"The penis is the dipstick to a body's health"

[ThomWV]

I just had to share that quote with you.

Story is about men's health. Short and a very good thing to read.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/06/12/mens.symptoms/index.html

(CNN) -- Ask doctors if their male patients ignore big and obvious health symptoms, and they'll respond with laughter -- huge peals and guffaws. Some doctors say men are more likely than women to ignore symptoms or deny that they even exist.

Once they regain the ability to speak, these doctors will say things such as "I don't even know where to start," and "You don't have enough room in your story for all the symptoms men blow off."

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. Dipstick?

I always thought it was the gearshift.

[ThomWV]

2. I thougt it was the frontal brain lobe.

[baldguy]

3. Whatever floats your boat...

[Rosemary2205]

4. They're pretty fixated on their penis

Good article - recommended just to get people thinking about their wellbeing.


Wonder how many times we can get the "P" word in subject headers before the mods lock? :)

[ThomWV]

5. Yep, I thought it was a good article myself. I'm guilty of ignoring health issues.

[BOSSHOG]

6. Dear Penis I don't love you anymore

You used to watch me shave, now you stare down at the floor
Dear Penis I don't love you anymore.

At 54 I can still get the ole dipstick out every now and then for a spin around the block. But I've gone from Diamond Cutter to Cubic Zirconia Scratcher.

Wow men denying there is anything wrong with them. Imagine!

[madokie]

11. another take, You used to watch me shave but now all you do is watch me tie my shoes

on the teevee they keep telling me that viagra or that other one that i can't remember, Alsheimers kicking in you know, cialis, yes there it is, will fix that too.

[laylah]

16. OMG

soda out the nose, onto the monitor screen........:rofl:

[patrice]

7. Well, I can kind of see that from the perspective of the..... (please do not attack me as sexist)

"dipstickee".

:hide:


P.S. But, of course, Men should pay better attention to THEIR health, regardless of what women think of them.

[XemaSab]

10. The vagina is the test well of the woman's body

:o

[patrice]

13. Careful! There are Women who will kick your butt for saying things like that!

I agree, though, with one edit "The vagina is a test well of a woman's body."

[XemaSab]

15. I AM a woman

and I'll take all comers. :P

[patrice]

18. That's a good thing! Proud of you. I should be less timorous.

Haven't quite gotten over some of the violence we were seeing around here during a recent and rather primitive ritual called "the primary season" . . . . We SHOULD

Make Love not War!

Talk to you later, gotta get to work.

:hug: XemaSab :hug:

[Gman]

8. As if no one knew...

"Scherger adds, 'Men are probably more keyed in to their groins than other parts of their body. They're pretty fixated on their penis and genital area. That's where they have the least amount of denial.'"

[L. Coyote]

9. Not to mention, other people's LOL

You dip, you could die!

[undeterred]

12. But getting back to the topic

When I worked in a cancer information center there was a man who had a strange patch of skin on his back that grew over the course of a year. His wife noticed it right away and tried to get him to a doctor. He refused, saying it was "nothing". When they finally got to a doctor it turned out to be a melanoma that had metastasized to his lungs. There was little that they could do for him. The man was overcome with guilt for ignoring it, knowing he was going to die because of something that could have been successfully treated when it first showed up.

Most women, if they discover a lump in their breast, can't get to a doctor fast enough.

[RB TexLa]

14. They could have edited that down to "Go give money to a doctor"

And of course disclosed "paid for by the AMA."

[JackRiddler]

22. Agreed. For a change.

It's not that any one of those examples was untrue, but that they were so vaguely rendered that basically you'd be at the doctors' for every damn thing.

[ellenfl]

17. wouldn't that dipstick be measuring a woman's health?

kind of a weird analogy.

ellen fl

[ensho]

26. agree - I thought the same

that dipstick can also pass on 'bad health'

[slackmaster]

19. Happy to say there is no problem with my dipstick

Although at 50 I am a lot less inclined than I was at 40 to get involved in a frivolous relationship for sex.

[JackRiddler]

23. Knowing my men, you're probably going to set off a domino effect of such protestations.

Mine works, too! Although at 43 I'm not having as many hundred satisfied lovers per week as I did at my youthful 39 1/2. Etc. etc.

[L0oniX]

20. I thought "dipstick" was that deputy dude on Dukes of Hazard.

:evilgrin:

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[DavidDvorkin]

24. "Pressure guage of the body's health" would be more accurate

But not as catchy, I guess.

[xchrom]

25. lol -- dipstick? -- ok -- whatever works. recommend