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(Guardian) Followup Blue balls mystery solved by scientists   (guardian.co.uk) divider line 30
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2012-02-04 06:34:43 PM
Not poop.
 
2012-02-04 07:02:44 PM
The blue balls are almost certainly sodium polyacrylate or waterlock, an absorbent polymer used in nappies

Piss.
 
2012-02-04 08:01:36 PM
Wow...blue balls.

There is a Mom joke in there.

(and THIS in your Mom!).

OK I'm done..
 
2012-02-04 08:09:44 PM
It's sex right? sex is the answer? Or going into the bathroom and beat your penis like it owes you money?
 
2012-02-04 08:10:52 PM
And now back to the cure for cancer.
 
2012-02-04 08:11:44 PM
FTFA: The suggested explanations for the mysterious blue balls that appeared in a Dorset garden have ranged from the unlikely - the eggs of a marine creature - to the downright bizarre - the bodily secretions of angels.

Really? Um, okay...
 
2012-02-04 08:17:29 PM
Lone Stranger: Not poop.

G-g-g-ghooooooooost poooooooop...
 
2012-02-04 08:23:59 PM
FTFA
used in nappies and by florists and gardeners as a way of keeping soil moist.
...
It is still not clear how the substance came to be in the garden


...Really?
 
2012-02-04 08:40:50 PM
Ed Grubermann: FTFA: The suggested explanations for the mysterious blue balls that appeared in a Dorset garden have ranged from the unlikely - the eggs of a marine creature - to the downright bizarre - the bodily secretions of angels.

Really? Um, okay...


Most likely a snarky bastard suggested it.

"Oh, that? Angel ejaculate. Yep. Angel ejaculate."
 
2012-02-04 08:54:16 PM
 
2012-02-04 08:55:19 PM
This scientist could solve my blue balls...

cdn.gunaxin.com
 
2012-02-04 09:05:58 PM
an absorbent polymer used in nappies

Diapers for the for those of us who speak real English.
 
2012-02-04 09:07:53 PM
www.biggreenbeats.com
I don't wanna know how these guys use 'em...
 
2012-02-04 10:08:41 PM
My sister-in-law, who is more than a little dim, had used this for some of the plants at the family cabin. In her typical style, she didn't bother to read the directions and just sprinkled the dried material around the plants. When we saw them, each plant had a mound of clear gelatinous balls around it. Needless to say, her treatment didn't keep the plants from drying out.
 
2012-02-04 10:30:47 PM
Blue balls is a slang term for the condition of temporary fluid congestion (vasocongestion) in the testicles and prostate region, accompanied by acute testicular pain,[2] or a prolonged dull aching pain emanating from the prostate, caused by prolonged and unsatisfied sexual arousal in the human male. The term is thought to have originated in the United States, first appearing in 1916.[4] Some urologists call the condition "epididymal hypertension". The condition is not universally experienced by all male.

Although widely discussed, there has been scant information in the medical research literature[6] until an article by Chalett and Nerenberg in Pediatrics 2000 which found little formal data regarding the condition but concluded that "the treatment is sexual release, or perhaps straining to move a very heavy object-in essence doing a Valsalva maneuver."

/wiki
 
2012-02-04 11:01:08 PM
rogue49: "the treatment is sexual release, or perhaps straining to move a very heavy object-in essence doing a Valsalva maneuver."

What's the difference?

HeeeYOOOOOO!
 
2012-02-04 11:08:01 PM
Also known as Orbeez.

Link (new window)
 
2012-02-04 11:15:09 PM
I thought blue balls were causing by fundies trying to repress their gay urges?
 
2012-02-04 11:22:03 PM
Alleyoop: This scientist film and sculpture major brought in to appeal to the sex-starved nerd audience could solve my blue balls...

[cdn.gunaxin.com image 480x518]
 
2012-02-04 11:50:43 PM
So don't date Polly Acrylate.
 
2012-02-05 12:12:30 AM
Here comes the science. Get some napkins.
 
2012-02-05 12:37:27 AM
Diogenes Teufelsdrockh: Alleyoop: This scientist film and sculpture major brought in to appeal to the sex-starved nerd audience could solve my blue balls...

[cdn.gunaxin.com image 480x518]


If you look up Jamie and Adam, there ain't much (relevant) formal education between them. It's a show by enthusiasts for enthusiasts. They are the Ghostbusters of science, if you recall the experiment at the beginning of the movie and the dean's list of reasons for kicking them off the campus.
 
2012-02-05 01:57:49 AM
LeroyBourne: It's sex right? sex is the answer?

Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. "Yes" is the answer. - Swami X
 
2012-02-05 05:02:46 AM
Surfrock66: PWNT:

http://www.fark.com/comments/6910584/74657153#c74657153


Yup. Reading your comment could have saved them some effort.

Although the whole thing was likely a deliberate hoax by the "finders" (possibly with the collusion of whichever rag was the first to print the story).

Either that, or some local kids threw them, and the residents, inside at the time, just assumed the plink-plink-plink was a hailstorm.
 
2012-02-05 06:27:39 AM
Diogenes Teufelsdrockh: This scientist film and sculpture major brought in to appeal to the sex-starved nerd audience...

UsikFark: If you look up Jamie and Adam, there ain't much (relevant) formal education between them.

I just want my blue balls solved, not the mysteries of the universe.
 
2012-02-05 11:33:45 AM
Some florists and garden centers may use them to prepare plants/bushes for sale. Homeowner may have planted such a prepared plant in his garden.

However, article is extremely unclear as to whether there was an alarming quantity present or just a few in/on soil.
 
2012-02-05 01:34:02 PM
runner_one: an absorbent polymer used in nappies

Diapers for the for those of us who speak real English.



Thank you. I came here to the comments only to find out WTF that meant.
 
2012-02-05 01:52:53 PM
UsikFark: Diogenes Teufelsdrockh: Alleyoop: This scientist film and sculpture major brought in to appeal to the sex-starved nerd audience could solve my blue balls...

[cdn.gunaxin.com image 480x518]

If you look up Jamie and Adam...


I wasn't talking about those two, just the annoying attention whore.
 
2012-02-06 12:23:37 AM
LeroyBourne: beat your penis like it owes you money?

Saw that on Chapelle the other night. Funny, funny stuff.
 
2012-02-06 07:01:58 AM
Mandapants: Some florists and garden centers may use them to prepare plants/bushes for sale. Homeowner may have planted such a prepared plant in his garden.

However, article is extremely unclear as to whether there was an alarming quantity present or just a few in/on soil.


Discussing the article in a thread about a sexual pun?

For SHAME. ;)
 
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