There is absolutely no doubt that the future will be interesting with the onset and implementation of new technologies and developments.
It is thought that within two generations every child could be genetically screened and sorted for all kinds of ailments.
If being a Sheffielder was part of your childs genetic make up would you tick the box that said remove or retain.
I would choose to retain.

Me too, but I would untick the box that says "be a chav" obviously :D

Good point Rich,
however I think this would be an automatic condition for being allowed a child in the first place.
Would Argos therefore dissapear within a generation.

well the designer baby designed for sheffield would look quite different to his peers in, say hull.

Stout legs for a start.

A nice padded bum for a smooth ride on the roads.

anything else?

How about a gene which determines whether or not the new person would have a predilection for complaining about Sheffield and wisting after the delights of other cities?

i'm puzzled, being a sheffielder is surely just an accident of birth, where you come from certainly isn't genetic...
chav'ness is almost certainly mainly to do with upbringing and environment than genetics.

And i'm not sure how argos links in at all???

Originally posted by bulldog D
There is absolutely no doubt that the future will be interesting with the onset and implementation of new technologies and developments.
It is thought that within two generations every child could be genetically screened and sorted for all kinds of ailments.
If being a Sheffielder was part of your childs genetic make up would you tick the box that said remove or retain.
I would choose to retain.

Originally posted by Cyclone
i'm puzzled, being a sheffielder is surely just an accident of birth, where you come from certainly isn't genetic...
chav'ness is almost certainly mainly to do with upbringing and environment than genetics.

And i'm not sure how argos links in at all???

I can't agree with that theory at all. Accidents of birth are no more accidental than intelligence or the size of your teeth. Everything is down to genetics. Some people are genetically more prone to good luck, or accidents or even bad breath. Being born in Sheffield, that is being a Sheffielder, may, in the future, be just one option available when genetically designing offspring.

As to Argos, surely a propensity for browsing catalogues and paying over the odds for tat can also be programmed in?

what is this "chav" - am not a sheffielder, genes determined birth in forest in muddy lands to the south.

as to argos, it runs in my family as a dominant gene paired with the "cafe gene" which dictates the need to visit bakeries and cafes where old ladies make milky coffee and you can get fake cream buns for the nippers. (yes we are a dying breed, we tried costa coffee - it didn't work, posh cake, real coffee, newspapers, books, comfy chairs, - we need the old dears in nylon pinnies and own brand instant to survive).

one of my children has however mutated severely and taken to drinking tea with soya milk, so there is some hope for the future, our genes will not be lost from the gene pool of sheffield stock entirely.

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
well the designer baby designed for sheffield would look quite different to his peers in, say hull.

Stout legs for a start.

A nice padded bum for a smooth ride on the roads.

anything else?

Now I've read Phan's description I've just realised I am the archetypal Sheffielder!
WHOOPEE!

so you believe that where your parents happen to live when you are born is a factor of genetics and not environment.

So if I get a good job offer and move to the outer hebrides and later in life have a child, it will have been somehow genetically determined that I would be in the outer hebrides and thus the child be an outer hebridean? If you believe that you should stop talking about genetics and go and read some basic texts on the subject.
Genetics is the template, everything else is down to the environment, nature/nurture.

Originally posted by max
I can't agree with that theory at all. Accidents of birth are no more accidental than intelligence or the size of your teeth. Everything is down to genetics. Some people are genetically more prone to good luck, or accidents or even bad breath. Being born in Sheffield, that is being a Sheffielder, may, in the future, be just one option available when genetically designing offspring.

As to Argos, surely a propensity for browsing catalogues and paying over the odds for tat can also be programmed in?

Maybe you ought to get your genetics altered to include a sense of humour...is it not obvious the whole thread was inteneded a a bit of light hearted fun?

my sense of humour must have been warn out by all the non serious threads and I mistook this for one with a point.

Originally posted by Cyclone
my sense of humour must have been warn out by all the non serious threads and I mistook this for one with a point.

Perhaps you should warn your sense of humour that this was a clue:

If being a Sheffielder was part of your childs genetic make up

warning, sense of humour has become worn.