Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

LydiaJ

Generali wrote: »

This close to Christmas perhaps it's better that they're not...?

Bit of a hard day for me today. It's my late Dad's birthday which was always the start of Xmas. I always get despondent on this day.

Hope Mrs Gen and the Generalissimos are being there for you, Gen. <hugs>

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's wild here. Sibling's gone to work, but has a bizarre (super-competitive) nature that actually revels in driving in exceedingly bad weather ... and has even been known to work round road blocks where everybody else is being rescued and taken to shelters for the night, she heads off alone across the Moors ..... so today dn tomorow, sibling is travelling back/forth along the length of the bad weather.

I know I shouldn't take it personally, but that makes me quite angry. I understand when people drive in bad weather because they need to get somewhere - I do that myself. But driving in bad weather just for the fun of it? Evading warnings of dangerous roads? I just hope she doesn't kill anybody.

Sorry about that - I no longer have the comfortable assumption that serious road accidents are "things that only happen to other people".

hjd

michaels wrote: »

Lets hope the trains are running today for those of us who have to work.

DD is home with us in Surrey but has to work in London 1-9pm today. SW Trains keep uttering dire warnings about travel this afternoon - fine for those in the far SW but less likely to be a problem in surburban Surrey. Let's hope she gets back OK.

Generali

LydiaJ wrote: »

Hope Mrs Gen and the Generalissimos are being there for you, Gen. <hugs>

They are. They're great.

tomterm8

lemonjelly wrote: »

One of the benefits of being fair, is the lack of grey...:cool:

I'm jealous; I like fair hair, but dyeing it blonde wouldn't work on me.

John_Pierpoint

The red numbers are the percentage of genes you have in common, assuming no cousin marriage Pakistani style.

(excluding maternally-passed mitochondrial DNA)

neverdespairgirl

Isn't that all averages? So, for example, you might actually share more or less than 50% of your genes with a sibling, or more or less than 25% with a grandparent or grandchild?

tomterm8

I think it gets complicated. Most genetic material needs material from both partners, but there are a few autosomes that require material from only one partner.

As I understand it.

So, the statistics could be slightly out, but not by very much.

John_Pierpoint

Yes there has to be an element of average about it.
For any single relationship there must be an element of bell curve about the chances.
Taking a simple example of brothers and sisters, I think naturally there tends to be a bias in favour of boys (the smaller sperm swims faster but does not have the same endurance); but it is the one area where parents have traditionally tried a bit of gender selection.:
I think, but I don't know, that which half of our chromosome-pairs we pass on is random?

http://chartsbin.com/view/2332

tomterm8

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

I think, but I don't know, that which half of our chromosome-pairs we pass on is random?

Now, don't quote me on this, but although the original theory was that it was random there has been recent research that suggests it isn't completely random. Environmental concerns might affect what chromosomes you receive from your parent.

Edit: Here, http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0001086 , for example is a bit of research that I don't understand. Have fun reading it

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

PN - take the delivery screen protector off and fit a proper one - did one come in the box? If not they are pennies on eBay.

It's on my to do list, silvercar linked to a protecter and something else..... it's just not been high priority.