Women and buttons and controls

[buzzer]

Women and buttons and controls...

What is it with Women? I watched my wife the other day with the sky remote. she was pointing it at the TV and pressing the buttons repeatedly with such force her finger was buckling under the pressure... (she forgot the sky box is now to the side )

The buttons on the cooker hood are pressed really hard when all they need is a light touch... the cooker buttons... the stereo buttons and dials... the dial on the washing machine, the tumble dryer, and the dishwasher are ripped around. its no wonder stuff fails.

Worst of all is the car... buttons on the radio are pressed so hard i can see her finger nail go white! heater controls are wrenched around with great speed until they are forced against the stop...

I tend to be very gentle with buttons, knobs and dials....

anyone else noticed this?? it seems to be a woman's trait...

[Thorburn]

I take it you don't ask for many handjobs then?

[illmonkey]

buzzer said:

Women and buttons and controls...

What is it with Women? I watched my wife the other day with the sky remote. she was pointing it at the TV and pressing the buttons repeatedly with such force her finger was buckling under the pressure... (she forgot the sky box is now to the side )

The buttons on the cooker hood are pressed really hard when all they need is a light touch... the cooker buttons... the stereo buttons and dials... the dial on the washing machine, the tumble dryer, and the dishwasher are ripped around. its no wonder stuff fails.

Worst of all is the car... buttons on the radio are pressed so hard i can see her finger nail go white! heater controls are wrenched around with great speed until they are forced against the stop...

I tend to be very gentle with buttons, knobs and dials....

anyone else noticed this?? it seems to be a woman's trait...

Tee hee hee.

I find I don't over press anything, I find it funny when people press stuff harder when it doesnt work. Sometimes it will work, dodgy connector or what ever, most of the time its dead batterys or something.

I do how ever press my PS3 controller harder when I want to get a better lap in. I know they are progressive controllers, but I'm holding it down fairly hard to begin with.

[Captain Flashman]

oh, i thought you'd developed some sort of remote control for women... carry on...

[Petrolhead_Rich]

Its because she is angry that stuff doesn't work.

point at TV, press button, doesn't work, press harder with more aggression.

I bet when she presses the radio she has it in CD mode and is annoyed it won't switch.

I bet she wacks the heater dials round to hot and it doesn't get hot (because the engine has just been started/not even on)

Am I right???

[STW2010]

Mine is annoying too. She has no concept of the middle settings. For example the heaters in the car, she will whack it straight to the max, then when she's too hot she puts it straight to the coldest setting. Then she gets too cold...

Bloody woman! Just put it somewhere in the middle!

[teen_cerbera]

STW2010 said:

Mine is annoying too. She has no concept of the middle settings. For example the heaters in the car, she will whack it straight to the max, then when she's too hot she puts it straight to the coldest setting. Then she gets too cold...

Bloody woman! Just put it somewhere in the middle!

My other half does this

[NikB]

I believe the term is 'lack of mechanical sympathy', I thinkmost of them suffer from this. I am constantly repairing things in our house that have been broken this way. She deems it as normal wear and tear!

[GingerWizard]

My wife can catagorically not use any form of lighter. Both smokers, and I have to leave matches out for her. I tried her on one of those oven lighters with a trigger, nope no good... she percieves her arms to be too short to work it.....????

Sometimes she trys to use the hob in the kitchen, so....... she selects the biggest hob (Wok style hob with multi flame rings and generous jetting ) Turns it on to maximum, then trys to work out the angle she needs to be at to light the cigarette without torching her blimin' head! I showed her the small hob method on lowest and setting and she just looked perplexed at me.....

So i have boxes of swan vesta everywhere.



Gwiz

[skilly1]

After living in her house for 6 years, my Missus last week realised how the thermostat works.

[GingerWizard]

skilly1 said:

After living in her house for 6 years, my Missus last week realised how the thermostat works.

ok that helps me, mine just views it with suspicion and stares at it from a distance.... we have only lived here 4 years though....

[carl carlson]

My mrs is a right button masher, she bashes the hell out of keyboard on her laptop, the sky remote gets a hell of a lot of grief and if it doesn't work first time she continues to press buttons so when it does eventaully start to work it kind of loops through all the ones that she pressed.

Mind you they probably think the same as us as most men fumble around their buttons

Edited by carl carlson on Friday 19th November 09:30

[omgus]

teen_cerbera said:

STW2010 said:

Mine is annoying too. She has no concept of the middle settings. For example the heaters in the car, she will whack it straight to the max, then when she's too hot she puts it straight to the coldest setting. Then she gets too cold...

Bloody woman! Just put it somewhere in the middle!

My other half does this

The ex would do that with the household heating. She would turn it up to 30 and then when she was to hot she'd prop the back door open.

[madala]

....they are not mush better with taps.....turn the bloody things off too tightly and fk the washer.....

[TonyHetherington]

An alternative slant to this wonderfully accurate thread; Not giving buttons time to work. The best example of this is the vending machine here at work.

say they want number 23. Put in money, push 2 3 very quickly. So quickly, that only 2 registers. Nothing comes out, so they push 2 3 again, but now they've selected 22 and get out a Yorkie (not for girls) when they wanted a pack of hob nobs.

The best bit is the anger that follows, calling it a stupid machine and that it's broken. It's never done that to me

[buzzer]

TonyHetherington said:

An alternative slant to this wonderfully accurate thread; Not giving buttons time to work. The best example of this is the vending machine here at work.

say they want number 23. Put in money, push 2 3 very quickly. So quickly, that only 2 registers. Nothing comes out, so they push 2 3 again, but now they've selected 22 and get out a Yorkie (not for girls) when they wanted a pack of hob nobs.

The best bit is the anger that follows, calling it a stupid machine and that it's broken. It's never done that to me

so true, i see this on the drinks machine all the time...

[STW2010]

omgus said:

teen_cerbera said:

STW2010 said:

Mine is annoying too. She has no concept of the middle settings. For example the heaters in the car, she will whack it straight to the max, then when she's too hot she puts it straight to the coldest setting. Then she gets too cold...

Bloody woman! Just put it somewhere in the middle!

My other half does this

The ex would do that with the household heating. She would turn it up to 30 and then when she was to hot she'd prop the back door open.

Oh it's not just car heaters where this applies. It's everything. The other main one is the oven- straight up to max, food in until she bothers to check. By which time it has turned to charcoal.

Radiators are another. They are either on to the max or off completely. Numbers 1-4 don't seem to have a function other than causing a delay in going from 'off' to '5'.

[STW2010]

buzzer said:

TonyHetherington said:

An alternative slant to this wonderfully accurate thread; Not giving buttons time to work. The best example of this is the vending machine here at work.

say they want number 23. Put in money, push 2 3 very quickly. So quickly, that only 2 registers. Nothing comes out, so they push 2 3 again, but now they've selected 22 and get out a Yorkie (not for girls) when they wanted a pack of hob nobs.

The best bit is the anger that follows, calling it a stupid machine and that it's broken. It's never done that to me

so true, i see this on the drinks machine all the time...

Shall we just round this thread off with a simple conclusion- women are idiots

[hombrepaulo]

It extends to computers too. Click , click, click, click, click, click, click click click click click click - "WHY ISNT IT WORKING" - clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick
Cue 5 mins wait followed by 50 IE windows opening cos she couldnt wait the 2 seconds for the first to open

[Twincam16]

And yet they never seem to close car doors hard enough...