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Laptops

  • Alexjfry3
  • August 13, 2005 at 2:31 AM
  • Alexjfry3
    • August 13, 2005 at 2:31 AM
    • #1

    Hey im getting a laptop soon and i have herd some stuff about if you hold it in your lap you only shoot blanks. And as good as that sounds with college soon over the hill for me im looking to spread my seed to the world b/c the world needs ore of me. But heres my qquestion is it true? Plz anyone if they can hook me up with a site or anything id be much thankful

    Thx!

  • JynxDaddy
    • August 13, 2005 at 5:53 AM
    • #2

    I checked Snopes for an article, but no luck.

    From what I remember, it was just the heat from having it on your lap for a long time that could 'cook' the little ones.

    I'm sure the same thing could happen if you had a cat on your lap for ages.

    Nothing to be worried about, just use a table, its more comfortable anyway.

  • ginsengavenger
    • August 13, 2005 at 6:39 AM
    • #3

    i recall a year or two ago some brit scientist type had his member burned by a laptop. that is all.

    hey, i've got a link even:

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/11/22 ... th_laptop/

  • Kosmo
    • August 13, 2005 at 9:55 AM
    • #4

    Very small electromagnetic field and heat (propably the only two things a laptop "radiates") is not enough to do any real damage to your sperm, otherwise every man on the planet would be affected, there are sources that emit heat and have greater electromagnetic fields all around us. So don't worry and top your lap with a laptop.

    Myth Busted!

  • Thrik
    • August 13, 2005 at 10:35 AM
    • #5

    Unless it's an Alienware. Holy God damn, you'd have singed legs after 20 minutes of that.

    Also weight trauma.

  • Alexjfry3
    • August 13, 2005 at 3:16 PM
    • #6

    Right on thx guys

  • Taylor Swift
    • August 13, 2005 at 4:25 PM
    • #7

    rofl

    By Drew Cullen

    Published Friday 22nd November 2002 10:10 GMT

    And now for proof that some laptops run hotter than a badger. A 50-year old scientist, previously healthy, burned his penis after placing his laptop on his, err lap, for an hour. Oh, he was fully dressed in trousers and underpants, according to this letter printed in the Lancet, the UK's best-known medical journal. (reg req'd, free.)

  • Kosmo
    • August 14, 2005 at 1:00 PM
    • #8

    If someone is stupid enough to not remove the computer from his lap when it starts to heat your privates, deserves to be extinct.

  • Fullauto
    • August 14, 2005 at 3:27 PM
    • #9

    It's like boiling frogs....

    You'd never notice.

  • Kosmo
    • August 14, 2005 at 3:42 PM
    • #10
    Quote from Fullauto

    It's like boiling frogs....You'd never notice.

    Cute but the boiling frog myth is just a myth, you can actually try this out, go to kitchen and place your hand on a stove and put the heat on, just a low heat, so you don't burn your hand instantly, you start to feel very uncomfortable far from heat that can burn something or inflict damage through two layers of clothes.

    http://%7boption%7d

  • RD
    • August 14, 2005 at 6:17 PM
    • #11

    we in holland call stories like this

    EEN BROODJE AAP VERHAAL

    Remember these words, theyre the truth

  • Kosmo
    • August 14, 2005 at 7:09 PM
    • #12
    Quote from RD

    EEN BROODJE AAP VERHAAL

    One bun monkey story?

  • DanielAragon
    • August 14, 2005 at 7:24 PM
    • #13

    but the frog is cold blooded, so it wouldnt notice it as fast due to lack of homeostasis, nigga

  • Kosmo
    • August 14, 2005 at 7:52 PM
    • #14
    Quote from DanielAragon

    but the frog is cold blooded, so it wouldnt notice it as fast due to lack of homeostasis, nigga

    Yes, it might notice it way slower than human, but it infact won't just simmer there. Nigga. So the 'boiling frog' legend doesn't work in this case.

  • JynxDaddy
    • August 15, 2005 at 5:46 AM
    • #15
    Quote

    As the temperature of the water is gradually increased, the frog will eventually become more and more active in attempts to escape the heated water

    That made me laugh alot :LOL:

  • von*ferret
    • August 15, 2005 at 6:14 AM
    • #16

    lol call me retarded, but what is the boiling frog legend?

  • Kosmo
    • August 15, 2005 at 6:38 AM
    • #17
    Quote from von*ferret

    lol call me retarded, but what is the boiling frog legend?

    I won't call you a retard, many don't hear this legend much because some people don't believe it and they shouldn't.

    It's a fad, often used by those environmentalist pussies to give and example of slow degradation of environment, how we don't see it because it is so slow, but we would be alarmed if this all happened in mere years and not in the span of hundred years or something whiney like that.

    The myth goes that if you put frog in to a boiling water, it will instantly escape (giving that it can), and then put a frog in to a cold water and slowly heat it up and it will just boil to death. For long, it was considered a fact, hell, even my chemistry teacher taught us this as a rock solid fact, and our biology teacher laughed when we told him this legend. But I suppose that it's like Math teacher teaching us how to weld or something.

    Quote from JynxDaddy

    That made me laugh alot :LOL:

    What do you mean?

  • JynxDaddy
    • August 15, 2005 at 1:16 PM
    • #18

    Imagine a frog sitting a pot. Then he feels a bit hot under the collor, so it hops around looking for a way out. There isnt one.

    How is that not funny?

  • Kosmo
    • August 15, 2005 at 1:39 PM
    • #19
    Quote from JynxDaddy

    Imagine a frog sitting a pot. Then he feels a bit hot under the collor, so it hops around looking for a way out. There isnt one.How is that not funny?

    Well.. I guess it's bit funny, just thinking about the frogs toughts "oh my god, oh my god.. did I leave the lights on before I left?"

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