Can Wives Shorten Work Hours?
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I don't know, Steve,
I had read this editorial when it first ran, and at the time, I wished the title would have read "Can Spouses Shorten Work Hours?" Maybe that topic would have been more appropriate. I see why you acheived all these responses.
I work just as hard as my husband but neither of us work to avoid eachother. We just realize we have higher goals assigned to us because we do not have children and choose not to waste the lives that God has given us. We do understand when work gets in the way.
All the best,
DaleAuthor: An Introduction to SQL Server 2005 Management Studio
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OH NO!!! .. the gig is up... put away the cards, booze, cigars and porno mags... the women are on to us.... this forum will be on Oprah in about 3 hours ...and were all done.
I'm ducking out of work early to make my place on the couch pretty darn comfy.
Have a great long weekend well its at least that for us lacrosse playing canadians.
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And i'm terribly intimidated by this women's CV.
I think she invented ADA.
And I suspect she could do my c# E.S.P. faster than I, and give birth, by crikey.
At least I'll alway have peeing standing up...
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Is this supposed to be funny??
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the french complaining about humour... now that's funny.
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I'm not french, I'm french canadian. You can't imagine how different those two cultures are.
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Well, I can't give birth. Hence, the reason why my husband and I do not have children. However, I am glad you can pee standing up. That's very good for you.
All the best,
DaleAuthor: An Introduction to SQL Server 2005 Management Studio
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I go to quebec quite often actually and been to france. I know the difference. But I know the similarities as well.
Both think mimes are funny, I rest my case.
Up here in Canada the french are treated as special: for example University of Toronto has a french phoenetics lab, I'm not aware of one for English.
On the plus side, if government documents are not written in both languages you basically can ignore them legally.
Works well for dodging speeding tickets and such.
But it also creates a third class of special citizen one who speaks English and French, but not a french the French of France would accept, but a creole algerian offshoot.
These people get first dibs at jobs, and benefits. Much to the chargin of the 90% unilingual citizens in canada.
Hope that clears up, what remi was speaking of.
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"Both think mimes are funny, I rest my case."
Don't generalise to myself. I'm different, just like everybody else
.Why wouldn't someone who's more qualified get the job first. We speak 2 languages here so the ones who can fit this situation and help the company should and are hired first.
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We do not only speak 2 languages up here.... counting the natives tribes alone your looking at a 14 or so. They should be the national languages just like lacrosse is a native american game, and therefore our national game.
Then we can look at the high percentage Germans and other Europeans that live here. What makes those any less important. Or the chinese that built the national railroad system.
From my understanding German almost became the national language of the USA.
Canada is a diverse country with many languages and cultures that enriches our lives. By holding to the antiqued dual langauge structure increases costs and creates an unfair onus for people who live here to be bilingual where their native tongue may not be either, (Eastern North American Canadian dialect of ) English ( ...think colour... flavour ...and a hard pronounciation of most vowels eg PRO gress not PRA gress) or Quebec French ( think ... Formally pronounced Slang of old pre revolutional France)
That type of onus on lingual dualism is an unfair and unamielorating (the french up here love that word:ameilorating) feature of Canada to the non dual lingual citizen and tax payers.
Now the irony is I'm pretty close to bilingual and could pass off as such with a little freshiing up of my uni french, I think it detracts from the 90% who are not. Do I care if my physician can speak french if I need healthcare, or my tax agent, neither of which are important for the task at hand and should not the be deciding factor for hiring.
I'm off my soapbox.
Have a great weekend.
Edward W. Stanley
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"ps:As for no gender having monopoly on any particular behaviour or attribute - I completely (but respectfully) disagree.....don't get me started on this one - men are definitely from Mars....."
viva la différence perhaps Kipling had it right
Mike
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
The Female of the Species
WHEN the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride,
He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside.
But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
When Nag the basking cobra hears the careless foot of man,
He will sometimes wriggle sideways and avoid it if he can.
But his mate makes no such motion where she camps beside the trail.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
When the early Jesuit fathers preached to Hurons and Choctaws,
They prayed to be delivered from the vengeance of the squaws.
'Twas the women, not the warriors, turned those stark enthusiasts pale.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
Man's timid heart is bursting with the things he must not say,
For the Woman that God gave him isn't his to give away;
But when hunter meets with husbands, each confirms the other's tale—
The female of the species is more deadly than the male.
Man, a bear in most relations—worm and savage otherwise,—
Man propounds negotiations, Man accepts the compromise.
Very rarely will he squarely push the logic of a fact
To its ultimate conclusion in unmitigated act.
Fear, or foolishness, impels him, ere he lay the wicked low,
To concede some form of trial even to his fiercest foe.
Mirth obscene diverts his anger—Doubt and Pity oft perplex
Him in dealing with an issue—to the scandal of The Sex!
But the Woman that God gave him, every fibre of her frame
Proves her launched for one sole issue, armed and engined for the same;
And to serve that single issue, lest the generations fail,
The female of the species must be deadlier than the male.
She who faces Death by torture for each life beneath her breast
May not deal in doubt or pity—must not swerve for fact or jest.
These be purely male diversions—not in these her honour dwells—
She the Other Law we live by, is that Law and nothing else.
She can bring no more to living than the powers that make her great
As the Mother of the Infant and the Mistress of the Mate.
And when Babe and Man are lacking and she strides unclaimed to claim
Her right as femme (and baron), her equipment is the same.
She is wedded to convictions—in default of grosser ties;
Her contentions are her children, Heaven help him who denies!—
He will meet no suave discussion, but the instant, white-hot, wild,
Wakened female of the species warring as for spouse and child.
Unprovoked and awful charges—even so the she-bear fights,
Speech that drips, corrodes, and poisons—even so the cobra bites,
Scientific vivisection of one nerve till it is raw
And the victim writhes in anguish—like the Jesuit with the squaw!
So it comes that Man, the coward, when he gathers to confer
With his fellow-braves in council, dare not leave a place for her
Where, at war with Life and Conscience, he uplifts his erring hands
To some God of Abstract Justice—which no woman understands.
And Man knows it! Knows, moreover, that the Woman that God gave him
Must command but may not govern—shall enthral but not enslave him.
And She knows, because She warns him, and Her instincts never fail,
That the Female of Her Species is more deadly than the Male.
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"That the Female of Her Species is more deadly than the Male."
Amen! Ask the Lion about that one!
All the best,
DaleAuthor: An Introduction to SQL Server 2005 Management Studio
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