New Fashion Board 10-3-2003 - 11-7-2003

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
A Simpsons fan with even more free time than most has successfully grafted a tomato plant with a tobacco plant to create a real, live tomacco plant. {Spree: Simpsons news site.}

Rob Baur, a huge Simpsons fan, grafted a tomato plant to a tobacco plant, grew it, and tonight he has proof from the lab that it worked. "What we found was nicotine in the leaves". said scientist Ray Grimsbo.

this is particularly bothersome given the proximity to ncs's plea for some relief from cervical cancer. if males got cancer so regularly in their sensitive parts, i guarentee 2 male scientists wouldn't waste time this way.*




*cheap attempt to seem sensitive, and score some caring points

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Jesus fucking Christ. OK, this guy I sometimes have sex with, while having many good points, for some reason is somewhat fixated on doing things to the ears (not anything kinky, just like mouth stuff).

Originally postedbyfringe
Why would he think i need Q-tips?

you don't tidy up beforehand?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Must I spell out the differences between men and women to you? If you don't go to a doctor once per year, you clog your arteries and die instantaneously of a massive heart attack. Quick, easy.

Uh oh. What if I don't go to a doctor for six years?


Unrelated question: Can anyone fill me in re the water-resistance (or lack thereof) of iPods?

[SlaveNoMore]

Can I buy a vowel, Pat?

[Skeks in the city]

Originally posted by NotFromHere

That's what Warren Zevon said.

Docs can cure mesothelioma?

If you're thinking of Jim Henson, I stopped getting pnemonia, and even allergic broncitis, as soon as I got my tonsels taken out. And furthermore, after getting pnemonia several times and allergic broncitis even more, even someone as stupid as myself could recognize the symptoms and know to see a doc.

As for a heart attack, I eat little in the way of polysaturated fats, and although I'm lazy, I do get enough cardio exercise to have a resting pulse of 60 beats per second. As for colon cancer, my intake of dietary fiber exceeds the minimum recommended by the USDA, which is enough not to get constipated, much less get abdominal cramps from hard stool.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Sorry. I think the idea of being uncomfortable with a woman doctor is a bit unusual; many women seem to prefer female gynecologists because they think they know the equipment better and can be more empathetic. ... gyno stuff

Way back in the dark ages when I first started going to the gyno I had a strong preference that said gyno be male. Looking back it was probably for homophobe reasons. I was very uncomfortable having another women examining my privates.

That changed very quickly one evening. Due to certain problems I was referred to another doctor, also male. Well imagine my shock when the doctor walks in (I'm already draped and prepped) and he is the long lost twin to my then BF's dad!! Having just returned from a weekend of great sex with the BF, I was grossed out at having his Dad's twin take a look at the privates. I swear if the two of them were in the same room, you wouldn't be able to tell them apart. Even down to the white coat (BF's dad was a dentist). Could never look either one in the eye again.

Anne
Now I don't care. Current one is female.

[mmm3587]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I never go near doctors, not even when sick. I don't want anyone to tell me I have to change anything.

I completely don't get this. What's wrong with getting a yearly checkup and having them run your blood and urine and make sure that you don't have any hernias? When you're bleeding from the nipple, are you ust going to shrug it off? There's so much that can be caught with a few very simple tests. An expert testicular and prostate exam should be done every year once you hit thirty or so, and a heart stress test isn't a bad idea. Why drop dead from something completely preventable just to be macho? I know that you have this whole self-reliance thing going on, but give me a break.

[Fugee]

When it comes to gynos, I want a woman because I want someone who has to have the exams herself and knows what it feels like. When my doctor became the admin partner of her practice, she ordered examining tables with warming drawers for the speculae (OK Timmies, what is the plural of speculum anyway?) so they wouldn't be ice cold.

Thrasher, didn't you get used to being naked in front of other women in the showers after gym class in junior high, in the dorm showers at college or at the athletic club?

For massages, either a man or woman is generally fine.

Sebby and the other doctor-phobics: Get in for annual checkups!!! This is just stupid behavior -- it's once a fricken' year, how bad can that be? A good diet and exercise doesn't mean you couldn't have dangerously high cholesteral -- sometimes it is a genetic thing that can't be controlled other than with meds. Don't be all macho and invincible acting -- worse things could happen than you suddenly dropping dead. You could end up chronically, but not fatally, ill and not be able to do all the things you want when you could have avoided it with a little preventative medical care.

[Jack Manfred]

Earlier today on the Board, posters tried and generally failed to insult the Canadians. Here's how it's properly done:

Kicker Troy Westwood of the Winnepeg Blue Bombers was about to face Saskatchewan in a Canadian Football League game earlier this season when he called residents of Saskatchewan "a bunch of banjo-picking inbreds." The teams met in the playoffs on Sunday, and this time Westwood told the Winnipeg Sun, "I had referred to the people of Saskatchewan as a bunch of banjo-picking inbreds. I was wrong to make such a statement, and I'd like to apologize. The vast majority of the people of Saskatchewan have no idea how to play the banjo."

[Skeks in the city]

Originally posted by Fugee

You could end up chronically, but not fatally, ill and not be able to do all the things you want when you could have avoided it with a little preventative medical care.

I could also use an excuse to buy a lethal does of morphine.

The people in my family are long lived, even though a good share of them are alcoholics. Good teeth too, more than one opens a bottle with their teeth, and hasn't been the worse for it.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Fugee
(OK Timmies, what is the plural of speculum anyway?)

Specula? (2d decl. n.)

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
To be clear, I never intended to give the impression that the [post ] was original. I was just too lazy and/or busy to give a cite.

How much more of your act have you simply stolen off the net?

White House wannabe Howard Dean, trolling for votes in trendy Denver and Boulder, Colo., declared himself a "metrosexual" but later admitted, "I don't know what it means."

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2...9/172338.shtml(spree just news)

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by mmm3587
I completely don't get this. What's wrong with getting a yearly checkup and having them run your blood and urine and make sure that you don't have any hernias? When you're bleeding from the nipple, are you ust going to shrug it off? There's so much that can be caught with a few very simple tests. An expert testicular and prostate exam should be done every year once you hit thirty or so, and a heart stress test isn't a bad idea. Why drop dead from something completely preventable just to be macho? I know that you have this whole self-reliance thing going on, but give me a break.

1. I had a stress test a few years ago. My sitting heart rate is 60 and I could run on the treadmill like a motherfucker. Doc said I had an iron ticker.

2. In 00' I had bloodwork for a life insurance policy. Again, results came back as spectacular.

3. Bleeding from the nipple?

4. A friend who I party with a lot had some work done last year. came back with highly elevated liver enzymes. His wife doesn't let him go out and he can't drink anymore. Frankly, I can't live without booze. I've been a regular binge drinker since the age of 16 and I've no intention of stopping my weekend antics until the day I die. The last thing I need is to get into an argument with my wife about it.

S(If I dropped dead today, I could honestly say its been a good ride... I have no intention of having anyone tell me to curb anything)D

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Fugee
Sebby and the other doctor-phobics: Get in for annual checkups!!! This is just stupid behavior -- it's once a fricken' year, how bad can that be? A good diet and exercise doesn't mean you couldn't have dangerously high cholesteral -- sometimes it is a genetic thing that can't be controlled other than with meds. Don't be all macho and invincible acting -- worse things could happen than you suddenly dropping dead. You could end up chronically, but not fatally, ill and not be able to do all the things you want when you could have avoided it with a little preventative medical care.

1. I have almost zero cholestrol and I eat a low fat diet.

2. No one in my family as far back as anyone can trace has ever had a heart problem or high cholestrol.

3. I hit the gym 6X a week and am at the perfect healthy weight for my height.

4. Everyone in my family dies of cancer around 80. If I had any brains I'd try to eat as much fat as I could and smoke butts to get a heart attack before then so I don't have to endure the hellish demise from cancer, but that probably won't work... my grandfather smoked for 50 years and had low blood pressure at the time he died - at 89 - of old age.

5. My father lives on a diet not unlike Jerry Garcia's. He has a physical each year for a life insurance policy. Each time they tell him he has low cholestrol and is in fine cardiac health. He's smoked cigars for 20 years and other than golf engages in zero physical activities.

S(I do believe I'll be ok, barring getting hit by a bus)D

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2...9/172338.shtml(spree just news)

From this article:

"According to the Denver Post today, 'metrosexual' is 'the buzz phrase for straight men in touch with their feminine sides.' Numerous Web postings and magazine articles have dubbed Bill Clinton the king of the metrosexuals."

Um . . . Penske . . . Penske?????