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Comment Re:i pledge to you... (Score 1) 723

When government saves a life, Jesus punches a dolphin in the gills.

So does he ask his father to put the gills on the dolphin first, or how does that work?

They're proverbial gills you insensitive clod! It's like poetry man, artistic license and whatnot...

No. You have it all wrong. It's how sharks are created. Kinda like when the televangelists hit people in the head and tell them they're "heal-DA" As punishment for the gov't saving a life, one cute flippy dolphin gets turned into a "shark-A". This will ruin everyone's beach vacations. When there's enough, the end of days will come in the form of the Sharknado, and clean the earth of the heathen government.

Comment Re:What about construction? (Score 1) 673

However what you seem to be saying is that women are a better fit for indoor jobs at a keyboard than all the males here that just happen to be doing such a sissy job instead of cutting down trees :)

Actually I was saying that men are better suited for singular focus jobs. It's just that in modern times those tend to be more inside than they used to be. It's funny that until the last 20-30 years, typing was considered a women's job. When I was in high school, girls were required to take typing. It was optional for boys.

Comment What about construction? (Score 1) 673

There simply are not enough women in the construction field either. Why aren't we looking to have parity in auto mechanics and plumbers too? I'm all for equal rights, but not to the point of putting on blinders.

I'm sure I'll be modded a troll for this. But men and women are different in general. Obviously there are exceptions. But women tend to be more empathetic than men.That's one reason they excel in nursing and teaching. They are also better multi-taskers. Again, there are of course exceptions. But this is why I think we are starting to see more women in CEO and management roles.

Part of it probably has to do with evolution. Traditional roles for men have been more single task focused. Successful men were good at hunting, building, etc. So those traits got passed down to their progeny. Successful mothers took care of damn near everything else. I have nothing but the utmost respect for "stay at home moms". Children are demanding as hell. They need damn near constant attention as they randomly do crazy shit, or need cleaned, fed, held, etc. When my wife is ill and I have to take care of things, I find it can get extremely stressful. I like to get a task done and move on to the next. But that's not how things work with kids. Successful mothers were able to do multiple things and drop what they are doing at a moments notice to take care of kids, or what ever else needed to be done. This too was passed down to their descendants.

But now after a couple million years of this paradigm how practical is it to think human nature can change in a couple of generations? It feels like political correctness to the point of insanity. But I'm very likely wrong and a couple of $100 gift cards will undo millions of years of evolution.

Comment Relax people (Score 2) 38

I have it on good word from The Umbrella Corporation... Ahem... Monsanto, that there is nothing to worry about. This bacteria could in no way affect their GMO products. Nor did they have any involvement in it's creation. The reports of carnivorous plants attacking independent farmers and their families are simply not true. Their fields and homes were torched, ahem, sterilized simply as a safety precaution.

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