Will is, perhaps understandably, not the easiest bloke to get along with, but Lou comforts herself with the fact that the job pays extremely well (her down on their luck family really need the money she brings in) and that it's only for six months.
It's not easy for blokes, especially not blokes from that kind of background...I think that blokes kind of like it (CBT .. (it's) not about emoting particularly..though it's kind of good to sometimes tell someone something hurts you and to get it out.. I think if you can try and think about it as a practical problem solving thing rather than...emotional masturbation.. then I think that will help.
"He's an easy fellow; he looks like a terrific bloke to have a drink with or have a barbecue with," said Matt Price, a political columnist for The Australian, a national newspaper.
It's much easier for blokes – the wife usually takes care of the children, while he goes off on tour.
Ed's early assertion that "men can take the pain" soon gives way to traditional demands for drugs, and there are easy laughs at blokes' wimpiness.
Sure, it was easier for such blokes when Britain was white, women were pliant and the working classes went home from pubs to their tight communities.
It's easy to make jokes about blokes baking, it's fascinating to question why there seems to be such a gender difference in our approach to something so innocuous, so simple and pleasurable, but what's really interesting is how a simplistic, popular entertainment show can become such a complex manipulator of public opinion and what it's trying to achieve.
As Norman shows, McCartney has worked so hard at seeming an ordinary bloke that it is easy to miss the least ordinary and least bloke-ish thing about him: the magnitude of his melodic gift.
Admittedly, it's easier to sell normal blokes processed meat and ready meals than it is to sell them something that makes them smell nice and makes their skin soft.
In 1986, Kevin Mackey of Cleveland State sidled up to the Indiana coach, a testy bloke named Knight, and pleaded, "Take it easy on me, big feller".
