It's Your Own Fault

It's the age old battle of the sexes, especially on a Friday night. The wife or girlfriend, generous and caring, stays home and makes a gorgeous meal. She sits down and waits for her beloved to come home from work.

2 hours pass, still no idea where he is. THUMP. Through the door comes the man of her dreams, shirt untucked, top button undone, tie all over the place. "Went down the Oak for a couple with the lads." he slurs.

Obviously and fairly the wife storms off, possibly to bed, or to whinge to her best friends either on the phone or on facebook, or wherever. The bloke collapses, not for the first time no doubt, on to the couch and passes away the hours of the night unconscious and drooling.

But, a woman academic has come to the mans rescue with the perfect excuse for having one too many. "It's your own fault". Research by historian Jane Peyton has found that in fact women created the golden, alcoholic nectar.

Up to 200 years ago, Beer was considered a food and therefore, rather misogynistically, fell in to the women's remit.  Only women were allowed in to the breweries to produce the drink that fuelled, as well as tea, the building of powerful empires.

So, I guess men have to thank women for providing the world with Beer. It is one of the greatest inventions ever, and very clever. However, surely, if they were that little bit more clever then they would've made it less alcoholic and more tastier. That way they may have had men eating out of their hands. Instead, we're eating out of kebab shops.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7538264/Men-owe-women-for-creating-beer-claims-academic.html