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After much research: British people are uglier on average than Americans
I rest my case."Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben KenobiTags: None
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Originally posted by BeBro View PostRacism against Yurppeeens"Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi
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Originally posted by Al B. Sure! View PostNot my fault the British are all secluded on their little island and are the product of a millennium of in-breeding.
Or at least what makes something even mildly amusing, rather than just stale, boring and flat.Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915
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Originally posted by molly bloom View PostYou must have heard of immigration, right ? Oh, perhaps not. Like you seem not to have heard of the concept of humour.
Or at least what makes something even mildly amusing, rather than just stale, boring and flat."Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi
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Originally posted by Al B. Sure! View PostBritain clearly hasn't received enough immigrants. Immigration to America > Britain
You mean apart from the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Frisians, Danes, Norse (from Sweden and Norway), Dutch, Germans, Normans, Bretons, French, Italians, Poles, Jews from all over Europe, Greeks, Cypriots, Maltese, Flemings, Huguenots (who gave the word refugee to the English language)... ?
You see if your post contained an iota of truth or humour it would be at best mildly soporific. Instead of duller than ditchwater.Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915
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Originally posted by Dauphin View PostUgly Americans just aren't allowed on TV. Except specifically because they are ugly."Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi
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Originally posted by molly bloom View PostRight.
You mean apart from the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Frisians, Danes, Norse (from Sweden and Norway), Dutch, Germans, Normans, Bretons, French, Italians, Poles, Jews from all over Europe, Greeks, Cypriots, Maltese, Flemings, Huguenots (who gave the word refugee to the English language)... ?
You see if your post contained an iota of truth or humour it would be at best mildly soporific. Instead of duller than ditchwater.
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Modern Britons are a cosmopolitan bunch. Peoples from across the globe now make the island home, bringing with them, theoretically, a diverse array of genes. But comparing the genetic material of more than 1,000 contemporary Englishmen with that of 48 of their ancient peers reveals that the ancients had even more diverse genetic codes.
Molecular ecologist Rus Hoelzel of Durham University in England and his European colleagues compared the genetic make up of six English ancestors from the Roman period, 25 from early in the Saxon conquest and 17 from the late Saxon period with the mitochondrial DNA sequences of more than 6,000 modern Europeans and Middle Easterners.
"We found higher mitochondrial DNA diversity in ancient England (Roman to Saxon times) than in either modern England or in a combination of northern European countries," Hoelzel says. "Modern human populations are highly diverse, just less so in northern Europe, at least, than the ancient populations in England."
Even when present-day Europeans were broken down into 10 smaller samples of 48 individuals each, they still were less diverse than their ancestors. The 48 ancients bore 36 different haplotypes—a set of variations in the genetic code. But their descendants more commonly carried one particular haplotype, known as Cambridge reference sequence (CRS); 6.3 percent of ancients carried it compared with nearly 22 percent of modern Britons and an average of nearly 19 percent of all Europeans.
The CRS haplotype imparts no known special traits in the humans who bear it, but the "black death" may have played a role in increasing its abundance in the modern population. This bubonic plague swept Britain (and all of Europe) in the 14th century, killing as much as half of the population, before recurring again in London in the 17th century. The dread disease could either have increased the proportion of certain haplotypes somehow associated with increased survival or simply led to the extinction of rare haplotypes in families or villages who had a particular susceptibility, Hoelzel says.
Only three small groups—modern peoples from Belarus, Palestine and Turkey—showed similar levels of diversity to these early ancestors, though studies by others have shown that southern Europeans, such as Italians, seem to retain a broader pool of genetic material. It is unclear exactly why contemporary Europeans are less genetically diverse despite a continuing influx of new populations but, according to researchers, the ancients possessed a more robust array of differing genetic stocks."Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi
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ugly brits get laid more than al. fact."The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
"The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de Botton
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Originally posted by C0ckney View Postugly brits get laid more than al. fact.
It's not British people's fault. It's just they can't compete with mongrel vitality."Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi
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