Another suburban family morning.
Grandmother screaming at the wall.
shareWelcome to the club of Ozzy Osbourne. Now we're back to the fondness for grilling. π
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The neanderthals were supposedly more advanced than early humans, and were killed by them, but there was still cross breeding. The early hominids were the more barbaric ones, thus the killing.
I think I have that correct.
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There's only so much more that he can take
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Many miles away something crawls from the slime
At the bottom of a dark Scottish lake
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Another industrial ugly morning
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No...neverπ€
shareThe factory belches filth into the sky
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He walks unhindered through the picket lines today,
He doesn't think to wonder wh
I've been getting ads for tickets to Graceland.
shareI got those too, as well as ticket for K-something.
Now I'm getting the ads for DNA testing. The Russian brides may have been the most useful of them all so far.
Meh, watching TV with annoying commercials, is about as bad as this. Worse because the ads at the top are ginormous.
What drives me crazy is when I get interested in a news article and go to that site, there is so much advertising that starts loading, it slows down, even freezes the browser, seems to take forever to get to what I'm actually interested in.
shareYep, I'm with you. And the pop-ups that load asking you to subscribe (no) before letting you see the page you were there to see.
shareAnd to think I actually aspired to go into advertising as a commercial artist when I was in high school. If I had gone that route, I might be wealthy, corrupt and conflicted right now.
shareNow that you mention it, I once thought I wanted to be in the ad business as well. I think we made the right choice by heading down a different path!
share"Chatting about DNA and then the ad appears."
I saw this post just now and checked the top, and yes there is an "AncestryDNA" ad up there right now. Pretty nicely done targeted advertising, actually.
And every single meeting with his so-called superior
Is a humiliating kick in the crotch
They are. Every time I click into this thread, I get the Ancestry DNA ad.
Anyway, it's interesting you got your DNA done. What made you want to do it?
Many miles away something crawls to the surface
Of a dark Scottish loch
I must have missed that whole conversation. Personally, I think lifestyles has a lot more to do with health than genes do. We're now learning that genes aren't set in stone and can be changed! It's amazing.
But I think it's all very interesting anyway, including the bit about asparagus, which I didn't know about either.
Another working day has ended
shareI'm not talking so much about eating right, etc. I think we're going to learn even more than we already have that stress and focussing on illness are the main causes of it. It's about the attitude aspect of lifestyle I was referring to, and, not surprisingly, that's one of the main ways to change our genes.
shareOnly the rush hour hell to face
shareYes, epigenetics. I find all of this stuff fascinating. Our thoughts affect far more than was ever dreamed of before, and, you know, it all makes sense when you stop to think about it.
My second toe is just a bit longer than my others. I wonder what the purpose of that was, or is. Are you particularly coordinated and have a good sense of balance?
Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes
I just had a thought about this...never mind.
shareI got the same thing. Nothing related to having Googled the Google gods, solely related to having clicked into this thread. Hmm.
shareThe chemical in asparagus is something not everyone can smell. There is some other chemical that not everyone can taste. In high school biology we did a day of testing these weird little meaningless traits that are genetic- like whether you can curl your tongue both ways. We had pieces of paper with this chemical on them and I think like a third of the class could not taste anything besides paper, but I was in the group that could taste it strongly bitter. It's some harmless chemical I forget the name, but it's a definite identified gene that determines if you are a taster or a non-taster.
I don't think either one is considered superior or inferior, it basically has no advantage or disadvantage. It's just an interesting little variation in humans.
Contestants in a suicidal race
And apparently some people absolutely hate cilantro, because to them it tastes like soap. Glad I'm not one of them! But neither of my parents could stand it.
I'm in the group of peoples who can't smell asparagus in their wee.
When I was in school decades ago, the teaching at the time was that Cro magnons were the advanced ones and neanderthals were the low-browed dummies. But I think a lot of that was bad science and kind of tinted by racist thinking. The anthropologists were mostly white europeans and they liked skulls that were shaped like northern european skulls and automatically judged them as more 'evolved'. It's a big can of worms that I don't really want to open here, (especially with all the unpleasant stuff going on in my country this week) but scientists are just fallible humans like anyone else so they can have the same prejudices and stuff of their times.
In the time since then, I think they have discovered more evidence, and the current thinking is that neanderthals were a lot more advanced than previously thought. So it's not really an insult anymore.
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I've sometimes wanted to do this too but I don't really expect any exotic surprises. I think my results would be a lot like yours. I know I have Danish, German and English ancestry. I'm very pale and , um...sturdy. I'm your basic potato person. Pasty potato salad people.
I am not sure what having more Neanderthal means in any practical terms. I just reckon that people with Yerpian ancestors would have more Neanderthal genes than say, Asians or Australian aboriginals, etc.
I guess I would just do the test for entertainment purposes but it would not really change anything in my life. I'm not adopted or anything, I don't have any real mystery to my background that I need to solve, and I don't have any strong need to connect to my ethnic roots. I just feel like a generic American, that is my identity and my 'culture', not any hyphenated label.
I would like to visit Denmark because it's a beautiful country and their current politics are pretty close to my ideals, but I'm not going to start eating lutefisk and doing viking re-enactments or anything.
The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache
shareI like costumes so to me that is the main fun of the Renn Faire community. I would never want to live in that period or in any historical period though. It all seems quaint and charming and romantic to us now when it's just a costume party version of history, but most of history was nasty, dirty, violent, and I would have probably died of the plague or something before I was even 20. Actually I would not have even been born. I was a cesarean baby, as was my mother and grandmother. So in the years before modern medicine, my great grandmother would have just died in childbirth and then there would be no Popcorn Kernel.
Sidetrack: One thing I like to do whenever I travel is to visit old cemeteries. If you read the headstones and the dates, especially in family plots, you can really tell a whole story from it. So many children dying at very young ages, but old enough so that the parents must have really developed strong bonds and love for them. In Concord Mass, I saw a family plot where the father of the family died in the revolutionary war, and his wife was pregnant at the time. Then she gave birth shortly after husband died and that baby died like 3 months later, and then the mother died shortly after that. You could tell all this just from the birth and death dates on the stones. There are sad stories like this in every cemetery.
I think that IF you were rich, and a man, in the 1%, and you were on the 'right' (winning) side of any religious or political conflict, that some parts of history might be fun, but for like 90 % of people in history, life was short and unpleasant. I feel quite lucky that I was born in the 20th century and in an industrialized first world country. Even now, for many parts of the world, life is short and unpleasant.
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door
Of a cottage on the shore
Of a dark Scottish lake
Aww dewey, you know I don't really perceive you as a knuckle dragger. π That's probably more applicable to me since I was somewhat of a redneck in my youth. Truth be known, I was startled when I looked at the profile of Adolphe Menjou and noticed how it uncannily aligned with my mental image of you.
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shareI took AncestryDNA, got
51% Europe West (includes Germany, France, Switzerland, northern Italy ... no surprise)
28% Ireland (no surprise, lots of fairly recent family from Germany and Ireland)
6% Italy/Greece (I haven't found ANY ancestors from there, specifically, on Ancestry.com)
5% Great Britain (I expected about 25% ... hmmm!)
5% Scandanavia (total surprise, but I found a Norwegian-American woman (my 6th GGMa) that married an English-American man, and lots of her ancestors back in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark).
Supposedly 4% Iberian Peninsula and 1% Finland/NW Russia as well ...
I want to get one of the others as a 'check' (you got ... 23andMe or Geno?)
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shareit looks like you get a boatload of information from them, I imagine it can take awhile to decipher ... my Mom had Alzheimer's/whatever, I'm interested/afraid to take that test.
BTW, my pee smells like asparagus (whatever) and I can smell it. So can/does my wife.
I love cilantro. My wife and mother in law say cilantro tastes like soap.
TMI maybe but what the heck ...
Weird how this stuff works.
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