How to confuse a cycling instructor

[Dave Davenport]

As a middle aged cycling instructor who has trouble remembering his own name at times, let alone anyone else's, I feel it was somewhat below the belt to put two pairs of identical twins in this weeks groups.

 

[Ganymede]

Speaking as an identical twin, I agree with you!

 

[Tim Hall]

Matching bikes too, I hope.

 

[Octet]

I know several identical twins as well, for an anomaly which is supposed to be rare you do tend to see a fair number?

* Scratch that, just found out the generally accepted average is 1 in 285 which when you think about it isn't as random as it first appears *

 

[Accy cyclist]

What does being a cycling instructor involve,apart from the obvious?

 

[Julia9054]

When my son was 5, a pair of identical twins joined his class. He told me "there are 2 new boys in my class and they have the same heads"

 

[Ganymede]

When my son was 5, a pair of identical twins joined his class. He told me "there are 2 new boys in my class and they have the same heads"

My sister teaches Saturday music school. She kept getting two girls confused. After a while she said exasperatedly "heavens, why do I keep getting you two muddled up?" They looked at her pityingly and said: "Duh, miss, we are identical twins".

Because of being one herself, she hadn't clocked that it was weird to have two girls in her class who were essentially indistinguishable from each other.

I've read that identical twin boys are actually more alike than i/t girls - can't remember where and it may be tosh. The idea is that we females have two X chromosomes so can activate the same gene on a different chromosome, but boys HAVE to get their Y genes from their Y chromosome and their X genes from their X chromosome. I've known adult male identical twins who are spookily alike, whereas I think we females can become quite different as we age. Sister and I have a bit of variation physically but almost exactly the same face and voice.

 

[Dave Davenport]

What does being a cycling instructor involve,apart from the obvious?

http://bikeability.dft.gov.uk/

 

[Crackle]

My sister teaches Saturday music school. She kept getting two girls confused. After a while she said exasperatedly "heavens, why do I keep getting you two muddled up?" They looked at her pityingly and said: "Duh, miss, we are identical twins".

Because of being one herself, she hadn't clocked that it was weird to have two girls in her class who were essentially indistinguishable from each other.

I've read that identical twin boys are actually more alike than i/t girls - can't remember where and it may be tosh. The idea is that we females have two X chromosomes so can activate the same gene on a different chromosome, but boys HAVE to get their Y genes from their Y chromosome and their X genes from their X chromosome. I've known adult male identical twins who are spookily alike, whereas I think we females can become quite different as we age. Sister and I have a bit of variation physically but almost exactly the same face and voice.

My sister teaches Saturday music school. She kept getting two girls confused. After a while she said exasperatedly "heavens, why do I keep getting you two muddled up?" They looked at her pityingly and said: "Duh, miss, we are identical twins".

Because of being one herself, she hadn't clocked that it was weird to have two girls in her class who were essentially indistinguishable from each other.

I've read that identical twin boys are actually more alike than i/t girls - can't remember where and it may be tosh. The idea is that we females have two X chromosomes so can activate the same gene on a different chromosome, but boys HAVE to get their Y genes from their Y chromosome and their X genes from their X chromosome. I've known adult male identical twins who are spookily alike, whereas I think we females can become quite different as we age. Sister and I have a bit of variation physically but almost exactly the same face and voice.

Wow, you even have identical posts.

 

[Ganymede]

Wow, you even have identical posts.

Seems to be an issue this morning!

 

[Ganymede]

See?