Susan Boyle And A Female Hairiness Health Warning
MEDIA SCARE story of the day comes via the BBC, where hairy women lean of the “ Female hairiness health warning”. Can Susan Boyle, aka ‘The Hairy Angel‘, be worked into the story? Read on…
No only are hairy women hairy but they are about to die horribly, choking on their hair ball or being prodded with sharp sticks by angry villagers.
Excessive hairiness in women is not just a cosmetic problem but is likely to be a sign of an underlying medical condition, say UK doctors in a report. Five to 15% of women have excess hair, and a hormone disorder is the most likely cause in many cases, they said.
Women with the problem should not be afraid to seek medical advice, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists report urged.
No they should not. But how to go out in public when hairy? Sure, Hairy Angel Susan Boyle can come to their aid and be a spokesperson, nay, role model, for hairy women. But until then, what to do?
Report author, Dr Rebecca Swingler, a specialist registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology at St Michael’s Hospital in Bristol, said the condition, known as hirsutism, is distressing and can be particularly upsetting for young women.
Well, if the science says being a hairy woman is upsetting, then who are we to argue? Who has not seen a hairy woman and become upset?
Estimates of how many women are affected are likely to be underestimated because women can be reluctant to seek help, she added.
In addition to PCOS [Polycystic ovary syndrome], rarer causes of excessive hairiness include certain tumours and thyroid dysfunction, as well as the use of certain drugs.
That’s right, you are hairy and you are ill. Maybe.
And then the pay off. Note how the Government is seeking to purge the land of fat people:
Weight loss, especially in obese women, may also help reduce high levels of the male hormone testosterone which can be an underlying factor in cases of excess hair.
Bingo!
“Often women have spent many years trying to cope with their hirsutism before they seek professional help,” said Dr Swingler.
And sometimes not.
“Women need to look at themselves in the context of their family and ethnicity and what is ‘normal’ for them.”
Is mum hairy? Dad? The dog?
Professor Stephen Franks, an expert in reproductive endocrinology at Imperial College London, said the condition could be very embarrassing and women might be reluctant to seek medical advice.
Professor Franks said how much hair growth was considered excessive was subjective, but that women should not be afraid to seek help.
Can’t argue with science…
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April 24th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
…me too.
April 23rd, 2009 at 8:03 pm
I like Percy
He makes me laugh
April 23rd, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Well, at least you did what I asked re: pissing into the wind…
“Could I make a suggestion to both of you knights in shiting armour, learn to read & understand others point of view before you try to be clever.”
More advice from the troll on training wheels….
Percy- with that being the last thing you said before your door prize request- you are officially denied acting like you are somehow above “all this.” There are no prizes awarded for smugly rhyming about nothing.
We all get it that you are really into your supposed wit- or whatever… Simply put: much like the article that started this magical little dialogue- you just aren’t terribly funny. Your crass rhymes and the pride you seem to display over them leaves me picturing you reading the miller’s tale and cackling madly over the punchline flatulence, all the while saying “Now THAT’S funny! HAW HAW, SNORT, GUFFAW!”
Not to pit you against your apparent “brother in arms”- but Yampster does a lot more with a lot less- have your mum gather your crayons so you can take notes.
Hurry up and try to post something that rhymes and makes you sound detached from the little thread fight you jumped into with reckless abandon not so long ago.
Moderator - You don’t have to like people, and we do not tolerate constantly singling people out. Perhaps as a new poster you might like to stick roughly to the topic, which is not Percy or any other poster
April 23rd, 2009 at 10:50 am
Is that your last acronym on the subject?
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:19 am
LOL
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:03 am
It’s like waiting for a bus…
Yampy…I win…what’s the prize?
April 23rd, 2009 at 12:21 am
Percy- Watching you backpedal makes me smile. LOL at your inability to come up with anything worth saying in 24 hours. I like the “I know you are but what am I” defense- always a winner. Doesn’t work, but clearly this kind of thing does not bother you. Good luck with your fixation on hairy things/rings or whatever it is you are going on about up there.
Yampster- Stop it before y’all make me smile- (anyone see what I did there?)
Moderator- OMG, RUN! IT’S THE FUZZ!
Somebody notify Percy and tell him to get over here and piss into the wind again.
April 22nd, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Dammit Murph, you’re early! Ok, who had 20:00 to 21:00 hours in the sweep?
April 22nd, 2009 at 8:57 pm
“You guys” are so good at satire
get me?
April 22nd, 2009 at 3:29 pm
My use of the term ‘Hairy Angel’ is in quotation marrks which sort of implies that it’s quoted from elsewhere. In fact it’s quoted from the article above which I never claimed to have written but you claimed to have read. It’s common literary practice over here to put another’s work in quotation marks. See you tomorrow Murph
April 22nd, 2009 at 3:27 pm
Yall?? What does yall mean? Is it in the dictionary? Look it up for me Murphy…..
April 22nd, 2009 at 3:16 pm
ooh - temper temper…..! let us know when you’ve managed to find a sense of humour underneath all that disgust….
April 22nd, 2009 at 3:11 pm
the last five comments were funnier than any official posts i’ve seen.
so, yampster’s use of the term Hairy Angel was not original, or a form of satire; just a rip off of another’s ideas. Which is what i should expect from this site. You should really start your own site; it would probably be better than this one. It isnt hard to upload videos and cut and paste.
I’m not hooked. I’m disgusted.
And through with yall.
April 22nd, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Murphy is hooked. Our work here is done.
April 22nd, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Perhaps he’s a stand in for filling a hot air balloon…think skimming is too generous anyway, he doesn’t seem to even bother to glance
April 22nd, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Hi June
I only skimmed through the rants. They’re a bit long-winded for my attention span.
April 22nd, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Anyone else shave their legs before hopping on the scales?
Morning Percy, Yampster and Bat e Bird and Magnetite…..wtf is Murphy ranting on about?
April 22nd, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Do people not follow the links provided?
You’ll see “The Hairy Angel” headline is from a tabloid so why don’t you go and have a rant on the Daily Mail website?
April 22nd, 2009 at 12:37 pm
The unnamed moderator of this website should look up the meaning of satire. Actually…i’ll do it for you, because i believe you incapable of research
sat⋅ire
/ˈsætaɪər/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [sat-ahyuhr] Show IPA
–noun
1. the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
2. a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.
3. a literary genre comprising such compositions.
You have the deriding part right…yes you are deriding Ms. Boyle, but it is done in the lowest class, photoshop edited, grade school-ish way that is NOT Satire;it is jealousy plain and simple. And here i was thinking the British knew comedy.
And Percy…i dont know how we could have “understood” your point of view when this is the first time you have referenced the fact that you enjoyed the performance? I highly doubted that you would ever admit that that you watched and enjoyed it on this website, where everyone is expected to make fun of each other. Why don’t you totally change your position? “enjoy Susan for what she is….a lady who can sing a song … but its the unshaved look that really sells Susan for some…” that doesnt sound like a person who was moved by her performance…it sounds like an asshole.
Satire is NOT making fun of someone’s appearance or calling her the Hairy Angel. Effin pathetic, the whole lot of ya.
“Moderator.” Why dont you tell us your real name? Or are you hiding?
April 22nd, 2009 at 8:51 am
Thank you Murph for showing me the error of my ways….and thank you too, Kitty Kat, for showing me your arse…. I will try to refrain from posting any more comments on the media’s making of Susan to suit you.
For the record , I enjoyed Susan’s singing and do not find her in the least physically unattractive , unlike Kitty Kat , but then again I do not have his god given ability to hear angels sing while showing me his hairy ring.
Could I make a suggestion to both of you knights in shiting armour, learn to read & understand others point of view before you try to be clever.
April 22nd, 2009 at 12:40 am
Wow, i am surprised that this thread is still going. Thanks, Mr. Jenkins for standing up for Ms. Boyle. I’m sure she has had to prove herself as a viable feeling person before to her critics, and she will do it again, i’m sure. I personally believe that if a person DOESN’T shed a tear after watching that video, there is something deeply wrong with you. It’s one thing to make money because of the troubles of another, but quite another to try to gain attention and money by making up troubles for those who already have plenty.
If what i claim about the designers isn’t true, then tell me why 3 of the 4 “headlines” for this website are about Susan Boyle? I fell into this website by the same method as Mr. Jenkins described, and i felt conned. NONE of the headlines of your articles say what is in the article; they are designed to get hits on Google. Percy, this site is a sham. There aren’t even real contributors or contact info. For you to be flattered that Jenkins thought you wrote articles on this site make me crack up. You could start your own site in less than 24 hours if you tried. This “Anorak” doesnt care about you, he/she/it cares about money.
Every single day, at least one story is about Susan Boyle. And none is it seems to be the British humour that we all enjoy, no, this website has the least amount of actual content of any i’ve ever seen. There aren’t even enough “jokes” to make it a comedy website. All it is is a little photoshop and stealing quotations from other websites. Like i said…anyone can do it.
Sounds like a duo of trolling whiners — no, you prefer to be called “sad,fat, hairy scary Anorakians” — with nothing better to do than “look[ing] at the video of “100 Beyonce Dancers in Piccadilly Circus”….for the tenth time.” I remember skipping that one cause it looked lame.
And another thing, Percy…if Ms. Boyle really put on such a crap performance, why did every person stand on their feet at the first note she sang? I honestly don’t believe those tears in the judges eyes were fake.
How come her vids on Youtube have over 7 million views EACH, and “I dreamed a dream” was one of the biggest iTunes sales in America, who is usually not concerned with what goes on farther than their wallets?
I move to say that YOU people are crap, and this website is crap, and it’s existence is proof that virtual people in virtual worlds are actual fecal material.
Moderator - clearly the point of the site is lost on you, we are here to satirise the media
April 21st, 2009 at 5:40 pm
No such luck Yampers- My “google colored goggles” allow me access to even the most irrelevant of sites at my leisure- Or, to quote from urban legend:
“THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!”
I assume the above means that you have only just begun to show your asses- Sounds fine, but let’s get to it, I’ve got a hot date with the missus for Karaoke tonight and the Scots will NOT be kept waiting for our weekly performance of “Total Eclipse of the Heart.”
April 21st, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Here’s mine………..
Must get that cat flap fixed
Over to you Percy
April 21st, 2009 at 4:36 pm
Yampster- nope. Sure didn’t- sure won’t. Honestly, came back to see if someone would come forth and provide a real defense for this laughable, coattail riding garbage bin of an RSS feed. Alas, no- it is just you and percy, doing god knows what for god knows why…
Percy- Thanks, but we take our nightlife advice from people who actually know about these things. Not that we aren’t always looking for advice from wannabe thread trolls who defend articles about nothing that they apparently didn’t even write. I am quite sure that keeps you VERY busy. Perhaps if we ever find ourselves near your mum’s house you can show us a good time.
View life through Google colored goggles?- LOL- You think this is life, mate? Trolling a thread about a woman who is not attractive physically but can sing like an angel? Again, I think we’ll wait for nightlife advice from someone a bit further away from the burgeoning Scot karaoke scene. Honestly, the sad thing is that you seem to think you have some vantage point from which to look down on Ms. Boyle or anyone who is annoyed by such obvious internet stunt publishing as the above. Finding out that you didn’t even write it ( Had a feeling- but had to bait you for the sake of finding out) just adds whole new dimensions to how pathetic you seem. I am quite sure more faux cleverness will be tossed from the windows of your would be ivory tower before all is said and done…
It is fine that you want to explore your cynicism and derision- I think that’s JUST ADORABLE- we all had our little student phases on our way to becoming people who mattered or joining the larger club of people who simply turn their cog- just don’t think you look like anything other than an insecure student who has his most assertive moments when reliant upon the anonymity of the internet. This perception is IN NO WAY diminished by the fact that you apparently think the act of being married is akin to being (I guess) old enough that all you do for a good time is drink beer and do Karaoke.
I guess the real question is: How many more posts will you feel compelled to add to this thread before you are satisfied that you have shown enough of your ass?
April 21st, 2009 at 8:52 am
Hear, hear Kitty…..come down from that tree……I am flattered you think I write some of the shit on this site but alas I am just a very hairy & thin fan. Good to see though that you view your life through Google goggles, but may I suggest you take your dear wife for some real live entertainment , put on your beer goggles and go down the pub to catch a Karaoke contest…. Try Scotland where Karaoke is King, the national sport ahead of curling , you can see a Susan sing every night of the week…apart from Sunday ….which is Bingo night…but better than the crappy BGT …plus you might win a few quid too…. Now eyes down ….first ball out of the bag…..one hairy lady…number 3.
April 21st, 2009 at 7:53 am
I hope they clicked on an Ad before slamming the door behind them
April 21st, 2009 at 1:49 am
“we may not be able to sing like Susan but some of us don’t need this sham of a show to entertain us…and why?..because it’s shit….”
LOL- it’s such shit in fact, that we are writing articles about her in hopes of catching on to a search engine trend to get hits to our site that “still shows true British Talent.”
No, “some of us don’t need this sham;” that much is certain.
See ya later random interweb nonsense I stumbled over looking to show my wife the beautiful performance from Ms. Boyle. See you next time the google wheel spins in your favour… I guess…
April 21st, 2009 at 12:05 am
…please excuse me now Murph….I am off to look at the video of “100 Beyonce Dancers in Piccadilly Circus”….for the tenth time…at least this site still shows true British Talent…..and I for one appreciate & applaud it….. Anorak brings a tear to my eye.
April 20th, 2009 at 11:53 pm
Now , now Murph….be nice to us sad,fat, hairy scary Anorakians….we may not be able to sing like Susan but some of us don’t need this sham of a show to entertain us…and why?..because it’s shit….but hey don’t let us ruin your Saturday night ….enjoy Susan for what she is….a lady who can sing a song … but its the unshaved look that really sells Susan for some. …
April 20th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
This is certainly the last time i come to this website. Honestly, can you not think of anything to write about other than someone who has proven that she can perform in front of an audience? You have to give her that, in the least. She endured the taunts from the audience and the hosts and still managed to belt out that song. You hide on your website and type out nasty articles about someone who makes the effort to do something with their lives.
Look at you, mr. internet commentator who isn’t even a reporter. what, couldn’t apply thyself enough to get a real job, so you poke fun at the appearance of a person who has natural talent. Telling her to shave? Come on
OH, where is your picture on this website? I bet you are as fat and hairy as one would expect from a troll devoid of emotions and obsessed with himself. Some opinions, like yours, should never expressed to anything other than a Cheetos bag or an empty quart of ice cream.
Murphy Norman
April 17th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Those with PCOS can have difficulty conceiving. Much worse (to me at least) than hairiness, it can harm relationships when loving couples cannot have a child.
It is good then, that Suboil has come along. Maybe not for my eyes - but for those women previously unaware (or too embarrassed to seek medical advice) about their condition, before it becomes even harder to successfully conceive at a later age.