Tim Worstall

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• 1 Serf // Feb 5, 2009 at 11:12 am

  We are always willing to say “I Love You” if thats what’s needed darling.

• 2 Sam // Feb 5, 2009 at 12:36 pm

  This says something about the IQ of the average Guardian reader.

• 3 Why buy the cow when you get the milk for free? « bella gerens // Feb 5, 2009 at 1:44 pm

  [...] Tim highlights the questioner’s final, desperate enquiry (’Why will a man sleep with a woman, when he won’t marry her or tell her he loves her?’) and wonders how any adult woman can ask that in all seriousness. [...]

• 4 AntiCitizenOne // Feb 5, 2009 at 2:18 pm

  Remember the Grauniad caters to emotional types in the yarts rather than logical thinkers.

• 5 Dave Weeden // Feb 5, 2009 at 6:29 pm

  I made you believe/We’re more than just friends./It may seem like a crush/But that doesn’t mean/That I’m serious./But to lose all my senses … ooh that’s so typically me/Ooh baby, baby/Oops I did it again.

  You know, it’s not just men who can send the wrong signals.

• 6 Pat // Feb 5, 2009 at 8:12 pm

  Of course an old fashioned girl would have asked why she should sleep with a man if he wouldn’t marry her.

• 7 john cramer // Feb 5, 2009 at 10:15 pm

  Dear me – men are such beasts.

• 8 DavidV // Feb 6, 2009 at 10:58 am

  “For me, the main reason is that he wants us both to live with his parents for a while, to save money.”

  The more interesting question would seem to be why would a woman want to sleep with a man that is so obviously a total loser!

• 9 gene berman // Feb 6, 2009 at 1:28 pm

  DavidV:

  The answer’s obvious. It’s called “making do with what one’s got.” Risks and trade-offs–nothing more complicated.

• 10 Monty // Feb 8, 2009 at 12:04 am

  You see, this is one of those power relationships the feminazis are always going on about, but with a slight twist.

  Between the two of them, he has all the common sense and she has none. She has been in this relationship for years without ever wondering whether there is anything in it for her.

  There are actually highly qualified counsellors who specialise in guidance for women like her. Most of them are called “Mother”.

• 11 bella gerens » Blog Archive » Why buy the cow when you get the milk for free? // Dec 30, 2009 at 7:57 pm

  [...] Tim highlights the questioner’s final, desperate enquiry (‘Why will a man sleep with a woman, when he won’t marry her or tell her he loves her?’) and wonders how any adult woman can ask that in all seriousness. [...]

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