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

zagubov

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.

Well, that's not as strange as what happens in this family.

If you pass a florist, you can check on this: can all NPs smell freesias (only about 2/3 of the country have the right allele I gather).?

lostinrates

I can smell freesias.
Lilies smell repellant to me though. Of pee.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

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?

Might've been me - I think I said you can get a bronze plating kit.....

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Lilies smell repellant to me though. Of pee.

Yes! I thought it was just me ... HORRIBLE overwhelming smell.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Might've been me - I think I said you can get a bronze plating kit.....

Well, that might be the answer.

Do you know where, before i start the big google hunt....?

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Well, that might be the answer.

Do you know where, before i start the big google hunt....?

No. Google it

My random google link at the time (if I gave one) was just http://www.gaterosplating.co.uk/Bronze-Brush-Plating-Kit.php (random/google, not recommended).... but it does show you what to expect.

chewmylegoff

lostinrates wrote: »

If chewy has a bath and hot water i can be there ina bout an hour and a half.

i'm too tight to pay for the gas to heat the water, but you're welcome to sit in the bath!

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

No. Google it

My random google link at the time (if I gave one) was just http://www.gaterosplating.co.uk/Bronze-Brush-Plating-Kit.php (random/google, not recommended).... but it does show you what to expect.

Thanks! Think that might be our best bet

chewmylegoff

silvercar wrote: »

If each event is independent and 1 in 4, then the chance of both is 1 in 16. Surely?

Don't know anything about epigenetics.

SC - here's how it works.

you have chromosomes, which contain genes, which when "expressed" make proteins which do stuff - like, e.g. make your eyes a certain colour (apologies if this is patronising, i am still half cut i think).

everyone has two copies of each chromosome, and you have 23 pairs in total. so take pair 1 for example. both of your copies of "chromosome 1" have the same set of genes on it, i.e. they are the same in that they are the "eye colour" and "hair colour" gene, but they may be slightly different, chromosome 1a may have a "blue eyes" gene in the "eye colour" slot and chromosome 1b may have a "brown eyes gene" in the eye colour slot. some genes "dominate" other genes, so in simple terms if you have one "brown eyes" gene and one "blue eyes gene" your eyes will be brown, because the brown eyes gene dominates the blue eyes one. (zag explained the technical reason that brown dominates blue, which i never knew - very interesting for a science geek!)

when you reproduce, you only pass one of copy of each of your chromosomes on. so basically each egg and each sperm randomly have one copy of each chromosome.

so if both parents have chromosomes 1a and 1b as described above, the possible chromosomal combinations are:

egg 1a, sperm 1a (brown eyes)
egg 1a, sperm 1b (brown eyes)
egg 1b, sperm 1a (brown eyes)
egg 1b, sperm 1b (blue eyes)

so if both parents are brown eyed but happen to carry the blue eyed recessive gene, then there is a 1 in 4 chance that the offspring will have blue eyes.

if both parents have blue eyes then they have two copies of the blue eyes gene so the child will definitely have blue eyes.

however, if one parent has two copies of the brown eyes gene, the offspring can never have blue eyes (although they might get a one copy of the blue eyes gene from the other parent, if the other parent is a carrier, so the grandchildren would still have a chance of having blue eyes in that scenario - but only if the offspring mated with another "carrier").

LydiaJ

chewmylegoff wrote: »

PN - i like the idea that you are worried about your LL discovering your online identity. Most people are more concerned about online people discovering their real identity!

Not me though, I'm happy for you all to know who I am which is why I have posted my real picture.

I'm with PN. Online identity, RL identity - best kept entirely separate, IMO.

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I got the job that I applied for. Wooooo.

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