I don't buy it. My wife is a redhead and I would say she has LESS tollerance for pain.
1 posted on
08/11/2005 12:10:21 PM PDT by
Grig
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To: Grig
"Let's not try to find out!"
29 posted on
08/11/2005 12:23:14 PM PDT by
BibChr
("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
To: Grig
Redheads are better at coping with pain...and better at causing it! ;-)
31 posted on
08/11/2005 12:23:38 PM PDT by
HitmanLV
To: Grig
I buy it. I'm a readhead and played 4 straight football games in High School with a broken collar bone before I started to complain. I have broken fingers and toes and set them myself. I also did a century ride once with a stress fracture of my right femur when I was in my 20's.
My 3-1/2 year old has my hair (almost all of it), and he can run into doors and fall down on concrete and just pick himself up without missing a beat and go back to whatever it was he was doing.
39 posted on
08/11/2005 12:25:56 PM PDT by
P8riot
(Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional.)
To: Grig
"Scientists have found that the gene responsible for flame-coloured hair also produces a morphine-type substance that acts like an anaesthetic and reduces pain."
So this is what's affecting my crazy neighbor. Who knew.
42 posted on
08/11/2005 12:27:36 PM PDT by
poobear
(Imagine a world of liberal silence.)
To: Grig
I'm not a redhead, but my beard and sideburns are red. Considering my shoulder has been sublux for the last 8 years, I'd say I have a high tolerance for pain.
And as I have a weakness for redheads, I clicked on this thread for the pics. :)
To: Grig
Speaking as a life long redhead, I believe this is true. I have a much higher tolerance for pain than many. I have gotten migraines since I was a teenager and I always attributed being able to cope with other pain because I toughened up from the migraines. Maybe it's just in the hair!
I've had doctors note the red hair before surgery and childbirth because of the "thinner" blood of redheads.
Also, speaking as a life long redhead, I have been known to give pain better than most (lol) - just ask my poor husband and children.
53 posted on
08/11/2005 12:33:31 PM PDT by
Republican Red
(''Van der Sloot" is Dutch for ''Kennedy.")
To: Grig
If you love a redhead, set her free ......if she follows you everywhere you go, pitches a tent in your front lawn and puts your new girlfriend in the hospital, she's yours.
54 posted on
08/11/2005 12:33:48 PM PDT by
Jaysun
(Democrats: We must become more effective at fooling people.)
To: Grig
Talk about very painful,
55 posted on
08/11/2005 12:34:17 PM PDT by
pikachu
(What if there were no more hypothetical questions?)
To: Grig
I would replace "coping with" with "causing" in this article. But that's just personal experience talking.
56 posted on
08/11/2005 12:34:24 PM PDT by
AmishDude
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To: Grig
Quesion from a blonde: "If I die my hair red, will I feel less pain?"
58 posted on
08/11/2005 12:35:35 PM PDT by
msnimje
To: Grig
Britain's greatest warrior, Boudicca, was a redhead. She was tough, and . . . bodaceous.
59 posted on
08/11/2005 12:36:04 PM PDT by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and open the Land Office)
To: Grig; blam; SunkenCiv
I think there was a similar article posted on FR a year or so ago -- but I'm not sure if it had the same conclusion or an opposite one.
To: Grig
I've noticed they can really dish it out too...
64 posted on
08/11/2005 12:38:28 PM PDT by
joesnuffy
(Save the whales. Redeem them for valuable prizes.)
To: Grig
Britain's greatest warrior, Boudicca, was a redhead. Is this the etymological origin of the term "bodacious"?
67 posted on
08/11/2005 12:39:46 PM PDT by
George Smiley
(This tagline deliberately targeted journalists.)
To: Grig
This helps
70 posted on
08/11/2005 12:41:23 PM PDT by
wallcrawlr
(http://www.bionicear.com)
To: Grig
Interesting.
There has also been some speculation that Neanderthals had a very high tolerance for pain. Their male skeletons all show multiple fractures similar to rodeo and stunt riders.
72 posted on
08/11/2005 12:47:03 PM PDT by
Wiseghy
To: Grig
I knew it! I've always thought it was just a question of mind over matter, but now they are saying it's because I have a defective gene? Ah well, whatever.
75 posted on
08/11/2005 12:49:27 PM PDT by
McGavin999
("You must call evil by it's name" GW Bush ......... It's name is Terror)
To: Grig
My endocrinologist told me that redheads typically have low thyroid which, he said, "is bad for relationships". I'd agree with that based upon family history (and many comments here).
76 posted on
08/11/2005 12:51:04 PM PDT by
Squeako
(ACLU: "Only Christians, Boy Scouts and War Memorials are too vile to defend.")
To: Grig
Someone...Anyone... Lindsay Lohan pics, please!
To: Grig
I'd rather be dead than have red on the head, like the tip of the XXXK of a dog.
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