Redhead here, too.

/getting old and fading to auburn
//wishes AARP would stop sending me their crap in the mail

I love rednesday, and the farkettes. So much.

Seems unlikely to me... That's like 3-5 generations from now. Even if every kid born of one parent with a non-redhead gene ended up without it, that still doesn't make for extinction in 3-5 generations.

Plus we haven't seen anyone come from the future to steal our redheads, which seems like the most likely outcome from having no more redheads.

fark the future.



Elizabeth I, Queen of England, FTW!

katastrophe: My profile pic...

Skully?

There goes my fire-crotch fetish.

djZorbof: k-b: Me and My redhead son. I have no redheaded parents or grandparents. His father was not a redhead either.

I wonder how that happens. Could it have been the combination of lighter and darker colors of your parents? Shiat, now I'm off to read on hair heredity.

I've got other things to do dammit!

shiat. I didn't read about it being recessive. That means it's very possible for it to not show up for many generations. My bad.

10 lbs of swingin' meat: Actually, since red hair is a partial trait in brunettes, then it is more closely related to a co-dominant gene.

The biggest complication is, IIRC (I don't do human genetics much) is that hair and eye colour are controlled by more than one gene locus. So not only is it a recessive/dominant or co-dominant issue it is just that it is a complex trait under multi-gene control. Plus you have the co-dominance and dominance/recessive stuff going on at those loci.

ultraholland: fark the future.

Elizabeth I, Queen of England, FTW!

Hell yeah. and the way she diddles that tufty thiing... HAWT.

I just came for the pics...

/wasnt disappointed

BMFPitt: Plus we haven't seen anyone come from the future to steal our redheads, which seems like the most likely outcome from having no more redheads.

That's some good science. Wasn't it MIT that threw the party that no time travelers came to?

I checked the Snopes "Blonds are going extinct" (new window) article for some pointers.

The big points from Snopes is the use of the WHO as a credible sounding source.

This article cites a National Geographic source, claiming its in the current issue. But no such thing is mentioned on the NG site.

They do, however, have an article of wierd news regarding redheaded wooly mammoths I'm gonna go submit

Thank you Jebus_Crispy

It probably woulda helped if I'd spelled her damn name right too! And just to add my unsolicited 2 cents, I never dated a redhead (unless you count strawberry blond), yet somehow I lost my virginity to one.

So yes, they ARE crazy.

PUNCHLINE OF MY FAVORITE REDHEAD JOKE

...she waited, furious and blushing from her head to her toes, wondering if she should get dressed and leave never to return, while her GYN regained his composure. He came back in and said he was so terribly sorry for his unprofessional conduct, but, "You're the first real redhead I've seen since I started this practice!"

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Relax, most of the reds I know are Mormon or Catholic and are doing much better than simply replacing themselves.

A whole flock of peaches-and-cream-complected redheaded kids in their Sunday best are beyond adorable.

soledsoled is totally wrong, but that kind of wrong leads to the longterm Darwin award, so that's fine.

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MIDDLE OF SECOND-FAVORITE REDHEAD JOKE

...the white guy grinned at the black guy and said, "Your girlfriend is a redhead, isn't she?" and the black guy said, "Yeah. How can you tell?!" "You've got some of her hair between your front teeth."

Interesting. Almost 400 posts and not one of uber-skank redhead Lindsay Lohan. 2 weeks in rehab and she's completely been forgotten about on Fark.

433 I stand corrected, and apologize for my mistake, but I just watched the movie yesterday, and she made it worth while.

TwoBitFratWhore "Yes"
/Sure you didn't ask me a question, but I'm sure that will be my answer anyway.

tweaksfo: I work for KFOG radio in San Francisco. They came by and I got to do sound for them.

Schaweet!!

So yes, they ARE crazy.

in the best of ways.

Since my red-headed, green-eyed wife will be approaching 110 in 2060, I guess that sounds about right.

/wait, what? her grandmothers both lived to be 100

How about a red-headed Japanese girl





Ayumi Hamasaki FTW!

k-b:
/Isla Fischer is the most beautiful girl in the world
//I am straight, just sayin...

Nothing a couple of beers couldn't cure.

Did some checking, MC1R on Chromosome 16 seems to be the main player and appears to be under incomplete dominance as opposed to pure dominant/recessive. Although there are one or two other genes that also likely play a role but probably mostly to do with shade of red.

INeedAName:
TwoBitFratWhore "Yes"
/Sure you didn't ask me a question, but I'm sure that will be my answer anyway.

Buttsecks?

Oh wait, the goal was to repopulate...

i.am.a.dark.man Interesting. Almost 400 posts and not one of uber-skank redhead Lindsay Lohan. 2 weeks in rehab and she's completely been forgotten about on Fark.

The absolute lowest of low points in life.

Awww, shiat, I'm late to the redhead thread...

2 people sent me this link at the exact same time.




/I really like this one for some reason
//plus a cute blonde for all you haters

It's been nice knowing you....

If redheads are crazy, which hair color is the least crazy? Because I'm dating again and I can't take that kind of stress.

/ don't say bald

I went to school with this one:


/wanted to date her
//Got her to break up with her boyfriend

FTFA: Redheads are becoming rarer and could be extinct in 100 years, according to genetic scientists.

We must set up a foundation to prevent this upcoming disaster! Here's the plan.... we offer a financial incentive to pureblooded redheads to marry each other with an additional bonus for each redheaded offspring they produce.

/wins

Patron Saint of Redheads
Heather Christensen
Finding a SFW picture isn't easy.

Me and my red chin:

tragicz: I went to school with this one:

Primary school?

horseflesh: If redheads are crazy, which hair color is the least crazy? Because I'm dating again and I can't take that kind of stress.

/ don't say bald


Gray. with a tinge of mouse.

Insertwitty Namehere: 1. We have a higher pain threshold, except for pain cause by thermal stimuli
2. We are very hard to knock out with drugs or alcohol
3. We have a greater tolerance for cold weather, but have a much lower tolerance for hot weather


Wow. People keep saying I'm a redhead, though I think of it more as organgey-auburn. Still, that stuff sounds exactly like me...

/this also explains why I love cold-ass weather and I'd rather slam my c*ck in a car door than get a mild sunburn
//can dance just fine after 5 tequilas and 7 beerth, sanks.

By the way, I submitted this with the headline 'It's time to date a redhead. For your children, and for your children's children'

or something like that

FarkingUpTheWrongTree: Wow. People keep saying I'm a redhead, though I think of it more as organgey-auburn.

Do you not understand the definition of 'redhead?'

as a red-headed male I'm ready to donate my genetic material.

Insertwitty Namehere:
1. We have a higher pain threshold, except for pain cause by thermal stimuli
2. We are very hard to knock out with drugs or alcohol
3. We have a greater tolerance for cold weather, but have a much lower tolerance for hot weather

I've never heard of that stuff before, but it decribes me pretty well...

Kygz: Me and my red chin:

How YOU doin'?

/Female

I am ashamed of you all:


(not all that red in this one...hey, she's over 50)

let's not forget Ms. Lane


ginger ninja
You in Alexandria, VA? Hit me up, let's destroy the town.
/end threadjack

Kate Dillon. Fatty or not, she's still gorgeous.