The End of Men (FOREVER!!!111!?)

[4a6c1]

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[BriarFox]

Women need men to keep things in perspective. Otherwise, life would be all about about shoes.

:P

Edit: And epic batailles royales over shoe sales.

[Gelston]

FINALLY SCIENTIFIC PROOF :D


Do mice with two mothers spell the end for men?

18:58 02 December 2009 by Peter Aldhous
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If you believe some reports, the future of humanity is a super race of genetically-engineered women who can reproduce without men.

"Take men's genetic contribution to humanity out of the equation and – in theory – women could live a third longer," said the UK's Daily Mail.

The Mail – and a host of other outlets – was covering new research that created mice with two mothers, which lived much longer than those conceived normally.

But experts in the mechanisms of ageing say specific aspects of the way the research was conducted mean it's way too soon to declare men a genetic burden who are imposing limits on human lifespan. So before you ditch your boyfriend or husband, New Scientist answers a few questions about what this intriguing experiment really tells us.

What's all the fuss about?

The excitement surrounds an experiment by Tomohiro Kono of the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Manabu Kawahara of Saga University, who were intrigued by why male mammals usually die younger than females. They suspected that the explanation may lie partly in a phenomenon called "imprinting" – differing activity of genes due to chemical modifications depending on whether they are inherited from the mother or the father. Paternally imprinted genes may have particularly free rein in males, Kono's team reasoned, and may govern traits such as living fast and dying young.

However, paternally imprinted genes will also have effects in females. So the researchers used methods similar to those used for cloning to create a group of "bi-maternal" female mice from two eggs – eliminating the need for sperm and its cargo of paternally imprinted genes.

So what did the researchers find?

The resulting mice lived for an average of around 840 days – more than 180 days longer than normally-conceived females from the same strain. They were also smaller. Kono says the most likely interpretation is that it is due to imprinted genes and suggests that one culprit could be a paternally imprinted gene called Rasgrf1, which has previously been shown to affect growth.

Specialists in the mechanisms of ageing agree that this is a fascinating possibility, but remain to be to be convinced that Kono's results are conclusive.

"The most likely interpretation". I take it there are disagreements?

Yes. There were only 13 mice in each group, which were all relatively short-lived. In other experiments, females from the same strain have lived for an average of around 860 days – longer than both groups in the experiment. "This makes it trickier to interpret the claim that the bi-maternal mice are unusually long-lived," says Richard Miller, who studies the genetics of ageing at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

What's more, the strain used in the experiment is unusual in that its males typically live longer than females. That makes it particularly hard to tell how the results relate to normal sex differences in lifespan.


http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18229-do-mice-with-two-mothers-spell-the-end-for-men.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

Womenz are better. The mice sayz so.

Discuss.

No.

[4a6c1]

Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

[Stanley Burrell]

:-O:-O:-O:-O:-O:-O:-O

Is what I say about that.

[DCSL]

Hm. I'd almost rather we could engineer men to reproduce by themselves so I don't have to put up with that shit myself.

[Androidpk]

I can't wait for the japanese to develop life like sex robots, ones that do dishes and make sandwiches without question.

[Tisket]

life would be all about about shoes.

As God intended it. And, additional proof that god is a woman.

[ElvenFury]

Women breeding with themselves would be the end of humanity. Taking abuse from a hormonal pregnant woman is specifically male ability. They'd just kill each other and the whole female population would implode. Then all us men would starve to death.

TEH END IS NEAR!!!!!

[Celephais]

The freeway would be a dangerous and scary place.

[ElvenFury]

Carpet makers might go out of business as homes gets linoleum in every room.

[Kuyuk]

shit, no real work would get done.

women wouldnt upkeep the road systems

[Celephais]

shit, no real work would get done.
http://www.overworkedandunderpaid.org/jiminchina/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/idiocracy-3.jpg

[DCSL]

On the bright side, in the midst of all the destruction, I wouldn't wake up to a hard dick poking me in the thigh in the middle of the night when I'm trying to get some goddamn sleep. FFS.

[Celephais]

On the bright side, in the midst of all the destruction, I wouldn't wake up to a hard dick poking me in the thigh in the middle of the night when I'm trying to get some goddamn sleep. FFS.
You're illustrating the point exactly. Women lack problem solving skills. If our anatomies were reversed a man would just take care of the problem and you'd both be happily back to sleep in no time... well no, we'd probably stay up and play with our boobs, but you get the point.

[DCSL]

You're illustrating the point exactly. Women lack problem solving skills. If our anatomies were reversed a man would just take care of the problem and you'd both be happily back to sleep in no time... well no, we'd probably stay up and play with our boobs, but you get the point.

Pfft! Not true at all! I know exactly how to solve the problem and it involves a dull knife and a tub full of lime. My real problem, and one that many other women share, is that I let my emotions get in the way of the action I know to be the right course. Damn my love of that man.

[Celephais]

Pfft! Not true at all! I know exactly how to solve the problem and it involves a dull knife and a tub full of lime.
Again, problem solve. Just tug it off (you can interpret that either way).

My real problem, and one that many other women share, is that I let my emotions get in the way of the action I know to be the right course. Damn my love of that man.
Men have solved emotions by not having them.

[Methais]

http://allworldcars.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/women-drivers-8.jpg
http://www.autoanatomy.com/humor/Women%20Driver.jpg
http://women-drivers.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Women-Drivers-Car-Pile-Up.jpg
http://media.ebaumsworld.com/picture/superdaleman/ScreenHunter_01Feb.2722.07.gif

^

EDIT: WTF
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23403942-why-women-drive-with-two-hands-and-men-with-only-one.do

[Belnia]

Shit, the end of barbecue as we know it!

All beer would be replaced with wine spritzers.

[Tisket]

At least we'd never get lost because we'd STOP AND ASK DIRECTIONS.

http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/yhst-67380419885148_1966_71498140

[WRoss]

I blame this all on Oprah.

[Methais]

At least we'd never get lost because we'd STOP AND ASK DIRECTIONS.

http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/yhst-67380419885148_1966_71498140

Yeah right. Who you gonna ask for directions? Other women?

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/ha-ha-ha2.jpg

Plus how are you going to get there? See my previous post for elaboration.

[Sean of the Thread]

You girls really scare the shit out of me.

[Sweets]

A world where I don't have to wonder what that smell is and find dirty socks under the couch? A world where All cupboard doors are closed because someone didn't decide you would just have to open them again, so leave them open? A world where my kitchen table doesn't get great big gouges out of it because some tried to build a bird house on it!?

I need to go shoe shopping to calm myself down.

[Kuyuk]

Do it while you can, after all the men are left you lazy women wont build shoemarts, tables, cabinets, or anything else.
http://bum.net/pics/shoes-on-sale.jpg

[EasternBrand]

If men are really becoming obsolete, our last act of revenge ought to be to jar EVERYTHING.

[Paradii]

If men are really becoming obsolete, our last act of revenge ought to be to jar EVERYTHING.


Lawlz. And place it on the top shelf.

[Kuyuk]

haha

[Stanley Burrell]

I can't wait for the japanese to develop life like sex robots, ones that do dishes and make sandwiches without question.

Dude, assuming we don't blow ourselves up, all the future people are going to have l33t effin' sheeot. And it is totally unfair that we have to do stuff like work, eat, wipe our butts and breathe without the accompaniment of ginormous galactic space robot people to help us out in such endeavors.

Wow. I do not sleep.

[radamanthys]

Lawlz. And place it on the top shelf.

Maybe put them behind a spider web, too.


Dude, assuming we don't blow ourselves up, all the future people are going to have l33t effin' sheeot. And it is totally unfair that we have to do stuff like work, eat, wipe our butts and breathe without the accompaniment of ginormous galactic space robot people to help us out in such endeavors.

Wow. I do not sleep.

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords. Bitches be damned.

[Asha]

:-O:-O:-O:-O:-O:-O:-O


GET A JOB!!!!

[Latrinsorm]

Maybe put them behind a spider web, too.Careful, Jihna probably keeps spiders as pets. Big, mean, hairy, venomous ones, with names like "Theodore Roosevelt the Second" and "Bud".

[ElvenFury]

Careful, Jihna probably keeps spiders as pets. Big, mean, hairy, venomous ones, with names like "Theodore Roosevelt the Second" and "Bud".

She tried, but the flying monkeys ate them as snacks.

[Krendeli]

A world without men wouldn't last long anyway.

Once they all went on the rag at the same time, they'd turn the planet into a big ball of glass.

[Latrinsorm]

And I can't believe no one has made a Jurassic Park reference yet! I blame myself.

[Celephais]

And I can't believe no one has made a Jurassic Park reference yet! I blame myself.
I knew there was a reason I made you Dr. Malcolm when I made that mini-comic.
http://i1009.photobucket.com/albums/af213/GuinnessKMF2/Latrin.gif

[Stanley Burrell]

GET A JOB!!!!

SIGN ME UP, CAPTAIN.

I always, secretly, wanted to be a British chimney sweep.

[pabstblueribbon]

<WiLdSeXyPrInCeSs> i luv guyz where would they be wifout us gals???
<XeNoX> Still in the Garden Of Eden you gullible bitch.

[Methais]

<WiLdSeXyPrInCeSs> i luv guyz where would they be wifout us gals???
<XeNoX> Still in the Garden Of Eden you gullible bitch.

Hahaha pwned. PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED PWNED!!!!!!!!1

[Geshron]

I can't wait for the japanese to develop life like sex robots, ones that do dishes and make sandwiches without question.

This.

[Androidpk]

<WiLdSeXyPrInCeSs> i luv guyz where would they be wifout us gals???
<XeNoX> Still in the Garden Of Eden you gullible bitch.

ZING

[4a6c1]

Methinks the ladies doth protest too much.

And by ladies I mean guys.

[AnticorRifling]

If we were gone at least we wouldn't have to listen to bitching. Really it's win win.

[pabstblueribbon]

Methinks the ladies doth protest too much.

And by ladies I mean guys.

http://www.thecoast.ca/imager/bitch_please_/b/original/1078109/4040/bitch_20please_gif-magnum.jpg
:D

[4a6c1]

You are obsolete. The mice prooooved it. Bai.

[pabstblueribbon]

You are obsolete. The mice prooooved it. Bai.

Wang hater.

[Some Rogue]

The real reason men die before their wives? Because they want to.

[pabstblueribbon]

Why do women wear makeup and perfume?

[BriarFox]

Why do women wear makeup and perfume?

To impress other women.

[pabstblueribbon]

WRONG.

Because they're ugly. And they stink.

[radamanthys]

How is a woman like a laxative?

They both irritate the crap out of you.

[Clove]

What's the difference between a band of pygmies and a women's track team?

[AestheticLife]

This.

Already half way there! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in8B-PCGsRo

She'll be twenty forever!

[Clove]

A band of pygmies are cunning runts.

[Paradii]

What's the difference between a band of pygmies and a women's track team?


a band of intelligent pygmies........c'mon

Also, What's the difference between an epileptic oyster and a prostitute with diarrhea?

[Paradii]

One you schuck in between fits.