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I've often wondered if this was the reason people from the UK and Ireland look so... different compared to their descendants in Australia, New Zealand etc.

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Maybe these should be flagged too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21175195 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21174439

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It's hard to gauge without knowing the intricacies of what's being talked about there, but I guess that you're right about the first but not the second.

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! ;-)

Have 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.

It 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.

Well 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.

Kiwi here, so not biased at all. I'd put it down to better diet and better climate (so more outdoors physical activity), rather than genetic diversity.

The Brits here are fine to take the piss with their Norfolk or Daily Mail jokes, but seem to have a bad sense of humour when they are the target :D

Their big misshapen heads must be bright red with rage.

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