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We Aussies were the original pickpockets and thieves, with plenty of genetic diversity because of our 'common' (ironic) social status, as opposed to the inbreed
by cmroanirgo 7y ago
We Aussies were the original pickpockets and thieves, with plenty of genetic diversity because of our 'common' (ironic) social status, as opposed to the inbreeding gentry. Combine that with the fact that we don't have all that nasty gravity stuff weighing us down because we live upside down, means that of course we look different. Local habitat, such as drop bears, giant wombats, bunyips, snakes and spiders meant that we needed to diversify genetically pretty quickly too!
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- lacampbell 7y agoHave you seen celebrities from that part of the world? I mainly know comedians. Ricky Gervais, Al Murray, Dara O'Brain... those are all considered normal looking people over there. They'd be considered circus attractions in Australasia. Or speaking of Gervais, compare the cast of the UK office with the cast of the US office. It's night and day. The only person in the UK office who would be considered even average is Tim (Martin Freeman). Martin Freeman is a heart throb by UK standards, but let's be honest - put him in Australia and give him an Aussie accent and no one would look at him twice.
- asveikau 7y agoIt is funny that you spent so much time in your rant about the English talking about Gervais, who I believe owes his French surname to some ancestry from French Canada.
- lacampbell 7y agoWell I thought the Norfolk joke that the other poster did was a bit low effort. So I thought I'd go all in and ask the real question - is in-breeding the reason the british and irish often have big weird ugly heads? I am leaning to 'yes'. I make no apologies for comedy.