STI tests

I blame my ex....(it was last year)
I'm not sure what standard practice is to be honest...I think the time scale you need to have them over requires on how many sexual partners you have...and considering the amount of money you've put aside for having "coffee" with people... oh dear....

Oh i see, well I don't sleep around at all, the coffee is completely innocent!!!

No need for me to get one just yet then...

and you call yourself a true conservative?
you should be able to survive a few years yet, yea...
remember - always wear a condom kids...(well, anyone over 16, under 16 and your very naughty!)

sorry to disappoint you...steroids cause your genetalia to shrink too...so they would probably miss, which would also, i suppose, negate the discomfort.... (you would grow breasts too)

That's always the problem with lectures by experts - they only give you the view they want you to have, rather than a balance of the literature

If the 'friction' theroy was to have a hope in hell of standing up, it would need to be proved that people who get a lot mostly contract cervical cancer, rather than chasing the 'age of loss of virginity' angle most seem to go for!

I did a bit of reading into this when I was writing up as I worked on a stress-activated gene (activated by physical and physiological stress), and showed it had a role in DNA repair (potentially making it a novel proto-oncogene - and we can publish it as so as soon as the post-doc taken on after me to finish what should have been a few months of work gets their ass into gear!!!!).

Do you always have to be right? Just because what I've been given differs from yours in a teeny tiny way doesn't necessarily make mine wrong. I guess I feel patronised

Not at all - I just hate it when researchers give it the big 'I am', and as a result a student ends up with a skewed viewpoint which you believe to be true because someone with standing and who should know better says so.

Didn't mean to make you feel patronised, but equally the whole 'I'm at OxBridge being lectured by X, Y and Z' can be a little patronising too!

I suppose so. She is v cool though - one of the few female lecturers who is actually bearable.

I don't think my statements were particularly spurious though - just a statement of the theory, which though it hasn't been proved in its entirity (think of the monitoring that would require, yuk!) seems to make some sense. Whether or not you believe it is up to you.

Plus my work last summer gave me a pretty good insight into the NHS procedures in cervical screening etc.

I'm not saying specifically that your statement was. I know it makes sense, else I wouldn't have spent months doing literature searchs and writing a departmental internal view artical on the subject I do believe I kicked off that 'debate' by saying that the literature doesn't support the 'friction' theory particuarly well, adding that the 'angle' from which the current research stems is wrong too, if thats the hypothesis and end point which you're trying to prove (also the issue with these sorts of patient based prespective studies is that the data sets you have access to is totally limited - sometimes to one or two possibilities depending on the questionnaires completed by patients or by the history taken at the time the data was collected). So it's not like I was critising you - in fact I could argue that you were critising my view point of there being bugger all real evidence by saying 'my great education to date has told me different'

Ignore me! I'm having a seriously bored, want to get back to Uni day!

Ignore me! I'm having a seriously bored, want to get back to Uni day!

I'll join that club!

Plus I think neither of us are the type to like admitting we're wrong

You might have a point!

Garrggh! I'm so bored, I've even gone as far as hunting for 'prize essays' with closing dates coming up! Shoot me now!

You might have a point!

Garrggh! I'm so bored, I've even gone as far as hunting for 'prize essays' with closing dates coming up! Shoot me now!