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Posted: 16-08-2006 02:06 Post subject:

This might ordinarily go in weird sex, but I think it might be more appropriate here!

Posted: 16-08-2006 03:06 Post subject:

Interesting. A friend of mine at uni (studying psych, avec moi) was told, on proposing a similar study.....No. Although, a japanese kid was allowed to research if there was any correlation between personality and blood type (apparantly, a very popular 'common' diagnositic (ahem) technique). However, his methodology (and statistical mechanisms) were annhilated when we were presenting our 'great projects'. Rolling Eyes

I suspect there are many problems with this test.....................ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.....e.g. how cross cultural it was (I wonder how many red headed japanese people there are etc). Further, as red heads are a minority, I wonder how many people took this test and how many of those were red heads? etc etc etc........................gah. However..........I've known a few spicey red headed girls in my time.......hmmmmmmmmmm. Ach, bug the science...................wheeeeeeeeeeee

Posted: 16-08-2006 14:45 Post subject:

Posted: 16-08-2006 22:28 Post subject:

Seeing as the opening post of this thread said WARNING: POLITICALLY INCORRECT I thought my contribution wouldn't fall too far of the mark...
A good friend of mine was a midwife for many years and told me that, in her wide experience, natural redheads had... how to put this... more aromatic nether regions. But not in a good way.
Its okay... I already got my coat... Embarassed

Posted: 17-08-2006 10:41 Post subject:

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Posted: 17-08-2006 10:53 Post subject:

*remembers dusty bottle of henna at the back of bathroom cabinet, wonders if the stuff goes off...*

Posted: 28-08-2006 20:13 Post subject:

Posted: 10-12-2008 10:59 Post subject:

Guess this fits here:

Blonde Mayoress hits back at 'dinosaur' bimbo comments and refuses to go brunette
By Richard Shears
Last updated at 12:22 PM on 09th December 2008

A blonde Mayoress has been told to change her hair colour because she looks like a bimbo and local residents can't take the council seriously.
Councillors in Logan City, south of the Queensland capital of Brisbane - where a large number of British migrants live - believe Mrs Pam Parker's golden locks make her look like a stereotype 'dumb blonde' and want her to become a brunette.
But Liberal (conservative) 53-year-old Mrs Parker, Logan's first female mayor, is refusing to have a make-over - and she's hit back at her male councillor critics by describing them as 'dinosaurs.'

'My blond hair is my trademark,' she said. 'I've been blonde all my life and I intend to stay blonde.
'I think it's sad that women have to be judged on their appearance.'

Mrs Parker said her husband George likes the way she looks - 'and when I look in the mirror, I like what I see, too.'

'I don't think the people who make these sort of superficial comments actually understand what they are saying,' she told Brisbane's Courier Mail.

'Fortunately, I'm too mature to worry about it.'

The mother-of-two was elected mayor of Logan City Council nine months ago, beating strong male competition from veteran Labour councillor Tom Barton and former mayor John Freeman.
'I'm always underestimated,' said Mrs Parker, 'but I'm a woman of substance who is known for getting the job done for the greater good of the community.'

She believes people in the city - many of them migrants from Scotland, or who are descendants of Britons who emigrated to Australia in the 1960s - voted for her because she had the right image for the community.
'Unfortunately, in politics there is more emphasis on the appearance of female politicians than there is on the males.'

She declined to name the councillors she regards as dinosaurs living in a time warp, but a source told the Courier Mail that former Logan mayor Graham Able and deputy mayor Russell Lutton were among them.
Councillor Able dismissed the rumour, saying he hadn't given any thought to Mrs Parker's hair.
As for Councillor Lutton, he said he didn't care about the Mayoress's looks.
Before standing as a political candidate, Mrs Parker spent 20 years in the legal profession, local and state governments and small businesses.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1093125/Blonde-Mayoress-hits-dinosaur-bimbo-comments-refuses-brunette.html

Posted: 17-07-2009 08:50 Post subject:

Looking for something else but found this thread- I did my BSc dissertation on the connection between temperament and extension gene staus on horses. The extension gene codes for a melanocortin receptor and a mutation in the gene causes the receptor to stop working causing red hair in humans and chestnut colour in horses. Studies in humans have found the gene mutation causes more sensitive skin and also different reactions to pain and anaesthetics and analgesics in red haired people and my study backed this up to a small extent, in that chestnut horses were harder to clip, but didn't score any significant differences in any other aspect.

Posted: 09-09-2009 13:37 Post subject:

People get red-dy
By Clare Spencer
Breda, Netherlands

The idea of a ginger festival may sound like little more than a bit of fun, but when 3,000 redheads came together for a recent gathering it became a bonding experience.

Bart Rouwenhorst steps on to his crane and slowly rises above his ginger empire. A sea of redheads all dressed in white look up from the park below and follow his instructions to wave at the 20 or so photographers and cameramen.

The photo shoot is the culmination of celebrations for Redhead Day - an annual day - which has spilled across a weekend - to mark all things ginger, paid for by the local government in Breda, a city in the south east of the Netherlands.

But for its founder, Mr Rouwenhorst, who is notable for his blond rather than ginger locks, it is the pinnacle of his efforts so far to champion the ginger-hued among us. A mechanical engineer by day, Mr Rouwenhorst is also an amateur painter and it's this sideline which first awoke his interest in those of fair skin and flame hair.

Finding himself drawn to the aesthetic qualities of redheads, he advertised for 15 ginger models to paint - only to be deluged with e-mail responses. The 15 turned into 150, whom he photographed. But when many of those who didn't get selected voiced their disappointment, Mr Rouwenhorst decided to make an annual event of the redhead gathering.

Five years on, it has grown into a huge festival of ginger self-affirmation, overtaking the city centre for one weekend every September.

"We have families with children, we have older people who were teased as children and then we have many proud women who come to the festival. They know they are fantastic and they just come to feel great."

etc...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8245290.stm

Posted: 27-04-2010 22:17 Post subject:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/music/newsid_10080000/newsid_10087800/10087809.stm

Posted: 27-04-2010 22:32 Post subject:

Posted: 27-04-2010 23:01 Post subject:

Excellent, thanks! Wasn't as "bad" as I thought it would be, although I can see why YouTube pulled it. Not because of the violence, but because it has old people having sex in it. At least it seems to be on the side of the gingers.

Posted: 01-05-2010 01:21 Post subject:

[quote="gncxx"]http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/music/newsid_10080000/newsid_10087800/10087809.stm