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dmac I absolutely meant in online posting terms I'd never accuse you of voting for the Whigs or whatever you have there

Nah I knew how it was silby it's good

eighteen thirty four
dmac took the Whig party to war

I was going to say Whigs were originally Irish but that's Tories.

whigs were originally scottish. term was first applied to the most fundamentalist of the covenanters

Churchill that said Ireland were an ancient race, a parent nation iirc

north american-based genetic testing companies claim "British & Irish" is one category they can't separate, so maybe all the english are just rotten descendants of ireland gone wrong

Just call them all Celts and be done with it.

hey i'm irish but i don't drink alcohol, are my head & face still going to "expand" as i age

North American based

yeah my great grandparents came over & went thru ellis island

Ref to mh offering this as expertise

But also look you're american

I'm sorry

biggest north american based genetic testing company is 23andme but it shouldn't matter that it's north american surely?

i took it and instead of a map showing what percentage of each region my dna could be traced to a picture of a druid showed up

i'm a proud irish american and i feel blessed that i am allergic to alcohol. please tell me i won't hit the wall

(xp) LOL you're Welsh

xp

in u go

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fuckin luv gorkys so its all good i say

I was making fun of 23andme tbh

this american company says the irish are english and vice versa, sorry lads

cmon mh out w it

what were yr results

(xp) British and English is not the same thing, does this still have to be explained in 2017?

yo, hey, guys... is my face going to expand or what

Anyway, it makes sense that they wouldn't differentiate to much between British and Irish, six o' one, half a dozen o' the other tbh

here is a sample report

https://permalinks.23andme.com/pdf/samplereport_ancestrycomp.pdf

wait is that so? i thought British are mostly anglo-saxon and Irish are Gaelic? (or something like that?) surely that's distinct enough i'd think???

No British + Irish at all, congratulations! (xp)

(xp) They're all from Northern Spain/ Portugal.

I'm feeling a controversial opinion welling up here about travel in the modern world and what defines a unique culture

just genetically you'd think that would be one of the easier groups to distinguish

i thought British are mostly anglo-saxon and Irish are Gaelic?

you're just trolling now aren't you?

just now for the first time

that said, the majority of my ancestors back four or five generations ago all moved to a mediocre patch of land in the middle of the continent within a hundred miles of where I now sit, so I'm severely playing myself

tom d ftr that is not me in the sample report (it's the sample 23andme has posted publicly on their site)

whatever, Mr. Perm Alinks

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Ok lads youre all Irish except me I'm Anatolian

fellow irishmen
am i going to hit the wall hard in my thirties/forties?
i don't drink
i smoke cigarettes... but not that many
i don't want my head/face to expand
please let me know
thanks

I think

Idk

I think you'll be ok but watch the salt? More than a lot of that other stuff I think the salt might get u

Not controversial: 23 and Me offers a useful genotyping service, the ancestry information is mostly nonsense, but if you import your SNP data into a site like promethease.com you can actually find some useful medical data.

Controversial: The present #sexcrisis risks conflating serious abuses of power with acts that were not intended to exploit, demean, or objectify. So long as society values disinhibition and extroversion, there will be acts that some interpret as sexual harassment, particularly in fields where those personality traits are feted (entertainment, sales, politics). Zero tolerance may be a laudable goal, but a better one would be making all free to sharply reject sexual advances and notify HR (or the public), without fear of employment or social repercussions, providing immediate negative feedback to the offenders, and for repeat offenders to face consequences immediately, rather than after delays of decades.

I'm an profoundly inhibited introvert, so very much on the sidelines here. I welcome the comeuppance of many who have abused power, and the genuine creeps. I'm deeply ambivalent about what happened to senator Franken (and similar accusations against former president GHW Bush), as I don't think we're drawing the sharp red line in the right place.

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Why am I so damn dyslexic when making first pass edits in this window. Is there an ILX format template that allows us to adjust the size of the editing window? Half my issue is 150 character long lines.

Oh for real? ok i'll slow down on salt

I have a blanket policy of not even asking coworkers out for a date or w/e but I'm controversially considering changing that stance despite the current climate

salt is good, eat lots of salt imo

oh my god

Face facts

most people only get two options as they age: stay at a reasonable weight and slowly the facial plumpness of youth washes away with age and you look more skeletal, or you put on some well-earned weight and get a little pudgy in the jowls

sorry that's just how it goes

am i going to hit the wall hard in my thirties/forties?

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Heath risks are associated with both high and low sodium intake, in a J-shaped curve, and arguably lowest overall in the 2.5-6 g intake range that most consume (avg American intake has been 3.5 g for decades). While all groups would benefit from lowering sodium intake below 6 g/d, intakes under 2.5 g/d benefit those at risk of hypertension while increasing risk for diabetes or congestive heart failure. We should probably pay more attention to increasing potassium intake, which effectively counters the hypertension and stroke risk associated with sodium.