Are they born 3 to 1 or do they rape themselves into that proportion?
First of all, 'Posse?' Passé
Cordelia ,'Potential'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Trudy Booth - Jan 22, 2011 6:32:41 pm PST #18388 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
billytea - Jan 22, 2011 6:38:22 pm PST #18389 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
billytea! Check out Isabella's Green Porno on Bed Bugs
That's quite wonderful. It's been suggested that male bedbugs will even stab other males; their sperm travels to the other males testes, and when that male mates, he will pass on some of the other male's sperm too. However, this claim has been disputed, and if it were a common risk, you'd expect countermeasures to have evolved.
Trudy Booth - Jan 22, 2011 6:41:08 pm PST #18390 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
"Don't let the bedbugs rape your testicles" sounds FAR more menacing...
billytea - Jan 22, 2011 6:46:33 pm PST #18391 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Are they born 3 to 1 or do they rape themselves into that proportion?
That I don't know. I'd be surprised if it were a birth ratio issue, but there could be other differences in lifestyle between males and females that expose them to different mortality rates. However, the sex ratio varies between different breeding colonies, so it could well just be aggressive mating. (There would potentially be a feedback effect; as the sex ratio becomes more skewed, the males become more desperate to mate with any remaining female, and sex becomes more violent as the competition becomes fiercer.)
DavidS - Jan 22, 2011 6:51:39 pm PST #18392 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Here's Isabella's entire Green Porno series - they're all very entertaining.
Burrell - Jan 22, 2011 7:27:21 pm PST #18393 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I saw Rossellini's bed bug video many months ago. I am still too scarred to even try to watch the whale one.
Mama Mia, on the other hand, was entertaining. Partially because it made my husband cringe from start to finish, but he couldn't stop watching it.
Burrell - Jan 22, 2011 7:38:41 pm PST #18394 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Not sure if folks saw this one. Sullivan posted to it on his site, and I can't stop laughing at it: Dot Dot Dot
tommyrot - Jan 22, 2011 7:56:11 pm PST #18395 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
DavidS - Jan 22, 2011 8:29:26 pm PST #18396 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
New map of San Francisco's sub-neighborhoods. I'd object to our placement in the tiny sliver designated as UCSF Medical, but that's exactly where JZ works.
Note also "Pacific Heights" which is known locally as "Specific Whites."
Douchebags live in Cow Hollow and the Marina, Hipsters live in the Mission and Lower Haight, gay male prostitutes in the Tenderloin, Asians in the Outer Richmond and Chinatown and somewhat in the Outer Richmond, breeders in Noe Valley and Laurel Village, Blacks in Hunter's Point and Bayview, Hispanics in the Mission.
tommyrot - Jan 22, 2011 8:32:54 pm PST #18397 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
breeders in Noe Valley
Heh. Although I knew a few non-breeders who lived there.
The last place I lived in SF was on Church street, a block or two south of Market. What neighborhood is that?
Damn, I miss San Francisco.