# Boys are poopyheads! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 1, 2002, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boys-are-poopyheads/130380 "2002-10-01T11:03:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SpartanDC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@SpartanDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpartanDC)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boys-are-poopyheads/130380/21 "2002-10-02T00:27:38Z")
Wow, what a poopyhead. I asked a girl that I worked with out to Homecoming for senior year (back in 1996). She actually, genuinely liked me (she told my best friend so) and she was the first really, really pretty girl that ever felt that way about me. But then her dad told her that she couldn’t date someone from work. But instead of telling me face to face, she had another co-worker tell me. Over the phone. I was mad at her for weeks. So, girls can be poopyheads, too. We would have been totally incompatible, anyway. (She wore Grateful Dead t-shirts! Ick!) She seems like she has priorities that will pay off in the long run, but I’m sure that does nothing for her right now. She’ll chalk it up to experience soon enough though. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boys-are-poopyheads/130380/22 "2002-10-02T00:53:59Z")
She’ll still have fun at the dance with her friends - I’m sure of that. And they plan to go to IHOP afterwards. Maybe I’ll get her a flower, just for the heck of it! ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boys-are-poopyheads/130380/23 "2002-10-02T00:59:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dantheman \* > \*\*Girls have cooties!! \*\* My exact thoughts when I read the subject. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boys-are-poopyheads/130380/24 "2002-10-02T01:43:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FairyChatMom \* > Her dating criteria include intelligence, sense of humor, common sense, and personal hygiene - and apparently boys meeting these requirements are few and far between at her school. Look, she’s gotta be realistic about this. There are a reasonable number of teenage guys who are intelligent and have a sense of humor. Some of them even have decent personal hygiene. But _ **common sense??** _ Be real. These are _teenage guys_ you’re talking about. We don’t get fitted for common sense until two or three years into the working world, if then. Sheez. :rolleyes: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boys-are-poopyheads/130380/25 "2002-10-02T04:19:12Z")
I had forgotten about the girl from church who who asked me to some high school dance or other. I suck at dancing and had no feelings for her. I agreed at first, but couldn’t go through with it. I found out later that she’d bought the tickets already. That hadn’t occurred to me. Ick. Is this one of those things that will be replayed on the big screen on Judgement Day? ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boys-are-poopyheads/130380/26 "2002-10-02T05:15:27Z")
Um… **Cardinal**? Not to be judgemental, but yes, you _will_ be called on the carpet for that one. Just as The Perfect Child’s[sup]TM[/sup] erstwhile beau will be. Holy crap, **FCM** , that sucks. And you can tell **TPC** I said so. Of course, for both of my proms, I wound up spending almost all evening with someone other than my date (their choice, not mine). Actually, to be honest, for the first one (junior prom), the company was three male friends (not _that_ way, you pervs! :)); for the second one (senior prom), the company was my date from my junior prom. Why yes, my romantic life has been complicated. Why do you ask? 😉 And yes, it has been my observation that this sort of situation is generally worse for girls than for guys. Just oversharing, as usual. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boys-are-poopyheads/130380/27 "2002-10-02T15:10:11Z")
I think **poopyhead guy** needs to reimburse **TPC** for his ticket. Only fair. Especially since he’s working - he’ll have money. StG ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boys-are-poopyheads/130380/28 "2002-10-02T16:01:17Z")
**StG** , I agree. But I’m going to let her handle it as she thinks best. Sometimes life’s lesson truly cost us. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boys-are-poopyheads/130380/29 "2002-10-02T22:02:49Z")
Stupid life lessons. Hey, **FCM** , ya wants me to whack him? Wouldn’t be a problem. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boys-are-poopyheads/130380/30 "2002-10-02T22:51:32Z")
I don’t think any whacking will be necessary, but thanks for your concern! 😃 The kid is handling it very well. In fact, she’s getting a bit angry with her friends who are badmouthing PHB - she’s very forgiving. What a sweetie! Takes after her mom, of course! ---
**Author:** ![I\_am\_Sparticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@I\_am\_Sparticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_am_Sparticus)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boys-are-poopyheads/130380/31 "2002-10-02T23:28:00Z")
Hey FairyChatMom, we lazy jerk poopyheads need some lovin’ too. Why do you think we are such lazy jerk poopyheads? ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boys-are-poopyheads/130380/32 "2002-10-02T23:34:48Z")
I was told by a girl I’d met about 5 hours earlier that she wasn’t going to go to her Prom, and that she didn’t have a date. I said, well, I like you, you seem sane and nice, if you don’t have date by June ( this was December ), I’ll go ! I went, we dated for a year. 🙂 AND, I was a year younger. Most guys are poopyheads. I proclaim myself to be a poopyhead free male !!! 😃 😃 😃 I didn’t do homecoming, I was too artsy fartsy ( nyeah nyeah, \*\*FCM \*\* !!! ). I was the guy doing the musicals that you didn’t want your daughter to bring home… Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boys-are-poopyheads/130380/33 "2002-10-03T01:36:16Z")
Betcha PoopyHeadBoy grows up to be a PointyHairedBoss. ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boys-are-poopyheads/130380/34 "2002-10-03T02:39:08Z")
FairyChatMom, I also have a daughter “Princess Without A Country(the trademark thingy)” and had many similar experiences. She’s nearly 23 now but I remember patting her hands and saying "Honey, it won’t be that many years before you won’t remember his name (it was almost like poopyhead) or what he looked like. ---
**Author:** ![TheOnlySaneOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@TheOnlySaneOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheOnlySaneOne)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boys-are-poopyheads/130380/35 "2002-10-03T03:02:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RTFirefly \* > \*\*Look, she’s gotta be realistic about this. > > There are a reasonable number of teenage guys who are intelligent and have a sense of humor. Some of them even have decent personal hygiene. > > But _ **common sense??** _ Be real. > > These are _teenage guys_ you’re talking about. > > We don’t get fitted for common sense until two or three years into the working world, if then. Sheez. :rolleyes: 😉 \*\* Hey, as an intellegent, humorous, hygenic teenage boy with small traces of common sense, I take offense to that remark! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boys-are-poopyheads/130380/36 "2002-10-03T03:15:47Z")
**TheOnlySaneOne** - got any testimonials from current/former dates on _any_ of those assertions? [sub]didn’t think so…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![TheOnlySaneOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@TheOnlySaneOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheOnlySaneOne)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boys-are-poopyheads/130380/37 "2002-10-03T03:42:44Z")
_sticks his tongue out at **happyheathen** _ Why as a matter of fact I do, so -nyah-. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boys-are-poopyheads/130380/38 "2002-10-03T04:13:12Z")
> [@](#): > > There are a reasonable number of teenage guys who are intelligent and have a sense of humor. Some of them even have decent personal hygiene. > > But common sense?? Be real. > > These are teenage guys you’re talking about. > > We don’t get fitted for common sense until two or three years into the working world, if then. Sheez. I dunno. I had intelligence, humor, hygiene and common sense as a teen. I was also, then as now, duller than dust on a flat black wall on a cloudy day. (In a discussion of the romantic nature of SO’s, Deb once remarked that she married me because I was _steady_.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boys-are-poopyheads/130380.md?page=1)