A German couple who went to a fertility clinic after eight years of marriage have found out why they are still childless - they werenât having sex. The University Clinic of Lubek said they had never heard of a case like it after examining the couple who went to see them last month for fertility tests. A clinic spokesman said: "When we asked them how often they had had sex, they looked blank, and said: "What do you mean?". The 30-year-old wife and her 36-year-old husband are now being given sex therapy lessons while the university clinic undertakes a study to try to find out if there are more couples with a similar lack of sex education. TGA, did this get much press at home?
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Were they Shakers or something?
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Were they Shakers or something?
Doesn't sound like they were "shaking" it very much.
As always with any contest (genetic or otherwise) it still remains that one must; "Enter to Win."
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Omigosh. No wonder the Islamics are licking their chops over Europe.
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Snopes is reporting that this is probably a hoax.
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05/23/2004 20:47 Comments ||
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Possibly a hoax but I read about this 3 days ago. The article I read mentioned they were members of a religious group that only allows them to sleep next to each other. I think this is taking osmosos way to far.
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#13 Possibly a hoax but I read about this 3 days ago. The article I read mentioned they were members of a religious group that only allows them to sleep next to each other. I think this is taking osmosos way to far.
Posted by: Deacon Blues 2004-05-23 9:32:38 PM
A rapidly diminishing religous group I would expect
UK home owners were given a grim warning last night that lending rates will have to double to prevent a crash in the housing market. The Council of Mortgage Lenders, which represents the UKâs banks and building societies, believes the small interest rate increases imposed by the Bank of England have been too little too late to avoid disaster. If the organisationâs prediction is borne out then the current base lending rate would go up from 4.25% to 8.5%, meaning the typical mortgage rate would soar from around 7% to 10.5%. That would immediately add hundreds of pounds to the price of monthly repayments. -----------snipped--------
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Saw this on a blog ad on LGF, and it looks legit. This site, provided by a Mr. Jon Sanford of West Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA, professes to collect thank you messages to Mr. Blair and the British armed forces for subsequent publishing.
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At least six people have been killed and three hurt after a roof collapsed at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport. The reason for the collapse in terminal 2E, a newly-constructed part of Franceâs biggest international airport, was not immediately clear. However, cracks and falling dust had been observed just before the accident, said an airport spokesman. Flights from New York and Johannesburg had just arrived at the terminal and a flight to Prague was due to depart. The spokesman said it was not yet possible to be certain about the number of victims as there might still be people trapped beneath the wreckage.
Reports say sections of the roof fell onto a boarding footway. The passage in turn collapsed onto airport service vehicles parked underneath. A spokesman for the airport said that the affected area had been relatively quiet at the time of the collapse. "Several tonnes of concrete and glass have collapsed," Laurent Vibert, a spokesman for the fire service told LCI television. "Some people heard cracks before the accident and there was concrete dust coming from the ceiling. This was a very prestigious hall and itâs a very hard day for us today," an airport spokesman told reporters outside the terminal. President Jacques Chirac his "deepest sympathy" with the injured and the families and victims. The French Transport Minister, Gilles de Robien, and Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin have visited the scene of the accident.
Terminal 2E cost 750m euros to build and was opened in 2003. It is used by Air France and the Sky Team alliance. The opening of the terminal was delayed by a week last year when a security team refused to give the go-ahead. The Paris airport group (ADP) said at the time that a large lamp had fallen from the ceiling just as the team of engineers, architects and firefighters had been inspecting the site. Poor buggers.
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05/23/2004 7:52:14 AM ||
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sounds like bad design, or the schedule had higher priority than QA/QC
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"The reason for the collapse...was not immediately clear"
Hah!Massive bribes and kickbacks to get contract,then substandard material,shoddy construction and unskilled labor used.Some minor inspector will be found guilty of taking bribes,be scapegoated and France will move on to its normal hate-the-US-and-the-Jews life.
Somewhere Churchill,Eden,Roosevelt,Truman and Eisenhower are laughing over possible headline:Head of de Gaulle is defective,collapses
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BBC is now saying 5 dead, 6th victim not confirmed.
The BBC's background story (which also has a reverse-angle photo) says the part that collapsed was a departure lounge. From the pictures, it appears the collapsed section is made up of oval elements that form a tube (looks like about 40' high x 80' wide) without any internal supports. This tube then rests on pillars about 1 storey high. While the account says the "roof" collapsed, it looks to me like the underpinnings broke loose, which dropped the whole thing. The individual oval sections stayed more or less intact, although separating from each other. The span that fell looks to be about 60' long.
The oval part is what was innovative, the supporting structure appears to be just plain old post-and-lintel construction. So if support failure casused the collapse, I'd tend to agree with Stephen in suspecting material or construction problems, rather than bad engineering. But it's also true that modern cost and aesthetic pressures force designs closer to the limits of the materials used. There's not as much allowance for safety (big beams are expensive, and they look ugly). So it's possible that somebody screwed up their calculations. That would be really bad news, because, if so, it's likely the whole building is at risk.
Couple of things for engineering geeks to think on: The section that collapsed included a jetway, which penetrated the side of the tube. That would reduce the strength of that section, and the weight of the jetway would put a torquing stress on the supporting structure, unless it was balanced in some way. And it appears that there was not a lot of connection between adjacent oval elements (note that the section broke away cleanly), which means that there'd be nothing to take the load if a support failed.
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Thinking -- who was President and who gutted our armed forces?
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton said Sunday that House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi was right to say that President Bush "has on his shoulders the death of many more [U.S.] troops" because of his military misjudgments, explaining, "I know a little bit about" being Commander-in-Chief. "Any Commander-in-Chief bears that responsibility," she told "Fox News Sunday." "Itâs an awesome, unbelievably overwhelming responsibility. I know a little bit about that."
Clinton also seconded Pelosiâs charge that Bush was incompetent, defending her own comments to NBC last week that the president had demonstrated "a pattern and practice of misjudgments that add up to incompetence and lack of credibility." "I have to say, Iâve been very disappointed at many of the decisions along the way implementing the judgment of the administration," she told Fox.
Sen. Clinton said that U.S. troop cutbacks had left the U.S. unable to deal simultaneously with the Iraq war and its global defense commitments. "We have to face the fact that we need a larger active duty military," she told Fox. "We cannot continue to stretch our troops, both active duty, Guard and Reserve, to the breaking point, which is what weâre doing now." During her husbandâs administration, U.S. troop strength was cut back from 18 active duty divisions to ten. Sen. Clinton painted a grim picture of U.S. prospects in Iraq, saying, "We have lot of trouble - everybody knows that. My hope is that we can work our way out of the trouble weâre in."
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"We have to face the fact that we need a larger active duty military," she told Fox.
Well, where the hell were you when your adulterous husband chopped our military in half (And why did you throw all the "savings" into social programs instead of just reducing taxes and the size of the government)?
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"Sen. Clinton painted a grim picture of U.S. prospects..."
Which she probably derived from the grim looks on the faces of the troops when she visited them.
"Sarge, do I have to eat with the fat lady again? She took my ice cream last time."
"Shut up, Johnson. Look, do it this once and I'll put you in for a Purple Heart."
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It's true, though. She knows a little about being Commander-in-Chief. Just like she knows a little about having a faithful husband, and being a real human being instead of a witch from outer space.
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You know what I get whenever I try to write this Pumpkin Head looking Charlatan, other wise known as Bill Clinton's woman that swallows?!? This is an automatically generated Delivery
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Delivery to the following recipients failed.
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Can you believe this bitch!! She and she is a US Senator!!
"I know a little bit about" being Commander-in-Chief.
Damned little, I'd say. Just like the Philanderer-in-Chief you're "married" to.
"Any Commander-in-Chief bears ... responsibility"
Except your worthless, adulterous husband - at least according to you and him.
Every time this moonbat opens her mouth, she gets worse. What the hell was New York thinking?
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05/23/2004 18:30 Comments ||
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a) that she'd get a lot of press
b) that she'd bring money to the state
c) that she might maybe unseat the Republican governor
d) that her occasionally-faithful husband would locate in the city (see a & b above)
e) Thinking? That's hard work, man ... all that linear white male oppressive exploitation of the natural intuition we'd all get from crystals if the fascist right wing fundamentalists weren't broadcasting so loudly on that brainwave channel ....
Sigh.
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05/23/2004 18:38 Comments ||
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Where is this "we're in trouble" meme coming from?
The only place we're in trouble is on the home front, with Bush not responding to the torrent of complainers and jeopardizing the election by looking weak.
We're making mash Tater, no one's heard a peep from Fallujah, etc... What's the nominal justification for this stuff? Letting Brahimi too far off his leash is a concern, but surely the complainers want things to go even more in that direction.
(As for Hillary, does she also "know a little bit" about rape?)
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She's gone from claiming credit for "Mr. Clinton's military" in the initial success, to claiming inadequacy. I've got to get a new irony-meter with a wider range.
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The Demos are getting desperate.They know they are stuck w/charisma challenged Kerry.Their man has proven incapable of offering a vision for America or even a bold plan of some kind-healthcare,education,anything.So the Demos are stuck w/running against Bush,not for something.So far,all of their attacks have failed.War w/Iraq wrong-American people support it.Bush lied getting us into war-terrorists found in Iraq,chemical weapon used.Bush was responsible for 9/11-American people blame terrorists for 9/11.Bush's economic policies are ruining US-economy is growing by leaps and bounds.Bush is responsible for high gas prices-people are blaming OPEC.Bush was responsible for prison abuse-w/no coverup and Bush expressing outrage,American people gave him a pass(media also overplayed its hand).
Now the attack is Bush has the right idea(imagine Demo mentally crossing fingers)but is incompetent at carrying them out.The Demos are saying,we don't know why,but you are rejecting our policies,so we will carry out the Bush policies,but we will do them better,because Bush is too stupid,too stubborn,too incompetent to succeed,so you need to vote for the Democratic nominee because he's not Bush.
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Well, all Madame Hillary and her fellow concerned Democrats have to do to fix the "end-strength problem" is to put their money where their mouths are (well, maybe not there) and fund a larger force. I haven't seen any bills proposed by these blowhards to increase military endstrengths and provide adequate funding to support them. I don't think that I'll hold my breath waiting.
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President fell off bike today... Kerry told reporters in front of cameras, âDid the training wheels fall off?â... Reporters are debating whether to treat it is as on or off the record... Developing...
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Kerry's still smarting from his bike spill on dry pavement with no "SOB" Secret Service agent to blame it on...Mr. "I Don't Fall"
FYI, Bush was on the 16th mile of a 17-mile mountain bike trail ride when he fell
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Why should it be off the record? Do the reporters want to show the public that Kerry has a sense of humor or not? Besides, shouldn't the public be aware that Kerry has a juvenile sense of humor and is genuinely disrespectful? i.e., he's a smart-ass?
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The media's reporting that he said, "I didn't know he rode a bike."
Kerry also doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.
#6,892 in the list of reasons not to vote for Kerry. If we need any more reasons.
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Its not the fact that you fell that matters, I'm sure Lance Armstrong has fallen over a time or two, its how you react after the fall that counts. Bush doesn't seem to be blaming anyone else.
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Question. When was the last time Kerry went on a 17 mile bike ride, let alone a mountain bike ride on trails. If Kerry were to do so you would have to file an Enviormental Impact Statement simply because of the number of media whores following him around
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Another policy statement from the presumptive Jackass.
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I guess they're waiting for word back from their focus groups before deciding whether or not the remark was clever enough to "help" Mr. Kerry to decide whether or not the remark was on the record.
British Airways is to raise its fares in the face of soaring oil prices, the carrier has announced. From Thursday, the airline will add a £5 ($8.80) surcharge to return trip tickets and £2.50 to one-way tickets. BAâs move comes alongside similar announcements from Australiaâs Qantas and Air New Zealand.
The airlines said they had been forced to make the decision because of a 60% rise in the price of jet fuel over the past year. Previously, US carriers Continental and American Airlines added a surcharge to their domestic fares. ---------snipped--------
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In a speech to an audience of chief executives, Mr Gates said the regularly updated journals, or blogs, could be a good way for firms to tell customers, staff and partners what they are doing. Mr Gates made a point of dwelling on blogs and said that although they started in the technical community and have come to be a broader social phenomenon, businesses can use them too. Microsoft currently does not make any individual blogging tools but it is widely expected to move into this space soon. If it does the move would pitch it into even sharper competition with Google and others such as AOL.
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Oh, no . . . next thing you know they'll be charging us to put our thoughts out there . . .
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BG and MS have a tendency to rewrite history. they started in the technical community Err! No they didn't. Most of the geeks I know were blissfully unaware of blogs until quite recently.
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I invented Blogs.
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Ok Al, whatever you say ......(Should be in a home :)
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Phil, I think they're talking about people like Doc Searls. There's a large and thriving tech-centered blogging community, just as there's a large and thriving blogging community made up of people who write about things I'm not the least interested in. I occasionally read Doc and a few others.
I've got no grump with Micro$oft. As far as I know, this is the only blog that's actually Micro$oftish. It runs under IIS, using ASP, except when I get mad and try to rewrite everything in PHP running on Apache. The database started out as Microsoft Access, and did a good job until it reached about 30,000 articles. If I'd written a single line of code a bit differently, we might still be using it. It's a good product.
Not that I worship at the altar. We don't use SQL Server because we got timeout errors under load that we don't get with MySQL -- which is also free, unlike SQL Server. I find ASP and PHP to be pretty comparable, and I can actually run PHP under IIS, while I can't run ASP under Apache, at least not without laying out still more money.
I don't think Micro$oft will become a player in the blogging world because it costs more to run it than it does to run Linux and Apache. I had to lay out money for both hardware and software, whereas if I'd started on Linux/PHP, I'd just have had to pay for the hardware. I suppose they can offer an ASP-based service something like Blogspot. Hell, I could write it for them, and they've got people who can write better code than I do. But it's pretty hard to make any money competing with a free service.
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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.
