When women spend a lot of time together it’s often thought that they will get their periods at the same time. We like to imagine women leaving their household toilets with a little smirk on their face as they nod to all the other ladies in the house with an unspoken understanding. But new evidence [...]
Posts Tagged ‘You and Your Body’
May
7
Paying lip service: do our lips get addicted to lip balm?
According to chapping lip legend if you put lip balm, lip gloss, or other popular lip moistening phenomena on your lips all the time then your lips will eventually forget how to stay moist and you will become reliant on external balms to keep your lips moist. This never made much sense to me. My [...]
Mar
15
The bag lady: Why do I get bags under my eyes when I’m tired?
“You look really tired, are you okay?” I hate this line of inquiry. You think it’s caring. You think it’s supportive. But really, someone has just looked you straight in the eye, and said “You don’t look too good,” and they have gotten away with it. When you’re feeling more like Sleepy and Dopey, than [...]
Mar
2
Fighting Farts with Fire
A good friend saw matches in my bag and asked, “Do you smoke Wendy?” “No,” I replied sheepishly, not wanting to reveal the true purpose of the matches. He looked at me quizzically. There was silence. I eventually spoke, “If you light a match it takes away the smell from a fart.” There was even [...]
Jan
12
Burping: putting it down to a science
It was social suicide: “I can’t burp!” yelped little Suzie at the College party. There was howling and nasty finger pointing, as the peeps at the shin-dig filled their glasses with beer and downed it in record time. Burping and belching erupted in a gas filled night of fun and debauchery. Poor little Suzie, was [...]
Dec
2
Ironing out the wrinkles
If you smile you’ll get wrinkles. If you stay in the sun you’ll get wrinkles. If you smoke you’ll get wrinkles. Why not face the bitter truth? If you live past the age of thirty, you’ll get wrinkles. It doesn’t matter what you do – live in a box, live with a fox, live in [...]
Nov
20
Nipping a problem in the bud: Why do guys have nipples?
Throughout history it has oft been thought that women are some faulty image of men. The male scientists of the middle ages thought that the vagina was an inverse of a penis, while other cultures have historically deemed women to be “half of a man”. But what did these geniuses think of boobs? Women have [...]
Nov
15
Answering the short and curlies
It was year seven and it was sex education. Our red headed teacher asked our pimply faced class if we had any questions. Question one: “Have you ever had an erection?” Giggles. Question two: “Where is the G-spot?” Giggles (with intent listening). Question three: “If you have red hair do you have red pubes?” Giggles [...]