[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Gift code (was Main List's: Why Ron Loves Hermione)

[Przemyslaw Plaskowicki]

Cindy C. wrote:

>Hi,
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>Przemyslaw wrote:
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>>It appears, that some gifts are meaning something more than the
>>others --  in this case book means friendship, perfume means romantic
>>feelings.
>>Is there really is some gift-giving-code in our cultures?
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>I think there is.  In fact, you can err in a variety of ways in the U.S.
>[...]
>Then there's giving a non-intimate gift in an intimate relationship. 
>Like the husband who gives his wife a vacuum cleaner for her birthday.
> For some reason, it is OK for the wife to give the husband power
>tools.  Double standard, that.
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I think, it is not double standard -- it is male stupidity :-). Vacuum 
cleaning is a boring household duty, while most men will have fun using 
their power tools.

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