Our Secret 2015-12-09

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Re: Our Secret 2015-12-09

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GlytchMeister wrote: Even if that something has seven toes on each foot, is four feet tall, and has a thick beard even if it's female.
You got a problem with Dwarven gals?
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You say that as if you've never wound up with a random hair in your mouth, right at the back of your tongue where it just barely tickles your gag reflex. Which is plenty unpleasant when you're alone and it isn't killing the mood and embarrassing the hell out of you.
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Jabberwonky wrote:
GlytchMeister wrote: Even if that something has seven toes on each foot, is four feet tall, and has a thick beard even if it's female.
You got a problem with Dwarven gals?
We all have our preferences.
Alkarii wrote:You say that as if you've never wound up with a random hair in your mouth, right at the back of your tongue where it just barely tickles your gag reflex. Which is plenty unpleasant when you're alone and it isn't killing the mood and embarrassing the hell out of you.
I am very, very glad that hasn't happened to me. *shudders* Although, I'd probably just take care of the problem and laugh it off. That seems to work ok.
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Don't worry, it wasn't like I was participating I some weird adult activity. Just wound up with a random hair in my food. No, not at a restaurant where I'd pissed off the staff.

However, being a hairy guy, I avoid that problem from being my fault by wearing a shirt when I cook. Also, I try to keep my hair cut to less than an inch.
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Alkarii wrote:However, being a hairy guy, I avoid that problem from being my fault by wearing a shirt when I cook. Also, I try to keep my hair cut to less than an inch.
On just your head? :P
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Well, yeah. After cutting myself twice with an electric beard trimmer (like a smaller set of clippers), it's best to just leave it alone.
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Alkarii wrote: I avoid that problem from being my fault by wearing a shirt when I cook. Also, I try to keep my hair cut to less than an inch.
while i know that i won't go bald (both sides of the G'pa's had all their hair when they had their funerals, and my dad still had a full head of hair at 83 when he died...) i'm a "3 and 2" kinda guy (3/8th's of an inch on top and 2/8th's on the sides...) i hate it longer than that... one good thing about hair that short is that i always win the "whose hair is THIS clogging up the shower drain?" argument with my roommates... :D
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scantrontb wrote:
Alkarii wrote: I avoid that problem from being my fault by wearing a shirt when I cook. Also, I try to keep my hair cut to less than an inch.
while i know that i won't go bald (both sides of the G'pa's had all their hair when they had their funerals, and my dad still had a full head of hair at 83 when he died...) i'm a "3 and 2" kinda guy (3/8th's of an inch on top and 2/8th's on the sides...) i hate it longer than that... one good thing about hair that short is that i always win the "whose hair is THIS clogging up the shower drain?" argument with my roommates... :D
My father, the last time we visited, had a wonderful head full of snowy white hair in his middle 70's.
So, of course, my mother's side of the family is rampant with male pattern baldness....
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Jabberwonky wrote: My father, the last time we visited, had a wonderful head full of snowy white hair in his middle 70's.
So, of course, my mother's side of the family is rampant with male pattern baldness....
-_-
That is exactly my problem. Dad's side has the white hair, while my grandfather has baldness - with a twist. The word "hirsute" fits elsewhere.
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I could be wrong but it was my understanding the most common forms of balding were carried through the female's line of genetics.

Also, backing up a bit; there is a certain shaped Bell Curve as to attraction and avoidance of mating with close relatives. A Second Cousin might retain familial (and familiar) traits but still be different enough to not be like 'kissing-your-sister'.

On one hand there is the "I know what I like and I only like what I know" vs the "Hey!, who's the Exotic Creature who just walked over the hill from the next valley over?" Most of us are in the middle.

Population pressures are a common instigation for migration and exploration and there are lots of intermingling following Conquest and Invasion but the 'incest-is-Ick' is mostly a learned behavior. (Lots of seemingly counter-productive stuff doesn't take place when we don't have to, like cannibalism.) <--geeze, That was a convoluted passage, I must need some EggNog...

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TazManiac wrote:I could be wrong but it was my understanding the most common forms of balding were carried through the female's line of genetics.
huh... wasn't aware of that... ok then, i guess i'll have to wait a few more years to see about my older brothers then... but i'm pretty sure we're good to go...
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