Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

LydiaJ

zagubov wrote: »

Yes, he got censored about the heel-pr1ck test. I guessed what happened, at precisely the same moment he noted that it had, and changed it just as I cross-posted.

Thanks for explaining.

zagubov wrote: »

Lots (probably most familiar examples) of disease genes provide an advantage, otherwise they'd get weeded out of the gene pool. The human genome's one of the most desirable bits of real estate and genes have to put in good bids to get to occupy it.

Yes, I remember seeing something about how the prevalence of the sickle cell gene is less in African Americans than in the African populations from which their ancestors came, and that the rate at which it was decreasing matched what the model would suggest given that being resistant to malaria is no longer an advantage in their new location, coupled with their rate of interbreeding with populations from other parts of the world where sickle cell is much rarer.

zagubov wrote: »

The biggest three global killers from 100 years ago were smallpox, malaria and Tb and they're the reason many groups carry genes we call blood type B, sickle cell and tay-sachs.

I didn't blood type B protects against smallpox. I'm learning a lot. Thank you.

zagubov wrote: »

I got interested in genetics as a Biotechnology post-grad and now think of it as one of the most interesting branches of Biology.

I agree - and I'm certainly no biologist.

CKhalvashi

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Does that come in useful often?

Only when Caecilius is indeed in the garden

PasturesNew wrote: »

Watching Channel 4+1 about getting a council house.

It's not as easy as one might think!

CK

GDB2222

zagubov wrote: »

Some of them can even be used as guide horses for the blind!:)

For religious reasons, in some cases, dogs being unclean in some religions. How easy are horses to house-train, though?

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

For religious reasons, in some cases, dogs being unclean in some religions. How easy are horses to house-train, though?

Not that hard. Certainly with clicker. The difficulty is being with them all the time to In still it.....and its not the sort of mistake you want on the carpet. A horse pee is a big deal. I even catch them in our barn( which the horses dislike).

Male horses in particular are easy to train to poop in a particular spot. Stallions make sort of poop towers of dominance. ( men, eh?) Old girl was trained not to wee in a stable. Saved lots of money but was pretty mean and not that healthy......horses circadian rhythym isn't night/ day like us.

CKhalvashi

PasturesNew wrote: »

It was never easy, I went on the list when I was 18, but as I was single that meant "back of the queue". When I was 30 and I asked them "how long?" they said "Where you live 1-bed places are bungalows for old people, maybe in 20 years' time we can get you a room in a shared house".

Couples were higher in the list than singles, which I never understood as they had two incomes. A route some took was to register as a couple, get a place, then "split up" because the departing one would get their own place as they had a high priority because they were a split up couple .... that route took about 5 years to achieve to get a house each.

Since the bedroom tax was brought in, it's become much harder for single (homeless) occupants to gain access to the property they need.

My estimate is that it's gone from an average of 6 months, to 18 months in the last 3 months, leaving possibly the most vulnerable in a state of uncertainty for longer. Most of our 'homeless' in this situation are sofa surfing, but I stil feel it's unfair!

The government really do know how to wind me up :mad:

CK

silvercar

We should have got tested for Tay Sachs, but didn't. :embarrassed:

Both kids are R/G colour blind, surprising because neither us nor any one else in the family is and also DS2 is good at art and has a decent sense of colour.

silvercar

We should have got tested for Tay Sachs, but didn't. :embarrassed:

Both kids are R/G colour blind, surprising because neither us nor any one else in the family is and also DS2 is good at art and has a decent sense of colour.

Generali

Hello again nice people.

I hope we're all well. Sorry I've not been keeping up. Work has been a bit mental as I've come to the culmination of my last 6 months work this week. The good thing about it is that it went about as well as I could hope. Very well received and my presentation that I did for the senior managers to present to each other looked great even if I do say so myself.

This is my favourite long weekend of the year, the Bank Holiday. Banks and financial institutions get the day off on Monday and Nobody Else. Quality! The weather's set fair too.

It's the last day of the football season for the Generalissimos tomorrow so we've got lunch out with the other parents of my daughter's team. We go to a lovely place down by the Harbour. It's next to a boat yard so there's loads of space for the kids to run around.

I recited They F... You Up Your Mum and Dad by Phil Larkin at work today. I'm quite proud that there's a poem I know by heart as people of my age didn't learn poems.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I just thought there were black horses, brown horses, grey horses and white horses .... and fast ones bred for racing. Then there are cart-horses that are big-built and ponies that are small.

I still discover new breeds. I discovered one a few months a go that I thought was it for me. Then I found there are only 250 breeding mares, so seems they might be expensive and somewhat silly to take one of these previous stock for me to keep here to play my little ponies with

You get various spotted horses (there are different patterns (like blanket and snowflake I think) and breeds like Appaloosa ..not all of which are spotted confusingly, and knaubstruapper ...which is probably spelled incorrectly. Then the piebald and skewbalds, words you rarely hear now because they are all called colours, and the markings of these too are not just as it appears casually : splotchy, but very defined....the only definitions I know are overo and tobiano. Their is a third which might be tovero. They have sub groups which are interesting genetically but not really to me, horsily if that makes sense. I like interesting colours, but not patchy or spotty horses. If pushed to one, I'd have a knaubstruapper. And learn to spell it.

zagubov

LydiaJ wrote: »

Thanks for explaining.



Yes, I remember seeing something about how the prevalence of the sickle cell gene is less in African Americans than in the African populations from which their ancestors came, and that the rate at which it was decreasing matched what the model would suggest given that being resistant to malaria is no longer an advantage in their new location, coupled with their rate of interbreeding with populations from other parts of the world where sickle cell is much rarer.



I didn't blood type B protects against smallpox. I'm learning a lot. Thank you.



I agree - and I'm certainly no biologist.

It's thought that European settlers killed off a lot of the native Americans by a kind of germ warfare. they'd never been exposed to it before, (viruses don't cross water), some traders allegedly sold them infected blankets, and the natives didn't have the B gene and were very susceptible.

The protection against smallpox is pretty week by the way. I've also heard that certain blood types don't seem to get bitten by mozzies so much.