More talk, less sex: a girl's brain - Article published in News.Com

IT IS something one half of the population has long suspected, and the other has always vocally denied: women talk more than men.

In fact, women talk almost three times as much, uttering a staggering 20,000 words a day on average compared to men's 7000.

They speak more quickly, devote more brainpower to chit-chat and get a buzz out of hearing their own voices, a female psychiatrist suggests.

In her book, The Female Mind, Dr Luan Brizendine says the disparity is caused by differences in the male and female brain.

The sex hormone testosterone, responsible for moulding the male brain in the womb, shrinks the areas responsible for communication, emotion and memory, she claims.
The result is that men chat less than females and struggle to express their emotions to the same extent.

In contrast, women have more brain cells set aside for communication. And the act of talking triggers a flood of chemicals which gives them a rush similar to that felt by heroin addicts on a high.

Dr Brizendine, who runs a female "mood and hormone" clinic in the US and describes herself as a feminist, said testosterone also reduces the size of the section of the brain involved in hearing, allowing men to become "deaf" to the most logical of arguments put forward by women.
Their brain power, however, is definitely superior when it comes to sex.
Dr Brizendine believes the area responsible for sexual thoughts is twice as big in male brains.
Studies have shown that, while a man will think about sex every 52 seconds, the subject crosses women's minds just once a day, said said.

Dr Brizendine, whose findings are based on her analysis of more than 1000 scientific studies, added: "There is no unisex brain. Girls arrive already wired as girls, and boys arrive already wired as boys. Their brains are what drive their impulses, values and their very reality."

Other scientists, however, are sceptical about the effects of testosterone on the brain.
Deborah Cameron, an Oxford University linguistics professor, said the amount we talk is influenced by the social environment we live in.

.... Jabba, the ming mong

Using his great bulk to create a zone of nothingness (other than his great bulk) in his surrounding space, Jabba sits and mongs in quiet deliberation. Sometimes he manages a fleeting, barely perceptible ming, but mostly he just mongs…

Ming Mong -by Andy Warhol

CHECK IT OUT!

GO TO www.google.com

TYPE IN THE WORD FAILURE

READ THE FIRST LISTING..

THINK ABOUT IT, ACT IF YOU FEEL LIKE IT??

Say NO to nuclear power

The Prime Minister, John Howard, is scheming up a major expansion of the nuclear industry in Australia and in June 2006 established a Nuclear Taskforce to look at the issues.

So far the only nuclear activity ruled out is building nuclear weapons. Everything else is on the table including:

more uranium mining;
selling uranium to developing countries for new nuclear power;
building domestic nuclear power plants;
enriching uranium in Australia;
reprocessing nuclear materials;
becoming part of a global nuclear fuel leasing consortium; and
hosting an international nuclear waste dump.

While the Prime Minister called for a ‘full-blooded debate’ unfortunately the process has been flawed right from the beginning.

Going nuclear is just too risky, too irresponsible, too expensive and can not deliver a solution to climate change.

The real solution to climate change is energy efficiency and renewable energy. Going nuclear is not the answer.

Say NO to nuclear power by signing Greenpeace's online petition. Click on the title!!

Thank you for demanding a safe, clean renewable energy future.

Sincerely
Steve Shallhorn
CEOGreenpeace
Australia Pacific

Just When you thought it was safe........

The MingMong Strikes
again........

Winge of the Week

Sorry fixers for the lack of activity on the Fix as of late.

The last couple of weeks have been quite busy, had a great time down at Hounds for the Indy, where I managed to take some wicked pics as well as some awesome video footage of army helicopters flying within 100 feet of Hound's unit.

Woke up Melbourne Cup Day with the news a friend of Luke's had arranged two VIP tickets to U2 for us. I thought my day could not improve after backing the winner in the Cup which paid $20.20 for the win.

With a camera full of shots and a lost data cord I headed of to Harvey Norman to buy a new cord so I could upload photos to my computer and then the fix. I was politely told the only way to get a new cord was to go direct to the manufacturer of the camera, or you could buy a generic card reader for $60.

Deciding to buy the card reader I took it home to find out the software was not compatible with my computer even though the packaging clearly states thet it is mac compatible.

I returned the card reader explaining my situation, when I was informed that I do not need to load the software just put your card into the card reader and plug it into the computer and every thing will take care of itself.

Taking the advice I took the card reader home plugged it into my mac, when the reader deleted everthing on my card. On returning it to Harvey Norman I was told that it should work and that it is easy to recover data just go to this website.

After checking out the website I was apalled to discover that it will cost me $180 to recover data lost because I took dodgy advice from Harvey Norman.

I returned the reader got my money back and headed towards WOW - light and sound at Annerly.

I explained my situation to the salesman he told me I don't normally do this to people who did not buy a camera with WOW then handed me a data cord for my particular camera for free.

I was shocked considering I was told from Harvey Norman that the only way I could get the cord was through the camera manufacturer.

So unfortunately I have no photos of the Indy or U2, but at least I know what type of business practices Harvey Norman preach.

Thanks to Chin at WOW. So if anyone wants a recommendation for a place to buy presents this Xmas then WOW is the place.

Get Up - A Political Movement

Stumbled across a fantastic site called GetUp - Action for Australia.

With the current government having more control than any other political force in more than a generation and substandard competition from the other parties, it is inevitable things need to change.

GetUp provides us with the tools to participate in the democratic process allowing us to have real input concerning important issues facing this country.

My Space and You Tube may be all the rage in cyberland at the moment enabling people to tap into their creative sides but sites like GetUp can really change the foundations on which our society stands.

SOUTH EAST QUEENSLAND

Chck out some pics recently taken on holidays!!

WALK AGAINST WARMING - THIS SATURDAY

This Saturday - November 4th is your chance to join citizens of more than 40 countries demanding deep cuts to greenhouse pollution. On this global day of action Australians will unite under the banner Walk Against Warming. So get your shoes on and bring your friends, kids and everyone you know to a Walk Against Warming near you:

Sydney: 11am, Martin Place
Melbourne: 1pm Town Hall
Brisbane: 2pm Queens Park (cnr George & Elizabeth St)

There are a few of us committed to going so please let me know if your up for "showing your support" and we'll be sure to make it fun. I dont think any of us can deny that this is one of the most pressing issues we as a planet face at the moment!

Join me and the Vegas kids or Bluey in Steak n Kidney!

28 days to Ashes

28 days to the Ashes so all you fixers going to the cricket here is some ammunition to equip you with those singing poms. Lukozade manages a printing company so we will get a 1000 copies to hand out before the match, to really serve it up to those pommie bastards.

These songs will need some practice so i will contact all Ashes Warriors by phone to arrange a practice session.

I have booked 10 convict costumes for the match so we are fully sorted.

All songs were provided by The Courier Mail.



The following are the lyrics to tunes from the Fanatics' Ashes Songbook
Are you ever gonna wash, pommie?


Tune: Rock DJ, Robbie Williams

How come you never wash pommie?
Is there a shower in your hostel?
When's it gonna stop, pommie?
We're so sick of that bloody smell.

How come you never wash pommie?
Is there a shower in your hostel?
When's it gonna stop, pommie?
We're so sick of that bloody smell.



Monty Panesar's Useless

Tune: My old mans a dustman

Monty Panesar useless, a poor old English chap
& when he's not spin bowling, he's visiting the quack.

He's useless in the covers, he's useless in the slips
And when he straps the pads on, he'll pass out with the yips



Cheer Up, Michael Vaughan

Tune: Daydream Believer

Cheer up Michael Vaughan
How bad must it be?
To be a - poor pommie person
Now you're watching on TV.


A Marvellous day for a moontan

Tune: Moondance, Van Morrison

It's a marvellous day for a moon tan
With white Reeboks & track suit pants
A fantabulous day for that moon tan
Matches your buck teeth & combi vans
Ever find that
Aussie women seem to run away
From your
Body odour & your tooth decay?



Mathew Hayden

Tune: Father Abraham

Matty Hayden had many fans
& many fans loved Matty Hayden
I am one of them & so are you
So lets all turn around
Drinking arm (repeat with actions for right arm)
(Repeat) batting arm (repeat with actions for left arm)
(repeat) dancing leg (repeat with actions for right leg)
padding leg, (repeat with actions)
fielding pose (repeat with actions)



Brett Lee

Tune: Can't take my eyes off of you

You're just too good to be true,
Can't take the ball off of you,
We love your fiery spells,
You bowl like Lillee not Nel
And when we're drunk at the bars,
We can't believe that you're ours,
You're just to good to be true,
Can't take that ball off of you...
do do do do (etc)

Marcus Tresscothick

Tune: Twist & Shout

You're stressing out Marcus now
(repeat) Stressing out Marcus
Stresscothick,
(repeat) Stresscothick,
Come on, come on, come, come on Marcus now
Come on Marcus now
Come on and work it on out
Work it on out

You know that stress is no good
Stress no good
You know you stress so bad
Stress so bad
We'll help you stress a little longer now
Stress a little longer
Can't get us out of your mind
(repeat) Well sweat it, sweat it, sweat it, Marcus now
Do do do do etc.



Dermot Reeve

Tune: Lola

He's got bad hair and an OBE,
Snorts white powder & got dropped from TV,
Our mate Dermie
whoa whoa whoa Dermie

Ode to a British girlfriend

Tune: Living Doll, Cliff Richard

Got myself a yawning, boring, pasty, nagging, whinging pom
Got to do your best to leave her just cause she's a whinging pom
She's got a lazy eye & big fat thighs from all those chips & pies
She's not the only boring, pasty, nagging, whinging pom

Phar Lap and Vegemite - Murdered

It hasn't been a good day for Australian Icons.

After years of conspiracy theories it has been finally proven that the legendary Phar Lap was murdered by arsenic poisoning. By using a synchotron scientist can measure the level of toxins in a single piece of hair and therefore determine a cause of death.

It was bad enough when the U.S bought out vegemite but now the U.S is banning vegemite from entering its shores. The reason for this is apparently mixing folate with grains and cereals is not good for your health.

Vegemite is owned by Kraft which is owned by Phillip Morris Tobacco.

Does this make any sense?

Blog Update

Just letting you know again that I have updated our blog. I have been extremely slack on the emails - sorry! But Skype is ready to go... Hope to have a skypemathon soon with everyone logging in.
Sending you all lots of love and plenty of rain. Breeza xxxxxx

www.colandisa.blogspot.com OR click on the title of this blog.

Big Day In ???

I hope all you Fixer's out there who wanted to run wild at the Big Day Out, managed to secure tickets as the Gold Coast Big Day Out has officially sold out.

The only way to purchase tickets (legally) is to register for a ballot at the Big Day Out web site and hope each week that you are one of the lucky 500 tickets sold over the next ten weeks. Tickets are $125 + bf.

Good luck and let us know if anyone is going.

I think we should have a party at Jamesy's on the 21st January called The Big Day In. If anyone else agrees give let us know and I will go to work convincing the mutant.

The Worlds Biggest Refugee Camp

I'm in full agreeance with you Mick regarding banning all weapons and the hypocrisy that exists as we blindly follow the Bushwanker.
Never ever should we feel any sympathy for the most ruthless and evil of all leaders of our time.
I grew up with Fiona Terry, who was with MSF (now in Burma with the Red Cross). The below is part of an interview she did a few years ago.
"Look at North Korea. It is the example of the worst abuse of aid at the moment. Which is why in 1998 MSF pulled out. We just won't work there."
That's quite a call to make when it comes to a country that has lost an estimated two to three million people to famine; where a third of mothers continue to be assessed as malnourished and anaemic; and where 40% of children are considered to be chronically malnourished.
Kim Jong-il is criminally indifferent to the suffering of his own people and spends 43% of the state budget on the military but little on fuel. So in the -25°C winters, few houses or buildings are heated. As a result, the most common causes of death among children are diarrhoea and pneumonia.
Before the border crackdown, Terry interviewed hundreds of North Korean refugees as they risked all to cross into China. "When we talked to them, not one of them, not one, had ever been the recipient of food aid. The only time they've seen it is when it's being traded on the black market."
The "pretence" at assistance occurs because of the tight totalitarian control over everything, but most especially food distribution. In many ways, it has become the instrument of control.
What happens to western-donated food aid? According to Terry, the minute it arrives in North Korea, it goes into military warehouses. It's distributed to those North Koreans considered by the regime to be compliant. Foreign aid workers are not allowed to conduct independent monitoring. That means no spot visits to nutritional clinics, only staged events where westerners see happy chubby-cheeked children.
That contrasts with what MSF was reporting before 1998. As Terry says: "On the way back from these visits our people would see children on the side of the road, dressed in rags, with terrible skin and all the signs of severe malnourishment. When they pleaded with their North Korean minders to stop so they could help them, the reply was 'what children?' They don't exist."
Terry concedes that more recently the UN's World Food Program has periodically withheld food shipments in an attempt to negotiate better monitoring of food distribution to those in desperate need.
But she dismisses this as half-hearted at best. Her condemnation is total. "Food aid is being used in North Korea today to prop up a regime that perpetuates the famine and which decides on a daily basis who has the right to live and who can die. I ask, how is it acceptable for a humanitarian organisation to be part of that?"
...to read more http://www.msf.org.au/stories/twfeature/2003/006twf.shtml

robot dance

Another cracker from YouTube.
This guy in the orange has the best pop since Mr Freeze from the Rock Steady Crew.

Enjoy

Ban ALL Weapons

As we all know North Korea recently became the 9th member of the nuclear club, that has outraged the international community.

After Kim Jong-il was described as a major part of "The Axis of Evil" by Bush, and then witnessing the United states defiance of the 192 members of the United Nations (except UK & Australia) in invading Iraq for possession of weapons that did not exist.

North Korean's leader Kim Jong-il really was given no choice but to guarantee the safety of his country. No nuclear power has ever had its territorial sovereignty invaded by another country.

The hypocrisy floating around at the moment astounds me.

The U.S. is the most aggressive nation on earth. Since World War II, the US has used force against another state on more than 30 occasions - the most notable examples being Vietnam, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Cambodia, Korea, Grenada, Afghanistan and Iraq (twice).

Nicaragua and Iraq were illegal yet the total of international sanctions levied against America is zero. When it comes to doing what it wants, the US enjoys unprecedented freedom.

So before we all jump on the U.S. bandwagon in pulling the North Koreans into line. We should remember that any weapons including nuclear weapons are a scourge on humanity. Anything that has its efficiency rated by how many human beings cane be wiped of this planet should be destroyed.

Hopefully the United States will show what we expect from the most advanced democracy in the world and destroy some of its own nuclear weapons before labelling other countries as outlaws for acquiring nuclear weapons.

Let us not forget that the U.S. has more nuclear weapons than the total of every country in the world.

Big Day Out Tickets On Sale Tomorrow

OK Fixers tomorrow is Friday 13th and Big Day Out tickets go on sale at 9.00am. Ticket sales are a little different this year, only 4 tickets per person. So get organised mutants if you want to be part of The Big Day Out.

Bands announced thus far include Tool, Jet, Muse, Violent Femmes, Scribe, The Killers, Eskimo Joe, My Chemical Romance, Peaches, Evermore, Spank Rock, The Sleepy Jackson, The Herd and the Spazzys.

Venues and Dates

FRIDAY JANUARY 19th AUCKLAND MT SMART STADIUM
Maurice Rd Penrose. Gates open 11am
Tickets $110 +bf

SUNDAY JANUARY 21st GOLD COAST PARKLANDS
Smith St Southport. Gates open 11am
Tickets $115 (inc GST) +bf*

THURSDAY JANUARY 25th SYDNEY SHOWGROUND
Showground Rd Sydney Olympic Park. Gates open 11am. Event closes midnight.
Tickets $115 (inc GST) +bf*

SUNDAY JANUARY 28th PRINCES PARK SOUTH
Royal Pde North Carlton, Melbourne. Gates Open 11am
Tickets $115 (inc GST) +bf*

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 2nd ADELAIDE SHOWGROUND
Rose Tce Wayville, Adelaide. Gates Open 11am
Tickets $115 (inc GST) +bf*

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 4th CLAREMONT SHOWGROUND
Graylands Rd Claremont, Perth. Gates Open 11am
Tickets $115 (inc GST) +bf*

Free Hugs Campaign. Inspiring Story! (music by sick puppies)

pretty cool and some of the shots are in vegas

Colisa Course

Just letting you know that I have updated our blog and there is still heaps more to come. It's slowly getting cold over here and we haven't worked the heating out yet! Col is working this weekend. I have applied for one job so far and have already received my rejection letter. Loks like I have to type up some bullshit hospitality/ customer service resume. Maybe something like: 2004 - 2006 Hazlewood Cafe - Bar work - Who wants to be my referee?
We have now also Skype set up - with the little camera and all. Exciting stuff. You can find us as Col and Isa, Thurles, Ireland. Loking forward to a chat!
Shazzy & Mark - love your India pics. Good luck with packing etc. Looking forward to hearing all about your future adventures.