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Dolorosa
Extreme Fanatic   Posts: 856 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 6/12/2002 at 08:47 PM |
Alright, a lot of times, someone's cultural bloodlines can actually tell
you a lot about them. The classic stereotypes being Irish = drunk, Scot =
violent, Brit = snooty, Canadian = uh..., French = romantic and hot if your
a chick, kinda' fruity if your a guy...and so on and so forth. Now
generally of course, this stereotypes are nothing more than that...but
occasionally there is some truth to them, cultural bloodlines are an
important and interesting part of someones genetic-psychological profile. I
wanna' know what your bloodlines are, and what they say about you.
Now me, I have a healthy chunk of Eastern European, Irish and more than a
little Blackfeet American, near as I can figure, I have a dark sense of
humor, a tendancy to get wasted and musical, and in fights...I go in
screaming and come out with a scalp or two (and yes I know the Americans
started that practice, the Feets just perfected it). But those are the only
three I know of, the rest of my bloodline is kinda' smokey. So how about
everybody else...
I've got a running bet in my head that we have more than a little
Scot-Irish bloods around.
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In the valley of the Goats, the Goat Fucker is King
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IamSquid
Extreme Fanatic  Posts: 658 Registered: 27/5/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 6/12/2002 at 09:22 PM |
Okay well my family comes from Ireland (I'm actually the American of the
family, since I have no other heritage, it's fairly easy to work out the
stereotypes):
Alcoholic
Catholic
Belligerent *
Loudmouth *
Egotistical *
Angry *
These are common stereotypes of the Irish and my family meets them all. I
however meet only those marked by an asterisk however it all depends on
what mood I'm in.
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Closetgothbabe
Member   Posts: 189 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 6/12/2002 at 11:01 PM |
Im Irish and German......
I have been singing this song all day
Face down in the gutter wont admit defeat
His clothes all soiled and black
He's a big strong man with a childs mind, dont ya take his booze away!
Bad temper espicially when intoxicated, love to drink, go to shows, get
violent, will kill anyone that messes with the ones I love, faithful and
loyal...hmm I am sure there is more but my eyes are tired and my brain is
frozen!
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bettie_x
Extreme Fanatic  Posts: 1570 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 7/12/2002 at 12:58 AM |
Ah dropkick murpheys!!!!
I"m a friggin mutt. I don't know where the hell I'm "from". My dad's
family tree literally drops off the face of the earth around 1890 (they're
from virginia..go fig) and on my mother's side I do know that I have blood
relatives in Wales, and my great grandmother on her side was Belgan...she
met my great grandpa during WWI. Michael calls me a "half assed bastard
french" *snicker*
A family member on my mother's side published a book on our family tree (I
have it somewhere) and of course, my picture is in it, and of course, the
worst friggin one I've ever had taken which she says is "so cute!". Not
only was it awful, but outdated even when she sent it in 10 years ago.
I don't know what my deal is...I drink and fight like the irish, scream
like the scottish, bitch like the british, behave like a german, and my
favorite breakfast food is waffles (thanks great grandma!).
I figure I"m just another example of crossing podunk constantly migrating
southern hillbillies and snobby eurotrash. With waffles. And
strawberries.
I have no excuse! *whine* ____________________
Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas.
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bettie_x
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 1570 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 7/12/2002 at 01:06 AM |
I actually heard a really funny comedy bit once by this woman about "ethnic
origins/behaviors"
It started with the idea of how when people go missing we assume they're
dead, right?
She figures the same thing happens with goldfish....all their buddies in
the ocean are figuring they're dead, when in reality they're in a tank
somewhere in an "opposite dimention".
So when we disappear, we end up in alien terrariums...and here's what they
have to say.
"Hey man look at that irish one, he's drinkin again, that chinese critter
won't stop screamin at everyone and the mexican one passes out every day at
three o'clock!"
then on to
"Aw, look what happens when we give them alcohol...Woah man, check out the
mick, that little irish one is still goin at it even after all the other
little guys fell down!"
I work with an irish/jew (who refers to himself as YENteel) and I"ve never
met a more successful drunk in my life. This man literally can't function
without booze. Not at work, but I can always tell when he hasn't been
drinking in a while. It doesnt affect his life, his ability to work or
function, his relationships, he is just stayin "true" to his "roots" as he
puts it. "I'm a fucking mick....it's like gas in a car...I don't have it,
I don't run"
I think I'll dig out that book my mom has on our lineage and see if I can
scrounge something up that doesn't suck....hmm. ____________________
Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas.
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AloneSoul
Fanatic   Posts: 522 Registered: 6/7/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 7/12/2002 at 01:53 AM |
Short tempered
Avoidant
Likes to knock back a few bottles when he can get them.
Puerto Rican, German, Spanish, I'm mixed up pretty well. My ma's Puerto
Rican with family from Spain, my pop, he's...everything. ____________________
 but at least you know, just how much pain there is in living
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DevilBunny
Member  Posts: 178 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 7/12/2002 at 05:36 AM |
Hmmm, see like I say - a huge lot of people from the USA are actually
Europeans... 
My family, from what I know, is partially Polish nobility plus Hungarian
and Romanian knights - they mixed a bit during wars and stuff...
I managed to trace it all the way back to the year about 1550 in old books
and registers from those times...
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Mutant_Duckie
Member  Posts: 68 Registered: 13/7/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 7/12/2002 at 10:21 AM |
heh, everyone that's not native american came from some other country
somewhere along the line. simple as that.
I always just tell everyone I'm a mutt. On those standardized tests where
they ask your ethnictisity, i always draw in another bubble that says
"mutt".
really, though, as far as i know, i'm mostly german and french, with hints
of irish and british along the line. There may be some indian or native
american thrown in there a few generations over. my grandma was telling me
about me much but i don't really remember. ____________________
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QUACK!
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bettie_x
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 1570 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 7/12/2002 at 10:35 PM |
Actually, native americans had to get here from somewhere too...ie: the
siberian land bridge during the last ice age when the oceans were reduced
and a strip of land linking siberia/asia with the north american continet.
They are actually decendents of migrating/game following asian tribes that,
like all animals, continued to evolve separately when the oceans rose and
closed off the routes. Before that land strip was opened up, North America
was vacant. So in essence, they weren't always here, they were just here
FIRST by accident.
I watched a super fun special on this on the discovery channel...quite
interesting, very informative. Some of it was speculative of course, as
we'll never know the true way things happened, but with the advent of
genetics they are able to trace genetic markers all over the globe to in
essence, "See" where people came from, and where their heritage may in fact
lie. There was a caucasian woman from australia in a study group for this
program, and a full blooded native american man. They both shared some
exact same genetic markers, linking them to a common ancestor in asia.
Wierd, huh? That most of us at one time in our family history shared a
common ancestor or two crossing race, ethnic, and social boundaries?
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Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas.
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IamSquid
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 658 Registered: 27/5/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 8/12/2002 at 02:27 AM |
So in theory, many of us are distantly inbred? Actually, if yoo buy into
Biblical creationism, we're all descended from the same two people TWICE!
(once from the Garden of Eden, and once from the Great Flood) Meaning
we're all inbred and thus the product of sin.
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Dolorosa
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 856 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 8/12/2002 at 08:14 AM |
Indiands didn't come here by a siberian landbridge! Grandfather Coyote
made 'em out of a lil' iron pot, he stuck all sorts of crap in there and
stirred it with his tail...thats right, the native's sprung fresh off a
coyote's ass like Athena from Zues' forehead...word.
And if in fact we are all decended from two prime creatures, I wonder what
magnificent specimens of existance they must have been, since we must all
be so ferociously inbred that we are essentially drooling genetic
catastrophes waiting to die...
Apparently they weren't good enough not to screw up things royally, so I
guess thats always been gegentically inherent.
I never could figure it out myself, which means I just don't understand it
enough yet...must hunt for more puzzle-pieces...
One of my favorite past-times is, and will always be, silently trying to
guess the mixture of tribes in someone I have just met...a curiosity
really...
Pap padda-funi funi pap-padda hoi hoi. (ten bucks goes to whoever figures
that one...)  ____________________
In the valley of the Goats, the Goat Fucker is King
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addastra
Coward   Posts: 8 Registered: 23/10/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 8/12/2002 at 12:42 PM |
irish
filipino
hawaiian
yeah i drink...
i bully my men around...
but im cute when i do it =)
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bettie_x
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 1570 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 8/12/2002 at 11:29 PM |
hehehe perhaps YOU were born off a coyote's bum, pal....but that just makes
you SPECIAL. As much of a realist as I am, I DO adore "mythology" (of
course it's not a "myth" if someone really truly BELIEVES mind
you)...greek, native american, nordic, egyptian, african....I just love
reading all the stories of how the earth and human beings were created, how
they explain the sun rising and setting, the stars, the moon, the
seasons....such simply understood concepts to us now, but back then...the
creativity it took to think of such wonderful tales to give answers to
questions as why is the sky blue? Why does the sun cross the sky? Imagine
being alive hundreds, THOUSANDS of years ago, when those questions were
seriously heavy stuff, not common place knowledge taught to grade school
children.
I was really caught up in the "kenewick man" ordeal here in
washington....how a couple of boys found an ancient skeleton that was
finally unearthed by the washing of a riverbed. The oldest skeleton found
in the country, I believe. The local native americans wanted it burried
properly with consideration to the local tribes and their customs,
believing it was the remains of an ancient ancestor of theirs...until they
discovered it was possibly the remains of a caucasian, not native amercian.
The idea that a caucasian male was present, even if only ONE, at the time
in history when he died (several hundreds of years ago) is ENORMOUS. Until
then NOBODY thought that caucasian peoples had ever set foot on the "new
world" until the vikings or the spaniards "discovered" it long ago.
As for the whole "inbred thing"...yeah, perhaps...some more than others.
It's not necessarily "inbred" perse, but just that at one time in history
we have a large chance of sharin a common ancestor of some sort, crossing
racial and ethnic boundaries. The story of "adam and eve" is a prevalant
one in more than just the judeo/xian faiths...there are several stories of
"the first one", the first human, and perhaps it is simply an ingrained
racial memory of our first ancestors that "made it over the hump". A story
passed down and down and changed and changed so much that the story itself
isn't important, but the idea of it. A sort of genetic memory of the
begining.
Can you tell how much discovery channel I used to watch? *lol* WAY too
much if you ask me.
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Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas.
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IamSquid
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 658 Registered: 27/5/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 8/12/2002 at 11:47 PM |
Yoo know, I have a cousin from this small town called Innsmouth in New
England. He's really ugly and smells like fish (to prove the stereotype),
I always thought it was because of the inbreeding that goes on there but
apparently...
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Kira
Member  Posts: 149 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 9/12/2002 at 01:33 AM |
My family claim to fame (which, based on his earlier post I think Devon
will appreciate) is that my dad's side of the family was involved in the
second bloodiest feud in Kentucky.
Most people have heard of the Hatfields and McCoys (the bloodiest feud in
Kentucky - depending on who you ask), but if you do a little research you
find the Martin/Tolliver feud on the history books as well. Sometimes it
is referred to as the "Rowan County War." (Pronounced "Rown" by the
locals.)
In the 1880's John Martin (I believe my great-great uncle) killed Floyd
Tolliver in a bar room brawl. (Some claim it was politics, but according to
my dad it was a dispute involving livestock as the Martins were notorious
horse thieves- go figure.) John Martin turned up mysteriously assassinated
a few days later. The feud began, and didn't end despite the military being
deployed by the state governor in a effort to stop the killings. I think
the end total was 20 killed and 16 seriously wounded.
After my grandmother died my dad found a receipt for an order of 100
Winchester rifles that were picked up by the Martins from Cincinnati.
There have been a few small books and a pretty funny song written about
it:
http://www.users.kih.net/~bunderwood/writings/feudsong.htm
Many of those involved ended up fleeing Rowan County, my grandmother’s
parents included. My dad went to visit relatives on his mom’s side of the
family in the early 70’s, and they did not have an indoor toilet.
Unfortunately by the time I was old enough to care about this kind of
stuff, many of them were dead.
Now...if feuds aren't goth as fuck, I don't know what is.
Besides Hick, I also have English/Scottish, German, and lots of Italian
blood floatin' around in my body.
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Wind me up and make me crawl to you, tie me up until I call to you.
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Starlight
Extreme Fanatic  Posts: 618 Registered: 27/9/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 9/12/2002 at 05:51 AM |
Let's see...
We can start out with a little bit of English...to get that snooty assinine
effect started.
Then move right on along to a little Scottish for some flair and a little
bit of bloodlust.
Next we have a bit of Irish, for the mythical airy effect, as demonstrated
by my momentary lapses of coherant thought. Finally finishing up with a bit
of German for that nice drunken slut- but she don't care- attitude that's
always so becoming.
Oh yes, and a lot of American, for that screw you we're the best and
meaning it attitude that permeates my everyday life.
Thank you for your time. ____________________
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never
tried before." ~Mae West
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Meranda_Jade
Fanatic  Posts: 511 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 9/12/2002 at 10:13 AM |
Let's see... My paternal grandmother is full blooded Czech, my paternal
grandfather is German. They came here from the "old countries" and got
married... so my dad is half-Czech, half-German. My mom says on her side,
I'm french, german, dutch and english.. which means she has no idea. She
says that one of our ancestors was a french duke who came here during the
french revolution to avoid the guillotine, but she's a great teller of
tales, so anything she says can be assumed to be fiction. I guess I'm
mostly german with a quarter Czech, and a smattering of other things...
My dad's family are all devout catholics, they drink like fish, and they're
all crazy. My mom's family are all agnostic/protestant (non-practicing
christians) some drink like fish, and they're all crazy.
I have no idea how the stereotypical czech acts, or german for that
matter...
but I'm religiously eclectic, drink like a fish (sometimes) and am
struggling to not be crazy.
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bettie_x
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 1570 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 9/12/2002 at 02:26 PM |
Kira, that is so friggin RAD.
Feuding is goth as fuck. How awesome is THAT?!
I had a guy in my store the other day, in his fourties and middleclass
looking, and he paid with a creditcard. I noticed his unusual last name
printed on it: "clinkingbeard".
I asked him about it, commenting on what a neat last name he had, and he
was like "wanna know where it comes from? I'm not lying either, I have my
familly history at home and I was a shocked to find out as you will be."
I was like "sure!"
So he proceeded to tell me that a couple hundred years ago, a great x
somethingorother grandfather of his was a PIRATE!
He had a ship, was notorious and murderous, and he used the name
"clinkingbeard" because he had a long long beard that was divided into two
braids, and every time he boarded and pillaged another ship, he punched a
hole in a coin from that same unfortunate ship and strung it on his beard,
and it made a continuous clinking noise when he moved, hence the name
"clinkingbeard". When he finally retired his pirating days, he kept his
original first name and adopted his old seagoing name as his surname, which
was passed down and down and down to this guy and his family!
when he was done I was just staring at him, and he said "You don't believe
me do you?"
And all I could say was "that is the coolest fucking thing I've ever heard.
Your name RULES."
He laughed and said that people rarely believed him, but he said he had a
family tree that proved it true.
How friggin rad is that?!
I don't think I have anything colorful in my family history, other than my
great grandfather bein in WWI and WWII.
I wish *I* had pirates too  ____________________
Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas.
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Merry_Widow
Fanatic  Posts: 598 Registered: 24/8/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 9/12/2002 at 03:30 PM |
Let me see here...
Im Irish, Scottish, German, Slovac, and according to rumor, I have a wee
bit of English mixed in.
On the Irish side, we can trace back half of the family founders to a
Viking guy and his homies, and on the Slovac side, if you go back a few
greats, you find the Mongols.
So when it all boils down, I'm genetically drunk and constantyl fighting
urges to hop on my pony and raid a village. ____________________
Okay, dazzle me.
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Dolorosa
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 856 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 9/12/2002 at 05:27 PM |
Ahh Merry, my little Mongol Love Muffin...
Hey Bettie, I've always wanted to be a Pirate, wanna' get a crew together
and sink cruise ships? We can even make up our own pirate names, I wanna be
Dolo the Long Knife, eh heh heh heh... ____________________
In the valley of the Goats, the Goat Fucker is King
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