Pointless But It Does My Head In

STN

STN

sou'wester
I heard that you can have kids with your first cousin with no higher incidence of congenital disability than if your were to have kids with someone you are not related to at all, as a one-off (so to speak). You only start to get problems in a society where it happens again and again and loads of people marry cousins, who's children then marry their cousins etc etc. Is this true?
 
Mr. Tea

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STN said:
I heard that you can have kids with your first cousin with no higher incidence of congenital disability than if your were to have kids with someone you are not related to at all, as a one-off (so to speak). You only start to get problems in a society where it happens again and again and loads of people marry cousins, who's children then marry their cousins etc etc. Is this true?
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Don't quote me on this, but I think it still poses a severe risk even the first time it happens in a given generation. Steve Jones wrote about a couple in Finland who had a kid with this incredibly rare neural defect, and a bit of research in the parish records showed that the mother and father were both descended from a couple who'd lived in the area 200 years ago. Of course this was just bad luck, as most people have no idea of their ancestry going back eight generations - but the closer the relation, the higher the chances of defects like this arising.

It does probably get worse when it's iterated for several generations in the same family, but cousin marriage is so common among British Pakistanis that this must be happening too.
 
you

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Mr Tea - was going to message you actually, message me when you can, ahem, receive again.
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

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Spilling chilli sauce from my lunchtime lahmaçun all down my shirt at this early stage of the day.
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S

Sick Boy

All about pride and egos
Whispering: either go somewhere out of sight and earshot where you can talk openly without being heard or just wait until you can. Otherwise you are conspicuously having a conversation that you don't want others, who can all clearly see you, to hear. Isn't the whole point of whispering stealth? :mad:

It's particularly sinister in the office environment.
 
STN

STN

sou'wester
No, the point of whispering is a display of stealth, or an attempt to show willingness not to disturb others. Like when my flatmates used to whisper all the way through any video we ever got out; it's no less annoying, but is intended to give you less actual grounds for annoyance.
 
STN

STN

sou'wester
Speaking of sinister office whispering: years ago I used to work in a call-centre and me and a colleague used to each wait until the other was on a call then lean over and try and freak each other out through the medium of evil/unnerving whispering in the ear not being used for the phone. She won by whispering 'I'm going to slit your throat, you worthless pig' while I was pacifying some bloke about his TV licence. She had a South African accent, which is a bit of an unfair advantage as that sounds really harsh when whispered.
 
Mr. Tea

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Ha, brilliant accent for saying stuff like that in. "Aw'm goona maik biltong out of yowr bollucks", etc.
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

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Otherwise nice pubs - I mean, ordinary Victorian London boozers that couldn't possibly be mistaken for anything approaching a 'DJ bar' or whatever - that feel the need to play incredibly shit chart pop at conversation-unfriendly volume just because it's a weekend evening and there are some people drinking there who look they might be under 40.

Look you pricks, if I'd wanted to feel like I was in a terrible provincial nightclub I'd go to one, OK? :mad:
 
Slothrop

Slothrop

Tight but Polite
Old complaint, but could we have a news report on Carnival that doesn't mention crime in the first three sentences, please?
 
you

you

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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gove">Michael Gove</a>

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindle">Kindle</a>

both are pointless ( Gove more so ) and both do my head in - why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why
 
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Sick Boy

All about pride and egos
Kindle is another one of those products that are so popular now (like the iPhone) where the company has invented a product you never needed or even thought about previously, convinced you that you you need it, subsequently made it smaller, instant and with more features, and then called it "convenient."

Does my head in too. I overheard someone the other day talking about it and they said "It's the size of a book!" WHY DON'T YOU JUST BRING A BOOK THEN oh right because you can adjust the size of the text i get it
 
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its does everything book does AND its electronic.

thats pretty much it.

I like how a large part of the marketing drive is the fact that it'll carry 1000's of books, so that you could take your 'whole library' onto the train.......

I have never been bored and frustrated with myself for finishing a book on a train...... in fact a book and a paper is all you need for most journeys ( insert virgin/southwestern/underground timekeeping joke here ).....

I am going to start marketing books, explaining that they are small and portable, splash proof, shock proof and customizable PLUS the whole user interface is glare free and high definition......

....and there are no battery life issues...
 
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