Cortese's Corner - The Off-Topic Chat Thread

Four players in the Iran women's team were discovered to be men who had undergone incomplete sex change operations. Why on earth would any man choose to become a woman in a Muslim society with all the limitations that imposes? I suppose it does show how little we comprehend their torment if they would take that risk.

 

I think if we're giving him credit for knowing who The Beatles are, then we should give him credit for being clever enough for the satire you mentioned.

Or we just assume his PR company dreamed the whole thing up.

 

It had nothing on Baby on Board.

 

And for Southampton IRL.

 

They must be utterly desperate.

 

Excellent Horizon programme on the iPlayer. A first properly conceived presentation on a manned mission to Mars. At the moment, by my estimation they are about 15-20 years away from a manned mission, and it still depends on political will maintaining its support. This goes into the technical, and the psychological. There are the technical things, for instance, like the Apollo Moon missions before them, the technology doesn't exactly exist yet in all critical areas. The psychological, in the sense that instead of taking a week to go to the Moon and back, the Mars astronauts will take a couple of years. One little oddity is that they are training astronauts for the mission, but they won't be going because they'll be too old if/when it happens. So they are practising training the astronauts who will eventually go, finding out new and necessary things, and those astronauts who will go, don't quite know they will be astronauts yet, because they are still at school. Very interesting.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...132014_Man_on_Mars_Mission_to_the_Red_Planet/

 

I can still find no love for FM14 I'm afraid.....

 

I can't help but wonder, if a dude gets a sex change (a complete one) would they then be eligible to play in women's football teams? Not that I'm thinking of getting a sex change, I'm just curious.

I agree about that last sentence though. I guess when you feel like another person in your own body, it must be very difficult and in some ways being able to be who you are outweighs possibly the potential disadvantages of being a woman in highly patriarchal society like Iran (at least it's not Saudi Arabia). There's someone on another forum I post on who pretended to be a girl for 4 or 5 years, then eventually it came out that they were a male. Then a couple of years later, it turned out that they are going through a sex change. Though now she could easily pass for a woman, but she must have been hugely conflicted for a long time to create a whole online persona of a different gender.

 

Just walked past a 6ft odd transexaul, he/she was in huge high heels. She had massive arms and a huge tattoo on her arm of a anchor.

 

Whether a transsexual should be able to compete as their new gender is a difficult one. In this country the answer is probably yes, bearing in mind the chance of a court case. However, whether it is fair for someone to compete as a female when their body has developed as a male is a different question. There would need to be proof that female hormones return you to a female body or whether there is still some advantage from the original male development. I suspect that a lot of female athletes would be pretty annoyed...even if they daren't complain.

 

cbk ?

 

[video=youtube;5UpXcMvFZIY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UpXcMvFZIY[/video]

Looks a good game, it's a 5 player game. 4 players play soldiers while the last player plays a monster that evolves and grows stronger by eating wildlife.

 

On the other hand, might it be possible that a man who undergoes a sex change generally (though not always) has less of a 'macho' build and muscle structure and more of a 'feminine' build than men in general prior to the change, perhaps due to unusually high levels of estrogen? Therefore the athletic advantages of previous being a man would not be so pronounced. I'm not sure, I only know one person who's undergone the procedure but she was hardly 'macho' even before she started her sex change. I'm not saying that's the case, btw, just food for thought.

Apparently there's someone else on the same forum who is merely pretending to a woman and has created a whole persona to go with the pretense.

 

I was exactly the same, I only bought it very recently when I had a real FM craving. I'm already two and a half seasons in and hooked.

 

Still playing FM12. Still need a new PC/laptop.

 

Brought FM14 when it was on offer on steam for a tenner, haven't played it mch really.

 

Really? I'm still really meh about it and just can't get into it at all. It's always 'starts well, dips, then is utter toilet in second/third season'.

 

Might not be a bad thing that you are.....you're not missing much IMHO

 

It's true. Unless you're into all the hipster terms like Enganche then there's not a whole lot new, except finances are far more realistic now. I get messages about tax laws

 

Well I doubt it's programmed to do that. Might be something to do with squad morale/fitness which you're missing.

A mate has it and I do like the look of it. Also relish the prospect of playing other people's teams online.