If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, then who is from Uranus?

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I'm stumped.

― Great thinker, Friday, 19 March 2004 10:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Eggs.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 March 2004 10:39 (twenty-two years ago)

The kids I just dropped at the pool. Next!

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 19 March 2004 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)

damn near killed 'im!

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 19 March 2004 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)

If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, then poo is from Uranus?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 19 March 2004 10:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Your mum.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Friday, 19 March 2004 12:21 (twenty-two years ago)

William Shatner.

― bleep, Friday, 19 March 2004 12:27 (twenty-two years ago)

George W. Bush. Oh God, I should have flushed.

― Speedy (Speedy Gonzalas), Friday, 19 March 2004 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

"Uranus" makes "Get Ur Freak On" even more enjoyable.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 19 March 2004 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

(sorry, that post is kinda weak, but I've been having trouble wanting to post to any threads the last couple days - it's been a bit boring, huh?)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 19 March 2004 19:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Klingons

― Octothorpe (Octothorpe), Saturday, 20 March 2004 05:18 (twenty-two years ago)

"I'm sorry we stopped calling it Uranus in 2260... now its caled Urectum!"

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 20 March 2004 05:49 (twenty-two years ago)

no-one is from uranus, but crabs migrate there

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Saturday, 20 March 2004 05:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Meanwhile, John Gray (who started all this "men from mars, women from venus" bullshit, is exposed as a fraud with a degree from a diploma mill

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 21 March 2004 09:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Suddenly the crapness of the book men are from mars, women are from venus takes on a whole new level of crapness, previously unexplored by me. I wondered who would give such a stupid man a doctorate and now I know.

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Sunday, 21 March 2004 09:54 (twenty-two years ago)

no no - he's a very intelligent man. to have convinced so many people into buying a piece of literature based entirely around speculation and the lowest kind of pop psychology masquerading as a thought-provoking scientific study, you'd have to be a genius.

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 21 March 2004 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)

or just tell people what they want to hear and back it up with generalisation and spurious reasoning. My favourite part of Men are from Mars women are from Venus is the bit theorising that women like little things done for them, and then launches into a list of a thousand incredibly irritating things a man might do to "help" or "impress" his partner. Things like cutting out newspaper articles she might like and reading them aloud to her. If there is one thing I hate it is a mangled newspaper with print tendrils round where articles used to be; and people reading things aloud when I could read them quicker. Oh yeah, and drive slowly (implication you are manly and brave, women are sissies and appreciate holding up traffic, not that they think men are crap drivers). Buy her flowers (I say say it with money) and arrange tacky valentines gifts etc etc. Feeds in nicely to all the assumptions society perpetuates about women being nurturing, cautious and needy. I also wonder what happens when venus andvenus meet, and mars and mars meet and start dating?
My favourite John Gray moment is when he went on Oprah and cried about how he had saved his marriage (his wife was incidental apparently). I could bitch about that book for hours but I guess my main point is that it hardly appears like a scientific study, and I did not realise it was meant to be such.

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Sunday, 21 March 2004 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

My favourite John Gray moment is when he went on Oprah and cried about how he had saved his marriage (his wife was incidental apparently).

Which one? He's been married several times.

His first wife is just as much of a scam artist. From this page

"John Gray’s first wife was the inimitable Barbara DeAngelis, 'Ph.D.' For those of you out of the loop, 'Dr.' DeAngelis is another one of 'America’s leading experts on relationships.' She has written a number of relationship bestsellers including 'Are You the One For Me?' and 'Chicken Soup For the Couple’s Soul,' and she is the producer of the 'Making Love Work' video series. Like her ex-hubby, DeAngelis likes to frequent Oprah, Good Morning America, and Larry King Live. Barbara DeAngelis and Larry King must have a lot to talk about. He has been married eight times, and she has been married five times. John Gray was husband number three for DeAngelis. ...I don’t know the details of John and Barbara's courtship, but perhaps they met while registering for classes at the now-defunct Columbia Pacific University. Because - you guessed it - that is where DeAngelis received her 'Ph.D.' as well."

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 21 March 2004 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

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