SPT: Sign the petition. SAVE THE MEN! (1058 hits)
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Submitted by I still believe in Don Henley's afro. (View user info) at 2008-05-01 13:52:53 EDT
I really need to quit miring myself down in stuff that upsets me. Because although I can care deeply and be concerned with various things like environmental damage to the Earth, stoning to death of women in Islamic countries, Bush's bullshit o-rama, cuts to programs that provide medical care to needy people, a laughable educational system, sky rocketing obesity rates and the health problems caused by them, how I'm going to care for my parents when they become elderly, and so on, realistically I alone can't fix those problems. I can only do what I can as an individual and hope (and sweat) for the best.
So, when I read that how, according to one researcher, in 5,000 generations or 125,000 years (whichever comes first) they might not be any more men, I predictably became more upset than I rationally should.
125,000 years? Hell, I'll be dead and gone. You will too. Big whoop, right?
Oxford University's human genetics professor Bryan Sykes thinks that between the dwindling sperm counts and the slow but steady deterioration of the Y chromosome, in 125,000 years, the human male may become extinct.
Genetics is not my area obviously, but thanks to some perfunctory and required knowledge of the human body and its components, I can get the gist of what is said when genetics talk occurs. It all comes down to the Y chromosome, you see.
We all know that it is the sperm that is responsible for selecting the sex of the soon to be embryo and in the big crap shoot of reproduction, Pops may give Mum an X or a Y. Interestingly enough, human embryos all start off the same, basically 'female.' After a few weeks, if Pops shot a Y, it'll kick in and start forming a male.
According to Sykes, unlike all the other chromosomes, the Y chromosome can't repair itself.
"Every generation one percent of men will have a mutation which reduces their fertility by 10 percent," explained Sykes. Unlike most chromosomes, the Y does not travel through the generation in pairs, so can never repair itself from a mirror. Flaws are never repaired. "So if that goes on for generation after generation," Sykes argued, "eventually there are no functioning Y chromosomes left."
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I knew the Y was a wee bit on the fragile side but damn!
I haven't gone looking for it, but I'm sure some of the militant feminists have gone to town with the possibility of the riddance of that most beastly of creatures, the human male. I'm all for feminism, but their brand of feminism isn't 'feminism' at all. It's a cover for their agenda of female superiority.
ONCE AND FOR ALL, NEITHER GENDER IS SUPERIOR TO THE OTHER!
Different yes, but superior? No.
Why is it that we humans feel the need to fuck with nature? Let's grow 110 lb chickens, one ton cows, ears of corn that span the length of a stadium, men who can lactate, forcing the planet to accommodate our out of control virus like reproduction, and all sorts of other ghastly undertakings that are simply begging nature to pimp slap us. Not to mention that most of us can't stop getting into pissing contests with the neighbors (metaphor for war, y'all).
Maybe in a million years or so will we have worked out all the bugs that come from ham handedly tinkering with the components of life, but we're not there yet. I tend to think of chimps trying to put together a functioning particle accelerator as a good analogy for where we are at this point.
So anyway, where was I? Ah, yes. No men. I don't what the rest of you ladies think, but personally I think it sucks. No men. Nada. None.
Sykes seems to think that in 125,000 years, humans will have figured out how to have female only reproduction, splicing DNA from one female into another. Which, of course, will produce another female offspring. They say this has been done with mice, so humans are just around the corner.
I envision a lot of weirdness with this. Hell, they're already fucking around with creating animals that have a fraction of human DNA in them. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7681252/
Just ain't right. As my Great Grandmother used to say, "It's agin nature!"
I was fretting about this to a male friend of mine. He smirked and said, "Planet Lesbo?! Sounds wonderful!" To which I snarked, "Yeah, but you men won't be around to jerk off to the imagined activities on Planet Lesbo." He said, "Well, that sucks."
But all kidding aside, according to the news reports, there is some recent research that suggests that the Y chromosome can indeed repair itself. Still though, according to Sykes, we have 125,000 years to work this out. 125,000 years is just a second in the evolutionary scene, so they had better get started toot sweet!
I'm going to have to now resist the urge to slap a hormone injected steak out of a man's hands.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=4725121&page=1
http://tinyurl.com/4a2bvm
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Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2008-05-29 23:56:19 EDT (#)
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Submitted by forensicgirl3 (user info) at 2008-05-29 12:22:23 EDT (#)
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Meh post
But the reviews are like a train wreck in front of an elementary school with sex toys spilling out the box cars.
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HAHAHAHA
Submitted by Average_Dan (user info) at 2008-05-27 14:06:46 EDT (#)
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excuse me, F_G but where have you been? I've been lost without your words of wisdom.
That may be a bit of exaggeration, but you catch my drift i'm sure.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2008-05-16 02:58:38 EDT (#)
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I'M A GIRL ANYWAYS, SO I DONT CARE
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2008-05-15 21:12:31 EDT (#)
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Submitted by forensicgirl3 (user info) at 2008-05-15 09:33:11 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2008-05-14 17:48:37 CDT (#)
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FG- I have a morbid curiosity to hear that song now.
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Oh you do, do you?
I had to look around quite a bit, but I found it. And I did it just for you, so now you must love me forever and ever and ever.
Also, I am not responsible for any suicides or homicides resulting from listening to this song.
Listen at your own risk.
http://www.normalbobsmith.com/nobsradio/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/there_comes_a_smile.mp3
Jesus
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I've..I've heard the sound of hell. I'm not sure how Jesus has anything to do with that..
Submitted by Banjo (user info) at 2008-05-04 14:11:28 EDT (#)
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I must start breeding now before my bf's sperm count drops another 10%. Watch him run for the hills...
Submitted by matnotharry (user info) at 2008-05-04 13:29:00 EDT (#)
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Didnt read it but +2 for the filename
Submitted by X54 (user info) at 2008-05-03 00:03:43 EDT (#)
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Well, I tried.
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Submitted by X54 (user info) at 2008-05-02 19:54:04 EDT (#)
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Submitted by forensicgirl3 (user info) at 2008-05-02 19:19:55 EDT (#)
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Here on Uber it means Shit Post Thursday.
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Thank you very much. I have updated Wikipedia with the relevant information.
Submitted by forensicgirl3 (user info) at 2008-05-02 19:19:55 EDT (#)
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Here on Uber it means Shit Post Thursday.
Submitted by X54 (user info) at 2008-05-02 18:52:29 EDT (#)
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All right, I've resisted asking this for quite a while now because I don't want to advertise what an ignorant schmuck I am.
What the fuck does SPT stand for?
Even Wikipedia failed me, unless it means one of the following:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
SPT is an abbreviation for the following:
Shortest path tree
System of Phases in Translation- an international translation system adopted by the 4th international translators conference held in Bruxel in 2003, that ensures the best translation quality and speed at the same time.
Skin prick test - used to test for allergies. A small amount of allergen (a drop) is placed on the skin and then the skin is pricked through the drop. The skin becomes itchy, red and swollen for a positive reaction.
Shortest processing time
Signal-post telephone: a direct no-dial link from a railway signal to the relevant signal box.
Sony Pictures Television
The South Pole Telescope
South Pacific Trading
Space Preservation Treaty
Stationary Plasma Thruster
St. Paul Travelers Companies, Inc.
Standard Penetration Test
Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (formerly Strathclyde Passenger Transport)
Super Powered Tracer from the anime SPT Layzner
Shiner Pup Team
Semiconductor Parametric Test
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2008-05-02 02:27:07 EDT (#)
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Although in all fairness- I do chew awesome gum in Awesomeville.
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2008-05-02 02:25:46 EDT (#)
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Seriously - is that some kind of weird flirting?
I mean he's now written a story about me, and now he is pretending to BE me (...both rather poorly.)
Should someone maybe check on his meds?
yeesh.
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2008-05-02 02:19:00 EDT (#)
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...and here I thought I was excised from the nut flicker's existence.
I must have really pissed in this guy's brain.
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Submitted by Phallic_Cymbals (user info) at 2008-05-02 01:10:45 EDT (#)
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You know, rob, i know you think that getting together with your little clique of Caulaincunt and Phagnum and ripping on me all the time is somehow hurting me, but the truth is, i love it!
You and your pathetic posse of cyber bullies think you get me down, but the truth is this ubersite thing is just one microsecond in a life that is otherwise a big awesome cake with awesome topping on it.
Also, the fact that you took the time out of YOUR life to write that review while i just continued doing what i do, which is working as the extremely successful creative assistant of a small creative company, means that i win even more! I'm that awesome.
So, you and your ring of allies can call me all the names under the sun but if you think it breaks through my massive wall of awesome you are very mistaken.
In fact, almost the opposite! I love coming on here to share in the collective idiocy that is ubersite. This microcosmic community of jackasses, pseudo-intellectuals and genuinely nice and funny people wouldn't be what it is without the collective idiocy of people like you.
I love to think of you, hunched over your little computer in wherever it is you live while i spent most of my day working as the creative director of a large creative company and hanging out with loads of friends.
You see, Ubersite is only a tiny part of my day. I actually have a lot of friends and just enjoy coming on here now and again, for about 2 minutes at a time when i have time off being the creative CEO of a massive, international multi-milllion dollar creative company.
You see, ubersite is not that important to me, but i love the collective idiocy of this group of outcasts, cool cats and people i can genuinely call my friends so, as you sit around pondering for hours what angry little message you're going to write to me next, i just sit back in my castle of awesome, coming on uber about 30 seconds a week and taking in all the attention that you lavish on me.
Oh, so you call me an attention whore, but aren't you a little guilty of that too, rob? In fact, aren't we all? When you see my next plan for "Uberbook", a social networking site based on uber that i've already proposed to bart in my capacity of God of the worlds largest ever creative corporation, i think you'll see that trolls like you just provide material for me and all my successful uber friends to sit back and laugh at while we chew awesome gum in Awesomeville.
So, while you think you are upsetting me, i actually love it when i log on once every 6 months for 5 seconds at a time and see all the attention.
So, to you, Caul, Sphagnum, and all the other haters. Thankyou!
And to the rest of Uber:
<3
Of course. :)
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2008-05-01 22:08:57 EDT (#)
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So... Phallic_Cymbals = giant dildo?
Submitted by Phallic_Cymbals (user info) at 2008-05-01 21:58:41 EDT (#)
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So... dildo stocks = good investment?
Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2008-05-01 21:46:57 EDT (#)
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And Micah Owings.
Submitted by joedaddy (user info) at 2008-05-01 21:22:07 EDT (#)
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loss of the magnetic field is due to the poles flipping(as shown in lava flows) and we are hundreds of years overdue for the next switch-er-roo...bfd
Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2008-05-01 20:58:33 EDT (#)
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I don't know any Poles, but I have read some Joseph Conrad. My grandmother had some Poles for students, and she said they were lovely.
I'm not sure the loss of our magnetic field has as much to do with global warming as it does the complete and utter destruction of all life on the planet. Yay. You prompted me to read a bit about it. 'Course I don't believe anything I read anymore, now that I realize that Al Gore is stunningly full of shit.
I only believe in Yoko. Yoko and me.
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2008-05-01 20:40:44 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2008-05-01 20:13:43 EDT (#)
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It's the Poles. It's the goddamned Poles. Don't you people get it?
The magnetic field of the Earth is dropping in intensity. It's undergone a measured 10% decrease in the last 150 years. In 1500 years it will go to zero. That means only the atmosphere will protect you from all the alpha particles and beta particles and gammas and X-rays and all the evil that the sun put out all the time. As the magnetic field intensity decreases you get increased incident solar radiation on the Earth's surface *regardless of the actual solar emitted radiation levels* which causes both increasing surface temperatures (OMG Global Warming!) and increasing radiation-related mutation (OMG No More Y-Chromosome!). No more Northern lights, either.
But, of course, it's never discussed since even the Democrats can't blame that on Bush.
Fucking Poles anyway.
Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2008-05-01 19:12:47 EDT (#)
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*triscuits, for fuck's sake.
The crumbs are falling into my Depends and making me itch. This affects my spelling at times.
Submitted by Crystle (user info) at 2008-05-01 19:10:54 EDT (#)
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awww.. i like de menz!
Submitted by HotWillie (user info) at 2008-05-01 19:05:03 EDT (#)
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lungfish feels global warming in his loins when he reads an fg3 post
it's either lust or incontinence
or in his case, both
Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2008-05-01 19:03:42 EDT (#)
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My independent analysis of the global warming data has led me to believe that global warming episodes are caused almost completely (if not completely completely) by increases in solar intensity, and not by humans. While this made me feel better about the future, I no longer believe anything that I read.
I was eating tricuits
Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2008-05-01 18:58:22 EDT (#)
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My independent analysis of the global warming data has led me to believe that global warming episodes are caused almost (if not completely) by increases in solar intensity, and not by humans. While this made me feel better about the future, I no longer believe anything that I read.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2008-05-01 17:47:13 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by HotWillie (user info) at 2008-05-01 17:45:37 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Amontillado (user info) at 2008-05-01 17:25:48 EDT (#)
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I'm glad I won't be around then. Life without hotwillie isn't worth living.
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thanks baby
Submitted by Amontillado (user info) at 2008-05-01 17:25:48 EDT (#)
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I'm glad I won't be around then. Life without hot men isn't worth living.
Submitted by rorrim (user info) at 2008-05-01 17:22:44 EDT (#)
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Submitted by BranDo (user info) at 2008-05-01 17:04:46 EDT (#)
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toot sweet!
didn't scientists already create offspring using only a man's bone marrow?
hell, I'm off to do some boning myself.
Submitted by shadow (user info) at 2008-05-01 16:10:03 EDT (#)
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AHAHAHA HAAAA HAAAA !
Oh dear.
Submitted by Jack_McCallum (user info) at 2008-05-01 15:39:09 EDT (#)
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Men can be whores too!
Women's World (I) http://www.ubersite.com/m/77102
Women's World (II) http://www.ubersite.com/m/81641
Women's World (III) Conveyance http://www.ubersite.com/m/87157
Women's World (IV) Divergence http://www.ubersite.com/m/99098
http://www.ubersite.com/u/Jack_McCallum/l/fch
The males of every species on earth are threatened.
God IS a woman, and She is a bitch.
Submitted by The_Drake (user info) at 2008-05-01 15:10:03 EDT (#)
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So there really IS going to be a man who will have a comeback for "not if you were the last man on earth"?
Sweet!
Submitted by Yozz (user info) at 2008-05-01 15:06:56 EDT (#)
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I still can't lactate.
:(
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2008-05-01 14:46:56 EDT (#)
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Submitted by HotWillie (user info) at 2008-05-01 19:08:32 BST (#)
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science doesn't know shit about the y chromosome and uber doesn't know shit about the y
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DUN DUN DUN DUN
its fun to stay at the YMCA!
Thats the Y you meant, right? Caul knows ALL about nights at the Y. Long hard nights. Do you see? Can you see what it is that I am saying, implying as it were? That Cauls a homo? That he enjoys the cock as much as he enjoys soft cheese and fine wines?
You did? Oh good.
Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2008-05-01 14:40:46 EDT (#)
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Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2008-05-01 14:11:06 EDT (#)
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why would you spend the time to type all this out? I think it relates to you obvious need to fret about things. You should think about letting that go.
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Says the man who gave away all his plastic bowls.
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you're dead to me now!
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2008-05-01 14:40:30 EDT (#)
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The zombie comment made me think of this.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0779982/
black sheep, new zealand zombie sheep movie, they were caused by tinkering with genes.
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Submitted by Ltap (user info) at 2008-05-01 14:13:33 EDT (#)
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As a man, this frightens me.
There's something funny about what Sykes is saying, though - if 1% of men have this strange lower fertility and shooting more Xs than Ys, that still wouldn't account for as rapid decline as we've seen even in the last century. I'm guessing a combo of BPA (and other chemicals) as well as genetic reasons outlined above PLUS perhaps something to do with global warming.
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I love global warming. I really do.
any complicated problem in the world today and people want to wave the magic wand of global warming. I used to really think the people who compared global warming to a religion were nuts, but it weems to be the case.
Less fertile-Global warming.
More street violence-Global warming.
Darfur-Global warming.
Chemicals may play a role, but reasons I never hear about in these gloom and doom scenarios are the advances in modern science. People are able to have kids at older and older ages (wich is now directly linked to several genetic disorders). People have access to fertility treatments and drugs that weren't around in the past their kids are sure to start with a genetic disadvantage in terms of being fertile.
Look at infant mortality. A lot of people who would have dies as babies 100, 75, or yrs ago do fine today. Is there a direct connection between infant health and adult fertility, I don;t know but it makes a lot more sense than global warming.
Submitted by HadToBeDone (user info) at 2008-05-01 14:28:52 EDT (#)
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Submitted by corn_nugget (user info) at 2008-05-01 14:24:47 EDT (#)
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Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2008-05-01 14:11:06 EDT (#)
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why would you spend the time to type all this out? I think it relates to you obvious need to fret about things. You should think about letting that go.
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Says the man who gave away all his plastic bowls.
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Submitted by ubetidid (user info) at 2008-05-01 14:25:15 EDT (#)
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i'm not too worried about that.
we'll all have been nuked by then.
earth won't even be here.
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2008-05-01 14:24:55 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by corn_nugget (user info) at 2008-05-01 14:24:47 EDT (#)
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Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2008-05-01 14:11:06 EDT (#)
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why would you spend the time to type all this out? I think it relates to you obvious need to fret about things. You should think about letting that go.
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Says the man who gave away all his plastic bowls.
Submitted by Ltap (user info) at 2008-05-01 14:13:33 EDT (#)
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As a man, this frightens me.
There's something funny about what Sykes is saying, though - if 1% of men have this strange lower fertility and shooting more Xs than Ys, that still wouldn't account for as rapid decline as we've seen even in the last century. I'm guessing a combo of BPA (and other chemicals) as well as genetic reasons outlined above PLUS perhaps something to do with global warming.
Submitted by Linus (user info) at 2008-05-01 14:12:21 EDT (#)
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Interesting.
Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2008-05-01 14:11:06 EDT (#)
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why would you spend the time to type all this out? I think it relates to you obvious need to fret about things. You should think about letting that go.
Submitted by HotWillie (user info) at 2008-05-01 14:08:32 EDT (#)
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science doesn't know shit about the y chromosome and uber doesn't know shit about the y