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Or, The Thigh Straps Were To Ensure Comfort.Â
One for ladies of child-bearing age:
George and Charlotte Blonsky suggested that modern women were ill-equipped to give birth… They argued that modern women who live with modern luxuries “often do not have the opportunity to develop the muscles needed,” and that something was needed to provide them with the force necessary for a smooth birth.
This patented invention from 1963 was designed to help women give birth easily
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I can tell you’re impressed. The net and bell combo is a lovely touch. “In case medical personnel are momentarily distracted.”Â
The patent, from 1963, can be found here.
Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
I think we need some input from the ladies.
Sorry – I never made it past the article’s headline and first lines: Pregnant People? Pregnant patients? WTF.
That said – I’m not sure that will work the way they think it will – the baby isn’t an inanimate object. I guess the thought was the cervix is opening up to let the baby out, so the centrifugal forces will assist the uterine contractions of expulsion, rather than say, expel your guts (or their contents) because supposedly the muscles holding them in aren’t relaxing? Unlike uterine contractions, centrifugal forces act generally, on everything, so why would they think only the baby is going to come shooting out, and not everything else in there?
He never was bedeviled
His clothes were all disheveled
That fact-connecting, crime-detecting son of a gun Columbo
[ Considers rewatching old episodes of Columbo. The early seasons, obviously. ]
Jeff Guinn,
My father had a little framed plaque on the wall, back in the 60s, which was an “award” for surviving his g-training. it included remarks about “eyeballs-in” and “eyeballs-out” g-tests. Eyeballs-out was, he said, just as awful as it sounds.
(NASA, instead of USAF, but probably same-same.)
Semi-related: One of Heinlein’s speculations, which appeared in several stories, was that women made better spaceship pilots than men because they could better endure g-forces. If I recall one or two recent news items on “equity” in the military, that advantage turned out to not exist. A good number of fellow sf readers, however, somehow internalized Heinlein’s speculation as solid fact.
Oops but LOL.
I was hoping to start a fight around “torch” vs “flashlight” but David didn’t take the bait.
but I have noticed some differences in male-female psychology, and they can, I think, make life more complicated than is strictly necessary.
You don’t know the half of it brother. My wife’s middle name switches back and forth from “apropos of nothing” to “non sequitur.”
Not so divergent he couldn’t make a valid self-assessment.
NHS insider on how the NHS ignores rape gang victims
Will we include the libtards? Please?
Sowell correctly pointed out that conservatives adopt the tragic view of humanity: people are imperfect, things have costs and tradeoffs, life is unfair, bad things happen.
In contrast the woke adopt the cosmic view of life: if life is unfair, someone is to blame. If someone makes more money it is unjust. If you have good intentions that is all that matters. People are a blank slate and can be molded to be good. This leads to idiotic statements like “Men shouldn’t rape” as if just saying this would make it so, and as if this justifies women not being careful when they go out at night. The search after perfection is also to blame in LA right now: the perfect world requires us to honor nature absolutely by not clearing brush and by emptying dams. They fail to recognize that human existence is not compatible with perfect preservation of nature–we necessarily have an impact. We can try to minimize it.
I’ve watched a few YouTube videos lately about young offenders. Such as the one I posted a few days ago about the kid whose mother found a head and hands in his room.
There was another with a 14-year-old kid who slit the throat of his best friend and stabbed his neck until he died. Planned it out and everything. No particular reason. Bright kid. Happy to calmly tell the cops what he’d done. Might be on the spectrum himself.
Hello? They’re psychopaths. A brain scan will probably reveal damage right behind the eyes. Any autism is purely incidental.
And furthermore, they display red flags for quite awhile before someone dies. Parents who notice are in denial. School officials are such midwits that they don’t react at all.
First image: Jack Cassidy, who perfectly played the most oily, smug bastages imaginable. Good enough to get a repeat casting on Columbo.
First comment: “Remember, she’s not a Grammar Nazi, she’s a member of the alt-write.”
This goes with the popular libtard myth of the Noble Native Americans who Lived In Perfect Harmony With Nature. In reality, they did various things to actively manage the natural world to suit their needs–including forest management.
If by forest management you mean setting fires to prevent forests.
As usual, Shellenberger diagnoses the problem exactly:
The sabotage continues: A drone punches a huge hole in a super scooper firefighting plane.
The headline of that tweet threw me off tho: DRONE PUNCHES HOLE IN LA FIREFIGHTING PLANE AS FBI HUNTS PILOT
Sounded like the FBI was using a drone to hunt the plane’s pilot and in so doing they punched a hole in the plane.
Do people who write misleading headlines make a lot of money?
If by forest management you mean setting fires to prevent forests.
Controlling (limiting) undergrowth, as an example. And then there are the big landscape reengineering projects seen in South America…
Shoe0nHead was a massive Boxxy fan and it’s where she got her look from.
Also, they are the same person: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyclUE2RC8k
Plains Indians set fires to prevent forests from growing at all – forests impeded their hunting.
I have read that forests in what is now the Eastern third of America had significantly less undergrowth than would otherwise be the case for the same reason.