Rigger's Diary: Women ARE stupid after all

Dominic Shields wrote:

cricket on the radio
even more so - "More cake Aggers? A soporific pidgeon flies past and
there goes another red bus down the Harleford Road"

OT - They might not be able to see the bus on the Harleyford Road any
longer as there is a whopping great big new stand at the Vauxhall End.
Very nice too, I might be able to get a ticket now.

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Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

GameBashers | Carpy wrote:

I thought the whole point was that Hermaphrodites (at birth) are neither
male or female. Therefore one who grows up without pressure to lean towards
male or female, would be right on the centreline between male and female,
and thus would either possess both male and female skills, or possess
neither.

What do you reckon?

Much of the recent research suggests that brain "sex" is not governed by
genetics like physical sex is, but is controlled by hormone levels in
the early weeks of pregnancy - later "nurture" will have effects but can
not usually be overriding. As a result is is possible (although not
common) to have a brain sex that at odds with your physical sex.

The above mentioned book by Alan Pease is a very entertaining but well
researched rad on the subject.

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Dominic Shields wrote:

I thought it was called multitasking!


That's what it is, if you think about each task I mention:
Reading, well there is no penalty for stopping momentarily and
continuing

One of the factoids from aformationed book ISTR, was that becauee of the
compartmentalisation of many mens brains, we really do loose other
abilities when reading. In some cases apparently we can loose as much as
80% of our hearing. Probably slightly different from stopping reading to
do something else though.

Telephone, most people only really want you to say "Hmm" or "yes"
enthusiastically when they pause.

Women don't need the pauses ;-)

Strangely climbing to the top of my ladders and putting up an aerial
grabbed 100% of my brain.

Probably for the same reason we turn the radio down in the car when we
are navigating somewhere new in a busy city centre.


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Probably for the same reason we turn the radio down in the car when we

are navigating somewhere new in a busy city centre.

Or shout "For God's sake shut up!" at the kids.

Bill

Dominic Shields wrote:

Probably for the same reason we turn the radio down in the car when we
are navigating somewhere new in a busy city centre.


Isn't novelty or danger atypical though ? I don't think anyone
seriously suggests that people multitask say when at the very top of
ladders they don't habitually use because your whole brain is fixated
on not falling off whilst doing the task you were up there for.

These aren't hard and fast rules... they will also apply in varying
amounts for different people, but it is one difference that is commonly
noted.

Men typically have areas of the brain dedicated to speaking and
listening. So do women, but not in quite such a defined way, so when a
women speaks, more of her brain is active in the process. (they can tell
this with EEGs). This is one of the reasons why men tend to be harder
hit in speech and language skills if they have a stroke. There are some
tasks that are multidisciplinary that will occupies large amounts of
brain function in both sexes, I expect standing on the top of ladders is
one of them - especially if it is not a common activity.

In mundane situations isn't it simply applying experience ? I have had
a conversation with a male of the old school who simply refused to
believe that I am able to walk in from work, boil the kettle, switch
on the oven, put away crockery, start the washing machine, start to
cook food *so that all those tasks are occurring simultaneously*. He

It may be the case that he can't. So he assumes this is the case for all
men.

You see it in lot of other ways as well. Men have a protocol for talking
- each takes turns, the other nods or makes encouraging noises. Women
can do this as well, so a man and a woman can converse without any
problem. However they also can usually both talk at once and still
consider that as a conversation. A group of women plus a man will tend
to report that the man "was not very communicative". This is simply
because women (again typically, and not in every case) will find it
easier to talk over each other and still understand what is being said
by all. Men will usually sit there waiting for their turn to say
something, and never get one ;-)


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On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:41:48 GMT, Nigel M wrote:

In uk.tech.digital-tv, GameBashers | Carpy wrote:

So, in all seriousness, would this mean that Hermaphrodites are not only
superb at parking and map navigation, but are equally skilled at working
gadgets and mutlitasking?

It doesn't depend on your genitals, it depends on the way your brain
forms during pregnancy. See:

http://www.peasetraining.com/html/news___views.html

There's a more user-friendly test at

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbo...add_user.shtml

Charlie

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On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 23:18:38 +0100, Dominic Shields
wrote:

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:38:19 +0000, Phil Cook
wrote:

Dominic Shields wrote:

cricket on the radio
even more so - "More cake Aggers? A soporific pidgeon flies past and
there goes another red bus down the Harleford Road"

OT - They might not be able to see the bus on the Harleyford Road any
longer as there is a whopping great big new stand at the Vauxhall End.
Very nice too, I might be able to get a ticket now.

Yes The models of what they are going to do to the Oval look superb,
sadly having no intention of ever having Sky/NTL etc its going to have
to be descriptions of it for me. :-(

Or you could always watch the Fifth Test on Channel 4.

Charlie

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Charlie Pearce wrote:

On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 23:18:38 +0100, Dominic Shields
wrote:

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:38:19 +0000, Phil Cook
wrote:

Dominic Shields wrote:

cricket on the radio
even more so - "More cake Aggers? A soporific pidgeon flies past and
there goes another red bus down the Harleford Road"

OT - They might not be able to see the bus on the Harleyford Road any
longer as there is a whopping great big new stand at the Vauxhall End.
Very nice too, I might be able to get a ticket now.

Yes The models of what they are going to do to the Oval look superb,
sadly having no intention of ever having Sky/NTL etc its going to have
to be descriptions of it for me. :-(

I could always take my camera mounted on a walking pole and take a few
snaps over the wall for you. I might even go to the odd Surrey game.
If it wasn't an Ashes year I might be able to get a ticket for the
last test now. :-)

Or you could always watch the Fifth Test on Channel 4.

According to http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/4097137.stm

The new contract covers these series

2006 v Sri Lanka and Pakistan
2007 v West Indies and India
2008 v Zimbabwe and South Africa
2009 v New Zealand and Australia

....and there will be highlights on Ch 5

Channel 4 have a second slot available on Freeview from June. I wonder
if they will use it to solve the problem of the cricket
over-running...
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Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"
and a little to the left the top of the new stand at the Oval.

Not to mention fame and fortune as a journalist Bill.
That would be nice. A sitting down job would suit me fine.

Bill