Depression is a sign from our body to chill?

An article in the economist reports about a medical study which argues that depression is a body's natural way of stopping you in pursuing unreachable goals.
So the study's conclusion is that
1. your body/mind gets depressed if you try to pursue certain goals that you(maybe your subconscious) identifies as unattainable
2. since you get depressed you stop doing what you were doing --> you seize to be depressed
3. if you don't stop what you were doing, and do not disengage in the goal, then you are more likely to suffer from serious depression in the longer run.

It is a well known fact that although twice as more women suffer from depression, however, it is the men that suffer from severe depression which are more likely to end in suicide. source for depression rates source on suicide, WHO stats for suicide

Okay. then let's put these two together.
This means that either women usually set up higher goals for themselves on a regular basis, but eventually comes to terms with their limitations and disengage at least at a certain point.

On the other hand, men usually do not set higher goals for themselves, but when they do, they have a harder time disengaging from them and/or these goals are more unattainable than those of the "average woman", and they end up pushing themselves in situations of suicide...

Ofcourse this would only hold true if 1) depression is ONLY caused by not attaining goals, 2) suicide is ONLY caused by severe depression 3) there are no externalities of suicide attempt and success rates.,,, whoa... maybe I'm becoming too much of an economist? :-P

On another note...
Korea has one of the highest suicide rate in the world..WHO document
and the patterns seen here are quite different from the patterns found in, for example, those of Finland, which also has very high rates.
the difference is Koreans have higher suicide rates for older age groups, where Finland this is approximately same across all age groups.

Does this mean Koreans are more likely to have higher goals when older, get depressed and commit suicide? Actually, I think the suicide of koreans, including that of the ex-president which happened quite recently, is more due to the east-Asian culture of getting rid of yourself when you shamed your family/country. something like Seppuku in Japan.

Of course, I would end this whole post with this question. Forgetting about the suicide rates and all, the whole point that our bodies are trying to protect ourselves from causing harm by being depressed means that we are not really programmed to be "persistent" or overly-ambitious. that we are just supposed to chill....

Meet Milo

the computer human....

.... this is really really cool yet scary...



this is all part of the new Xbox project Natal.
which is like Wii but like developed to a unbelieveable level.
It really is sth out of a si-fi movie and then some.
It gives interactive a new definition.





The only problem is that, this make me fear more that cyber reality can/will replace the real reality... I mean come on, playing ball with your body... you can actually do that with a real ball with real people. now the computer will substitute it.

HollyWoody porn movie titles

My friend, who I will not name, has collected (during his job) a list of titles of porn movies that are based on famous hollywood movies.
I would like to share that list with you - cuz its just way too funny.
My favourite is foreskin gump.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The list~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

· 20,000 Legs Under the Sea
· 2002: A Sex Odyssey
· A Clockwork Orgy
· A Penile Action
· A Tale of Two Titties
· All Hands On Dick
· Anus the Menace
· Ass Ventura: Smut Detective
· Battlestar Orgasmica
· Beverly Hills Cock
· Black Men Can Hump
· Bone Alone
· Bonfire Of The Panties
· Buffy the Vampire Layer
· Butch Lesbian and the Lapdance Kid
· Cliff Banger
· Coo-Coo for CoCo Cocks
· Crocodile Dun-Me
· Cum to Drink of It
· Cumming to America
· Das Booty
· Deep End With Some Lotion
· Dial M for Missionary
· Dickman and Throbin Hood
· Dickman Forever
· Dog-Style Afternoon
· Doing John Malkovich
· Dun-Hur
· E3: The Extra-Testicle
· Edward Penishands
· Ejacula
· Enema of the State
· Erectnophobia
· Flashpants: Cop a Feeling
· Flesh Gordon
· For Your Thighs Only
· Foreskin Gump
· Forrest Hump
· Frisky Business
· Full Metal Bikini
· Ghostlusters
· Gonad the Barbarian
· Good Will Humping
· Guess Who Came At Dinner
· Hannah Does Her Sisters
· Hindfeld
· Honey, I Blew Everybody!
· I Cream On Genie
· I Reenter Mama
· In RearEndence Day
· Indiana Joan and the Temple of Poon
· Intercourse With a Vampire
· Interview With a Vibrator
· Jack/Off
· Jennifer Ate
· Juranal Park
· Jur-ass-ic Park
· Lawrence of Labia
· Mad Jack: Beyond Thunderbone
· Malcolm XXX
· Mighty Joe Schlung
· Miracle on 69th Street
· Missionary Impossible
· Murphy's Brown
· Mutiny on the Booty
· Natural Born Thrillers
· Night of the Giving Head
· Oh Cum on Ye Faces
· An Officer and a Genitalman
· On Golden Blonde
· Picnic at Hanging Cock
· Pornochio
· Pulp Friction
· Pumping Irene
· Regarding Hiney
· Reservoir Bitches
· Riding Miss Daisy
· Romancing the Bone
· The San Francisco 69ers vs. the Green Bay Butt Packers
· Saturday Night Beaver
· Saving Ryan's Privates
· Screw The Right Thing
· Sgt. Pecker's Lonely Heart's Club Gangbang
· Sex Trek: Penetrations
· Sexcalibur
· Shake My Spear, I'm In Love
· Sheepless in Montana
· Snatch Adams
· Splatman
· Splendor In The Ass
· Star Whores
· Tailiens
· Tales from the Clit
· The 7" Samurai
· The Bare Bitch Project
· The Bitches of Madison County
· The Bootyguard
· The Empire Strokes Black
· The Flintbones
· The Fuckulty
· The Horny-Mooners
· The Humpback of Nasty Dames
· The Hunt for Miss October
· The Joy Suck Club
· The Load Warrior
· The Long Ranger
· The Maddam's Family
· The Naked Bun
· The Porn Birds
· The Replacement Drillers
· The Rodfather
· The Sexorcist
· The Sixth Inch
· The Slutty Professor
· The Sperminator
· The Talented Mr. Lickme
· The Touchables
· The Whore of the Worlds
· The XXX Files
· Thighs Wide Shut
· Too Clothed For Comfort
· Twin Cheeks
· Wet Dreams May Come
· Wetness for the Prosecution
· When Harry Ate Sally
· Willie Wanker and the Fudge Packing Factory
· Yank My Doodle - It's A Dandy
· Yo Quiero Taco Smell
· You've Got Tail

Catholic Kamasutra guide, a big hit!

A Polish Priest has written a sex-guide for Catholics, where he tells you what is allowed and not allowed for catholic sex.the book was instantly a huge hit, and is planned to be translated in the other languages. The author Father Knotz, who lives in a monastery of the Order of Friars outside Kraków in Stalowa Wola in southern Poland writes...

"Some people, when they hear about the holiness of married sex, immediately imagine that such sex has to be deprived of joy, frivolous play, fantasy and attractive positions...They think it has to be sad, like a traditional church hymn. But every act, caress or sexual position that has the goal of arousal is permitted and pleases God."

He also says that sex is not just a union between a husband and a wife, but also God... uh uh.... so I guess threesomes are also okay with god, as long as HE is gettin some of the action...

post-doctoral manuscript writing

After writing on the manuscript for how many god forsaken months, I now actually perceive this research business as something fun.

must be going mad...

Average Korean face

In a show in SBS(Seoul Broadcasting System) it was shown what the computer generated result of the average korean girl - in their 20s - looks like, based on several different faces of real women.
Here is the result.



Now compare this to the 3D beauty, of what koreans consider beautiful.

Its quite a difference here. Mostly it has to do with the eyes...
In the show the director of the Institute of the study of faces in Hannam University said " 68% of korean women do not have double eye lids, which is the highest percentage in the world"... when asked, then why one could see so many women with double eye lids on the street... he answered "well, that means that there are that many people who have had surgery done" source Hani jooltong.

OMG I was bleeding all this time for no reason?

Okay. Here's a shocker. no seriously, I'm also not the type to get shocked easily, but this one truly is a shock that feels like a blow to one's head.
Brace yourself-- btw I'm talking to women here, and men who are interested -- we, human females do not necessarily have to bleed (too much) during our menstruation.
I know, you're there thinking "what the f*** does that mean?!" Of course we bleed because the lining of the uterus is shed!!.. right? Or does it really have to be like that?? Thanks to Ollique's blog I've found this piece of information.

"During the days before a woman ovulates, the lining of the womb - the endometrium - thickens in preparation for a possible conception. If the egg released at ovulation passes through the womb unfertilized, the thickened endometrial tissues are not needed - and in a truly healthy woman, as in animals in their wild state, those tissues are mostly reabsorbed. What remains is expelled over a short period of time as a slight mucus discharge (2:28-29; 15:227)."

source

Apparently, other wild animals do not shed massive amount of blood as we do, but rather reabsorb the lining back into their systems (source 1), (source2).

This site argues that the reason human being, and other domesticated animals have heavier flows is due to our diet, too much protein and lack of other substances. Others consider light flow menstruation a sign of illness, or drug side effects.

However, it does make me wonder, if I can really decrease the flow of my period without becoming ill, and on top of that not have cramps, that would be revolutionary. I think I will gain at least 12 if not 24 more days of my life per year!, where I can be productive and do something other than lie in bed grabbing my tummy, due to the intolerable pain. Also then could I avoid the effort of changing pads/tampons, being scared that it will leak, which it always does!, and not being able to sleep through cuz of the heavy flow - sorry for the graphical depictions here.

I can't go too much into this, but will keep you up to date with all my new findings.

But while I'm on the topic, I would also like to introduce to you a couple of more things. While I'm on the sustainable living roll these days, here are a couple of ways to not kill too many trees and not fill our planet with large amounts of non-biodegradable waste.

Lunapads: pads made of cloth - nicer feeling - which could be reused after washing.
(they also sell those devices which allow you to pee standing up called Pstyle).

Mooncups: its the reusable tampons, so to say, made of silicon, it collects menstrual blood rather than absorbing it. Also, you don't need to change it as often because, the Mooncup will hold 30ml of fluid, which is roughly one third of the average total produced each period, which is approximately 80mL.



But of course you won't even need these if you were to not bleed...

Women decide on what to buy

says the economist...

"In America, where female consumers make more than 80% of discretionary purchases...They buy 90% of food, 55% of consumer electronics, and most of the new cars... "

the result??


we rule.

The fat meat eaters are killing our planet!!

The obese are being targeted as one of the suspects for increasing carbon emission...

"Population fatness has an environmental impact," said Phil Edwards, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. "We're all being told to stay fit and keep our weight down because it's good for our health. The important thing is that staying slim is good for your health and for the health of the planet."

and for the UK

"due to the increased number of people today who are overweight, the UK consumes 19% more food than it did 40 years ago, which equates to an extra 60 mega tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions a year. It also included the extra transport-related emissions caused by the increased obesity."

In addition, the meat eaters are killing our earth

"Last September the world's leading authority on climate change suggested the people should eat less meat, because meat production causes 20% of global emissions."

In my opinion the whole issue with taxing or discriminating the obese or overweight - including in flights- depends how much of individual choice is involved in becoming obese. How many obese actually do choose to be obese, and when does this choice begin? What if you were "nurtured" into being obese. This is an important issue, since depending on this would we be able to consider the obese either the same as, smokers, most cases individual choice and fault, or on the other hand, disabled people, most cases not through one’s choice nor fault.

On the other hand, I think one of the best way to overcome this problem is to make the fatty foods, that lead directly or indirectly to carbon emission - expensive through taxation. Thus, encourage people to eat healthy not through the use of taxing the people directly, but making incentives to eat healthy. Making organic fresh veggies – cheaper and more accessible than what it is now, where they are the most expensive item in the supermarket.

Whereas make food products that directly produce more carbon emissions in their production process – such as meat, as mentioned in the article - and food that indirectly can lead to more costs may it be carbon emissions or health costs, due to the problems it may cause to the individual’s health – such as sweets and fatty foods -more expensive through taxation on two accounts 1) carbon emission throughout the production of the food item and 2) health implications of the food to individuals, not only in the short-term but also in the longer-term.

Of course governments will be reluctant to do this, because it is regulating the market and increasing taxes for them, which all politicians hate to do. In addition, such measures have to be done in collaboration throughout the world, since we need to regulate the whole process of food production to retail. Since world's food production is also becoming more and more globalized, the world has to work together to tackle this issue to examine/regulate the whole chain of food production, but also to make sure there will not be any competitions between countries in trying to save their own food production groups, while enforcing stricter rules on others.

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For more read guardian article and this on the UK and how we should think of taxing the obese for this reason

17.8 or more....

I really wanted to stop writing about penises...
seriously

however, there are so many funny stuff on line, its impossible for me to stop!!

Here is something for the ladies... so to say.

Its a dating site for those women, who can't be bothered to actually go on a date, pretend to be interested in what men have to say, when all they want is a 18cm...

7 or Better

"take the guess work out of dating"

yes 7inches is 17.8cms... (above any country's average...)
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