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    #182
    bean
    Registered Users Posts: 231 ✭✭bean


    thought it might have been for you and your nonsense rants and personal attacks and on Diogenes


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    #183
    bean
    Registered Users Posts: 231 ✭✭bean


    Shame really, this hasnt been a debate for a long time


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    #184
    faceman
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,599 CMod ✭✭✭✭faceman


    SimpleSam06 wrote: »
    Nope, wrong, bah.



    Its not just Africa either, its practised over half of SE Asia, and I would know.

    Again going back to my example of Kenya, its not a tribal tradition/ritual as originally suggested in the thread. The article doesnt suggest it either. its no more a tribal thing that young irish guys thinking they wont get a woman pregnant if they have sex standing up. The key factor contributing is lack of education.


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    #185
    PrivateEye
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,283 ✭✭✭PrivateEye


    His (in)famous article on how 'laziness' has tarnished the reputation of the gentle Black and Tans still makes me laugh.

    Along with the absolute **** he wrote about Shell To Sea last year, and how it was a mix of 'mad Gaelgoirí' and 'Sinn Féin hoodo-voodoism' whatever the hell that means....

    I often disagree with him, but still read him.
    Like Vincent Browne on the other side of the spectrum, he's a very good writer (most of the time!) who even if you disagree with him- makes for good reading.

    Mad as he is, he's entitled to his opinions.


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    #186
    SimpleSam06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,048 ✭✭✭SimpleSam06


    faceman wrote: »
    Again going back to my example of Kenya, its not a tribal tradition/ritual as originally suggested in the thread. The article doesnt suggest it either. its no more a tribal thing that young irish guys thinking they wont get a woman pregnant if they have sex standing up.
    I don't think so, thinking you won't get a woman pregnant if you have sex standing up is ignorance, the drying out of the vaginal wall is meant to make it feel better for the men. There is a kind of half baked reasoning going into it, a bit like autoerotic asphyxiation.

    Its a fairly fine line between sexual practices passed down from mother to daughter for generations, and tribal traditions passed down from mother to daughter for generations.
    faceman wrote: »
    The key factor contributing is lack of education.
    Agreed. Almost all of Africa's problems would be gone within three generations if a modern, not neccesarily western, education system was enforced there. The vicious circle is that tribal conflicts absorb a lot of resources, and debt repayment to an extent, and this doesn't allow as much to go into education, and so on.


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