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"Sex and drugs and women being set on fire! I've never heard of such a Christmas!" - Christine Baranski in "The Ref"
"I'm not back." - Bill Harding, Twister
Originally posted by Ernest Friedman-Hill:
My wife has stated on more than one occasion that if all the women suddenly disappeared from the world, within five years everyone would be naked except for the tattered shreds of the waistbands of their underwear, the word "gift" would have disappeared entirely from the lexicon, and there wouldn't be a window in the civilized world through which you could see.
What a wonderful world!
Originally posted by vasu maj:
Don't you love the world Ernst?
"Thanks to Indian media who has over the period of time swiped out intellectual taste from mass Indian population." - Chetan Parekh
What a wonderful world!
"Sex and drugs and women being set on fire! I've never heard of such a Christmas!" - Christine Baranski in "The Ref"
Originally posted by Jim Yingst:
And just for Mr. Bibeault: is it possible for a man to be both a pig (using either definition) and a bear? If so, does this lead to any identity confusion issues?
Originally posted by Ernest Friedman-Hill:
My wife has stated
Originally posted by rathi ji:
why I thought you are a woman.
Originally posted by Ernest Friedman-Hill:
Considering the topic of this thread, I will take this as a compliment. But if you look at my profile link, you will see that I wouldn't make a very nice looking woman.
Originally posted by Jim Yingst:
An alternative hypothesis occurs to me: from my limited observations, it seems like most of the women I know have more health problems than the men I know. At least one of these women attributes this to evil male doctors who are not sufficiently sympathetic to the plight of women. Dunno about that. But from a design perspective, it seems to me that if you were to design an organism with two genders, and one gender has to be able to gestate an embryo, give birth, and provide nutrients for an extended period after birth - that's going to place some constraints on your design. Compared to the gender that doesn't have to do any of that, just provide some DNA - well, the gender with the extra capabilities may end up having to (partially) sacrifice some of the other capabilities. Like, say, upper body strength, or disease resistance. The latter would occur at two levels: one, because a body has limited resources anyway, and more of the female's resources have been devoted to reproductive capabilities, leaving fewer resources for other things, and two, because the reproductive capabilities themselves necessitate additional hardware which contains additional points of failure. In programmer's terminology, the more complex a system is, the more failure-prone it may be. Women's bodies are (I believe) more complex than men's, and thus, may have greater susceptibiity to disease.
Originally posted by rathi ji:
... somebody made a cartoon on you
"Sex and drugs and women being set on fire! I've never heard of such a Christmas!" - Christine Baranski in "The Ref"
Originally posted by Maureen Augustus:
All I know is that the small woman with you in your profile picture is pretty darned cute. I mean DURNED cute.
Is she a Ranchie-in-Training?
Originally posted by Manish Hatwalne:
...I am really sick of the kind of comments passed on men in the name of "generally speaking" - wish men could be treated with with a bit more sensitively!! ...
"We're kind of on the level of crossword puzzle writers... And no one ever goes to them and gives them an award." ~Joe Strummer
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"I'm not back." - Bill Harding, Twister
Originally posted by Paul Wheaton:
.... and I always thought liberals would be big time against sexism ....
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"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift; that's why they call it the present." Eleanor Roosevelt
There will be plenty of time to discuss your objections when and if you return. The cargo is this tiny ad:
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