Girls Got Mad Cooties! [Archive]

Young Al Capone

11-04-2008, 10:49 AM

BBC is reporting that girls are super gross, check it out. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7705608.stm)

Lead researcher Dr Noah Fierer said: "The sheer number of bacteria species detected on the hands of the study participants was a big surprise, and so was the greater diversity of bacteria we found on the hands of women."

On average, women had 50% more bacterial species on their hands than men.

Discuss.

DiBiddilyBop

11-04-2008, 10:50 AM

Gross......

MrBeowulfe

11-04-2008, 10:55 AM

Figures........

Troggles

11-04-2008, 10:56 AM

I fucking knew it. Now I have to get my cootie shot.

National Kato

11-04-2008, 11:02 AM

Circle circle dot dot...

Gormanimal

11-04-2008, 11:04 AM

It is amazing that young males have been able to detect this for years!

DoctorFinger

11-04-2008, 11:06 AM

Come on, you know where those hands have been...

Vanifae

11-04-2008, 11:43 AM

Cooties is the number one killer of men.

ADDGirl

11-04-2008, 11:57 AM

Maybe you men should start dating other men and avoid the female cooties all together;)

GunnyMo

11-04-2008, 11:58 AM

Maybe you men should start dating other men and avoid the female cooties all together;)

I would like to say I've built up a solid tolerance for the Female Cootie over the years and welcome those dirty, filthy hands rubbing all over me. Mmmmm rubbing.

Ancalagon

11-04-2008, 12:27 PM

I would like to say I've built up a solid tolerance for the Female Cootie over the years and welcome those dirty, filthy hands rubbing all over me. Mmmmm rubbing.

You know, I'd volunteer for a scientific study involving that. Cooties are dangerous, we need more info.

GunnyMo

11-04-2008, 12:32 PM

You know, I'd volunteer for a scientific study involving that. Cooties are dangerous, we need more info.

daoV-LsINiA

Hell, I'd even pay TWO dollars!

Voodoo

11-04-2008, 12:34 PM

I was born with cootie immunity.

LongStepMantis

11-04-2008, 12:35 PM

That's because men kill theirs off with heat generated by high amounts of friction...and you know what I'm talking about. ;)

ClannerDelta

11-04-2008, 12:36 PM

I was born with cootie immunity.

Er... Hermaphrodite?

Young Al Capone

11-04-2008, 12:37 PM

Yeah, you guys have fun with your 50% more cooties.

I, for one, had already sworn women off anyway, but it is always good to get some vindication.

GunnyMo

11-04-2008, 12:39 PM

Yeah, you guys have fun with your 50% more cooties.

I, for one, had already sworn women off anyway, but it is always good to get some vindication.

Does

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know his son don't like girlies? :p

Voodoo

11-04-2008, 12:44 PM

Er... Hermaphrodite?

Oh no... See when boys were running away from girls because of their cooties, I was quite happy to allow the girls to rub their cootie filled hands all over me. I learned early on that I had cootie immunity.

rinichanraar

11-04-2008, 12:46 PM

Yeah, you guys have fun with your 50% more cooties.

I, for one, had already sworn women off anyway, but it is always good to get some vindication.

Hey, hey, it says "50% more bacterial species"! Just means we have more bacterial diversity, not that there's a greater volume! We don't discriminate like you dicks do! :D

Pesikar

11-04-2008, 12:51 PM

Just reminded me of this:
http://pbfcomics.com/archive_b/PBF212-Contamination_Zone.jpg

GunnyMo

11-04-2008, 12:51 PM

We don't discriminate like you dicks do! :D

Why did you have to tug peni into this discussion? (Peni is the multiple of "penis" not a misspelling). What did they ever do to you? Wait, don't answer that. Wait, answer it if you have pictures to go along with it. Wait, I should just stop typing.

Young Al Capone

11-04-2008, 12:52 PM

Does [some imposteur] know his son don't like girlies?

Where do you think I got it from? Told me to never trust 'em as far as you can throw 'em. I never knew if that made any sense.

Hey, hey, it says "50% more bacterial species"! Just means we have more bacterial diversity, not that there's a greater volume! We don't discriminate like you dicks do! :D

Hm, that is a pretty good point, and made by a girl noless. I may have to rethink my position.

rinichanraar

11-04-2008, 12:59 PM

Why did you have to tug peni into this discussion? (Peni is the multiple of "penis" not a misspelling). What did they ever do to you? Wait, don't answer that. Wait, answer it if you have pictures to go along with it. Wait, I should just stop typing.

My natural response was to say, "you assholes," but I realized that everyone has an asshole, so I changed it to "you dicks." No pictures though (unfortunately)! Sorry! :p

Hm, that is a pretty good point, and made by a girl noless. I may have to rethink my position.

Indeed you should, kind sir!

GunnyMo

11-04-2008, 01:01 PM

My natural response was to say, "you assholes," but I realized that everyone has an asshole, so I changed it to "you dicks." No pictures though (unfortunately)! Sorry! :p

lol You know, your response somewhat indicates that if you did have pictures you wouldn't be adverse to posting them up. :p

I really should get out more often. :D

Dorkandproudofit

11-04-2008, 01:17 PM

Er... Hermaphrodite?

Well, hermaphrodites DO have twice the fun. :D

DoctorFinger

11-04-2008, 01:22 PM

Well, hermaphrodites DO have twice the fun. :DYou do realize that hermaphrodites tend to have no functioning genitalia, and not one set of each? :eek: So in actuality they have none of the fun.

Dorkandproudofit

11-04-2008, 01:23 PM

You do realize that hermaphrodites tend to have no functioning genitalia, and not one set of each? :eek: So in actuality they have none of the fun.

CLEARLY you've never been to Singapore.

Free cookie to whoever gets the reference!

GunnyMo

11-04-2008, 01:28 PM

CLEARLY you've never been to Singapore.

Free cookie to whoever gets the reference!

Captain Jack Sparrow!

Young Al Capone

11-04-2008, 01:48 PM

Indeed you should, kind sir!

On account of an attractive woman asking me to rethink my stance on women, I am proud to announce that I have flip-flopped on my original position and am now in support of getting with all women, everywhere, regardless of cootie content.

carnage11

11-04-2008, 01:56 PM

Bacteria? Bah. I'm more worried about the 25% of all women that have HPV.

Dorkandproudofit

11-04-2008, 02:01 PM

Captain Jack Sparrow!

You did it! Here's your cookie. Made from a veeeerrrryyyy special recipe... :D

Bad Buddha

11-04-2008, 02:28 PM

CLEARLY you've never been to Singapore.

Free cookie to whoever gets the reference!

My old neighbor "Butchie"!

Let me tell you that Bangkok is the best named city in the world! :D

Johan

11-04-2008, 02:32 PM

:adds another reason for switching teams:

Yeeha!

Lint of Death

11-07-2008, 11:12 AM

Why did you have to tug peni into this discussion? (Peni is the multiple of "penis" not a misspelling).

No it isn't. (http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2139/what-is-the-plural-of-penis) If you're trying to use a latin-style plural, it's penes. "Penises" is also perfectly acceptable, certain that it is infinitely moreso than "peni".

GunnyMo

11-07-2008, 11:17 AM

No it isn't. (http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2139/what-is-the-plural-of-penis) If you're trying to use a latin-style plural, it's penes. "Penises" is also perfectly acceptable, certain that it is infinitely moreso than "peni".

If cacti is the multiple of cactus and Elvi is the multiple of Elvis then it falls logically that peni is the multiple of penis. :D

Superman's Dead

11-07-2008, 11:19 AM

No it isn't. (http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2139/what-is-the-plural-of-penis) If you're trying to use a latin-style plural, it's penes. "Penises" is also perfectly acceptable, certain that it is infinitely moreso than "peni".

Oh Lint of Death. Always intruding on our casual conversation of hermaphrodites, plague vectors, pornography, and ambiguous sexuality with your 'grammar'.

Lint of Death

11-07-2008, 11:30 AM

If cacti is the multiple of cactus and Elvi is the multiple of Elvis then it falls logically that peni is the multiple of penis. :D

There is only one true King! Anyway, the plural of Elvis would be Elvises since the spelling of a name should never change with context - though it is usually best to avoid awkward plurals by rearranging the sentence. edit: One of the things I like about Spanish is that it is grammatically impossible to have this dilemma IIRC.

It would also be correct English to say cactuses, but it's hella awkward and so nowhere near as common. Anyway, as the article I linked explains, there's more than one form for plural nouns in Latin depending on how the word is spelled. So the plural version of a singular ending in 'is' would end differently from a that of one ending in 'us'.

Oh Lint of Death. Always intruding on our casual conversation of hermaphrodites, plague vectors, pornography, and ambiguous sexuality with your 'grammar'.
I had syntax with ur mom last nite lololol :o

carnage11

11-07-2008, 01:05 PM

It's a sad day on CoG when you guys are arguing the plural of penis.

I have a funny story, I had a science class once where the teacher would write the word of the day on the board and we would have to write a journal entry about it. Well the word for this specific day was "pussy". As in, I have a scab on my arm that's oozing puss....therefore it's pussy. You wouldn't be surprised how many journal entries that day were written about women's anatomy. The funniest part of this story is that the teacher was female and had no idea what she had done. lol.

rinichanraar

11-07-2008, 01:18 PM

It would also be correct English to say cactuses, but it's hella awkward and so nowhere near as common. Anyway, as the article I linked explains, there's more than one form for plural nouns in Latin depending on how the word is spelled. So the plural version of a singular ending in 'is' would end differently from a that of one ending in 'us'.

I had syntax with ur mom last nite lololol :o

I'm not even going to bother to look at the link because I am a Latin master (;)), and I know it's going to say that if penis were actually Latin, it would probably fall in the third declension (not the second, which is where the nominative "-us" ending is).

--, -is, -i, -em, -e
-es, -um, -ibus, -es, -ibus

ALSO, not that this is related, but octopus comes from Greek, not Latin, so the plural should TECHNICALLY be octopodes, not octopi, though I think both are accepted now because it went from Greek to Latin. But no one uses octopodes though anyway unless arguing about the plural of octopus. :p

Lint of Death

11-07-2008, 01:25 PM

Octopuses is always the safe answer. And Octopussy is a movie I still haven't seen :p

rinichanraar

11-07-2008, 01:39 PM

Octopuses is always the safe answer. And Octopussy is a movie I still haven't seen :p

Yeah, to be honest, I usually just say "octopuses" because it's safe and fun-sounding. I just like arguing for octopodes in grammar battles, even though any of the plural forms is correct. :p

Bad Buddha

11-07-2008, 02:30 PM

Yeah, to be honest, I usually just say "octopuses" because it's safe and fun-sounding. I just like arguing for octopodes in grammar battles, even though any of the plural forms is correct. :p

Some of the largest octopuses in the world are found in Puget Sound.

Puget Sound is home to the world's largest octopus, the giant Pacific octopus, which is also the world's largest invertebrate, meaning it has no bones.

The biggest known giant Pacific octopus was 600 pounds and had an arm span of about 30 feet. Octopuses typically live from three to five years and die after breeding once.
SOURCE: Seattle Aquarium

My father got second place in the World Octopus Wrestling Championship back in 1962 or '63. I'll see if I can dig up the trophy and post a pic.