Laptops will make you infertile

Or a new form of birth control for males

[lgn1]

It looks like laptops on your lap is not such a good idea, if you are male.

[theaustralian.news.com.au ]

[EliteWeb]

Who here was one of their willing test subjects? :P LoL the article reads too funny.

[greenleaves]

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For people who have cats, wouldn't keeping a cat on your lap for any period of time also hurt? (cats produce heat too)

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[Robino]

Good thing I don't put my laptop directly ON MY SCROTUM!

Geeze!

[willybfriendly]

I see a whole new product niche opening up. I think I will brand it as the "SCooler" :)

WBF

[Essex_boy]

I wonder how controled these experiments were? like how big was the sample (grins) of testee's (grins again).

I honestly cant take this seriously Its just another lets scare 'em story when things were a touch flacid (hahaha) in the newsroom. I bet a group of journilsits came together (!) and not being able to get anything else up (!) to arouse a response, whipped their big one out, except it isnt going to be the package we'd all hoped for. Load of b*ll's you ask me.

Ooooo Mrs!

Sorry in advance to the Mod.

[olwen]

During WWII my mother was on coastal surveillance duties. Young women were allowed to "man" the radar screens, but not men because of a fear that it would make men infertile.

[greenleaves]

Essex_boy, that was a truly brit paragraph...

Even if your name wasn't essex boy, you would still be giving away what part of the world your from with that text... :)

[mona]

Great stuff that even this American female can appreciate, Essex_boy; )

[cornwall]

If you really want to know how they carried out the research

[newscientist.com...]

Bring tears to your eyes reading that!

[mincklerstraat]

This news item got our Flemish Minister of Economy, Foreign Policy, and E-Government Patricia Ceysens in a tiff. She's been promoting laptop use vehemently, and De Standaard's parliament watchers have her saying 'that the survival of Flanders is at risk' because of this news item, and 'that the producers of laptops should be required to integrate a small pillow into laptops.' I'm getting watery-eyed here at the prospect of Flanders being saved by hundreds of thousands of small, integrated pillows.

[macrost]

Essex_boy,
You are too much! ROFLMAO! with a laptop on my lap at that! :)

[kevinpate]

> cat
> scrotum

What are two things that should remain far apart?
I'll take Stating the Obvious for 400.00 Alex :)

[ogletree]

Does anybody remember that Swedish scientist that burned his privat parts. It was on CNN but they took it down.

[lgn1]

Sounds like that swedish scientist was laptop computing naked.

Laptops and being naked does not mix. For that matter having a lap cat while naked is not a good idea either, especially if it still has it claws :)

[Essex_boy]

Burnt his private parts? How?

[macrost]

Maybe a bunsen burner?

[Essex_boy]

Or 'plugging' in to the user port.

[Debbie_King]

Well I'm female so I don't have that infertility worry, although I have burnt my leg on my lappy before now.

So I bought myself an iLap, en ergonomically designed laptop stand that is suitable for both your desk and your lap. Expensive at over 50 quid, but worth it in terms of comfort.

:-)