|
|
Joined: Oct 2000
Posts: 5,400
Carpal Tunnel
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Oct 2000
Posts: 5,400 |
re:
while women stayed home in the cave nattering away to their cave children
in hunter gather societies, the gather's (the women) gather 90% of the calories consumed.
the men hunt (and trap or kill) 10% calories.
those 10% calories are very often vital proteins, (with fat and B vitamins) but day in, day out, the women work and don't have much time for sitting round the campfire doing nothing. (what a sexist point of view.. i suppose women who are stay at home mothers don't 'work' either.. (yeah, babies change their own diapers, yeah, sure.)
men starve with out women's gatherings. woman become mal nurished,and often unable to hold/complete a pregnancy with the proteins men provide.. but if this has something to do with language, i am missing it.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2002
Posts: 1,529
veteran
|
|
OP
veteran
Joined: May 2002
Posts: 1,529 |
Quote:
men starve without women's gatherings. woman become mal nurished,and often unable to hold/complete a pregnancy with the proteins men provide.. but if this has something to do with language, i am missing it.
Now dear Helen if you will stop talking and listen for a minute I will tell you what this thread has to do with language.
[Good, that's better.]
This thread is about why women talk three times as much as men.
See?
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 2,661
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 2,661 |
Nice try, but too late, Ms. themilum. 
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 2,788
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 2,788 |
the only way to raise children without lots and lots of language was to tie them to trees.
Why did I never think of that when I cudda used the idea?
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 11,613
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 11,613 |
We used the bunghole method...
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 7,210
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 7,210 |
> bunghole method... say what? 
formerly known as etaoin...
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2000
Posts: 3,467
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jul 2000
Posts: 3,467 |
Put 'em into a barrel and feed 'em through the bunghole. When they reach 18 decide whether to break open the top of the barrel or tap in the bung.
TEd
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 7,210
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 7,210 |
formerly known as etaoin...
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 11,613
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 11,613 |
Thanks, Ted, you sweet thing. And, eta--shame on you for thinking I might do something bad! 
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 3,290
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 3,290 |
shame on you for thinking I might do something bad!Jackie, are you aware of one of the dictionary meanings of bunghole? Bung derives, ultimately, from Late Latin puncta 'hole' from the verb 'to prick'.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
|
|
|
|
Forums16
Topics13,913
Posts229,331
Members9,182
| |
Most Online3,341
Dec 9th, 2011
|
|
|
0 members (),
802
guests, and
1
robot. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
|
