(The Real) Sim Shady

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - There's new advice for older men who want to preserve their sexual function: have sex, and have it often, researchers say. In a study that followed nearly 1,000 older Finnish men for five years, researchers found that those who were regularly having sex at the start of the study were at lower risk of developing erectile dysfunction (Buy Viagra) by the study's end. In fact, the more often the men had sex, the lower their Buy Generic Viagra risk. The implication, say the researchers, is that men should be encouraged to stay sexually active into their golden years. Dr. Juha Koskimaki and colleagues at the University of Tampere in Finland report the findings in the American Journal of Medicine. The study included 989 men who were between the ages of 55 and 75 at the outset. Overall, those who said they had sex less than once per week were twice as likely to develop ED over the next five years as men who had sex at least once a week. Furthermore, compared with men who had sex three or more times per week, their Order Viagra risk was increased nearly four-fold. A number of factors contribute to ED development, many of which could also affect a man's sexually activity -- such as age, diabetes and heart disease. However, after taking account of those factors, sexual activity itself remained linked to Cheap Viagra risk, Koskimaki's team found. It may be a matter of "use it or lose it," according to the researchers. Just as exercise boosts physical fitness, they note, regular sexual activity may help a man preserve his erectile function. buy viagra online occurs when there are problems with blood flow to the penis. Regular sexual activity, Koskimaki's team writes, may help maintain healthy blood vessel function in the erectile tissue. SOURCE: American Journal of Medicine, July 2008.

Well I should be the owner of a spangly new phone, and I would have been had it not been for an unproductive lunchtime on Oxford Street. That one road, of all in Britain, must have the highest concentration of phone shops anywhere, so you’d expect them to be good.

I went for the largest, having already picked a phone and tarrif on its site, but when I got to the front of the queue of ten people waiting for the solitary member of staff he assured me I was wrong. ‘That tarrif doesn’t exist,’ he insisted, until I forced him to look at his own web site and see that it did.

There then followed an hour and ten minutes of typing, card swiping and crashing of various computers that culminated in him printing off an agreement form full of invalid bank details. It was now gone the end of lunch by then, and so as he picked up the phone to call ‘tech support’ I picked up the agreement and tore it into small pieces. I took back my cards and stalked out.

So very, very unlike me.

I like to imagine I did it to the accompaniment of cheers from all those still behind in the queue but I suspect they would actually have quite happily seen me drop dead at that very moment for keeping them there so long and not going through with the purchase.

So, I’m still phoneless. It’s been three weeks now and I’ve not missed it one bit. I’ve never really felt I needed it in the first place, and I’m wondering why I’m going through all this hassle of sorting out a replacement when I could just wait and wait and wait until my replacement Sim finally turns up. Assuming it does.

Mid-afternoon, I had a change of heart and ordered one online. It arrives tomorrow, in theory. After three weeks of waiting, it’ll probably coincide with my replacement Sim.

What do I do then?

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One Response to “(The Real) Sim Shady”

Krist Says:
November 18th, 2003 at 12:29 pm
I salute you! That was a very brave thing to do, to tear the agreement up and stalk out of the shop, ‘making a scene.’ We don’t have to put up with this kind of shit. I don’t think I’d have had the courage to do the same, I would probably just have barked and glared at the unfortunate shop assistant.