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As we all know, it's going to get hotter....
If I might go so far to mention the two veg in the 'meat and two veg'
Right 3B,who sniggered? If you want to lose all your lunchtime..sorry, flashback
Anyway, the two veg are kept away from the body, because the little guys peg out
when they get
too hot.
According to my calculations, by the end of the century the two veg will have to be
2.96938885 metres from the body to be cool enough. I suspect either a) a cooling
device will be on the markets or b) trousers will have to be radically redesigned.
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Bad, perhaps; painful, certainly ... |
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diamond heatsink for the family jewels. |
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"Fan it wiv yer 'at !", as the actress said to the bishop (allegedly). |
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Bad science, naughty science, get down Shep |
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Hang on - you say there's only meant to be one meat? |
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So I have another meter and a half to go, then... |
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Can you tie 'em in a bow? |
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... although sea temperatures are rising, too ... |
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If things get too hot outside than testes will just evolve to remain internal where the temperature remains relatively constant... and those without the balls to accept change will no longer procreate. |
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The idea and comments are so very funny. But really, get
used to it, women's boobs start sagging at sixty and from then
on it's anyone's guess where they will end up. Knees, ankles,
or worse. So button up and deal with it. Freeze your little
fishy guys now, and be one step ahead of the game, and learn
to love your, soon to be, droopy testies. |
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Happily, this has not proven to be an issue for any primate
species, in, say, Africa |
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<Contemplates amusing mental image of [n_m_rm] attempting scrotum-stretching experiments on an un-anaesthetized silverback lowland gorilla/> |
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//If things get too hot outside than testes will just evolve to remain internal// |
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I think it's more probable they would evolve further cooling strategies, like sweating constantly or flopping about for air cooling. But human testicles are a different story. We have three more generations before natural evolution in humans is a matter of history. |
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//testes will just evolve to remain internal where the
temperature remains relatively constant// Apparently the
main reason testicles are kept cool is so that the sperm can
sense when they're in a nice warm vagina, and wake up and
start swimming. If you testicles were always at 37°C, your
sperm would be on constant standby which, allegedly, is not
good for them. Like leaving your Ferrari ticking over for an
hour before you head out to drive through the Holland
tunnel. |
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On the other hand, you'd think sperm would be smart
enough to find some other way of detecting when they're in
a place worth swimming through. |
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//scrotum-stretching experiments on an un-anaesthetized silverback lowland gorilla |
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I out-sourced that to Beanangel.....funny... I have not seen him in a while. |
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I know this is something of a tangent, but the new Japanese Emperor has pardoned 500,000 petty crimes. I am wondering if it was one bloke who forgot to return a library book on time and one bloke who committed 499,999 crimes? |
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//something of a tangent// Not really. A tangent at least
touches the line it's tangential to. |
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<Files [m_m_rm]'s anno in "Useless fact of the week"/> |
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// three more generations before natural evolution in humans is a matter of history. // |
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That strikes us as overly optimistic. Nowhere near that long ... after all, the asteroid arrives in just ... oh, you don't know about that, do you ? |
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Reminds me of a friend who, in an evolutionary
biology lecture, asked whether there had been a
comparative study of primate penis size.
Embarrassed silence. |
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He’s now a professor at UCLA |
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// Embarrassed silence // |
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Why ? It's simply a matter of scientific fact. It's not like asking every male there present to stand up and be counted (or rather, measured, hem hem). |
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In fact, it's a perfectly reasonable and indeed interesting question, despite its teenagers-sniggering-behind- the-bike-sheds aspect. |
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Didn't know the Cube had a Yorkshire dialect
emulator..live and learn... |
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But surely it's common knowledge? "Cardboard box?? Eeh, we
used t'dream of livin' in't cardboard box." Hence the cube. |
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//women's boobs start sagging at sixty// I've seen even
smaller ones, down to a 43D, sag noticeably. |
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It's acceptable to "notice". It's not acceptable to not only notice, but immediately approach the lady with a protractor, a tape measure, and a purposeful glint in your eye, when you haven't even been introduced. |
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// the Cube had a Yorkshire dialect emulator. // |
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A minor blip in the Universal Translator - now fixed. For obvious reasons, the system misidentified Yorkshire as a separate and distinct language rather than a dialect, since it lacks a number of constructions in normal English such as "It must be my round", "What a nice sunny day", and most significantly "Welcome, stranger". |
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