Okey,

My husband said if there was one place I could take him to have a good time, that would be "go kart" racing... Then he can practice his driving skills uninhibited...

Because he said that to me, and I know he has driven the Mercedes AMG Challenge for 3 years, I asked how come he just doesn't go to that? He knew when the next one was in 2008 in our area, which means that, guess what, I will buy him is advance course to take...

What do you GC Fellas like to do and if your woman or women got you those kinds of activities, what would you think about it?

Uh, Delta Tau Delta is a fraternity. We are men. Ike Turner is not a member.

I hate to sound repetative, but Senusret pretty much summed it up. To his list, I would add "guy movies."

You could add a few qualifiers to his list:

• Don't make me have to get dressed up.

• Don't make me have to make small talk.

• Don't throw out the idea of food and then let it turn out to be something useless like finger sandwiches or something heinous like brownies made with saccharine instead of sugar and carob instead of chocolate -- yes, that happened to me once. I did not feel honored. :eek:

I guess I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "honored." To be honest, I think most guys don't particularly want to feel "honored." Appreciated, yes, but "honored" sounds a little embarrassing.

To follow on the example you gave, my wife gave me a bunch of passes/gift certificates for a local movie theater, with the condition that I could not use them to go to a movie with her or the kids. They were to be used only for going to movies with "the guys" or alone to see the bloody or sophomoric stuff.

i guess paying close attention to some of the things we consider "silly" can always lead to something they can appreciate.

my fiance loves three things: his occupation (chef), Audi's, and music. his last gift from me was a monogrammed chef jacket like Emeril wears on his show. it was super expensive, plus the cost of mongramming, but his face lit up like christmas morning. his past gifts have been stuff with Audi on it, and a few music festivals. if he mentions something, i make a mental note that he does/doesnt like it, and try to go from there.

Yeah, Idk about being honored, but in the past, i've shown guys that I appreciate them by making them go out with the boys or going with him to the movies to see things he wants to see.
I got one of my ex's who was a football fanatic, the ESPN Scene it (I had to look EVERYWHERE for it, it took me weeks to find it (around christmas time))

My step mom- for my dad's 50th bday is having a big party for him, but for his REAL gift, is taking him to sonoma wine country and renting him a harley to ride down the california coast, and he's going to ride by himself. When he was 18, he went from Kansas to california on the back of his motorcycle, so she thought it would be a nice throwback, I'm so excited for him!

My friends and I were having a similar conversation a few weeks ago.

Soooooo this guy (lol.....Infamous you know why I laughed) loves football (big Bama fan....I just found out yesterday) and he kinda turned it on a a couple of weekends ago while I was there. The only thing I know about football is what a down is? I will pay attention if I know he notices that I am drifting, but me and sports are almost like oil and water.

I got my ex a jersey signed by Jerome Bettis.

It cost the earth.

Mr Pi Phi is a huge Pink Floyd fan, so last year for his birthday I bought him an autographed record album. I found it on ebay, and pretty much watched the computer till the auction ended so I could make sure I won that I album.

Ladies,

We can all "buy" our gentlemen gifts they will at least "act" like they enjoy... But is it what they really want?

We can be the one's to TELL them what they ought to be doing or just let them be doing what they want to do...


Fellas,

If one day was YOUR day, and you wanted to spend it with your lady, how would you do it? What would you like to do? What would you like us to do?

At sometime, you will have to come up for air...

Is this too hard of a question to get a simple answer? Other than, nothing. Thanks. Is that really how gentlemen prefer it?

Actually, you kinda don't.

Once again, sports, sex, and food. Hotel room with ESPN and room service for a weekend. And sex. Heck, I don't even like girls and I could go for that right about now.

Can you do any of these in public? Publicly, how can one honor and appreciate a man or men?

That's the thing.... other than receiving an award based on merit of some sort, I don't think most men want or need to be appreciated publicly.

How come? Or more to the point, WHY? :confused:

Aren't they worth it?

It's just preference.... the more you question it, the more it seems like you think we're somehow wrong for feeling this way.

sistagreek, i really think they mean it when they say theyre simple like that.

in my limited scope of how men work (and men, being my 2 brothers, who are teenaged, my closest guy friends who are my age, ex bf's who were "generally" my age and older, and my female family members' SOs):

--doing something subtle and out of the blue they dont expect: one day i brought home a cherry pepsi for my brother - no big deal, but he was excited for the rest of the day. ok, he's 14, so what, it made his day!

--doing something that "them other broads" aren't doing: my mother was interested in this guy way back when, and he confided in her that he felt like women only used him for their personal benefit, and that all he attracted were golddiggin women that didnt care. so on his birthday, she sent him a bouquet of flowers to his house. his response: wow, that was different, all these other females either threw themselves at me or came to the house with a dime bag... sometimes you get tiref od the same stuff. well... 12 years later, he's my stepfather!

but actually, he says what REALLY made his feel "special" was when my mom made him a plate of hot wings and a pitcher of Kool-Aid for lunch. i mean he's grown and all, but go figure.

--doing something that's *gasp* not sexual: the past two dates i went on i wore jeans, sneakers, and pretty much covered up in a PG kinda way. partly cause i dont like heels and partly because i was tired of going out of my way (makeup, T&A, etc) for dudes. and the last dude i went on a date with was dressed up seriously - slacks, shoes, everything! it was so out of his element but he said that me not being "sexed up (his words) took the pressure off everything on his end.

now i dont know if any of this holds true for anyone else (maybe what i said was obvious - i AM a youngin after all) helps at all or is even valid to you sistagreek, but that's just my female two-cents.