IRLRPD - Amanda quoting PZ.
The mother and fetus have an adversarial relationship: momÂs best interest is to survive pregnancy to bear children again, and so her body tries to conserve resources for the long haul. The fetus, on the other hand, benefits from wresting as much from mom as it can, sometimes to the motherÂs detriment.- http://pandagon.net/...reproductive_cont It's a war in there. Cheers, Scott. |
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every woman exists
so they can pop out kids like candy from a Pez dispenser, because that's the way they are raised by their moms.
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow |
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No wonder you are so pessimistic...
because that's the way you were raised by your mom.
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Depends on the mom...
Mine ran off before I was born.
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Neat!
That mustabeen one hellovan umbilical cord!
also jk!
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she was a product of her times
and plenty of women are still being raised that way today -- by their moms. It's a chain with unbreakable links.
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow |
IRLRPD - Amanda quoting PZ.
- (Another Scott)
- (5)
- Dec. 23, 2011, 10:17:57 AM EST
every woman exists
- (lincoln)
- (4)
- Dec. 23, 2011, 05:30:03 PM EST
No wonder you are so pessimistic...
- (folkert)
- (3)
- Dec. 23, 2011, 06:47:12 PM EST
Depends on the mom...
- (hnick)
- (1)
- Dec. 24, 2011, 08:43:36 AM EST
Neat!
- (folkert)
- Dec. 24, 2011, 10:43:31 AM EST
she was a product of her times
- (lincoln)
- Dec. 24, 2011, 05:22:54 PM EST
