The Punch writer with an extra chromosome
Today’s entertaining article of the day comes from The Punch, where Chris Deal ruminates on the difficulties of being the sort of man the men’s magazines write for, revealing:
“After only a few page turns I realised that while I am in possession of a penis and an extra chromosome, this magazine was well and truly not talking to me.”
And today’s reader comment of the day came shortly afterwards:
“Carrying an extra chromosome doesn’t make you a male. Carrying a Y chromosome (for half your chromosome’s at least) instead of an X chromosome makes you a male. Carrying an extra chromosome means you have Down syndrome”.
Fortunately, Deal’s day job is as a web designer rather than scientist.
Proof for editors that your audience is usually smarter than you are!!
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Hate to rain on your parade Tim, but this is merely research for my next column, “Why I’m An Idiot”.
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I reckon Chris Deal writes pretty well for someone with Down Syndrome. Perhaps you should be applauding him, not sinking the boot in.
Although it does confirm my suspicions that The Punch is a sheltered workshop – their writers have Down Syndrome, and the sites pays well below market rate for their labour… it’s all adding up.
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Chris has chromosones that nobody has ever heard of!
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i have 3 X chromosomes and I don’t know what to do with them.
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Hahah that’s fantastic. As an A student of biology in high school, that was my first thought as well and I was about to be very impressed that a guy with downs syndrome had managed to become a journalist!
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