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I have a cousin on my mom's side who says they're related to Louis Riel on her mom's side. Knowing my cousin, I take that with a grain of salt, but I suppose it's possible. Me, eh, my last name comes down to me from a great great grandmother, because my great grandfather was born out of wedlock and there's no record of who his father was, so he only ever had his mother's name. And, oddly enough, his mother, and his mother's mother, and his mother's mother's mother, all had kids out of wedlock with no record of the father. We're whores and bastards.
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I learned in high school that the most tangible famous relation I have is to Henry Ford, by like, 'cousins of grandparents' relations or something. I learned that's not really a boast for different reasons.
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/\/\/\ I dunno about a black Keanu Reeves, but that is a handsome man right thereRoboRodent posted:We're whores and bastards. sounds like yer perfect to join me crew!
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Jul 28, 2021 06:07
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grittyreboot posted:Since we're talking about pretenders to the throne I wanna dig up an IOSM classic from the protests https://twitter.com/louisducdanjou/status/1266578058452054016?s=19 I am disappointed the Orelanist and Bonapartist pretenders to the French throne haven't gotten in to a dumb twitter fight as far as I can see. Booooo. In terms of paranormal beliefs and such, my paternal grandma who joined a church founded by a psychic looks down on my mom for believing in aliens and alien encounters. My mom in turn thinks psychics are frauds but 100% thinks that tarot and astrology can be legit in the right circumstances. Its an interesting passive agressive circle of judgement when they get together.
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Jul 28, 2021 06:09
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I just want to make sure no one was distracted by the awkward computer analogy and missed the chiropractor spelling it "spinal chord".
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Jul 28, 2021 06:24
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So in this analogy Lowtax's spine is like one of those Apple cords that's frayed at one end?
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Jul 28, 2021 06:28
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A Chiropractor manipulated the spinal chord that ruptured discs and pleased the Lord
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Jul 28, 2021 06:29
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He tried cracking my back, but it didn't work, so he reversed his approach. That didn't work, so went back to the original position, and it worked that time for some reason. Didn't matter though because my brain had frozen up and blue-screened by that point.
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Jul 28, 2021 06:29
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Sometimes you just wanna use the spine like a xylophone, no biggie.
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Knormal posted:I just want to make sure no one was distracted by the awkward computer analogy and missed the chiropractor spelling it "spinal chord". lol aaaaAAAAAAA
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Jul 28, 2021 06:34
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poly and open-minded posted:A Chiropractor manipulated the spinal chord First line over by six syllables and completely unscannable. Shameful.
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Jul 28, 2021 09:51
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OwlFancier posted:https://blogs.chapman.edu/wilkinson/2018/10/16/paranormal-america-2018/ Until 2016 I would have seriously doubted that there was so much idiocy in the American populace but in the runup to the election a couple of guys I've known for 30+ years both went completely off the deep end for all the q poo poo and to this day uphold the idea that Trump is coming back any day. I had to stop communicating with them a while back but a mutual friend sends me copies of texts occasionally and they're completely insane, there's nothing in them that make a lick of sense. It's very sad and pretty disturbing.
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Jul 28, 2021 10:07
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Local Weather posted:Until 2016 I would have seriously doubted that there was so much idiocy in the American populace but in the runup to the election a couple of guys I've known for 30+ years both went completely off the deep end for all the q poo poo and to this day uphold the idea that Trump is coming back any day. I had to stop communicating with them a while back but a mutual friend sends me copies of texts occasionally and they're completely insane, there's nothing in them that make a lick of sense. It's very sad and pretty disturbing.
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Jul 28, 2021 10:13
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Martman posted:The trick is to remind yourself that many of them are abusing all kinds of hosed up substances, it explains a lot of it for me Yeah I wish that was the case but most of the time it's just brain worms. Every day I am thankful that that poo poo never took hold in my family.
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Local Weather posted:Until 2016 I would have seriously doubted that there was so much idiocy in the American populace but in the runup to the election a couple of guys I've known for 30+ years both went completely off the deep end for all the q poo poo and to this day uphold the idea that Trump is coming back any day. I had to stop communicating with them a while back but a mutual friend sends me copies of texts occasionally and they're completely insane, there's nothing in them that make a lick of sense. It's very sad and pretty disturbing. If it helps, the data there suggests that since 2016 it has actually gotten dramatically worse!
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Jul 28, 2021 10:24
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OwlFancier posted:If it helps, the data there suggests that since 2016 it has actually gotten dramatically worse! Do you have any sources on this because that would be real interesting. Even here in Finland there are weird rear end trump supporters and q-anoners
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Jul 28, 2021 10:29
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If we're still doing famous relatives: Apparently I am related, (on my maternal grandmother's side), to the ye olde Captain Morgan who puts his name to Captain Morgan's Rum. Or Morgan is a relatively common name for a Welsh pirate to have had many many years ago. So I possibly have a distant relative caricatured on the cover of a bottle of lower shelf booze. Beat that!
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organburner posted:Do you have any sources on this because that would be real interesting. Even here in Finland there are weird rear end trump supporters and q-anoners Only what I linked which states a jump in all categories of paranormal beliefs between 2016 and 2018 and the university apparently does a whole bunch of investigations on the subject of fear in society: https://www.chapman.edu/wilkinson/research-centers/babbie-center/survey-american-fears.aspx And they publish their papers if you can read them which to be honest I struggle with because I failed statistics. https://www.chapman.edu/wilkinson/research-centers/babbie-center/_files/full-survey-methodology-2019.pdf OwlFancier has a new favorite as of 10:57 on Jul 28, 2021 |
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Jul 28, 2021 10:55
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BrigadierSensible posted:If we're still doing famous relatives: Morgan is a pretty common surname in Wales and almost every person I've met with that surname claims to be related to the pirate.
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Jul 28, 2021 11:44
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I would have gone with the fairy, personally.
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Jul 28, 2021 12:03
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OwlFancier posted:I would have gone with the fairy, personally. Go with both, be a fearsome fairy pirate!
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Jul 28, 2021 12:10
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Mega Comrade posted:Morgan is a pretty common surname in Wales and almost every person I've met with that surname claims to be related to the pirate. That's as well as maybe. But my Granny wouldn't lie to me about perhaps being distantly related to a booze pirate with the same name. Would she?
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Jul 28, 2021 12:19
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I'm pretty closely related to my parents
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Jul 28, 2021 12:20
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Bismuth posted:I'm pretty closely related to my parents That's what a lot of people have thought until the family gets everyone a 23 And Me kit for Christmas.
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Jul 28, 2021 12:36
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Guy I knew in the army was super proud of being descended from Ragnar Lothbrok. Yeah, they apparently had 'family documents' about it.
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Jul 28, 2021 12:39
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BrigadierSensible posted:That's as well as maybe. But my Granny wouldn't lie to me about perhaps being distantly related to a booze pirate with the same name. Maybe she was just saying she was half Captain Morgan by volume
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poly and open-minded posted:A Chiropractor manipulated the spinal chord Bloody Hedgehog posted:He tried cracking my back, but it didn't work, so he reversed his approach. That didn't work, so went back to the original position, and it worked that time for some reason. Tulalip Tulips posted:Sometimes you just wanna use the spine like a xylophone, no biggie. Y'all are worse than redditors at keeping meter
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goldenninjawarrior posted:My parents told me the other day that they were going to name me Ragnar if I'd been a boy. Wish I got named Ragnar, that's a cool name. Not my my Swedish ears, it’s a bit of an old-man name you won’t hear outside of Viking pop-culture stuff.
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Ragnar fuuuuucked so I’m sure he has lots and lots of descendants. Also members of his army also tended to call themselves “Ragnarsons” so there are a lot of people who think they have a blood connection but don’t. To boot, half of his actual sons are either legendary or are variations of the names of his known sons.BigglesSWE posted:Not my my Swedish ears, it’s a bit of an old-man name you won’t hear outside of Viking pop-culture stuff. My wife is Czech and when we had kids I wanted to name one Otikar because to my American ears it sound tough and badass but to Czech people it sounds like the name of a foppish noble or fancy boy
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Scratch Monkey posted:My wife is Czech and when we had kids I wanted to name one Otikar because to my American ears it sound tough and badass but to Czech people it sounds like the name of a foppish noble or fancy boy When my brother and his wife were going to have their son, one of the names that was being proposed was Salvatore - when my brother was seeing what other folk thought if it, one of his co-workers (from Milan) was adamant that he shouldn't go for that name, cause everyone would think he was Sicilian.
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Like half of Europe is descended from Charlemagne, it ain't that special. If someone was from that long ago and hosed in your vague area of descent there's probably some DNA in there.
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Nobody in my family ever claimed to have some famous ancestor. We did do the bog standard white person thing of being like "well my grandma is like 6% native American" with absolutely no proof whatsoever.
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Jul 28, 2021 14:58
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I looked up mine and it is not necessarily a proud ancestry. For reference: I am white. For additional information: I am American. For the kicker: I am from the south. 
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Jul 28, 2021 15:12
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I’m related to like four poets who died in insane asylums and well, I’m glad I can barely write
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Jul 28, 2021 15:17
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Still quite happy to have just emerged from a hole in the ground with no knowledge of anybody in my family ever living or doing anything other than where I already live.
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endocriminologist posted:I’m related to like four poets who died in insane asylums and well, I’m glad I can barely write I read this as being related to four posts who died in asylums, and friend, that would have been some bad news for you
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My dad wanted to name me Sputnik, and when that didn't fly he wanted to name me Gagarin lol
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