Writes Julia, a student at an evangelical university in Indiana: “In our graduate student offices, there are more crusty dishes and microbial communities to be found than in the labs next door. After four weeks of mugs, oatmeal bowls and lunch containers had built up, one lad took the most effective course of action and posted this encouraging note for us single ladies to know what it takes to catch ourselves a guy just like him.”
![A wife of noble character, who can find?... She sets about her work vigorously; her arms strong for the tasks... She watches over the affairs [dishes] of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. Proverbs 31 selections, NIV](http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7313/12889332624_a90195388b.jpg "A wife of noble character, who can find?... She sets about her work vigorously; her arms strong for the tasks... She watches over the affairs [dishes] of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. Proverbs 31 selections, NIV")
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#1
Jami
“Quit misquoting and misinterpreting my works and do your own damn dishes before I smite you, you last putz!” – God
Apr 16, 2014 at 3:24 pm rating: 90
#2
missred
Geesh Jami, take a chill pill. I thought it was quite amusing. Especially at an evangelical college. The submitter says it was a lad who wrote the note. No evidence of that. Could have been me.
Apr 16, 2014 at 6:16 pm rating: 90
#3
Jeanine
He can partake in the bread of “eat shit and die”….and clean his own damn dishes.
Apr 16, 2014 at 7:21 pm rating: 90
#4
underwatervulcan
While I think Julia’s story is interjected with Julias perception of the note-writers motives, the person who wrote it surely likes to flap their jaw like the crane flaps it’s wings in the footer.
Apr 16, 2014 at 8:46 pm rating: 90
#5
Danielle
How this gets to me. The translation for this section of verse should be “a woman of valor” not a “wife” of anything.
Also, this section of text is not meant to be instructions for women on how they should behave, but rather an example to men on remembering to praise the women of the household (wives, daughters, mothers, and others!) for all the hard work they do. It is a poem, the male head of the house is meant to say over Shabbat dinner.
Apr 16, 2014 at 10:09 pm rating: 90
#6
1deprogrammed1
Introduce the putz to this old saw:
A man and his wife were having an argument about who should brew the coffee each morning. The wife said, “You should do it, because you get up first, and then we don’t have to wait as long to get our coffee.”
The husband said, ” You are in charge of cooking around here and you should do it, because that is your job, and I can just wait for my coffee.”
Wife replies, “No, you should do it, and besides, it is in the Bible that the man should do the coffee.”
Husband replies, “I can’t believe that, show me.”
So she fetched the Bible, and opened the New Testament and showed him at the top of several pages, that it indeed says…
“HEBREWS”
Apr 17, 2014 at 12:49 am rating: 90
#7
TRT
“Let he who is without sink cast the first stone.”
Apr 17, 2014 at 3:55 am rating: 90
#8
Abc
Even if you feel like the woman/wife should take care of everything in the house, this is an office not the female grad students’ household. Do your own damn dishes.
Apr 17, 2014 at 7:26 am rating: 90
#9
Dr Chalkwitheringlicktacklefeff
Personally, I think it’s only fair that wives should do 70% of the dishes if they’re only going to bring home 70% of the money that we bring home.
Apr 17, 2014 at 7:42 am rating: 90
#10
Chris Baker
If dishes have been sitting in the office sink for a week, I would toss them in the trash, not leave a note.
Apr 17, 2014 at 11:53 am rating: 90
#11
Havingfitz
Jesus wept
Apr 17, 2014 at 1:01 pm rating: 90
#12
Zero Our Hero
Well, not to poop on all the self righteous indignation going round here, but have you guys considered that this might be an inside joke? The same way we have pop culture references and geek jokes they have their own evangelical school, biblical culture jokes? I remember in college, I had these Born Again group of friends who were still cool and they’d make biblical references and twist them into jokes that I found puzzling and they found hilarious. this might just be the same situation. Now chill the fuck out, heathens!!!
Apr 17, 2014 at 2:04 pm rating: 90
#13
Belle
PSA: No man has ever been shot while doing the dishes
Apr 17, 2014 at 7:12 pm rating: 90
#14
Tesselara
Does his handwriting look like a serial killer’s writing? At the very least, it looks remarkably like “Hell-Will-Freeze-Over-Before-That-Guy-Sees-Any-Naughty-Bits” handwriting.
Apr 17, 2014 at 9:13 pm rating: 90
#15
SebbyGrrl
Indoor or outdoor
cat?
Apr 17, 2014 at 11:50 pm rating: 90
#16
SebbyGrrl
@-)
Apr 17, 2014 at 11:56 pm rating: 90
#17
Lythande
You know, perhaps I am naive, but my first thought on reading this was not that it meant “Hey females, do my dishes, like a good little woman” but that it meant “Hey ladies – do your own damn dishes, this sink is nasty”.
Apr 18, 2014 at 10:33 am rating: 90
#18
Haterade
Wait a minute… “labs next door”? At an evangelical university? Something smells a bit off here.
(Besides the dishes, that is.)
Apr 18, 2014 at 1:07 pm rating: 90
#19
Geek Goddess
Well, if we are going to assign dish duty based on scripture, let’s look into it a little more carefully. 2 Kings 21:13 says, “And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.”
Seems pretty clear to me, no?
Apr 18, 2014 at 6:30 pm rating: 90
#20
kaetra
Dear writers of the Holy Bible – Thanks for the Misogyny!
Apr 21, 2014 at 11:15 am rating: 90
#21
lorfdof
Evangelical colleges have grad students?
And I thought being a grad student at a regular college was depressing
Apr 21, 2014 at 3:56 pm rating: 90
#22
Raichu
Wow, what an asshole.
Apr 23, 2014 at 10:56 am rating: 90
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