Get over yourself. Maybe if you live in boonies and worked with like-minded people, but if you lived in New York or any fast-paced Business capital where time is money, to NOT have a cell phone and being accessible is suicide. Unless you're not all that high up on the corporate food chain, then you're not important enough to be reachable after hours.

In Japan everyone has a cell phone. The difference is, they don't answer the phone on the subway(everything there knows it's rude). You know what they do?

They text message each other. It's silent, it's fast, it get the info across.

Your wife yelling into the cell phone is the least of your problems. Ever see how Italians use their cell phones? yeah you get the picture. They talk LOUDLY into their phones and putting on a show for everyone to show how important and cool they are.

You sure that's not a little of what your wife is doing too?

...so the masses here can stop being so racist and judgmental about it. This is their thing, let it be.

Stop it with all you people trashing each other for this reason or that.

The OP is complaining and hates men right now for a number of reasons. Once you stop being mad, things will happen, but you need to make them happen as well.

For the men who want lots and lots of sex: Lots to be found in China. Save up some money for a trip, go nuts, and I promise you you'll be saving up again for the next trip.

For the bitter women: Go to Japan and the equivalent is found there for you too. There are bars that are catered exclusively to women, check those out.

Both sides will come back grinning ear-to-ear, and all these fighting will be just a distant memory.

...to just serve as punching bags?

Or to be part of a co-ed boxing class, where men can square off against women, so therefore things are on a level playing field?

I like the second idea better. But it's still a very oppressed society and like it or not, the Taliban are lurking around and just waiting to pounce on anything they don't like. Our American ideas and ways just aren't going to make a difference, nor make waves over in Afghanistan.

Well sure we'd all love to help but -

Not until the situation out there stabilizes. Why should we risk our behinds and risk capture, torture, and whatever else might happen at the hands of the Taliban? Forget that.

Who's to say that any amount of money or goods you send down, really ends up in the right hands? For all we know, it's pennies on the dollar that are actually reaching the women, if even that.

It doesn't matter what you think. It matters what the public in general thinks, especially when you're trying to win the most number of votes.

So with that in mind - no matter what actions you take or what you do - think about the lowest common denominator. All it takes is a few hundred people to not like this or that about what you're doing, and that alone could cost you the election.

Just do whatever the most number of people would accept, in order to get the maximum number of votes.

After you win you can do whatever you want.

Yup, it's true.

The moment the old boy's club is trampled over by teaming young un's all wanting a piece of the action, it's game over.

Too bad, this is the wave of the future. Doesn't matter what card game it is - the mathematicians will a find a way to break everything down to math, and be able to tell you exactly what to do on any given hand, and have you come out ahead.

The writer is bemoaning the lack of friendly banter at the table, like the way of bunch of old men playing poker. Now it's young whippersnappers with sunglasses who are just in it for the money, and not here to make friends.

Really - so what?

There is a difference between poker in a buddy's basement and professional, and televised poker, where there are millions of dollars at stake. I doubt in the old boy's basement, would you stand to lose or gain that kind of money.

This also levels the playing field, when everyone is in it for a singular purpose - to win. It also cuts down on the uglier old boy's club and thus more and more women are competing.

You can't tell me that's wrong.

I would appreciate the "hug your sysadmin" day.

With all the attractive females around, hey why not?

Salon where have you been?

Women have been riding motorcycles for years if not decades now. I remember even as wee kid, I've seen women on the Harley's, not just hells angel's wannabe's. Old old news.

Now if they could just make a silent Harley.

THAT would sell. Got the looks, without the noise pollution.