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Last edited by: Bromptonaut on Sat 5 Dec 15 at 16:05
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I understand tradition requires the deed to be done on the eight day but surely the Mohel has enough time to arrive on foot.....
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It was found in a canal - took four skin-divers to recover it.
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>> It was found in a canal......
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...with a bootful of second-hand pullovers.
(well, somebody had to) ;-)
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Some may have seen this - I've posted it before - but I once attended a circumcision party in Algeria. Got well shickered on the adult male relatives' Johnnie Walker Black Label... but before that there was the ceremony itself.
The actual snip had been carried out already by a doctor, but it was felt to be correct to give the Imam his turn under the floodlights. When the five-year-old victim saw the prelate brandishing his long curved knife he screamed blue murder thinking it was all going to happen again, only worse. Poor little brute...
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A doctor friend calls it Male Genital Mutilation. Next time in Las Vegas I'll be avoiding that MGM Grand hotel.
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"The actual snip ....... long curved knife ......... screamed blue murder .......... Poor little brute..."
I'm pretty sure if I roared around London in a brightly coloured sports car hacking bits off small boys' privates, I'd be swiftly arrested and charged with child abuse. Ah - the joys of multiculturalism!
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>> - the joys of multiculturalism!
It was de-rigeur for the British (or at least English) upper middle class in the inter-war years.
The late Julian Critchley MP wrote humorously in one of his biographies of observing this particular class distinction when military medicals required collective dropping of trousers.
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My father whose origins were working class wasn't circumcised. My mother objected to me being snipped for a different reason: being Maltese but Christian she didn't want me to be mistaken for a Muslim, so I'm a Cavalier not a Roundhead (prep school terminology).
Dunno if Hindus or Buddhists go in for this symbolic castration. Weird stuff, religion, and offensively intrusive.
Gave myself a mains electric shock a little while back trying to fit one of those silly long lightbulbs in a wall fitting slightly to high to see properly. It hurt a lot, but I'm still alive and my heart rate and BP seem normal, if the monitor is to be believed.
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In the context of this thread, "silly long lightbulb" is a new euphemism to me. but maybe I am more careful on where I put "it" :)
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"It was de-rigeur for the British (or at least English) upper middle class in the inter-war years."
If ever I'm accused of child-abuse, that will be my excuse - 'the British upper middle classes used to do it'.
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>> "It was de-rigeur for the British (or at least English) upper middle class in the inter-war years."
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>> If ever I'm accused of child-abuse, that will be my excuse - 'the British upper middle classes used to do it'.
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and the Americans from 60+ per cent are " flip flopping"
healthland.time.com/2013/08/22/explaining-the-drop-in-circumcision-rates/
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US Births are big££££ business.
So circumcision might be looked upon as an add-on similar to selling paint sealer, GAP insurance by the motor trade - $500 is a snip!
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>> and the Americans from 60+ per cent are " flip flopping"
>> healthland.time.com/2013/08/22/explaining-the-drop-in-circumcision-rates/
There is a snigger in almost every line!
Apropos:-
I recently had a cystoscopy carried out - the female urologist recommended being very careful to keep the area under the foreskin (the glans?) clean as that reduces the risk of cancer.
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>> " flip flopping" <<
Well, you learn something every day!
To any lorry driver flipflopping is going up to a roundabout to go right round and back the way you came.
A 'flip flop' is......a foreign driver of any nationality!
Cue the racist remarks now:)
Pat
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>> A 'flip flop' is......a foreign driver of any nationality!
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>> Cue the racist remarks now:)
Thats Xenophobia by the way dear, not racism.
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there are lot of "unknowns" in there.
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