[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Andorion, on 02 November 2015 - 05:25 PM, said:

Recently a local newspaper published an article that the best way for women to avoid breast cancer is to marry between 23-27, have 2 kids by 30 and breastfeed each for 6 months.


My GF is extremely upset and angry and has told me she has no intention of having any kids before 30. Not really a problem for me, it was never part of my plans but this article doesn't read right at all. Is this some new research?

That sounds more than a little odd - especially to include marriage in there. I mean, I'm guessing that's just the paper's slant. Because naturally if you got divorced your chances of breast cancer would sky rocket....

This post has been edited by TheRetiredBridgeburner: 02 November 2015 - 05:41 PM

[Andorion]

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 02 November 2015 - 05:41 PM, said:

Andorion, on 02 November 2015 - 05:25 PM, said:

Recently a local newspaper published an article that the best way for women to avoid breast cancer is to marry between 23-27, have 2 kids by 30 and breastfeed each for 6 months.


My GF is extremely upset and angry and has told me she has no intention of having any kids before 30. Not really a problem for me, it was never part of my plans but this article doesn't read right at all. Is this some new research?

That sounds more than a little odd - especially to include marriage in there. I mean, I'm guessing that's just the paper's slant. Because naturally if you got divorced your chances of breast cancer would sky rocket....

I think they are trying to imply you need lots of sex or something.... but 2 kids by 30? Seriously? I have never heard of anything like this

[Gnaw]

Andorion, on 02 November 2015 - 05:25 PM, said:

Recently a local newspaper published an article that the best way for women to avoid breast cancer is to marry between 23-27, have 2 kids by 30 and breastfeed each for 6 months.


My GF is extremely upset and angry and has told me she has no intention of having any kids before 30. Not really a problem for me, it was never part of my plans but this article doesn't read right at all. Is this some new research?

That sounds like a misogynist put some statistics together and pulled a theory out of their ass as to why women should stay home, barefoot, pregnant, and cooking dinner.

"correlation =/= causation"

[worry]

It's actually based on an official study published by the FBFBI (Federal Bureau of Female Body Inspectors).

[Abyss]

It's a stretch... Sensationalist science assembled from various sources.
There are studies that support the notion that women who have children at an earlier age have lower instances of certain kinds of cancer. Something to do with the hormonal shifts that come with taking pregnancy to term.
There are similar studies that say the same thing about breast feeding, tho with shadier stats as I understand it.
Finally, there are studies that link higher stress to cancer, and other studies that claim unmarried women experience more stress at higher ages.
So some bright soul has connected these dots. Probably the same person who published that study that men need to ejaculate more often to avoid prostate cancer.
It's sketchy science at best, imnsho. Kind of like bacon causing cancer because processed meats something something.

[Tiste Simeon]

Abyss, on 03 November 2015 - 02:35 AM, said:

So some bright soul has connected these dots. Probably the same person who published that study that men need to ejaculate more often to avoid prostate cancer.

Let's beat off to cancer together!

[DeadHedge]

I have sinusitis and the headache that comes with it. God this is beating my arse good and proper

[Maark Abbott]

Abyss, on 03 November 2015 - 02:35 AM, said:

It's a stretch... Sensationalist science assembled from various sources.
There are studies that support the notion that women who have children at an earlier age have lower instances of certain kinds of cancer. Something to do with the hormonal shifts that come with taking pregnancy to term.
There are similar studies that say the same thing about breast feeding, tho with shadier stats as I understand it.
Finally, there are studies that link higher stress to cancer, and other studies that claim unmarried women experience more stress at higher ages.
So some bright soul has connected these dots. Probably the same person who published that study that men need to ejaculate more often to avoid prostate cancer.
It's sketchy science at best, imnsho. Kind of like bacon causing cancer because processed meats something something.

If the media was to be believed, everything and anything causes it. Hell, we even had a comic do a parody of the Daily Mail over their constant "item x/person x/doing x will give you cancer" because of how much of this stuff we had in the news.

GMG today: still 5 solid days left until my holiday begins. Guh! I just want to rest!

[worry]

My license plate got stolen, I messed something up at work, and I bought the wrong lunch meat. Not in that order.

[worry]

My license plate was already found, on a stolen car. Thank goodness for incompetent criminals?

[Mezla PigDog]

Officially have a healthy bun in the oven. Got the pictures to prove it. Yeah that's all great blah blah blah but just to say that so far being pregnant for 3 months has possibly been the most shit experience of my life. Eating makes me feel sick, not eating makes me feel sick. drinking more than a sip at a time makes me feel sick, spending a normal amount of time on my feet makes me want to fall down, I can't sleep through the night and I can't even find comfort in a nice English cup of tea because that makes me feel sick too!!! I might as well be dead. If I had £1 for every time I have whined "I just feel all wrong" in the last 12 weeks I would be at least £20 richer. If I had another £1 for every hour I have spent lying on the sofa watching shit tv then I would have significantly more. Thank god I can work from home. I'm looking forward to the alleged improvement in months 4 to 6. Sidenote - Docs have given me the all clear too, it's not like I'm special and there's anything particularly wrong with me.

[Tiste Simeon]

Well erm... congrats anyway?

[Andorion]

Congratulations and commiserations at the same time.... I guess?

[Maark Abbott]

worry, on 05 November 2015 - 04:43 AM, said:

My license plate was already found, on a stolen car. Thank goodness for incompetent criminals?

I bet you felt naught but worry during the entire experience.

Goddamn sinus (just on the left side) is playing up. Have to keep squeezing my damn eye shut. Going to need an eye patch at this rate.

[Mezla PigDog]

Tiste Simeon, on 05 November 2015 - 09:42 AM, said:

Well erm... congrats anyway?

Andorion, on 05 November 2015 - 10:42 AM, said:

Congratulations and commiserations at the same time.... I guess?

Yes yes, congratulations but also "CURSE YOU GOD/NATURE [whichever your proclivities] FOR YOUR WOMAN HATING TENDENCIES".

Hey, at least my breast cancer risk is reduced despite my "advanced maternal age". Better get down the aisle quick if I want to be sure.

[Maark Abbott]

The standard work tribulation of "we're going to change a bunch of processes, not tell you we've changed them and then get on your case for not following the new processes we never informed you of".

[Abyss]

worry, on 05 November 2015 - 01:04 AM, said:

My license plate got stolen,....

worry, on 05 November 2015 - 04:43 AM, said:

My license plate was already found, on a stolen car. Thank goodness for incompetent criminals?

look, don't you think that i would have gone with a better option if i had had sufficient time.... it's not like a vague yet menacing government agency was sat-hacking cctvs to track me or anything... y'know, next time stop your own fucking mirror universe government subversion THIS GOATEE ITCHES YOU UNGRATEFUL JERKS.

[QuickTidal]

Maark, on 05 November 2015 - 03:04 PM, said:

The standard work tribulation of "we're going to change a bunch of processes, not tell you we've changed them and then get on your case for not following the new processes we never informed you of".

This exact shit happens so often at my work that it's basically become the office joke.

[Maark Abbott]

QuickTidal, on 05 November 2015 - 03:43 PM, said:

Maark, on 05 November 2015 - 03:04 PM, said:

The standard work tribulation of "we're going to change a bunch of processes, not tell you we've changed them and then get on your case for not following the new processes we never informed you of".

This exact shit happens so often at my work that it's basically become the office joke.

Less painful to mash our faces against an active steamroller.

[QuickTidal]

Maark, on 05 November 2015 - 03:46 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 05 November 2015 - 03:43 PM, said:

Maark, on 05 November 2015 - 03:04 PM, said:

The standard work tribulation of "we're going to change a bunch of processes, not tell you we've changed them and then get on your case for not following the new processes we never informed you of".

This exact shit happens so often at my work that it's basically become the office joke.

Less painful to mash our faces against an active steamroller.

With spikes.