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Originally posted by Guy Profumo View PostAm I going gaga?
Did I hear this here, or elsewhere?
There are two letter "o"s, a long one, and a short one and in Greek these were explicit
Long o, omega
Short o, omicro(n)
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Interesting thing I learned today? No, not interesting, profoundly disturbing and depressing. I am three years older than Jacob Rees Mogg
(Thanks, but no thanks at all go to Bordeaux Education for this horrifying revelation)
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Originally posted by ad hoc View PostInteresting thing I learned today? No, not interesting, profoundly disturbing and depressing. I am three years older than Jacob Rees Mogg
(Thanks, but no thanks at all go to Bordeaux Education for this horrifying revelation)
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Originally posted by Sits View Post
Well I’m one day older than Boris Johnson, so count yourself lucky. What a week that was.
Careful, Sits. You're revealing your birth date.
I'm one day older than a particularly famous individual, but I've always managed to stop myself from revealing which one for reason's of security.
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Wait until his son Sixtus Dominic Boniface Christopher is in the Cabinet, followed then by his son Sextus Dominatrix Cumface Christ On A Fucking Bike Rees-Mogg.Last edited by Satchmo Distel; 14-09-2022, 15:49.
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Originally posted by Evariste Euler Gauss View PostI thought it [80% of orange cats are male] was an even higher percentage than that tbh.
Curiously, I spent my whole childhood at least unaware of this – for much of which my auntie had a female ginger cat, and thus during which time (and for some while beyond) I assumed this was perfectly normal and unremarkable. I've however never come across another ginger one that wasn't male since then.
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That's interesting, then, because it almost swerves back into being statistically remarkable that I've never knowingly met another ginger tom if one-in-five of the ones that colour are, in fact, male!
Out of interest, were you aware of the mirror-image stat, which is that tortoiseshell and calico cats are almost always female?
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The calico colouring comes from X chromosomes so the likelihood of a male inheriting calico colours is very slim because (as I understand it) the X with the colouring almost always gets switched off when the embryo becomes male. I infer that orange is switched off in most male embryos but am not sure why, nor if/why this only applies to cats or also to other mammals; if the former, it would mean that the genetics of cat fur colour only evolved after the first cats emerged as a separate family of mammal, and maybe then only after small cats split off from the big cats (which IIRC started in the area that is now Israel).
One of our seven cats is a dilute calico domestic shorthair mix; an incredibly beautiful sweetheart and very affectionate (towards my wife mainly but let's me play with her) and never gets into fights with the other cats (not because she's timid but because she's secure on her territories and signals that, so the other cats know her boundaries).Last edited by Satchmo Distel; 15-09-2022, 02:09.
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Originally posted by Guy Profumo View PostAm I going gaga?
Did I hear this here, or elsewhere?
There are two letter "o"s, a long one, and a short one and in Greek these were explicit
Long o, omega
Short o, omicro(n)
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