There are some things we shouldn't laugh at, but sometimes those things contain a coincidence that makes us blurt out a chuckle. It can be embarrassing, when someone is telling us some deadly serious news, to find our minds make connections it finds inappropriately amusing.
Try it for yourself:
This is a very serious matter.
I defy you to keep a straight face throughout.
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It took me a while. I usually skim right past people's names. That is funny!
On the more serious side, if HIV survives best in warm wet places, wouldn't that make women a lot more susceptible than men?
Pardon me for changing the subject, but I need to ask if you're having any problems commenting on my blog. I had some trolls, so I turned on comment moderation until friends told me they couldn't comment, so I turned it off again, but it didn't help. They still can't comment. Are you one of them? You'd send me an e-mail right?
HA! I did it! Well, okay maybe I smiled just a little, but I do that at most everything. Too bad you're not offering a prize
The trick is to be a religious nut.
That's because the Old Testament tells Jews to circumcise their boys on the baby's eighth day, which turns out to be the ideal time, since two blood clotting elements, vitamin K and prothrombin, peak on the that day. Christians aren't bound by the Old Testament, but a lot of them routinely circumcised anyway....if God once required it, how bad could it be?
In recent times, however, trendy people have decried circumcism as barbaric and as violence that scars a child for life, etc, etc.
So your link indicates that God is smart and what he once required has health benefits, and as a comparison of circumcised and uncircumcised guys reveals....well, that is, if they're willing to reveal....that the circumcised guy has an easier time keeping....ahem....clean in that area.
Were you able to read this with a straight face?
Tom Sheepandgoats
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Having trouble leaving a comment. Were you right in being leery of Blogger Beta?
SW- I've posted a comment after you turned on comment moderation so I'm okay (so far). Yes, I'd let you know if I couldn't post, but so far blogger has only provided me with minor irritations - like having to sign in each and every time!
Tom- sorry to hear you're having trouble logging in here. I hope that's just a temporary glitch. Blogger has at least one a day, I think, but they don't usually last long.
There's a lot of sensible advice in the Old Testament for a people forced to live in generally very rough conditions. Leviticus is almost a medical manual for the time! Male circumcision would be a very sensible move under those circumstances (female circumcision is not mentioned because it's a nonsensical idea under any circumstances).
I doubt any circumcised males suffer trauma, but again I doubt circumcision matters much in Western society, where water for washing is readily available. In a desert, the less water you have to use for washing, the more you can drink.
As for the HIV thing: it reduces the risk by half, presumably because there's nothing for the virus to get trapped beneath. Not enough to make surgery worthwhile, not while there are non-surgical ways to reduce the risk to zero.
Rom, those who are having trouble logging in are still using the old version of Blogger. Why you're having login problems, I don't know. I've developed them too.
This is a test. This is only a test. Had it been an actual comment, you'd be laughing your ass off right now. I now return you to your regularly scheduled program.
Dr. Kevin De Cock!!!
Reakky sounds a bit like a put up job to me!!!
Rom, when I'm hiding out on my own blog, I still come here. I even come here before I go visit anyone else. Post something new, damn it. I need to be entertained. Show me some new ghost pictures or something.
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not now
Ah, you see, that reminds me why I'm not married ;) Too many demands.
I've been fiddling with gadgets - I have managed to set up a device which allows me to transfer videotape to the computer. There's a massively complicated video-editing program also. It'll take time to work out how to use that but I have managed stage 1 at least. I can get the video into the computer.
Stage 2 is figuring out how to get it out again.
Cool. I can't wait to see what develops.
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