{"id":460,"date":"2010-08-06T07:07:54","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T11:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=460"},"modified":"2010-08-06T07:08:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T11:08:34","slug":"manfaq-friday-what-a-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"ManFAQ Friday:  What a Mess!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday, and that means answer time! For those of you who have commented with questions from previous ManFAQs, thank you. I&#8217;m adding yours to the list of questions women have asked about men over the years, and I will answer them all in turn &#8211; to continue to demystify the more malodorous gender for those of the gentler. Actual questions, posed by real women, and answered by a REAL man. What could go wrong?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Question:<\/strong>\u00a0 <em>I want to know if the ability to relax amid clutter and dust is acquired or inborn. If acquired, how can women cultivate it&#8230;i.e. is there a 10-step program?<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Seriously, I would absolutely love to perfect my skill in this area.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I think out of level 1 to 10 I&#8217;m at about a 6, and it isn&#8217;t enough. I want to achieve real man status on this one.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 First, you need to drink more.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>No no, more than that.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Make yourself a good Cosmo and splash some around \u2013 you\u2019ll need a \u201cstarter mess\u201d to get used to.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Then find yourself some good chocolate; you know you deserve it.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>OK, deep breath, now exhale.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Put the wrapper on the floor.<span>\u00a0 Just drop it.\u00a0 Deep cleansing breath, the first step can be the hardest.\u00a0 Just let the wrapper fall.\u00a0 Let it go.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Someone else will pick it up eventually; that someone else might even be you, several hours from now, but that person&#8217;s not\u00a0here yet.<span>\u00a0 Did you just finish that Cosmo?\u00a0 <\/span>Have another drink.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Good.<span>\u00a0 Now, find a nice comfy chair where you can still see that candy bar wrapper on the floor.\u00a0 Sit down, eat the chocolate.\u00a0 Mmmmmmmmmm, it&#8217;s good, isn&#8217;t it?\u00a0 You&#8217;re going to relax for a moment, just eating the chocolate, taunting that mess over there with it.\u00a0 <\/span>You\u2019re getting the hang of this!\u00a0 Now remember, if anyone walks in, you were just in the middle of cleaning up.\u00a0 Literally in the middle of cleaning.\u00a0 You were just taking a break for a minute.\u00a0 You were going to get to back to it real soon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mmmmm, chocolate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Now you know. Please, feel free to comment with any questions <strong>you&#8217;d<\/strong> like answered!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actual questions, posed by real women, and answered by a REAL man. What could go wrong?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}