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Post by eastanglian on Dec 26, 2005 9:18:26 GMT -5
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Post by Mike the Jedi on Dec 26, 2005 9:23:10 GMT -5
I noticed a lot of the Dutch players have bulbous foreheads.
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Post by Platypus on Dec 26, 2005 9:39:44 GMT -5
Yes the Dutch selection have overall higher heads and foreheads. the browridges are also rather bony and marked. possibly a strong Dalofaelid and Borreby influence.
A few Irish present the strong deep jaw typical of the local Mesolithic type. While there is an abundance of coarse 'Brunn' - 'Up' morphology amongst the Scots and the Irish, less so in the English
The last Scotsman on the left with the blue shirt (Ally Mc Coist), is typically Scottish Imo
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Post by eastanglian on Dec 26, 2005 9:59:50 GMT -5
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Post by Platypus on Dec 26, 2005 10:10:58 GMT -5
on average the Welsh are closer to the English above, though individually some of the Scots (narrow faced, dark ones) are the closest
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fred
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Post by fred on Dec 26, 2005 13:56:00 GMT -5
I noticed a lot of the Dutch players have bulbous foreheads. You mean, like him? (van der Meyde)
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Post by Mike the Jedi on Dec 26, 2005 14:12:25 GMT -5
Yeah, the forehead just kinda bulges out and the hairline's like way up there.
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Post by Educate Me on Dec 26, 2005 14:13:09 GMT -5
How common is this look in the netherlands (a tennis player) Do these have black hair or just wet hair? (or both ) --------------------------------- By the way, I think posting pictures of football/soccer players is very good, because they tend to be quite representative, at least for countries were football is by far the first sport, most popular sport, and is played by all social classes.
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fred
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Post by fred on Dec 26, 2005 14:55:43 GMT -5
What about Belgians? Flemish: Walloons: What about Swedes:
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Post by Mike the Jedi on Dec 26, 2005 14:56:59 GMT -5
lol.. those Swedes look like extras out of some Viking movie.
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Post by tonynatuzzi on Dec 26, 2005 15:09:19 GMT -5
What did you expect those Swede guys to look like anyways extras out of some mafia movie.
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Post by Mike the Jedi on Dec 26, 2005 15:15:49 GMT -5
No, it's just a striking contrast to the other Northern Europeans posted in this thread.
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Post by Drooperdoo on Dec 26, 2005 15:22:14 GMT -5
Dutch is not only the closest language to English, genetically the Dutch people are supposed to be the closest group to the English. From what I read, they're the descedants of the Anglo-Saxons who stayed on the continent right across from England, but that they arrived with the same wave that brought the same Germanic groups to the British Isles. (This is, of course, a gross oversimplification; but, as a generalization, it seems to find support from genetics and linguistics.)
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Post by Mike the Jedi on Dec 26, 2005 15:24:58 GMT -5
Actually, Frisian is the closest living language to English that is distinctly not English. Like Dutch, it is spoken in the Netherlands.
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Post by Drooperdoo on Dec 26, 2005 16:37:48 GMT -5
Bwa-ha-ha-ha
Thanks, Mike. I can always count you you to bust out the knowledge.
My favorite quote about the Dutch language is from the German philosopher Georg Lichtenberg. He wrote, "A donkey is a horse as translated into Dutch".
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