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crm114 2009-07-17 11:21:38 AM  
DipsomaniacDawg: sigdiamond2000: his looks like it's used for frosting baked goods. The end.

Well...it just got a whole lot easier to avoid baked goods...

 
Farkwaddle 2009-07-17 11:21:51 AM  
Crewmannumber6: griffer: Crewmannumber6: That may very well be true but having a turtle neck in a crew neck world made showering after gym class very awkward in high school

You sound uncut.

Ya think? Was born in Ireland but grew up in America where, apparently, they do things a little different


The Jews brainwashed us into thinking penile vanity was important. Wait..wha??

 
The Icelander [TotalFark] 2009-07-17 11:22:09 AM  
madblader: "Circumcision is known to protect men from acquiring HIV."

Someone needs to study up.


I can see why this might be the case. If the foreskin is left on, the skin underneath is softer and more susceptible to abrasion. Combine this with the fact that if you don't wash after sex the foreskin keeps the fluids in contact with the skin underneath it for a longer time.

So it may offer some protection, but not nearly as much as using a condom.

 
BIGNICKEL 2009-07-17 11:22:43 AM  
Control_this: That circumcision/AIDS study is also a thing of resplendent stupidity.

Any correlation between circumcision and a lower incidence of AIDS is because of the correlation between circumcision and doctors visits, better education, etc.


Citation needed.

 
dittybopper [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-07-17 11:22:48 AM  
Happy bris day to you
Happy bris day to you
Happy bris day dear Shlomo,
Happy bris day to you.

/Been saving that one.
//Don't forget to 'tip' the waitress.
///Heh heh heh

 
Gothnet 2009-07-17 11:22:49 AM  
Keep blades away from the precious!

 
Pinner 2009-07-17 11:23:27 AM  
My GF stretches the skin out as far a she can, then does tequila shots out of it.

 
tedbundee 2009-07-17 11:23:29 AM  
Bored Horde: I think this is just the tip of the tissue.

FTFY

 
crm114 2009-07-17 11:23:51 AM  
Smarshmallow: Right. If the kid won't remember it, it isn't traumatic. I think that you'll have a lot of support for this theory among the Catholic priesthood.

pix.motivatedphotos.com

 
stuhayes2010 [TotalFark] 2009-07-17 11:24:07 AM  
How about cutting the entire penis off and watch the HIV rates plummet!!

/uncut

 
Farkwaddle 2009-07-17 11:24:48 AM  
madblader: Circumcision doesn't prove any statistically significance advantage on anything. Yet, oddly enough, when discussing circumcision no one ever brings up the thousands that die, are permanently scarred, or end up with a severely mutilated penis.

Flawless execution of a classic Fark argument/bait. Let's see who bites....

 
GomezAdams [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-07-17 11:25:05 AM  
Circumcision. I'm against genital mutilation and just because the Jewish and Muslim Guy in the Sky says to don't make it right.

/Nasty shiat
//Going to go get lawn chair, adult beverage, popcorn and watch the fun.
///Gentile so I should not have had my day old pener trimmed by a Jewish doctor.

 
U8D1EyedSnake 2009-07-17 11:25:28 AM  
hockeyfarker:seriously? you spend time figuring out whether internet dudes are cut or not? Maybe you should consider a hobby or getting cable TV

Yes, I really spend all my time thinking about whether or not random strangers are circumcised.

No, I just think that how people feel about circumcision is interesting and you can usually tell based on their opinion whether they are or not.

Case in point:

griffer:You sound uncut.

Thinks I sound uncircumcised based on my statement that you can sometimes tell about a person based on their opinion.

/farkette
//thankfully not circumcised
///that would be awful

 
Linoleum_Blownapart 2009-07-17 11:26:11 AM  
Pinner: My GF stretches the skin out as far a she can, then does tequila shots out of it.

Does she then make jokes about 'the worm'?

 
sdaas 2009-07-17 11:26:58 AM  
Farkwaddle: madblader: Circumcision doesn't prove any statistically significance advantage on anything. Yet, oddly enough, when discussing circumcision no one ever brings up the thousands that die, are permanently scarred, or end up with a severely mutilated penis.

Flawless execution of a classic Fark argument/bait. Let's see who bites....


almost did, was going to use vaccines as a strawman to his bait, but I couldn't find enough information so I gave up.

 
stuhayes2010 [TotalFark] 2009-07-17 11:27:44 AM  
What we need on fark is a news story about circumcision, motorcycles, and Apple Computers. But does Steve Jobs ride a motorcycle?

That would be a legendary thread.

 
Pinner 2009-07-17 11:28:10 AM  
Linoleum_Blownapart: Pinner: My GF stretches the skin out as far a she can, then does tequila shots out of it.

Does she then make jokes about 'the worm'?


No, but you just did. :•(

 
crm114 2009-07-17 11:28:16 AM  
Pinner: My GF stretches the skin out as far a she can, then does tequila shots out of it.
pix.motivatedphotos.com

 
EggFool [TotalFark] 2009-07-17 11:30:18 AM  
Gwendolyn:

I still need sleep.


Well you're never gonna get it! There's a guy who's been awake since the Second World War!

 
Gwendolyn [TotalFark] 2009-07-17 11:30:22 AM  
crm114: Pinner: My GF stretches the skin out as far a she can, then does tequila shots out of it.

Uh WOW.

 
lukelightning 2009-07-17 11:30:28 AM  
Smarshmallow: total castration protects 100% against HIV.

It hasn't seemed to protect the hijras.

 
Oh-Boy 2009-07-17 11:30:35 AM  
cutting something off for no good reason is stupid. There is very limited evidence that the little cut helps... unless you live in a third world country with no clean water. Why is this even a debate? It's not like we cut out eyes to prevent supid children from getting pink eye - a mostly harmless and merely visual problem - just like what you'll (possibly) prevent by cutting little boys.

 
Gwendolyn [TotalFark] 2009-07-17 11:31:43 AM  
Pinner: My GF stretches the skin out as far a she can, then does tequila shots out of it.

You have just been farkied as shot glass foreskin.

 
Farkwaddle 2009-07-17 11:32:54 AM  
stuhayes2010: What we need on fark is a news story about circumcision, motorcycles, and Apple Computers. But does Steve Jobs ride a motorcycle?

That would be a legendary thread.


It's an incomprehensible idea. It would be like finding the sorcerer's stone affixed on the tip of the horn of the patriarchal unicorn within the lands of Atlantis. Your head would instantly 'splode.

 
xtonyx [TotalFark] 2009-07-17 11:32:59 AM  
my parents fought over it.

/ mom won.
// i'm not even jewish!

 
crm114 2009-07-17 11:33:25 AM  
Oh-Boy: cutting something off for no good reason is stupid. There is very limited evidence that the little cut helps... unless you live in a third world country with no clean water. Why is this even a debate? It's not like we cut out eyes to prevent supid children from getting pink eye - a mostly harmless and merely visual problem - just like what you'll (possibly) prevent by cutting little boys.

I don't really care but I do enjoy being able to whip it out and pee whenever and wherever I want and not have to deal with pulling skin back, cleaning the area, or whatever the hell else is involved in the operation that I don't want to know about.

 
NightOwl2255 2009-07-17 11:33:41 AM  
Pinner: My GF stretches the skin out as far a she can, then does tequila shots out of it.

Your doing it wrong, you'll never get her drunk that way!

 
Gwendolyn [TotalFark] 2009-07-17 11:34:21 AM  
xtonyx: my parents fought over it.

/ mom won.
// i'm not even jewish!


I let the husband decide because I have no idea what it's like to have a penis. He went with not cutting after getting the tour of the hospital while one was being done. Poor guy almost barfed.

 
wyrlss 2009-07-17 11:34:59 AM  
U8D1EyedSnake: /farkette
//thankfully not circumcised
///that would be awful


I've been telling my wife that if she thinks circumcision is so great, she could get her clitoral hood removed for a small fee.

 
Gwendolyn [TotalFark] 2009-07-17 11:35:27 AM  
crm114: Oh-Boy: cutting something off for no good reason is stupid. There is very limited evidence that the little cut helps... unless you live in a third world country with no clean water. Why is this even a debate? It's not like we cut out eyes to prevent supid children from getting pink eye - a mostly harmless and merely visual problem - just like what you'll (possibly) prevent by cutting little boys.

I don't really care but I do enjoy being able to whip it out and pee whenever and wherever I want and not have to deal with pulling skin back, cleaning the area, or whatever the hell else is involved in the operation that I don't want to know about.


Uh the son isn't cut and he pees standing up just fine without having to yank it back. He's four though so it may change.

 
GomezAdams [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-07-17 11:35:44 AM  
And a PS. I told my son's Jewish pediatrician I wasn't having him cut and he went ballistic. Told me the kid's pecker wouldn't grow straight and said he would get all the diseases. Then he yanked the foreskin trying to tear it so I would have to have it done. I wanted to kill the stupid SOB on the spot but got the kid out of there and found another pediatrician. Should have reported him to the state board. Also told him that millions of years of human evolution occurred before this crap started and no one cuts any other mammal with a foreskin, i.e. horses, monkeys, apes, and for all I know whales and porpoises.

 
Pinner 2009-07-17 11:36:03 AM  
NightOwl2255: Pinner: My GF stretches the skin out as far a she can, then does tequila shots out of it.

Your doing it wrong, you'll never get her drunk that way!


Oh, it works. Tonight I'm going for second base!

 
Liquid Ass Fart Spray 2009-07-17 11:36:03 AM  
Smarshmallow: total castration protects 100% against HIV. Also population control.

crm114: Oh-Boy: cutting something off for no good reason is stupid. There is very limited evidence that the little cut helps... unless you live in a third world country with no clean water. Why is this even a debate? It's not like we cut out eyes to prevent supid children from getting pink eye - a mostly harmless and merely visual problem - just like what you'll (possibly) prevent by cutting little boys.

I don't really care but I do enjoy being able to whip it out and pee whenever and wherever I want and not have to deal with pulling skin back, cleaning the area, or whatever the hell else is involved in the operation that I don't want to know about.


Its not that hard to pee with it on there. Also you sound like you need to be on a sex offender list! Imagine peeing in a hidden corner so nobody can see you but still outside. How dare you offend any children!

 
EggFool [TotalFark] 2009-07-17 11:36:52 AM  
NightOwl2255: Pinner: My GF stretches the skin out as far a she can, then does tequila shots out of it.

Your doing it wrong, you'll never get her drunk that way!


Doesn't sound like getting her drunk is necessary...

 
Oh-Boy 2009-07-17 11:37:12 AM  
crm114: Oh-Boy: cutting something off for no good reason is stupid. There is very limited evidence that the little cut helps... unless you live in a third world country with no clean water. Why is this even a debate? It's not like we cut out eyes to prevent supid children from getting pink eye - a mostly harmless and merely visual problem - just like what you'll (possibly) prevent by cutting little boys.

I don't really care but I do enjoy being able to whip it out and pee whenever and wherever I want and not have to deal with pulling skin back, cleaning the area, or whatever the hell else is involved in the operation that I don't want to know about.


Um... nothing? You jsut use soap in the shower in the morning. This is about as skill-intensive as washing your hands. If you're too retarded to do that, I think the gov. needs to repossess your johnson.

 
Cybernetic 2009-07-17 11:37:30 AM  
Englebert Slaptyback: NightOwl2255

Damn I love a good Thesaurus smack down!


For good or ill, the thesaurus remained undisturbed throughout the composition of that missive.


Your ebullient use of polysyllabics does engender approbation.

/Also without a thesaurus.

 
Gothnet 2009-07-17 11:38:05 AM  
Keep blades away from the precious!crm114:
I don't really care but I do enjoy being able to whip it out and pee whenever and wherever I want and not have to deal with pulling skin back, cleaning the area, or whatever the hell else is involved in the operation that I don't want to know about.



And you think people who are not circumcised can't?

You know that europeans don't get circumcised, right?
And that the whole of France smells like piss?

Put two and two together here!

 
crm114 2009-07-17 11:38:54 AM  
Gwendolyn: Uh the son isn't cut and he pees standing up just fine without having to yank it back. He's four though so it may change.

Again, I don't know the mechanics of the situation but I can't help but think that the skin would occasionally get in the way?

 
Liquid Ass Fart Spray 2009-07-17 11:38:59 AM  
Gothnet: Keep blades away from the precious!crm114:
I don't really care but I do enjoy being able to whip it out and pee whenever and wherever I want and not have to deal with pulling skin back, cleaning the area, or whatever the hell else is involved in the operation that I don't want to know about.


And you think people who are not circumcised can't?

You know that europeans don't get circumcised, right?
And that the whole of France smells like piss?

Put two and two together here!


I get it now! When you surrender you pee yourself!
/oblig

 
Marley'sGirl 2009-07-17 11:39:14 AM  
Had no face, no personality, very dull. It was like a martian. But hey, that's me.

 
genzoman 2009-07-17 11:40:49 AM  
i can see where this is going:

person 1: HAHA! you sheep follow an invisible sky wizard!11 atheism rulz!!

person 2: you had your penis cut in the same way that the invisible sky wizard told some made up story book character 5000 years ago

person 1: but it protects against AIDS...

 
Oh-Boy 2009-07-17 11:40:57 AM  
crm114: Gwendolyn: Uh the son isn't cut and he pees standing up just fine without having to yank it back. He's four though so it may change.

Again, I don't know the mechanics of the situation but I can't help but think that the skin would occasionally get in the way?


No, it doesn't. This idea makes no sense. It's like saying that the goggles get int he way of a skier, or the steering wheel is in the way of a cab driver.

 
crm114 2009-07-17 11:41:29 AM  
Pinner: NightOwl2255: Pinner: My GF stretches the skin out as far a she can, then does tequila shots out of it.

Your doing it wrong, you'll never get her drunk that way!

Oh, it works. Tonight I'm going for second base!


She's taken tequila shots out of your penis, but you haven't gotten to second base?

 
Gothnet 2009-07-17 11:42:08 AM  
crm114: Again, I don't know the mechanics of the situation but I can't help but think that the skin would occasionally get in the way?

So you pull it back a fraction. That feels good, by the way.

 
Pinner 2009-07-17 11:42:21 AM  
crm114: Gwendolyn: Uh the son isn't cut and he pees standing up just fine without having to yank it back. He's four though so it may change.

Again, I don't know the mechanics of the situation but I can't help but think that the skin would occasionally get in the way?


It does sometimes. Kind of like running the garden hose on full blast. With your fingers over the end.

 
crm114 2009-07-17 11:42:35 AM  
genzoman: i can see where this is going:

person 1: HAHA! you sheep follow an invisible sky wizard!11 atheism rulz!!

person 2: you had your penis cut in the same way that the invisible sky wizard told some made up story book character 5000 years ago

person 1: but it protects against AIDS...


0/10 See above image regarding trolling

 
foo monkey 2009-07-17 11:42:47 AM  
vinn01: What stupid women did they get to be a part of this study? They got 170 uninfected females!

"We want you to have unprotected sex with a HIV positive man. Some of the men in our study will be circumcised."

Someone thought that was a good idea? "It was found that a higher proportion of women were infected with HIV in the intervention group (18%) versus the control group (12%)."

There were 92 couples in the circumcision group and 67 in the control group were included in the final analysis. That means that 16 women in the group and 8 women in the control group were infected by participating in this study.


This is one of the huge flaws with all the HIV/Circumcision studies. They circumcise the men, then just set them and the controls loose in the population. There's no controls on their behavior. There's no checks on the women they have sex with. Are any of these men gay? Drug users? We don't know. It's not science. It's desperation.

 
zoips 2009-07-17 11:44:41 AM  
Because as we all know HIV is not actually transmitted in ejaculate.

 
Cottage Cheesecake 2009-07-17 11:45:56 AM  
A perfect Fark headline. Textbook perfect. Subby gets a brand new internet (less my replacement keyboard, of course).

 
wyrlss 2009-07-17 11:49:01 AM  
Oh-Boy: crm114: Gwendolyn: Uh the son isn't cut and he pees standing up just fine without having to yank it back. He's four though so it may change.

Again, I don't know the mechanics of the situation but I can't help but think that the skin would occasionally get in the way?

No, it doesn't. This idea makes no sense. It's like saying that the goggles get int he way of a skier, or the steering wheel is in the way of a cab driver.


I'm confused and troubled by your analogies.

 
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