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If you were told to design a new contraceptive?

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  • #62
    Fizman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,605 ✭✭✭Fizman


    mikom wrote: »
    Whatever you do, please design one better than the coil.
    My missus was fitted with the coil as a contraceptive measure, and its useless
    We're expecting a baby in the spring.
    tony1kenobi wrote: »
    Are you sure it's hers?

    Ah come on. Remarks like that are totally uncoiled for.


  • #63
    The Volt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,957 ✭✭✭The Volt


    My girlfriend asked me what I thought we should use as a contraceptive.

    Apparently her being naked isn't one.


  • #64
    W.Shakes-Beer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭W.Shakes-Beer


    Fizman wrote: »
    Ah come on. Remarks like that are totally uncoiled for.


    He's "winding" him up.


  • #65
    El_Dangeroso
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 5,620 ✭✭✭El_Dangeroso


    bnt wrote: »
    I'm guessing you haven't seen Idiocracy, then? The smart people avoid pregnancy, the dumb procreate, and the movie is about what happens if you extrapolate this trend 500 years in to the future.

    Modern medicine and sanitation are keeping far more children alive who would previously have died, due to their defects or their parents' stupidity: the evolutionary urge towards large families makes sense when you realise that most children, historically, didn't survive to adulthood.

    http://xkcd.com/603/

    Gotta love xkcd as the ultimate answer to everything.


  • #66
    MikeRoeSopht
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25 ✭MikeRoeSopht


    this T-shirt
    would turn me right off

    http://287857.spreadshirt.ie/shop/article/recommend/article/5911554


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  • #67
    mink_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,454 ✭✭✭mink_man


    shove a little plug up the penis, but it may pop someones eye out...if you finish outside...


  • #68
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,295 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Rhyme wrote: »
    I dunno, slinkys are pretty hot.


    /derp

    Is that the one where your pregnant wife falls down the stairs?


  • #69
    mink_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,454 ✭✭✭mink_man


    this is defo not the new contraceptive anyway! :P

    hehehehe

    :P


  • #70
    garv123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭garv123


    a little off topic but it think it would work pretty well to keep women from getting pregnant
    http://news.ninemsn.com.au/health/1073546/anti-rape-female-condom-unveiled-for-world-cup


  • #71
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,182 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Temple_Grandin wrote: »
    http://xkcd.com/603/

    Gotta love xkcd as the ultimate answer to everything.
    I saw that one: I see the "wise" character tell the first character that he's wrong ... but doesn't explain why. The argument against the Idiocracy issue seems to boil down to "I don't like it". Then the "wise" character makes a "straw man" comparison with old religious zealots bemoaning "yoof". It doesn't address the point I was making: the real, huge, changes in survival rates, over all of society, over the last couple of centuries.

    I'm not talking about the perception of "moral decay", and neither was the film: I'm talking about the short-circuiting of natural selection by modern medicine and agriculture. Millions of children are surviving, who would otherwise have died, only to be faced with burgeoning overpopulation. Old people have been moaning about the young for as long as there have been old people, but this is a genuinely new situation. Yes, things will "sort themselves out": they always do. But ... :rolleyes:

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



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  • #72
    El_Dangeroso
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 5,620 ✭✭✭El_Dangeroso


    bnt wrote: »
    I saw that one: I see the "wise" character tell the first character that he's wrong ... but doesn't explain why. The argument against the Idiocracy issue seems to boil down to "I don't like it". Then the "wise" character makes a "straw man" comparison with old religious zealots bemoaning "yoof". It doesn't address the point I was making: the real, huge, changes in survival rates, over all of society, over the last couple of centuries.

    I'm not talking about the perception of "moral decay", and neither was the film: I'm talking about the short-circuiting of natural selection by modern medicine and agriculture. Millions of children are surviving, who would otherwise have died, only to be faced with burgeoning overpopulation. Old people have been moaning about the young for as long as there have been old people, but this is a genuinely new situation. Yes, things will "sort themselves out": they always do. But ... :rolleyes:

    Yeah, but people have been saying we're running out of space on the planet for about a thousand years now.. these things are never as bad as the scaremongerers let on.

    Evolution hasn't stopped btw, still lots of kids in the third world dying before their fifth birthdays. We will always be adapting to our environment.


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