26-04-2005 07:48									#1
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Just saw a quote on Scarborough Country (MSNBC) (I'm repeating here as I try to remember it) of Arnold Schwarzeneggar - "The Guvonater" - explaining his idea of menstrual cycles. He said if the moon didn't exist, PMS wouldn't exist and women would stop bi!ching and whining.

Scarborough opened his show with it and his reaction was telling as he quoted Arnold... amused and angered at the same time.

	26-04-2005 07:49									#2
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	26-04-2005 07:54									#4
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What's the misguided logic behind the statement, anyone know?

Btw I'm sure (hope) he was joking, though I doubt many of his constituants will appreciate it.

	26-04-2005 07:56									#5
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oh yeah, I forgot Scarborough's commentary, nice way to alienate 50% of the voters Arnold. The quote comes from Arnold's appearance on the Howard Stern Show.

	26-04-2005 08:01									#6
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Menstrual cycles tied to a lunar cycle in some way. Not sure if it is misguided. Yup, joking like that aint smart though.

	26-04-2005 08:01									#7
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It is because it's a girlie Moon!

	26-04-2005 08:04									#8
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"Menstrual cycles tied to a lunar cycle in some way. Not sure if it is misguided. Yup, joking like that aint smart though."



Well that's ****ing wierd. How the heck do the lady bits know when the moon is full?

	26-04-2005 08:14									#9
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It just happens to be the same number of days for each.

	26-04-2005 08:15									#10
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anything with a cycle closely matching lunar movement is evidence of some effect, like tides. Maybe longtime exposure to slight variations in gravity or moonlight effects people as it does for some other lifeforms we can see out there.

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quote: Originally posted by Jaguar It just happens to be the same number of days for each.

Roughly.

Anyway, unless all women flowed at the same time of the month, it ain't nothing more than silliness. I hope he was joking.

	26-04-2005 08:37									#12
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quote: Originally posted by Berzerker anything with a cycle closely matching lunar movement is evidence of some effect, like tides. Maybe longtime exposure to slight variations in gravity or moonlight effects people as it does for some other lifeforms we can see out there.

Whatever the cause, full moons do seem to have some effect. Fireman, paramedics and police officers in particular will confirm that the full moon seems to bring out strange behavior in people. Staff in psychiatric hospitals have also observed changes in the behavior of their patients during the full moon phase.

	26-04-2005 08:39									#13
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That's a myth. It's statistically untrue. It's just that we pay more attention to weirdness during the full moon. Remember, 40% of all sick days are taken on Mondays and Fridays.

	26-04-2005 08:46									#14
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quote: Originally posted by chegitz guevara I hope he was joking.

Seeing as he was on the Howard Stern show (not the most serious show in the world), I guarentee that he was.

	26-04-2005 08:47									#15
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quote: I hope he was joking.

quote: The quote comes from Arnold's appearance on the Howard Stern Show.

edit: You can burn in hell, Imran...

	26-04-2005 08:51									#16
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quote: Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui Seeing as he was on the Howard Stern show (not the most serious show in the world), I guarentee that he was.

I assumed as much. Only a very confidant or very stupid politician would risk alienating such a large group of voters.

	26-04-2005 09:04									#17
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quote: Anyway, unless all women flowed at the same time of the month, it ain't nothing more than silliness.

Why would they all have to have the same periods? If evolution is factual, it could be something from b/millions of years ago and all life reacts to both the sun and moon. Maybe its in our DNA and depends on where we evolved. What if a young girl with an established menstrual cycle moved to the other side of the planet, how many years, decades, centuries, etc would it take for her/their menstrual cycles to change (if at all)? There are lifeforms we can identify that have cycles closely related to lunar cycles (like moonlight), so why not everything else?

	26-04-2005 09:08									#18
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yup, women vote ideology just like men, well, I hope so

	26-04-2005 23:39									#19
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quote: Originally posted by chegitz guevara That's a myth. It's statistically untrue. It's just that we pay more attention to weirdness during the full moon. Remember, 40% of all sick days are taken on Mondays and Fridays.

That is generally true. What is interesting, however, is that similar studies into the phenomenon show that people who take Mondays and Fridays off more often than Tueday-Thursday are more likely to be alcoholics.

	26-04-2005 23:41									#20
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Arnie seems to have foot and mouth disease in that he keeps putting his foot in his mouth.

	26-04-2005 23:41									#21
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quote: Originally posted by chegitz guevara That's a myth. It's statistically untrue. It's just that we pay more attention to weirdness during the full moon. Remember, 40% of all sick days are taken on Mondays and Fridays.

I actually wrote a memo about that fact, telling our employees that it was unacceptable. Despite the fact that the memo was released and prominantly dated "APRIL 1st", my stepmother called an emergency HR meeting to discuss my findings - then she signed off on the memo!

Joke was on me, I guess. Somewhat.

	27-04-2005 00:29									#22
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Unless my newspaper's been lying to me, burglary and similar crimes are more common at full moon. Something to do with illumination, ap'rently.

	27-04-2005 00:31									#23
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That's a myth. John Stossell says so.

	27-04-2005 00:49									#24
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What's all this PMS? Is this an american only thing? I haven't heard about this here.
Maybe it also doesn't get made public...

	27-04-2005 00:52									#25
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I'm sure he was joking. We can't even joke about women anymore?

	27-04-2005 00:58									#26
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This menstral stuff is no joke! Period!

ok, old joke...