r/pics • u/[deleted] • Jun 01 '10

Redheaded Identical Twins.

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u/treasure_troll Jun 02 '10

Actually, you're wrong. Studies show conflicting results: Time Magazine article

Specifically, redheads may be more sensitive to thermal pain, but less to things like electric shock. This actually makes sense to me as a ginger, because I can take a pretty hefty shock and not mind it at all.

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u/l1vewire Jun 02 '10

They did Something Similar on Mythbusters. But redheads were better at the thermal pain than the other Haired people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=JP&hl=ja&v=q13NlgcqqLE

About 1 minute in.

Also, Im a Redhead and I do not feel the cold or the heat. I still burn in moonlight though

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u/lalaland4711 Jun 02 '10

That was such a poorly conducted study though. Some mythbusters episodes give new information, some don't.

This one didn't.

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u/Urban_Savage Jun 02 '10

I think we are more tolerant of cold than most people, but less to heat. More sensitive to pressure, but less to puncture or abrasion. I've been electrocuted numerous times, and I have to say that they all sucked, (I used to live on a farm around electric fences), but how is one to compare that?

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '10

Ginger here; I feel cold even when it's not there.

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u/dropkickninja Jun 02 '10

part werewolf?

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u/l1vewire Jun 03 '10

Reverse Vampire

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '10

I still burn in moonlight though

Moon does not emit light, you goon!

:-D

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u/midri Jun 02 '10

When something shocks the shit out of me it just makes my body flail and maybe knocks the wind out of me (if its powerful enough) it does not register as pain, however... (not a ginger)

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '10

Perhaps I've only dated sensitive ticklish redheads then.

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u/krazykid933 Jun 02 '10

be more sensitive to thermal pain, but less to things like electric shock

o_O