How do I download?

Sorry, I'm not exactly one of yer teenage geeks.

What's a 'torrent'? Or a 'MP4'? I just want to have Windows Media Player play the thing back to me!

Old Greebo,

MP4 is yet another package name for the movie inside, like MPG or AVI. Windows Media player probably wont' play it, but VLC Media Player and Quicktime will/should. Unfortunately, if you are outside the UK/Ireland, you can't watch it online.

We're working on getting a way to get it split up and posted to Usenet, but so far, no luck.

Of course, if you don't know how to use Usenet groups, that's another long lecture.

As for myself, I just can't get into the fantasy stories on this board. But once in a while I'll look at one here and there that amuses me, half way read it and think to myself "ah, whatever". My great thrill and great claim to fame for being on this web site is that I'm supposed to be a male but however on a Sunday morning I might just pop up into some strange church (where I would be condemned if they knew what I was doing) dressed as the perfect uprighteos church lady in my Sunday best and sing along with the congregation in my perfect ladylike voice --(and I can sing as high as a cat's meow or the Bollyworld singers do). At church they never know that I'm a nominal male (small hands and feet, youngish cheerful face, soft skin) and who knows I could just pop up into your church over where you are singing along with the rest of the congregation. P.S. --I have never taken female hormones (estrogen), but conversely I was once administered male steroids for a few weeks in order to cure a case of tendonitis to my wrist.

Thanks for the interesting replies. It has helped me to understand.

I don't have time to write much now as late. I only have dial up internet so can't watch the documentary online as would take ages to load.

I don't think more people make a fuss about males having their testicles removed than women having their ovaries removed. Lots of women who have their ovaries removed take hormones. Maybe referring to oneself as a Eunuch is more a personal choice as to how a person sees themselves? But then what do I know.

I didn't know if the person who's very fat was just on a wind up, as he says he's on disability from being fat and wants to be even fatter so he can't wipe his back side. To me that's going over the edge and I see people didn't encourage him, if he's a real person.

I don't know why you might think not having testosterone might make males into better people though, as some women can be right bitches and some men can be really nice and calm. I think it all depends on the individual. I just think people are all individuals and you get good and bad points in all sexes, but then I suppose testosterone has a lot to answer for with some men being sexual predators and that.

As UK doctors not performing the operation, I wouldn't know why, but maybe not enough is understood about it. I know that people can have a sex change for free on the NHS as it's a recognised condition, but the patient needs to undergo a long time of psychiatric help to determine if it's what they need and need to be referred by a psychiatrist. Somebody mentioned it's a cheaper way for somebody to help than taking hormones, but if they can get them for free here, then I doubt they would need that option.

How did you find out you have three x chromosomes Dev? Does it mean you're genetically female? I forget, as I haven't studied biology for a long time.

Curious241 (imported) wrote: Fri Apr 20, 2007 4:16 pm How did you find out you have three x chromosomes Dev? Does it mean you're genetically female? I forget, as I haven't studied biology for a long time.

They can take some blood, analyze it, and get one of these pictures from it:

http://library.thinkquest.org/C0123260/ ... osomes.gif

Oh, it's interesting how that happens isn't it, how some people can be genetically once sex but physically another. But then again, we are all formed from the same blue print, as when a baby is formed the same parts turn into one thing, or another, it's why men have nipples. I only found out the other day the G spot, whatever or wherever that is, is what turns into the prostate gland in a male.

Sorry about my typos lol

Meant to type One sex, instead of once sex.

Also there seems to be a lot of modern myth-making to the point of DNA making "perfect copies" and certain genes "determining" such and such things about us. I think a lot of people don't realize how complex a process human development is. The mental image I think is involved here is that the cell is like an automated, precision building factory that turns out exact replicas of a template.

Well, cells aren't like that. And human development is a story about mixing things up and making do with the result.

Oh, by and large we are quite alike both on a general level and a biological level. But the end result says nothing about the utter chaos that produces that result. There's a whole lot of things going on all the time that shouldn't. Cells splitting turning into tumors that need to be stopped by the immune defence.

Our brains are built by first stocking up on as many neurons that can possibly be fit into the physical space of our skulls, and then killing of all of those that are "duds", that have no constructive use. The rest develop more dendrites so the mass stays the same.

But it's all a big game of chance. Variation is the theme, and it's being played over and over. There's not "the majority" and "those who are different". It's only "those who are different enough to be noticed and those who are different but manage to hide it". Any kind of socialy established norm is arbitrary. Nature don't run on blue prints. It just does things because physical laws and chance dictated it. And if we try to understand things as "order and deviations from that order" we are only fooling ourselves.

But if we tried to apply "variation" as a standard to human behaviour, instead of "ought", I think there would be a lot less grief. At least I hope.

there is a myth that men are pigs and women are saints...there are women sex offenders out there aswell....

Men and women are no better than eachother...

just thought id say..