• Europeans more resitant to AIDS
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Europe master race. This is basically nature telling us Europeans are best. So she decreases the amount of HIV patients. That will increase the number of babies born in Europe. That's how Darwin's law works amirite.
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[QUOTE=Nerts;29598261]+10% potato crop yeild[/QUOTE] I remember when they nerfed that ages ago
[QUOTE=ejonkou;29598555]Sweden: +60 Fighting Denmark, +100 Cooking Meatballs, +1000 Hot chicks[/QUOTE] + 2000 sex crimes.
Australian: +20 Height, +15 Manliness, -40 Video Games.
[QUOTE=Otsegolation;29598372]Didn't they already make a cure for aids, and then cease production?[/QUOTE] Someone accidentally left the vial on the set where they filmed the moon landing
[QUOTE=Spycrabz;29598596]Australian: +20 Height, +15 Manliness, -40 Video Games.[/QUOTE] +100% Ban Rate.
[QUOTE=GeneralFredrik;29598390]Swedish: +20 fighting polarbears.[/QUOTE] Eyeyeyeyey! That's Norwegians :colbert:
Wait, what system are we using? If we're talking about Pathfinder, the Finnish are +2 Dexterity, +2 Strength, -2 charisma. +4 to ride (Rally car). Car Folk, +2 to perception when dealing with anything pertaining to roads or cars.
Dutch: +100 length
[QUOTE=ThatHippyMan;29598780]Wait, what system are we using? If we're talking about Pathfinder, the Finnish are +2 Dexterity, +2 Strength, -2 charisma. +4 to ride (Rally car). Car Folk, +2 to perception when dealing with anything pertaining to roads or cars.[/QUOTE] Finnish people gets +50 Stamina for being able to survive a hot sauna throughout the year.
[QUOTE=Vasili;29598439]If the gene mixes with people from non European background (as in, a European fucks an Arab) then the gene will become void or only half as effective from what the information suggests.[/QUOTE] My understanding is this: You've got two versions of the gene, "A" and "a". "A" is the regular form of the gene which doesn't have any protection against HIV. "a" is the special form of the gene that offers some protection from HIV. Now, you have two copies of most genes - one from your Mum and one from your Dad. So, here are the possible combinations of the gene AA - This is what all the non European populations apparently have. It doesn't offer you any protection from HIV. Aa - You've got one copy of the special gene aa - You've got two copies of the special gene. According to Wikipedia, [quote]Homozygous carriers of this mutation are resistant to M-tropic strains of HIV-1 infection[/quote] So, in other words, if you have aa rather than Aa or AA, you're resistant to a certain type of HIV. What the news article says is that 10% of the population has at least one copy of the a gene. So 10% of the European population has either Aa or aa. It doesn't tell you how many people have aa, but what it does tell you is that each European individual has at least a 0.25% chance of being immune to M-tropic HIV. How do I know this? Well the chance of a Dad having at least one copy of a is 10%. The chance of the Mum having at least one copy is also 10%. So each pair of individuals has a 0.1 x 0.1 chance of having the right combination to potentially produce immune offspring, i.e. 1%. If they're both Aa, then the potential combinations are AA, Aa, aA and aa - so each one of their kids has a 25% chance of being immune. 25% of 1% is 0.25%. (In practice this is probably slightly higher because I'm not including aa x aa or Aa x aa in my calculation). The gene isn't inactivated by miscegenation. What it means is that there's no "a" genes "in the wild" in non European populations. So there's pretty much a 100% chance that non Europeans will have AA, hence if an individual with aa has kids with them there's a 0% chance of them being immune and a 50% chance of them having one gene which makes them carriers of the a gene (they don't get the benefits, but it means they could potentially have immune children if they luck out). People with Aa would have a 25% chance of having kids who carry the mutation. I'm not explaining this very well, but I've only got a low level of Biology at the moment. TL;DR If you've got two copies of the gene you're immune to some HIV, but the chances of this happening are pretty low. [editline]3rd May 2011[/editline] Oh wait, sorry, I mean uh, English people get +10% tea drinking ability
[QUOTE=Vasili;29597282]Your reputation with America has increased by 1 Your reputation with America has increased by 1 Your reputation with America has increased by 1 Your reputation with America has increased by 1[/QUOTE] American Ego +1000
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[QUOTE=Cree8ive;29598890]Chinese: +80 cooking, +50 efficieny, +30 intelligence, -150 diplomacy :v:[/QUOTE] -30 height.
[QUOTE=archangel125;29598923]-30 height.[/QUOTE] Forgot, but we have the record for the world highest person (ironically).
[QUOTE=Cree8ive;29598956]Forgot, but we have the record for the world highest person (ironically).[/QUOTE] Huh. But that's like Indian people, I guess. We're either very short or we're very tall. I'm six foot two.
[QUOTE=Vasili;29598439]If the gene mixes with people from non European background (as in, a European fucks an Arab) then the gene will become void or only half as effective from what the information suggests.[/QUOTE] We've been mixing with "arabs" A FUCKING lot in the last 50 years. 2 Million out of the 80 Million people here in Germany are of Turkish origin. And then we have a lot of people from Vietnam here too. They all came here in the 70's because of cheap labor initiatives by our two governments. And that's only those directly related to foreign people and 2 countries only. There are Chinese, a lot of people from Africa and so on and so on. So your argument gives me an even stronger point. They may have these 10%, but I don't think it's related to the plague because a) The plague hit Asia just as bad and b) many people here have a lot of different non-european ancestors
The only person I know who died of AIDS is American
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[QUOTE=Cree8ive;29598890]Chinese: +80 cooking, +50 efficieny, +30 intelligence, -150 diplomacy :v:[/QUOTE] I'm sorry but it should be -80 cooking. [editline]3rd May 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Killuah;29599097]We've been mixing with "arabs" A FUCKING lot in the last 50 years. 2 Million out of the 80 Million people here in Germany are of Turkish origin. And then we have a lot of people from Vietnam here too. They all came here in the 70's because of cheap labor initiatives by our two governments. And that's only those directly related to foreign people and 2 countries only. There are Chinese, a lot of people from Africa and so on and so on. So your argument gives me an even stronger point. They may have these 10%, but I don't think it's related to the plague because a) The plague hit Asia just as bad and b) many people here have a lot of different non-european ancestors[/QUOTE] Turks aren't arabs, they are, well, turks.
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[QUOTE=aydin690;29599244]I'm sorry but it should be -80 cooking. [/QUOTE] Nah, -80 Petkeeping fits better.
[QUOTE=Killuah;29599097]We've been mixing with "arabs" A FUCKING lot in the last 50 years. 2 Million out of the 80 Million people here in Germany are of Turkish origin. And then we have a lot of people from Vietnam here too. They all came here in the 70's because of cheap labor initiatives by our two governments. And that's only those directly related to foreign people and 2 countries only. There are Chinese, a lot of people from Africa and so on and so on. So your argument gives me an even stronger point. They may have these 10%, but I don't think it's related to the plague because a) The plague hit Asia just as bad and b) many people here have a lot of different non-european ancestors[/QUOTE] Turks aren't Arabs. Did you even read the article properly? [editline]3rd May 2011[/editline] Because a lot of what you said is kind of like discussed in the article [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7726118.stm[/url] [quote]Roughly one in 1,000 Europeans and Americans have an inherited genetic mutation, which prevents HIV from attaching itself to cells.[/quote]
[QUOTE=Gromargh;29598545]Europe master race. This is basically nature telling us Europeans are best. So she decreases the amount of HIV patients. That will increase the number of babies born in Europe. That's how Darwin's law works amirite.[/QUOTE] Uh no, this is the way of evolution saying "Oh shit they're all dying, better work on making them more resistant to this damn plague."
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[QUOTE=Gromargh;29598545]Europe master race. This is basically nature telling us Europeans are best. So she decreases the amount of HIV patients. That will increase the number of babies born in Europe. That's how Darwin's law works amirite.[/QUOTE] Are you a chav
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[QUOTE=Zeke129;29597144]Unless you're British in which case -10 fashion sense -50 cooking[/QUOTE] You can't really comment on our fashion sense, becuase I do believe we dress fairly well. Better than any American's anyway cooking is fair enough, I can't really comment on the battered mars bar :/
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