How to start another war...

She not like way we talk. Make much noise. Me go find meat now.
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Ned clearly meant the other right. Guys can pick up on those little non-verbal communications in order to get the full intent of the message.
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And up is down and out is in and back is forth and push is pull and here is there and this is that....

Ooooooooohhhhhhhh I SEE!!! Boys are "special"! That's it!!! I get it now... very, very special.

In my experience anybody can be taught to read a map, but they have to want to be taught (as with most things). I told my wife she had to learn, because I will NEVER stop and ask for directions. Ever. So far it is working, but we have only been at it for 36 years.

(Side note sort of related to previous topics: a lot of women seem to have a hard time taking any instructions from men. I think this is because they feel they are being considered stupid when a man offers to help them. In fact, the man considers them ignorant - in the classical sense of the term - not stupid when they offer to help. The problem is probably compounded by typical male lack of sensitivity. I welcome corrections or other insights on this puzzling topic.)

I've also noted that people seem to fall into 2 categories. Those with good spatial imaging abilities (the ability to picture objects and their relationships in 3D, and from various angles) take quickly to map reading, 3D CAD design, wire harness and pipe routing, and navigation in general. The others (maybe 75% of the population in my experience) struggle with these concepts, but they can be taught.

A prime example is night sky star maps, usually printed mirror image from regular maps (north at the top, but west on the right and east on the left). When you first explain to people that this is because you want to picture the night sky viewed from below, whereas maps show the earth's surface viewed from above, about 25% of people say "oh, of course" while everybody else says "whaaat?".
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And it is still just a tiny little electronic map you have to read. It can sort of tell you where you are, but you still have to figure out what to do next.
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Hand held GPS is only as good as the underlying map data, and some of that dates back a long time. I remeber the first time I used a portable GPS was in about 1989, standing on the shore of Lake Erie while the GPS showed us out in the middle of the lake. I'm sure I would have noticed if we were.

If one inputs garbage, one can expect garbage in the output (or something like that).
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Guys and gals take note: those GPS thingies are your key to a successful marriage!

I can't figure out why more young couples don't have them on their wedding registries.

But a device that tells me where to go would have seemed redundant, as I was already getting married.

For a thread titled "How to start another war..." we don't seem to be accomplishing much. :-)