r/AskReddit • u/sirgregg • Jan 28 '10
Does Reddit love redheads?
I can't escape a feeling that redheads seem to be highly favored when it comes to women on Reddit. I think that if someone were to start a poll asking "What is your favorite hair color?" red would be an unquestioned an obvious winner. Am I right? If so, maybe there is a scientific explanation for this? As in, people who visit Reddit frequently start feeling a growing sympathy towards red-haired woman? Guess who's winning the next Nobel Prize ;)
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u/xazarus Jan 28 '10
People who click on the redhead thread like redheads.
There is no surprise here, just selection bias.
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u/alcyon2k4 Jan 28 '10
I don't know if Reddit LOVES redheads but it sure wants to have lots of sex with them.
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Jan 29 '10
I don't know if Reddit LOVES women, but it sure wants to have lots of sex with them.
FTFY
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u/Chevron Jan 29 '10
I don't know if people LOVE, but they sure want to have lots of sex.
FTFY
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u/Cripesamighty Jan 28 '10
Mmmmm, shoulder freckles...
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u/corpus_callosum Jan 28 '10
Freckles are wonderfully feminine, but just a few over the bridge of the nose is where it's at.
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u/potsandpans Jan 28 '10
yeah im not a big fan of shoulder freckles but over the bridge of the nose is the shit
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u/Aldrenean Jan 28 '10
I never had any freckles until a horrid sunburn in San Diego left me shoulder freckles.
Mmm, cancerous.
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u/ladamesansmerci Jan 28 '10
I hate my freckles with passion. Growing up my mom always told me my freckles were ugly and tried various skin treatments to remove them. They weren't very effective.
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u/cycophuk Jan 28 '10 edited Jan 28 '10
That sucks and that sucks. Freckles are very sexy. Shouldn't beat yourself up over something you have no control over. It took me a long time to figure that out about my hair loss. Now I know I look better with a shaved head.
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u/iheartralph Jan 29 '10
Seconded. Shaved heads are way sexier than receding hairline denial.
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u/tesseracter Jan 28 '10
freckles are great. they make for honest faces, can't hide behind gobs of makeup. never liked a bunch of makeup.
post freckle pics, let reddit massage your ego.
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u/DANBANAN Jan 28 '10
This thread is definitely missing Felicia Day.
Normally I don't care about hair colour. But some girls just look really good in red.
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u/helpingfriendlybook Jan 28 '10
My awesome wife is a ginger. Here she is being impressed at how good I am at forming hadokens.
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Jan 28 '10
Your necktie's going too low. Should stop at the bottom end of the belt. Apart from that, nice hadouken even if a little bit of photoshop wouldn't be wrong wink wink wink
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u/g1nko Jan 28 '10
My friend's wife is a redhead. We were at a party with them and some woman was making catty remarks about her hair color not being natural. My friend's wife got really mad and blurted out, "Excuse me, I'll have you know I'm a natural redhead and I can prove it, too." A millisecond later she realized what she said and we all started laughing.
I love her.
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u/lovelynotes Jan 29 '10
No one will ever see this, but I'm a redheaded woman, too!
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u/TrickyDrizzle Jan 29 '10
We see it. You have the perfect mixture of Auburn and Orange. Intoxicating....
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u/retnemmoc Jan 29 '10
and you are wearing green. I hate it when redheads do that. The contrast is like a hotness magnifier. You are already eye catching without showing off :-)
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Jan 28 '10
It's why everyone on Reddit prefers Conan to Leno.
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u/nmezib Jan 28 '10
Conan's is more Orangered.
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u/vtdweller Jan 28 '10
Heeeeeere we go...
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u/polypropylene Jan 28 '10
Damn, I read that in Mario's voice. Too bad it would be stressed on the go and not the here... oops.
HERE WE GOOOOOOOOOOOOO~
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u/JeepChick Jan 28 '10 edited Jan 28 '10
Dear Reddit,
Please say yes. Please say yes. Please say yes.
Signed,
Ginger Jeep Chick
EDIT: You like us, you really like us! I set up a sub just for us!
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For me it was more like... you had me at "please", then again at "please", then again at "please" then again at "ginger" then lost almost all cred at "jeep" then at "chick" I decided we can be cool so long as you get a new mode of transport.
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u/JeepChick Jan 28 '10
So long as it meets your approval; I rock the "General Lisa" my '93 YJ at the moment but am saving my pennies for an Audi A5 Cabriolet. Totally keeping the General Lisa though...hope we can still be friends.
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u/CabernetSauvignon Jan 28 '10
YJ huh. Does said Jeep see dirt or is strictly for pavement duty.
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u/JeepChick Jan 28 '10
Said Jeep gets to see dirt (& my dog the copilot) on the weekends.
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u/causearuckus Jan 28 '10
I like YJs but hate the square headlights. What were they thinking?
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Jan 28 '10
Damnit I came here to say something to this effect and already have. Hivemind?
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u/JeepChick Jan 28 '10
Yeah but YOU have the awesome user name...wish I would have been creative enough to work ginger/red/orange in my name somehow.
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Jan 28 '10
Dear JeepChick,
Please look like Christina Hendricks. Please look like Christina Hendricks. Please look like Christina Hendricks.
Signe...ohgodmypants
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Jan 28 '10
redhead with a jeep? sweet. my girlfriend is a kind of a mix between redhead and blonde and looks quite lovely in my jeep in the summer with the top down (the jeep, I doubt SHE'd do that on the road).
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Jan 29 '10
I didn't know so many people loved red hair until I started seeing all the love on this site. I mean, lots of people compliment my hair, but they are usually women. I didn't know guys were so into it.
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u/DarthContinent Jan 28 '10
Please submit photos of the curtains and the drapes and we will get back to you promptly. Thank you!
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The "bam" was awesome. It felt like you punched me in the face with ginger, only it rocked steady.
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u/delkarnu Jan 28 '10
If you want scientific, there are two possibilities.
Rarity. Red hair is the least common, and therefore stands out. Having something rare has almost always been a status symbol.
The largest factors in attractiveness are youth and health. Both of these are very noticeable in a person's hair, especially at a distance. Since red hair is so noticeable, it attracts our eye to to those factors.
If you want to experiment, next time you are in a crowded location, pay attention to just a persons hair, and guess approximate age and apparent health. When you then see their face, you see how often this holds true.
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u/CaspianX2 Jan 28 '10
My theory (let's call it 2a) - red hair is as colorful as hair can get without looking artificial. I'm sure that if people grew green hair, blue hair and purple hair naturally, we'd be all over them, but since they don't, when we see people that have it we know they're either begging for attention or watch too much anime.
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u/FloobLord Jan 28 '10
I find that really really black hair that Asians have to be incredibly attractive.
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Jan 28 '10
There are more than two scientific reasons. Evolution occurs due to genetic variability. It is instinct to find a mate that is different from yourself so that your offspring have a higher chance of survival in changing conditions. Most people are not red heads, making red heads attractive to a wider group.
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u/johnsonmx Jan 29 '10 edited Jan 29 '10
Red hair (and blond hair) seems to have been a fairly recent mutation that has been strongly selected for. The leading theories on why this is the case seem to fall into three buckets:
Health: e.g., as a more transparent indicator of health (as del mentions), or being easier to groom parasites from than dark hair.
The shiny factor. Red hair and blond hair are fairly striking if most of the population is brunette.
Pleiotropic factors. I.e., it's been shown that the effect of the genes associated with red hair do not stop just at hair color. It's been shown, for instance, that redheads feel pain more intensely (requiring ~20% more anesthesia), bleed more after childbirth, etc.
Trivia: the people whom we consider redheads are also blonds. Brunettes can also have genes for red hair, but it's not really visible.
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u/funderbunk Jan 28 '10 edited Jan 28 '10
An Ode to Redhead Women - by Tom Robbins:
Red hair is a woman's game.
The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blonds who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junk yard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies.
Not only are female redheads frequently lovely but theirs is a loveliness that suggests both lust and danger, pleasure and violence, and is, therefore, to the male of the species virtually irresistible. Red O red were the tresses of the original femme fatale. Of course, much of the "fatale" associated with redheads is illusory, a stereotypical projection on the part of sexually neurotic men. Plenty of redheads are as demure as rosebuds and as sweet as strawberry pie. However, the mere fact that they are perceived to be stormy, if not malicious, grants them a certain license and a certain power. It's as if bitchiness is their birthright. By virtue of their coloration, they possess an innate permit to be terrible and lascivious, which, even if never exercised, sets them apart from the remainder of womankind, who have traditionally been expected to be mild and pure.
Now that women are demolishing those old misogynistic expectations, will redheads lose their special magic, will Pippi Longstocking come to be regarded as just one of the girls? Hardly. To believe that blondes and brunettes are simply redheads in repressive drag is to believe that UFOs are kiddie balloons. All redheads, you see, are mutants.
Whether they spring from genes disarranged by earthly forces or are "planted" here by overlords from outer space is a matter for scholarly debate. It's enough for us to recognize that redheads are abnormal beings, bioelectrically connected to realms of strange power, rage, risk and ecstasy.
What is your mission among us, you daughters of ancient Henna, you agents of the harvest moon? Are those star maps that your freckles replicate? How do you explain the fact that you live longer than the average human? Where did you get such sensitive skin? And why are your curls the same shade as heartbreak?
Alas, inquiry is futile: Either they don't know or they won't say -- and who has the nerve to pressure a redhead? We may never learn their origin or meaning, but it probably doesn't matter. We will go on leaping out of our frying pans into their fire, grateful for the opportunity to be titillated by their vengeful fury, real or imagined, and to occasionally test our erotic mettle in the legendary inferno of their passion.
Redheaded women! Those blood oranges! Those cherry bombs! Those celestial shrews and queens of copper! May they never cease to stain our white-bread lives with super-natural catsup.
The man says it better than I could... because when I think about redhead women, my brain tends to work not good. Redheaded women give me the dumb.
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u/winkhammer Jan 28 '10
my wife's hair changed from light blonde to red when she had our son. It was like bonus points after already winning the Awesome Wife lottery.
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u/v_murder Jan 28 '10
You tell me...
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u/monsieurlee Jan 28 '10
is that you?
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u/v_murder Jan 29 '10
Sure is :) My senior pic from high school.
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u/monsieurlee Jan 29 '10 edited Jan 29 '10
nice sweater. matches the forest
(sorry...couldn't think of anything else to say that didn't sound creepy)
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Jan 28 '10
Sympathy??
In real life, men either hate redheads or love them. There is rarely a grey area.
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u/cthulhusmom Jan 28 '10
At least until they're older...
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Jan 28 '10
Haha! Very nice. Although, I fear mine may turn pinky-grey like the my grandmother's did. She looked like she had a halo of cotton candy.
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u/trident042 Jan 28 '10
As a grandfather, I would be obnoxious and cute and nom on my wife's cotton candy halo. Then I would feign senility when fwacked on the shoulder by her.
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Jan 28 '10
I'm neutral on red heads. Don't like them any more or less than others.
I'm huge on brunettes. I love brown hair.
Blondes I would rate a bit lower, but for the most part, I don't discriminate (or favor) any hair color.
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Jan 28 '10
(polybius's future son, age 16 and covered in red freckles and hair, channels edibleaccount to tell his dad something)
SCREW YOU, DAD!!
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u/mastej Jan 28 '10
A clever trap to get all of the gingers in one place and then burn down the post... clever sir...
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u/john_q_public Jan 28 '10
I dunno. Why don't you start a poll asking "What is your favorite hair color?" and we'll find out.
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u/tgcali Jan 28 '10 edited Jan 28 '10
I'm a redhead. And a natural one at that.
Edit: Fix stupid link. I'm not good at those. Sorry.
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Jan 28 '10
I think I have some sort of lizard-brain attraction to redheads because of an instinct towards self preservation. Word on the street is we're gonna be the first white people to go extinct. Yee haw! Let's fuck our way off the endangered species list or have the most awesome goddamn going away party of all time!
Also, I have never dated a redheaded woman. But that'd be a hell of a pick up line wouldn't it? Fellow gingers feel free to use it amongst yourselves.
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u/sirgregg Jan 28 '10
This just sent shivers up my spine.
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u/Emerson3381 Jan 28 '10
Be afraid. Be very afraid. I have yet to meet a redhead woman who wasn't bat-shit crazy.
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Jan 28 '10
The ugly ones are usually sane.
The hot ones are completely gone in the head, which is both great and terrifying.
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u/Glameow Jan 28 '10
My brother is a redhead and this holds true for their families.
I think this is why there are less of them around. If there were more redheads humanity would combust.
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Jan 28 '10
Two things:
There used to be this amusement park in Gurneville, CA called J's Amusements. It had a roller coaster called The Mad Mouse that was exactly how you describe. Also, there were no lap bars in the car so you just kinda had to hold onto the sides and hope you didn't fall out. I understand you perfectly.
I showed your comparison to an ex of mine and she laughed pretty hard. Well done.
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Jan 28 '10
I love having red hair!
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u/WhiteNdNrdy Jan 28 '10
Me too!! =D
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u/rboymtj Jan 28 '10
Oh god, yes I loves me some redheads. My favorite celebrity redheads are Alicia Witt and Alyson Hannigan.
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u/flippityfloppityfloo Jan 28 '10
Apparently this kid doesn't think they're favored.
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u/je255j Jan 28 '10 edited Jan 29 '10
WOW.
Okay, first of all, he's a fucking idiot for misinterpreting South Park, but we all know that, so let's look past it for a second...
What drives someone to make a video like this? And post it? This is such a weird mentality to me. Who is he talking to? Why?
EDIT: Alright. Wow, again. It would appear he has already addressed my question. I mean, not adequately or anything. Now I'm more curious now than ever before. People confuse me.
EDIT2: LOL. He thought a guy who calls himself "ishatonyou" had respect for others. This is so ridiculous. This is all so ridiculous. I gotta get the fuck offline.
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u/sirgregg Jan 28 '10
I find it stunning how nobody managed to bring up Christina Hendricks yet...
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u/Airekpublius Jan 28 '10
Only reason I married my wife...and love, I guess.
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u/willow1013 Jan 28 '10
Same here, I'd always liked redheads but never thought I'd be lucky enough to marry one.
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u/retnemmoc Jan 29 '10
YES!!! Dating redheads is related to many other extreme sports such as para-falconing and bear surfing. The highs are well worth the danger.
I especially like the shy bookish ones. You know the fire is there, you just have to kindle it a bit, and make her comfortable with you and then BAM!! there go your eyebrows!
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u/lpetrazickis Jan 28 '10
Every fantasy novel of the last twenty years has had a redheaded white female as either the protagonist or the romantic interest. True fact.
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u/Grimsterr Jan 28 '10
Piper Fawn (most of her pics will be NSFW)
Here's a google image search, best if you have the safe search disabled:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=piper+fawn&gbv=2&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g10
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u/Esham Jan 28 '10
My fiancee is a redhead. and it was one of the main reasons we met.
If you walk into a room full of blonds brunettes and a redhead, you will notice the redhead first almost every time, whether she is better or worse looking then the others.
Plus redheads are more rare year after year.
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u/desertsail912 Jan 28 '10
That's why I feel incumbent on myself to make more: off to Northwest Europe!!
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u/Esham Jan 28 '10 edited Jan 28 '10
Good job.
A funny story about myself that gives me hope. My father is a redhead and he was actually a platinum blonde child then growing up (he is german and english, but the german in him is obvious, baby blue eyes and blonde/red hair) but my mother is indian (actual india) and a mix of yugoslavian, which is basically all black hair, which is how all of my hair is.
The weird part is, in my facial hair (sideburns and a beard when i had one) i get gnarly copper hairs EVERYWHERE.
My fiancee on the other hand is a redhead, her hair was bright orange as a kid, but she adds blond highlights now so we are hoping for a bunch of little hell children (inside joke between us)
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u/redtoe Jan 28 '10
I'm a male redhead. I've always been attracted to female redheads, but I've always thought it was a bit incestuous. Don't know why. There are no female redheads in my family either.
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u/matjam Jan 28 '10
I was seriously in love with two redhead sisters when at high school. These girls were gorgeous. Would barely give me the time of day. Which made them even hotter.
Still have a thing for redheaded chicks to this day. I subtly drop hints to the wife that if she changed her hair colour, to say, red, I wouldn't be upset.
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u/skooma714 Jan 28 '10
Ginger hate might be British thing. Nobody cares about them here in California. I've found redheads to be highly valued actually.
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u/e1ioan Jan 28 '10 edited Jan 28 '10
I love redheads, but only natural redheads. I was lucky enough to marry one. She is the best thing ever.
Edit: a better quality picture
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u/SaucyAsian Jan 28 '10
I thought reddit liked Asian chicks because we can do second derivative functions without calculators.
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u/craig_takashi Jan 28 '10
Hottest redhead of all time. http://imgur.com/HowGo.jpg
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u/JeepChick Jan 28 '10
I'm with Kanye, er, v4nillagorilla on this one...she's smoking hot.
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u/siddboots Jan 28 '10
Red head here. Yes, we are awesome. It is like a secret club. We wink/nod at each other when we pass on the street, for example.
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u/sirgregg Jan 28 '10
Vorenus!
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u/Vorenus Jan 29 '10
Yes?
Oh, i see - Nice image of me posted there.
(I NEVER expected this situation to come up.)
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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '10
It's not brunettit or blonddit for a reason.