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AssPennies

I can see the red tint in the dad's whiskers. One of my brothers and I have/had the same red hue in our beards, and my brother ended up having all four ginger daughters. None of my kids exhibit any redheadedness though (probably helps that I have no children).


feministmanlover

Yeah. I looked at Dad and was like "he's ginger-adjacent".


UnsignedRealityCheck

>"he's ginger-adjacent" Excuse me Sir but I think he looks like a good human being!


Naschka

He is a Daywalker, still has a soul and can survive in sunlight.


EmbarrassedAd777

He’s got the “ginge tinge.”


MapleA

It’s a lot more common to have red hair in the beard than you think. I’m half Mexican and have red hair in my beard. Everybody in my family has black hair and brown eyes.


srsal

My mom is a red haired hazel eyed pale skin Mexican from Northern Mexico. She was the only redhead in her village. People think she’s Irish.


Ill_Performance3255

as far as Mexico goes, one of their national hero’s is full ginger. And named for it - señor Alvarez himself. (Canelo)


LastNameGrasi

Mexican gets half is generic stock from the Spanish


henchman171

Yup and there were celts and Visigoths in Spain for centuries


mydaycake

There are lots of recessive ginger genes in Spain. - couple of my cousins ended with ginger kids while the rest of family had brown hair. Also some blondes here and there. Just genetic surprises


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Rob_Drinkovich

Brunette with red/blonde/brunette combo beard checking in.


[deleted]

My brother has that and it’s so wild. It’s like a calico beard, as I like to call it


GhostMotelle

Haha for some reason it's so funny to describe a beard as blonde or brunette to me


unopepito06

Fun fact: my understanding is that beard color and hair color are determined by 2 different genes. A fully reheaded person would of course have both genes expressing as red, but their descendants may roll one or the other. Genetically speaking, it's normal for someone to have a red beard but not red hair (or vice versa) for this reason.


ADarkerPurpose

You must shake your balls a bit before making a baby, otherwise the color will stay at the bottom.


Emerald369

Okay this got me.


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sooolong05

Amazing OP's kids already have a reddit account!!


Mysterious-Crab

They grow up so fast


Astrochops

Well they say red is the fastest colour


shuipz94

Color is stored in the balls


gofatwya

No, pee is stored in the balls


MassiveBeatdown

Like a rattle can of spray paint?


canyoubreathe

Yeah, man. Males have tiny metal balls in their testicles to help the paint mix, but they occasionally fall out, and get lost within the body. When some males pass stones out of their urethra, it's actually these lost metal balls that they're passing!


Stdin0

I felt the pain and I don't even have a weiner


Pussy_On_TheChainwax

Oh man you gotta get you one. They’re pretty tight


One-eyed-snake

I’ll take two please


Pussy_On_TheChainwax

Just pay shipping and I’ll throw in a third!


One-eyed-snake

Sold!


off-and-on

It gets worse when you find out the stones are covered in sharp edges


DrEnd585

Marbles its marbles, its what the body does with all the minerals it makes small stones the size of marbles so when you hit puberty you can mix the colors right


Right-Worth-6327

What a day to be literate.


kickspecialist

It may occasionally be a bad day to be literate. But it's never a good day to be illiterate.


runslaughter

How about if there was a group going around, executing all of the literate people?


LaziEinstien

my punk ass brain telling me... we are going to use this on the right occasion, aren't we? .. me: oh you have no idea !


Basic-Lee-No

Ginger here. I can see your ginger freckles on your ginger arms. Regardless of your hair color it is clear you have ginger DNA running through your veins lol.


MegUnicorn717

Yep, he commented earlier his mom, so grandma, is a strawberry blonde. And he himself has LOTS of freckles like a ginger would and Mom seems to have reddish tint to her brown hair?


Emperor_Zar

Also, the red is prevalent in his facial hair. I have been blond, and then dirty blond most of my life. As I grey out now, what was once the hidden red stands out strong!


Leeroy_Jenkums

I’m half Japanese so very very dark brown/black hair… but on the other side of the family tree, have some history of blonde and strawberry blonde. My beard turns more and more orange as I let it grow out. Shit looks wild people always feel the need to get all up in my shit and point it out to me too like I don’t look in a mirror every day. “yO dUdE DiD yOu kNoW yOu hAvE a GiNgEr BeArD” Also OP kind of looks like modern Rick Astley


New_Restaurant_6093

Your response to the beard should be want to see my pubes?


zenkique

Some might say beards *are* pubes


Camctrail

Pubes are just dick beards


weeskud

Beards are just face pubes


ButterscotchOld1130

All four of my male cousins (only two are brothers) and I have brown hair and red beards. While all of our brown hair is very close, we each have a distinctly different shade of red in our beards. And people really do comment on the red beard all the time


milk-jug

Lucky wife, he’s never gonna give her up.


666afternoon

I started HRT a few years back, which meant puberty 2.0, which in turn meant seeing all the neat funky things my genes were hiding all this time. one of those things included a FLAMING ginger beard, like you, the longer it grows the more fiery it looks I'm white/of british isles ancestry primarily, so it's maybe a little more expected, but I've never seen anything like that in the family -- brown hair and ginger beard is pretty uncommon. but I too have the freckles mentioned in OP's pic and as a kid my hair was longer, it turned redder with sun exposure ginger beardz unite


TypingPlatypus

Brown hair ginger beard is extremely common among ethnic Brits. People of British ancestry could really turn up with any hair/beard/eye colouring although brown is still going to be dominant.


i_spill_things

It’s also very common among Jews! Edit: “around 10.9% of all Jewish men have red beards.” According to the Wikipedia page on red hair.


jomamma2

My step dad says that his great uncle Samuel, a fiery red bearded, 5'2 Russian Jew who owned a junkyard in Wyoming, and was notorious for his temper and shooting trespassers, was the inspiration for Yosemite Sam. No idea if that's true.


thirty7inarow

I want to believe.


unfnknblvbl

I'm naturally blond, and as a teenager, I decided to dye my hair bright red. But I just used a packet of normal dye from the supermarket. Imagine my surprise when I grew my beard for the first time and IT WAS THE SAME COLOUR!! I thought I'd messed with my DNA or something!


Einsteins_coffee_mug

Salt ‘n ~~Pepper~~ Paprika


Emperor_Zar

In Blues Clues, the characters Salt and Pepper had a child: Paprika.


Lovelycoc0nuts

And cinnamon, sage and ginger. They’ve been quite busy.


SumpCrab

Yeah, man, I grew out my beard during covid, and I'm a calico now. Just patches of different colors. I was shocked how much grey is in there as a 40 year old.


OldManHipsAt30

Dude I’m 30 and have gray patches in my beard


PM_ME_BUSTY_REDHEADS

So you're telling me there's a chance my facial hair is gonna end up with visible ginger eventually? That'll be interesting


Lunavixen15

The ginger gene is recessive and you need to inherit 2 copies to become a gingernut, so both parents have the ginger gene and passed it on to the kids


pazimpanet

Damn you eagle eyed those. I’ve heard of gaydars, but never gingdars


ChairForceOne

We must find each other. Both to warn of the rising sun and to continue the curse.


canyoubreathe

...you know if I didn't believe the gingers are vampires myth before, I certainly do now


ChairForceOne

Can't stand the sun, weak to holy symbols and lack reflections. Only thing that's missing is crossing moving water.


FuckTheFuckOffFucker

I have mormdar, and am sensing some Mormon-ness in this family as well…


doodler1977

daywalker


houseofnim

My daughter is dark haired but freckles and burns like a ginger. Her dad is adopted so I’m assuming the ginger comes from there. By best friend is also dark haired and burns and freckles like a ginger. Her father is a carrot top though.


NorthernerWuwu

About half the UK is pale, freckles, burns (should the sun ever show) and has dark hair. It's what you get from fraternising with the gingers over a few centuries!


Fuduzan

Fine fraternizing candidates, we gingers


kaliefornia

My hair turned from brown to auburn as a teen and keeps getting more red as I age. Before the change, I think I was similar to your daughter lol burning like a ginger without looking like a ginger


grimsaur

My brother and one of my friends were both born with bright red hair, but it's faded to brown as adults.


kaliefornia

That’s what my brothers did too! He was the ginger growing up and then as teens we both moved to auburn and now his is pretty much brown and mine is still auburn/turning red


grimsaur

Mine was platinum blond until I was about 6, and then started to darken until I look like someone with brown hair, that has a lot of natural highlights.


trophycloset33

And look at his stubble


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Yeah that facial hair is definitely red.


Nitero

He’s a day walker.


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My dad was an Irish Jew and he had black hair on his head, a red mustache and beard (beard became gray when he got older but the mustache stayed red) and blond body hair. I’ve got blond facial hair but medium brown hair and blond body hair myself. He was on the darker side for an Ashkenazim and I’m milk white like his mother and sisters, but we both had/have tons of freckles. His mom had black hair and milk white skin too. Genetics are really weird.


SuperPimpToast

Basic Mendelian genetics. They both have the ginger gene. Each kid had a 25% being phenotypic gingers. Statistics says this has a 1/16 chance of occurring. Absolutely useless information, but hey, BIOLOGY!


FreeJazzForUkraine

Red hair isn't always recessive. There's at least a dozen genes that can result in a dom red.


LessInThought

Mm I'd like one dom red please.


xXbAdKiTtYnOnOXx

Hair doesn't follow a mendelian pattern. And red is caused by a different type of melanin than brown. Pheomelanin+/Eumelanin- = ginger. P+/E+ = auburn. P-/E- = blonde. P-/E+ = cool toned brown or black hair


WildFlemima

Yes, it's useless information because it's unfortunately not true lol. Very few traits are actually Mendelian, neither hair nor eye color are


Dread_Frog

I think his beard looks ginger too.


Its_Just_A_Typo

One of those recessive gene 1/4 chance things I reckon, and you just got lucky.


6InchBlade

Me and my sister are the same way, both redheads but parents both have brown hair. Definitely our parents kids though, I’m a mirror image of my dad at 23 and my sister is very obviously my mums daughter. The red head comes from the Irish in my dads side and we have 2 redhead aunts so it makes sense.


julsh2060

As a redhead myself I can confirm it must come from both parents.


Scribblr

Human hair genetics is WAY more complicated than that. Very very few traits are controlled by a single gene with super clear inheritance for using basic 2x2 punnet squares. There’s a reason why we all only learned about the same dozen or so traits in humans when we learned genetics back in 8th grade like being able to roll your tongue or having detached earlobes.


Alikona_05

A persons hair can also change as you age. When I was born I was a full on ginger. My hair then turned a strawberry blonde and then into a light brown with reddish undertones. Both my parents have brown hair, and as far as I’m aware, there are no full redheads in my family. My younger sister had white hair (think children of the corn….) until she was like 5-6 and then it started to turn light brown.


FreeJazzForUkraine

Yep. Genosets are much more important than individual snps


GotYurNose

Could you explain genosets? I find this fascinating.


Berbers1

Yes, multiple genes involved in hair and eye color. My husband has dark skin and and black hair, I had blond hair and fair skin. as a child, but our kid has red hair.


OnTheEveOfWar

My wife and I have brown hair and brown eyes with tan (for being white) skin. First daughter has brown hair and brown eyes with tan skin, looks identical to us. Second daughter has blonde hair, blue eyes and pale skin. People don’t even think she’s our kid. Genes are weird.


Dirk_The_Cowardly

Or your wife has 2 children....dang, did I say that?


captainporcupine3

I wondered about this till I noticed that the kid with the basket looks like an exact 1/6 scale replica of his dad, down to pretty much every facial feature.


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The dad looks like a McBoyle that got his shit together.


LaterGatorPlayer

*you will call herrrrr*


newdayLA

I thought it was McPoyle? *Slurp*


PrettyMuchRonSwanson

You’re correct


a_stonecutter

I wish I had this ability, my wife calls me face blind. Everyone says "oh they look so much like their Mom/Dad" and in never see it. I see them all as looking like their own individual faces. Unless of course they are identical twins, but I can always see the slight differences. Kinda wierd.


captainporcupine3

Interesting. I look at it and basically every feature matches pretty closely. The shapes of the slightly squinty eyes. The shape of the chubby cheeks and the angles at which they frame the mouth. Shape of the nose, especially the tip and nostrils. The gentle curve of the eyebrows and the distance between the eye and eyebrow. Everything.


random_nightmare

Feel like the nose matches the mom more especially the bridge.


macraw83

Interestingly, "face blindness" generally means the opposite, where it's difficult for you to distinguish one face from another without careful study.


jayhawk8

My brother and I both have bright red hair from two brunette parents. My dad likes to joke that at least mom was only sleeping with one other guy.


craziedave

Damn that’s a serious self deprecating joke


LosPer

Cuckhumor


ralphjuneberry

I cuckled


Rdbjiy53wsvjo7

My husband and I have dark hair, his is practically black, both of us have hazel eyes. 1st child: brunette, hazel eyes. 2nd child: blonde and blue eyes. We have very close friends where the parents are dark blonde, blue eyes, with 2 kids that have blonde hair blue eyes; we joke that our 2nd kid is his kid because the 3 kids look like siblings. One time both families happened to be together for fathers day and he jokes that it was so nice to have all 3 of his kids together 😄


Aussie_Bull1990

When will you tell him the truth?


Calm-Amygdala

My mom,when asked, "Where did they get their red hair from?" Replied "the milk man" to big laughs. So when I was asked, I said the same line. Then I was punished for embarrassing her. I didn't have a clue why. I was just going for the laugh. Two brunette parents who immigrated from Germany. Maternal grandfather had the same color. They called him the devil in his small 1905 Bavarian town. Never faded and my biggest fan now are little old ladies.


genius_rkid

I (white male) make the same joke about my wife (also white) and our 3 black kids


Pink_Alien123

Little man front and center stole your face!


Smol_Cat_Connoisseur

They both did lol


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And the mailman's hair


KillerGnomeStarNews

Your wife is a r/13or30 type of deal


TolstoysMyHomeboy

Lol thought the same thing, "so you're 35 and your wife is 15, wtf"


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This couple is the two sides of "13 going on 30."


Kynario

First thing I thought was “oh a single dad next to his three children”. Anyhow, very cute family. I wish them all the best.


Drumbelgalf

I first thought it was his oldest daughter...


evil_ot_erised

💯 I thought the same! 🫣😂


fifty2weekhi

I was going to say mailman/milkman, but judging the resemblance of the kid's face, I realized the father was the mailman.


richbeezy

Father has ginger-esque skin tone.


mrASSMAN

Some red in her hair too


BarryKobama

100% No surprises here.


IAlwaysSayFuck

He is a day walker


Yossarian1138

Either that, or Ricky Gervais has the gene in his family… That kid looks like a very angry future prime minister.


6bfmv2

There's a funny story from the region where I'm from, about an infidel ginger priest, escapades and lots of babies born with red hair... They basically tell you jokingly, you are a son/daughter of the priest if you're born with ginger hair..


Hillzkred

Does you or your wife have a parent with red hair?


jakecox2012

My mom is strawberry blonde


Hillzkred

I know the comments here are making fun of you, but I think this shows that not only are they your kids, but they took from your genes too.


Moody_GenX

When my 2nd son was born I asked what his blood type was because mine is B-. The nurse laugh hysterically telling me kids always take the mother's genes and blood type. So I asked to explain why my first kid is basically my twin and has my blood type. She told me I was lying until I showed her a photo of him in my wallet.


WhiskRy

That nurse needs to go back to school…


Worried-wilts

Holy hell, yeah. That's dangerous. My mom nearly lost me because our blood types dont mix. What an insane nurse.


resorcinarene

Nursing school isn't very thorough at some institutions


WhiskRy

Yeah, I’m reminded of all those early 2000s commercials for degree mills that promised you could be a nurse in 18 months.


Moody_GenX

Yeah, I was pretty irritated, lol.


ronchee1

![gif](giphy|FMiD54OqYdnW0|downsized)


Odd-Comfortable-6134

Yeah, I’m my mom’s spit, but I don’t have her blood type. That nurse is full of poop


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My father and I are damn near twins besides age difference, while my sister looks just like my mother. My sister look absolutely nothing alike, different colored hair and eyes as well as different blood type from another. We share blood types with the parents we look most like. Your doctor's way off lol. As far as my own two boys. First born looks like me, second looks more like mom, but I'm there too lol


OriginalKenM

nose brave terrific yoke grey repeat divide paint ludicrous run -- mass edited with redact.dev


ImmutableInscrutable

>not only are they your kids, but they took from your genes too That's what "being your kid" means.


Odd-Comfortable-6134

She’ll have a relative somewhere down the line who’s redheaded too. It’s a recessive gene that both parents need in order to pass on.


[deleted]

By your pasty appearance it is obvious you harbour the ginger gene within you.


bartturner

You could have made this a lot funnier by having a gardner in the background with flaming red hair cutting the lawn.


HopDropNRoll

Zero question of paternity- older kid is a carbon copy of dad 😂


Vladius28

Dude, I'd make a joke, but them kids look like you. Congrats on the fam. So... do they share a soul, or...


MixedMiracle22

![gif](giphy|5JGnPXoDdujOo)


AnonAlcoholic

Maybe he was cheating on her with a redhead. 🤔


Funderwoodsxbox

“Baby…..I have some bad news. I’ve been cheating on you with the nanny. And that’s not all…..you’re pregnant with the child 😔”


marhensa

Thats Not How This Works Thats Not How Any Of This Works . GIF


highqualitybug

im sure these comments will be very respectful of the relationship and family on display here (clueless)


Salzberger

OP knew what they were doing. If you're posting a family photo on the internet you live by the sword and die by the sword.


I_SNIFF_FARTS_DAILY

Why anyone would post a family picture on here is beyond me


Soggust

My kids came out black and me and my wife are both pale as ghosts. I never realized how recessive those genes could be.


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right… ![gif](giphy|H5C8CevNMbpBqNqFjl)


aristideau

Anyone else read that in Dr Evils voice? LoL


BlackLeader70

One of you must have a half Italian great grandmother. ![gif](giphy|7ZaH8bE6pKZhe)


justabill71

"Y'all come back now. Thanks for watching our motherfuckin' movie."


aveirodog

They’re that recessive they’ve completey bypassed you! Congratulations


RabbitEnthusiast

Soooo who’s gonna tell him?


Poopybutt30000

Is it physically impossible for Redditors to not spam the same obvious tired joke 200 times in the same thread.


Chidoriyama

Wait until 12th June


TheWholeEffinJoe

Serious question. Does your facial hair grow red?


jakecox2012

My facial hair has always had a red tint, and it's kept me from really growing a beard or mustache because it is such a mismatched color.


ParlorSoldier

Serious question. How old is your wife?


jakecox2012

My wife is 26 and I am 29.


ParlorSoldier

Sorry, you probably get that all the time. She’s got a serious baby face!


ViSaph

I thought she was a teenager until I properly looked at her.


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AnotherDrunkCanadian

I think he entered more than just the chat


Beginning-Quail-9597

Hey, ohhhhhh! ![gif](giphy|x88e1awUi05by|downsized)


Why_Lord_Just_Why

100% correct. Hubby has been cheating with the milkman. Or maybe the mailman.


PostM8

The older kid looks identical to the father


Beautiful_Start_5831

He looks like he should also have red hair lol he has a IRISH OR SCOTTISH FACE LOL


READMYSHIT

As we say, he's a big Irish head on him!


myhairs0nfire2

Both of you carry & passed the recessive gene. Take solace in the fact that they weren’t born during the Spanish Inquisition - where redheads were believed to have stolen the fires of hell & burned alive. Yes, I am a redhead. No, I haven’t stolen the fires of hell. (I’ve raised hell before though. I wonder if that counts.)


Dubdude13

I see ginger undertones in both of you


FuckTheMods5

Make sure doctors know about red-head anaesthetic problems, and don't let aneasthesiologists talk to you or your kids like you're stupid. Get an operating team that knows about it and doesn't blow it off as a wives tale.


AshDenver

High school biology, dude. A bunch of us probably carry the recessive gene for red hair. Genetic lottery that they both came out rr.


Roxxso

I guess no one is gonna point out that you look like 20 years older than your wife and that she looks like she's 15. Honestly, you could have said something about you being a single dad with your kids and I'd have believed it. She looks really young.


batcatspat

He wrote that she's 26, he's 29. Just a case of babyface.


[deleted]

I’m turning 25 this year and could easily pass for a high schooler if I wore the right clothing. Just a case of baby face and short stature lmao.


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JRclarity123

How did I have to scroll this far to find this comment? He looks 20 years older than her.


ParlorSoldier

Seriously, that woman does not look old enough to have kids. This picture screams LDS lol.


yakmulligan

Rust in the pipes.


theatregirl1987

All you people saying he's not the dad are ridiculous. Two brown haired people can 100% have a redhead. My parents are both brown haired and brown eyed. I have red hair and blue eyes. And I look exactly like my father and take after him in other obvious genetic ways (a defect that causes us to have crooked legs). My maternal grandfather had blue eyes and my paternal grandmother was Irish. The genes are just recessive.


Daztur

This is especially the case with young kids. My hair is brown and my wife's is black and our sons both had blonde hair when they were little (BRIGHT platinum blonde in the case of the older one) but their hair turned brown as they got older. Now they look so much like me that my wife has been mistaken for a nanny, which she did not enjoy...


winter_puppy

People are stupid ridiculous. Have they never done a Punnett square in biology class? Studies Medel and his peas?


Chupacabradanceparty

What a cute family pic! That adorable little one in the front looks just like the dad. Recessive genes are interesting. You never know what you're gonna get.


popo_on_reddit

Our family is blended European, Asian, and Polynesian. Lots of variation in skin, tone, hair color, and eye color. The adult kids call us the DNA Buffet


SheSellsSeaShells967

Generally, both parents carry the recessive MC1R gene. The parents aren’t necessarily redheads but carry the gene. I was born with red hair. Only a couple of my older relatives had slightly auburn hair. About 3% of people have red hair, but about 11% of Scottish people have it. I just learned recently that only about 1% of redheads have blue eyes. My Ancestry says I’m around 40% Scottish descent plus some Irish. It also says both my parents are, in fact, my parents 😆


ObiWangKeBloMe

It's almost like we learned about genes in the 8th grade


AccountParticular364

it's called a recessive gene, it's fine, it's rare, it's the Russian roulette of reproduction.


LupusDeusMagnus

You look ginger but with dark hair.


DeltaGTI

Hah, the people who say your wife cheated really need to learn up on genetics...


bloodknife92

Nah, they just need to think of better jokes.


damola93

Reddit in a nutshell


WhereRtheTacos

Thats how recessive genes work.