L. Marcus Posted April 23, 2007 Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 Re: The Last Word . . . Imagine: If we still lived as we first evolved, very few people on these Boards would be alive. Or even on these Boards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 23, 2007 Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 Re: The Last Word I would never say otherwise. Just pointing out some consequences of the invention of meiosis about 0.7 Gyr back. I'm not sure I know what that has to do with anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 23, 2007 Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 Re: The Last Word Empathy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 23, 2007 Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 Re: The Last Word . . . It's still eluding me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 23, 2007 Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 Re: The Last Word Yeah . . . But here's Wikipedia on meiosis. It's basically the invention of gender. I deem Cancer said that, evolutionary speaking, males are more expendable that females. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 23, 2007 Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 Re: The Last Word I deem Cancer said that' date=' evolutionary speaking, males are more expendable that females. [/quote'] Yup. Since variable gene expression happens more in males than females, males are the expendable chaff of evolution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 23, 2007 Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 Re: The Last Word Ergo, we (as a gender) do most of the things wich involve clear and present danger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 23, 2007 Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 Re: The Last Word Well, now you're drifting into societal things, which are not very tightly coupled to evolutionary biology. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 23, 2007 Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 Re: The Last Word Yup. Since variable gene expression happens more in males than females' date=' males are the expendable chaff of evolution.[/quote'] Ah-ha. I have heard that theory before, just more explicitly worded. Man, it got warm in here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 24, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 Re: The Last Word Ears, nothin'. The one that made me squirm was the one (in Northern Ireland, IIRC) where a guy got crunched, dislocating his hip. Screaming. Trainer comes on the field, grabs hold of his leg, torques on it, gets the femur ball back in the socket. Momentary pause. Screaming intensifies. In fact, victim ruptures a vocal cord. The trainer had somehow managed to get a testicle in between the femur and the hip socket. No, thank you. Rugby ain't so bad really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 24, 2007 Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 Re: The Last Word Rugby ain't so bad really. Certainly makes me wonder what those beefy American boys need all the padding for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 24, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 Re: The Last Word Certainly makes me wonder what those beefy American boys need all the padding for. Cosmo told them to wear them to attract chicks. Or was that Maxim? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 24, 2007 Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 Re: The Last Word Neither. Maxim just assures them they should be secure in their manly-manness. Cosmo teaches women how best to score some under-the-bleachers action, and how to assure a repeat performance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 24, 2007 Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 Re: The Last Word . . . Mmmm . . . Bleacher . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 24, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 Re: The Last Word what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 24, 2007 Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 Re: The Last Word . . . Mmmm . . . Bleacher . . . Our bleachers were always so crowded at my school. Definitely not the place to have some alone time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 24, 2007 Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 Re: The Last Word You can get alone time anywhere, if by "alone time" you really do mean by yourself alone, rather than with a sweetie alone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 24, 2007 Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 Re: The Last Word No, I mean me and my sweetie. And being physically alone is harder than you'd think, as a teenager. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 24, 2007 Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 Re: The Last Word Around where I grew up, nature had plenty of room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 24, 2007 Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 Re: The Last Word Well, yeah, but that carries hazards of its own. The most remote locations around where I lived were more likely to have gay trysts than straight ones, anyway. Our parents warned us away from such places. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 24, 2007 Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 Re: The Last Word Even though it's 30+ years in the past, I recall my teen-age years. Now, I never had the experience of trying to find an alone space with anyone, but that's just me. Living around a military base ... perhaps I was naive and wouldn't have recognized one if I saw it, but the gay tryst thing seemed to be suppressed. Not unknown, but not something I felt I had to look out for. Then again, that area had enough undeveloped forest that one hazard was getting out into it far enough to blunder into the NORAD radome site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 24, 2007 Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 Re: The Last Word Oh, our parents never said WHY you don't visit those stretches of woods. Not really. They just kept us well away from them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 24, 2007 Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 Re: The Last Word I don't recall being warned against anything like that, at least, not while that age. The hooks obviously were set at a rather earlier age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 24, 2007 Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 Re: The Last Word "Hooks?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 24, 2007 Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 Re: The Last Word Subconcious psychological controls; inhibitions and attitudes you don't know are there. Collectively, "hooks". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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