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I could say the same thing about your sexual partners.

Honey, just because you don't have any friends, doesn't mean the rest of us don't. This whole "having conversations with other human beings" thing must seem very strange to you.

Ironman says

Guess what, I only have one now, since I'm married, and guess what, it's not a male, like yours are at Georgie's.

Once again you demonstrate why your opinion on any matter does not count. Any person who is homophobic in the 21st century is a dumb ass.

The only good you accomplish is demonstrating why conservatives are the scum of the Earth, ignorant, stupid, immoral, yet self-righteous, and uncreative relics of the Stone Age.

You get circumsized because it the old days, people would get sand and filth under their foreskin, causing infections and leading to death. Most primitive groups practiced some form of circumcision. These days, it eliminates penile cancer almost entirely, and reduces UTIs greatly in infants and boys, and greatly reduces the chance of catching and spreading HPV and AIDS by double digit percentages per sex act. Now if you have sex with somebody with HPV 100 times, you'll certainly get it, but if it's only once or twice, your chances of getting are substantially reduced.

Circumcision is a minimally invasive, 99.999999999% safe procedure where the number of serious complications does not result in even one death per year in the USA even though the majority of infants by the millions per year receive the operation.

It also makes your stuff smell less since there is no place for the bacteria to hide and breed, underneath the foreskin is an arm-pit like place right next to your most precious tool.

What happens is that a handful of dudes suffering from impotence try to blame it on their circumcision, even if they're quite capable of having an orgasm by themselves, or have been at earlier stages in their lives, and they go all Allah Akbar on Circumcision, along with anti-Semites.

The Truth about people who seek the truth, is they are a clueless little piss mouse lot really, aren't they?

Right on about just about everything else, though, especially Genetics.

At the Gym I see so many skinny dudes trying to get ripped, it ain't gonna happen. I'm lucky I got the build - they don't. Don't matter how many protein shakes they drink, they ain't gonna look like Ferigno at his peak.

About diamonds: it's all true, including the part where knowing it doesn't save you from buying it.
I'll add this: the real motivation for women to want a diamond is not that it proves her your love. No it is that they compare between them, and the one that has the smallest is seen as a total loser. Nothing announces to the world more eloquently that she's married with a rich stud (well at least a rich dude) than an enormous shiny rock on her finger.

The way out is that most women can't tell zirconium from diamonds - but at your own risk.

Heraclitusstudent says

The way out is that most women can't tell zirconium from diamonds - but at your own risk.

I seriously doubt if most people can tell the difference between a diamond from the 99 cent store, and a D1 Flawless worth tens of thousands.
I sure can't.

Ironman says

Crap... I wonder if I can get my money back that I spent on the diamonds??

A word of advise.....It's not if you can tell the difference, it's if your wife can tell the difference.
My wife has friends who can. :) :)

Ironman says

Strategist says

Ironman says

Crap... I wonder if I can get my money back that I spent on the diamonds??

A word of advise.....It's not if you can tell the difference, it's if your wife can tell the difference.

Hell, she hardly ever wears the diamonds anymore, she has so many other rings I gave her over the years... Heck, every cruise we go on, she loads me up with tropical drinks, and tricks me into buying her another special ring.... Aren't I a nice guy?

No....you are just a sucker.

Ironman says

I think I'll go pawn her diamonds and buy a bigger boat. Do you think she'll notice??

Are you kidding? She will know it's gone even before it's gone.
You just don't understand women. I can't even fool my wife with a little fart.

Huh.

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Heraclitusstudent says

About diamonds: it's all true, including the part where knowing it doesn't save you from buying it.

I never bought her any shiny finger-baubles, married+kids, life is fine.
You did something stupid and rationalize EVERYONE is doing it.
When they aren't. Our wedding bands are rarely if ever worn, but I don't
feel so bad about that "extravagance", inexpensive titanium so they are
durable like that hunk of carbon you're stuck with.

thunderlips11 says

Most primitive groups practiced some form of circumcision. These days, it eliminates penile cancer almost entirely, and reduces UTIs greatly in infants and boys, and greatly reduces the chance of catching and spreading HPV and AIDS by double digit percentages per sex act.

This has never been validated beyond very few small studies (if you observe something that rarely happens you cannot count much on the results unless you have a really large sample size, plus there are so many other factors wrt to culture and lifestyle of those circumsized vs those who are not). The UTIs may be a fair point since kids aren't clean enough from the beginning and have to learn it, but it's like shooting out cannons into sparrows. It simply is additional skin mass, so theoretically there is an increased risk of getting that additional mass to grow or infected, but by the same token then you could cut off your limbs or breasts preemptively. It largely depends on how large the foreskin is, some really have so much that it may make sense to cut some off, some have not much and it would be a waste of time. money and unnecessary trauma. The point really is that this should be up to the individual itself and not for the parents to decide when in doubt and no medical condition is present. That being said, it is likely not worth outlawing it, though some countries have. Chalk it up to cultural/religious traditions ;)