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Googling For Porn Makes You Absent Minded?

from the well-that-explains-it dept

Mon, Jun 29th 2009 1:11am — Mike Masnick

With China trying to stop Google from helping internet users find pornography, it appears that China has picked up its propaganda campaign. Boing Boing points us to the news that a guy quoted as part of a "man on the street" interview by China's state-owned TV news network claimed that searching for porn online can make you absent-minded:

"I have this fellow student and he's been curious about these kinds of things. He visited porn Web sites and ended up becoming absent-minded for a while."

Very convincing. Apparently, lots of other people weren't convinced by the guy's performance, and looked into his background... and discovered that he just happens to be a student intern at the very same TV news network that was asking the questions. So, if you can't find a man on the street to give you the answers that you want, apparently China finds someone they can coach.

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Filed Under: censorship, china, man in the street, porn
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fuzzix, 29 Jun 2009 @ 3:01am

Worried!
I saw this headline and thought it might have been some research which actually found that Googling for, erm... thingummy makes you... whatchumacallit... er, yes!
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- Dennis, 29 Jun 2009 @ 3:37am
  
  Re: Worried!
  ROFL....too good a comment there buddy :D.
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Blatant Coward, 29 Jun 2009 @ 3:21am

WSJ Says: Wat?
Sounds like Wall Street Journal standard ops to me.
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- JLT, 29 Jun 2009 @ 7:22am
  
  Re: WSJ Says: Wat?
  dont you meen MSNBC.
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- ConceptJunkie (profile), 29 Jun 2009 @ 8:33am
  
  Re: WSJ Says: Wat?
  ...as opposed to, say, the NYT, which just cuts out the middle man and makes it up.
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chillout music, 29 Jun 2009 @ 3:35am

Haha
So....many people in the world are absent minded? Oh...shit...I ask my neighbour:-)
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Anonymous Coward, 29 Jun 2009 @ 3:51am

ejaculation possibly causes memory loss
Back when I was in high school, a morning radio host did a talk on whether it's true that ejaculation can cause memory loss. The big deal was that high school football coaches told their guys that they couldn't bang their groupies from wednesday through friday (until after the game) because ejaculation can cause memory loss, and the coach didn't want the players forgetting key plays.

Some people who claimed to be doctors called in to comment, and the general consensus was more towards that this is true. Now, seeing as this was the radio, I'm not sure it is actually true, but I know that some people experience short term hearing loss, fatigue, and other ailments shortly after coitus. So, it is possible that subsequent to porn browsing, one may be "absent minded."
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- Chunky Vomit, 29 Jun 2009 @ 3:58am
  
  Re: ejaculation possibly causes memory loss
  Pat Roberston? Is that you?
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- Haywood (profile), 29 Jun 2009 @ 5:05am
  
  Re: ejaculation possibly causes memory loss
  I know from personal experience, that sometimes her name and phone number are forgotten.
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Cixelsid (profile), 29 Jun 2009 @ 3:57am

I don't get it
Is being absent-minded some obscure insult in China?
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Chunky Vomit, 29 Jun 2009 @ 4:01am

Googling porn
Every time somebody Googles porn God kills a kitten.
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DS, 29 Jun 2009 @ 4:04am

This happens more often than you think. There was an article way back when regarding people trading in SUV's and buying smaller cars. One of the people 'interviewed' had nothing good to day about the pratice, and MINI Coopers. She lied about how much headroom was in a MINI, and came up with the stupid statement that as small cars take up less room on the road, then there will more pollution, because you can fit more small cars on the road then large cars.

Umm, ya.
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jlbraaten, 29 Jun 2009 @ 6:08am

Oh China. When are you going to learn.
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Anonymous Coward, 29 Jun 2009 @ 6:13am

let me get back to you on this one, I can't see to focus this morning.
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Anonymous Coward, 29 Jun 2009 @ 6:51am

Huh? What was the question again?
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Doug Hall, 29 Jun 2009 @ 9:15am

Well, Duh?
Blood can't be in two places at once, you know.
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chudai gand lun, 9 Oct 2009 @ 7:15am

i never knew it before.
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