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hiaasenrocks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 06:48 PM
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Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver calls for sex ban to get men cooking
Jamie Oliver believes that women should abstain from sex with their husbands or boyfriends to punish them if they refuse to cook.

“Men are driven by sex,” the celebrity chef said this weekend at the annual Hay-on-Wye festival. “So the best way for women to get their men into the kitchen would be to stop having sex with them until they start to cook.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/article3999406.ece


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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 06:50 PM
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1. So much for using butter as lubricant. Now it's only a mere ingredient. Still,
Paula Deen would approve.

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Chan790 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 08:15 PM
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2. Ha! I can cook...
being a foodie, a coffeemaster and food-service worker I better be able to. I have the other problem...I hate other people cooking for me because I'm usually better at it.

I have no expectations of being cooked for...if you can't cook, please don't feel you have to try for my benefit. I enjoy my torture to be consentual and involve ropes and fancy knots.

We all have skills and non-skills: I can cook, I can't hammer nails straight, I can home-decorate a space, I can't do basic math without a calculator, I can dress myself like a GQ model, I can't fold laundry (everything I own is on hangers.), I know which libations go with what foods, I have a dead thumb for plants, I can do dishes but have no recollection where the micro-plane grater goes without a map, I'm a great writer and poet, I can't paint a wall. I have no idea what an allen wrench or miter saw is.

We're all different...gender-based expectations are dumb.
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 08:18 PM
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3. Hmmmmm. Mr Gray does 90% of the cooking around here.
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khashka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 08:31 PM
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4. He's an idiot
The Naked Chef -but I've never seen him with his clothes off!

Rather than abstain from sex, a woman should refuse to cook. "Oh, you want dinner, honey? Well then, cook it yourself!"

Khash (a good cook btw)
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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 09:59 PM
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5. That's kind of a stupid theory.
I do all the cooking, some of the cleaning and some of the laundry and I'm lucky to get sex once a month.
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harmonicon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-26-08 01:18 AM
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9. yep, I feel your pain
I do almost all of the cooking. If I cooking is supposed to be in exchange for sex, I'm owed years of sex without having to peel another clove of garlic. The thing is, I know that I have to act like I'm cooking to be nice, but the fact is that I'm just a much better cook and would rather eat my own food.... sometimes I feel bad about that, but, hell, I did the cooking, so what should she care?
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Monk06 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-26-08 06:56 AM
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11. Well maybe if you weren't so hard on the Beaver you'ld get it more often, Ward.
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grace0418 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 11:01 PM
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6. My husband is an excellent cook. And I am an excellent
cook as well! That's how we got to be so fat! Now we're training partners and down 160 lbs. between the two of us.

;)
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Solon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 11:32 PM
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7. I usually consider cooking for that special lady as part of foreplay...
things heat up in the kitchen quite quickly after that! ;)
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-26-08 01:15 AM
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8. Wow. I don't think we need to take things quite _that_ far.
:yoiks:
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Random_Australian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-26-08 05:10 AM
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10. That is so STUPID. What the hell kind of MORON thinks of something like that?
What the hell son of a bastard's bastard's bastard reduces sex from it's great and glorious expression of intimacy to something to fucking barter with over housework. :grr:

Or, to put the shoe on the other foot, just say to men "Hey? Annoyed about something? Then, instead of doing something reasonable, just refuse to treat your SO with any intimacy or feeling until they do what you tell them"

aka. "Who cares how you treat someone? Whatever you do to them, it doesn't matter." also known as the "Motivation? Who cares about supporting a significant other when you can just tell them to do as their told or bad things will happen"

How fucking moronic can a person get?
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-26-08 07:00 AM
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12. Bourdain on Oliver: "He's neither naked nor a chef."
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nemo137 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-26-08 07:34 AM
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13. I'm a single man who cooks
where does that leave me?
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