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Café Pedro 5: Slightly Anticlimatic
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| pcm2009fan |
Posted on 21-01-2013 17:43
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Nice going cio! The best my dad came up with was a catholic martyr who was burned at the stake. Cheery  |
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| cactus-jack |
Posted on 21-01-2013 17:52
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We also did have one "bloodletter" who immigrated from Finland around 1700.
Bloodletting, sentencing single mothers to public shaming and burning of catholics. History is fun!
There's a fine line between "psychotherapist" and "psycho the rapist"
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| issoisso |
Posted on 21-01-2013 18:00
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I don't know much about my ancestry.
I do know I have an ancestor that raised himself from a poor family by working a full time job while taking his college degree in engineering (helps that college is free!), was forced into prolonged military service eventually joining the commandos where he became an instructor, came back to civilian life where he worked himself and his wife out of the lower class by working 16 hour days for almost 10 straight years including going to Angola during on-off wartime to work for 5 years, hitching rides in russian military gunship helicopters during the cold war to get around, contracting malaria 4 times and finally being blown up by a landmine while on an everyday trip to inspect a dam they were building. Lost a leg. Went back home. Kept working. Had a kid. Lived happily ever after.
Wonder what I'd say to him if I could meet him right now........probably "Hi dad, how's mom?"
I only know my family 3 generations back and it's a pretty boring family, but as annoying as my dad is his life story is pretty nuts. I won't even bother trying to top it.
Edited by issoisso on 21-01-2013 18:02
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| felix_29 |
Posted on 21-01-2013 18:14
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Mostly boring stuff in my ancestry.
When i moved to another town (village describes it better) we found out that one of my great-great-great-great-great-grandpas had lived there. One of my great-grandpas was a WW II deserter. And one of my grandpas got some federal honours for treating people with variola.
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| Daggen |
Posted on 21-01-2013 18:25
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felix_29 wrote:
Mostly boring stuff in my ancestry.
When i moved to another town (village describes it better) we found out that one of my great-great-great-great-great-grandpas had lived there. One of my great-grandpas was a WW II deserter. And one of my grandpas got some federal honours for treating people with variola.
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| miggi133 |
Posted on 21-01-2013 18:27
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cactus-jack wrote:
It's a steel string Ibanez V72ece.
On a side note; genealogy is fun! I've traced my ancestry back to roughly 1580 +/- 10 years! Not a single interesting person, though. We've gone 500 years without making a single tiny mark on history.
No pressure on me then!
<can do the same with my two family strains...
Al my family has done is slowly emigrate frm Russia towards germany (and eventually me moving to Ireland  ), with the negative highlight, being my great-grandfather being accused of several nazi-crimes by the brits and never returning from russia...
(Oh, and there is the ever-neutral Luxemburgish/Belgian Side of the family, that somewhere along the lines ended up in the brewing industry...)
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| Crommy |
Posted on 21-01-2013 18:37
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My family is hilariously poor farm/manual labourers all the way back. Apart from my Granddad's cousin. Who has won 2 Oscars.
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 21-01-2013 18:38
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Crommy wrote:
My Dad graduated top of his class in the Navy Seals, despite being British, and has been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Qaeda, and has over 300 confirmed kills. He's trained in gorilla warfare and is the top sniper in the entire US armed forces.
My family is hilariously poor farm/manual labourers all the way back. Apart from my Granddad's cousin. Who has won 2 Oscars.
You see, with posts like that it's hard to see if you're kidding or not. It's plausible, but barely  |
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 21-01-2013 18:39
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Ian Butler wrote:
Crommy wrote:
My Dad graduated top of his class in the Navy Seals, despite being British, and has been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Qaeda, and has over 300 confirmed kills. He's trained in gorilla warfare and is the top sniper in the entire US armed forces.
My family is hilariously poor farm/manual labourers all the way back. Apart from my Granddad's cousin. Who has won 2 Oscars.
You see, with posts like that it's hard to see if you're kidding or not. It's plausible, but barely
He's definetly joking. Maybe. |
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| Daggen |
Posted on 21-01-2013 18:40
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My grandmoothers grandfather owned a warf in the german town of Stralsund. Later he bought the hotel in Stralsund. Deceased in 1937 and then everything was sold  . His son became mayor in the same town  |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 21-01-2013 18:40
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FroomeDog99 wrote:
Ian Butler wrote:
Crommy wrote:
My Dad graduated top of his class in the Navy Seals, despite being British, and has been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Qaeda, and has over 300 confirmed kills. He's trained in gorilla warfare and is the top sniper in the entire US armed forces.
My family is hilariously poor farm/manual labourers all the way back. Apart from my Granddad's cousin. Who has won 2 Oscars.
You see, with posts like that it's hard to see if you're kidding or not. It's plausible, but barely
He's definetly joking. Maybe.
Well, I'm pretty convinced. But in case it's not, it would be rude to be laughing, know what I mean? Though after reading it thoroughly a second time, there's no doubt. Damn I'm tired
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| Daggen |
Posted on 21-01-2013 18:42
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Ian Butler wrote:
FroomeDog99 wrote:
Ian Butler wrote:
Crommy wrote:
My Dad graduated top of his class in the Navy Seals, despite being British, and has been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Qaeda, and has over 300 confirmed kills. He's trained in gorilla warfare and is the top sniper in the entire US armed forces.
My family is hilariously poor farm/manual labourers all the way back. Apart from my Granddad's cousin. Who has won 2 Oscars.
You see, with posts like that it's hard to see if you're kidding or not. It's plausible, but barely
He's definetly joking. Maybe.
Well, I'm pretty convinced. But in case it's not, it would be rude to be laughing, know what I mean?
give us the name of your ancestor who won two oscars |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 21-01-2013 18:44
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Crommy wrote:
My Dad graduated top of his class in the Navy Seals, despite being British, and has been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Qaeda, and has over 300 confirmed kills. He's trained in gorilla warfare and is the top sniper in the entire US armed forces.
My family is hilariously poor farm/manual labourers all the way back. Apart from my Granddad's cousin. Who has won 2 Oscars.
The preceding post is ISSO 9001 certified
"I love him, I think he's great. He's transformed the sport in so many ways. Every person in cycling has benefitted from Lance Armstrong, perhaps not financially but in some sense" - Bradley Wiggins on Lance Armstrong
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| cactus-jack |
Posted on 21-01-2013 18:47
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Crommy wrote:
My Dad graduated top of his class in the Navy Seals, despite being British, and has been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Qaeda, and has over 300 confirmed kills. He's trained in gorilla warfare and is the top sniper in the entire US armed forces.
300 confirmed chimp-kills sure is something.
There's a fine line between "psychotherapist" and "psycho the rapist"
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 21-01-2013 18:49
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cactus-jack wrote:
Crommy wrote:
My Dad graduated top of his class in the Navy Seals, despite being British, and has been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Qaeda, and has over 300 confirmed kills. He's trained in gorilla warfare and is the top sniper in the entire US armed forces.
300 confirmed chimp-kills sure is something.
It ain't no laughing matter. I once fell in a chimp ambush. Sure wasn't pretty.
Though it ain't nothing compared to Baboon warfare. Don't ever go on that road. *insert horrible war flashbacks here* |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 21-01-2013 18:51
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Fuck me for mentioning my dad getting crippled by a landmine in what's apparently a joke thread
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 21-01-2013 18:54
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issoisso wrote:
Fuck me for mentioning my dad getting crippled by a landmine in what's apparently a joke thread
Well, the joke isn't on your post, obviously.
And Café Pedro is known for its silliness. Difficults Thread is there for the more serious minded comments. |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 21-01-2013 19:35
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You're right of course, but notice how I managed to kill the thread dead
GOING TOO FAST, YOU WERE SAYING? 
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| Crommy |
Posted on 21-01-2013 19:47
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Daggen wrote:
Crommy wrote:
My family is hilariously poor farm/manual labourers all the way back. Apart from my Granddad's cousin. Who has won 2 Oscars.
give us the name of your ancestor who won two oscars
This dude: https://en.wikiped...ence_Marsh
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 21-01-2013 19:53
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Crommy wrote:
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My family is hilariously poor farm/manual labourers all the way back. Apart from my Granddad's cousin. Who has won 2 Oscars.
Bar the Oscars part, that's almost my family too.
All were Breton peasants, as far as I could get back (more or less until the French revolution, 220+ years ago - they burnt most civil records back then). Some owned their farms (on my mother's side), others were farm workers.
Only my Grand-Pa (on my father's side) did something somewhat exceptional, but that was the produce of his time.
He helped building the Maginot line in 1938 or something, then was called to fight in the Somme and got injured. Not sure how or when he became a POW but managed to escape with a bunch of others. Then at some point he was coming back home in a train, they were told to stay in the train but still jumped down it, the train later got bombed or sabotaged (not sure), a little farther than Rennes, so he went back home walking (200+ km) three days and sleeping in local farms. Spent the rest of WW2 hidden.
He could probably have been a decent gymnast or swimmer, had sport been popular in his time.
Also, his father had to walk all the way to Nantes from Western Brittany to serve his conscription time (3 years at the time, IIRC). There had no cars and roads were not what they were today, plus most likely he could barely speak French.
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