How Girls Waste Time/Stupid Things Girls Do1. On the phone / gossiping / talking / whining
2. Makeup and accessories - hair (wearing hairbands around their necks and letting their hair flop around their eyes - I mean I don't care if your hair is in your eyes... but if you have a hairband, wear it!), bodily or other (eg pets, possessions and other people)
3. Shopping, especially window - and most especially for things they don't want, just for the thrill of it.
3. a) Bargaining for the sake of bargaining, even when the price is already very low - "a man is someone who pays $2 for a $1 item he wants. a woman is someone who pays $1 for a $2 item she doesn't want"
3. b) Spending 3 hours and $5 in fuel/transport fees to travel to some sub-urban warehouse to save $0.30 on toilet paper because it is "cheap"
4. Sighing, obsessing (eg: omg what did he mean when he said: 'I'm going to sleep'?!! how?!whatdossit mean?!!") or giggling about crushes / doing other requisite things with sighing - 6 hours compared to guys' 5 minutes for the works / writing stories involving them & their crushes
5. Hair (includes blowjobs on wet/dry hair and styling, playing and accessorising, rebonding, hair extensions, perming/using curlers, cutting it whenever they undergo some great emotional change / trauma)
6. Nails (manicure, filing, buffing, embossing, painting with horrid colours, drawing of measle-like dots)
7. Shaving (or other forms of hair removal - waxing, tweezing, hair removal cream or laser), especially regretful when not done thoroughly, leaving 'shadow'
8. Reading the surfeit of redundant, gushy, sex-obsessed, overpriced, sappy and soppy girly and self-improvement magazines on the market which just make them feel yet more inadequate, starting a vicious circle which leads to more purchases of said mags
9. Daydreaming (aka fantasising)
10. "Cute" stuff (real or contrived) - including dolls, origami, soft toys and fads (Tare Panda - on drugs and squashed by a steamroller, Hello Kitty - no mouth, Powerpuff Girls - sickly 'sweet' voices reminiscent of the smell of decaying flesh, Qoo drink's mascot - one ear, Disgusting Chick [Groovy Chick] stationery etc...)
11. Colour coding / decorating things (esp those with obsessive compulsive disorder) - writing their names on their notes in fanciful fonts / Doodling / vandalising friends' notes with flowers etc / sparkles on handphone screens? / Squirting fabric paint on the insides of their belt/shoes/bag/lockers/files/whatever they get their hands and fabric paint on
11. a) Decorating their possessions endlessly with various loud, garish and distasteful patterns, getting upset at their prior work when their moods change with the movement of various heavenly bodies, then trying to cover or eradicate all traces of their previous attempts and start again
11. b) Drawing cute pictures (flowers, cartoons, hearts, etc...) on each other's body parts (tighs, legs, hands, arms, palms, neck, face, etc...)
12. irc/icq/M$N/chat/Friendster (so desperate NS guys can ogle at their pictures)/other internet communication
12. a) Compulsive email forwarding syndrome, especially "cute", "sweet" or "meaningful" ones, where the probability of forwarding rises with the attachments' size, stupidity and/or how annoying they are
13. Long baths / long times in bathrooms, in addition to long changing times
14. Little notes on sparkly perfumed light purple paper with fluorescent pink ink, decorated with various grotesque shapes and entities
15. Perfecting printed handwriting (usually small / invisible) / writing in 'cute' font (or 6 different colours and pen tip sizes)
16. Silly and incomprehensible jokes/antics on guys (even other girls)
17. Giggling or laughing at everything and nothing / squealing (sometimes like small girls) (even over vegetables?) (like angie oso haha)/ yelping / screaming / shrieking (eg playing ball games - when they catch/throw the ball, when the ball comes near/almost hits them, when insects come near) / jumping up and down
17. a) Entering into interminable giggling fits with other girls
18. Ogling "cute" guys (often squealing) - in sum skool bored girls rate guys coming out of the toilets : '0', '10', '-5,', 'hopeless'. Sometimes, if they're bored they say the ratings out loud so the guys can hear / admiring other girls
19. comparing , legs, hips, butts, waistlines and figures.....20. romance novels / sappy movies (giving girls false ideas about sex and love, leading to future disappointment and pain, being cheated on by AC guys and making them extremely screwed up)
21. Looking in the mirror / pretending that they're very chio (pretty)
22. "Nice" stuff as gifts for others which invariably takes a long time to make / staying up until 5 am to make little 'thank you' cards for everyone in their cca/class/both/everyone they know.. half of which get tucked into a corner and forgotten/throw away and trashed anyway
23. Extended periods of time locked in the bedroom performing unspeakable acts
24. Being fussy with food / destroying their digestive systems - being anorexic (3 fishballs for a meal!?), protein diet, prolonged detox, bingeing, sharing portions of food meant for 1 person with 1 or 2 other anorexic girls, eating very often but very little each time, starving themselves for months at a time and then pigging out during sleepovers
25. Beautification - real or psychological (exfoliating scrub, toner, blue tracing paper [aka blotting paper], face/skin lightening cream, facials, nail polish, bust enhancement/implants, revealing clothes, various other varieties of snake oil) and then feeling offended and objectified when men look at them admiringly. Either that or trying to look like a guy
26. Cooking (often not finishing the food)
26. a) Baking cakes/cookies/pastry and then complaining about how they're so lousy at it while the boys wolf everything up double quick.
27. Holding hands while waving and skipping / bouncing / bounding around
27. a) Holding another girl's hand and swinging it up and down repeatedly, like a swing
28. Whining / fretting that they're fat / look fat / have a big butt (despite weighing 30 kgs and eating less than a Somali on a diet) and professing to be willing to enter Obedience School (BMT) to shed the 23kg , regardless of its horrors, while constantly reassuring other distraught girls that they themselves are stick-thin
28. a) Engaging in solipsistic arguments about how they're hungry but don't want to gain weight
28. b) Whining / fretting that they're ugly or have too many pimples while saying all their friends are pretty (even if they aren't in the first place) - in reality it's just a perverse game they play so people - especially distressed boyfriends - will assure them that they truly do look good
28. c) Deluding themselves into thinking that they're pretty or sexy
28. b) i) Constantly complaining that they are inferior and stuff about low-self esteem, but blowing up when you say something that is true about their weaknesses
29. Sparkle / milky / scented pens (sometimes with weird things attached to the end) / glitter
30. Deciding what to wear (esp considering outfit + shoes)
31. Spending enormous amounts of time in front of music shops gazing at posters of the latest "cute" Jap singer
32. Devising lists to contribute to militant chauvinism / other acts against the dominant "oppressive" social order / being chauvinist
33. Spending hours in their rooms struggling with a needle and thread trying to raise the hem of their school skirt
34. Acting cute (often failing, sometimes grossing people out) eg making baby noises, pouting, posing etc
35. Taking endless repetitive character/personality tests or quizzes (or some other form of evaluation), sometimes more than once, despite their patent lack of predictive or explanatory value / evaluating their psyche / going for therapy and/or psychoanalysis to assuage their insecurities and bring some grounding into their lives
36. Fashion [disasters] (butt-hugging, butt-cheek-revealing hot shorts!!!, very short, ankle or even heel revealing hot socks, midriff baring outfits, especially when they are chubby, all manner of garish coloured outfits, those horrible head scarfs [bandanas], gigantic hoop earrings, ghastly accessories).
37. Gushing over "touching" and/or "romantic" (read: mushy) stuff
38. Games involving one or more of the following: co-operation, co-ordination, hand movements and clapping. And inevitably, lots of giggling. (Eg: Strawberry Shortcake)
39. Compulsive photo-taking / photo-sticker disorder (Group shots in buses),girlss eating a sundae pie, their meals [possibly to count calories and keep themselves going when they're starving themselves], group shots in the toilet), exchanging pictures
39. a) Self-taken pictures of themselves / themselves and their friends in funny poses when they're pretending that they're very pretty
40. Flirting with each other and generally acting completely lesbian when exclusively in the company of girls.
40. a) Touching / pulling / hugging / leading each other
41. Taking unearthly amounts of time to perform unspeakable acts in the toilet, usually together with other girls in toilet outings, and waiting for everyone to be done before leaving; in the meantime doing dumb things like splashing water, mashing toilet paper to throw on the ceilings, sometimes adding enough water to make them fall on their friends ('only netball girls do that'), and taking group photos; as a result of which, they waste 5 times as much time queuing for toilets than men
41. a) Trying to perfect the art of hover pissing because of the erroneous fear that they will catch something if they sit on the toilet seat. In the end they take three times as long but still end up dirtying the toilet seat (encouraging yet more women to hover-piss)
41. b) Freshening up every 10 minutes even where there is no need to
42. Obsessing over trivialities (and getting angry over minor perceived transgressions) / being overly sensitive or petty (eg girls having a spat amongst themselves about how they shouldn't be friends because so-and-so didn't give so-and-so a Valentine's Day present)
42. a) Breaking up perfectly good friendships over some minor, trivial issue
43. Talking about / Shopping for extra clothes to fill the already burgeoning closet(s) / shoes to topple the overloaded shoe racks
44. Drawing up elaborate lists detailing their "ideal" man, including in them qualities such as "sensitive", "thoughtful", "caring" and "good listener" (ie They want a "nice guy") and exchanging them with other similarly emotionally disturbed girls, then falling head over heels in love with the first jerk, alpha male or lying bastard (ie Someone diametrically opposite to at least half the points on the list) who comes along
45. Being racked with indecision, vacillating constantly
46. Writing notes to people they already talk to (and/or see) everyday, often on free postcards, even if they are right next to them
47. Hugging files to their bosoms tightly (sometimes closing their eyes and shaking to and fro when they think no one is looking)
48. Practicing inane actions that they think make them attractive to boys, eg. Blinking, fluttering eyelids, batting eyelashs, sucking in their cheeks, swaying their hips
49. Breaking down inexplicably, taking the rest of their clique with them / "happy also cry, sad also cry"
50. Being squeamish over the littlest things
51. Boybands (ogling, fantasising, singing their songs, making fun of them [for those not totally caught up])
52. Taking forever to eat but never finishing their food (because they're full, on a diet, have played with their food till it becomes inedible or are multi-tasking)
53. Coming up with and struggling to keep to diet plans which they don't need in the first place
54. Dotting their 'i's and 'j's with hearts and circles
55. Carrying around a surfeit of stationery - eg 30 of the funny highlighter pens with a marker on one side, and a pen on the other / owning about a million bags + pencil cases + wallets (purses) + handphone covers to match their mood/clothes/bedsheets/room color/menstrual flow and what not
56. Naming/giving life to their stuff
57. Talking / complaining about their periods58. Talking about virginity and also on the subject of losing it
59. Talking about guys. Getting presents for people for the most trivial reasons / occasions
61. Playing with each other's hair..bouncing or tugging fringes and ponytails
62. the girls watch sunrises through school windows
63. Carrying around [miniscule] [hand]bags which can barely hold anything
64. Complaining about guys and expecting them to be as screwed up as they are
65. Playing the guessing game, leading to mutual hurt, distrust and vituperation:A: I'm pissed with youB: What's wrong?A: If you don't know what's wrong, I shan't tell you!
66. Discussing weird stuff eg whether they sleep naked
67. Attaching bells, mini-soft toys or assorted dangling things to their bags, ankles or mobile phones
68. Hurting or mutilating themselves when they're stressed, bored, depressed or have just been dumped (pricking, cutting and the like)
69. Talking about those inanely pervasive soap(opera)s. The type that can get really confusing if you don't watch them.
70. Faking cramps so they don't have to do PE
70. a) In pinafored schools, faking that they're not wearing a bra so they don't have to do PE
71. Being kiddy
72. Acting Bimbo
72. a) Being butch to gain popularity
73. Fawning over babies / animals
74. Quarrelling/catfight/"friendly bickering" over stupid pens or the like
75. Moving in pairs (sometimes packs)
76. Getting green eyed when they see a prettier girl, pretending to fawn on her and later backstabbing her
77. Reading/watching Yaoi (and other sorts of manga and anime) and writing fan fiction and drawing fan art (This entry is specifically dedicated to Yaoi Girl :) )
78. Nagging persistently (exemplified by most grandmothers and mothers)
79. Trying to matchmake their friends (most popular among those already attached)
80. Being insecure and paranoid
81. the girls make a game of ripping each other's ties off, thus releasing the zips of the blouses which fall some way, depending on how hard the ties are pulled
82. Professing their love to each other and asking their friends if they love them too. If their friends say no, they get angry.
82. a) Forming families with a mother, father, brother, sister, hubby, darling, maid, pet turtle, pet dog, pet cat, neighbour, sister in law and brother in law" and such because they were emotionally abused as children and need a support network, where one's role is dependent on one's looks/behavior/sexual orientation. Eg dogs whine and cats are annoying.. SUPER TRUE
83. Having a compulsive, morbid fascination with the colour Pink
84. Cakes and pictures and more cakes and more pictures at every juncture/occasion/whatever reason they can think of
85. Forming cliques and swearing loyalty, then chatting and screaming and talking about their boyfriends so loudly anyone can hear them anyway
86. Complaining they have no money and then blowing 50 bucks on new clothes that they don't need
87. Spending hours and hours cutting and pasting pictures of their friends and pasting them into collages in their folders... Then throwing them away to start a new collage again, destroying perfectly good pictures of people in the process
88. Mutilating/wasting their diaries when they change their boyfriend and can't stand seeing their ex boyfriend's name in the diary
89. Making people wait. And wait.
90. Practicing being/pretending to be ignorant about certain things (usually involving dirty work: changing tyres, light-bulbs, etc) so that guys will be duped into helping them.
90. a) Waiting for help to arrive rather than helping themselves: when guys are around, suddenly being incapable of doing the simplest things for themselves at all, eg getting a straw
91. Reading lists like this so they can flame the author :)
91. a) Write extensive rants about lists they were offended by, such as this one, nitpicking each and every sentence with spelling/grammar-error filled rebuttals such as "omg ur teh fagit cos u hate womn", and "men ar like soooooooooooooooo dum". Often, the rants end up being much longer than the list itself.
92. Walking ridiculously slowly, often being distracted by frivolous/trivial things along the way
93. Singing nonsensical little ditties that they make up
94. Making either a) pastel coloured blogs with lots of pictures of cute stuffed toys and hearts, exclamation marks, animated gifs/marquees, horrific grammar and observations about boys who are "very cuuuutte... but mi scared to tok to him lor.. nvr see b4... teeheehee" or b) pastel blogs with strange titles on each entry "lace bleeding along my thighs" / "whimsical rhapsodies playing in my cranium" and general moody bitching that comes straight ouf ot a Tori Amos song.
95. Taking neoprints of themselves and their friends in every possible factorial combination. (eg. 3 friends will take 6 neoprints to represent all the possible positions - ABC, ACB, BAC, BCA, CAB, CBA)
95. a) Pasting said neoprints all over their calculators and files.
96. Spending hundreds of dollars to change their hairstyle to make them look completely different and then getting offended when people don't recognise them anymore.
97. Spending that much extra time to ensure that every inch of their handphone covers are festooned with neoprints and hello kitty stickers, configuring true tunes for individual callers, downloading logos, only to replace their phone a month later, usually on parents/boyfriend's largesse.
98. Watching patiently and nodding as you explain to them how to perform IT related tasks such as burning things onto CDs or configuring desktop settings, and saying "yes i know" to your repeated admonitions, only to call you for help the very second you're out of sight.
99. Spending all their time making lucky chatterboxes/flower games/lotus flowers/Guan Yin Ma's Seat /cootie catcher (those folding things we played with as kids, the ones which usually have some "fortune" written on a petal and you open and close it to some jingle and then pick one petal to "open"?) - actually writing all the fortunes themselves and then getting pissed off when they pick one they didn't like.
100. An unending preoccupation with marriage/fantasising about marriage
100. a) Adopting the last name of each new boyfriend that comes along and writing it all over notebooks and folders in nothing other than sparkle pens and girly fonts etc...
100. b) Adopting their favourite celeb's name - Mrs Carter was in for 5 years, and Mrs Di'Caprio for 2, even using them on the radio, and coming up with names for their kids
101. Reading tabloids and/or watching celebrity shows, making lengthy discussions about them as though they were breakthroughs in science.
102. Plotting tactics for winning arguments with men. But wait a minute. Men never do the talking in the arguments anyway, nor do they start them.103. Watching taped episodes of reality TV shows, sometimes pausing the scenes to "capture the essence".104. Buying and listening to "music" made by the latest popstar on MTV, BET, VH1, Disney, or other mind-rotting TV channel.105. Arguing with people over their taste in music, because the other party listens to a music genre they don't like.106. Buying expensive or exotic food that they will not eat, and arguing with anyone who finally eats the food because they "planned on eating it later".107. Spending in excess of 100 dollars on soaps, lotions, and bathroom ornaments that can be easily bought at a local dollar store.108. Signing up for credit cards, using them all up on fashion and other useless junk, and crying about having no money to pay back the loan sharks who call them regularly. Then they'll still blow their income on said fashion and useless junk.
109. Making expansive hand gestures repeatedly
110. Imputing undue importance to certain essentially meaningless dates (eg First pet's death anniversary, conjunction of certain designated heavenly bodies, day and time of first hickey given by boyfriend), then kicking up a big fuss if they are not adequately commemorated
110. a) Imputing undue importance to certain essentially meaningless facts about themselves (eg Volume of flow, crests of biorhythms, favourite texture of parquet), then kicking up a big fuss if they are not remembered
111. Analysing and cross-analysing in excruciating detail the words and actions of others, often reading into them implicit meanings that don't actually exist, and seeing daggers where there are none (which explains why girls like to do Literature)
112. Using PMS and their gender as excuses to get things/get away with things.
113. Talking in great detail about menstrual cycles and the like, just to gross guys out
114. The adoration of boys who look like girls. See F4, 5566, Orlando Bloom as Legolas, etc.
114. a) A subset of this is reading Japanese manga where the males are distinguishable only by their slightly narrower eyes and wider jaws. And inevitably, these manga will feature falling flower petals and sparkling eyes at some point or the other.
115. Being fag hags. If a girl is a fag hag, she will start up on every single straight-identifying man in the vicinity by asking loaded questions like, "Come on. Would you sleep with a guy if you really had to?" and then proclaiming they are either gay and/or in denial. Then she'll start matchmaking even straight guys together. See: Yaoi/slash fangirl.
115. a) Being a fag hag hopelessly in love with a gay man, and gushing about him all the time to her gal pals who think she's crazy... while rejecting advances from straight guys and then complaining she cant get a boyfriend
116. Being passive-aggressive. "I'm not mad at you. Really. ...WTF YOU ARE SO ANNOYING OMG."
117. Making fun of guys who indulge in anything from the above list. And using metrosexual as an insult.
118. Dabbing and shaking off the salt from french fries because otherwise it's "too fattening"
119. Entering Pavlovian fits of ecstasy when they see a food they like (eg Brownies), then, after gorging on them, complaining about weight gain and the need to exercise.
120. Keeping letters in their wallets. Loveletters, friend letters, secret letters. They're all there.
121. Finding (often lame) reasons to meet up with each other
122. Laughing at realy lame jokes
123. Whining about men not being chivalrous or gentlemanly while refusing to conform to archaic and sexist notions of proper gender behavior themselves
124. Using physical appearance as a proxy for self-worth
ahahaha..tis is wat girls DO....budd it is all tis which make them cute!!!!! HAAHHAAHA.... GONNA COMPOSE SOMETHING LIKE TIS FOR GUYS TOO... MUAHAHAHAHA