Lies that went on too longWhen you lie you often have to keep lying. Share your pain. When I was 15 I pretended to be 16 to help get a summer job. Then had to spend a summer with this nice shopkeeper asking me everyday if I was excited about getting my GCSE results. I felt like an utter shit. Thanks to MerseyMal for the suggestion.
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rob, Thu 8 Mar 2012, 21:57)
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not true...50 out of 10,000 women are colour blind, 800 out of 10,000 men are.
I think you're thinking of that blood disease, y'know. Ra ra Rasputin and Tsar Nicholas the Two
(, Sun 11 Mar 2012, 8:39, 1 reply)
Bad Gene is carried on the X chromosone, just like haemophilia. So if a boy has a dodgy X, he only has one as the Y can't take over, so he will have it. Girls, however, have 2 Xs, so if they have one dodgy X they won't have it as the good one will take over. If a girl has two dodgy Xs she'll have it. It's twice as likely she'll only have 1 dodgy one than 2, if *both* her parents are carriers. For a boy to get it, only one parent needs to be a carrier. Hence much more likely for a boy to have it. The reason females are even less likely to have haemophilia despite it being carried in the same way is that she needs both parents to carry a specific gene each which is very rare.
(, Sun 11 Mar 2012, 18:03, closed)
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