A doccie maker walked into a bar...
16 April 2015 - 02:55
When men go to the pub they chat sensitively about children and relationships, not sex and sport. If they do talk of sex, it's about erectile dysfunction, not their conquests. So says a British TV documentary, The Secret Life of the Pub.The show drew derision when it was learned that the men knew they were being filmed for TV.One critic said everyone knows that pub talk centres on drinking, fighting and "phwoaring".Men howl with laughter at ridiculous scrapes they have got into while hammered. The fighting is mostly combat proxies like sport or one-upmanship.The sex talk isn't about erections or conquests, but rather of the harmless "wahay-wouldn't-mind-a-bit-of-that" variety. ..
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