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Denmark: Sperm bank turns down redheads
Telegraph ^ | 09/16/11 | Richard Orange

Posted on 09/17/2011 4:34:47 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

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To: TigerLikesRooster

I sometimes read British literature, and I’m often surprised by the tendency to speak disparagingly of red hair. It’s usually described as “ginger” and often the person is “scruffy looking” as in “the ragged gingerheaded thief”.

My guess is, it’s probably a little racist bias on the Irish. But the bias is definitely there.


21 posted on 09/17/2011 5:33:17 AM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: usconservative

LOL see? Gingers are a threat.


22 posted on 09/17/2011 5:34:03 AM PDT by cripplecreek (A vote for Amnesty is a vote for a Permenant Democrat majority. ..Choose well.)
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To: AnAmericanMother
It ties in with the spiciness of ginger root and the similar temper of redheads.

Sigh, what has this forum come to now with stereotyping redheads.

As if all redheads have bad tempers (we do not.)

23 posted on 09/17/2011 5:34:08 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: cripplecreek
Gingers are a threat.

Damn' right we are. WE are the master race. Hitler had it completely wrong.

24 posted on 09/17/2011 5:34:54 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Just fyi, the only sure fire way to verify she’s a redhead is to check the carpet (if you know what I mean.)


25 posted on 09/17/2011 5:35:57 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: I still care
Pale skin, freckles, orange roots in the hair. She's a redhead.

If you want complete confirmation, there's a "check" for that (see above.)

26 posted on 09/17/2011 5:37:31 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: TLEIBY308
RED HEADED STEP CHILDREN NEED NOT APPLY

As a red-headed step-child myself, consider yourself put on notice. Super-Double-Secret-Probation.

27 posted on 09/17/2011 5:38:48 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: cripplecreek; HighWheeler

>>I don’t know where it came from but I got it from South Park.

Likewise.

http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s09e11-ginger-kids

South Park: Ginger Kids
Original Air Date: 11.09.2005

Cartman suffers from a mysterious and sudden onset of Gingervitus. Sick and tired of being ridiculed for his red hair, light skin and freckles, he rallies all the ginger kids everywhere to fight against discrimination and rise up and become the master race they are intended to be.


28 posted on 09/17/2011 5:40:04 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: usconservative; AnAmericanMother
As if all redheads have bad tempers (we do not.)

And if you don't agree the 2nd degree black belt will kick your butt

29 posted on 09/17/2011 5:41:08 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: I still care
I sometimes read British literature, and I’m often surprised by the tendency to speak disparagingly of red hair. It’s usually described as “ginger” and often the person is “scruffy looking” as in “the ragged gingerheaded thief”.

Well you know, those bastards stole our potatoe's and caused a famine. What do you expect from a bunch of mealy-mouthed British pricks?

30 posted on 09/17/2011 5:42:28 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Jonty30
I can look at a woman w/ red hair and green eyes forever.

Me too but I married a blonde.

Cheers!

31 posted on 09/17/2011 5:43:12 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: driftdiver
And if you don't agree the 2nd degree black belt will kick your butt

That's right, or I send my oldest son (14, 6'3" @ 180lbs) who's a third-degree black belt to do it for me.

Either way, I win.

32 posted on 09/17/2011 5:43:43 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: usconservative

My wife is a 5th degree black belt and I carry a .45. I’m not so worried.


33 posted on 09/17/2011 5:44:58 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I went to the wikipedia article on redheads. It was quite interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_hair

For instance, I did not know that redheads need more anesthesia, feel certain types of pain more severely, and certain kinds less. Also the the Scots have a lot of red hair, but so do a lot of Jews -Shakespere and other depicted Jews in their literature as red headed - and in medieval times, redheads were also considered witches, and Mary Magdelene and Judas were usually depicted with red hair.

Encyclopedia off/ :)


34 posted on 09/17/2011 5:46:46 AM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: driftdiver
My wife is a 5th degree black belt and I carry a .45. I’m not so worried.

Is she an instructor? When my two sons and I started together some ..... 7 years ago now (?) our instructor was a 5th degree, he and his wife are now 7th degrees.

A few of the kids (I call them "kids" ... they're 18-21) in the school have spent two+ years prepping for their 4th degree blackbelts, which in turn pushes the instructors to upgrade as they have to be two levels above the highest rank they teach and test.

As for me, I carry my HnK USP9 with me. Love that gun. (Also have an HnK USP45, but I "prefer" my 9mm)

35 posted on 09/17/2011 5:52:36 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: stuartcr

Oh I dunno - let’s start with this!

http://singularityhub.com/2011/09/15/sperm-donor-has-fathered-150-children/

the donor’s sister contacted Tyler and his mother – not to help Tyler meet his father, but to tell him there was a good chance that he had a genetic heart defect. Tyler’s biological father had almost died at the age of 43 when his aorta ruptured. Two of the man’s brothers have the disorder, as well as his mother. And by the way, the family has a history of a connective tissue disorder called Marfan’s syndrome. Tyler’s biological father had never told the three clinics at which he donated sperm of his genetic conditions. His sperm has been used to father at least 24 children, yet he was never required to update his medical history with the clinics.


36 posted on 09/17/2011 5:53:43 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Despair: Man's surrender. Laughter: God's redemption.)
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To: I still care
Supposedly this woman has natural red hair ...

Either that, or her hair color was just done, within a couple of days, by someone who really knew what she was doing.

37 posted on 09/17/2011 5:56:50 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I welcome our new reptilian overlords. They are so quiet!)
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To: xrmusn

HAHAHAHAHAHA! Thanks for the Farkle laugh this morning, x!


38 posted on 09/17/2011 6:01:57 AM PDT by misharu (US Congress: Children without adult supervision.)
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To: usconservative

You tell ‘em, my red headed sister!!


39 posted on 09/17/2011 6:02:52 AM PDT by misharu (US Congress: Children without adult supervision.)
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To: I still care
For instance, I did not know that redheads need more anesthesia, feel certain types of pain more severely, and certain kinds less.

I think Wiki has that slightly wrong.

Red haired women have the highest pain threshholds of all humans, that's been scientifically proven. They also respond better to lower levels of pain medication for pain management than others.

As for the anesthesia, not sure that's so true either. I'm a redhead and have had 4 major back surgeries in the last 15 years. I can tell you that one of the anesthesiologists that put me under I literally scared the hell out of, as he put me so far under they had a hell of a time bringing me back. From what I was told, I damn' near slipped into a coma. I had to make it a point to tell the three that followed him that I go under easy, but tend to not come back quite so easy. The three of them were able to 'adjust' well enough so I was able to wake up afterwards much easier than the first surgery.

I can also tell you that I needed minimum pain management after a herniated disc repair, then a collapsed vertebrae (walked with that for 9 months), a spinal fusion then a bone spur removal from the surgery site just two years ago. Most of my pain management consisted of nothing more than some nerve pain meds (lyrica) and tylenol for a week or so following the first two surgeries. Two weeks after my spinal fusion at L5-S1, I was walking up to two miles a day on my treadmill. Not bragging, that's just who we're wired I suppose.

40 posted on 09/17/2011 6:04:07 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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