Nov 21
JunieGirl commented on Becoming a Man.
JunieGirl commented on Becoming a Man.
I read a really interesting book a while back about the brain, and one of the chapters discussed brain gender and how it can differ from body gender. It was fascinating, but of course I can't remember the title or author at the moment. I'll do some research and come up with it.
Nov 20
JunieGirl commented on Pit Bulls!.
JunieGirl commented on Pit Bulls!.
Stanley Coren, a psychologist who has done extensive research on canine psychology, wrote some very interesting things re: aggression in dogs. He even visited some dog-fighting rings and saw how aggression is bred into certain breeds of dogs. If the most aggressive dogs are allowed to breed, those traits are carried forward into future generations. The more timid dogs are used as bait.
Just like aggression, height, scent ability, etc., you can breed things into or out of animals, and unfortunately a lot of people have bred a lot of strains of aggressive animals. It has ruined the reputation of the non-aggressive strains of those same breeds of animals.
So what everyone is saying is correct--it's about training. A well-socialized animal is rarely a threat. Unfortunately, some breeds have purposely been bred to be more aggressive and it would take generations to breed that out of them, if you could even stop all the illegal dog-fighting that feeds the frenzy.
A really good example is Doberman pinschers. In America, they trend has been to breed more docile dogs as family pets. In Europe, they are bred more for their aggressive stance to be guard dogs. It's all in the choices you make when you breed them.
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Just like aggression, height, scent ability, etc., you can breed things into or out of animals, and unfortunately a lot of people have bred a lot of strains of aggressive animals. It has ruined the reputation of the non-aggressive strains of those same breeds of animals.
So what everyone is saying is correct--it's about training. A well-socialized animal is rarely a threat. Unfortunately, some breeds have purposely been bred to be more aggressive and it would take generations to breed that out of them, if you could even stop all the illegal dog-fighting that feeds the frenzy.
A really good example is Doberman pinschers. In America, they trend has been to breed more docile dogs as family pets. In Europe, they are bred more for their aggressive stance to be guard dogs. It's all in the choices you make when you breed them.
Nov 20
JunieGirl commented on Life and Death in a Recliner in South Carolina.
JunieGirl commented on Life and Death in a Recliner in South Carolina.
"Here is a quotation from the February 1957 number of the American journal, Antibiotic Medicine and Clinical Therapy:
"Kekwick and Pawan, from the Middlesex Hospital, London, report some news for the obese. All of the obese subjects studied lost weight immediately after admission to hospital and therefore a period of stabilisation was required before commencing investigation.
"If the proportions of fat, carbohydrate and protein were kept constant, the rate of weight loss was then proportional to the calorie intake.
"If the calorie intake was kept constant, however, at 1,000 per day, the most rapid weight loss was noted with high fat diets . . . But when the calorie intake was raised to 2,600 daily in these patients, weight loss would still occur provided that this intake was given mainly in the form of fat and protein.
"It is concluded that from 30 to 50 per cent of weight loss is derived from the total body water and the remaining 50 to 70 per cent from the body fat.
In other words, doctors now have scientific justification for basing diets for obesity on reduction of carbohydrate rather than on reduction of calories and fat." (excerpt from http://ourcivilisation.com/fat/chap1.com )
The doctors placed their obese subjects on 1,000 calorie per day diets, with three different distinctions-one group's diet was comprised of 90% carbs, one group's was 90% protein, and the last group's diet was 90% fat.
Those on the 1,000 calorie-per-day diet that was 90% carbohydrate GAINED WEIGHT!!! 1,000 calories per day--that is considered nearly a starvation diet, and these subjects gained nearly half a pound per day.
The subjects on the 90% protein diet lost over 1/2 pound per day. Those on the 90% fat diet lost nearly one pound per day.
Don't tell me it's calorie in/calorie out and that all calories affect our bodies in the same way. Even when their calories were INCREASED to 2,600 per day, they still lost weight when the diet ratio remained low carbohydrate.
The Kekwik/Pawan study was later confirmed by Dr. Benoit. There are even more studies out there, but those are the only ones I can ever remember the doctors' names, and so they're the only ones I can look up when I'm away from home.
This has nothing to do with exercise--this is entirely diet based, and is tied to our bodies' insulin response. So many people here get hard-ons about scientific evidence for every other topic, but you ignore all the work showing that just cutting calories back and increasing exercise is not the golden ticket to cure obesity that you think it is.
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"Kekwick and Pawan, from the Middlesex Hospital, London, report some news for the obese. All of the obese subjects studied lost weight immediately after admission to hospital and therefore a period of stabilisation was required before commencing investigation.
"If the proportions of fat, carbohydrate and protein were kept constant, the rate of weight loss was then proportional to the calorie intake.
"If the calorie intake was kept constant, however, at 1,000 per day, the most rapid weight loss was noted with high fat diets . . . But when the calorie intake was raised to 2,600 daily in these patients, weight loss would still occur provided that this intake was given mainly in the form of fat and protein.
"It is concluded that from 30 to 50 per cent of weight loss is derived from the total body water and the remaining 50 to 70 per cent from the body fat.
In other words, doctors now have scientific justification for basing diets for obesity on reduction of carbohydrate rather than on reduction of calories and fat." (excerpt from http://ourcivilisation.com/fat/chap1.com )
The doctors placed their obese subjects on 1,000 calorie per day diets, with three different distinctions-one group's diet was comprised of 90% carbs, one group's was 90% protein, and the last group's diet was 90% fat.
Those on the 1,000 calorie-per-day diet that was 90% carbohydrate GAINED WEIGHT!!! 1,000 calories per day--that is considered nearly a starvation diet, and these subjects gained nearly half a pound per day.
The subjects on the 90% protein diet lost over 1/2 pound per day. Those on the 90% fat diet lost nearly one pound per day.
Don't tell me it's calorie in/calorie out and that all calories affect our bodies in the same way. Even when their calories were INCREASED to 2,600 per day, they still lost weight when the diet ratio remained low carbohydrate.
The Kekwik/Pawan study was later confirmed by Dr. Benoit. There are even more studies out there, but those are the only ones I can ever remember the doctors' names, and so they're the only ones I can look up when I'm away from home.
This has nothing to do with exercise--this is entirely diet based, and is tied to our bodies' insulin response. So many people here get hard-ons about scientific evidence for every other topic, but you ignore all the work showing that just cutting calories back and increasing exercise is not the golden ticket to cure obesity that you think it is.
Nov 20
JunieGirl commented on Do Your Balls Hang Low?.
JunieGirl commented on Do Your Balls Hang Low?.
@1, no, they don't have feathers, they just look like a plucked bird skin.
Nov 20
JunieGirl commented on SL Letter of the Day: Hot & Drunk.
JunieGirl commented on SL Letter of the Day: Hot & Drunk.
My ex was an alcoholic. Before we married, I broke it off with him and said I couldn't deal with it. He sobered up, and like the naive idiot I was, I thought "He really loves me! He gave up alcohol because he wants to be with me."
We got married, and I found out what he was covering up with his alcoholism. It took 6 years of marriage and a horrendous divorce (complete with stalking, death threats and restraining order) to get out of it. Leave while you still can end it easily. Great sex is not a good enough reason to stay with a drunk--I've been with enough guys after my divorce who were plenty GGG and didn't have to be wasted to play.
We got married, and I found out what he was covering up with his alcoholism. It took 6 years of marriage and a horrendous divorce (complete with stalking, death threats and restraining order) to get out of it. Leave while you still can end it easily. Great sex is not a good enough reason to stay with a drunk--I've been with enough guys after my divorce who were plenty GGG and didn't have to be wasted to play.
Nov 20
JunieGirl commented on U.S. Catholic Bishops: "These unions pose a serious threat to the fabric of society that affects all people.".
JunieGirl commented on U.S. Catholic Bishops: "These unions pose a serious threat to the fabric of society that affects all people.".
@47, scratch just a little below the surface of all the people you know, and I guarantee you at least 90% of them have a "moral deviation" or "personal perversion".
One reason people become staunchly religious is often because they have these deviations and perversions that they are afraid to face, and so they rigorously cling to their faith in the vain hope that that will rid them of the temptation and drive they feel. They also condemn the "deviations" and "perversions" in others because they feel that if they can get everyone to behave "properly", there will no longer be any deviant or perverse behavior out there to tempt them, and so they will get off the hook that way.
I know that's what I did, and many friends I know, as well. And one only need look at the Youth Pastor Watch or RC clergy scandals to realize it's true.
One reason people become staunchly religious is often because they have these deviations and perversions that they are afraid to face, and so they rigorously cling to their faith in the vain hope that that will rid them of the temptation and drive they feel. They also condemn the "deviations" and "perversions" in others because they feel that if they can get everyone to behave "properly", there will no longer be any deviant or perverse behavior out there to tempt them, and so they will get off the hook that way.
I know that's what I did, and many friends I know, as well. And one only need look at the Youth Pastor Watch or RC clergy scandals to realize it's true.
Nov 19
JunieGirl commented on Hate Crimes Down in Los Angeles County With One Exception.....
JunieGirl commented on Hate Crimes Down in Los Angeles County With One Exception.....
Portorico...seriously? Good God....
Nov 19
JunieGirl commented on U.S. Catholic Bishops: "These unions pose a serious threat to the fabric of society that affects all people.".
JunieGirl commented on U.S. Catholic Bishops: "These unions pose a serious threat to the fabric of society that affects all people.".
@38--apparently they never read the first of C. S. Lewis's space trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet. He posits a wholly "unfallen" and ultimately superior alien race.
Nov 19
JunieGirl commented on SL Letter of the Day: My Dick Is Bent.
JunieGirl commented on SL Letter of the Day: My Dick Is Bent.
And my favorite dick-size comment is my brother's joking remark:
"You know what big hands and big feet mean?
Big rings and big shoes."
"You know what big hands and big feet mean?
Big rings and big shoes."
Nov 19
JunieGirl commented on SL Letter of the Day: My Dick Is Bent.
JunieGirl commented on SL Letter of the Day: My Dick Is Bent.
@41-if it's any consolation, I've heard much more from women about their insecurities--and they tend to be more varied. Men that I've been with and spoken to tend to focus primarily on the dick, while the women I know tend to obsess over many facets of real or perceived flaws.
And I think you're right...the way guys talk amongst themselves seems to be mostly a chest-thumping thing, but behind closed doors the facade tends to crumble.
It is sad...give me a guy who is satisfied with his size and uses it with gusto any day over a guy with a bigger dick but insecurities galore. But I guess it's good to know that there's nothing new under the sun.
My current BF asked me what size I thought guys would make their dicks if they could, and I said they'd have to push them around in a wheelbarrow. (That's definitely not what *I* want from a guy...just my perception of what guys wish they could get.) I guess it's like money--everyone wants more than they have.
And I think you're right...the way guys talk amongst themselves seems to be mostly a chest-thumping thing, but behind closed doors the facade tends to crumble.
It is sad...give me a guy who is satisfied with his size and uses it with gusto any day over a guy with a bigger dick but insecurities galore. But I guess it's good to know that there's nothing new under the sun.
My current BF asked me what size I thought guys would make their dicks if they could, and I said they'd have to push them around in a wheelbarrow. (That's definitely not what *I* want from a guy...just my perception of what guys wish they could get.) I guess it's like money--everyone wants more than they have.
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