I'm in bits

War thing?

yep, for women, every 28 days...

Delicate, aren't you? You make it sound as if it happens to all of them at once.

well, it's proven that women who meet eachother on a regular base have it the same time

That had better be a joke!

It has to do with feromones, I'm not joking, it's proven!

Well, I'd like to see that proof because in my experience it is rubbish.

It's an old one, ...
say,... is a quote from one of my sciences teachers enough?

Not really, no.

I rather think you are talking about Dr. Martha McClintock's study of menstrual synchrony, back in 1971.

But plenty of studies since then have doisagreed.

It was your terming of it as 'proven' that got me, because that is not so. It;s not proven by a long way.

In my old socal group at school, the women's periods were staggered in the MOST awkward way. And they never got synchronous. And they met all the time.

If that theory were fully true, then technically all girls at a shcool would have periods at the same time!

Not that McClintock ever said that; her study was of women living together, not meeting regularly.

Well, my teacher said that, twice, so hey, I have to believe him 😄

Sigh... always a shame to see people take interesting theories as absolute proof. There's some very interesting research into the pheromone link these days.

But in practice... it's just doesn't happen enough for the theory to be a fact.

I think what Yers is talking about is the study amongst ledbian couples in long term relationships where gradually over a LONG period of time their cycles did change to match each other.

It has been shown to happen but it's not reliable.

I'm not talking about ANYTHING here! I just said this because a teacher said that!

Indeed, RC. In fact, a quick look on the net shows a ton of stuff about it all- and the conclusion pretty much every time is that whle the phenomoneon does exist it is NOT a general event. And it is hotly argued- well, what a surprise with science...

What was this thread about again?

Mech replicating his big-stick hitting experinces by going down the gym.

And then later, a debate about whether it is right to mock someone for being in pain for going to the gym

And then later, menstrual synchrony- certain or sporadic?

There you go.

I see ...
well... tomorrow we have a gymnastics test.
I'm happy it's not the ropeclimbing!

Just remmeber Mech, after about the third session your body starts to get used to it and the aching stops.

And the horrible, stabbing pains begin, yeah?

If you stretch before and after workouts, you don't get sore at all.