The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

[Stevicus]

Oh sorry, I had the wrong Grandmother

My grandmother was born in Missouri. My other grandmother was born in Minnesota. Both states beginning with "M" and both bordering the Mississippi River (which also begins with "M"). My grandfather was born in Louisiana, while the other was born in Illinois - and both of those states border the Mississippi.

That is the end of the announcement.

 

[Wu Wei]

My grandmother was born in Missouri. My other grandmother was born in Minnesota. Both states beginning with "M" and both bordering the Mississippi River (which also begins with "M"). My grandfather was born in Louisiana, while the other was born in Illinois - and both of those states border the Mississippi.

That is the end of the announcement.

My Grandmother was born in Pennsylvania, my other Grandmother was born in Indiana both of them are on Lake Erie........Michigan is shaped like a mitten and I'm pretty sure both my Grandmothers wore mittens......

 

[Stevicus]

My Grandmother was born in Pennsylvania, my other Grandmother was born in Indiana both of them are on Lake Erie........Michigan is shaped like a mitten and I'm pretty sure both my Grandmothers wore mittens......

It's an Erie coincidence, isn't it?

 

[Stevicus]

It's an Erie coincidence, isn't it?

Hey wait...Indiana is not on Lake Erie...

 

[Wu Wei]

It's an Erie coincidence, isn't it?

And it is not Michigan either...but Michigan is still shaped like a mitten

 

[Stevicus]

Before we moved to Arizona, we lived for many years in upstate NY. Every Thanksgiving, we'd travel to our grandparents who lived outside of Chicago. I recall that those states back east love their toll roads and turnpikes. Sometimes there'd be pretty heavy snow along the way.

I had an uncle in Cleveland. Cleveland is a horrible place.

 

[Revoltingest]

My Grandmother was born in Pennsylvania, my other Grandmother was born in Indiana both of them are on Lake Erie........Michigan is shaped like a mitten and I'm pretty sure both my Grandmothers wore mittens......

My family is such that I do no research into ancestors.
I don't keep track of them, & I don't want any of that
23andMe stuff. Tis enuf for me to know that I'm mostly
Scot & Kraut. More than that would be at best useless.

 

[Stevicus]

My family is such that I do no research into ancestors.
I don't keep track of them, & I don't want any of that
23andMe stuff. Tis enuf for me to know that I'm mostly
Scot & Kraut. More than that would be at best useless.

My grandmother (the one from Missouri) had a book which detailed her entire family tree. They even had a coat of arms. Apparently, I'm a direct descendant of William the Conqueror.

My grandfather's family lived in the swamps of Louisiana. They were Cajuns. A lot of them later went into the oil business.

 

[Revoltingest]

My grandmother (the one from Missouri) had a book which detailed her entire family tree. They even had a coat of arms. Apparently, I'm a direct descendant of William the Conqueror.

My grandfather's family lived in the swamps of Louisiana. They were Cajuns. A lot of them later went into the oil business.

My ancestors go all the way back to homosomethingorother in Africa.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

ᚱᚨᚾᛞᛟᛗ ᚨᚾᛞ ᛗᛖᚨᚾᛁᛜᛚᛖᛊᛊ

Anglosaxophone!

 

[Wu Wei]

My family is such that I do no research into ancestors.
I don't keep track of them, & I don't want any of that
23andMe stuff. Tis enuf for me to know that I'm mostly
Scot & Kraut. More than that would be at best useless.

So what you're really saying..is your family disowned you and don't want you to find them...and most certainly do not want to admit you're related

 

[Wu Wei]

And with that RF......Goodnight

 

[Shadow Wolf]

What if I say bad things in Runes...they wouldn't know......ᛊᛖᛖ ᚹᚺᚨᛏ ᛁ ᛗᛖᚨᚾ

良い点
あなたはそれらを打ちます

 

[Shadow Wolf]

My family is such that I do no research into ancestors.
I don't keep track of them, & I don't want any of that
23andMe stuff. Tis enuf for me to know that I'm mostly
Scot & Kraut. More than that would be at best useless.

At times I've wanted to do one of those 23andMe thingies just to see if my dad is really my dad or not. No recent Cherokee heritage then I'm not his. I would probably celebrate if that was the case.

 

[Revoltingest]

So what you're really saying..is your family disowned you and don't want you to find them...and most certainly do not want to admit you're related

A mutual disinterest in each other.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

A mutual disinterest in each other.

That's how I feel about my dad's family. Except it's not mutual. Their in-n-out is jail and prison, drug abuse and manufacturing, welfare abusers who are lazy mooches, and enough smoking to compete with a crematory stack.

 

[Revoltingest]

That's how I feel about my dad's family. Except it's not mutual. Their in-n-out is jail and prison, drug abuse and manufacturing, welfare abusers who are lazy mooches, and enough smoking to compete with a crematory stack.

My philosophy:
Keep the family you want.
Ditch the rest.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

My philosophy:
Keep the family you want.
Ditch the rest.

Yup.
It's why I had one brother, not two.

 

[Revoltingest]

Yup.
It's why I had one brother, not two.

I once had 1 brother & 3 sisters.
I now have 2 sisters & no regrets.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I once had 1 brother & 3 sisters.
I now have 2 sisters & no regrets.

Mines gotten smaller after my brother's death and realizing the futility of my goals moving in with my parents and the fact we just don't get a long that well for very long anymore. Especially after she asked me the other day why I'm having things mailed to Sara, my name, the thing people usually have written on a package the ordered. My best and her redneck, hillbilly, Confederate flag displaying, Trump supporting family even says Sara and uses she/her pronouns (they have always been more of a family to me, anyways). My own mother wont even do that with family, and she's the one who named me.
So family is basically my nieces and nephews at this point. Except for one of them, my second oldest nephew/sister's oldest son, because that little cock bite couldn't get over himself and drop the crap and refused to come to my brother's funeral because his mom was there. My sister couldn't drop the crap either so I'm done with her. My dad refused to drop it, but I've been done with him.
But I feel it's a damned if I do, damned if I don't. Because cutting ties and not talking to each other is something this family very much does. My brother, when he died my sister and oldest niece weren't really on speaking terms with him for a couple years; he spoke to his son last a couple years ago over a course of a few years of no communication; his daughters barely spoke to him at all for several years (they were still kids before puberty, and now the two younger ones are married and have a baby of their own).