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"What are you going to do, then?" I asked. "To smoke," he [Holmes] answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes."
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ARE MEN BORING?

This link is another in the endless Men Mars/Women Venus series of essays, but I particularly like this:

The woman says, “Would you like to stop for a coffee?” The man says, “No”, and the woman seethes for the rest of the journey because she would have quite liked to stop for a coffee.

The question is, why didn’t she simply say “I want to stop for coffee?”