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Phrase: Boys will be boys
Ladies, I’m going to tell you what you probably already know and what most males will deny.
It’s a known fact that males of all ages have done, do now and will in the future, stupid and childish things.
In other words, boys will be boys.
Boys will be boys means males will do what is crazy or insane.
Please don’t judge us harshly because of this.
We can’t help it.
It’s our nature to be inquisitive and push the boundaries of what is sensible or sane.
Have you ever seen a woman stick her head inside an alligator’s mouth at an alligator park?
I didn’t think so because women will never understand why we do the things we do.
Now, you may feel that only children and young men do foolish things, such as dangerously overtaking other cars on the highway or adamantly refusing to ask for help with their computers even when things are hopelessly going wrong.
In many cases, the older men become, the more childish we become.
Even under that middle-age spread, boys will be boys.
I speak from experience.
Whenever there’s a typhoon, an older man will be injured because he went up to repair a wind-damaged roof while the storm is still ongoing.
He’s still trying to do in his golden years what he would have done in his twenties.
Never mind that it was a stupid thing to do then and is even dumber now.
You can tell a man he’s not a boy, but you can’t make him believe it.
No matter how old he is, you can never take the child out of the man.
Boys will be boys, and so will men.
In a way, men have achieved what women have always sought–to stay young.
There you have it, ladies; most men will never admit it, but you can tell a man he’s no longer an adolescent, but you can never make him believe it.
That’s why you love us so much.
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