The Glade 4.0

The opposition to the Happy Meal comes from the fact that it's advertised to kids and comes with a toy that makes the extremely unhealthy product appealing to kids, and therefore getting the kids to "force" the parents to buy it for them.

Some might object to my use of the word force. But while I don't have kids, whenever I see kids and parents in a battle of willpower in public, the kid wins more often than not. The exasperated parent eventually gives them what they want in order to preserve their sanity after an hour of screaming and crying and tantruming.

Van Howe (1996, p. 431) reported that, "Newborn males respond to circumcision with a marked reduction in oxygenation during the procedure, a cortisol surge, decreased wakefulness, increased vagal tone, and less interactions with their environment following the procedure..." Rhinehart (1999) in a report of clinical cases noted that the only response available to the infant is shock, wherein the central nervous system is overwhelmed by pain, followed by numbing, paralysis, and dissociation. Possibly, dissociation of the traumatic experience and emotional pain may be employed by the infant as a psychological defence (Chu & Dill, 1990; Noyes, 1977; Rhinehart, 1999). While some babies have been described as being "quiet" after circumcision, Rhinehart concluded that the observed stillness most likely represents a state of dissociation or shock in response to the overwhelming pain.

I can. But I don't want to have to wipe my piece every time I take a leak. I'm very much thankful I was circumcised. The less time I have to spend cleaning anything, the better.

In comic strips the person on the left always speaks first. - George Carlin

Achievement unlocked: grossest thread ever.

Only because you don't like weiners. Or whistles. If this was about boobies this thread would be full of win.

It does not prevent orgasm just makes it harder is my understanding. Orgasm can be triggered in many ways.

Some might object to my use of the word force. But while I don't have kids, whenever I see kids and parents in a battle of willpower in public, the kid wins more often than not. The exasperated incompetent parent eventually gives them what they want in order to preserve their sanity after an hour of screaming and crying and tantruming.

Corrected, because any parent who's kids pull this stuff on them more than once in their lives (and even then, we're talking about the few seconds/minutes it takes to get them out of the restaurant and back into the car...not an hour) doesn't know what the **** they are doing.

On to the happy meals... take all kid menu stuff off. Offer a smaller meal for a reduced price. If parents feed it to their spawn, oh well.

(NEWSER) – On the off chance you've ever wondered what happens to the leftover foreskins from babies' circumcisions, Christie Haskell at Cafe Mom has three words for you: "Penis wrinkle cream." Turns out the foreskin—"or more accurately, the fibroblasts from the cells of the foreskin"—can be turned into an array of skin byproducts such as a collagen, which is used in beauty care products. "Oprah's beloved SkinMedica product? Yup! Foreskins!"

But it's not all frivolous: Another use "is to create bio-skin grafts for burn victims and ulcers and other large-area open wound sites," Haskell writes. Also, cosmetic companies—which shell out thousands of dollars for a single foreskin because it can grow thousands of fibroblasts—test products on the resulting pseudo-skin rather than on animals. All this may complicate the debate over circumcision, but "there's got to be a good common ground somewhere," writes Haskell.

Well this is weird:


http://www.newser.com/story/105231/babies-foreskins-turned-into-beauty-products.html

Scree, there was a plotline in Nip Tuck where they made an best-selling face cream where the secret ingredient was sperm...I did think about that.
Not to go off on a tangent, but that article made me wonder if medical waste is really medical waste....I mean, aren't foreskins supposed to go in one of those big red bins with the warning labels on them?
It's kind of disturbing to think that medical waste ends up in cosmetics and junk. Good thing I don't wear makeup very often, nor do I ever use any of those alleged age-defying products.