Thread: Домашние обязанности и традиции в разных странах

Originally Posted by kgcole

ha hah....My sister usually cooks in our household, and us men usually do the dishes to show our appreciation for her work. It's always been that way for us...lol

I wanna come live with you guys!!!

I do not mind doing the dishes at all, but I prefer to do the laundry.

Originally Posted by Red Square

I do not mind doing the dishes at all, but I prefer to do the laundry.

A couple of details, please. Do you use a wash-board or a washing machine?

I use washing machine.

Originally Posted by Red Square

I use washing machine.

Do you really expect women’s commendation doing the laundry in a washing machine? I suspect you also do the dishes in a dishwasher, right?

Deborski, don’t you think that Marcus uses a dishwasher too and we shouldn’t have commended him that highly?

Originally Posted by Lena

Do you really expect women’s commendation doing the laundry in a washing machine? I suspect you also do the dishes in a dishwasher, right?

Deborski, don’t you think that Marcus uses a dishwasher too and we shouldn’t have commended him that highly?

Indeed, I would expect that he does!

Originally Posted by Lena

Do you really expect women’s commendation doing the laundry in a washing machine? I suspect you also do the dishes in a dishwasher, right?

Deborski, don’t you think that Marcus uses a dishwasher too and we shouldn’t have commended him that highly?

I don't have a dishwasher.

Originally Posted by Marcus

I don't have a dishwasher.

Very impressive!

Originally Posted by Marcus

I don't have a dishwasher.

Indeed! Y’all, guys, are lazy. I suspect every time that a girl drops into your place you camouflage the dishwasher as a piece of furniture and pretend being industrious doing the dishes.

Indeed! Y’all, guys, are lazy. I suspect every time that a girl drops into your place you camouflage the dishwasher as a piece of furniture and pretend being industrious doing the dishes.

LOL, great global label. Sorry, you sound here like an arrant female chauvinist, do you?

We are elaborating and testing our theory on cats so far, as it is usually done with mice in labs. We avoid getting over to males too fast. What if it may be harmful to them in some way? We stick to the humanistic approach.

Forgive my bluntness, but from your rather obfuscatingly circumlocutional answer to my unambiguously straightforward question, I caught only one hard-core message: as soon as you do away with your research on cats you’ll still be desperately in need of a human male ‘guinea-pig’ to finish it off, otherwise everything goes down the drain with cat sh**….sorry.... feces.))). Am I right?. Are you (We) a pack, btw?

Originally Posted by Lena

Do you really expect women’s commendation doing the laundry in a washing machine? I suspect you also do the dishes in a dishwasher, right?

I did not expect any commendation at all... I was simply saying that I enjoy doing laundry and the dishes. With dishes, I almost always do them by hand, but if I have many people over, then I will use the dishwasher, just because it does many things all at once.

Originally Posted by Red Square

I did not expect any commendation at all... I was simply saying that I enjoy doing laundry and the dishes. With dishes, I almost always do them by hand, but if I have many people over, then I will use the dishwasher, just because it does many things all at once.

We use the dishwasher mainly for sterilization, especially when there's a sickness in the household.

Originally Posted by kgcole

We use the dishwasher mainly for sterilization, especially when there's a sickness in the household.

Yes, and this is what my mother did as well... she only ever uses the diswasher to sterilize jars for jam, or when the family is ill.

obfuscatingly circumlocutional unambiguously straightforward
Sorry, I cannot answer you immediately. First I have to decipher those terrible words that are longer than my face.

Originally Posted by Lena

obfuscatingly circumlocutional unambiguously straightforward
Sorry, I cannot answer you immediately. First I have to decipher those terrible words that are longer than my face.

Long words? must be Russian then...

Originally Posted by Joyan

Long words? must be Russian then...

Your assumption makes sense, but I have checked the words up. They are not Russian.

Not all men are lazy. My husband does the dishes and even cooks sometimes. True, he makes a spectacular mess when he cooks, and our kitchen resembles a nuclear test range now, but I am still grateful that he tries!

Originally Posted by Deborski

Not all men are lazy. My husband does the dishes and even cooks sometimes. True, he makes a spectacular mess when he cooks, and our kitchen resembles a nuclear test range now, but I am still grateful that he tries!

lol...my sister is the same...she's a great cook, but she's like a train wreck about cleaning up as she goes. I tried to change her, but that wasn't going to happen...lol

Something like that...

Without commenting on the "battle of the sexes," I just wanted to observe that my зять (brother-in-law; husband of one's sister) has decided that приготовление индейки (cooking the turkey) for Thanksgiving is a suitable мужское дело ("manly job"), even though my sister does 99% of the cooking in their household -- including the "side dishes" for Thanksgiving, like mashed potatoes, etc. (But my B-I-L did every step of cooking the turkey -- brining, stuffing, roasting, and carving).

Presumably, the Thanksgiving turkey is "manly enough" because cutting such a large bird requires big knives -- so, as comedienne Rita Rudner sarcastically observed, "Men feel they must do the cooking when there is DANGER involved!!!"

Other styles of cooking that are full of Thrills!! Danger!! Adventure!!, and therefore "acceptably masculine":

• All kinds of barbecuing (because, of course, there are FLAMES!)
• Making pancakes and bacon for breakfast (there is a DANGER that if the woman fried the bacon, she might throw away the delicious bacon-grease because it's fattening...)
• Cooking a fish that the man has personally caught by himself (no matter how tiny the fish is)