Why are they called redheads when their hair is orange? (PIC)

[JEDI]

obligory: redhead sounds better than orangehead

 

[crab]

<----Orangehead

I've always just figured its because redhead sounds better...I think you're right there.

 

[ShawnD1]

chickenhead

 

[Newbian]

chickenhead

Talking about hair color, not women that likes to give bj's.

 

[chusteczka]

Talking about hair color, not women that likes to give bj's.

What chickens have you gained familiarity with to have developed that association?

 

[Newbian]

What chickens have you gained familiarity with to have developed that association?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chickenhead

For orange heads really only the term carrot head is what I have heard for it.

 

[Pardus]

Everything you wanted to know about redheads.

Red hair is a genetic mutation.

Red hair is seen on the heads of only four percent of people. Most of these exist in the U.K., the Republic of Ireland, and Australia.

The highest percentage of natural redheads in the world is in Scotland (13%), followed closely by Ireland with 10%. In the US, about 2% of the population are natural redheads.

There is a belief that redheads are prone to industrial deafness. This actually could be true as the melanocytes are found in the middle ear.

The color Green tempers red. Look at a color chart. This is why redheads are taught as children to wear lots of green. As if red hair is a shameful state of being.

In the early 1600’s, at the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, the belief of Pixies (aka fairies) emerged in southwest England. They were then and have since been strongly associated with red hair for their mischievousness and otherworldly talents.

A 2002 study found that redhead are harder to sedate than any other people requiring twenty percent more anesthesia. Inadequate doses cause people to wake up during surgery and have increased recall of procedures. (I can vouch that study is accurate)

Adults have about 120,000 hairs on their head; redheads have fewer, blondes have more, brunettes have the most.

Harvard Dermatologist Madhu Pathak calls redheads "three-time losers" because their red pigment is an inadequate filter of sunlight and their skin is more susceptible to sunburn, skin cancer and wrinkling with age. Wear your sun block !!! We are not losers though.

Red headedness is, genetically speaking, a recessive trait. It may appear after several generations of darker hair.

Redheads don't turn grey. Red hair turned sandy, then white. They are also found to loose their color later in life than people carrying other hair colors.

The perception of the color red, scientifically speaking, enhances the viewers metabolism and increases heart rate and respiration.

 

[soccerballtux]

doesn't matter as they don't have souls.

 

[Doppel]

They are not redheads, they are gingers. And soccerballtux is right.

 

[Soccerman06]

Everything you wanted to know about redheads.

That left 1 very important thing out...

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/103645/gingervitus

 

[Paladin3]

doesn't matter as they don't have souls.

If that is true, I personally volunteer to fill whatever void was created in poor Rose by not having a soul.

 

[The_Dude8]

Does the carpet matches the drapes?

 

[Pliablemoose]

doesn't matter as they don't have souls.

This...

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

In Australia they're called "Rangas."

 

[BrokenVisage]

 

[Imp]

Depends on the shade. Had a friend who's hair was a very dark red and it was her original hair color - probably hard to dye. Then there are your dyers and actual orange-heads. The Mad Men lady is dyed FYI...

 

[Red Squirrel]

I guess it could be considered a shade of red, and it just sounds better. My hair is orange, but I'm considered a red head. Now it's darker, but when I was a kid it was a bright orange.

Apparently our kind will be extinct by like 2060 or something like that.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

I guess it could be considered a shade of red, and it just sounds better. My hair is orange, but I'm considered a red head. Now it's darker, but when I was a kid it was a bright orange.

Apparently our kind will be extinct by like 2060 or something like that.

I vow to impregnate as many redheads as I can throughout my lifetime.

Just for you.

 

[Newbian]

I vow to impregnate as many redheads as I can throughout my lifetime.

Just for you.

Better run now squirrel otherwise you are going to be sore.

 

[Baked]

I just had a boner.

 

[chusteczka]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chickenhead

For orange heads really only the term carrot head is what I have heard for it.

This is new to me. :thumbsup:

Everything you wanted to know about redheads.

Redheads don't turn grey. Red hair turned sandy, then white. They are also found to loose their color later in life than people carrying other hair colors.

This explains why at the age of 40 my dark brown hair and red beard is not going grey when the hair of other people at my age are. Possibly a nice benefit from my 1/4 Irish background.

I just had a boner.

Past tense, you lost it already? Exercise can help.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Better run now squirrel otherwise you are going to be sore.

Meh, I'm in for some action, I think I will join him and go find some red heads, if two red heads do it together there is probably a better chance so I'm in.

Wait, what, no!!! *runs*

 

[El Guaraguao]

COOL STORY, BRO​

 

[olds]

 

[Printer Bandit]