{"id":159,"date":"2004-10-21T15:14:13","date_gmt":"2004-10-21T20:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/server97.snhdns.com\/~ravik\/wp\/?p=159"},"modified":"2004-10-21T15:14:13","modified_gmt":"2004-10-21T20:14:13","slug":"first-it-was-mobile-phones-now-it-is-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200410\/first-it-was-mobile-phones-now-it-is-this\/","title":{"rendered":"First it was mobile phones, now it is this."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Swearing makes you impotent: official | The Register\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2004\/10\/21\/impotent_swearers\/\">Swearing makes you impotent: official <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Those readers who like the spoken language liberally peppered with expletives and barrack-room terminology had better clean up their act, a Russian scientist has warned, because excessive swearing causes women to turn into blokes and blokes to lose wood.<br \/>\nThe shocking revelation comes courtesy of Gennady Cheurin&#8217;s team at the Yekaterinburg Centre for Ecological Safety and Survival. Cheurin made the discovery after conducting ground-breaking research into the effect of bad language on water. The theory goes that water can be influenced by &#8220;negative vibes&#8221;, and the team spent several hours hurling abuse at a glass of the stuff. This Devil&#8217;s liquid was then sprinkled on wheat seeds &#8211; of which just 48 per cent subsequently germinated. Seeds favoured with water from natural springs, on the other hand, enjoyed a 93 per cent germination rate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\nhe quickly turned his attentions to the effect of swearing on the perpetrators themselves: &#8220;We then looked at heavy swearers, and found whenever men use these words in their daily life, this immediately leads to sexual dysfunctions, i.e. impotence. If a woman uses these words in her daily speech, she slowly begins transforming into a man, getting more hair and muscles.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swearing makes you impotent: official Those readers who like the spoken language liberally peppered with expletives and barrack-room terminology had better clean up their act, a Russian scientist has warned, because excessive swearing causes women to turn into blokes and blokes to lose wood. The shocking revelation comes courtesy of Gennady Cheurin&#8217;s team at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}