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Re: The Confessions Thread
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 2:42 pm
by dubkitty
DOMINUS VOBISCUM, QUID PRO QUO
Re: The Confessions Thread
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 2:49 pm
by D.o.S.
goroth wrote: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.
Re: The Confessions Thread
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 4:09 pm
by 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...
Re: The Confessions Thread
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 7:56 pm
by dubkitty
solo polo?
Re: The Confessions Thread
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 2:37 am
by 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.
Re: The Confessions Thread
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 3:13 am
by dubkitty
good point. perhaps "team" in some Bizarro World kind of Randian sense.
Re: The Confessions Thread
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 8:46 am
by FlyingVFanatic
snipelfritz wrote:ChetMagongalo wrote:snipelfritz wrote: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
Re: The Confessions Thread
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 9:12 am
by 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.
Re: The Confessions Thread
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 11:22 am
by 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!!!!
Re: The Confessions Thread
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 3:03 pm
by 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...
Re: The Confessions Thread
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 3:17 pm
by 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.
Re: The Confessions Thread
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 3:41 pm
by 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.
Re: The Confessions Thread
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 4:09 pm
by dubkitty
my beard turned grey before i was thirty, so that was outta here.
Re: The Confessions Thread
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 4:58 pm
by theavondon
dubkitty wrote:my beard turned grey before i was thirty, so that was outta here.
Ugh, grey beard is so rad, c'mon dude.
Re: The Confessions Thread
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 5:01 pm
by Chankgeez
dubkitty wrote:my beard turned grey before i was thirty, so that was outta here IN A JEEP.