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| Excessive masturbation is hurting China's military |
| 2020-06-26 |
| h/t Instapundit. No, it's not the Bee [NYT] - The Chinese military says excessive masturbation and too many video games are among the reasons its physical-test failure rates have reached an "alarming high." The People’s Liberation Army is now dishing out advice after one city saw more than half its candidates — 56.9 percent — fail their physicals, according to the BBC. PLA found that 8 percent of candidates failed because of abnormalities found in their scrotum from sitting too much. Another 25 percent flunked because of blood and urine tests. It recommended that candidates follow 10 basic principles, including exercising more, cutting out fizzy drinks and booze, limiting computer games and masturbation, not getting a tattoo and drinking clean water. The advice was instantly mocked by users on social media microblog Sina Weibo. "Next year they’ll be asking for circumcisions!" said one user. The PLA has struggled to recruit new members, despite desperate measures to find candidates like releasing a rap recruitment video last year. The Ministry of Defense last month announced the PLA would be cut from 2 million to 1 million — a move that some believe is due to a lack of new recruits. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #9 Many notable denizens of Rantburg have come and gone. .Com, Muck4doo and his straight man (I forget his name) and many others. |
| Posted by: Phineter Turkeyneck6202 2020-06-26 22:28 |
| #8 I miss Joe. I miss spod. Joe is gone I understand. Spod I’ve seen recently. |
| Posted by: Grampaw Munster6012 2020-06-26 15:12 |
| #7 I strongly recommend testing. Custom wavefront LASIK may be required for certain levels of acuity. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-06-26 15:09 |
| #6 I miss Zenobia. Where is he ? Zenobia Floger was just one of the many anonymizer nyms he used, Dron. For a while he reserved it for his frequent limericks, using others for straightforward comments and other poetic styles, so I have to assume he is one of the knowledgeable commenters here, now for some reason keeping his limerickal outbursts to himself and his slush pile. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2020-06-26 15:06 |
| #5 Wow. And the cryogenic pressure test got pruned. Huh. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-06-26 14:07 |
| #4 The Chinese have found their General Ripper. |
| Posted by: Ebberens Glimp4613 2020-06-26 13:44 |
| #3 From my experience in the US military, m@sturbation and drinking were never the problems of failed PT tests. Being a disgusting fat body that never trained was. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2020-06-26 13:41 |
| #2 Well, if the PLA goes back to the human wave attacks they used in the Korean War, the soldiers won't have to be excessively fit, will they? So who cares? |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2020-06-26 13:38 |
| #1 I miss Zenobia. Where is he ? |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2020-06-26 13:33 |