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Ben2 the Soldier (56) Christine the Lioness chimed in with
Except the wife only needs to call two of her husband’s friends to know he’s lying. Even after the husband calls ten of hr friends, he’s still got nothing on the wife. 
Christopher the Pyro asserted
That’s why a woman can’t ever be trusted.. they are built to lie.
Christine the Lioness up'n wrote this
????? Honey… maybe you didn’t get your own joke. It’s the MEN that were all lying. The women were telling the truth (see– the wife wasn’t with them, she was really with her super hot male lover all night).
Christopher the Pyro up'n wrote this
No.. maybe YOU DIDN’T GET THE JOKE.
They were both lying and all the people in the joke, however the men were loyal to their friend while the women were not. Lying on purpose to protect a friend is better then being oblivious on purpose to protect a friend.
Christine the Lioness thought this
I did get the joke. The 10 men lied to the women to protect their friend, but that was stupid because after the second one lied, they basically sealed his coffin. The women told the truth and the wife got away with cheating. So the point is… it’s better to have honest friends than ones that will lie for you if you really want to get away with cheating.
Mara the Peacemaker quibbed this
In this case, lying to protect a friend is not better because the male friends’ lying actually got their friend caught. As Christine said, as soon as the wife calls the second friend, she knows that at least one of the friends plus hubby lied and her husband wasn’t where he said he was.
Yet the husband doesn’t know where his wife was after calling 10 of her friends. Also notice the wife also doesn’t specify which friend she was with.
Christopher the Pyro asserted
I think it is the same difference..
The wife doesn’t know anything either.. other than the husbands friends are liars… which is to be expect because if your friends won’t lie for you then what kind of friends are they?
Mara the Peacemaker stated
Well the wife does know something…she knows that her HUSBAND lied about where he was and his loyal friends got his ass caught by lying. Lying in this instance did not protect the husband — it did the exact opposite. Any woman worth her salt would know that her husband lied as soon as she called the second friend. Hubby doesn’t know that the wife lied. That’s the difference.
This definitely isn’t the joke to extol the virtues of lying for a friend.
Christine the Lioness hunt n' pecked this
Actually… and I know we’re getting way to technical in breaking down this stupid joke… the wife doesn’t know the husband lied. All she knows is that the friends lied. Her husband could have also been at the house of the eleventh friend and therefore not be lying at all. All the woman really does know for sure is that all ten– or at least nine of his friends lied. It doesn’t actually prove that the husband himself lied. However, I still find it interesting that the woman would call the second friend after getting confirmation from the first friend– which basically means she didn’t think the first friend was telling the truth, so she felt compelled to call another friend– which is funny because if she doesn’t trust her husband’s friends to tell her the truth any more than her husband, why’d she bother calling nine more?
And no, this isn’t the joke to extol the virtues of lying for a friend… it actually proves that a friend’s loyalty is no better than honesty if you’re trying to help a friend out.
Christopher the Pyro mentioned
Exactly.. only the friends lied.. the husband is no more of a liar then the wife in this little joke.
.. as for why should would bother calling.. maybe that is a backhanded insult of the joke.. women are so dumb they continue to call after the first friend… ?
Mara the Peacemaker said this
Ok. I’ll concede that maybe the wife doesn’t know the husband is lying for sure but thanks to the lying friends, she’s going to find out. The fact that his friends are lying clues the wife in that they are covering something up for the husband. Now what they may be covering up may be nothing or not a big deal but it puts her on alert that something is off which causes her to investigate. NOT what you want if you were, in fact, lying about where you were.
The wife calling the second friend isn’t necessarily about whether she believes hubby’s friends but perhaps about whether she SHOULD believe them. In other words, if she suspected that her husband was lying in the first place (which she probably did if she bothered to call his friends at all) she might just call the others to see how many of them will lie (which could prove to be very useful information). I’m always surprised by the number of men who are caught cheating because their friends lied or told a really stupid lie or forgot the lie they told, etc.
Christine the Lioness added
Well, yeah, I agree with Mara on that point. Hearing all his friends lie will certainly make sure she doesn’t let this go. As a matter of fact, I understand why she would assume that if they lied, he’s probably lying too– because she knows that they are aware that he engages in behavior he feels he has to cover up. The woman’s friends didn’t lie because they know she wouldn’t lie to her husband about where she was so there was no need for them to try to cover anything up for her.
If the woman was really smart, she should have just called the wives of the husband’s friends and asked them. She can be sure those women would have told her the truth– that he wasn’t staying the night at their house.
Christopher the Pyro spake, and sayeth
But guys lie for their friends regardless.. they give misinformation even if they don’t know anything.. so they are not a reliable source. You could ask Eric if my real name is Chris and he would find a way to not confirm or deign that.
Christine the Lioness spake, and sayeth
That’s probably true… and I agree that guys do make better friends in that regard. That’s why I surround myself with as many guy friends as I can… they do tend to be very loyal and for the most part, make better friends in general.
I do have a few girlfriends that I trust completely though… they are just fewer and further between than the guys.
Christopher the Pyro spake, and sayeth
.. 2 bad guys arn’t friends with girls for that reason.. lol
Christine the Lioness thought this
And that matters to me… why?
Christopher the Pyro hunt n' pecked this
Typical.. lost on you why that should matter.
Christine the Lioness said this
I know, I know. Christopher thinks the ONLY reason guys are friends with girls is because the guys want to sleep with them.
1. I guess that means I should be ultra jealous of Christopher’s female friends because he must want to sleep with them (even though he’d be pretty pissed and probably not like me if I were), and
2. I’m honestly not sure why I should care if one (or all) of my guy friends want to sleep with me. Most of them are in serious relationships, so I don’t think that’s the case. And even if it were, the truth is, I’m not going to sleep with them, have no intention of ever sleeping with them, and it’s not really my problem or concern that they are hoping I’ll change my mind. It’s not my responsibility to control what everyone else wants and isn’t getting. As long as it doesn’t put me in a position I don’t want to be in, why should it matter who wants to sleep with me? Christopher seems to think I should realize they want to sleep with me and not be friends with them because of it. I’m not sure how that would be good for me or my friend. Even if they’re “settling” for a friendship because they can’t sleep with me, that’s better than nothing and it obviously must be working for them or they wouldn’t bother.
Christopher the Pyro up'n wrote this
1. Well I had to get rid of all my unmarried female friends when I meant Christine…
2. Idiotic.
Christine the Lioness scribbled
I never once suggested you should get rid of your female friends. Just the one who was calling you in the middle of the night wanting you to get out of bed and come pick her up from whatever bar she was at and too drunk to drive home. That situation was totally inappropriate– she didn’t want a friend, she wanted a bitch boy.
The truth is… it doesn’t matter what everyone else’s intentions are. The only person you need to trust to be faithful is your partner because she/he is the only one that has a responsibility to be. You can’t possibly know or control what everyone else’s intentions are and they don’t matter anyway. If you can’t trust your partner, then you need to find one that is trustworthy plain and simple.
I know I’ve told this story before in another post… but my ex-fiance was super jealous of all my guy friends so I pretty much dumped them all. When my ex-fiance eventually dumped me, I felt pretty idiotic for getting rid of my guy friends like that… that was a mistake I should not have made. And I would never suggest any guy I ever date should dump his female friends. The truth is… if your partner is jealous of your friends (and you’re not keeping a bunch of friends of the opposite sex around just in case you break up and want to get laid with one of them or something), there is a problem in the relationship to begin with.
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