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Laptops May Be Hazardous to Your Fertility

Spy der Mann writes "Researchers find that men who place portable computers on their laps are inadvertently raising the temperature of their scrotums -- and possibly damaging their sperm. Guess laptops should get a namechange soon... before our fertility does."

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  1. eat my fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    lol

  2. KEEP IT OFF YOUR BALLS YOU MORON!!! by Thaidog · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I guess you'll have to take out Hot tubs and warm showers and tight fitting jeans as well... This is by far the dumbest thread of the week.

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  3. erm.. by hugo_pt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    OH SHIT

  4. Re:Doesn't matter to us! by Ionizer7 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Don't forget about the realdoll. Although I guess fertility doesn't matter in this case either.

  5. Re:That's okay ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    has anyone made a joke yet about slashdotters dont get laid? if so id like to take credit for it. Mod my AC post up please.

  6. Re:Also in the news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Thank god,

    Some of you should never reproduce.......

  7. Re:Ther first to say.. by shahruz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sorry, those were two separate comments, and had nothing to do with each other.

  8. Re:Painful? by Loco3KGT · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Quit questioning and go buy yourself a hot tub! NOW!

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  9. uh by motionb · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    heh heh .. he said scrotum ...heh heh

  10. Re:birth control by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    being a geek is the best birth control. It's also a good marriage prevention mechanism.

  11. Re:Ther first to say.. by DigiShaman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I call that "Tea Bagging". I love it when a chick sucks on my nut sack. ;)

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  12. Attention Slashdot readers. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    For this story, we have included the convenience of "-1, Disturbing" and "-1, TMI" to better moderate posts in this topic.

  13. The time has come... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...for tinfoil underpants

  14. Re:So is an iron... by bkr1_2k · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Dude I wish I had mod points. This post was fucking hilarious...and I'm sitting here crying in my cube trying to breath.

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  15. Re:Laptop's anyway a misnomer... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    haha find me that ad

  16. He said scrotum by wackysootroom · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I never thought I'd see the day when the word scrotum appears in a slashdot article summary.

  17. Re:Laptop == contraceptive by bladesjester · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Funny that. I was a geek in high school too, but I never really had a lack of dates. Played chess, tutored, drama, yearbook/newspaper, was a computer geek, and still got the girls (all very attractive).

    Of course, I also wasn't a 98lb weakling either. I was close to 6' tall and fairly well muscled from the martial training. I had to keep telling the football and track and field coaches that I wasn't interested in joining.

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  18. Re:MYTH ALERT !!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Beats the hell out of smashing your balls with a hammer for 10 minutes...
    AAUUGH! STFU!
  19. Re:MYTH ALERT !!! by darkitecture · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think I saw this on Mythbusters Uncut!

  20. Re:Laptop == contraceptive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    blah, blub...

  21. Re:It's ok baby.. by smoking2000 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    For my girl it's always OK. She swallows.

    ...

    The pill that is.

  22. Re:Traditional Birth Control Method by KlomDark · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wow, how many years has it been since hearing a Natalie Portman/hot grits post that's actually funny?

    Good job! :)

  23. Re:Laptop == contraceptive by wwest4 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    > I'm banging a fat chick at the moment and I love it. She's a great girl.

    You're banging her right this second? Wow, you've got some dexterity going on.

    > Don't stick your dick in it unless you really want it (emphasis mine).

    You forgot the other layer to your pregnancy "security" model - being totally chauvinistic. No woman with any self respect, skinny or fat, is going to put up with you if that's what's really going on up in your skull. So that leaves you with only women with no self respect. And those are the kind you can bully into going to the abortion clinic as a stopgap measure! Wow, you really are all set. Good luck to you, not that you need it with all of that knowledge you're dropping.

  24. Re:Doesn't matter to us! by geeber · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Slashdot needs a new moderation -1:Obvious joke.

  25. Re:Laptop == contraceptive by bladesjester · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That was the case for some of them, but not for others. Being chased by the girls from aerobics when I was in college comes to mind (there seems to be something attractive about a guy who fights with a sword, and our practice room was right down the hall from them.)

    Besides, most of the girls I dated asked me out, not the other way around.

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  26. Re:Nothing wrong with being fat? by Pxtl · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Look at it this way - you can pay for their gym memberships now, or you can pay for their heart pills and triple-bypass surgery later. I think we both know which is cheaper.