Cromulent medical disorders...

[kev@frames]

After revealing that Cellists Crotch was a wind up, as were several other "conditions and syndromes" - do you think we could manage to promulgate the condition "Morso Hip" ?

And another thing - reading the paper today i saw that six japanese diners had been hospitalised after eating ..... blowfish testicles

I mean, what happened in their history for someone to think "hey, I think I'll try eating blowfish testicles today". That must have been a famine of biblical proportions. I suppose you cant accuse them of being fussy eaters.... but there are limits.

[Moglet]

I must confess to having pondered (once, and briefly) what thought processes prompted some person back in the mists of time to beat his "errant manhood" into quiescence with, of all things, a spoon. I'm even more puzzled that he actually must have told someone about it...

Even more bizarre, what planet was the following individual in orbit round when he came up with this idea:-

Mr X: "Hmmm. I'm feeling frisky? Now what can I do to gratify this urge? I know!! I'll inject several litres of water into my scrotal sac!" *




* (Not from a blue movie, but the subject of a Channel 4 documentary a few years back.)

[gesso]

After revealing that Cellists Crotch was a wind up, as were several other "conditions and syndromes" - do you think we could manage to promulgate the condition "Morso Hip" ?

Ive evidence for myself of 'morso finger' I keep it in a box in the fridge next to the frozen peas, Just incase my wifes needle skills improve.

And another thing - reading the paper today i saw that six japanese diners had been hospitalised after eating ..... blowfish testicles

That must be why HOOTIE LEFT!

[DEEPJOY]

Mr X: "Hmmm. I'm feeling frisky? Now what can I do to gratify this urge? I know!! I'll inject several litres of water into my scrotal sac!" *

Moggy where does your mind get to? You should be a script writer for Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Has it always been trial or error on what to pick up and eat? If so, has the friend of man stood to watch if his mate keels over and dies when he munches on something he shouldn't have.

[Moglet]

Moggy where does your mind get to?

Psychology and behaviours fascinate me. For example, it used to be very frustrating to me that sometimes people didn't "get" what I was talking about, or couldn't understand the spirit in which something was said. Through self-education, it was a revelation to me that people actually do "think" differently. For example, my lead thought process is pictorial (part of the reason why my posts are so wordy): some people have sounds or words as their lead thought process. Language has reached a very high level among our species, but it often fails to convey thoughts accurately, hence the reason why non-verbal communication and nuance of tone can be vital in conveying accurately what we actually 'mean' when we communicate with each other (a fact borne out oh-so-well in cyberspace, where many a time the lack of non-literary cues can radically alter a reader's perception of an author's intended meaning).

I consider myself to be a member of the animal kingdom: I'm not religious, and I do not perceive Homo Sapiens to be singled out from other creatures of the universe as 'near godlike'. (Just my view of the world, and I mean no disrespect to other readers who have a different take on life.) I just see our species as different, in the way that I perceive alligators and cats to be different. The scientist in me seeks to understand more about what motivates behaviours, and how they evolved. Some of them I understand are driven at an instinctive, primal level (e.g. "I need energy to live: instinct tells me that you're food, so I'm going to kill you to ensure my own survival," or, "I'm going to send you packing to ensure that this female progagates my genes!), but what really piques my curiosity is where the ideas orignate from. Two particular areas fascinate me: courtship behaviour in all species; and anxiety management behaviours in our own species: the latter dominate so many of our interactions!

Has it always been trial or error on what to pick up and eat? If so, has the friend of man stood to watch if his mate keels over and dies when he munches on something he shouldn't have.

That's about as Darwinian as it gets. It's probably why our language skills made us so successful as a species. "Don't eat that! It's poisonous and will kill you!" is a much more efficient teaching method than "Oh sh!t! Me mate's snuffed it! Wish I could let the rest of the pack know..."

What intrigues me most of all is how experience is passed on through DNA...

[DEEPJOY]

Well!!!!!.... I'll be a son of a such egg mule!

I fear I am unable to hold a candle to your ability to weave and knit with ease, such free flowing, eloquently presented, educated babel of the highest order.
Please keep it simple, I was a truant at school and missed many lessons, Seriously ....wow!

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

[Moglet]

I fear I am unable to hold a candle to your ability to weave and knit with ease, such free flowing, eloquently presented, educated babel of the highest order.

You plamáser, Deepjoy! Over here, it's commonly referred to as "talkin' sh!te"...

(I definitely got that gene... )

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

You're playing my toon!!!

[Moglet]

Has it always been trial or error on what to pick up and eat? If so, has the friend of man stood to watch if his mate keels over and dies when he munches on something he shouldn't have.

Kev's example of eating blowfish is a classic case of how weird I think our species is, viz:

- We know today that eating blowfish can be fatal.
- This was discovered through previous observation of people dying after eating blowfish, and that knowledge being passed to others.
- For whatever reason, some members of our species persisted in their desire to eat blowfish despite the high risk of fatality, and time was invested in learning how to prepare it in such a manner that would allow ingestion without fatality.

What gets me is: Why persist? Why not settle for cod, or tuna, or strawberries? (I'm obviously on the same hymnsheet as Kev! )

OK, the pleasure principle applies. There must be something rewarding for some people in the eating of blowfish testicles: maybe they taste wonderful! But I, for one, have every intention of going to my grave without ever finding out.

[prospero]

I didn't know blowfish had any. Or any other fish for that matter.

Hence the expression: "Poor old Sole".

[Moglet]

Fnarrrrrr....

[kev@frames]

I didn't realise strawberries had them either. Its a funny old world we live in....

[Moglet]

Oh be-have.....