# It's a guy thing **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 20, 2014, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543 "2014-04-20T15:12:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/61 "2014-04-22T03:59:41Z")
> [@Lukeinva](#): > > Crack an egg on the pizza and cook it in the oven right on the bare rack. Delicious bread and eggs basically. I approve of this. Of course, we also have bacon and egg pizzas in this part of the world, which are delicous at any time of the day. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/62 "2014-04-22T04:07:17Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > To broaden the scope of the replies a bit, I’ve known a few ladies who don’t get that sometimes I don’t want a Fairtrade Caramel Cappuccino with Organic Skim Milk at a trendy place with a lot of meaningless adjectives like “authentic” and “artisan” on the menu, I want a cup of hot coffee, in a mug, with some cow milk in it, because sometimes I have pressing Manly Things to do and therefore don’t have time for frilly bullshit with my coffee. “Manly” and having milk in your coffee are concepts that don’t go together. I would put “IMHO” on the end of that sentence, but it would be unmanly, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/63 "2014-04-22T04:18:49Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > “Manly” and having milk in your coffee are concepts that don’t go together. I would put “IMHO” on the end of that sentence, but it would be unmanly, IMHO. You must have missed the latest Manliness Guild memo - milk in coffee is acceptable as long as it is from a cow and comes either from the fridge or, if camping/fishing/hunting/hiking a tin, UHT container or powdered form. And it can only be a bit - none of this nonsense about “coffee” which is 90% milk with only a bit of coffee thrown in somewhere along the line to stop the drink from being essentially adulterated milk. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/64 "2014-04-22T04:48:56Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > It takes literally a minute to heat it up in the microwave and then you’ve got delicious, hot, civilised pizza to enjoy for breakfast. You missed out adjectives such as “soggy” and “not easy to hold and eat with one hand”. 😉 And the guy thing around here seems to be the farts. Or at least that’s what my husband claims… :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/65 "2014-04-22T04:55:30Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > You must have missed the latest Manliness Guild memo… In my manly opinion, one cannot determine manliness by reference to “the latest” or from a “memo”. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/66 "2014-04-22T06:33:44Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > “Manly” and having milk in your coffee are concepts that don’t go together. I would put “IMHO” on the end of that sentence, but it would be unmanly, IMHO. But American coffee is considered unmanly (unhuman actually) by a lot of the world, no matter what you put in it it’s already got too much water. I know people who think that fried eggs are a breakfast food and would never have one for dinner. I know people who think fried eggs are a dinner food and would never have one for breakfast. I know people who like their processed cereals round, flat and dunked in milk, others who like them in a multitude of shapes and drenched in milk. I know people who think the only acceptable ways to have milk are in coffee or in hot cocoa. So long as I haven’t had breakfast yet, I’ll eat almost anything - the almost corresponds to those things that make me puke, which is kind of not the desired outcome of a meal. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/67 "2014-04-22T07:05:44Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > In my manly opinion, one cannot determine manliness by reference to “the latest” or from a “memo”. Sadly, we have to make some concessions to the modern world. Ah, for the good old days… ---
**Author:** ![gracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@gracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gracer)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/68 "2014-04-22T08:03:10Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > This is stupid. A lot of women eat leftovers for breakfast. I do tend to think of the having of penis as mostly a guy thing, but even that is a dodgy indicator. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/69 "2014-04-22T08:19:01Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > But American coffee is considered unmanly (unhuman actually) by a lot of the world, no matter what you put in it it’s already got too much water. Except both myself and **Martini** are resident in Brisbane, Australia, which has very good coffee. > [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > Sadly, we have to make some concessions to the modern world. Ah, for the good old days… Making concessions is unmanl… Ah fuck it, I’m bored of this joke. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/70 "2014-04-22T08:32:21Z")
> [@gracer](#): > > I do tend to think of the having of penis as mostly a guy thing, but even that is a dodgy indicator. You may have missed [this memo](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=721222). ---
**Author:** ![gracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@gracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gracer)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/71 "2014-04-22T08:36:39Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > You may have missed [this memo](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=721222). Ah. It’s even dodgier than I thought! 😃 OK, I think we just need to give up. There is nothing that reliably indicates guy-ness. Certainly not breakfast foods, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/72 "2014-04-22T08:43:01Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > Except both myself and **Martini** are resident in Brisbane, Australia, which has very good coffee. And it even says so in your location, and I swear I looked for it and didn’t see it. Can I use “lack of coffee” as an acceptable excuse? ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/73 "2014-04-22T08:50:05Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > Except both myself and **Martini** are resident in Brisbane, Australia, which has very good coffee. Indeed it does. The cafe scene has gotten a lot better in recent years, too. I like to give Brisbane stick for a lot of things, but its cafe scene and coffee quality isn’t among them. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/74 "2014-04-22T08:57:05Z")
Here’s another guy thing: when you are in public and you want to cry, e.g. you are watching a sad movie, you inhale hard through your nose and suck those tears back into your head. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/75 "2014-04-22T09:49:49Z")
> [@Superhal](#): > > Here’s another guy thing: when you are in public and you want to cry, e.g. you are watching a sad movie, you inhale hard through your nose and suck those tears back into your head. LOL. Or try really hard not to blink lest the tears come out. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/76 "2014-04-22T10:04:27Z")
Guys only have one g-spot, and it’s the same place for every guy. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/77 "2014-04-22T12:32:57Z")
The greatest compliment you can give a guy is how nasty his fart smells. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/78 "2014-04-22T13:22:07Z")
> [@Richard\_North](#): > > … I had enough. I could take OTT, he obviously couldn’t fight, to get that huge chipped tooth. ILM was only about 5’3’'. The tricky one was CEC, he was a bit athletic looking. I confronted them, OTT and ILM started backing down, but CEC kept flapping his lips. … _Well, that one in the center: he had a flap holster and he was in no itchin’ hurry. And the one second from the left: he had scared eyes, he wasn’t gonna do nothin’. But that one on the far left: he had crazy eyes. Figured him to make the first move._ \*\* Josie Wales\*\* > [@Richard\_North](#): > > … > I OWNED THAT BUS!!! Well there’s your problem. You should have simply asked them to leave your bus. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/79 "2014-04-22T13:52:09Z")
Fresh, hot pizza is good. Cold leftover pizza is good. Microwaved pizza is bad. If you feel the need to reheat pizza, the best way (though still inferior to fresh) is in a skillet on the stove. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/80 "2014-04-22T14:24:05Z")
> [@gracer](#): > > I do tend to think of the having of penis as mostly a guy thing, but even that is a dodgy indicator. Pssh, I guess. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543.md?page=5)