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[faustus]

If I ever make like I'm going to buy the OED, stop me. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/17/ammon-shea-dictionary-extract-oed

Bernstein on McCain; Rolling Stone, ditto

From a couple of weeks back: McCain: The Mavericking Maverick Mavericks More

The Curse of the Fall

Tunnels: Cool. (One for the Twentieth Century Society - or the Landmark Trust.)

The partnership which created the Brum Selfridges building have split their practice

Light the blue touch paper and retire (Guardian G2 23/9/8, p.20, and not online that I can see)

The question should read: 'Why do men enjoy re-reading books and watching films they have seen before?' It is a fact that men cannot multiskill, so any distraction, however small, while reading a book or watching a film will send their minds into a spin and consequently they will literally 'lose the plot'.

Think about it - do you know any woman who regularly buys box sets or watches the 'director's cut' at the end of a DVD? Women feel no need to revisit films or books as they grasp the plot, characters, story line, etc the first time. Men, on the other hand, have to re-watch and re-read in order to grasp the basic plot. They veil their stupidity by saying things like, 'I want to watch/read again to fully appreciate the artistry of the piece . . . blah blah blah.'

Men reading this answer - I suggest that you start reading it again so that you fully understand it. Women, move on to the next one.

Beca Davies, Cardiff

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[lamentables.livejournal.com]

Once again, it would appear that I'm a bloke ;-)

[dalmeny]

You too?

Yesterday, dmw demonstrated his greater skill in TV interpretation as we watched some Twin Peaks. There were three pairs of characters I couldn't tell apart - so I was confused as to the motivation of three people who turned out to be six.

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

I'm still trying to work out which DVDs have director's cuts at the end (deleted scenes one can watch later, yes) and whether multiskilling is the same as multitasking (there's a frequent announcement in Morrescbury's "Multi-skillers to the checkouts" but no one, male or female, seems to appear).

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

Do I need to friends lock this from him indoors?!

[kayxh.livejournal.com]

Why do men enjoy re-reading books...
Did you see the reply the following week from Andy Sawyer who said that he knew lots of women who enjoyed re-reading, re-watching.

I just like to think of the woman who wrote this answer being surrounded by men with their box sets of Deseparate Housewives and Sex and the City. I mean if women don't re-watch stuff, it must be men who are buying them. Right?

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

I didn't - I only saw it by accident (was it the How to Write week?) and I can't find a straightforward version of the feature online.

Maybe all the boxsets are bought by us blokes for our girlfriends, thinking that it's something they'd really like because we are re-watching Fly Fishing DVDs for the nth time.

Obviously I'm imaging those people who have seen Mama Mia at last three times at the cinema. And all those rereaders of Jane Austen.

[kayxh.livejournal.com]

Can't remember when it was in Guardian, and on-line search of their Notes and Queries page doesn't turn anything up.

Being a woman I resisted the urge I had to watch Bob Roberts for the n-th time tonight. Because I understood it the first time, so what's the point of watching it again.

Ooh look. Independence Day is on tv. Perhaps if I re-watch it I'll find all those subtle subtexts and meanings that passed me by in the cinema.

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

Obviously you caught all the echoes of Don't Look Back on first viewing, and incorporated I'm Not There. retrospectively.

Whoever said that was dumb and sexist. And also dumb. And kind of sexist.

[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

"Think about it - do you know any woman who regularly buys box sets or watches the 'director's cut' at the end of a DVD? "

Yeah, me. That's total bullshit.

I'm on my fifth, I think it is, but at least the fourth viewing of the entire Buffy (then Angel) series. Babylon 5 and Battlestar Galactica are waiting for when I have that kind of time.

I've seen Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz about six times each. Let's not talk about Alien/Aliens, or The Silence of the Lambs.

Do the LOTR or Resident Evil movies count if I watched them once for fun, and the rest of the times because I put them on when I'm grading papers?

Re: Whoever said that was dumb and sexist. And also dumb. And kind of sexist.

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

Have you considered you might be a bloke?

[pennski.livejournal.com]

Oh dearie dearie me. I've just read this aloud to bookzombie and we agree that I'm a bloke too and he's now also having apoplexy.

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

I'm not surprised - I mean you've been together so many years now, and you never mentioned it to him...