Geode, while it's true that a lot of women get married and have children, you will notice that a lot don't. They have obviously decided that what's on offer isn't worth it and that the human race can go on without the males that they have on offer.
That means that their genes are also self-selected out of the human species, as well as the reject blokes, sort of like Islamic Jihad martyrs, ceasing to exist for a greater cause.
In the same way, if I had some dreaded genetic disease, I would not inflict it on my offspring and would prefer to take it to my grave than do so. Of course, if I could eliminate the gene, through embryo selection [or zygote, or blastocyst, or sperm selection, or genetic engineering, or whatever tricks they use] then I'd be happy to go with that.
I don't think my mother considered millions of men, given the total population of NZ was only about 1 million men, but I dare say there were a few around to choose from.
We have 3 daughters and there was a steady parade of blokes hanging around, being rejected one by one. The youngest made a choice and now we have a grandson, and so far, I'd say she made a pretty good choice. He's a wonderful little boy, 1 yr 2 months.
Sure, fire was here before people, but putting it inside a cigarette lighter was a good trick don't you think. Not to mention inside a hurricane lamp. Or even just getting another one going with fast rubbing of sticks. Wax matches were always fun too. How about piling tons of fire inside an Airbus 380 and flying half a thousand people in luxurious comfort [compared with battling out of Mongolia on an onager] half way around the world in less than a day. Or working out enthalpy and entropy and taming physics in general to fire up a power station to deliver electricity for a thousand kilometres at 300,000 volts.
Now now, don't be racist and culturalist about British chip butties, bangers, mash and peas, Lancashire hotpot, etc.
You don't need the ' ' around monarchy. It is a fair dinkum monarchy. Well worth the investment too. A LOT of tourists like the whole panoply of trooping the colour, changing the guard, crown jewels and all that jazz. Without it, London would be just another industrial/commercial hard-scrabble big smoke.
I should ask Google for a list of inventions by women.
Mqurice
PS: My mother did her best. But you know the old joke about Einstein meeting Marilyn Monroe and Monroe suggesting they have sex because with her beauty and his brains, the baby would be amazing. He agreed that sex would be a good thing, but pointed out that the poor baby might have his beauty and her brains.
My mother made 4 attempts at having the right brew, and I don't recall her expressing disappointment at the outcome. I do recall her expressing relief that she didn't get any duds. It's true I'm not completely perfect [I just need to do a bit more work on my modesty, then I'll be 100%] and one of our daughters curses her afflictions obviously being genes from me. Our son maintains he was adopted [being related to me is too much to bear for him]. Or, as a friend says, "I wonder who the father is." |
