Yeah, yeah, I know it's not the WoT, but tell me how I'm supposed to pass this up for the Burg.
Chinese surgeons have performed the world's first penis transplant on a man whose organ was damaged beyond repair in an accident this year. The incident left the man with a 1cm-long stump with which he was unable to urinate or have sexual intercourse. "His quality of life was affected severely," said Dr Weilie Hu, a surgeon at Guangzhou General Hospital.
Doctors spent 15 hours attaching a 10 cm penis to the 44-year-old patient after the parents of a brain-dead man half his age agreed to donate their son's organ. The procedure, described in a case study due to appear in the journal European Urology next month, represents a big leap forward in transplant surgery; it required complex microsurgery to connect nerves and tiny blood vessels.
The surgical team claims the operation was a success. After 10 days, tests revealed the organ had a rich blood supply and the man was able to urinate normally. However, surgeons said they had to remove the penis two weeks later. "Because of a severe psychological problem of the recipient and his wife, the transplanted penis regretfully had to be cut off," Dr Hu said. An examination of the organ showed no signs of it being rejected by the body.
Jean-Michel Dubernard, the French surgeon who performed the world's first face transplant on a woman who had been attacked by a dog this year, said psychological factors were a serious issue for many patients receiving certain "allografts", or organs from donors. "Psychological consequences of hand and face allografts show that it is not so easy to use and see permanently a dead person's hands, nor is it easy to look in a mirror to see a dead person's face," he wrote in the journal. "Clearly, in the Chinese case the failure at a very early stage was first psychological. It involved the recipient's wife and raised many questions."
Andrew George, a transplant expert at Imperial College, London, said: "Doing a penis transplant should be no more complex than anything else. But it takes time for nerve sensations to kick in and it's not clear whether the patient would ever be able to have sex with it. The question is whether it's right to be doing a transplant for what may be seen as cosmetic reasons."
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But those extensions are ok right? The ones in the emails?
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I know a real estate agent in Hawaii. It is a major deal for Chinese buyers if the previous owner died in the house. I don't quite understand this, as it would seem that Chinese would be less likely to die in a hospital and thus at home. But apparently, if you are selling to Chinese clients and they find out that the house is being sold because gram or gramps died - the first thing they will want to know is if he someone died in the house. If so - that's a big negative.
So along that line, I'm guessing that having a dead man's penis could cause a few problems for the wife.
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Additionally, any "flesh of the dead" issues probably do not apply here. When harvesting organs from a brain dead donor, the operations can be done without awaiting cessation of all vital functions. This ensures maximum vitality of the transplanted tissues and reduces the possibility of rejection.
Much more likely is idiotic superstition at work. Especially considering how the average size of a Chinese male's genitals are substantially less than the dimensions cited in the article. At a whopping 10cm, this guy would have been a regular Asiatic John Holmes.
The unerect penises of Chinese men (aged 18 to 45) are between 4.5 and 8.8 centimeters (1.6 to 3.5 inches) long, with the average length being 6.5 centimeters (2.5 inches).
The long and the short of it is more likely how this guy's wife choked in the clinch.
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In all seriousness, A5089, please elaborate. I'll offer up that one of the most enjoyable experiences in my entire life was a trip to Taiwan. To this very day, I still feel "homesick" for Ilha Formosa - "The Beautiful Island".
Except for those unfortunate chinese traits Phil-B attributed to the retaining of juvenile features, I'm not chinese-looking at all (grandfather's father was a WWI chinese worker called in to supplement french workforce along with about 100 000 of his fellows); in fact, I've got polish (jew, given name), jewish, czech, italian, chinese, and probably swiss, ancestry, but unfortunately, I've got all the bad genes from that. I'm the stuff that has stuck to the bottom of the Melting Pot (only good thing about me is that I'm mostly harmless).
And my direct family also includes nepalese, turkish (jew), sierra-leonese, dutch, and even arab lineage through alliances.
Doesn't prevent me from being a french born-and-raised non-practicing catholic little porker.
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All humans exhibit many characteristics due to neotony, the retention of juvenile characteristics into adulthood. The relative hairlessness of humans compared to other apes is commonly cited as an example.
Chinese exhibit markedly more neotony in sexual characteristics than Europeans for example. European men have significantly wider shoulders than women, and women wider hips. These sex differences and others like body hair, are noticeably less pronounced in Chinese and result from neotony as these differences are much less pronounced in children.
I told A5089 it means he is more evolved than us knuckle dragging Caucasians.
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I've got all the bad genes from that. I'm the stuff that has stuck to the bottom of the Melting Pot (only good thing about me is that I'm mostly harmless).
are we here at the Burg gonna have to procure a bride for you anonymous5089?
How rich do you expect the dowry to be 5089?
btw your ancestors passed on some first rate brain genes!
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Sure enough, A5089, flipping Heinz 57-Effing-Varieties you most certainly might be, but it still doesn't explain how in the bloody hell you (post # 14) managed to respond to a post (# 15) made after your own.
A5089, you are post # 14. Yet you refer to facts mentioned in the post (# 15) subsequent to yours. phil_b shows up nowhere in the entire thread until after your # 14 post. While I congratulate you upon a feat of Internet prestidigitation, I still want to know just how in the hell it happened.
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It seems that the problem was that his spouse rejected the thing. In all fairness, my completely non-Asiatic spouse would probably not be very happy if the doctors attached a 10 cm penis to me.
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Yet you refer to facts mentioned in the post (# 15) subsequent to yours.
Ah, ok, ok. This is because this very subject was already evoked by Phil_B in an earlier thread, given the popularity of penis-related issues in RB - penis enlargement fraud, penis enarglement, penis damaged during sex with dangerous animals, submissive asian wimmen cutting off penis, nut cutting off own penis, false penis warmed up in microwave-oven, etc, etc... I think if it's penis-related, it was posted here -, and my tendancy to whine about my shortcomings (literally, in this case).
No clairvoyance, just a coincidence Phil_B commented right after me, with the same earlier argument.
There, fixed it. I should have surgically removed all morals and become a great journalist.
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"I think if it's penis-related, it was posted here..."
Good observation.
I vote that "If it's penis-related, it's probably posted here" be added to Rantburg's list of random title phrases ("Tomorrow's news, today!", "Raw meat for the mind", "Oderous Dumb Mutant", et al).
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I have to admit, I was a little scared to click on the link. I wasn't sure what graphic you would be using.
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TW: It seems that the problem was that his spouse rejected the thing. In all fairness, my completely non-Asiatic spouse would probably not be very happy if the doctors attached a 10 cm penis to me.
TW Ima shocked!! and rolling on the floor picturing the scene .. LOL!..coffee alert!!
imagine..what a revolting development and think of the fright of it, call 911!! LOL!
In the Emergency room Dr. Steve White asks, "what's the matter sir, why are you freaking out?"....
"I just came home from work and my wife whipped out her new 10 cm penis and waved it at me!"
MEXICO CITY: Mexican leftists, who say the July 2 election was stolen, declared their candidate their "legitimate president" on Saturday, a symbolic move reducing the risk of street protests.
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And I name myself the president of the united states of america.
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Guess we now know why Moud extended his hand to COLUMBIA, whilst CHINA has offered to sell air defense systems to Mahico and Panama - Clintonian Amerika's Waffen Soviet Male Brute SS Airborne can't save the Panama Canal by land iff land routes are denied to the USDOD. SUNBURN + SILKWORMS, etal. are prob next on the products marketing list.
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LOL.. Mr. Norton aka Alaska Paul!! hey what are the odds..maybe we'll see a revolución down Mexico way. I'd be happy to supply both sides with all the ammo I can afford.
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Emperor Norton was no fool. Read one of his proclamations and see why:
Dismiss his decree at your own peril.
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Can't wait for Obrador to meet with the US President Kerry and his predecessor Gore in an Hemispheric Conference to cover the need for other vehicles to validate the legitimacy of their election and office. Best scheduled for Saturday to be followed by a blitz in the usual suspects sympathetic MSM Sunday morning news programs.
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Strange Leftists, lying in Cantinas with half-empty bottles of fermented agave catus juice, is no basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical tequila-saoked ceremony. You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some drunken tart called you el Presidente! I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor just because some drunken Commies bestowed a title on me, they'd put me away!
(apologies to Monty Python)
Now, if I went
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Mexico celebrated its independence with a military parade Saturday, after the traditional 'Cry' was held without incident. The day was set to end with a so-called National Democratic Convention held by the supporters of leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in Mexico City's Zocalo square.
The rally was set to last several hours and seemed likely to result in the proclamation of Lopez Obrador, the losing candidate in Mexico's July 2 presidential election, as the country's 'legitimate president.'
The rally, which started two hours after its scheduled time amid heavy rain, was set to last several hours and seemed likely to result in the proclamation of Lopez Obrador, the losing candidate in Mexico's July 2 presidential election, as the country's 'legitimate president.'
Lopez Obrador, who lost the election by 0.56 percentage points to conservative candidate Felipe Calderon of the ruling centre-right National Action Party (PAN), has said that vote was fraudulent and refuses to concede defeat. His followers have demanded a full recount. The former mayor of Mexico City, Lopez Obrador hoped to gather 1 million people for Saturday's demonstration. He opened the rally alongside allies including current Mexico City Mayor Alejandro Encinas and Elena Poniatowska.
Gerardo Fernandez Norona, spokesman of Lopez Obrador's centre-left Party of Democratic Revolution (PRD), said that the convention would probably recognize Lopez Obrador 'as the legitimate president' in the face of 'usurpation' by Calderon. Lopez Obrador, who has called his followers to prevent Calderon's scheduled inauguration on December 1, had proposed that the convention designate a 'legitimate president' or a coordinator of 'peaceful civic resistance.'
Some Mexican intellectuals and even left-wing leaders including PRD founder Cuauhtemoc Cardenas have criticized the plan to proclaim Lopez Obrador as president, and have warned against violating Mexico's constitutional process.
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Mexico celebrated its independence with a military parade Saturday
That must've cut into the Drug Cartel's security forces that day.
A Center-right alliance led by Moderate Party leader Fredrik Reinfeldt won power in Sweden in an election on Sunday, ending 12 years of Social Democrat rule by vowing to lower taxes and trim the welfare state. Reinfeldt, who will be the next prime minister, declared victory in a tight election. Social Democrat Prime Minister Goran Persson, one of Europe's longest-serving leaders, conceded defeat after 10 years in office and will quit as party chief. According to almost complete results from Sweden's Election Commission, the four-party opposition bloc had won 48.0 percent of votes to 46.2 percent for Persson and his allies.
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Woo hoo! Take another one out of their column and put it in ours. (yes, yes, I know their conservatives are closer to our Democrats than our Republicans, but it's still a move in the right (heh) direction... and no less likely to give their Left and ours heart palpitations.)
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What strikes me as interesting is NS's comment that the Donks ARE getting accurate polling information - every TRUTHFUL account of every national election going back to Jimmah's 1980 bitc*slapping shows that beyond any possible question, the DNC leadership and the senior pols knew exactly what was going to happen. And if they know it, the MM knows it too. Which of course leaves us only two possibilities - the MM is knowingly lying to us, or these guys are suffering from a case of cognitive dissonance that boggles the mind...and I'm not so sure that the correct answer isn't the latter.
Mike
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Yeah, but just wait till '08, when their candidate Brave Sir Robin runs for President.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Mexico celebrated its independence with a military parade Saturday, after the traditional 'Cry' was held without incident. The day was set to end with a so-called National Democratic Convention held by the supporters of leftist presidential candidate 
