Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 05, 2021

“We need to talk.” [response: AAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!]

After several millennia of women being able to speak, men finally decided it might be a good idea to learn to speak, too.

The next stage of speech development will take just as long: Child: Why?? Parent: Because!!!!!

Didn’t your mother tell you not to talk with your mouth full?

Oh wait, you mother was before language was invented.

And today we have the New England dinner table.

In my observation, I’m more likely to want to talk then my wife. Gender cliches.

Nothing good ever results from a woman wanting to talk. I speak from experience

Communication did indeed take a long time to develop. After all, we men are from Mars and the womenfolk are from Venus.;-D

Always seemed like women were nattering for millennia. Turns out they actually were.

It was when men realised they wanted to tell women what to do that they finally learned to talk.

Og: “Hope mastodon stomp me first!”

Well Sweetie, we have eating (surviving), talking and listening. Pick one because it will be a long evolution before we can do all of them at one time.

I’m going out to hunt for meat, where we don’t talk!

Mom said I had no reason to speak until my little brother came along. I apparently was pretty quiet speech-wise, for the first two years of my life.

Two comics today (see also: Pickles) that make the old joke about “talking to women” being difficult. How does humanity progress when men can’t get past this simple issue?

Adjectives! Adjectives are the problem… and adverbs! Life would be so much simpler if all we had were nouns and verbs.

It wouldn’t have taken so long if they had just accepted transgenders…

Why men have trouble talking to women:Her “Why don’t you ever talk to me?”Him “What would you like to talk about?”Her “I don’t know, you think of something?”Him “So, how was your day?”Her “That’s boring.”Him “Ok, today at work I had to…”Her “All you ever want to talk about is yourself.”Etc…..

Which means, she wants to tell you what you’re doing wrong, by cleverly telling you how things should be, or could be, done better. …for instance Moola-Ta’s mate. He does everything right.

This cliche leads directly into another one — a man sitting in on a barstool, nursing a drink, telling the bartender (with a bored look on his face), “today was a real bummer,” . . . “my boss is such a jerk,” . . . “my wife doesn’t understand me. . .”

By the time you can put together a verb with a pronoun and two abstract adverbs and be understood, speech is pretty well along.

Talk? … and spoil all of this perfect wedded bliss?

Man’s first words would come after he hit his thumb, while banging two rocks together. It is believed to have been,“’%#@%!”.

I’ve observed that single lonely old men (widowed or divorced) will talk your ears off if given half a chance.

Time to hunt and gather again.

I’m a man, and I can change if I have to, I guess. Red Green

Check out today’s Pickles comic.

Just a thought… Look at what shape the world and all its inhabitants are in with men doing all the talking and never listening to women.

I love comics that lead me to think about something I always assumed. The origin of speech may never be known, but there is much speculation.

Thank you.

The problem is men and women want to talk about different things, neither has any interest in what the other wants to talk about. Lacking common ground for conversation, they never just talk.

The development of speech was hindered in the morning before the discovery of coffee.

Some times silence is golden!

Once they got started, they never stopped.

He should at least be able to make her laugh.

My Theory as to why men don’t talk; Many millenia ago, men were out in the woods maintaining silence while they snuck up on dinner. Meanwhile, the women met at the village well and nattered away with others about who did what to who, with which, how much and how many times. Time passed until these habits became inborn traits that we know today.

Human communication started at the beginning and was instrumental in carrying over stories from one generation to the next. There is evidence that we sang our speaking. Several surviving languages are sing-song like Vietnamese.

Not to ruin the fun here (well, ok, be it as it may):

“Jeez” of Nazareth was born 10,000 years after the Paleolithic period.