only another butch would understand

[I'mOneToo]

hahaha well yep bro i guess so i needed another brother anyway, the only one i got speaks only to me through his spokesperson. you at least dialog direct. maybe ezee could be YOUR spokesperson then i'd have two bro's with spokespeople.

as long as you're here, got any special butch laundry tips? please don't pull out the scissors tool, or a gun, can't afford a new wardrobe.

Originally Posted by apretty

the gun's an extension of my masculinity

truthfully, i used the gun b/c my indifference to gun-ownership drives EZ crazy, plus it's there and i like the subversive little icons, i wish there was a purse-size pistol, but what can you do.

we're bros-4-ever, now--your response to me cracked me up.

(maybe i spoke too soon, EZ is questioning my need for a bro, bro) :P

[AtLast]

I do have one...

I am always at a loss when a woman I am seeing wants to know what the attire is for the date. Once, I just described what I was going to wear and she emailed me back and siad - So, what does your wearing a Superman tie tell me? Do you want me to wear something I can fly around on your shoulders in? Or, bring a typewriter? Signed, Lois

[DapperButch]

Originally Posted by AtLastHome

I do have one...

I am always at a loss when a woman I am seeing wants to know what the attire is for the date. Once, I just described what I was going to wear and she emailed me back and siad - So, what does your wearing a Superman tie tell me? Do you want me to wear something I can fly around on your shoulders in? Or, bring a typewriter? Signed, Lois

LOL She sounds great!

[Galahad]

I use cotton handkerchiefs. Always keep a clean extra in my back pocket in case someone is in need.

[Jet]

Originally Posted by Galahad

I use cotton handkerchiefs. Always keep a clean extra in my back pocket in case someone is in need.

excellent. i like your film noire style

[AtLast]

Originally Posted by DapperButch

LOL She sounds great!

Pretty quick on the draw!! LOL! This did totally crack me up. Wish I did have a cape!!! Would have really been great to show up with one on.


Hummmm... note to self... look for a Superman cape at the thrift store...

[Mister Bent]

Applies equally well to butches of whatever gender identity.

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.”

I know you want to read more.

[Dylan]

Originally Posted by Mister Bent

Applies equally well to butches of whatever gender identity.

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.”

I know you want to read more.

Who's Jamie Oliver?

And why should I care what this person says?


I Don't Understand,
Dylan...not being snarky, just lost


ETA: Just read back in the thead...still lost, but more caught up

[Dylan]

Mahhh Woman and I went to dinner tonight

While I was rifling through my purse looking for my lip wand, Mahhh Woman says to me, "Oh my god, you sift through your purse like my sister"


I Felt Completely <insert zombie face here>,
Dylan...knows y'all feel Mahhh Pain

[Mister Bent]

Originally Posted by Dylan

Who's Jamie Oliver?

And why should I care what this person says?


I Don't Understand,
Dylan...not being snarky, just lost


ETA: Just read back in the thead...still lost, but more caught up

Oh yeah, me too. I have no idea what I'm doing.

It's the overwhelming influsion of (natural) testosterone that causes the hair to grow to alarming proportions on my knuckles and big toe.

[apretty]

Originally Posted by I'mOneToo

hahaha well yep bro i guess so i needed another brother anyway, the only one i got speaks only to me through his spokesperson. you at least dialog direct. maybe ezee could be YOUR spokesperson then i'd have two bro's with spokespeople.

as long as you're here, got any special butch laundry tips? please don't pull out the scissors tool, or a gun, can't afford a new wardrobe.

1. don't use too much soap! separate lights and darks and wash whites in their own load with a small amount of bleach. please never wash a white with a dark. (this is something that *some* of us have trouble remembering/caring about)

2. if you have something you want to stay nice, wash it on the gentle cycle and use a gentle soap like woolite. you can either let it dry for a couple of minutes on low and then take it out and air dry it or you can skip the dryer altogether and let it air dry--this will save the fabric feel and color. (this is also good if you have a pair of tighter jeans, you can wash them and stretch them while they're damp and let air dry)

3. iron with a spray bottle of water, if it's a cotton shirt do the front and collar last--it won't re-wrinkle as you manipulate the fabric around the ironing board.

4. iron wool pants on the coolest setting (the iron-setting) between trips to the dry cleaner--and turned inside-out will be more kind to the fabric, too--but experts say that using a pressing cloth between the iron and the fabric to avoid those horrible shiny-iron-marks example: http://www.sewingplace.com/browsepro...ess-Cloth.HTML

5. also, i avoid washing towels of any sort (rugs, too) with anything that i'll be wearing--those little bits of fuzz never seem to come off the clothes and it's one of those things that just bug me (additionally, i like to buy only white towels/sheets so i can, like a hotel, bleach them all to super white when they get a little dirty). what's nicer than a crisp white cotton 500+ thread count sheet set? not much i say.

lastly, wash nicer things in cold, blacks will stay black in cold... i get a little weird about faded blacks/blacks that don't match.

*now i may lose my bro card!

[I'mOneToo]

wowza!

well bro -- um see i knew you would be full of good advice. been doing it wrong all along. if you can follow this particular butch's logic.... here's how the clothes get divided.

first you put them in two piles. all the heavy stuff goes in one pile, all the lightweight stuff goes in the other. then, you subdivide each pile by kinda light colored stuff, and kinda dark colored stuff. then you take the four piles and then you separate ALL the black stuff (whether lightweight or heavy) and make a separate pile. this creates five piles. but because there's a lot of black clothes, it makes the other piles much smaller.

then you take one of the piles of light-colored lightweight stuff and combine it with one of the piles of heavyweight kinda light-colored stuff. then you take the leftover pile of dark-colored lightweight stuff and combine that with the last pile of dark-colored heavyweight stuff.

what remains are three loads. blacks of all weights, lightweights of all colors, and heavyweights of all colors except black.

there aren't any white clothes because everything that was white at the store turns out sort of grey after the first washing but against black clothing, it almost looks white. and last week, somehow a pink washcloth got in with the whitish clothes (no idea where it came from because i certainly have no pink items not even washcloths but that's for another thread). anyway the whitish stuff came out pinkish so hopefully this time it will come out less pink and more gray like it should. lol.

i will try your method of sorting and see how it goes tomorrow. although, have not been able to figure out if there are different speeds or how gentle differs from the slam-bang mode it usually works in. the towels and rugs are all dark and i don't give them much thought in the washer because it's the drying that makes the difference in getting the fuzz on everything, so i do dry them all by themselves. the sheets, who knows, they could be count dracula for all i know. i like them scratchy.

the ironing, the shirt advice and all that, i'd be too embarrassed to go into detail. the 'rumpled look' is in nowadays, i've finally caught up with current fashion.

could possibly just be lazy logic, rather than something only a butch would know or do.

thank you very much for your sage advice, as you disembark from this ride please hand your bro card to the attendant standing by. you may then retrieve your weapon from the security cage.

Originally Posted by apretty

1. don't use too much soap! separate lights and darks and wash whites in their own load with a small amount of bleach. please never wash a white with a dark. (this is something that *some* of us have trouble remembering/caring about)

2. if you have something you want to stay nice, wash it on the gentle cycle and use a gentle soap like woolite. you can either let it dry for a couple of minutes on low and then take it out and air dry it or you can skip the dryer altogether and let it air dry--this will save the fabric feel and color. (this is also good if you have a pair of tighter jeans, you can wash them and stretch them while they're damp and let air dry)

3. iron with a spray bottle of water, if it's a cotton shirt do the front and collar last--it won't re-wrinkle as you manipulate the fabric around the ironing board.

4. iron wool pants on the coolest setting (the iron-setting) between trips to the dry cleaner--and turned inside-out will be more kind to the fabric, too--but experts say that using a pressing cloth between the iron and the fabric to avoid those horrible shiny-iron-marks example: http://www.sewingplace.com/browsepro...ess-Cloth.HTML

5. also, i avoid washing towels of any sort (rugs, too) with anything that i'll be wearing--those little bits of fuzz never seem to come off the clothes and it's one of those things that just bug me (additionally, i like to buy only white towels/sheets so i can, like a hotel, bleach them all to super white when they get a little dirty). what's nicer than a crisp white cotton 500+ thread count sheet set? not much i say.

lastly, wash nicer things in cold, blacks will stay black in cold... i get a little weird about faded blacks/blacks that don't match.

*now i may lose my bro card!

[Mister Bent]

After that awesome laundry advice, I can't wait for the cooking portion of this thread.

[Queerasfck]

Originally Posted by Mister Bent

After that awesome laundry advice, I can't wait for the cooking portion of this thread.

Ummm dude you should know by now. The lady doesn't cook.

[I'mOneToo]

and we've already been advised on the cleaning and transplanting

Originally Posted by EzeeTiger

Ummm dude you should know by now. The lady doesn't cook.

[Mister Bent]

Originally Posted by I'mOneToo

and we've already been advised on the cleaning and transplanting

What else is there?

I'm guessing, car pool routine, trash and recycling.