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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 18 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The byline at the bottom of the article jumped out at me:

This is a professional journalist and doctor of microbiology. She has spent many many years in education and practice to reach her level of knowledge and ability. Then some editor says "hey I need 1500 words in a story we want you to write covering dudes injecting their junk for cosmetics and athletic performance enhancement. Can you have it done by Tuesday?". I can just imagine her eyerolling as she accepted the task. Dr. Beth Mole, don't worry. We still respect your credentials and achievements and understand you just have to pay the bills too.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 10 points 16 hours ago

Or maybe she just thought it was amusing like the rest of us.

[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Are you a ski jumper, or just glad to see me?

[–] Tm12@lemmy.ca 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds like gender affirming care to me…

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Increased surface area for longer flight time seems to be the goal... could a round of estrogen be a performance enhancing drug?

[–] lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People are padding? i tape mine back for … uh … aerodynamic purposes

[–] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago
[–] hector@lemmy.today 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Sounds like they could be shaming people that are insulating their dick from the cold of the prematch and could be slandering them for trying to make it look bigger, when in fact they are trying to not have it freeze.

After all, people love a good slander, the more salacious the better, and they don't care if it's true, or disproven in real time, only if people will pretend to believe it.

I am reminded of the skiier in China whose dick froze waiting for a race, remember him?

[–] Hux@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There is an article to read…

[–] sepi@piefed.social 9 points 1 day ago

Bro my eyes are up here

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] hector@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

Probably the same guy, his dick froze once before the race in China.

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This isn’t about padding. It’s about injections.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 2 points 23 hours ago

Yuck. I did not know that was a thing, I did just learned that Elon Musk had a botched penis extension procedure at some point though. Which is why he test tubes it.

[–] Hux@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The brand name on the jumper’s skis was made for this article…

[–] BossDj@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

I couldn't tell if the article was full of innuendo, it I was just seeing what I wanted to see

[–] PMP@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Before reading the article I honestly thought this would be about athletes trying to pick up in the village. It was even stupider than I imagined.

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

The link is to the comments past the end of the article. Just FYI

[–] vegeta@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago