So apparantly a male friend of mine thinks that if guys could get pregnant, there wouldn't be half as much fuss or complaining about it as women do.
O RLY?
Friend: "Yeah. If guys had to have babies, we would get it done within six months flat. None of this nine months nonsense."
Me: "Six months? Wouldn't that be premature?"
Friend: "Nope. We'd just get everything done quicker. Full term. Six months. And not half as much complaining either."
Me: "I'm wondering how you would cope with the pain of labour and giving birth when guys act like they're dying every time they have the common cold."
Friend: "We don't complain half as much as you women!"
Me: "Only for certain things..." (facepalm) "Ignoring the rules of science--"
Friend: "This is a 'what if' discussion. In this discussion, guys can get pregnant."
Me: "I'm talking about the 'six months' thing, not the gender issue. What about back pain then? You'd have to suffer a bad back."
Friend: (pompously) "No problem. I can handle a bad back for a few weeks."
Me: "Months."
Friend: "No, if the term is only six months then I'd only suffer it for a few weeks."
Me: "You have to bloody WADDLE in order to walk during towards the end of your term."
Friend: "I can handle waddling."
Me: "You couldn't smoke..."
Friend: "I don't smoke anyway."
Me: (deliberately "forgetting" the six months thing) "You couldn't drink alcohol for nine months."
Friend: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" (<-- completely forgot)
XDv I win.
And later:
Me: "It just came to me..."
Friend: (depressed) "What?"
Me: "You'd have to get pregnant in the first place. That means someone had to GET you pregnant."
Friend (<-- slightly homophobic): "..." (referring to conversation) "I brought this on myself..."
LOL
O RLY?
Friend: "Yeah. If guys had to have babies, we would get it done within six months flat. None of this nine months nonsense."
Me: "Six months? Wouldn't that be premature?"
Friend: "Nope. We'd just get everything done quicker. Full term. Six months. And not half as much complaining either."
Me: "I'm wondering how you would cope with the pain of labour and giving birth when guys act like they're dying every time they have the common cold."
Friend: "We don't complain half as much as you women!"
Me: "Only for certain things..." (facepalm) "Ignoring the rules of science--"
Friend: "This is a 'what if' discussion. In this discussion, guys can get pregnant."
Me: "I'm talking about the 'six months' thing, not the gender issue. What about back pain then? You'd have to suffer a bad back."
Friend: (pompously) "No problem. I can handle a bad back for a few weeks."
Me: "Months."
Friend: "No, if the term is only six months then I'd only suffer it for a few weeks."
Me: "You have to bloody WADDLE in order to walk during towards the end of your term."
Friend: "I can handle waddling."
Me: "You couldn't smoke..."
Friend: "I don't smoke anyway."
Me: (deliberately "forgetting" the six months thing) "You couldn't drink alcohol for nine months."
Friend: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" (<-- completely forgot)
XDv I win.
And later:
Me: "It just came to me..."
Friend: (depressed) "What?"
Me: "You'd have to get pregnant in the first place. That means someone had to GET you pregnant."
Friend (<-- slightly homophobic): "..." (referring to conversation) "I brought this on myself..."
LOL
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Date: 2008-02-27 01:59 pm (UTC)Friend (<-- slightly homophobic): "..." (referring to conversation) "I brought this on myself..."
Hahaha. And just a few minutes ago I was reading Gravitation. XD
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Date: 2008-02-28 08:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-28 08:15 am (UTC)Clearly, he didn't think of that before the random "what if" discussion took off. True, he is a guy, and therefore does not know about pregnancy besides the most obvious medical details, but this was just another one of our rather pointless and random discussions which I decided to put up because it really was too funny from my point of view. I sincerely doubt he really meant what he was saying as opposed to deliberatly talking bull in order to get a rise out of me, as we both share the view that the more random a conversation/discussion, the more entertaining it will be. XD Go easy on him.
Although I studied Advanced Biology until the end of high-school college, I haven't kept up with it since then, so I'm afraid I wouldn't really know about the steroids thing... ^^;
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Date: 2008-02-28 10:34 am (UTC)