# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/81 "2014-04-22T14:34:05Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Fresh, hot pizza is good. Cold leftover pizza is good. Microwaved pizza is bad. I agree with this. Never microwave pizza. It’s better cold. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/82 "2014-04-22T14:36:37Z")
> [@Boogly](#): > > My guy thing is: > I do laundry by weight. > Lighter things dry faster so they get washed first. I do mine by wait. I wait until I have to, then dump everything in at once. The only exception is new, red shirts which get washed alone the first time or two. Pink underwear is NOT manly. ---
**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, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/83 "2014-04-22T14:45:13Z")
I do my laundry once a week. During the winter, this usually means more than one load, and so I sort them by light-dark, since I might as well. During the summer, it usually all fits into a single load, and so I don’t worry about it and just throw everything in together. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/84 "2014-04-22T14:49:31Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I do my laundry once a week. During the winter, this usually means more than one load, and so I sort them by light-dark, since I might as well. During the summer, it usually all fits into a single load, and so I don’t worry about it and just throw everything in together. I wash slacks and shirts in cold water, and everything else in hot water. If everything will fit into one load, I use warm water. It has worked out just fine for me… Until I washed a red bath rug and a grey batch rug together. They’d been washed before, so I thought they were done giving off dye. I ended up with a red rug and a pink rug. :smack: (Of course being a guy, I just used the pink, formerly grey, rug. It was still functional.) ---
**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, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/85 "2014-04-22T14:59:40Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > I do mine by wait. I wait until I have to, then dump everything in at once. Grandma? When did you learn English? For that matter, when did you learn to type? ---
**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, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/86 "2014-04-22T15:15:34Z")
My laundry takes hot water, and I better not hear any lip. ---
**Author:** ![leahcim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/87 "2014-04-22T15:16:18Z")
> [@Lukeinva](#): > > Crack an egg on the pizza and cook it in the oven right on the bare rack. Delicious bread and eggs basically. Or… Take a slice of leftover pizza, cut it into little bits, add them to a couple of eggs in a frying pan and make a pizza omelet. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/88 "2014-04-22T15:58:02Z")
The SO thinks it’s weird when I eat standing up in the kitchen. ---
**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, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/89 "2014-04-22T16:45:50Z")
When a guy tells you, “I love dirty jokes,” they’re telling the truth. (From Carlos Mencia): Every guy in the world has shit their pants (playing the fart game.) When football fans meet soccer fans, there’s an obligatory round of “which one is the REAL football” that nobody pays attention to. Then, they both make jokes about rugby. Real men don’t have tattoos. They have scars. And the scars have to be in manly places too, like on your knees from sliding too hard into home plate, or on your chin from a fight you had in 5th grade. The scar from a heart bypass surgery is a sign of weakness. “Male bonding” is a way of saying “let’s get drunk and piss on stuff together in public that is not weird or gay” when there’s women present. The only duet men sing with other men at karaoke bars is “Putting on the Ritz,” the Young Frankenstein version. If you only wore something one day, you can just hang it and wear it again tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/90 "2014-04-22T17:25:31Z")
I would rather eat breakfast food at every meal than leftovers for breakfast. But then, I hate leftovers and love breakfast food.\* \*As in, if you told me I had to spend the rest of my life locked in one building I’d seriously consider an IHOP. I love Waffle House more, but I sure as hell wouldn’t want to use their bathrooms in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/91 "2014-04-22T18:21:56Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > I recall reading somewhere that the “complete breakfast” with eggs, bacon, toast, orange juice, milk and cereal was made up by the cereal companies. Prior to that there was no standard American breakfast and it could be as simple as leftovers or just a coffee and a doughnut. Not quite. Most of those things had long been established as breakfast food. What the cereal people were doing with “complete breakfast” was trying to tag along. There were a lot of people who thought of packaged (read with a sneer) “cold” cereal as inferior to a real, cooked breakfast and cereal companies were trying to sell to them. They basically substituted their product for the potatoes. Or for the hot cereal. > [@Urbanredneck](#): > > . . . I saw this one study where they looked at what women order when they are out with just female friends in comparison to when they are with men and its totally different. They just have salads and skimpy meals around other women. ## That could be a dieting competition thing. Some women don’t dare eat a fattening entree in front of other women. It’s not that they like salads, it’s just that they’re required. Women’s breakfasts? Men’s breakfasts? The Mom thing to do is to make sure that all leftovers are used before they go bad. Of course, those who are determined to provide a proper breakfast for their family might serve the family regular breakfast food, while eating leftovers for breakfast themselves. That might include eating them from a bowl while standing in the kitchen, either while cooking the family breakfast or while cleaning up. I’ve also seen bowl binging on leftovers at odd times of day, when no one is watching, because if you’re using up leftovers the inherent virtue in the act weakens the calories. And not sitting down means it doesn’t count. Especially if you don’t warm it up. Mom used to mix pickle relish with cold spaghetti “to counteract the grease.” ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/92 "2014-04-22T18:27:39Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > I recall reading somewhere that the “complete breakfast” with eggs, bacon, toast, orange juice, milk and cereal was made up by the cereal companies. Prior to that there was no standard American breakfast and it could be as simple as leftovers or just a coffee and a doughnut. Nah. Comes from the “[full English](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_breakfast)” breakfast - though without the fried tomato, thankfully. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/93 "2014-04-22T18:38:55Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > The obligatory musical interlude: Christine Lavin’s [“Cold Pizza for Breakfast”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFe5zQQXdXg&feature=kp)(Warm Coke to Wash It Down)" I can get behind cold pizza or really any leftovers for breakfast but warm coke is an abomination! ---
**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 23, 2014, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/94 "2014-04-23T00:28:08Z")
> [@Superhal](#): > > When football fans meet soccer fans, there’s an obligatory round of “which one is the REAL football” that nobody pays attention to. Then, they both make jokes about rugby. Clearly you’ve never been to Australia, where the argument is over whether Rugby League, Rugby Union or Australian Rules (a Rugby-like) are “Real Football” (the answer changes which part of the country you’re in). Soccer also insists it is “Football” and its proponents are correct in that it’s the only one of the four major footballs in this country that is predominantly played with one’s feet… buuuut there’s already three “Footballs” here so most people call Association Football “Soccer” whether it proponents like it or not. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/95 "2014-04-23T00:32:49Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > Soccer also insists it is “Football” and its proponents are correct in that it’s the only one of the four major footballs in this country that is predominantly played with one’s feet… … to which rugby/AFL fans respond that their codes are called football because their games are played on foot, as opposed to horseback. I doubt this explanation, but there it is. ---
**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 23, 2014, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/96 "2014-04-23T00:43:26Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > … to which rugby/AFL fans respond that their codes are called football because their games are played on foot, as opposed to horseback. > > I doubt this explanation, but there it is. That’s a good one. I haven’t heard that before, but I like it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/97 "2014-04-23T00:48:12Z")
You know what’s the difference between the NFL and rugby? In the NFL, hugging is illegal. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/98 "2014-04-23T01:02:40Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > A couple of weeks ago the SO asked, ‘What’s for breakfast?’ I said, ‘I don’t know. There’s some leftover stroganoff…’ She said, 'Stroganoff for breakfast? :dubious: ’ ‘Why not?’ I asked. ‘Because I’m human, not a guy.’ > > What’s wrong with leftover stroganoff for breakfast? Or cold pizza? Or some beef paneang curry? Or spaghetti? Or meatloaf, hot or cold? Must be a guy thing, not having to have ‘breakfast food’ for breakfast. (I ended up grating some potatoes that day, and we had hashbrowns, eggs, and bacon.) > > Gentlemen, what things do you do that your Significant Female just doesn’t understand? Ladies, what does your guy-griend do that makes you shake your head and say, ‘It must be a guy thing.’? I’m not hugely enthused about most of the customary “breakfast” foods, so frequently wind up with dinner leftovers as breakfast, which is fine by me. I’m definitely not a guy, though, as those (bleep) uterine cramps will testify. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/99 "2014-04-23T01:04:23Z")
> [@randompattern](#): > > I think cold day-old ( or more) spaghetti tastes better than when it’s new and hot. My husband would say the same of a lot of foods. I won’t dispute it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543/100 "2014-04-23T01:07:11Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Like most men, I have selective blindness. I couldn’t find a chair in a room full of couches. I can search the entire refrigerator and not find a 2-pound block of cheese. My wife opens the door and says “how about this one” as she grabs it from in plain view. It’s how we end up with multiple jars of peanut butter and the like. As soon as I buy one, I find the one I couldn’t see sitting in plain sight on the pantry shelf. > > Most guys have this same ailment, I’ve found. I’ve tried to work around it by pretending that I’m looking for something else, hoping to fool the God Who Hides Shit into being diverted away from the actual thing I’m looking for. It never works. My protestations of “Honest to christ, I looked in that drawer THREE FUCKING TIMES for that grater and couldn’t find it!” garner no sympathy, only a pitying look. I just wish she wouldn’t roll her eyes. So that problem with my husband is linked to either his Y chromosome or to testosterone? I thought he was just playing helpless so I’d deal with finding $WHATEVER for him instead of making him put out the effort. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-guy-thing/686543.md?page=6)