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1. Why are guys so easy to manipulate? (BHN)

Dear BHN, the reason guys are so easy to manipulate is that they have 4 billion more brain cells than females. Although this fact might not automatically seem to answer your question bear with me while I explain. Despite the fact that men often have slightly bigger heads than feamels this difference is not nearly enough to cope with an extra 4 billion braincells. Therefore whilst female's braincells are all spaced out comfortably with enough room to operate successfully, men's are not. They are all squished up and cramped and uncomfortable and many braincells just deal with this lot by simply turning off and going to sleep. Therefore men's brains in general are simpler and do not work as well. Therefore when you have a complex functioning brain, as do all females it is not difficult to use this brain to manipulate those lesser beings... eg men. Hope this helps.

2. Why are people so good at telling other people what to do but hopeless at doing it themselves? (John F)

Dear John F, the reason for this is that it is very easy to talk (write/instruct) about things. Doing them in invariably more difficult. This effect is magnified when the "doing" is something difficult, unpleasant, or against the person's natural tendencies. Because basically we run on emotions and instinct and these are very hard to fight. Just talking about things we don't need to fight the instincts but when it comes to behaving in a particular way we have tons of things working against us. As of all things there is a counter example. I find it much harder to tell people what to do when learning to water-ski than i do actually waterskiing. Hope this helps.

3. is "jumpstart" code for anything? :P (BHN)

Dear Nick, My Dad sometimes reads this blog (which is why it's pretty much pg). But in this particular case jumpstart is not code for anything other than jumpstart. In cases where it is code for something else I certainly wouldn't be publishing it on the web. If I learnt anything from Mum and Dad it is that pornographic blogs can come back to bite you in the ass.

4. Adam is easily startled isn't he? (Mindy)

Dear Mindy, yes it would seem that way.