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VADER SESSIONS ... Freaking funny

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Drink Ease - Homeopathic Remedy to Counter Hang Overs

Drink Ease - Homeopathic Remedy to Counter Hang Overs

Rabbi's advise: 'Cure lesbian with sorcery' - Culture from Israel, Ynetnews

Meir Turgeman, Ronen Tal Published: 08.31.06, 14:49

It sounds like the beginning of a really bad joke: "My wife has become a lesbian", a terrified husband told his rabbi. The rabbi gave him a sack and assured him: it contains special sand, simply pour it on your her lover's doorstep and when she steps on it she'll come running back.

If your partner shows lesbian tendencies and you want her to get rid of them, it's not a problem. All you have to do, according to a rabbi in Bnei Brak, is to pour "special sand" on her lover's doorstep and your wife will come running back.

This strange tale, which sounds as though it were taken from the Tales of the Wise Men of Chelem, began when a Bnei Brak resident was surprised to find out that his wife had lesbian tendencies and that she was cheating on him with another woman.

She even informed him that she would like a divorce. The man panicked and turned to the city rabbi to seek his advice.

Magical solution

The Rabbi provided a quick magical solution: He gave him a heavy sack of sand and told him to pour it on the doorstep of his wife's lesbian lover, telling him that the moment his wife will step on it the curse will be lifted. "Your wife will come running back," he said.

Happy at the advice given by the rabbi the man returned home. He immediately rented a car and assigned the mission of pouring the sand on the lover's doorstep to his 18 year-old son. The son obeyed his father and set out on his way.

A few days ago, at around 3 am, the boy arrived at the lover's home in Kiriyat Malachi. He carried the sack of sand on his shoulders, climbed the stairs to the apartment, poured the sand on the doorstep and returned to his car.

On his way out, he noticed several of the lover's dresses hanging on the washing line and couldn't hold himself back. He took out a match set the dresses alight.

The raging fire made him panic, and he tried putting out the flames. When he was unable to, he fled the scene. The frightened woman, who noticed the fire, managed to write down the license plate of the escaping vehicle and immediately called the police.

The Kiryat Malachi police discovered who rented the car and summoned the father and son to an investigation.

"I was desperate, my wife cheated on me with a lesbian. I didn't know what to do and I decided to ask the rabbi for his advice on how to lift the curse," he told the police tearfully.

Both father and son expressed their remorse; the police were considerate of their broken hearts and released them. However, they also gave him some advice: If you want your wife back, please do it lawfully.

Giant girl puppet

Giant Girl Doll

Tripmaster Monkey

Tripmaster Monkey

A DORITOS marketing campaign in Japan—a tie-in with cartoon characters from “Taitsu-kun” (Tights Guys)—continues to fascinate. While the U.S. market gets Jay Leno as a pitchman, Japanese snackers get men in tights stomping on each other’s genitals, giving each other “Electric Massage Rejuvenation” (Denki amma fukkatsu). The bag says S & P flavor, but we’re thinking S & M?

Cuothe IT Criticism & Curmudgeonery » Blog Archive » God’s Accounting System

Cuothe IT Criticism & Curmudgeonery » Blog Archive » God’s Accounting System:

"God’s Accounting System

November 17th, 2005 by adam

God loves things like business, commerce, etc., he must, why else would accounting enterprise software provider, SouthWare, make it its mission to serve God? The company’s web site clearly and proudly states its mission

Our mission is to honor God and serve people by helping businesses achieve excellence.

I believe that is the first time I’ve seen God in a company’s mission statement. I struggle to understand how helping businesses achieve excellence, honour’s God. Of course I’m assuming SouthWare is referring to the Christian God. Seems likely based on the company’s Alabama headquarters–where I’m under the impression the various forms of Christianity are the most predominant religions.

My commentary here has no bearing on whether SouthWare provides a good system or not, nor whether its business practices are good (their site certainly tells everyone how dedicated they are over and over). It’s just the God part I’m picking at. Perhaps they’re able to offer a better service level agreement in the event of Acts of God?

SouthWare flaunts its portability to many platforms, kudos on that, a God-fearing but platform-agnostic application. Or is i"

Most common types of male orgasm

Most common types of male orgasm: "Most common types of male orgasm
Kinsey delineated six types of male orgasm. In part the types vary according to the intensity of the reaction exhibited. The most common type of male orgasm supposedly characterising about 45 per cent of adult males - features some body tension. There may also be twitching or tension in one or both legs, of the mouth, of the arms, or of other particular parts of the body. There is gradual build-up to a climax which involves rigidity of the whole body and a degree of throbbing in the penis. There is orgasm with a few spasms but little after-effect. This is seen as the most common type of male orgasm ."

THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2004

THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2004:

Gilbert's Law

"Happy people are those who do not pass up an opportunity to laugh at themselves or to make love with someone else. Unhappy people are those who get this backwards."

Bloody right! Ha ha!

Sex Positions - Sex Advice from Tracey Cox - iVillage

Sex Positions - Sex Advice from Tracey Cox - iVillage

When it comes to sex positions, after a while it's only natural to fall back on your old favorites. And there's nothing really wrong with that ‑- except that, well, it's kind of dull. So mix things up! Experiment! Surprise your guy with something unexpected! After all, making even subtle changes to your current go-to list can mean the difference between a sex life that's fine ‑- and one that's on fire.

Digging Deep

We're most familiar with man-on-top positions. They're great for gazing lustily into each other's eyes. And as an added bonus, they're terrific for deep penetration. For fans of deep, intense penetration and enthusiastic thrusting, you can't beat this position.

With this variation, the top half of your body can't move much, but you can make up for it by moving your pelvis both up and down and side to side. First, lie back on the bed with your torso and bottom on the bed and your legs resting on the floor. When he penetrates, you bend your knees back toward your stomach while he supports himself on his hands and thrusts forward. It's best for him to keep one of his legs on the floor for support and the other on the bed for balance. If it still doesn't feel like he's penetrated deeply enough ‑- you greedy girl! ‑- pull your knees even further back and rest your calves on his shoulders, or, heck, show off by demonstrating just how handy that Pilates class really was by crossing your ankles behind his neck. Add extra frisson by holding your own hands above your head to give the illusion you're tied up. (Better still, get him to actually do it!)

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Another wonderful link from the cheeky bleeder ...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pet Psychic... - Google Book Search

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pet Psychic... - Google Book Search

Make Men Happy - What Guys Want - iVillage

Make Men Happy - What Guys Want - iVillage: "If men and women are truly equal, then men must stop bending over backwards in the pursuit of making women happy, right men? Relationships are increasingly full-fledged partnerships after all, so why should we be the only ones trying to make women happy?

We want to be happy and boys just want to have fun as well, so here are 10 things that men look for in the pursuit of happiness and Ms. Perfect. Read the list and answer the question that all men deliberate: do we prefer a pretty face or a beautiful body?"

Card Sorting Experiment

Card Sorting Experiment

Clever! But I know how it's done!

On Relationships: The lost art of pleasing a man

On Relationships: The lost art of pleasing a man: "The lost art of pleasing a man

Most women want to please a man at some level. Few women want to please a man completely and they try hard. An small number succeed. This post is especially for women that never thought about making pleasing their man an important part of their relationship or that want to but simply don't know how to do so. If you are such a woman, pay attention to this post and keep what I say in mind. If you aren't, read anyway and let me know what you think. If you are a man, read and take note of what you should be experiencing if you deserve it. Consider suggesting your woman to read this post. Not many guys had the luck of meeting a woman that knows how to treat a man. I did a few times, and I'll never forget."

United Press International - NewsTrack - Some telecommuters work in the nude

United Press International - NewsTrack - Some telecommuters work in the nude: "Some telecommuters work in the nude

SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 5 (UPI) -- Some 10 percent of worldwide telecommuters wear nothing at all while working at home, finds a survey by the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based SonicWALL.

About 39 percent of respondents of both sexes said they wear sweats while working from home, but 12 percent of males and 7 percent of females wear nothing at all, according to a survey of 941 remote and mobile workers worldwide conducted by Insight Express and SonicWALL, a provider of integrated network security and productivity solutions.

Forty-four percent of women surveyed said they showered on work-at-home days, as opposed to 30 percent of men.

Seventy-six percent of the employees surveyed believe that working remotely from home is an aid to productivity and 61 percent are convinced that their managers agree with them.

More than half of the survey's respondents accessed the corporate network from home on a daily basis, with 86 percent logging in remotely several times a week."

Brain ... er ...food? Nuts for whales ...

The species of whale known as the Black Right Whale has 4kgs of brains and 1 tonne of testicles. If it thinks at all, we know what it is thinking about.

-- Jon Lien (Professor, St. John's University, Newfoundland)

Killers The - Somebody Told Me LYRICS

Killers The - Somebody Told Me LYRICS:
"Breaking my back just to know your name
Seventeen tracks and I've had it with this game
I'm breaking my back just to know your name
But heaven ain't close in a place like this
Anything goes but don't blink, you might miss
'Cause heaven ain't close in a place like this
I said heaven ain't close in a place like this
Bring it back down, bring it back down tonight
Never thought I'd let a rumour ruin my moonlight

Somebody told me you had a boyfriend
Who looked like a girlfriend
That I had in February of last year
It's not confidential, I've got potential

Ready let's roll onto something new
Takin' it's toll and I'm leaving without you
Ready let's roll onto something new
Anything goes but don't blink, you might miss
'Cause heaven ain't close in a place like this
I said heaven ain't close in a place like this
Bring it back down, bring it back down tonight
Never thought I'd let a rumour ruin my moonlight

Well, somebody told me you had a boyfriend
Who looked like a girlfriend
That I had in February of last year
It's not confidential, I've got potential a rushin' a rushin' around

Pace yourself for me
I said maybe, baby, please
But I just don't know now
When all I wanna do is try

Somebody told me you had a boyfriend
Who looked like a girlfriend
That I had in February of last year
It's not confidential, I've got potential a rushin' a rushin' around

Somebody told me you had a boyfriend
Who looked like a girlfriend
That I had in February of last year
It's not confidential, I've got potential a rushin' a rushin' around"

Steven Weinberg Quote

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."

Steven Weinberg, quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999

Spot on!

Steven Weinberg Quotes - The Quotations Page:

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Windows noises mashup ... very clever

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Armed and Dangerous » Blog Archive » Where’s Tom Wolfe when you need him?

Armed and Dangerous » Blog Archive » Where’s Tom Wolfe when you need him?: "Baseball star’s wife makes ultimate threat

The wife of a top US baseball player has vowed to have sex with all of his team mates if he ever cheats on her.

Anna Benson, a former model and stripper who was named Baseball’s Hottest Wife by FHM, is married to Mets pitcher Kris Benson.

She told Howard Stern’s radio show: “I told him, cheat on me all you want. If you get caught, I’m going to s***w everybody on your entire team. Coaches, trainers, players. I would do everybody on his whole team.”

Stern, egging her on, asked: “Even the coaches? What about, like, the bat boys?”

“Everybody would get a turn,” Anna pledged. “If my husband cheated on me and embarrassed me like that, I will embarrass him more than he could ever imagine.”

Uh huh. I see that, somehow, this woman managed to have a career as a “model and stripper” without developing the faintest shred of a clue how men think or respond to a challenge like this.

Bet on it. Somehere, a coalition of the most unattractive no-hopers in the Mets organization — probably organized by some dude with a beer gut, bad breath, and a bread-dough complexion who harbors a lo"

Amsterdam's "No Toking" Signs On Sale Next Week

Amsterdam's "No Toking" Signs On Sale Next Week

I read earlier this week about the "no pot smoking" street signs in Amsterdam that are being stolen by those who apparently into the evil weed who thought they make pretty good souvenirs. So the city -- or the Baarsjes district of Amsterdam -- has decided to sell them. I've got a friend or two who I thought would find it amusing to get one of these as a gift. I tracked down the council site, found the right page with contact details, and sent an email to find more. That page has now been updated, plus I was also emailed some additional information. The signes go on sale through the web next week, and more "no toking" items will follow. Here's the info I just got emailed:

Information about purchasing the “blowverbodsbord” (no toking sign)


Dear Sir or Madam,


Thank you for your interest in our sign. It has taken a while to inform you about how to purchase the sign. We did not expect the enormous response.


Monday the 13th of february at 16.00 hours local time the sites www.noblowbord.nl and www.notokingsign.com will start. You will find information about purchasing the sign on these sites and you will be able to pay by creditcard.


The sign is 60 cm in diameter and made from highquality material. The sign can be delivered to you if you pay the shipping costs. Delivery time is approximately three weeks.


In due time we will offer you also other ”no toking” products like caps, t-shirts and different stickers.


If you have a creative idea for a new “no toking” product we would be most interested. In that case please contact no.blow.bord@vespro.nl . If your idea gets produced, you will receive a free sign and of course a free sample of your product.


We hope to have informed you.


Many greetings from Amsterdam


Geert Jan Stolk
Blowverbodsbord-campaign

CNN.com - New animal resembles furry lobster - Mar 8, 2006

CNN.com - New animal resembles furry lobster



PARIS, France (AP) -- Divers have discovered a new crustacean in the South Pacific that resembles a lobster and is covered with what looks like silky, blond fur, French researchers said Tuesday.

Scientists said the animal, which they named Kiwa hirsuta, was so distinct from other species that they created a new family and genus for it.

A team of American-led divers found the animal in waters 2,300 meters (7,540 feet) deep at a site 1,500 kilometers (900 miles) south of Easter Island last year, according to Michel Segonzac of the French Institute for Sea Exploration.

The new crustacean is described in the journal of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.

The animal is white and 15 centimeters (5.9 inches) long -- about the size of a salad plate.

In what Segonzac described as a "surprising characteristic," the animal's pincers are covered with sinuous, hair-like strands.

It's also blind. The researchers found it had only "the vestige of a membrane" in place of eyes, Segonzac said.

The researchers said that while legions of new ocean species are discovered each year, it is quite rare to find one that merits a new family.

The family was named Kiwaida, from Kiwa, the goddess of crustaceans in Polynesian mythology.

Low rider ...

Tasty ....

Winners of the I Look Like My Dog Contest

Top Topless Beaches of 2006

Top Topless Beaches of 2006

Gmail - Fwd:

From one of those chain letter things but it's not all trite ...

ONE. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.

TWO. Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.

THREE. Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.

FOUR. When you say, "I love you," mean it.

FIVE. When you say, "I'm sorry," look the person in the eye.

SIX. Be engaged at least six months before you get married.

SEVEN. Believe in love at first sight.

EIGHT. Never laugh at anyone's dreams. People who don't have dreams don't have much.

NINE. Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only wayto live life completely.

TEN. In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.

ELEVEN. Don't judge people by their relatives.

TWELVE. Talk slowly but think quickly.

THIRTEEN. When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, "Why do you want to know?"

FOURTEEN. Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

FIFTEEN. Say "bless you" when you hear someone sneeze.

SIXTEEN. When you lose, don't lose the lesson

SEVENTEEN. Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; and responsibility for all your actions.

EIGHTEEN. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

NINETEEN. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

TWENTY. Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.

TWENTY-ONE. Spend some time alone.

EXCESS ALL AREAS

Show me some e-learning now!

From E-learning Perspectives

What always strikes me when attending international e-learning conferences is how much speakers can say about e-learning and how little they can actually show ... as if e-learning was some kind of religion requiring faith more than facts, loyalty more than lucidity, belief more than insight.


When it comes to learning - and many other subjects for that matter - I personally like to judge for myself. For all those who feel the same way, I listed a series of links to e-learning modules that I happened to come across during my journeys on the web. Enjoy!

• The home building cycle
  
• Games at Nobelprize.org
  
• American elections
  
• Ishkur's guide to electronic music
  
• Management techniques
  
• How to deal with a person under accute emotional stress
  
• How does the Internet work?
  
• Negotiation skills
  
• How can drugs affect you "in the moment"
  
• The Weather classroom
  
• The Valley of the Shadow

Very cool illusion

Very cool illusion

Thirty-Eight Ways to Win an Argument

Thirty - Eight Ways to Win an Argument, by Schopenhauer

1. Carry your opponent's proposition beyond its natural limits; exaggerate it. The more general your opponent's statement becomes, the more objections you can find against it. The more restricted and narrow your own propositions remain, the easier they are to defend.


2. Use different meanings of your opponent's words to refute his argument. Example: Person A says, "You do not understand the mysteries of Kant's philosophy." Person B replies, "Of, if it's mysteries you're talking about, I'll have nothing to do with them."


3. Ignore your opponent's proposition, which was intended to refer to some particular thing. Rather, understand it in some quite different sense, and then refute it. Attack something different than what was asserted.


4. Hide your conclusion from your opponent until the end. Mingle your premises here and there in your talk. Get your opponent to agree to them in no definite order. By this circuitous route you conceal your goal until you have reached all the admissions necessary to reach your goal.


5. Use your opponent's beliefs against him. If your opponent refuses to accept your premises, use his own premises to your advantage. Example, if the opponent is a member of an organization or a religious sect to which you do not belong, you may employ the declared opinions of this group against the opponent.


6. Confuse the issue by changing your opponent's words or what he or she seeks to prove. Example: Call something by a different name: "good repute" instead of "honor," "virtue" instead of "virginity," "red-blooded" instead of "vertebrates".


7. State your proposition and show the truth of it by asking the opponent many questions. By asking many wide-reaching questions at once, you may hide what you want to get admitted. Then you quickly propound the argument resulting from the proponent's admissions.


8. Make your opponent angry. An angry person is less capable of using judgment or perceiving where his or her advantage lies.


9. Use your opponent's answers to your question to reach different or even opposite conclusions.


10. If you opponent answers all your questions negatively and refuses to grant you any points, ask him or her to concede the opposite of your premises. This may confuse the opponent as to which point you actually seek him to concede.


11. If the opponent grants you the truth of some of your premises, refrain from asking him or her to agree to your conclusion. Later, introduce your conclusions as a settled and admitted fact. Your opponent and others in attendance may come to believe that your conclusion was admitted.


12. If the argument turns upon general ideas with no particular names, you must use language or a metaphor that is favorable to your proposition. Example: What an impartial person would call "public worship" or a "system of religion" is described by an adherent as "piety" or "godliness" and by an opponent as "bigotry" or "superstition." In other words, inset what you intend to prove into the definition of the idea.


13. To make your opponent accept a proposition , you must give him an opposite, counter-proposition as well. If the contrast is glaring, the opponent will accept your proposition to avoid being paradoxical. Example: If you want him to admit that a boy must to everything that his father tells him to do, ask him, "whether in all things we must obey or disobey our parents." Or , if a thing is said to occur "often" you are to understand few or many times, the opponent will say "many." It is as though you were to put gray next to black and call it white; or gray next to white and call it black.


14. Try to bluff your opponent. If he or she has answered several of your question without the answers turning out in favor of your conclusion, advance your conclusion triumphantly, even if it does not follow. If your opponent is shy or stupid, and you yourself possess a great deal of impudence and a good voice, the technique may succeed.


15. If you wish to advance a proposition that is difficult to prove, put it aside for the moment. Instead, submit for your opponent's acceptance or rejection some true proposition, as though you wished to draw your proof from it. Should the opponent reject it because he suspects a trick, you can obtain your triumph by showing how absurd the opponent is to reject an obviously true proposition. Should the opponent accept it, you now have reason on your side for the moment. You can either try to prove your original proposition, as in #14, maintain that your original proposition is proved by what your opponent accepted. For this an extreme degree of impudence is required, but experience shows cases of it succeeding.


16. When your opponent puts forth a proposition, find it inconsistent with his or her other statements, beliefs, actions or lack of action. Example: Should your opponent defend suicide, you may at once exclaim, "Why don't you hang yourself?" Should the opponent maintain that his city is an unpleasant place to live, you may say, "Why don't you leave on the first plane?"


17. If your opponent presses you with a counter-proof, you will often be able to save yourself by advancing some subtle distinction. Try to find a second meaning or an ambiguous sense for your opponent's idea.


18. If your opponent has taken up a line of argument that will end in your defeat, you must not allow him to carry it to its conclusion. Interrupt the dispute, break it off altogether, or lead the opponent to a different subject.


19. Should your opponent expressly challenge you to produce any objection to some definite point in his argument, and you have nothing to say, try to make the argument less specific. Example: If you are asked why a particular hypothesis cannot be accepted, you may speak of the fallibility of human knowledge, and give various illustrations of it.


20. If your opponent has admitted to all or most of your premises, do not ask him or her directly to accept your conclusion. Rather, draw the conclusion yourself as if it too had been admitted.


21. When your opponent uses an argument that is superficial and you see the falsehood, you can refute it by setting forth its superficial character.


22. But it is better to meet the opponent with acounter-argument that is just as superficial, and so dispose of him. For it is with victory that you are concerned, not with truth. Example: If the opponent appeals to prejudice, emotion or attacks you personally, return the attack in the same manner.


23. If your opponent asks you to admit something from which the point in dispute will immediately follow, you must refuse to do so, declaring that it begs the question.


24. Contradiction and contention irritate a person into exaggerating their statements. By contradicting your opponent you may drive him into extending the statement beyond its natural limit. When you then contradict the exaggerated form of it, you look as though you had refuted the original statement. Contrarily, if your opponent tries to extend your own statement further than your intended, redefine your statement's limits and say, "That is what I said, no more."


25. State a false syllogism. Your opponent makes a proposition, and by false inference and distortion of his ideas you force from the proposition other propositions that are not intended and that appear absurd. It then appears that opponent's proposition gave rise to these inconsistencies, and so appears to be indirectly refuted.


26. If your opponent is making a generalization, find an instance to the contrary. Only one valid contradiction is needed to overthrow the opponent's proposition. Example: "All ruminants are horned," is a generalization that may be upset by the single instance of the camel.


27. A brilliant move is to turn the tables and use your opponent's arguments against himself. Example: Your opponent declares: "so and so is a child, you must make an allowance for him." You retort, "Just because he is a child, I must correct him; otherwise he will persist in his bad habits."


28. Should your opponent suprise you by becoming particularly angry at an argument, you must urge it with all the more zeal. No only will this make your opponent angry, but it will appear that you have put your finger on the weak side of his case, and your opponent is more open to attack on this point than you expected.


29. When the audience consists of individuals (or a person) who is not an expert on a subject, you make an invalid objection to your opponent who seems to be defeated in the eyes of the audience. This strategy is particularly effective if your objection makes your opponent look ridiculous or if the audience laughs. If your opponent must make a long, winded and complicated explanation to correct you, the audience will not be disposed to listen to him.


30. If you find that you are being beaten, you can create a diversion--that is, you can suddenly begin to talk of something else, as though it had a bearing on the matter in dispute. This may be done without presumption if the diversion has some general bearing on the matter.


31. Make an appeal to authority rather than reason. If your opponent respects an authority or an expert, quote that authority to further your case. If needed, quote what the authority said in some other sense or circumstance. Authorities that your opponent fails to understand are those which he generally admires the most. You may also, should it be necessary, not only twist your authorities, but actually falsify them, or quote something that you have entirely invented yourself.


32. If you know that you have no reply to the arguments that your opponent advances, you by a find stroke of irony declare yourself to be an incompetent judge. Example: "What you say passes my poor powers of comprehension; it may well be all very true, but I can't understand it, and I refrain from any expression of opinion on it." In this way you insinuate to the audience, with whom you are in good repute, that what your opponent says is nonsense. This technique may be used only when you are quite sure that the audience thinks much better of you than your opponent.


33. A quick way of getting rid of an opponent's assertion, or of throwing suspicion on it, is by putting it into some odious category. Example: You can say, "That is fascism" or "Atheism" or "Superstition." In making an objection of this kind you take for granted 1)That the assertion or question is identical with, or at least contained in, the category cited; and 2)The system referred to has been entirely refuted by the current audience.


34. You admit your opponent's premises but deny the conclusion. Example: "That's all very well in theory, but it won't work in practice."


35. When you state a question or an argument, and your opponent gives you no direct answer, or evades it with a counter question, or tries to change the subject, it is sure sign you have touched a weak spot, sometimes without intending to do so. You have, as it were, reduced your opponent to silence. You must, therefore, urge the point all the more, and not let your opponent evade it, even when you do not know where the weakness that you have hit upon really lies.


36. Instead of working on an opponent's intellect or the rigor of his arguments, work on his motive. If you success in making your opponent's opinion, should it prove true, seem distinctly prejudicial to his own interest, he will drop it immediately. Example: A clergyman is defending some philosophical dogma. You show him that his proposition contradicts a fundamental doctrine of his church. He will abandon the argument.


37. You may also puzzle and bewilder your opponent by mere bombast. If your opponent is weak or does not wish to appear as if he has no idea what your are talking about, you can easily impose upon him some argument that sounds very deep or learned, or that sounds indisputable.


38. Should your opponent be in the right but, luckily for you, choose a faulty proof, you can easily refute it and then claim that you have refuted the whole position. This is the way in which bad advocates lose good cases. If no accurate proof occurs to your opponent, you have won the day.


39. Become personal, insulting and rude as soon as you perceive that your opponent has the upper hand. In becoming personal you leave the subject altogether, and turn your attack on the person by remarks of an offensive and spiteful character. This is a very popular technique, because it takes so little skill to put it into effect.

JackinWorld Science Corner

JackinWorld Science Corner

Orgasm intensity and its associated feelings can both vary greatly. Sometimes a person experiences an orgasm that makes them feel like their entire body is going to explode, while at other times they might just experience a pleasant feeling of muscle relaxation. Influencing factors include a persons mood, psychological state, level of desire, relation to partner, drug or alcohol use, expectations, physical condition, and time since the last orgasm.

Psychology Today: The Orgasm Wars

Psychology Today: The Orgasm Wars

For years, scientists have been debating the function of female
orgasm. Nowthey've finally figured it out. For women, the psychology of sexual
satisfaction turns out to be much more sophisticated than most (male) scientists
have been willing to concede. Of course.

Ever since Alfred Kinsey and Masters and Johnson made the subject of human
sexual response safe for respectable scientists, laboratory studies of the
physiologic "hows" of sexual arousal have flourished. Volunteers have been
prodded, filmed, tape-recorded, interviewed, measured, wired, and monitored,
quantifying for the annals of science the shortened breath, arched backs and
feet, grimacing faces, marginally intentional vocalizations, and jumping blood
pressure of human orgasm.

While physiological details abound, fewer scientists have attempted to answer
the "why" questions about human orgasm. To those who view human behavior in an
evolutionary framework, which we believe adds an invaluable perspective, male
orgasm is no great mystery. It's little more than a physiologically simple
ejaculation that is accompanied by a nearly addictive incentive to seek out
further sexual encounters. The greater the number of inseminations a male
achieves, the better his chances of being genetically represented in future
generations.

Compared with the more frequent and easily achieved orgasm men experience,
women's sexual climax has remained a mystery. After all, women do not need to
experience orgasm in order to conceive. So what is the function of orgasm in
females?

Darwinian theorists who made early attempts to address female orgasm proposed
that orgasm keeps a woman lying down after sex, passively retaining sperm and
increasing her probability of conception. Others suggested that it evolved to
create a stronger pair bond between lovers, inspiring in women feelings of
intimacy and trust toward mates. Some reasoned that orgasm communicates a
woman's sexual satisfaction and devotion to a lover.

Most recently, evolutionary psychologists have been exploring the proposition
that female orgasm is a sophisticated adaptation that allows women to
manipulate--even without their own awareness--which of their lovers will be
allowed to fertilize their eggs.

Male Nipples?

The diversity of evolutionary hypotheses reflects one general attitude: that
the quickened breath, moaning, racing heart, muscular contraction and spasms,
and nearly hallucinatory states of pleasure that orgasm inspires constitute a
complex physiologic event with apparently functional design. But critics of
adaptationist hypotheses have long argued that evolution is more slipshod than
purposeful. A few, including Harvard evolutionist Stephen lay Gould, have
insisted that female orgasm probably doesn't have a function.

Instead, Gould argues, female orgasm is incidental, caused by an anatomical
peculiarity of embryonic development. In embryos, the undifferentiated organ
that later becomes the penis in males becomes the ditoris in females.
Antiadaptationists like Gould--whose thinking uncannily parallels Freud's belief
that women spend their life in penis envy--hold that the clitoris is,
biologically speaking, an underdeveloped penis; it can let women mimic male
orgasm, but it has no functional relevance or evolutionary history of its
own.

Well known for his emphasis on chance events and structural constraints as
major players in the evolutionary process, Gould sees the supposed
functionlessness of female orgasm as a classic illustration why scientists ought
not automatically assume that a trait has adaptive significance. He criticizes
other evolutionists for overemphasizing natural selection and functionality, and
concludes that female orgasm is like the male nipple--nothing more than
developmental baggage.

Many evolutionists have rejected Gould's notion that women's orgasms are
developmentally contingent on men's. Unlike a male nipple, adaptationists have
pointed out, the female orgasm does something. It inspires strong emotions that
can affect bonding and sexual preferences, making women more likely to prefer
the company of one mate over another.

Only during the past few years have studies begun to yield evidence that may
resolve the baggage-versus-adaptation debate over women's orgasms.

Sperm Competition, with Women Judging

Clues for a reasonable adaptation hypothesis were readily available by the
late 1960s, when The British Medical Journal published an exchange of letters
about the muscular contractions and uterine suction associated with women's
orgasm. In one letter, a doctor reported that a patient's uterine and vaginal
contractions during sex with a sailor had pulled off his condom. Upon
inspection, the condom was found in her cervical canal! The doctor concluded
that female orgasms pull sperm closer to the egg as well.

Yet, it was only three years ago that two British biologists, Robin Baker and
Mark Bellis, tested the so-called upsuck hypothesis. They were building upon
ideas articulated by evolutionary biologist Robert Smith, who suggested that
since women don't have orgasms every time out, female orgasm favors some sperm
over others. Baker and Bellis sought to learn just how female orgasms might
affect which of a lover's sperm is used to fertilize a woman's eggs.

They asked volunteers to keep track of the timing of their orgasms during
sex, and, after copulation, to collect male ejaculates from vaginal flowback--a
technical term denoting a distinct form of material that emerges from the vagina
several hours after sex (scientists have devised a way to collect it). The team
counted sperm from over 300 instances of human copulation.

They discovered that when a woman climaxes any time between a minute before
to 45 minutes after her lover ejaculates, she retains significantly more sperm
than she does after nonorgasmic sex. When her orgasm precedes her male's by more
than a minute, or when she does not have an orgasm, little sperm is retained.
Just as the doctors' letters suggested decades earlier, the team's results
indicated that muscular contractions associated with orgasm pull sperm from the
vagina to the cervix, where it's in better position to reach an egg.

Baker and Bellis proposed that by manipulating the occurrence and timing of
orgasm--via subconscious processes--women influence the probability of
conception. So while a man worries about a woman's satisfaction with him as a
lover out of fear she will stray, orgasmic females may be up to something far
more clever--deciding which partner will sire her children.

Good Men Are Hard To Find

Meanwhile, other researchers were making discoveries about the nature of male
attractiveness. Behavioral ecologists had noted that female animals, from
scorpion flies to barn swallows, prefer males with high degrees of bilateral
body symmetry, called developmental stability in the parlance of science.

Development, or the translation of genes into parts of the body, can be
perturbed by stresses such as disease, malnutrition, or genetic defects. One
measure of developmental instability is deviation from bilateral symmetry in
traits like hands, eyes, and even birds' tail feathers. Males whose immune
systems are strong, and who forage well, develop with high symmetry, so females
who choose symmetrical suitors are securing good genes for their offspring.

Evolutionary biologist Randy Thornhill and psychologist Steve Gangestad at
the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque have tested whether humans also
share this preference. And indeed they do. In their studies, women consistently
identify as most attractive males whose faces (and other body parts) are most
symmetrical.

But this, it turns out, is more than a matter of mere aesthetics. A large and
growing body of medical literature documents that symmetrical people are
physically and psychologically healthier than their less symmetrical
counterparts.

Thornhill and Gangestad reasoned that if women's orgasms are an adaptation
for securing good genes for their offspring, women should report more orgasms
with relatively symmetrical mates. Collaborating for a second time, the two,
along with graduate student Randall Comer, devised some very interesting studies
to test this idea.

First they enrolled 86 sexually active heterosexual couples from among the
undergraduates. The average age of the partners was 22 and the couples had been
together an average of two years. Then the researchers had each person
privately--and anonymously--answer questions about his or her sexual
experiences.

The researchers took facial photographs of each person and analyzed the
features by computer; they also had them graded for attractiveness by
independent raters blind to the study. They measured various body parts to
assess bilateral symmetry--the width of elbow, wrist, hand, ankle, and foot
bones, and the length of the second and fifth fingers. Earlier studies had
suggested all of these were associated with health.

Indeed, the hypothesized relationship between male symmetry and female orgasm
proved to be true, the researchers recently reported in the journal Animal
Behavior (Vol. 50, December). From data on sexual behavior provided by the
women, those whose partners were most symmetrical enjoyed a significantly higher
frequency of orgasms during sexual intercourse than did those with less
symmetrical mates. Even the data on sexual experience provided by the men showed
the women had more orgasms with the most symmetrical men.

Of course, symmetry is a relative thing, and a relative rarity at that. No
one is perfectly symmetrical, and very high symmetry scores were few and far
between in this sample, as in others. In consolation, Thornhill and Gangestad
point out that the differences they are measuring are subtle, and most require
the use of calipers to detect.

What's Love Got To Do With It?

It's important to note what did not correlate with female orgasm during sex.
Degree of women s romantic attachment did not increase the frequency of orgasm!
Nor did the sexual experience of either partner. Conventional wisdom holds that
birth control and protection from disease up orgasm rates, since they allow
women to feel more relaxed during intercourse. But no relationship emerged
between female orgasm and the use of contraception.

Nor can the study results be explained by the possibility that the
symmetrical males were dating especially uninhibited and orgasmic women. Their
partners did not have more orgasms during foreplay or in other sexual
activities. Male symmetry correlated with a high frequency of female orgasm only
during copulation.

The findings support evolutionary psychologists' "good genes" hypothesis:
Women have orgasm more often with their most symmetrical lovers, increasing the
likelihood of conceiving these men's children. Well, that's how it would have
worked for millennia, before condoms and the Pill.

And it is for the precontraceptive stone age that our brains seem to be
built; the agricultural and industrial revolutions are flashes in the geological
pan, far too recent in evolutionary terms to have fundamentally changed the way
we experience emotions or sex. To argue, as may champions of chance like Gould,
that sexual attraction has remained completely arbitrary throughout evolution
seems increasingly unwarranted.

Cheating Hearts

Here's the cruelest part of Thornhill and Gangestad's findings: The males who
most inspire high-sperm-retention orgasmic responses from their sexual partners
don't invest more in their relationships than do other men. Studies show that
symmetrical men have the shortest courtships before having sexual intercourse
with the women they date. They invest the least money and time in them. And they
cheat on their mates more often than guys with less well-balanced bodies. So
much for the beleaguered bonding hypothesis, which wants us to believe that
women with investing, caring mates will have the most orgasms.

The women who took part in the study were no saints, either. They sometimes
faked orgasm. Their fakery was not related to male symmetry. Faking, however,
was more common among women who reported flirting with other men. Clearly
earlier theories were not too far off the mark when they proposed that a man
looks for cues of sexual satisfaction from his mate for reassurance about her
fidelity. Faking orgasms might be the easiest way for the woman with many lovers
to avoid the suspicions of her main partner.

Baker and Bellis found that when women do engage in infidelity, they retain
less sperm from their main partners (their husbands, in many cases), and more
often experience copulatory orgasms during their trysts, retaining semen from
their secret lovers. Taken together, these findings suggest that female orgasm
is less about bonding with nice guys than about careful, subconscious evaluation
of their lovers' genetic endowment.

Exhibit B

Patterns of female orgasm point to one important conclusion about our
evolutionary past--that sexual restraint did not prevail among women. But that's
only part of the evidence. Exhibit B is male ejaculation.

Baker and Bellis found that the number of sperm in men's ejaculate changes,
and it varies according to the amount of time that romantic partners have spent
apart. The longer a woman's absence, the more sperm in her husband's ejaculate
upon the couple's reunion. Males increase ejaculate size, it seems, to match the
increased risk that a mate was inseminated by a competitor.

In an ancestral environment of truly monogamous mating, there would have been
no need for females to have orgasm or for men to adjust ejaculate size. Both are
adaptations to a spicy sex life.

Male Bias

Darwin proposed that female animals' preferences have shaped male ornaments
such as peacocks' tails. But his audience--largely male scientists--laughed off
his theory of sexual selection on the grounds that females (human or otherwise)
are too fickle to exert the necessary selection pressure.

Today, evolutionary biology is no longer so completely a male discipline. But
many male evolutionists nevertheless carry old biases. The notion that female
orgasm is anything other than a developmental legacy leaving females able to
imitate "the real thing" will be difficult for some to accept. But as
uncomfortable as it may make many of us men--including male scientists--a
woman's orgasm appears to be a more complex and discriminating comment about her
lovers' merits than are our own.

Explosive Findings!

If we use his study's findings to understand how we humans are designed to
behave in the sexual domain, says Randy Thomhill, Ph.D., then we are better
equipped to deal with problems that arise in relationships. He points to the
following results as among those we should take to heart:

o A woman's capacity for orgasm depends not on her partner's sexual skill but
on her subconscious evaluation of his genetic merits.

o Women's orgasm has little to do with love. Or experience.

o Good men are indeed hard to find.

o The men with the best genes make the worst mates.

o Women are no more built for monogamy than men are. They are designed to
keep their options open.

o Women fake orgasm to divert a partner's attention from their
infidelities.

United Irelander: Irish warlord boasts 3 million descendants

United Irelander: Irish warlord boasts 3 million descendants

Up to three million men around the world could be descended from a prolific medieval Irish king, according to a new genetic study.

It suggests that the 5th-century warlord known as "Niall of the Nine Hostages" may be the ancestor of about one in 12 Irishmen, say researchers at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Niall established a dynasty of powerful chieftains that dominated the island for six centuries.

In a study of the Y chromosome - which is only passed down through the male line - scientists found a hotspot in northwest Ireland where 21.5% carry Niall’s genetic fingerprint, says Brian McEvoy, one of the team at Trinity. This was the main powerbase of the Ui Neills, which literally translated means "descendants of Niall".

The Dictionary of Unfortunate Ideas: Niall of the Nine Hostages - The Musical!!!

The Dictionary of Unfortunate Ideas: Niall of the Nine Hostages - The Musical!!!

The
Ballad of Niall of the Nine Hostages

Translated from the Celtic by Earl Fando
(public disclaimer - Mr. Fando knows approximately two
words of
Celtic...possibly)


Oh sit ye down, let me speak of him, a lad who you never could rile

A young man with real stamina, a bloke who's name was Niall

Oh Niall was a mighty rabbit man, a harer brave and pure,

But at the end of the day, put the rabbits away, it's shaggin' time for sure,

three hours sure.


The lasses liked him getting rough, their bonnets Niall would lob,

If not for the forming of the morning dew he'd still be on the job,

still be on the job.


Niall left his mark with the women folk, throughout the Emerald Isle

With Muireann, and Siobhán too, Dearbhaile (who was his wife)

Caitríona, and the rest have all been known by Niall!


**********

Strangely enough, this ancient Celtic ballad can be easily sung to the theme from href="http://www.cfhf.net/lyrics/gilligan.htm">Gilligan's Isand.

Global Protection Corp

Global Protection Corp

Condom cartoon!

CNN.com - Mouthy�parrot 'reveals�sex secret' - Jan 17, 2006

CNN.com - Mouthy�parrot 'reveals�sex secret' - Jan 17, 2006:

"LONDON, England -- A computer programmer found out his girlfriend was having an affair when his pet parrot kept repeating her lover's name, British media reported Tuesday.

The African grey parrot kept squawking 'I love you, Gary' as his owner, Chris Taylor, sat with girlfriend Suzy Collins on the sofa of their shared flat in Leeds, northern England.

But when Taylor saw Collins's embarrassed reaction, he realized she had been having an affair -- meeting her lover in the flat whilst Ziggy looked on, the UK's Press Association reported.

Ziggy even mimicked Collins's voice each time she answered her telephone, calling out 'Hiya Gary,' according to newspaper reports.

Call-center worker Collins, 25, admitted the four-month affair with a colleague called Gary to her boyfriend and left the flat she had shared with Taylor, 30, for a y

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Mind Hacks: Does cannabis cause psychosis?

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La machine armee en etat de grace on Flickr

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Business FUNdamentals: Pig Catapult

looks like fun!

ammmore � Blog Archive � KHRONOS PROJECTOR - Alvaro Cassinelli

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a video time-warping machine with a tangible deformable screen

Fox asks adoptees 'Who's Your Daddy?'. 15/12/2004. ABC News Online

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Railroad Absurdities explains why the major design feature of the world's most advanced transportation system [the Space Shuttle] was originally determined by the width of a horse's ass.