# My friend desperately needs help **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 16, 2012, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-desperately-needs-help/613029 "2012-02-16T15:00:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-desperately-needs-help/613029/21 "2012-02-17T17:25:57Z")
> [@TokyoPlayer](#): > > … > Like many, if not most Japanese women…So we have a recently married, first time pregnant Chie trying to learn to cook for the first time ever, in a new, unfamiliar environment; with ingredients she’s never previously encountered, and competing with memories of the best of the best… Congratulations, Tony just married an anime heroine \<3. Just let him know to keep heavy blunt objects out of her reach ^\_^. Does she have pigtails? ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-desperately-needs-help/613029/22 "2012-02-17T17:33:52Z")
> [@TokyoPlayer](#): > > Actually, it was worse in Japanese. I’m not sure it’s possible for it to be worse. Does he still have his balls attached? If he does, I’d say that he got off lightly. And he shouldn’t expect to have sex (with her, at any rate) for about another year and a half. I sure as hell didn’t feel like having sex when I was pregnant, or for a while after I was pregnant, and I hadn’t been mortally insulted by my husband. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Know\_Nothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f04885/32.png) [@I\_Know\_Nothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Know_Nothing)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-desperately-needs-help/613029/23 "2012-02-17T18:04:16Z")
> [@TokyoPlayer](#): > > So he’s asking me when he can expect to have sex again. Tell him, after a heartfelt apology, why not tonight? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-desperately-needs-help/613029/24 "2012-02-17T21:14:30Z")
> [@Hello\_Again](#): > > The fact is, some people are just dopes. My best friend was 6 months pregnant, glowing with health and still running a horse farm and riding program (so, incredibly physically fit). > > her MIL gets off the plane and says > … > > **Gee you got fat**. > Cue stunned silence. > > When she told me this story I literally could not believe my ears, and I’ve said some boneheaded shit in my day. NO rational person could think my friend looked “fat” with her toned, athletic physique. She looked _pregnant_ because …she was _pregnant_. That’s a different stereotype, though. When a husband says something like that, it’s because Guys Are Dumb. When a MIL says something like that, it’s because Mothers-In-Law Are Evil. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-desperately-needs-help/613029/25 "2012-02-18T16:06:22Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > He needs to make dinner for a week and do it badly. He should be really embarassed about how badly it turned out and how much he doesn’t know. Then he needs to appologize for having spoken without knowing what he was talking about. > > Ideally. The “doing it badly” part shouldn’t be difficult at all, what I don’t know is whether he’ll be able to learn from it. When they got married, Middlebro could cook (nothing fancy, but it was good and healthy as far as student meals go) and his wife couldn’t, since her mother is one of those women who can’t tolerate the presence of other people in their kitchens. He bought her a cookbook that explained everything: it even explains how to crack an egg properly! Your friend needs one like that, **TP** , but for himself so he can learn to cook, not to give to her. If he gives it to her now, she’ll be justified in turning him into chile con carne. ---
**Author:** ![Snake\_Plissken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@Snake\_Plissken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snake_Plissken)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-desperately-needs-help/613029/26 "2012-02-18T16:33:37Z")
I’d be suprised if there werent a married man on the planet that hasnt been in a similar situation. If an idiot like me can be married for 27 years, I think Tony has the smarts to smooth things over. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-desperately-needs-help/613029.md?page=1)