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The week the women went - Men 1 BBC 0

The BBC has just aired a reality show where 70 women leave a small village and the men had to cope with the children for a week on their own. The BBC describes it in The Week The Women Went

The quiet Nottinghamshire village of Harby looks like any other rural idyll at first glance. But look closer and it soon becomes apparent that something’s up - there isn’t one woman to be seen. For one week in April the 70 women who usually reside in Harby disappeared, leaving the men all on their own. BBC Three discovers what happened The Week the Women Went.

Research suggests that while women have taken more and more of a place in the world of work, men are still on the back foot as far as domestic life is concerned. Most mothers in Britain today feel part of a community but it is not uncommon for men to have no connection with their neighbours at all. Whilst many females have learnt to become a dab hand at juggling work, home, and the kids, many males have never spent 24 hours with the children, let alone seven whole days.

Carlsberg ad is back (Promote violence against men for fun and profit. The sad thing is that a lot of men will buy the "get a sense of humour" message)

Even as we speak, in spite of complaints by men, the Carlsberg export advert is being run again. It involves a man and a woman sitting on chairs opposite an elderly woman, apparently in Marriage Guidance. The woman tells the older women that his job makes her skin crawl. He says he in a lorry driver. She enquires what he delivers. He says Carlsberg Export. A voiceover says that Danes don't like Carlsberg being exported. The elderly women immediately lunges at the man and kicks him in the head, while the women looks on smiling. We next see the man in a pub with a neck brace, being laughed at by others and successfully attempting to drink a Carlsberg.

You can go to See the Carlsberg Export commercials and click View for the Marriage Guidance commercial which will open up a windows with Windows Media in it or go directly to it here. Windows Media

You can Write to Carlsberg here