Things I like about men...

[ABSTRUSE]

Maybe a man can answer this stupid question?
I was thinking about how Ford built his automobile, the whole thing still amazes me no matter how many times I've been under the hood of a car, I would just have put a new hat on the horse and been happy...anyhoo I got to thinking where did gasoline come from? was it a product already in use or did it come about from the invention of the automobile?
Anybody know?

 

[matriarch]

Maybe a man can answer this stupid question?
I was thinking about how Ford built his automobile, the whole thing still amazes me no matter how many times I've been under the hood of a car, I would just have put a new hat on the horse and been happy...anyhoo I got to thinking where did gasoline come from? was it a product already in use or did it come about from the invention of the automobile?
Anybody know?

This might help. Not sure.

 

[matriarch]

......or this

(still looking).

 

[ABSTRUSE]

This might help. Not sure.

Thanks that was quite informative.

 

[shereads]

Feminism made appreciation of men less a priority and more of a character flaw.

Not necessarily. I was a feminist before i was old enough to learn the word, and I've always been drawn to men. I seem to enjoy them most when I'm not married to them, but I'm also aware that if we had been more compatible in other ways, the things we each found annoying about the other could barely have registered a blip on the screen.

I like how unlike women men can be. Not because I dislike women, but because women aren't a mystery to me. (Speaking in generalties here.) Mystery makes the world worth exploring.

Men think and communicate differently, which can make knowing them a challenge. A fun and scary challenge, like being sent to an alien planet as the Ambassador from Nipple-opolis. Upon further acquaintance, the Mars/Venus thing can make car trips frustrating (Men: You don't have to ask for directions; just pull over and we'll do it.) but with the right man in the car, who cares if you're lost?

The naughty parts are also alien. In fact the penis is practically a separate life form. Fascinating.

 

[Sex and Death]

Maybe a man can answer this stupid question?
I was thinking about how Ford built his automobile, the whole thing still amazes me no matter how many times I've been under the hood of a car, I would just have put a new hat on the horse and been happy...anyhoo I got to thinking where did gasoline come from? was it a product already in use or did it come about from the invention of the automobile?
Anybody know?

Gasoline has been around since kerosene, arguably, for many hundreds of years. When crude petroleum (which is basically just laying around on the surface of and underneath the surface of the planet) is turned into kerosene, one of the by-products of that process is gasoline. So, gasoline wasn't invented, but the refining process to make betterfasterstronger gasoline was invented.

Gasoline burns at a lower temprature, and more volatily, than kerosene, and so is better suited to the high intensity friction and heavy metal grinding of internal combustion engine than is kerosene.

An internal combustion engine is any engine that uses the explosive combustion of fuel to push a piston within a cylinder - the piston's movement turns a crankshaft that then turns the car wheels via a chain or a drive shaft. Most internal combustion engines run on gasoline or diesel, but some actually do run on kerosene. We also have other alternative fuels that will power an internal combustion engine in this day and age, such as hydrogen and bio-diesel (which can be made in your garage from vegetable oil for about a buck-fifty per gallon...when bio-diesel burns it smells like french fires).

The first "automobile" was built in France, by a man named Cugnot. It was steam powered. It is arguable whether Gottlied Daimler or Karl Benz built the first automobile powered by an internal combustion engine. (The same guys who we know form Daimler-Chrysler and Mercedes Benz fame). They did their things in the mid 1880's.

Henry Ford did not invent the automobile, he perfected the assembly line an dused his assembly line process to build the first mass produced automobile, the Model A.

When you grow up in Metro Detroit, this stuff seeps into your blood during sleep.

SD

 

[shereads]

...because women aren't a mystery to me.

I wrote that before I read Abs' post about Henry Ford and horse hats.

 

[entitled]

It's easier to cut their hair, if you have a decent set of clippers and a sharp pair of scissors.

 

[3113]

I like that men get between you and on-coming cars when crossing the street.
I like that when a man is with you in a bar, he'll get all territorial and protective if some drunken baffoon tries to approach you.
I like that men still strive to be like that superhero, real or fictional, that they admired as a kid.
I like that men sometimes radiate heat at night and you can snuggle up and warm yourself by them.
I like that they put up with our icy cold feet when we come to bed, with our scary mood swings, with our very scary pms, and with our seemingly endless lists of little, household chores that "really need to be done now, dear."
I like the clothing they wear: pleated trousers and rugged jeans, heavy coats and swave tuxedos...just about everything except (sorry), those regulation business suits with the tie...can't we go back to dapper ascots?

 

[kendo1]

The way we leave the toilet seat up.
The way we fart and blame you.
The way we ignore headaches.
The way we suffer a cold more than a woman.

 

[Guest]

The way we suffer a cold more than a woman.

A-men!

 

[shereads]

Gasoline has been around since kerosene, arguably, for many hundreds of years. When crude petroleum (which is basically just laying around on the surface of and underneath the surface of the planet) is turned into kerosene, one of the by-products of that process is gasoline. So, gasoline wasn't invented, but the refining process to make betterfasterstronger gasoline was invented.

Gasoline burns at a lower temprature, and more volatily, than kerosene, and so is better suited to the high intensity friction and heavy metal grinding of internal combustion engine than is kerosene. (This sentence I just wrote makes my cock hard).

An internal combustion engine is any engine that uses the explosive combustion of fuel to push a piston within a cylinder - the piston's movement turns a crankshaft that then turns the car wheels via a chain or a drive shaft. Most internal combustion engines run on gasoline or diesel, but some actually do run on kerosene. We also have other alternative fuels that will power an internal combustion engine in this day and age, such as hydrogen and bio-diesel (which can be made in your garage from vegetable oil for about a buck-fifty per gallon...when bio-diesel burns it smells like french fires).

The first "automobile" was built in France, by a man named Cugnot. It was steam powered. It is arguable whteher Gottlied Daimle or Karl Benz built the first automobile powered by an internal combustion engine. (The same guys who we know form Daimler-Chrysler and Mercedes Benz fame).

henry Ford did not invent the automobile, he perfected the assembly line an dused his assembly line process to build the first mass produced automobile, the Model A.

When you grow up in Metro Detroit, this stuff seeps into your blood during sleep.

SD

Thank you. I still think Abs' alternative (new hat for her horse) would have saved the planet a lot of wear-and-tear, but your post is interesting.

Next:

A topic that gives me a horse-hat headache is any topic containing "sub-atomic" and whatever words come before and after, comprising what is usually billed as an explanation in laymen's terms. Ha. Stephen Hawking wrote "A Brief History of Time" for laymen, but failed to take into account the different types of laymen.

As with computers, there are laymen ("Can I right-click the gizmot without damaging my desktop applicator, or will I need more RAM?") and then there are laymen. ("WTF is RAM?") I'm that one. Bring "sub-atomic' into the conversation, and I drop down to a level of comprehension so low that WTF has no meaning.

{Note: I'm only stupid in subjects that require visualization in three dimensions or of objects too small to be described by color, texture, or sexual preference.)

My Question to Men:

Instead of explaining the concept of splitting the atom, which will only frustrate me, please explain how one gets a suitable atom in position for splitting and what device is used, assuming it is not the device in my mental image of the process - a very, very, very thin Xacto-Knife blade, so sharp that it couldn't be manufactured without using tinier particles than atoms. Which would make the experiment redundant. Also, how do you prove you've split an atom without blowing something up? Do other physicists just take your word for it?


WOMEN: Feel free to answer and accept my apology in advance for implying that none of us understand this stuff. Unlike the infamous talking Barbie® ("Girls aren't good at math!") I'm aware that it's probably just me.

 

[3113]

WOMEN: Feel free to answer and accept my apology in advance for implying that none of us understand this stuff. Unlike the infamous talking Barbie® ("Girls aren't good at math!") I'm aware that it's probably just me.

Certainly true enough when it comes to your question on splitting atoms. One of the earliest and most important scientists behind the creation of the atom bomb was a woman--totally forgotten and ignored for a very long time, of course--though that might have been as much because she was a German Jew as because she was female.

"Lise Meitner...had a reputation as one of Germany's best experimentalists. Einstein fondly referred to her as "our Marie Curie." Meitner's perceptive realization that atomic nuclei can be split in half was the first step in a cascading set of discoveries that would relentlessly lead to the atomic bomb. But, in the midst of these revelations, Meitner had to flee from Nazi Germany, which cut her off from her laboratory and colleagues. While this exile saved her life, it cost her the Nobel Prize and a prominent niche in many annals of physics."

The rest of the article can be found here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/reviews/lisemeitner.htm

 

[Guest]

I really... had to think about this

"Things I like about Men..."

the way that they look when they are sleeping
the fact that they are completely serious when they say that they don't snore
the look in their eyes when they are watching their significant other when they believe that no one is watching
the way that a special one can make me feel like I am the only woman in the world
they way that they are gruff and grumbly when they are being protective
they way that they are fascinated and awed with mothers and motherhood
the way that they can dominate at just the right time, hold a woman down, and push her over the edge of pleasure... and in the same instant be at the bottom of the cliff to catch her
that they want to fix things and make them better
that they are dragon slayers
that they are white knights, black knights, and wounded knights

 

[AppleBiter]

I can't believe I missed this thread!

Okay, what I like about men (regardless of whether it's been said already, and as broad, general statements, not encompassing all men):

* I like how they're usually square-dealing and not backstabbing. There seems to be less overall drama with men, in my experience.

* I like their deep, soothing, sexy, comforting voices.

* I like how most of them never want to grow up.

* I like that they're confused by us. It's cute.

* I like the male body . . . exciting to the sight, touch, taste, and smell. Mmmm.

* I like how they're fascinated with gross things.

* I like how they'll play with a puppy for hours.

* I like to watch their Adam's apple when they swallow.

* I like how there's almost always a surface to break through with a man; a code to crack before you get to the real, vulnerable him.

* I like how they can make me hate them and love them at the same time.

* I like finding out there are those out there who really do care.

*I LOVE that they're dirty, dirty perverts.

 

[Whisky7up]

Did anyone mention that nook between shoulder and neck?

 

[Mercurius]

My Question to Men:

Instead of explaining the concept of splitting the atom, which will only frustrate me, please explain how one gets a suitable atom in position for splitting and what device is used, assuming it is not the device in my mental image of the process - a very, very, very thin Xacto-Knife blade, so sharp that it couldn't be manufactured without using tinier particles than atoms. Which would make the experiment redundant. Also, how do you prove you've split an atom without blowing something up? Do other physicists just take your word for it?

Here is my understanding of it, though I am not a physicist. Just someone who writes (and reads) about science sometimes.

An atom is split when the nucleus is struck by a neutron of sufficient mass and velocity. In the original atomic bombs, this was done in a very low tech way. Conventional explosives sent a chunk of uranium hurtling into a larger chunk of plutonium. Somewhere in that collision, a neutron hit a nucleus and blew it apart. When the nucleus blew up, it separated into different kinds of atoms, but there were extra neutrons, which shot out in all directions, striking other nuclei, and causing a chain reaction.

Uh, I'm getting into the concept here a bit, sorry. It's hard to explain the method without the concept.

In any case, it is the strong nuclear force (it's really called that) that holds nuclei together, and it is an incredibly strong force indeed. When a nucleus breaks, a ton of energy is released, which is why you get such huge explosions or so much energy from a power plant. The atoms that are left over after the original atoms are split apart are different forms of radioactive material, which is why we end up with nuclear waste. In a nuclear power plant, a controlled chain reaction is going on all the time. They stop it by inserting rods of a certain element into the reactor. This element (I can't recall which one at the moment) absorbs neutrons, and without neutrons bouncing around smashing into nuclei, the chain reaction stops.

I am not entirely sure how atoms are split these days, though obviously the methods are far more advanced and controlled than slamming chunks of fissionable material together. I believe extremely powerful magnets are used to align and accelerate the proper particles into each other.

I'm certain there's a physicist out there who can point out where I'm wrong or explain it better. But I'm actually surprised how much I remembered without having to look anything up!

As far as proving that you've split an atom, the energy release and the presence of the "after" elements are probably a good clue. There are also sophisticated ways of detecting subatomic particles and their trajectories.

 

[Norajane]

*I LOVE that they're dirty, dirty perverts.

Me too! That's my favorite thing about them!

 

[3113]

Did anyone mention that nook between shoulder and neck?

Not mentioned yet!

How about that lucious line over the thighs, the one that starts just above the waistband of most male briefs, which outlines the groin area and goes on down to....

 

[cloudy]

I can't believe no one has mentioned the goody trail!

I adore it.

 

[NoJo]

Most women like men who are canine in nature. Which is a bummer for us feline men.

 

[English Lady]

Most women like men who are canine in nature. Which is a bummer for us feline men.

my husband is feline, he purrs when I stroke him, loves me when I feed him and I'm always kinda aware that he's plotting to take over the world.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

When you grow up in Metro Detroit, this stuff seeps into your blood during sleep.

I think it's in the water

and so I'm still contributing to this wonderful list of amazing things about men....

Two words (can't believe Rhys hasn't posted this! <grin>):

Treasure Trail

 

[cloudy]

I think it's in the water

and so I'm still contributing to this wonderful list of amazing things about men....

Two words (can't believe Rhys hasn't posted this! <grin>):

Treasure Trail

beat ya to it, but of course, mentioning it more than once ISN'T a bad thing.

I can't believe no one has mentioned the goody trail!

I adore it.

 

[English Lady]

the way he says "yes dear" alot