:17 AM
 
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I can't hear it and the closed captions are complete nonsense (seriously, turn on the cc and read it and try to make sense). So I have no idea what you mean by men can't go back sexually and women can't go backwards in lifestyle. Is there anyway you can write a summery of what he's joking about?
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Old 12-11-2013, 07:22 AM
 
Location: Des Moines IA
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I can't hear it and the closed captions are complete nonsense (seriously, turn on the cc and read it and try to make sense). So I have no idea what you mean by men can't go back sexually and women can't go backwards in lifestyle. Is there anyway you can write a summery of what he's joking about?

Basically what he said is that a woman cannot go from a house to an apartment. Her lifestyle has to keep improving. And men can't go from a woman that is really freaky in bed to someone not as freaky. So if has last girlfriend was giving him three bj's a week, and his next gf isn't giving him any, he won't be happy.
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Old 12-11-2013, 07:22 AM
 
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I can't hear it and the closed captions are complete nonsense (seriously, turn on the cc and read it and try to make sense). So I have no idea what you mean by men can't go back sexually and women can't go backwards in lifestyle. Is there anyway you can write a summery of what he's joking about?
Women: if she got spoiled she needs to be spoiled.
Men: spoiled sexually. Want same thing.
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Old 12-11-2013, 07:40 AM
 
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I don't think it is completely untrue. After having one of our kids, I had a lot of 'damage' and really couldn't do the same things as before. It was very depressing for him!!! I was healed a year later and our relationship has really improved now that I'm in 'working order' again.

I suppose this statement generally reflects a woman's need for financial security and a man's need for sexual fulfillment. Opposite sex will scream till they are blue in the face that those things aren't as important as they are but ... they are.
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Old 12-11-2013, 07:49 AM
 
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Chris Rock has also joked that the reason there are cities is because women won't have sex in cardboard boxes. And there is an element of truth to that--women are largely the reason there is "civilization," and a very strong motivator for men to be civilized is sex. This was recognized at least as far back as Homer's "Odyssey."

Leave a bunch of guys together for a while--ain't no civilization goin' on there. Introduce a few women--civilization!
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Old 12-11-2013, 07:59 AM
 
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Every stand up comedian has their own routine on relationships. I find them all funny...not always true to a whole gender, but funny.

Like this one...."You can't out argue a woman because they got a memory that go back 20-30 years. And an accurate memory - know time, date, place, what you wore and your hand position while you said it." I laugh at it because I am guilty of this very thing. And there's more....


SiNbAd: Brain Damaged (Part 5) - YouTube

It's just a slice of life, not something to guage science on.
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Old 12-11-2013, 08:12 AM
 
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That is awful. He is funny but so cynical.

And his assertion is not always true. Sometimes people choose on their own to go backwards. It's an opportunity cost.
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Old 12-11-2013, 08:15 AM
 
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My 1st wife brought home another woman on two different occasions. (I'm not going to discuss the health of our relationship and I respect your different points of view). I wasn't allowed to go all the way, but I did get to play! It was always a surprise. I understood that these partners were for her and I just got to benefit.

As much fun and as thrilling as that was, I couldn't imagine inviting another partner to create infidelity in our relationship. It would be foolish of me to have even a subconscious expectation.
Even if I was lucky enough to find a partner who was into the same thing, the women might look butchier!! (kidding)


In regards to women downsizing, I don't by that either
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Old 12-11-2013, 08:19 AM
 
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I think both propositions tend to be true with regard to moving from one uncommitted relationship to another uncommitted relationship.

Strongly committed relationships by definition should resist such changes. For a lot of couples, "for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health" still have meaning.
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