Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

vivatifosi

YoungBusinessman wrote: »

How do you guys know this stuff?! What a Friday night...no spend at all so been good I'd say. Work tomorrow....on my weekend off!!

Welcome YoungBusinessman.

If you think forum knowledge of alleles is impressive, just wait until we get onto mushrooms.

While we are making our introductions, may I ask your geographic position in terms of distance from Hertfordshire?

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

You know, i have noticed dh's eye colour has changed a little. Mine are just the same. (dh's were green, now they are more...grey)

If fir's eyes are pale like mine, they may appear to change colour with surroundings and what colour you are wearing. Mine are pale blue (sort of a sky blue colour), but can appear grey if I wear bright blue.

vivatifosi

misskool wrote: »

you get a 1 in 2 chance of the recessive allele per parent, and therefore 1 in 4 of being the recessive allele.

However, as each event is independent it's a 1 in 4 chance. it's 25% each time and every time. Just roll of the dice

You can't analyse complex polygenic traits by simple independent events either. And epigenetics, don't forget that. It's the reason why identical twins with identical DNA have subtle differences.

I do love genetics!

Is there a little bit of this post that gives us an insight as to why you are so good at match betting? I can't get my head round it, you can do it with ease.

vivatifosi

And on the subject of genes:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2193362/Happiness-gene-discovered--works-women.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

PasturesNew

I've noticed blue-eyed heavy drugs users' eyes tend to have a phenomenally bright blue colour when they're off their heads.

PasturesNew

Talking of matched betting (which I understand in principal, but cannot discount my talent for getting spectacularly wrong so daren't do it) .... there was a bloke on Homes utH this week that had a bloke who said he makes a living from betting: he backs losers. He bets on who will lose. He said £500/week was what he got.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've noticed blue-eyed heavy drugs users' eyes tend to have a phenomenally bright blue colour when they're off their heads.

I've never got close enough to heavy drug users to watch the colour of their eyes change.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

I've never got close enough to heavy drug users to watch the colour of their eyes change.

That's why I don't go out ... when a night out means a half at the local hostelry in the cheaper parts of town .... you encounter scum.... then you realise you might as well not bother going out again

YoungBusinessman

I'm in a different country from Hertfordshire...more north

lostinrates

We went to look at window fittings. The really expensive ones are not as nice as we thought.

There are some really nice quite cheap ones, but they are black iron, not bronze, so will not match. Didn't someone here have an idea about that?

There is a company that make window bits that dip things or brush them in bronze, so bronze plated, but will not do that if they make a similar fitting. They do but there fitting is ugly. If i could find somewhere not too dear to have the cheaper nicer iron ones dipped, try and get the iron ones ahipped from factory unwaxed, then....i might be onto a big winner.


The ones we like sh likes because he thinks they look less like a monkey tail and more like a sax. I think they look a little bit like a sperm, but they are the best so far. Which is pretty depressing, when the thing you
I,e best of a selection also reminds you of a spermatazoon.