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Connie L Posted Dec 13, 2006
"in saudi arabia it is illegal for male doctors to examine female patients.
Female doctors are forbidden."
I believe this was true of Afghanistan at one recent point in time, but might have changed now.
C.L.
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swl Posted Dec 13, 2006
Entirely the wrong place for this but:
http://www.afghan-web.com/woman/womenhealth.html
""EVEN IF THEY WERE ACCOMPANIED BY A MALE CHAPERONE, THEIR TREATMENT WAS VERY LIMITED. THEY WERE NOT ALLOWED TO TREAT WOMEN AS A DOCTOR IS SUPPOSED TO TREAT A PATIENT. THEY HAD TO EXAMINE THEM THROUGH THEIR CLOTHING. IF THERE WAS SURGERY NEEDED, THAT WAS NOT AN OPTION -- FOR A FEMALE PATIENT TO BE OPERATED ON BY A MALE DOCTOR."
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Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!" Posted Dec 13, 2006
Speaking of Mythbusters, in one episode they busted the myth that goldfish have a 2-second memory by teaching them to swim through a maze.
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Primeval Mudd (formerly Roymondo) Posted Dec 13, 2006
Would I get punched if I said 'Cor, amazing!'?
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Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!" Posted Dec 13, 2006
Not by me.
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Yelbakk Posted Dec 13, 2006
It is physically impossible for a vomit swimming through a maze to vomit.
Y.
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airscotia-back by popular demand Posted Dec 13, 2006
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No, it's gone, carry on.
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Yelbakk Posted Dec 13, 2006
Yikesness! Did I really write "impossible for a vomit to vomit"?!?! What I meant, of course, was: it is impossible for a *goldfish*... Oh well, whatever.
Y.
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Primeval Mudd (formerly Roymondo) Posted Dec 13, 2006
Fish/vomit, it's an easy mistake to make. If I had a quid for everytime I've made that mistake...
(that would probably work better if I was straight)
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Baron Grim Posted Dec 13, 2006
There is entirely too much vomit in this thread.
OMFG SRSLY. 
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Primeval Mudd (formerly Roymondo) Posted Dec 13, 2006
Not sure what I was thinking but it probably related to ladies intimate parts having a whiff of the kipper...
..rather than the gentleman's whiff of the stilton.
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airscotia-back by popular demand Posted Dec 13, 2006
Oh Bob, i wish i hadn't come back now.
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Moonhogg - Captain Coffee Break Posted Dec 14, 2006
ROTFLMAO!!
I can't believe I just read that!
Not going to look at a kipper in the same light again. For some reason I want to go and sniff one...
Sorry.
Ahem.
Anyway, did you know that the placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times?
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airscotia-back by popular demand Posted Dec 15, 2006
>Anyway, did you know that the placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times?<
Four feet!!!!!! I'd heard they were endowed, but........
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