The Confessions Thread

[dubkitty]

DOMINUS VOBISCUM, QUID PRO QUO

[D.o.S.]

What's a sanctuary activity?

The phrase is basically a sportswriter storytelling conceit--little STAR ATHLETE A grew up in BAD NEIGHBORHOOD B, but instead of DOING BAD THINGS (s)he concentrated on SPORT C instead.

In my mind, it's when something goes beyond being a hobby to being a lifestyle thing. So, extending this out, I'm a snowboarder--not someone who snowboards. You know?

And yes, music is one of those things, except that for me music is always collaborative, and I need to find a warm weather solo adventure shit.

[goroth]

Gotcha. Thanks man!

Warm weather solo shit: backdoor porch banjo playing? Polo? LARP?

Nah seriously. Mountainbike riding. Sooo good. Sucks that I moved to one of the flattest parts of Sweden...

[dubkitty]

solo polo?

[goroth]

I figure there can't be much team spirit when a bunch of upper class twits are riding on horses chasing a small ball.

[dubkitty]

good point. perhaps "team" in some Bizarro World kind of Randian sense.

[FlyingVFanatic]

So I think I could deal with a lot of different horrible things in life.

But my greatest fear is that I start going bald. Honestly, I'm not sure I could deal.

I think it goes off of your grandpa on your mom's side

I've heard that. But that's also the ONLY time I've EVER heard of a specific gene being determined by a specific relation.

So I'm calling BS on that.

I mean if every gene was specifically tied to a specific relation we'd know exactly who had what before they were born rather than what they might possibly have later down the line.

I only did a bit of biology at school, but i know where the mataernal grandfather thing comes from. Its cause of the XY chromasomes men have. uUh... i think. Cause its the sperm that provide the X or Y chromasome and the mother can only provide X. These chromasomes, while determining gender, pass on sexual traits, things dictated by sex hormones. However, the Y chromasome is much smaller than the X, and can only carry the basic information needed for gender. So, the X chromasomes in a male , XY, all come from the mother.
So all your body hair and stuff is dictated by maternal genes, and i imagine the male portion of that comes at least mostly from your maternal garndfather.

Here, have a more in depth, probably better genetics article on it
http://genetics.thetech.org/original_news/news100

[D.o.S.]

Interestingly, my younger brother (and my dad, and uncle cousins etc.) can't grow facial hair to save their lives. I'm the only one with a beard--which follows, as my maternal grandfather was a Welsh dude. from Wales.

Which explains why I like to get... woaded.

[Ancient Astronaught]

If this is genetic hair thing is true I'll have a full head of hair into my 90's!!! Well if I live that long.....

I really should quit smoking cig's.... I've quit everything else......

DAMNIT LEGALIZE MARY_WANNA ALL READY SO I CAN QUIT SMOKING CIGS!!!!

[FlyingVFanatic]

Haha, same here. My grandad had glorious silver hair till he died aged 86. Combined with my long hair.... i should look like some form of elder demi god. Im cool with that...

[phantasmagorovich]

I come from a long line of bald men.

Actually that mother's side granddad does not seem to hold true in my family. Both of my half-brothers and me have the exact same type of hair loss like our dad and his brother. My mothers dad was not nearly as bald as the lot of us.

[Fuzzy Picklez]

I feel I'm probably not going to lose my hair.
It's so thick it would probably take a decade to fall out anyway. My grandfathers hair is also glorious for an old man.
Hair.


I think if you are losing your hair, it's a license to spot the manliest beard ever. That's what I want to do. If I lose my hair, I'm growing my beard to my freaking knees.

[dubkitty]

my beard turned grey before i was thirty, so that was outta here.

[theavondon]

my beard turned grey before i was thirty, so that was outta here.

Ugh, grey beard is so rad, c'mon dude.

[Chankgeez]

my beard turned grey before i was thirty, so that was outta here IN A JEEP.