London - Brace yourselves, chaps. You may have long suspected that your better half had a somewhat jaundiced view of your general usefulness but now the truth is here. It’s worse than that!
From buying clothes, to remembering birthdays and dancing women reckon men aren’t good for much at all.
But there a few areas of modern life where men do excel.
According to a survey of 1 000 adults, 60 percent of women said men were good at getting rid of spiders. Slightly less, 56 percent, rated men’s barbecue skills and 73 percent said men can change a tyre. Just over half were pleased with men’s ability to drink alcohol.
Only 10 percent of women thought men could iron a shirt and just four percent thought they could dance. According to the research, men are also pretty useless at buying gifts, choosing home fixtures and furnishings and cooking anything complicated.
However, they can still do DIY, though almost half – 46 percent – of men admit they have hurt themselves while doing so.
Men can also be relied upon to buy the wrong sized clothes for their partner and to get drunk at family functions, the survey found.
Although it can happen to anyone, missing a flight, forgetting to pick the children up from school and phoning in sick to work seem to happen more often to men. The surveyed men were not overly concerned with the results, with 76 percent saying they were “good enough at the skills they care about”.
Forty percent of all respondents thought men were worse than women at many life skills, while a third said today’s men are no more skilled than their fathers.
A spokesperson for Frank’s Red Hot, a sauce brand which carried out the survey, said: “We hope this research is a rude awakening to those millions of men who still rely on their partners for a variety of skills around the home.”
The list of ten things men do poorly was :
Buying clothes for women;
remembering anniversaries/birthdays;
dancing;
ironing;
cooking;
domestic chores;
buying gifts;
multi-tasking;
keeping up with fashion;
picking furniture. - Daily Mail