Such a lot of noise and anger on Twitter tonight - it's almost impossible to think.

 

 

 

 

:wacko: :wacko: :wacko:

 

 

Yes, I am in the UK. My flag usually changes each month as I "travel the world" that way....

 

Caught up on this thread, I see what you mean about Biggie and the phone bill.

Does anyone else feel like, the more they learn about Brexit, the less they feel they know? :unsure:

I am sick of the whole Brexit thing, it's all very alarmist in the press. At the end of the day it's all about money when it comes to trade m business goes on , it's the way the world goes around & someone right now is making money out of it . My view on the whole thing remains exactly the same, I hope the Irish Government hold firm on the Irish Border issue & Good Friday agreement , the way I look at it is that we survived the banking crisis in 2008 when we the taxpayers had to bail out the banks & the country nearly went broke & if we survived that we will survive anything,. The whole Brexit thing is costing small firms a whole load of money that they can ill afford over something that may or may not happen , big firms might survive this but |I think many small firms will go to the wall but do the politicians care , I doubt it

I'm fascinated by it with all the twists and turns and like to listen to all the opinions - but now there seem to be so many opinions and different options and motives that they are drowning each other out.

 

It's also impossible to believe anyone's motives.

 

I guess they can't all be charlatans but I'm finding it very hard to trust any of them. <_<

I am getting fed up of Brexit as well, it has been (I find this hard to believe) 3 years since the referendum. I would have thought the politicians would have implemented the result by now despite the narrow margin of victory/defeat depending on your viewpoint.

Twice in the past we had to revote on EU referendums, the GOV at the time did their best to scare the people & succeeded in the end :angry: , I stuck to my guns & never wavered , I was proven right in the end -_-

Is a General Election on the cards , :unsure: , it's getting interesting again :)

 

I did very well recently with the exchange rate, bought some sterling cash for euro, really good rates about a week ago

 

The exchange rate has hit our tourist industry here at the mo , UK tourist way down on the norm, it's just too expensive over here

Boris has lost his majority, a defect to the Liberal Democrats...

Boris has lost his majority, a defect to the Liberal Democrats...

 

…. and lost tonight's vote.

 

I wonder if Theresa May is feeling the teeny tiniest bit smug?

Did you see this Laura, only 10% of the population are lefties , how are the language skills :P

Left-handed DNA found - and it changes brain structure

 

By James Gallagher .. BBC News

Scientists have found the first genetic instructions hardwired into human DNA that are linked to being left-handed.

 

The instructions also seem to be heavily involved in the structure and function of the brain - particularly the parts involved in language.

 

The team at the University of Oxford say left-handed people may have better verbal skills as a result.

 

But many mysteries remain regarding the connection between brain development and the dominant hand.

 

What does this tell us !!

 

About one in 10 people is left handed.

 

Studies on twins have already revealed genetics - the DNA inherited from parents - has some role to play.

 

However, the specifics are only now being revealed.

 

The research team turned to the UK Biobank - a study of about 400,000 people who had the full sequence of their genetic code, their DNA, recorded.

 

Just over 38,000 were left-handed.

 

And the scientists played a giant game of spot-the-difference to find the regions of their DNA that influenced left-handedness.

 

The study, published in the journal Brain, found four hotspots.

 

"It tells us for the first time that handedness has a genetic component," Prof Gwenaëlle Douaud, one of the researchers, told BBC News.

 

But how does it work !!

 

The mutations were in instructions for the intricate "scaffolding" that organises the inside of the body's cells, called the cytoskeleton.

 

Similar mutations that change the cytoskeleton in snails have been shown to lead to the molluscs having an anticlockwise or "lefty" shell.

 

(Remember the quest to find Jeremy the garden snail a mate because, in the snail world, righties and lefties can't have sex as their genitals are in the wrong place as far as the other is concerned?)

Jeremy the "lefty" snail and one of his right-spiralling-shell offspring

 

Scans of participants in the UK Biobank project showed the cytoskeleton was changing the structure of the white matter in the brain.

 

"For the first time in humans, we have been able to establish that these handedness-associated cytoskeletal differences are actually visible in the brain," Prof Douaud, who is herself left handed, said.

 

In the left-handed participants, the two halves of the brain - the left and right hemispheres - were better connected and more co-ordinated in regions involved in language.

 

The researchers speculate left-handed people may have better verbal skills, although they do not have the data from this study to prove it.

 

The study also showed slightly higher risks of schizophrenia, and slightly lower risks of Parkinson's disease, in left-handed people.

 

Does this change what it means to be left-handed !!

 

Being left-handed has often led to a raw deal.

 

"In many cultures being left handed is seen as being unlucky or malicious and that is reflected in language," said Prof Dominic Furniss, a hand surgeon and author on the report.

 

In French, "gauche" can mean "left" or "clumsy". In English, "right" also means "to be right".

 

"What this study shows is that being left-handed is just a consequence of the developmental biology of the brain, it has nothing to do with luck or maliciousness," Prof Furniss said.

 

"And it is driven at least in part by genetic variants we've discovered.

 

"This adds to the understanding of what makes us human."

 

Is this the end of the story!!

 

Far from it.

 

The best guess is handedness is 25% genetic and 75% down to the environment (anything that's not in the genes).

 

Yet this study has found only the first 1% of that genetic component and only in a British population.

 

So, much more work is needed to understand the genetic component of handedness in people across the globe, never mind what the huge environmental effects are, and then piece together how those elements result in people being either left or right handed.

bbc.com/news/health-49579810

 

I always thought left handedness was 100% down to genes :unsure:

 

After all no one makes you hold a spoon in the other hand when you're a baby.

 

I also thought it skipped a generation.

 

I get mine from my Grandad. :wub:

I always thought left handedness was 100% down to genes :unsure:

 

After all no one makes you hold a spoon in the other hand when you're a baby.

 

I also thought it skipped a generation.

 

I get mine from my Grandad. :wub:

 

 

You have superpowers Laura :P

You have superpowers Laura :P

 

 

:kink:

I can't believe 75% down to the environment either. The lefthandedness shows so early when the kids are still so young :unsure: . You can of course change the habit of which hand you use but that's not the natural preference.

 

In earlier times the lefthanded children were re-educated to use the right hand. My cousin is a lefty but in school she was forced to write with her right hand. But before school in kindergarten no one told her to use the right hand, so now she paints with her left hand and writes with her right hand. And in her household where nobody tells her what to do she still always prefers the left hand.

I can't believe 75% down to the environment either. The lefthandedness shows so early when the kids are still so young :unsure: . You can of course change the habit of which hand you use but that's not the natural preference.

 

In earlier times the lefthanded children were re-educated to use the right hand. My cousin is a lefty but in school she was forced to write with her right hand. But before school in kindergarten no one told her to use the right hand, so now she paints with her left hand and writes with her right hand. And in her household where nobody tells her what to do she still always prefers the left hand.

 

 

I can also remeber when I was in primary school kids using their left hands were given a hard time, it was terrible when you think about it. My friend writes with her right hand because she was forced to but does all other things like cutting bread etc with her left .... Why would you force a child to do something that was against nature :unsure:

:kink:

 

 

 

What superpower would you like to have Laura. :P

 

I would love to be like Superman in the phone box where he twirls and changes his clothes . I could with that at the gym after coming out of the pool especially in the winter, I hate getting dressed & trying to drag your clothes on , a superpower could come in dead handy in that situation :lol:

 

I can also remeber when I was in primary school kids using their left hands were given a hard time, it was terrible when you think about it. My friend writes with her right hand because she was forced to but does all other things like cutting bread etc with her left .... Why would you force a child to do something that was against nature :unsure:

 

Like George VI - they reckon that contributed to his stammer (The King's Speech.) He's passed it down to Prince William. His Great Grandson.

What superpower would you like to have Laura. :P

 

I would love to be like Superman in the phone box where he twirls and changes his clothes . I could with that at the gym after coming out of the pool especially in the winter, I hate getting dressed & trying to drag your clothes on , a superpower could come in dead handy in that situation :lol:

 

 

It would be lovely to fly with the birds. :)

It would be lovely to fly with the birds. :)

 

 

Not seagulls though Laura -_-