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Shannonmcn posted:merlot, Glenfiddich, vodka and soda water and a sugared glass uggghhhhhh whyyyyyyy would anybody put those things together 'don't mix your drinks' is a load of crap, but that doesn't mean you should LITERALLY mix them anyway i just wandered in to say that i'm tentatively happy with science today which is unusual for me  this is the worst snipe
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Spanish Manlove posted:They'll understand you pretty well though some vocabulary is different. I know Castilian is a little more rude compared to Latin America, at least in Florida I greatly offended a guy at a Cuban diner by saying "me pone un cafesito" instead of "me puede dar un cafesito" because I was use to the former. It should be te same in Cuba proper so mind your manners. oh righto, so try to keep a more formal construction until the other party in the conversation lets me know how lax to be. my pronunciation will let everyone know i'm foreign and the sheepish smile for the first week or so should help italy wishes they could try to blame the moors for how sexist it is, hence why they are also so racist
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bathroom sounds posted:I don't think of cheese when I think of Spain. Have I been missing out? Every Spanish cheese I've had has been delicious. Spanish Manlove could probably tell you more about it, though.
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Shannonmcn posted:My friend made me the most disgusting 'wine cocktail' last week with merlot, Glenfiddich, vodka and soda water and a sugared glass then had me try and guess the ingredients. It was such a waste of all those things and she wasn't even drinking. Gross. What a waste of scotch. I'm black so my mom's side can only be traced back to slavery times in Louisiana. We could do a genealogy test though I guess. My dad is from Ghana and they're big shots over there so he can trace back everyone in his lineage to like 1600 which is pretty badass even though I don't find it particularly interesting. I want to have a portrait done at the family compound before I die, but I haven't made it out to Ghana quite yet.
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bathroom sounds posted:I don't think of cheese when I think of Spain. Have I been missing out? Spanish cheese owns really hard. You can get semi-decent manchego at whole foods but the price you pay for a tiny slice there is what half a wheel costs in Spain. The older it is the drier and more pungent it tastes. Pair with aged charcuterie, olives with pits and a dry white wine. Bar sangria is pig slop that they give to tourists so get a tinto at a bar or a beer. Home made sangria is the best and usually reserved for big parties. I can try to get my aunt's recipe for everyone but it's seriously just chopped fruit, red wine, brandy, cognac, and sugar that's been mixed and refrigerated for a few days.
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Fisticuffs posted:Gross. What a waste of scotch. Apparently there's a town and castle in Bavaria with my family name. Definitely want to see it someday.
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ohhhhhhh manchego is one of my favourite cheeses of all (and cheeses are the best things) actually I have some in the fridge right now brb cheesetime
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I'm not Irish at all and don't pretend to be, ever, but I do love the way Gaelic sounds. A while back I had an hour+ commute and burned some shows from the language section of bbc.co.uk to MP3 and would listen to that during the commute. I now feel confident enough in my Irish speaking that I feel I could have a conversations with an average Irish 3 year old about what color their jumper is or where the milk is or yes, that cat is black. My spelling however is atrocious, and my reading of it only slightly better. Please don't judge me too harshly 
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Fisticuffs posted:My dad is from Ghana and they're big shots over there so he can trace back everyone in his lineage to like 1600 which is pretty badass even though I don't find it particularly interesting. I want to have a portrait done at the family compound before I die, but I haven't made it out to Ghana quite yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXYmFqEkCGQ I hope I never find out what's actually going on with that movie. Thora posted:I'm not Irish at all and don't pretend to be, ever, but I do love the way Gaelic sounds. A while back I had an hour+ commute and burned some shows from the language section of bbc.co.uk to MP3 and would listen to that during the commute. I now feel confident enough in my Irish speaking that I feel I could have a conversations with an average Irish 3 year old about what color their jumper is or where the milk is or yes, that cat is black. My spelling however is atrocious, and my reading of it only slightly better. Please don't judge me too harshly 
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My roots are Ukrainian, and Norwegian on my mom's adopted family side (7th generation Canadian) and Swedish on my mom's birth mother's side (3rd generation), while my dad and his family came from Germany during the cold war, so I'm first generation Canadian on that side.
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genealogychat had me googling 23andme and now i've been watching 'finding your roots'. the ep with samuel l jackson, condi rice and ruth simmons was all about descendants of african slaves finding out about their ancestry. all three of them were able to find out which area of africa their enslaved ancestors likely came from using that genealogy test. it also shows a program in new york where kids are able to trace their african ancestry which looks loving brilliant, a couple of them actually say on tape that it's given them a renewed sense of who they are. i think it's true, being able to point on a map to where your genes were at x point in time is something really powerful, and once i have the means i want to be able to trace my poo poo back as far as i can. i dont even know where my paternal greatgrandparents were born or where my grandfather was born and that makes me sad, but that poo poo can't scratch the surface of the intergenerational trauma chattel slavery could produce. i wish it was easier to track maternal ancestral lines, as it stands i can only track my female heritage back about four generations on one side. gonna get my genes catalogued and spied on by the government asap so i can find out more. that's super duper cool about being a big shot ghanaian, you should go over and be like HELLO FRIENDS IM A P BIG DEAL BY BLOOD LETS FUCKIN PARTY ALSO HI
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Jan 15, 2014 18:58
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I never said I wasn't a geeky nerd. Or nerdy geek. Either works.
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Crow Jane posted:Apparently there's a town and castle in Bavaria with my family name. Definitely want to see it someday. that rules. go and post pics tia my mum's family has this ridiculous story that we were TOTAL NOBILITY YOU GUYS in france and had to flee to italy during the revolution, whereupon we became total peasant fishermen and net-weavers. i have so far encountered zero evidence of our nobility apart from the fact that one of our family traits is that you can always tell when we're going to wake up in the morning because 1 minute before we all rip a huge fart in our sleep
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This thread moves so fast! Copper IUD havers, I'm considering getting one this summer. How was the "installation"? Was it very painful? How is dealing with the emergency string? How is intercourse different? FLUFFBUTTS! I really want a DNA test, but $99 bux to satisfy my curiosity seems like a lot.
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The town is well-known for their ceramics, apparently. My mom's bought a bunch of it off ebay, she gave me a little ashtray with the town name and a picture of the castle on it a few years back. I'd post a pic, but due to the name I'm ridiculously easy to google.
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Crow Jane posted:The town is well-known for their ceramics, apparently. My mom's bought a bunch of it off ebay, she gave me a little ashtray with the town name and a picture of the castle on it a few years back. I'd post a pic, but due to the name I'm ridiculously easy to google. fair enough. i'm careful about mentioning random things ive done because i have a vanishingly uncommon first name and if i mention projects i've done you could googlestalk me off the first result  which stinks bc boasting about stuff on the internet rules that's so cool though, it basically implies that your family were long-standing patrons of the arts
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Thora posted:I'm not Irish at all and don't pretend to be, ever, but I do love the way Gaelic sounds. A while back I had an hour+ commute and burned some shows from the language section of bbc.co.uk to MP3 and would listen to that during the commute. I now feel confident enough in my Irish speaking that I feel I could have a conversations with an average Irish 3 year old about what color their jumper is or where the milk is or yes, that cat is black. My spelling however is atrocious, and my reading of it only slightly better. Please don't judge me too harshly Learning languages is awesome! As a note, 'Gaelic' is a generic word that can refer to different languages in the Celtic family, such as Scotch Gaelic or Irish Gaelic. They are similar but not the same. 'Irish Gaelic' is just another term for the Irish language, which is generally just called 'Irish' or Gaeilge, which is the Irish word for 'the Irish language'
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I'm the only person with my first/last name combo in the US, probably the world. I don't have a massive web presence or anything, but I'd rather not take any chances, y'know?
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Crow Jane posted:I'm the only person with my first/last name combo in the US, probably the world. I don't have a massive web presence or anything, but I'd rather not take any chances, y'know? Raisintowne Larva-McFlurry
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Even if you knew my name, good luck finding me as even credit companies have trouble getting that poo poo right ahahaha total anonymity owns deal with it ladies
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Jan 15, 2014 19:21
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Cis het white male born male wins again *slam dunks privilege*
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My Oma claims that her grandfather was a Russian count who fled the country in a hay cart to avoid going to war. He then settled in Prussia to raise horses. I have no idea how true any of that is.
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Pick posted:Raisintowne Larva-McFlurry 
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I'm related to the McCoys, and then on my mother's side another group of nebulous white people (the Clarks of Indiana) and German farmers. The only one that is remotely interesting is the McCoy side of things.
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My family were apparently bards to the old Kings of Ireland, the O'Neills. My housemate is an O'Neill but I don't sing for him. There's an old rock in the Ulster Museum that is called the throne of the O'Neills or something and the loser wouldn't even sit on it for a picture, I offered to distract the security guy and everything.
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wtf what a wuss. i licked blue poles on a dare and got frog marched out of the gallery for the lulz alone
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P_T_S posted:This thread moves so fast! There's a Birth Control Megathread in Ask/Tell that has a lot of great info and cool people who will answer your questions. I've posted a lot about my experiences in there over the course of a year with the IUD, if you hunt down one of my posts and click the "?" under my name. Not to run you out of here though, I will gladly answer any questions you have because I love this IUD and so many people seem to not know about it! - "Installation" was not very painful for me, but this can vary person to person. For me it just felt like two REALLY big menstrual cramps. Once when they measured me, once when they actually put the device in. It was over in a matter of seconds in any case. - I don't really deal with the strings at all. Sometimes I check them just to be sure everything's still where it needs to be but otherwise I don't feel them in normal everyday life, only if I go rooting around in my vagina. They stay really far up in there so it's not like you have strings hanging out of you or anything. - Intercourse isn't really different. If anything it's better because I'm not dealing with weird hormonal stuff anymore (constant yeast infections and the pill also dried me out down there) and my sex drive shot through the roof back to my natural state.  I've asked and my partner says he's never felt the strings or noticed any difference. It's also easier to be spontaneous when your body feels like a babyproof fortress.  I won't lie, the first few periods with the IUD were rough (invest in ibuprofen, heat pads and black underwear), but it gets better after a few months if you can hold on. If you have any more questions, feel free to ask here or in the other thread as I check it all the time!
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My boyfriend's surname is Moon. He's mainly of French and Scottish ancestry, but gets a ton of junk mail that assumes he's Korean.
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Shannonmcn posted:My family were apparently bards to the old Kings of Ireland, the O'Neills. My housemate is an O'Neill but I don't sing for him. There's an old rock in the Ulster Museum that is called the throne of the O'Neills or something and the loser wouldn't even sit on it for a picture, I offered to distract the security guy and everything. Lmao lame. Abuelo franco was a stevedore (also costelero come Easter) and a truck driver. Also A cousin of my father is a renown flamenco guitarist who now teaches at the university in cordoba. He doesn't sing for some wussy king.
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Crow Jane posted:My boyfriend's surname is Moon. He's mainly of French and Scottish ancestry, but gets a ton of junk mail that assumes he's Korean. oh my god you're dating moon moon
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Spanish Manlove posted:Lmao lame. Abuelo franco was a stevedore (also costelero come Easter) and a truck driver. Also A cousin of my father is a renown flamenco guitarist who now teaches at the university in cordoba. He doesn't sing for some wussy king. you probably have to be good to play for monarchs 
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Pick posted:gots my name on the Main Page for writing about go-fast snails made with computers Tell me more about fast snails please
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Fruity Gordo posted:you probably have to be good to play for monarchs Kill all royalty and give their land to the peasants. The duchess of alba doesn't need a fuckin farm
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Pick posted:oh my god you're dating moon moon Only when he's had too much to drink. He's reasonably normal most of the time.
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