There are only four men left on earth; you HAVE to choose one to live with (and shag) for the rest of your life. Which one would you choose? Go do the poll!
Candidate A: Severely overweight short man with poor personal hygiene and an abundance of body hair. Likes to cuddle and wants to call you ‘mommy’, especially during sex. Comes with a small dick and a fancy sports car.
Candidate B: Hypochondriac with permanent postnasal drip and hacking cough. Lives at the doctor’s rooms, convinced he is dying. Is also soya / wheat / lactose and gluten intolerant. Expects you to cook. Comes with an extended medicine cabinet full of potions and pills and poor medical insurance.
Candidate C: Cowardly mouse of a man with several phobias, including the fear of socializing, public places and housework. Comes with a live-in, interfering mother-in-law who encourages his neurosis.
Candidate D: A self-proclaimed frustrated artist with no talent. Believes that getting a job is selling out. Lies on the couch all day, waiting for inspiration. Expects you to provide money, meals and blowjobs. Comes with a group of equally useless ‘artist’ friends who camp out on the rest of your lounge suite.
Sad but true, I AM married to one of these...
Posted by: anon | 15 June 2006 at 11:28 AM
dude, i'm going to bat for the other team...
Posted by: K. | 15 June 2006 at 11:38 AM
Mr A sounds disturbingly like my ex, short, overweight, body hair. Thank god he didn't want to call me "mommy"!
Posted by: Miranda | 15 June 2006 at 11:40 AM
Your candidates suck!! I choose to abstain from voting! So there! :P
Posted by: VanillaDreams | 15 June 2006 at 11:54 AM
I choose candidate E: Mister Hand.
Posted by: Kath | 15 June 2006 at 12:09 PM
I'm with K, I would definitely go lesbian over this. Or wank.
Posted by: Jodie Buckland | 15 June 2006 at 12:10 PM
lesbianism is very promising if this is what im offered :D
Posted by: cath | 15 June 2006 at 12:16 PM
ditto, I would choose none of these, um, ick
Posted by: cristin | 15 June 2006 at 01:27 PM
Dunno if my vote in the poll worked so I'm adding it here.
Candidate C. We can share our social phobias together and his mother can do the housework.
Posted by: Kez | 15 June 2006 at 01:27 PM
Let's see...I've had C and D, and A is just too depressing. It will have to be B. (I kind of have that now...hee..hee...) Couldn't you at least have given A a big dick?
Posted by: Lynnette | 15 June 2006 at 01:35 PM
I vote (a). The mommy thing is definite gross, but the sports car indicates that he has a job/money, and plenty of short guys with small dicks make up for it by becoming amazingly skilled lovers. Bigger guys just figure that their size automatically translates into rapture for their partner.
Posted by: anon | 15 June 2006 at 01:54 PM
I was once involved with a D, and I guess I will never learn because that is what I picked in your poll. He was passionate though, starving artist and all....
At least I had the sense to marry none of these choices!
Posted by: Chris | 15 June 2006 at 02:42 PM
Oh, those're awful. Hopefully, there's at least one other G&D woman left too, and I'll move in with her!
Posted by: Danielle | 15 June 2006 at 02:50 PM
If these are my choices, I am buying a vibrator....
Posted by: Carrie | 15 June 2006 at 03:04 PM
You are brilliant! How do you come up with these things? All the choices are completely revolting! Starving Artist better be Damn Hot, cause I'd rather hang with him, and his friends...gotta be good sex there >< (I also tend to agree with the aforementioned notion to go the OTHER way... women know what women want!!)
Posted by: Amy | 15 June 2006 at 03:08 PM
Definitely C by a long shot. Dealing with mothers-in-law are kind of a specialty of mine! Neither she nor Precious would know what had happened until it was too late. All hail the magic vagina.
Posted by: Kim | 15 June 2006 at 03:26 PM
Yep - I'm swithing teams if that ever happens to me....that being said if I HAD to choose I'm going with the hypochondriac and I'm baking a lot of bread ;)
Posted by: CursingMama | 15 June 2006 at 03:51 PM
I am definitely not taking this stuff seriously, but wondering: why exactly do we have to choose between these people? What's the premise? Because hello, vibrator! if these are the choices.
What am I missing?
Posted by: Jody | 15 June 2006 at 03:52 PM
UM, NONE OF THE ABOVE. I'd rather be alone.
Posted by: Jen | 15 June 2006 at 04:16 PM
Damn, Tertia- if Bin Laden is ever caught alive, I hope whatever gov't catches him comes to you for torture ideas.
If I HAD to choose, it would be D.
Posted by: KellyH | 15 June 2006 at 04:16 PM
My answer is, chicks are hot.
Posted by: alchemist | 15 June 2006 at 04:33 PM
arghh. My ex-husband was a C, and what an irritating, pathetic dud he and his mother turned out to be. well, it was good riddence for them! But My current husband's type is missing form your choices? He's a hotty.
Posted by: three minute palaver | 15 June 2006 at 05:03 PM
If something happens to NC--and I've declared this many times--I'm done with men.
Posted by: wix | 15 June 2006 at 05:08 PM
Would suicide be an option? No?
Posted by: Penny Farthing | 15 June 2006 at 05:10 PM
Yeah - I went with Mr. Dying. I think I'll get him to double/triple dose because he's REALLY sick. Then, I'm switching teams.
Posted by: Kay | 15 June 2006 at 05:38 PM
Already married to C, but at least he's well hung and and crazy about me, plus the intrusive MIL lives a couple thousand miles away, thank goodness!
Posted by: Beth in Michigan | 15 June 2006 at 05:46 PM
ICK! gross, gross, gross & gross!
No thanks - I'd switch teams I think.
Posted by: Melissa @ Organized Chaos | 15 June 2006 at 05:46 PM
I've changed my mind - I'm a lesbian now.
Posted by: Garnigal | 15 June 2006 at 05:52 PM
I think I am in the camp preferring suicide, but I go with Mr. Dying. He doesns't come with Mother-in-Law or annoying friends, he must have decent hygine with all the germ worries, and he doesn't expect to be served in the sex department (If any guy I were with *expected* a blow job and told me so, I might bite).
Posted by: Egg Donor | 15 June 2006 at 05:53 PM
D- Artistic can be fun. Have dated several of these types. The reward is usually really kinky sex and exciting dates (which I had to pay for of course) but if forced to pick the lesser of all eeeevils, I would choose giving a blow job to an artist over hairy guy with small wee/ forced to cook/ and neurotic mother-in-law any day. : )
Posted by: Patty | 15 June 2006 at 05:54 PM
What the fuck kind of a world is it when those are the choices?!
Will Mr. Dying die soon? Cause if he does, I guess I'll go with him. He's at the doctor's all the time, so he's not around much, and surely sex must make things worse.
Posted by: Tracey Dixon | 15 June 2006 at 06:23 PM
None of the above???
Posted by: Buffy | 15 June 2006 at 07:23 PM
I picked D. I figued better the devil you know...
Posted by: Sarah, Goon Squad Sarah | 15 June 2006 at 07:31 PM
I'd say D is the lesser of all the evils.
Posted by: Carrie Jo | 15 June 2006 at 07:31 PM
I gotta tell ya, there's a reason I'm 44 and still single. THESE ARE ALL THAT'S LEFT!!!
Posted by: lisa | 15 June 2006 at 08:01 PM
I followed your rules and actually picked one - D. I figure some of his artist friends must be hot, so I can swing.
Posted by: Andrea | 15 June 2006 at 08:18 PM
Ok after much deliberation and reading all the comments. Twice... I chose "A". I shall then "expect/demand" a decent allowance and buy myself a lovely "companion" who shall be neither of the things Mr. A is. I shall also introduce Mr. A to the wonderful art of Body Waxing and tell him I am allergic to sex (with him) and if eh really wants a cuddle, it'll have to be with him wearing a gag... so I think that should do it... yers... That could work.
Alternatively I think I'd go with D - he'd have to have SOME decent friends and aren't actors generally good eye candy anyways??!??
Damn woman.... WHO WOULD YOU CHOOSE??!!?? Please share your overabundance of wisdom with us lowly peons who would all rather be "independent" or gay rather :p
Posted by: Lauryan | 15 June 2006 at 08:36 PM
Is D at least hot? If he is, I'm on familiar ground, I think I dated him once.
Posted by: spit | 15 June 2006 at 09:40 PM
I think that out of the bad bunch if I really had to choose - it would be A cos I'm thinking if he is so fat he will be too lazy for sex or won't last long (hasn't got the stamina) and hopefully might have a heart attack at an early age. Also, I could always yell at him to wash - say mummy says he won't get this or that otherwise. I'm sure I could get my share of driving the sports car. As for the small dick - well I could always get a big dildo and maybe if I use that enough he won't be able to touch the sides and won't want sex anyway. Maybe I'll have a toyboy on the side.
Posted by: Kim | 15 June 2006 at 10:11 PM
Haha I've already dated several Mr. Uselesses! In fact, that was my "type" for many years!
Posted by: Lisa | 15 June 2006 at 11:43 PM
I went with D because you gave me no choices to opt out and switch to the other team, but I'm now a Lesbian with a vibrator and a LOT of batteries. You can find me at the local Walgreen stocking up on KY warming jelly!
Posted by: margalit | 15 June 2006 at 11:51 PM
Ha Ha. This is hilarious. How do you come up with this stuff?
I really would have to
consider changingchange teams if this is all thats left.Posted by: kel | 16 June 2006 at 12:12 AM
OK, I chose C -
Cowardly I can cower over, I am hardly ever home, I can always pretend I am sick, his mother can clean house.... This, is almost my utopia... minus my son and husband of course.
Posted by: mdstblz | 16 June 2006 at 01:04 AM
Definitely B. I am a hypochondriac myself and I don't mind cooking. I couldn't deal with the small dick, or the live in mother in law. And I don't like to work much myself, so I don't want to support a guy AND give him a blowjobs. My god. I'm only one woman.
Posted by: baggage | 16 June 2006 at 01:48 AM
D for me, love those grotty artistic types :)
Posted by: andrea | 16 June 2006 at 02:14 AM
Can I pick one and then feed him arsenic? Cause that's the only way I'd survive being married to any of 'em.
Posted by: projgen | 16 June 2006 at 02:46 AM
Another vote for switching teams. Vile, truly vile.
Posted by: lisa | 16 June 2006 at 03:27 AM
No....can't do it!
All. Too. Awful.
(PS Have just had the BEST laugh! Thx.)
Posted by: Anne | 16 June 2006 at 03:08 PM