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MEN.
ARE YOU getting the silent treatment?
Are you in trouble but you don’t know why?
Then you could probably do with making a small investment in the Man App.
Reminding you of all the occasions you were “not designed to remember”, Ballina based developer Cillian Ó Mongáin has developed the app after a friend broke up with his girlfriend.
“We were on a surfing holiday and he was joking that we need something to prompt us when we had to do something. But the more we joked about it the more we realised it could work,” Ó Mongáin tells TheJournal.ie.
There are two sides to the app. The first one is relatively simple calendar of events that reminds men of important dates such as birthdays, anniversaries and Women’s Christmas, says Ó Mongáin.
“It will go red if something is coming up in the next seven days and encourages you to panic a little bit.”
The second part is a more innovative advice section, which offers suggestions as to how you can look after your partner and advice on why you may be in trouble.
The ‘Random Act of Kindness’ section allows you to set a frequency metre. For example, every two days it will prompt you to do something as simple as making a cup of tea for her in in bed or giving her a massage to keep her ticking over. It also suggests doing the dishes, although we try not to do chores.
A ‘Dog House’ section offers suggestions on why you might be in trouble, for example, failing to notice a haircut. The ‘essential statistics’ section allows men to record their partner’s bra or shoe size “if you want to get her a pair of slippers”.
Ó Mongáin says he carried out a survey in order to help him develop the app:
We consulted with a few women alright. 43. All the ones I know.
It found that:
Gifts considered acceptable were trips away, dinner and cute teddies.
The app retails at 99c and is available here.
Hope theres a toilet lid down reminder in the App. :-)
The default position for the toilet seat in our house is up… Any lady visitors that need to sit down, can put it down.
Where’s the “it’s on a hinge, it goes up and down, pull on your big girl pants and learn to use it” app?
Maybe if u remembered to put it up when u wer done he may oblige the same
Most of us insist on the jacks seat being down because we dont like to deal with the reality of man pee-splash every time we need to use it. Otherwise the bleach would never be out of our hands. And when we get up in the middle of the night to use the toilet whether we drank too much tea or are perhaps suffering from our period, there’s nothing like falling into the toilet bowl to wake you up and curse the day you met your partner. Also, why does a toilet have a seat to begin with? Men use it when they poo, women use it when they pee and poo, that’s 3 instances where the seat is required and the trumps the one time it needs to up, therefore default position should be down! Why fight it? We do so much! Give us this one thing!
The thing is, men use the toilet with the seat down when they take a dump, whilst women never need the seat up. Seems to me like the default position is seat down lads. Unless you want to sit on a toilet wet with your own pi$$ when you sit down for a relaxing bowel emptying session…
I clean the toilet, i scrub the bathroom floor, i vacuum the house, that’s why i make the rules. There’s two guys in this house and women are only visitors, it takes less effort to keep the thing up :-p
one thing that this discussion really does highlight, women….are….mental
Yes Conrad, exactly. When you do all the cleaning and cooking and vacuuming and laundry and whatever needs to be done, you should get to make the rules!
You would be more annoyed with piss on the seat.
Hmmm, not a bad idea. I’m all for leaving it up though. Will certainly add it to the dog house section!
Fair play to the lads. Great idea , hope it works well for them. My memory is crapp so I downloaded it just now!
So it’s an enhanced calendar & all men are idiots then?
Brilliant.
Exactly. AKA the patronising app.
exactly what I was thinking – a glorified calendar. As well as assuming all men are idiots it also assumes (watch the video on the link above and pause at 0:42) that women can’t change lightbulbs, hang paintings or fix door handles.
So long as they remember to use the app after installation too :)
Kieran, re the toilet lid, if you leave it up all the time your loo “sneezes” a fine mist of wee and poo water all over your bathroom (and toothbrush) every time you flush it. Just saying. ;))
This is very true. Did you know you should cover your toothbrush because of this?
Maybe a lemsip might help your loo. Hope it gets better soon x
You just converted me
CuteTeddies? Seriously? I would be over the moon if hubby bought me a car- stereo and I wouldn’t mind a really comfortable chair either..
Hey I thought practical gifts were thoughtful gifts and therefore romantic
Pair of tyres anyone? Not romantic but terribly useful
Mary is tired this morning.
She had a hard day in the kitchen , sandwiches wont make themselves !
Brave man Mark, braver than me inannyways.
97% of women give the silent treatment, (35% monthly)?
These child-women need to grow up. You have your period, we get it. Chances are your hormones are clouding your judgement.
So many red thumbs… Seems like a lot of the womenfolk are on their periods this week.
;-)
dude stop saying period
Terminology of choice ?
And for just €29.99 men can buy their missus the female version of the app. It comes with a similar advice section and calendar reminding them to keep their man happy. The name of the app is… ‘GoBlow’
And this can’t be construed as sexist no? No, I’m sure all the feminists will giggle at the stupid men who need an app to do menial tasks. I’m sure I will be told to lighten up, and I agree with those sentiments, merely pointing out the hypocrisy! I am well able to remember dates and do tasks without being prompted, cheers lads!
It’s equally as sexist to presume that all women get upset when events are forgotten. Or toilet lids are left up ! Relax. It’s an App not legislation !
Weren’t you the one who made the toilet lid suggestion not the article?
Have a read off my comment there again now. Particularly the line “I’m sure I will be told to lighten up, and I agree with those sentiments”?
Oh and by the way Celtic Lady, Club Orange ads weren’t legislation either and were branded “grossly sexist”. Something doesn’t have to be constitutional to be sexist, surely that’s a basic enough concept?
Yeah you say that Diarmaid, how about when I came home the other day with my new hair style wearing my new suit and cuff links. Did I get a compliment, no I did not. You better get that app at we are so O.V.E.R.
All that being said these lads are just having a laugh and I applaud them for doing same!
Ah Diarmuid .. Are you always so fired up or is this a bad day ???
Everytime I use the hubby’s car I move the seat, wing mirrors and rear view mirror, could do with an app to remind me to change them back!
That really gets on my wick!
I never understand why women get so bothered about the toilet seat being up. You very rarely hear men complain about the toilet seat being down. I like to be in control of my own toilet seat. Lol. Great app btw.
the toilet see doesn’t bother me, it’s the dirty jocks fired around the place that get to me!
feck that, I love getting picture no sound from the missus its like a holiday pure bliss I tell you
Lol what’s next an app to do it all for them,
That’s called a wife app,did u not see when paddy met Sally haha
Yawn.
Lord give us strength eh Mary
Mary Lowe makes me yawn. God Bothering troll.
i had a girlfriend that made such a big deal about putting the seat down, i just didn’t bother putting it up.
‘His friend broke up with his girlfriend’. Was this an open relationship?!
I genuinely never heard of Women’s Christmas until reading this article. Help! Is there a Non-Event app I can download???
Do men with multiple girlfriends buy several apps ? What if they get the dates on the different apps mixed up then ?
I would like to invent a toilet with an interfered porcelain seat. Why do we need something in a hinge which gets filthy, falls off and gets loose, is hard to clean. If we had an integrated ergonomic seat , easily wiped clean, we could all be happy. !!! Just saying
that just made me think there of something like Toilet Sheets, would be fairly bulky though, tough rough recycled card for each seat shaped sheet when you get the sheets. just rip it off and bin it when you’re done leaving a nice clean sheet for the next would be sheeter.
sheets thats a good idea! rip your own toilet sheet! 50 pack?
also everytime i use the toilet, i place a few sheets of toilet roll around the bowl seat prior to downloading. 3 of us share the toilet, (not at the same time mind) i sometimes spray it too with dettol. don’t trust these sheets i live with.
its been done, many paper toilet seat covers sheets out there.
Thank you all for your witty comments…Ohhh reading the Journal is much more fun than reading those Sunday papers! Love the App, Good luck to them! :)
These comments remind me that I need to seriously start my next business
A device to negate the toilet seat up down problem
I thought of it 15 years ago and have been waiting for some company to bring it out.
Noone has so far. The solution I’ve devised is apparently genius in it’s simplicity according to anyone I’ve told….
Sure do tell us Hakuin, I’m in a pretty long queue here in the patent office and would love to hear your invention, just to keep the boredom away
Foot pedal?
@Doreen. You would never get the car set up back exactly the right way. I can never Hoover or clean the bathroom exactly the right way either . This app won’t cover everything in my view.
Integrated not interfered!!!
Stop repeating yourself…..your lid will fall off!
Assume this is tongue and cheek? Are men that stupid and inconsiderate that they have to be reminded to make their girlfriend a cup of tea!!?
While this may be a great idea, not everyone has an iPhone, I use an old Android phone. So unless the developer is willing to release this very useful app on other platforms it’ll only be available to Apple fanboys.
Oh! how I Long for some silent treatment.
Some knob deleted my comment.
The comments started on toilet lids then changed to toilet seats.
Which is it?
We (all of us Men, Women and Children in my family) always leave the lid down.
It’s like closing a door behind you.
The comments started on toilet lids then changed to toilet seats.
Which is it?
We (all of us Men, Women and Children in my family) always leave the lid down.
It’s like closing a door.
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