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[cheekbones3]

Late night musings from the last two days.

1. What we need is a benevolent dictator with a pathological hatred for tabloid newspapers. This country would improve no end! I paraphrase: "Whoever you vote for, the government always gets in" quoth Frank Zappa...even a less passive monarchy would do it for me - keep the politicoes on their toes!

2. Isn't it lucky that only men get haemophilia?

3. The most wonderful, emotional, soul-jangling, ball-breaking songs I've heard live are:
One - Metallica
Chaos AD - Sepultura
South of Heaven - Slayer
Aerials - System of a Down
Thieves - Ministry
War Pigs - Black Sabbath

There may be more, but they are the ones that come immediately to mind, at least a couple of them moving me to tears at the time or later! They may all have done if it wasn't for the fact that physical catharsis is often hard to avoid to some of those songs before tears get a chance!

Comments

[meran555.livejournal.com]

women can get haemophelia, too. it's just less common.

ball-breaking songs i've heard live -

weak & powerless, a perfect circle
the noose, a perfect circle
almost every song sung by peter murphy during his dust tour - my GOD i thought i was going to die happy on my way home.

[oldpheobe.livejournal.com]

>women can get haemophelia, too. it's just less common.
yes that is true. if the father has haemophelia and the mother is a carrier there will be a 25% chance that the child will be a girl with haemophelia.
ahhh my days as a genetics student all come flooding back to me!

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

As I said earlier, isn't it carried on the Y chromosome, rendering it virtually impossible for women to get it?

[oldpheobe.livejournal.com]

No it is on the X chromosome meaning women get two copies of the gene whereas men only get one. As it is a recessive trait women can carry the gene for haemophilia and not show any symptoms for the disease, whereas if men have the gene they will automatically have the disease because they will have no backup on the Y chromosome.

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

Okay :O)

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

Are you sure? I thought that haemo was only carried on the Y chromosome? I suppose you could theoretically have an XXY person...

[meran555.livejournal.com]

it's on the X - which is why men get it more frequently - if they have the mutation on their X chromosome, they don't have another X to take over - which is how women are carriers.