CarrieMpls said:

Or else it would be slowly I turn...... at least you know your limits

CarrieMpls said:

Cool! I have a little white streak at the temple, but I've had it for years and I don't seem to be rapidly going 'white' yet. My mom did go gray early though, but that was after her entire head of hair changed from red to brown first.




Interesting the origins come from Africa.

I have heard we're much more prone to wrinkled skin though. Maybe because it's so sensitive to sunlight and gets more damage through the years?

And I do have a fiery temper.

Where does the term 'ginger' come from?

Naturally curly redhead here...

curls always win...

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ThreadBare said:

Who?

pippet said:

This was written by a redheaded guy.

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Redheads eh? I hear they're good in bed. I wouldn't know....

Well brunettes are fine man
And blondes are fun
But when it comes to getting the dirty job done

I'll take a red headed woman
A red headed woman
It takes a red headed woman
To get a dirty job done

Well listen up stud
Your life's been wasted
Til you've got down on your knees and tasted

A red headed woman
A red headed woman
It takes a red headed woman
To get a dirty job done

Tight skirt, strawberry hair
Tell me what you've got baby, waiting under there
Big green eyes that look like, son
They can see every cheap thing that you ever done

Well I don't care how many girls you've dated, man
But you ain't lived till you've had your tires rotated

By a red headed woman
A red headed woman
It takes a red headed woman
To get a dirty job done

Written by B. Springsteen, for his wife:



Incidentally, she's a great singer/songwriter in her own right. I'd especially recommend her latest:



Sample it here: http://www.amazon.com/Pla...042&sr=8-2

Incidentally, my last girlfriend:

I have been told before that I have to prettiest red hair.
I do not see it as red but I do have strong red highlights in my brunette hair.

I think most red hair is very attractive on a women. I have never known any red headed men that I found attractive but it was usually just their attitude that turned me off.

CarrieMpls said:

Man, I'd rather believe I came from a monkey rather than dust. i suppose there's billions of bacterium covering every speck of dust, breeding, feeding, existing, evolving. Maybe this is what God meant.

Number23 said:

You are banned from reading the His Dark Materials trilogy

Number23 said:

Either way, my hair will still be red.

HamsterHuey said:

Folk keep telling me to read it. I haven't read a book in years. I wouldn't know where to start now. I hear there's a knife with an infinitely sharp blade which can cut through spacetime. I like that idea.

pippet said:

Me too, me too!

CarrieMpls said:

Try being the only yellow haired boy in a school of 900 pupils. Make a man of you, that scenario.

Number23 said:

You will dig the idea of Dust in those books.

Number23 said:

I bet the girls loved your angelic locks, though.

CarrieMpls said:

"Red hair is seen on the heads of only four percent of people. Most of these exist in the U.K., the Republic of Ireland, and Australia."


Interesting that Australia would be noted for its representation of redheads, and yet not other former U.K. interests like Canada and the U.S.

We know that Australia was originally used by the British as a penal colony. Kinda makes you wonder if there's something to the notion redheads=hotheads.

redheads are hot lovers

i had a hot temper when i was younger but as i got older learned to think things through before reacting.... i think redhead boys have the worst tempers..

CarrieMpls said:

It had more to do with my huge willy.

Number23 said:

Why do most redheads have pale skin??

I am a redhead, but only because I colour my hair red . I love it .

DexMSR said:

"Red hair appears in people with two copies of a recessive gene on chromosome 16 which causes a change in the MC1R protein. It is associated with fair skin color, freckles, and sensitivity to ultraviolet light, as the mutated MC1R protein is found in the skin and eyes instead of the darker melanin. "

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_hair

CarrieMpls said:

oh and


"The pigment pheomelanin gives red hair its distinctive color. Red hair has far more pheomelanin than other hair colors, but far less of the dark pigment eumelanin. Auburn hair has both high levels of pheomelanin and eumelanin.

The genetics of red hair, discovered in 1997, appears to be associated with the melanocortin-1 receptor (MC1R), which is found on chromosome 16. Red hair is associated with fair skin color due to low concentrations of eumelanin. This lower melanin-concentration has the advantage that a sufficient concentration of important Vitamin D can be produced under low light conditions. However, when the UV-radiation is strong (like in the regions close to the equator) the lower concentration of melanin leads to several medical disadvantages - one of them is the higher rate of skin cancer. On the other hand, the increased rate of melanoma among redheads could be in part due to the photocarcinogenic properties of many sunscreen ingredients[1]. The MC1R recessive variant gene, which gives people red hair and fair skin, is also associated with freckles, though it is not uncommon to see a redhead without freckles. Eighty percent of redheads have an MC1R gene variant,[12] and the prevalence of these alleles is highest in Scotland and Ireland. The alleles that code for red hair occur close to the alleles that impact skin color, so it seems that the phenotypic expression for lighter skin and red hair are interrelated.

There is some indication that the uncommon pheomelanin/eumelanin ratios found in redheads may be correlated with some corresponding variations in the abundance of other hormones and neuropeptides, including epinephrine (adrenaline), dopamine, and oxytocin. Wolves which are bred to be tame have been found to acquire a progressively paler coat of fur as they become tamer and tamer through successive generations. The speculation is that the cell biology which produces epinephrine (adrenaline) and estrogens needed for the high-energy fight-or-flight response is linked to the cell biology that governs the relative production of pheomelanin and eumelanin."

CarrieMpls said:

Thanks....

Whap!!