If I have to speak to one more Rethug who calls it "menestration", I think I'm gonna blow my stack..

[PCIntern]

There's a whole group of nitwits, yes, NITWITS, who have opinions who don't know a goddamned thing about biology. This of course doesn't stop them from, well, it's an understatement that it's 'pseudoscience': don't believe me? try this one on for size which I heard JUST THIS AFTERNOON:

"Well, doc, when a woman gets stressed, like if she's been raped, she starts menestrating (sic, sick, and sicker) and then she can't have a baby. That violent sex against her will causes her to bleed and then she can't have a baby." Satisfied, he sat back in the chair.

My reply, real gently: First, you're confusing vaginal bleeding with, and please allow me to correct you, it's not 'menestrating' it's menstruating. In the latter (I really used that word) the blood comes from the uterine lining which sloughs on a more or less monthly basis. In rape, as you said, it's not sex. It's terrible and sick violence against women (nodding my head all the while). (And this is where I blew him away...verbally...not like a Zimmerman) (lowering my voice and speaking real earnestly, like the teacher explaining why you failed the science test) so when the guy's dick violates her private parts, the bleeding that results has nothing at all whatsoever with the sperm and egg part. It has to do with bludgeoning her with a weapon against which she has no defenses, so I don't think that you can sort of dismiss rape as casually as you have."

The guy just sort of sat there, more than vaguely stunned. He literally didn't know that there is more going on than his or anyone else's dick has anything to do with. What an asshole. I finished the procedure on him and asked him what he thought of the Eagles' riley Cooper using the N word which got videoed and sent around like an LOL Cats link. He thought it was not such a big deal, that "they' use the word. I just gave the fuck up.

Now I have to enter explanations of benefits on my computer for the next three hours because I can't afford another staff member to sit around and do this, while the insurance companies show record profits. Sheesh.

[NickB79]

1. "Finished the procedure"

Please tell me the procedure was a deep, thorough prostate exam.......

[PCIntern]

2. Sorry, no.

simple dental restoration...

[longship]

5. Moon Riverrrr!

I am sure Dr. Jelly Fingers would agree.

He didn't find anything, but it wasn't for the lack of looking.

[hootinholler]

8. That would be a rough prostate exam!

Performed by a dentist? That's digging deep

[Laurian]

3. You should video tape that explanation and send it to the RNC.

[niyad]

4. how do people this stupid manage to keep breathing? and WHY was this person even bringing

up such a conversation?

nitrous oxide, anyone?

[Igel]

6. Eh. Messy consonant cluster.

English has some regional sound changes. Jimmy Carter's "nukyula" was one of them. Most are spotty.

That entire "rua" sequence plus some sort of liquid seems to be brutal. "February" has long since bitten the dust in most dialects. The /r/ is gone. "'Febyu,wary". Eh.

Tx--lots of the South, most of the Pac NW--has pin/pen merger. Still drives me crazy. I've handed girls pins and had them say, "No, I want a pin." We stare at each other for a second then I realize I'm out of my home dialect area.

These two sound changes converge in an amusing way for some English classes. When they speak of "minstrel" something like the standard pronunciation is very close to how how a lot of dialects in the S and that originated from the S say "menstrual." That includes much of Houston but also AAVE. So the teacher hears him or herself say "minstrel song" or "minstrel tradition" and the students all hear "menstrual song" or "menstrual tradition."

[hootinholler]

7. Don't go nucular on them