A Retort (Reds, I'm looking at you.) (733 hits)
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Submitted by Hilarity_Ensues (View user info) at 2007-05-09 10:05:31 EDT
The Y chromosome is like a sports car. There is no excess baggage, no room for your suitcases and certainly not designed for taking the kids to school. No sir, the Y chromosome is a man's chromosome in more ways than just the genetic.
Compare it, if you will, to the Winnebago of the genetics world, the X chromosome. Bulky, spacious, and designed to take a few knocks and keep on running.
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Red's 'Man Flu Post' (http://www.ubersite.com/m/101506) really got me thinking about my own hypothesis regarding X and Y chromosomes.
Above is an excerpt from his post, comparing each chromosome to a specific style of car. He claims the Y chromosome to that of a sports car, admitting that it is expensive, temperamental, and breaks down a lot. The trusty X chromosome, however, is seen as stable, comfortable, and reliable.
Although Red's chromosomal comparisons are intriguing and, in many ways, correct, I can't help but think of the male/female chromosome conundrum in a different light.
As you know, female chromosomes are comprised of a double X component and male chromosomes are in a XY configuration. Let us look at these letters a little further.
The X is a very stable letter, being made from parts of two triangles, the strongest geometrical shape. The letter Y only has parts from one triangle, haphazardly balancing on a stick. It could fall over at any moment with that configuration. Extremely unstable, that Y chromosome is.
Also, the human body is all about symmetry. XX just looks good together and follows the symmetrical pattern of nature. It's a harmonious coupling that screams stability. Having an XY pairing is almost like have and extra 21st chromosome; it's a deformity. The Y just sits there, with its sad, little peg leg, as if it's a welfare kid waiting for government subsidized prosthetic.
In closing, whether you can open a jar or not, having an XY coupling isn't as great as Reds' makes it sound. You have gimp chromosome. A disabled soldier. A slacker amongst your ranks.
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Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2007-10-19 11:13:11 EDT (#)
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Submitted by JulsInsane (user info) at 2007-05-09 18:37:51 CDT (#)
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Submitted by Crystle (user info) at 2007-05-09 13:55:00 EDT (#)
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Even the best swallower would have problems trying to swallow 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000(enough zeros yet?)000,000,000,000 sperm
But let me know how far you get...
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Did Crystle just say that?
whoa
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hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Fact: toddlers can get erections, and like to play with themselves. It's quite disturbing to see a hard penis poking through a diaper.
Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2007-05-10 08:06:19 EDT (#)
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You are wrong.
But I still loves y'all.
-Dave
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-05-10 03:30:40 EDT (#)
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Wearing a tie.
Wearing a shirt.
Wearing Shoes.
Wearing suit trosuers.
I should so get laid today.
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2007-05-10 03:04:18 EDT (#)
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I suppose I should read things completely first.
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2007-05-10 03:03:08 EDT (#)
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No sir, the Y chromosome is a man's chromosome in more ways than just the genetic.
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the absurdness of this sentence tickles me.
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2007-05-09 23:14:22 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by JulsInsane (user info) at 2007-05-09 19:37:51 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Crystle (user info) at 2007-05-09 13:55:00 EDT (#)
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Even the best swallower would have problems trying to swallow 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000(enough zeros yet?)000,000,000,000 sperm
But let me know how far you get...
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Did Crystle just say that?
whoa
Submitted by Beano312003 (user info) at 2007-05-09 19:19:07 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Crystle (user info) at 2007-05-09 13:55:00 EDT (#)
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Even the best swallower would have problems trying to swallow 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000(enough zeros yet?)000,000,000,000 sperm
But let me know how far you get...
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Submitted by phuzzygish (user info) at 2007-05-09 11:08:06 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Beano312003 (user info) at 2007-05-09 11:03:39 EDT (#)
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Here are some interesting biological facts about the male of the species. Most boys, a month or so before birth, have an erection for about an hour a day. At 20, nearly all young men are in a state of sexual arousal for three hours out of every 24 - though most of these erections occur during sleep. Every time a man has sex, he produces enough sperm to fertilise every woman in Europe. In an average lifetime, he will produce two thousand billion sperm.
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Oh my.
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who is up for it?
Submitted by i_can_get_you_a_toe (user info) at 2007-05-09 18:11:51 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2007-05-09 14:13:49 EDT (#)
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Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2007-05-09 13:17:20 EDT (#)
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how bout XXY?
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Lately that condition's been labelled "metrosexual".
Submitted by Crystle (user info) at 2007-05-09 13:55:00 EDT (#)
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Even the best swallower would have problems trying to swallow 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000(enough zeros yet?)000,000,000,000 sperm
But let me know how far you get...
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Submitted by phuzzygish (user info) at 2007-05-09 11:08:06 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Beano312003 (user info) at 2007-05-09 11:03:39 EDT (#)
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Here are some interesting biological facts about the male of the species. Most boys, a month or so before birth, have an erection for about an hour a day. At 20, nearly all young men are in a state of sexual arousal for three hours out of every 24 - though most of these erections occur during sleep. Every time a man has sex, he produces enough sperm to fertilise every woman in Europe. In an average lifetime, he will produce two thousand billion sperm.
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Oh my.
I find that hard to swallow.
Submitted by DasHeer (user info) at 2007-05-09 13:44:56 EDT (#)
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meh, most girls are insecure, so I believe that the XX has a more shaky foundation, YAY FOR MALE SUPREMACY!!!!!!!
Submitted by fungihead (user info) at 2007-05-09 13:40:53 EDT (#)
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everyone knows that men are a little bit pointless, i should know, i am one
they try so hard to look big and make women look small, then along came feminism, and guys try to look prettier that girls trying to be better again
makes u think that women know the meaning of life but refuse to tell us cos its much more fun watching us flop around like a fish out of water.
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-05-09 13:39:25 EDT (#)
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Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2007-05-09 13:17:20 EDT (#)
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how bout XXY?
Submitted by DirtyHarry (user info) at 2007-05-09 13:13:11 EDT (#)
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Well, crap.
Submitted by Hilarity_Ensues (user info) at 2007-05-09 11:16:49 EDT (#)
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I dispersed them, with +2 might I add, amongst 3 of your posts. GO LOOK.
Right, like a guy would look for anything. I used to have 2 guy roomies, and you wanna know what I'd do if there was something to eat/drink that I wanted to save for myself? I'd put it in the back of the fridge b/c I know they'd never move anything to look in the back.
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2007-05-09 11:14:18 EDT (#)
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Where the fuck are my emoticons, jezzebelle?
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2007-05-09 11:10:09 EDT (#)
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Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2007-05-09 16:03:38 BST (#)
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Some time ago there was a furor over some research done on prisoners that indicated that a larger-than-average number of violent criminals had and extra Y-chromosome.
http://www.scienceclarified.com/dispute/Vol-1/Are-XYY-males-more-prone-to-aggressive-behavior-than-XY-males.html
XYY, instead of XY, called "Supermale Syndrome". It was being postulated that the extra Y made these people violent. The research was not proven to be valid, but that may be because all the test subjects bled to death after slicing arteries while crushing the pickle jars they were asked to open or falling through holes in the floor caused by extreme-crushing spiders.
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hah
Submitted by phuzzygish (user info) at 2007-05-09 11:08:06 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Beano312003 (user info) at 2007-05-09 11:03:39 EDT (#)
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Here are some interesting biological facts about the male of the species. Most boys, a month or so before birth, have an erection for about an hour a day. At 20, nearly all young men are in a state of sexual arousal for three hours out of every 24 - though most of these erections occur during sleep. Every time a man has sex, he produces enough sperm to fertilise every woman in Europe. In an average lifetime, he will produce two thousand billion sperm.
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Oh my.
I find that hard to swallow.
Submitted by Beano312003 (user info) at 2007-05-09 11:03:39 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Here are some interesting biological facts about the male of the species. Most boys, a month or so before birth, have an erection for about an hour a day. At 20, nearly all young men are in a state of sexual arousal for three hours out of every 24 - though most of these erections occur during sleep. Every time a man has sex, he produces enough sperm to fertilise every woman in Europe. In an average lifetime, he will produce two thousand billion sperm.
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We might be dying but while we are here we are pretty awesome.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2007-05-09 11:03:38 EDT (#)
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Some time ago there was a furor over some research done on prisoners that indicated that a larger-than-average number of violent criminals had and extra Y-chromosome.
http://www.scienceclarified.com/dispute/Vol-1/Are-XYY-males-more-prone-to-aggressive-behavior-than-XY-males.html
XYY, instead of XY, called "Supermale Syndrome". It was being postulated that the extra Y made these people violent. The research was not proven to be valid, but that may be because all the test subjects bled to death after slicing arteries while crushing the pickle jars they were asked to open or falling through holes in the floor caused by extreme-crushing spiders.
Submitted by BranDo (user info) at 2007-05-09 11:01:07 EDT (#)
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I need more eYe chromosome to read that thingy down there about being potent&all.
Submitted by Beano312003 (user info) at 2007-05-09 10:58:47 EDT (#)
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Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2007-05-09 10:25:34 EDT (#)
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Down syndrome.
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By all or part of an extra 21st.
Submitted by STIXS (user info) at 2007-05-09 10:53:37 EDT (#)
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It's been found to be true in several species and a bunch of fruits. And there has been much investigation regarding its slow demise in humans. The y chromosome doesn't really hold too many important genes, other than the sex determining ones that make men look and act like men, but because genetic recombination is so common, there is no reason why it shouldn't happen - that's why men can have two x chromosomes and no y and still be 'men' - so long as they have the SRY region.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2007-05-09 10:38:18 EDT (#)
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No pickles for humankind for ever. Plus spiders will tyrannise the population.
Submitted by Hilarity_Ensues (user info) at 2007-05-09 10:35:20 EDT (#)
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It would be amazing evolution, Reds. It supports my hypothesis that the Y chromosome is a drag on humankind.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2007-05-09 10:33:30 EDT (#)
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that shit about the death of the Y chromosome has gotta be bollocks. that would be rubbish evolution
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2007-05-09 10:31:00 EDT (#)
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CURSED ANTS!
Submitted by TigerLilly (user info) at 2007-05-09 10:30:43 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by STIXS (user info) at 2007-05-09 10:28:58 EDT (#)
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I don't know if anyone has brought it up yet, but the Y c'some is also going to be selected against to not exist anymore in the next 100 or so generations. So eventually, men will just have an X and women will have XX - like ants...sort of...
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2007-05-09 10:27:48 EDT (#)
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an extra 21??
erm - a gypsy caravan
The X is a very stable letter, being made from parts of two triangles, the strongest geometrical shape. The letter Y only has parts from one triangle, haphazardly balancing on a stick. It could fall over at any moment with that configuration. Extremely unstable, that Y chromosome is.
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surely the circle?
Thank you Y chromosome - source of all my witty put downs.
I see creep has noted it too. Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
the capital Y of course forms the interior of a triangle.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2007-05-09 10:27:34 EDT (#)
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The runs.
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2007-05-09 10:25:34 EDT (#)
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Down syndrome.
Submitted by moneyshotforyou (user info) at 2007-05-09 10:25:13 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Hilarity_Ensues (user info) at 2007-05-09 10:23:33 EDT (#)
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I'll give 3 emoticons to whoever can tell me what having an extra 21st chromosome gives you.
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A super huge penis.
Submitted by Hilarity_Ensues (user info) at 2007-05-09 10:24:10 EDT (#)
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I should not be allowed to use the computer after not sleeping for 2 days.
Submitted by Hilarity_Ensues (user info) at 2007-05-09 10:23:33 EDT (#)
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I'll give 3 emoticons to whoever can tell me what having an extra 21st chromosome gives you.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2007-05-09 10:20:15 EDT (#)
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Enough with the small talk...Show me your slot.
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2007-05-09 10:20:13 EDT (#)
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I do like that the tiny picture is about "potential."
Submitted by Hilarity_Ensues (user info) at 2007-05-09 10:19:04 EDT (#)
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Yeah, I nurRRed pretty hard with the small pic. I wouldn't be me if something in my post wasn't fucked up though.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2007-05-09 10:15:58 EDT (#)
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Y is incomplete. it was too lazy to be an X.
Submitted by JoeyG (user info) at 2007-05-09 10:14:42 EDT (#)
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good retort.
Submitted by creep_firebombing (user info) at 2007-05-09 10:14:05 EDT (#)
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Actually, the strongest support structure is an upright cylinder, but that has nothing to do with...
My rape slave brings all the rapes to the yard
and they're like
rape rape rape rape rape
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2007-05-09 10:13:34 EDT (#)
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One X for living.
One X for lying.
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2007-05-09 10:09:51 EDT (#)
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HOLY FREAKING HUGE FUCKING PICTURE! Homeostasis.
Submitted by FartSmeller (user info) at 2007-05-09 10:09:42 EDT (#)
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I read once that having the two chromosomes was good for some reason (scientifically, not just because we men rock in general). I don't remember what that reason is. However, I like the tiny picture.
Submitted by EmoJean (user info) at 2007-05-09 10:09:28 EDT (#)
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A Retard (see attached mini pic)