omega0684
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| posted on 10/9/09 at 08:45 PM |
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African 800m is a hermaphrodite
Dont you just love 'the sun'
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smart51
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| posted on 10/9/09 at 09:56 PM |
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"is a HERMAPHODITE" [the Sun]. Shouldn't that be an hermaphrodite? Why do the sun have to put the important words in each sentence
in block capitals? Are their readers really that thick that they can't read a whole sentence?
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 10/9/09 at 10:25 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by smart51
Are their readers really that thick that they can't read a whole sentence?
Do you even have to ask 
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mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 10/9/09 at 10:34 PM |
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Another story from the old country
I work for a company that provides 50meg to the home...and we still get folks complaining of slow speeds.....shows how lucky we really are.
BBC NEWS
SA pigeon 'faster than broadband'
Broadband promised to unite the world with super-fast data delivery - but in South Africa it seems the web is still no faster than a humble pigeon.
A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory stick against the ADSL service from the country's biggest web firm,
Telkom.
Winston the pigeon took two hours to carry the data 60 miles - in the same time the ADSL had sent 4% of the data.
Telkom said it was not responsible for the firm's slow internet speeds.
The idea for the race came when a member of staff at Unlimited IT complained about the speed of data transmission on ADSL.
He said it would be faster by carrier pigeon.
"We renown ourselves on being innovative, so we decided to test that statement," Unlimited's Kevin Rolfe told the Beeld
newspaper.
'No cats allowed'
Winston took off from Unlimited IT's call centre in the town of Howick to deliver the memory stick to the firm's office in Durban.
According to Winston's website there were strict rules in place to ensure he had no unfair advantage.
“ Winston is over the moon ”
Kevin Rolfe
They included "no cats allowed" and "birdseed must not have any performance-enhancing seeds within".
The firm said Winston took one hour and eight minutes to fly between the offices, and the data took another hour to upload on to their system.
Mr Rolfe said the ADSL transmission of the same data size was about 4% complete in the same time.
Hundreds of South Africans followed the race on social networking sites Facebook and Twitter.
"Winston is over the moon," Mr Rolfe said.
"He is happy to be back at the office and is now just chilling with his friends."
Meanwhile Telkom said it could not be blamed for slow broadband services at the Durban-based company.
"Several recommendations have, in the past, been made to the customer but none of these have, to date, been accepted," Telkom's Troy
Hector told South Africa's Sapa news agency in an e-mail.
South Africa is one of the countries hoping to benefit from three new fibre optic cables being laid around the African continent to improve internet
connections.
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02GF74
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| posted on 11/9/09 at 06:19 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by smart51
"is a " [the Sun]. Shouldn't that be an hermaphrodite?
Poor show by the Sun, headline should have been:
800m runner is a HERMANPHRODITE. geddit?
.... but the important thing for the "readers", did they include a photo of his/her titties? 
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 11/9/09 at 10:04 AM |
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quote:
Dont you just love 'the sun'
no
Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet
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flak monkey
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| posted on 11/9/09 at 11:01 AM |
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So what? Does it really matter?
Gender (the definitions given by culture - not science) is all a load of phooey anyway
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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smart51
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| posted on 11/9/09 at 11:17 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by flak monkey
Gender ... is all a load of phooey
That one of your chat up lines?
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flak monkey
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| posted on 11/9/09 at 11:27 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by smart51
quote:
Originally posted by flak monkey
Gender ... is all a load of phooey
That one of your chat up lines?
What are you getting at? Lol
Sadly gender is seen as a such big thing. We apparently live in this world of 'equality' yet cultural and media stereotypes of what each
gender should be are constanly rammed down our throats by sensationalist stories.
Apprently all guys should like beer and football, and all girls should like shopping.
Winds me up thats all.
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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cd.thomson
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| posted on 11/9/09 at 11:37 AM |
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I'm very open minded about this kind of stuff, but looking at the science - its a big deal for the sport because if she is an hermaphrodite
(although no other news seems to verify this) and she is running in a female race then she has an unfair steroidal advantage.
As far as I'm concerned she is a woman until proven otherwise though, and this media s**tstorm is completely out of order!
On a side note, give me a swab of from the inside of her cheek and I could tell you her sex in about 2, 3 hours.
Craig
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 11/9/09 at 12:47 PM |
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Looks like they'll be a new hermaphrodite and transvestite grouping in the Olympics now
Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet
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cd.thomson
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| posted on 11/9/09 at 01:07 PM |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8250609.stm
Although these paragraph:
"Peter Bowen-Simpkins, spokesperson for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and an expert in these conditions explains there
are four types of sex.
These is your phenotype, which is what you look like, your psychological sex, which is what you feel like and which usually the same as your phenotype
and related to how you have been brought up.
There is also your gonadal sex which is whether you have ovaries or testicles and your chromosomal sex which is what combination of x or y chromosomes
you have."
Are both grammatically and scientifically dubious.
Your gondal and chromosomal sex are inseperable. genotype and epigenetics combine to give phenotype when primary and secondary sexual characteristics
are involved. So I count that as 1 definition.
Then psychological "sex" as in, do you like dolls or robots, is another and is entirely a social construct anyway.
Craig
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02GF74
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| posted on 11/9/09 at 02:11 PM |
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so what if you like robots dressed up in dolls clothing? 
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cd.thomson
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| posted on 11/9/09 at 02:20 PM |
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you wouldnt believe how many hours ive spent in toys r us asking that same question
Craig
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 11/9/09 at 02:20 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by 02GF74
so what if you like robots dressed up in dolls clothing?
and what about those blokes on the telly who have intimate relations with cars?
Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 12/9/09 at 10:25 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy
quote:
Originally posted by 02GF74
so what if you like robots dressed up in dolls clothing?
and what about those blokes on the telly who have intimate relations with cars?
I'm sure they'd be allowed to run the 400m...
The Sun has to put lots of words in capitals, to make it sound important, like:
ENJOYED having sex with call girl (really?)
ASKED to have a threesome (omg I can't believe he'd ask for something the evil git!)
Tabloid newspapers? Wouldn't buy them for emergency bog roll
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