Redheads A Dying Breed

[Gothampc]

Posted: 8/2/13 at 12:18pm

Genetic scientists warn that redheads are a dying breed; soon they will become extinct in the next 100 years. National Geographic magazine reports that less than two percent of the world’s population has the natural red hair.


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[best12bars]

Posted: 8/2/13 at 12:51pm

See? See what all those insults have done?!!

I was a semi-copper top as a kid. My mom had red hair and freckles and my dad was olive-skinned with black hair. I ended up somewhere in between.

I looked like Opie when I was a little kid, but the older I got, the darker my hair got. By the time I was in junior high, it was darker brown with some red to it. By the time I was an adult, most people had no idea that I was a redheaded young child.

Still, once upon a time, I was a closet ginger.

I'm a dying breed!!!

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 8/2/13 at 12:54pm

My dad was a sandy, my sister an auburn and my other sister a carrot top. My brother and I both had red facial hair. None of their children are ginger.

Save the gingers!

[best12bars]

Posted: 8/2/13 at 1:00pm

What's bizarre is that they say redheads have been around for over a thousand years, but they're going to disappear in the next 60-100?

Even if they're mutating out of the gene pool, that seems awfully fast.

And just because they don't marry other gingers doesn't mean the gene won't continue.

I actually have two friends, one blonde and one dark haired with no traces of red hair, and they had a redheaded boy. Bright red. He looks just like the dad (before you make any wise cracks), but with red hair.

Turns out his maternal grandmother was a redhead. So it skipped a generation.

Don't count 'em out yet!

I think these scientists are just a bunch of ginger-haters.

Bastards.

[best12bars]

Posted: 8/2/13 at 1:04pm

Me as a wee tot with my maternal grandma ... making a total mess.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 8/2/13 at 1:27pm

So cute! (and the baby isn't bad either)

[suestorm]

Posted: 8/2/13 at 1:53pm

thats sad. i always thought women made better redheads, until i started watching Homeland and Sgt Brody! yummy!

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 8/2/13 at 1:55pm

Great photo, best12, and I agree, gorgeous grandma.

[Addison D.]

Posted: 8/2/13 at 3:12pm

Besty--Smart, thoughtful, splendid taste in film and performers AND a red-head? Oy--you're killing me!!!


Loves me some redheads--always have.

[best12bars]

Posted: 8/2/13 at 3:16pm

Well, I used to was.

That photo is one small step away from a Daguerreotype. It was *cough* years ago.

But I humbly thank you, and my Meema thanks you, too!

[Jane2]

Posted: 8/2/13 at 3:18pm

Does this count as red?

[suestorm]

Posted: 8/2/13 at 3:23pm

looks like you got more food ON your mouth instead of in it. Ha, cute pic,

[best12bars]

Posted: 8/2/13 at 3:26pm

Better than my foot.

[suestorm]

Posted: 8/2/13 at 3:31pm

i know that feeling... good thing i have small feet haha

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 8/2/13 at 3:31pm

and a brain to match

Updated On: 8/2/13 at 03:31 PM

[suestorm]

Posted: 8/2/13 at 3:32pm

""and an tiny brain""

D'OOOOHHHHH
You know how funny that is right Carlos? should be A not AN LMAO

Updated On: 8/2/13 at 03:32 PM

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 8/2/13 at 4:39pm

^ SAYS THE ONE THAT CAN'T EVEN A USE A F*CKING APOSTROPHE LET ALONE FORM A COMPLETE STRUCTURED SENTENCE. KISS MY ASS BITCH.

[best12bars]

Posted: 8/2/13 at 4:40pm

You're acting just like a redhead, Carlos!

[suestorm]

Posted: 8/2/13 at 4:43pm

hey, its just a grammatical error, who cares! and you edited it so all is good.

i just thought it was karma, you making fun of me and you didnt know the diff between A and AN...(you follow the first letter of the next word) but im guessing youre an ESL immigrant like me so we should stick together!

kiss kiss

[best12bars]

Posted: 8/2/13 at 4:52pm

And you're acting like a ...

... oh, never mind.

[suestorm]

Posted: 8/2/13 at 5:10pm

..... a blonde? Ha, yes I am blonde but you should know the dumb blondes are rhe brunette and black haireds that brains get scrambled from the bleach dye hehe

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 8/2/13 at 5:16pm

Jane, looks like you're one of a dyeing breed.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 8/2/13 at 5:26pm

Ouch. That last pun hurt.

There was a very hot ginger on the cover of last week's Next magazine.

[suestorm]

Posted: 8/2/13 at 5:35pm

He must be cold lol

[PalJoey]

Posted: 8/2/13 at 6:00pm

Reggie--unless of course that was an uncharacteristic typo.