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Head Shaving, Grooming & Care => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: yep_yep on November 02, 2007, 06:44:19 AM

Title: Which parent do you take after?
Post by: yep_yep on November 02, 2007, 06:44:19 AM
The hairloss thing has made me think about my genetics a lot more than I did before, and I've come to realize that I look A LOT like my mother. So which parent do you guys take after, your mother or your father? I think genetics are interesting, so please spare me from ridicule and answer if you want to  :/O. I'm also pretty convinced that most men look more like their mothers and vice versa; girls look more like their fathers. I don't know if there's any truth to that, it's just a conclusion of day to day observations...
Title: Re: Which parent do you take after?
Post by: Timmay on November 02, 2007, 07:51:21 AM
What you said there is true in my family.  I look alot like my mother....please pray for her....I take after her side of the family.  My son looks alot like my wife...and my two daughters look alot like me.  So yeah...but I have my dads hair pattern..
Title: Re: Which parent do you take after?
Post by: BaldBen on November 02, 2007, 08:02:36 AM
I'm a "chip off the old block"
.......... and have my dad's bald head to show for it. O:O
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Post by: tomgallagher on November 02, 2007, 08:31:02 AM
My Mom personality wise and my Dad hair loss wise.
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Post by: theebaldguy on November 02, 2007, 09:01:49 AM
I look more like my dad did. He was tall, but I'm shorter like my mom's side of the family, and I got the MPB that all the men on her side have.
Title: Re: Which parent do you take after?
Post by: -Doug- on November 02, 2007, 09:11:52 AM
Mom's personality, Dad's temper (unfortunately, but am working like the devil to counteract it.) and my Mom's Dad's hair thinning.
Title: Re: Which parent do you take after?
Post by: yep_yep on November 02, 2007, 12:09:29 PM
Mom's personality, Dad's temper (unfortunately, but am working like the devil to counteract it.) and my Mom's Dad's hair thinning.

Yeah my mother's always saying that I got my dad's bad temper aswell... and the balding gene is definitely from her dad although she won't admit it.
Title: Re: Which parent do you take after?
Post by: SLYinKC on November 02, 2007, 12:12:30 PM
I'd have to say that I take after my mother and her side of the family.  In fact, I have an uncle that everyone always told me that I looked like.  As for my 2 boys,  the youngest takes after me in his physical appearance and his personality.  The older definitly takes after his mother.  I call him my "high maintenance child".
Title: Re: Which parent do you take after?
Post by: schro on November 02, 2007, 12:14:57 PM
The milk man.
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Post by: Tyler on November 02, 2007, 02:25:46 PM
Spitting image of my father. 
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Post by: Paul on November 02, 2007, 04:31:18 PM
Dead ringer for my dad, except for the sly modification
Title: Re: Which parent do you take after?
Post by: fcb2001 on November 02, 2007, 06:03:19 PM
everything except look wise - my dad. my dad has a full head of hair, wheras i have a receeding hairline, i will lose all hair on top by the time im 45. i still wonder where i got the receeding hairline from,
look wise - my mother's father, my maternal grandfather started getting a receding hairline in his late 20's, he had no hair on the top of his head by the time he was 45, i started recedding slowly in my late 20's, iam 31, and ive recedded a little further than when i started receeding 4 years ago. i started shaving my head in 2004 when i noticed that i was receeding.
Title: Re: Which parent do you take after?
Post by: nomad on November 02, 2007, 06:11:01 PM
Scientist say that all human childeren look like the father its the only way we had to know who the father is, of course we now have labs to tell us that but thats what they say.

So I guess I look like my father.
Title: Re: Which parent do you take after?
Post by: Rulon on November 02, 2007, 06:53:11 PM
I never could tell which i looked like, but i other day i came across a picture of my dad around 20 years old and i looked just like him. Same goes for my mom dad, i look just like him when he was younger.
Title: Re: Which parent do you take after?
Post by: Scott on November 02, 2007, 10:49:46 PM
I take after my Mom in looks and personality... never met my bio father so don't know. 
Title: Re: Which parent do you take after?
Post by: Razor X on November 02, 2007, 10:51:50 PM
everything except look wise - my dad. my dad has a full head of hair, wheras i have a receeding hairline, i will lose all hair on top by the time im 45. i still wonder where i got the receeding hairline from,


Um, the milkman perhaps??    >:D $@y
Title: Re: Which parent do you take after?
Post by: yep_yep on November 03, 2007, 11:30:48 AM
I never could tell which i looked like, but i other day i came across a picture of my dad around 20 years old and i looked just like him. Same goes for my mom dad, i look just like him when he was younger.

So, your mother actually married a guy who looked just like her father?  :)
Title: Re: Which parent do you take after?
Post by: Rulon on November 03, 2007, 05:09:37 PM
heh i guess so, but i can't see how they look alike
Title: Re: Which parent do you take after?
Post by: Tyler on November 03, 2007, 11:43:39 PM
My dad met my mom because her brother (my uncle) was my dad's college roommate.  Now people say I look like my dad or my uncle who was my dad's roommate.  I always find that funny.
Title: Re: Which parent do you take after?
Post by: Cam on November 04, 2007, 01:35:01 AM
I look exactly like my dad... aside from his head-o-hair. I also got his temper, but fortunately for me, I also got the compassion of my mother. 
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Post by: shyslyguy on November 04, 2007, 02:39:28 AM
Which parent do I take after? Dunno. I was adopted as a kid so ... i don't know who to blame!   ;D