Cancerians are weak people who cry a great deal, wear appallingly designed clothes and spend their weekends playing with their laptops.  Very few people will spend time with them for altruistic motives, but it would not be above, say, a Scorpio insurance salesman to devote a little time to one of these pathetic creatures, purely for personal gain.  Fashion stopped at the paisley kipper tie for Cancer men, so it's not surprising that they are notoriously unsuccessful with the opposite sex. This isn't only because they dress in a nightmarish way and weep constantly - they're also a unreliable people, with a nasty little reservoir of sneakiness to them.  The crab may seem a pathetic creature scuttling through life, but those little claws can pinch.  Cancerian women are contradictory people with bad tempers and bad complexions.  They are also staggeringly dull.  This year isn't exactly the Year of the Crab.  Can you imagine how dreadful it would be if it were?