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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:Agreed. Lol at anyone who is 4+ generations removed from their European ancestry and thinks it means a drat thing. "I'm Irish," lol. Just lol. I agree with this. Especially the people that are like "Well, I'm 1/16 French, 1/16 Cherokee, 3/8 Polish, and 1/4 German and 1/4 Irish" It's great to know where you are from, but seriously don't loving try to sound like a know it all because you have some type of genealogy in you. My dad was born from parents coming directly from Norway. He was given up for adoption, and his birth mom doesn't want anything to do with him (she said "Don't ever contact me again" when he reached out to her like 5 years ago). That makes me 3rd Generation Norweigan which I claim wholly because my mom is a My sons are second generation Albanian and fourth generation Norwegian. Thats it. Screw my mom's side of the family tree. Real Talk: If I wanted to be an expat and move to Germany, since my son is technically German would it be easy to get citizenship over there as his caretaker? edit: Burt posted:There's currently an English rugby player looking at a world of poo poo because he called a Welsh player with "traveler" blood "Gypsy Boy". My wife's family HHHAAAAATTTEEEESSSS Gypsies. Like they loving loathe them. They do everything save spit on them on the street. I got saved by getting mugged or shook down for money from them when I visited and wandered off somewhere to get a picture of Skanderbeu with the Albanian flag. These two gypsies came up and pretty much said I owed them money for taking a picture. Brother in law comes over and starts yelling at them. They were just kids, like 10-12, and I'm positive my brother in law would have fought them had they been older. Soulex fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Mar 24, 2016 |
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i smoke like two packs a day. Starting to wonder if maybe there is some French or Italian in my blood?
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Mar 24, 2016 20:01
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:i smoke like two packs a day. Starting to wonder if maybe there is some French or Italian in my blood? Definitely Italian if you like pasta and say every pasta dish in a over the top accent. Mah-cah-REH-nah!
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Mar 24, 2016 20:07
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thats-a-spicey-a-meatball I always exclaim, and then chuckle. heh i'm italian i know good italian when i see it - said while eating and enjoying olive garden by probably a lot of americans
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Mar 24, 2016 20:10
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:i smoke like two packs a day. Starting to wonder if maybe there is some French or Italian in my blood?
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Mar 24, 2016 20:46
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Casimir Radon posted:How greasy are you? More importantly how much chest hair.
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Mar 24, 2016 20:51
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My dad was an adopted war baby. My daughter keeps bugging me about 'what is he??' but even he doesn't know nor does he even care and thats good enough for me.
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Mar 24, 2016 20:55
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:Agreed. Lol at anyone who is 4+ generations removed from their European ancestry and thinks it means a drat thing. "I'm Irish," lol. Just lol. Allow me to caveat off that sir, every chick of Irish descent I've met off Tinder has gotten shitfaced and then wanted to gently caress like my seed would retroactively cure the potato famine
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Mar 24, 2016 21:32
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My mom loving loves getting lit and telling us to respect the Cherokee in our blood or whatever. But when you look at the family tree you realize her great grandmother was full of poo poo and not a fullblooded Indian, just creole. Andy Jackson had already marched out the Cherokee by the time she got knocked up by great (x2) grampa
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Mar 24, 2016 22:27
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Maybe it's confirmation bias, but it seemed like every fucker from the south I met in the army would always say some poo poo about how they're part Cherokee or Choctaw or whatever the gently caress.
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Mar 24, 2016 23:17
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Mike-o posted:Maybe it's confirmation bias, but it seemed like every fucker from the south I met in the army would always say some poo poo about how they're part Cherokee or Choctaw or whatever the gently caress. well, everyone from the south is pretty dumb, and I'm willing to bet they heard the joke about having a race in their family tree, and took it at face value
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Mar 24, 2016 23:19
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Anyone ever brag about the black side of their family due Ol' Pappy Cracker not being able to stay out of the female slaves quarters? Pretty much the same time period.
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Mar 24, 2016 23:32
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we thought my grampa was part indian but then my grandparents did one of those DNA swab things and it turns out he's not even a little bit. Gramma was smug cuz she wasn't as much neandrethal as grampa I explained that meant more of her ancestors came more recently from africa SAY poo poo NOW
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Mar 24, 2016 23:35
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LingcodKilla posted:Bunch of rubbish. After a few generations if you are Irish, congrats without knowing your last name you are White. Yeah, Irish weren't actually considered white if you can believe that. They were less valuable with slaves...slaves were a financial investment, while there was a neverending sea of Irish looking for work even if it carried a lousy mortality rate.
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Mar 25, 2016 03:18
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Godholio posted:Yeah, Irish weren't actually considered white if you can believe that. They were less valuable with slaves...slaves were a financial investment, while there was a neverending sea of Irish looking for work even if it carried a lousy mortality rate. I took a black studies course (it doubled as an English credit) and they said the biggest reason the British didn't import Irish slaves was that they were impossible to keep track of if they escaped and/or intermarried.
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Mar 25, 2016 03:26
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Godholio posted:Yeah, Irish weren't actually considered white if you can believe that. They were less valuable with slaves...slaves were a financial investment, while there was a neverending sea of Irish looking for work even if it carried a lousy mortality rate. I mean, I took sociology 110 so I know about Irish and Chinese being the "new friend of the family" post Civil War, and yes the Irish had some challenges (as did the germans, the Italians (WOPs!)) but to pretend that any american today has any sort of connection to that or whatever is total bullshit.
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Mar 25, 2016 03:28
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Godholio posted:Yeah, Irish weren't actually considered white if you can believe that. They were less valuable with slaves...slaves were a financial investment, while there was a neverending sea of Irish looking for work even if it carried a lousy mortality rate. I understand that but what I'm trying to convey is after a few generations you simply can't tell who was from were if European. Throw a black parent in the mix and you could carry the possible stigma for 4 or more generations even if every other parent is white. One Irish direct relative isn't going to change anything to an all euro family tree.
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Mar 25, 2016 03:43
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LingcodKilla posted:One Irish direct relative isn't going to change anything to an all euro family tree.
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im gonna pretend im descended from william the conquerer, since my maternal grandmas family name is a french canadian mutation of a name thats common in normandy, and my maternal grandpas family comes from calabira, which is the first italian land roger de hauteville conquered. dunno bout my dads side too much other than he had a german as gently caress last name so who can say
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Mar 25, 2016 04:56
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my last name is like st. patricks fukken chariot driver, suck my dick, peasant since the beginning
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to celebrate my norman heritage im gonna go get a haircut like my ancestors wouldve had its like the most hosed up barracks cut
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:to celebrate my norman heritage im gonna go get a haircut like my ancestors wouldve had lmao that one black dude said he worked at a barber shop tho
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:I mean, I took sociology 110 so I know about Irish and Chinese being the "new friend of the family" post Civil War, and yes the Irish had some challenges (as did the germans, the Italians (WOPs!)) but to pretend that any american today has any sort of connection to that or whatever is total bullshit. gently caress that, I want my tatereparations.
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Mar 25, 2016 05:47
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Soulex posted:Real Talk: If I wanted to be an expat and move to Germany, since my son is technically German would it be easy to get citizenship over there as his caretaker? How technically German is he?
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Duzzy Funlop posted:How technically German is he? duzzy funlop so german he has a harem of korean girls i think thats the deal anyway??
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Soulex posted:Real Talk: If I wanted to be an expat and move to Germany, since my son is technically German would it be easy to get citizenship over there as his caretaker? Does your son have German citizenship? Is he still a minor?
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They've traced my family back to colonial America on one side of my family so gently caress figuring out how German/French/whatever there, and on the other side I'm technically 1st generation because my great grandparents were Basque and left Spain because they didn't want to get killed, had my grandma in Mexico, and my dad was born in Saudi Arabia. I just tell people I'm 1/4 Mexican, then I don't have to explain for 10 minutes my dumb family history.
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I tell people I'm American usually. Kinda weird going to Ireland and saying I'm Irish if my family hasn't been there in 100 years.
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I'm white, so my privilege includes not having to know or care where my forebears came from I met a few people in Ireland and Italy who tried asking me where my family was from, and it seemed like I put a wrinkle in the natural flow of the conversation when I refused to say I was [Irish/Italian]. Especially in Ireland, there was a pretty major expectation that Americans will claim to be "Irish." I always just shrug and say I'm white and everyone in my family is natural-born American and other poo poo doesn't really matter to me
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Mar 25, 2016 16:46
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I'm on the Irish foreign birth registry or whatever the frig it's called. I qualify for an Irish passport and I've never considered calling myself irish. I find it really, really odd that all these people claim to be irish because... it makes them exotic or something? You gotta be a plain, whitebread motherfucker if you're saying a vague possibly - possibly not - irish ancestor makes you more interesting.
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not caring here posted:I'm on the Irish foreign birth registry or whatever the frig it's called. I qualify for an Irish passport and I've never considered calling myself irish. I find it really, really odd that all these people claim to be irish because... it makes them exotic or something? You gotta be a plain, whitebread motherfucker if you're saying a vague possibly - possibly not - irish ancestor makes you more interesting. It's an American thing, the lower your birth the more "real" it makes you. People claim irish because they were hated and persecuted and American's eat that poo poo up. Because if the powers that be hated grandpa it somehow makes you a rebel thats fought from nothing to become something, even when that something is trailer trash who does their grocery shopping with scratcher winnings at the 7-11
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Booblord Zagats posted:It's an American thing, the lower your birth the more "real" it makes you. People claim irish because they were hated and persecuted and American's eat that poo poo up. Because if the powers that be hated grandpa it somehow makes you a rebel thats fought from nothing to become something, even when that something is trailer trash who does their grocery shopping with scratcher winnings at the 7-11 I thought Americans claim Irish because it gives them an excuse to dress like morons and drink terrible green beer.
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My wife's mothers side of the family are proud Irish living just like their ancestors. Off the grid with no water, paved road, electricity, sewage or phone lines in a house made of (stolen) telephone poles and whatever junk they could find in the desert. The "guest" house on the property is three double wides strapped together. One of the sons is the Army cousin who couldn't even pass the ASVAB. Irish pride! My turd of a biological sperm donor has a nicer shack in Mexicali.
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My dad's side was from Austria, but that part is now in Italy so I like to tease my "Italian" friends by saying I'm Italian too, and got here earlier to boot!
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Mar 25, 2016 18:06
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My family on both sides is just straight up English American going all the way back to the 1660's with a couple Scottish and German surnames popping up every once in a while. The first person in my family born in America was orphaned by the age of 5 because one parent was killed in an Indian raid and the other from an illness of some sort. He ended up doing pretty good for himself though, was able to pass on several thousand acres to his descendants. I guess my family was never particularly religious because they never seemed to stick with one for longer than a generation or two.
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Dutch as gently caress. As in, Grandma's dad (A judge and politician) was a hostage of ZE GESTAPO for good behaviour. Her brother said "lol sorry dad" and joined the resistance, got an awesome code name and everything (Axel). Grandpa got taken as a laborer and put onto a farm in Bavaria, the both of them worked for English Intelligence after the war translating POW letters from German to English. Their lives were loving fascinating, all the poo poo they saw and places they went. Basically they were the last of the Colonials.
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Half Norwegian, quarter German, some other stuff. Both grandfathers were full Norwegian, grandmothers were a mix of German and other stuff. Great-grandpa Radon left Norway to avoid conscription in the army, then a few years later got a draft notice for WW1. But the war ended and he didn't actually have to do anything. He also built a fishing boat without any plans, apparently just thinking about what he was going to do the next day before he went to bed. A while later he and his brother sawed it in half and added another 10' to it. Then he sold it to some other guys who got drunk one time and sank it.
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A while back one of my relatives decided to do one of the ancestry things. We turned out to be epic mutts. Pretty much everything but east Asian and African, but we've married into those in the last couple of generations. When people start those conversations I just say "We have transcended white trash. We have assimilated all trash." chemosh6969 posted:I'm an old single white cat lady that has 1/100000000th blood of the Cherokee running through my veins. We need to respect the world as my ancestors did. Anyone interested in buying some of my CDs full of Native American music? I play the flute. Have you considered politics? 
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Dmaonk posted:Does your son have German citizenship? Is he still a minor? Born in a German hospital so I think yes. Also yes
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