What is fantasy football? Why do guys obsess over it so much? Tomfoolery gives us the 101.
Our series on guys and football kicked off this week with insights that our resident guy's guy, Tomfoolery, provided the women in our office. See, we were starting to think that NFL stood for "No Freaking Love" and that for the next five months in our lives, we'd never see our significant others during weekend daylight hours. Tomfoolery schooled us on the important psychosocial role football plays in guys' lives.
Why do men love football so much? How can women get into the game? Tomfoolery has the answers.
Football season: five months out of every year during which most heterosexual males would rather look at men in tight pants than at women in tight pants. The women at YourTango knew we weren't the only ones whose relationships are affected by our significant others' relationships with football, and so we took our questions and frustrations about football to our resident male mastermind, Tom Miller.
General Manager Tom Miller brings the belly laughs to our day-to-day.
With a staff as small as ours, it stands to reason that pretty much each one of us does the work of about 10 different people. It's no different with General Manager Tom Miller, who—on a constant high somehow unamplified by either caffeine or coke—makes us snort with his daily Tomfoolery posts, giving us just an eensy peep into the male mind; plays movie star in a good number of our web videos; and handles the day-to-day office-type stuff that the rest of us hate. Like, um, paying us so that we can buy new shoes. All that and he still manages to keep that hair of his looking perfect.
Should you get stuff from your friends when you get divorced?
Debenhams, the store, has created a divorce registry in the hopes of easing the transition from two to one. Gift registry, both for wedding and baby, is a major money-maker for department stores and it's a gravy train that can still be further milked. Unfortunately for retailers, people are cohabiting and marrying later and needing less in the way of knickknacks, paddywhacks and doodads. In fact, a reverse registry would probably be a good idea in many cases. It's only by the grace of God that most dudes only spend big dollars on things like televisions, kegerators and decorative Star Wars tapestries (used to cover holes punched into walls) and don't really mind throwing out stuff from Ikea.
A boosted car can put a black mark on even a really good first date.
Ever been on a really bad first date? Sure you have. He's dismissive of your opinions. She complains non-stop. There's no spark there, whatsoever, and you're both polite enough to continue the farce through dinner, a movie and a very awkward cup of coffee. What about having the guy steal your car?
Men just aren't into shopping, flowers or the telephone.
Stop me if you've heard this one, men seem to be from one planet while women are from another planet altogether. While making sweeping gender generalizations borders on insulting (on the other side, I mean), there are some Martian tendencies on our part and Venusian on y'all's part (aw, crap, now I've done it). And those three things are shopping, flowers and talking on the phone.
A domestic disturbance in Texas involves an eaten and beloved pet.
A fight between former common law spouses in Pasadena, Texas took a turn for the ugly and their pets suffered the consequences. The non-couple were in an argument over the ownership of some jewelry that the man had gifted to the woman but took back after the split. The woman took her revenge on the family pets. In a burst of Zeus-ian comeuppance, she kidnapped and fried their the goldfish from his home and ate them. The man was incensed and called the police.
The Not Ready For Primetime Players have some pretty good love advice.
Saturday Night Live has been cranking out sketch comedy platinum, gold, pewter and sometimes poo for 34 years. The Lorne Michaels creation has launched countless entertainment careers and from the Not Ready For Primetime Players through the Digital Shorts provided us with plenty to talk about Monday mornings. But can these 3 – 5 minute comedy segments really teach us anything about love? They can… isn't that special?
What's the best gift to give when you get going the morning after?
When you give a parting gift, it's absolutely critical that everyone is on-board with the idea that you will not be seeing each other again in this capacity; otherwise it's either courtship with a sequential problem or more of a prostitution scenario. If the sex was good, you may deserve a keepsake (I do not condone robbing someone after you just had it off with them, aight?). And if it was crummy (c'mon, it was still sex), you deserve a parting gift.
The CBS hit sitcom offers four valuable love lessons to the Gen X/Gen Y set.
No one has probably ever told you this but being a successful twentysomething living in New York The City isn't all peaches and cream. There are job stress, living situation stress, friendship stress, relationship stress and sometimes Bob Saget smugly reminisces about the whole sordid affair. While How I Met Your Mother is a framed as flashback of the protagonist's (Ted) quest to find a woman to make babies with him, the ensemble brings much for to the table than that. HIMYM is, at its heart, about relationships.
Kermit the Frog and Lady Gaga exchanged a kiss at the VMAs, however they are just friends.
Outside of Kanye's epic scene-stealing fail, the Video Music Awards had a few other big moments. And one of them was Lady Gaga's date Kermit The Frog. It turns out that Kermit and Miss Piggy are still together and he's just friends with Lady Gaga. While Kermit has never lied to us before, something feels really off with this scenario.
