WOMEN ARE TOUGHER THAN MEN

Women have up to nine times the tolerance of pain that men do (a result of their ability to give birth).

9Xs, huh? So tolerance of pain is now quantified??? I'd say they haev a higher tolerance of pain, but I wouldn't try to quantify how much. And by your argument does that mean that women who haven't given birth aren't as tough as women who have???

I dont know how you can put a quantitative measurement around something like pain, but I sure would not want to experience childbirth myself!

I have had an acquaintence describe childbirth as something like this:

(1) Take your lips by your hands, and pull them apart until it feels like they are about to become unattached from your face.

(2) NOW, take your upper lip and stretch it completely around your forehead! THAT is what childbirth feels like, except imagine a turkey coming out of your mouth while you do this!

As for China, I will be back, and I hopefully will be allowed to pace Yoko Shibui and Reiko again, but I think that the coach (Hideo Suzuki) thinks that I am completely dangerous and insane after spraying a beer all over Yoko!

True, WOMEN ARE TOUGHER THAN MEN, thats one way of getting 50 replies plus in 24 hours...

Go on a high protein diet and limit your liquids and fiber to make a big gigantic piece of hard poo in your colon. Now try to shit it out of your system. Becareful not to strain and work on your breathing or else you may scar your sphincter muscles with hemmoroids. Take note of how painful this experience is. Now once it is finally out, take a rubber glove and take the hard piece of poo and stick it is a sandwich bag and put it on a scale. It will probably be less than a 1/2lb. Now mutiply the weight by 9. About 4.5 lbs. You just experienced pain 9 times less that of childbirth. Imagine a 5 lbs piece of poo coming out of your system.

So what anyone can give birth. They give drugs nowadays, so women are getting less and less tough.

CAN U ALL PLS RESPECT WOMEN.

SOME OF THEM EVEN DIED WHEN GIVING BIRTH.

and for some reasons, woman, for instance paula, is tough because she is tough, not because of what. she had never given childbirth before.

any man including kk, or hicham, would have to bounce their heads in pain n agony like paula if they wanna run 2:00marathon or a 3:30 mile.

Jasonbanginkok I got to know that Kunming is having spring allyear 10-15' celsius? And bangkok is one of the most polluted cities (perhaps the most polluted is bangkok literrally) by vehicle exhaust smoke, how do you cope with that? Sorry I cant access hotmail now, it's being a bitchy these days lately.

karangasem.

Women just all get together and keep the farce going that childbirth is all that tough or painful just so they have something on the men. Besides, at least in the Western world, most of them either have C-sections or are so full of drugs they don't feel a thing. Big whoop.

They may be tougher, but they still run slower. I think women should just stay in the kitchen and bake pies.

If women are so tough, why do you rarely see one driving a motorcycle?

SO if Paula ever has a baby, will it make her 9 times even more tougher?

You got it! I *AM* A GIGANTIC PIECE OF POO STUFFED IN YOUR COLON.

I *AM* THE EQUIVALENT OF 13 BOXES OF ALL-BRAN IN YOUR GUTS, EATEN WITHOUT A DROP OF MILK OR WATER. OOOOOOHHHH THE PLEASURE!!!

You got it Karangasem, without women, we would be without both Poontang AND LIFE ITSELF!!!

Kunming's nickname is "The City of Eternal Spring." We are going to Lijiang, which has altitude 400meters higher than KMG, but with the same nice weather and much less traffic and cleaner air.

Bangkok is a challenge, at best, to train in. I train in one of three venues: Lumpini Park, Treadmills at California Fitness or the track at the National Stadium. (The one by MBK)

Jason

Sure women are tough, but its only cause they brokered a deal with the devil. All women are inherently evil.

Sorry, Dude. An acquaintance of yours? Don't think so. Carol Burnett said it first.

No, I think it's just saying that women inherently have a higher threshold for pain to prepare them for childbirth (whether or not they do have children). It's not that having children gives them a magically higher threshold for pain.

I find women to be just a little softer than men.

So what about childbirth. Thats totally irrelevant. If guys had to give birth to babies then they'd do it. It's not like its a choice. If a girl gets pregnant and is about to have a baby, THEY HAVE TO GO THROUGH IT. Plus, how can you say that girls have it worse? What guy can really say how painful it is, and what girl can really konw that guys don't put up with as much pain in something else? I heard thatpassing a kidney stone is even worse. Girls are built for it. And about those Japanese girls, isn't it not smart to be training THAT hard???? Wouldn't that classify as racing your training? I have done that many times but now i hear its not good training. so F--- girls if they think they're tougher than guys. It dosn't matter though because we're still kickin the crap outa them

Passing a kidney stone is probably equivalent in pain as giving birth. Very few women give birth without taking major pain killers these days also. I bet women were pretty tough back in the day.

how do we know it's not the fact that they can't tolerate pain that makes it appear that they can. what i mean is, maybe they look like they are experiencing so much pain because their tolerance is actually low.