Stuff Boys Like

Behold my father. He is 25 in this picture and appears to be ruining his tyres. 25 years on and not much has changed. My 26 year old boyfriend likes to ruin his tyres, he and his friends like to watch youtube videos of other boys ruining their tyres. The boy next door ruins his tyres every time he takes off in his ute. Boys like to ruin their tyres. Boys are weird.

Stuff Boys Like

It has come to my attention recently that my Dad secretly wishes he was a cowboy. He likes going out bush and wearing RM Williams and he absolutely loves a good Western flick. Even his ring tone is that tune from The Good The Bad and The Ugly. Then the other day I was thinking about how my brother used to eat anything my mum declared was 'cowboy food' (see my post on 'Cowboy chowder', a revised Mummy recipe) so really he must have wanted to be one also. Then the other day my boy and my girlfriend's boy both bought a new PS3 game that involves riding around in a western country setting on horses, shooting things and wearing cowboy hats. They both deny this has anything to do with a love of cowboys but I think this game is letting them really live out their own fantasies of being one. It might be the outfit, the reckless abandonment and wild masculinity that cowboys represent but they really want to be a cowboy no matter how much they deny it. Boys like cowboys.

Stuff Boys Like

Pie. Boys like pie. It doesn't matter if it's a balfours meat pie (yuck!) apple pie, shepherds pie or cherry pie, boys just love pie. Recently my boy's mother bought me a pie maker (like a toastie maker but for pies) and I swear the boy is more excited about it than I am (much much more...) I think it's the idea of flavor encapsulated into pastry that they love, hell I could just put whatever we were having for dinner that night into pie form and there would be no more complaints about it's lack of animal products (come to think of it that's a bloody brilliant idea) I'm not sure why but boys really like pie. More than girls, because they are weird.

Stuff Boys Like

Recently my boy bought Season 1 & 2 of Wilfred. I think its the humanization of man's best friend that he really likes, although Wilfred does smoke, drink and swear a lot. Wilfred is a real dog played by a man dressed as a dog. The show is about his adventures living with his owner, and his owner's boyfriend Adam, who for some reason is the only one who can understand Wilfred and talks to him.... very odd and very funny, boys like it