about my parents/grand-parents...extended family

[MotherCossack]

so we have established a place for the parents among us to express themselves. This is a thread for the younger ones to boast about how cool their parents are!!!! Or not!!! or to share embarassing/amusing stories about the older generation. Maybe the parents among us would like to admit to clangers they have dropped as parents.

[Ostrinski]

My mother refuses to be radicalized.

[MotherCossack]

Today i had confirmed what i had vaguely thought was true for years....
My old man was..... [this is so cool] born in ......PALESTINE!!!!!!
GAZA to be precise.
I know it officially does not exist as a state...{GRRRRRR}
but it did in 1941 when my DAD was born.

The reasons behind him being born in that neck of the woods are possibly a bit less cool...depending on your point of view.... it involves an English Deacon and young wife rather a long way from home

So my father is kind of Palestinian and does that make me !/2 palestinian?
i hope so.

[Nox]

My uncle is a member of the bourgeoisie and my grandparents are rich landowners. Yay me.

[Agent Ducky]

My mom's antics are often summarized in the "Dumb Stuff Liberals Say" thread.

[Ocean Seal]

My dad used to be an adventurer just like me, but then he took an arrow to the knee.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Well, they trust me and didn't kick me out when I told them I was gay, so they are pretty chill in my opinion. :cool:

[ColonelCossack]

My uncle is a member of the bourgeoisie and my grandparents are rich landowners. Yay me.

My great-aunt has a title. She's a Lady.

[dodger]

MY Gran went to see Buffalo Bill when he toured England . One of the 'Red Indians' came crashing through and over the barrier on a Pinto landing on top of young Nan. He looked up at her and exclaimed .....well yer know what he said Colonel..da ....in a thick SLIGO accent. Then apologised profusely, on account of her tender years. My Great Grandad took him for a drink to recover his senses and came home 2 days later. He offered him a job if Buffalo Bill sacked him. LUCKILY HE KEPT HIS JOB BECAUSE THE GAS LIGHT FACTORY WENT BANKRUPT THE FOLLOWING YEAR.

[MotherCossack]

My great-aunt has a title. She's a Lady.


ooooooh yeahhhh.....!!! i forgot about that....


[a word in yer ear-ole son.... doncha fink... rite... it mite be...
like givin' some o 'dem wot read 'vis fread ... kinda like de rong idea abowt wot arh famly's acshuly like!]

TRANSLATION:
a word in your ear-hole son.... dont you think, right, that it might be...
like... giving some of those that read this thread, ... kind of, like the wrong idea about what our family is actually like?

i mean isnt it a bit reminiscent of bragging to let on that aunt ---- is the great-great- grandaughter of the holy roman emporer.

oops no hang on.....
we are all communists here....that aint bragging it is an admission of big-time shameful relationship.

thank god she is only an aunt by marriage.

[PC LOAD LETTER]

My parents are pretty cool.

[coda]

<<i mean isnt it a bit reminiscent of bragging to let on that aunt ---- is the great-great- grandaughter of the holy roman emporer.>>

funny.. my sister's ex-husband claimed to be a distant relative of charlemagne too!


my own extended family.... i've mentioned elsewhere in the music thread..

I share a set of younger cousins with the lead singer of Rainbow/Deep Purple. his male cousin married my female cousin....and produced our two younger cousins..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cRR5n2pl0s&feature=related

[Omsk]

My grandfather fought in WW2 (partisan),was an ordinary worker.Later,he studied a lot,and advanced really much.

My other grandfather,on the other hand,was from the country-side,but later advanced a lot too.

I have a family member that fought in WW1,in the Spanish Civil War,and in WW2.

[Ballyfornia]

My Dad has a white afro

[Prometeo liberado]

My father's idea of babysitting was to take me along with him to pass out sandwiches and doughnuts to the strikers of the union he was in. I hated it. In retrospect it was the coolest thing he could have done for me. Grandpa owned a pastry factory that he lost due to a fierce gambling habit. Oddly enough he was a leftist.:)

[Pretty Flaco]

my paternal grandpa was a painter... he painted houses.

oh and my great uncle was a part of a chop shop

[Arlekino]

My mum was Communist only to get some better groceries and ended alcoholic it took her too sensitive brake of way Soviet Union. Well is truth very truth.

[Aloysius]

My great great great great great great grand-uncle was Jefferson Davis.

My dad is socially conservative/politically liberal. And votes Libertarian.
My mom was raised by strict conservatives, but is slightly radical (sort of because of me).


When I let slip that I was a commie to my grandmother (Mom's side), she said I could just go off and live in Cuba. I lol'd.

[Agent Ducky]

But yeah. Even though my parents are frustratingly liberal and without logic sometimes (stop drawing on your arms, you can have bright red hair but not blue, you can't wear Converse shoes) they're pretty cool and I'm thankful for them. :D

Sometimes my mom gets paranoid as fuck though and thinks I don't like her for some reason. >___<

[MotherCossack]

is it just me... or do you lot like hearing what other people's families are like, aswell.?
i suppose i am just a sad f**ker who likes talking about the folk more than the theory.

[MotherCossack]

my granddad [the one who used to be the assistant bishop of oxford] once caught me jumping up and down on my bed wearing his upper robes and no knickers.
i died [probably 8 or 9ish at the time]

[PC LOAD LETTER]

But yeah. Even though my parents are frustratingly liberal and without logic sometimes (stop drawing on your arms, you can have bright red hair but not blue, you can't wear Converse shoes) they're pretty cool and I'm thankful for them. :D

Sometimes my mom gets paranoid as fuck though and thinks I don't like her for some reason. >___<
WHAT

High-top converse chucks. Colloquially referred to as Dippin' Chucks because you can tie them tight around your ankle and they won't fall off no hammer how crazy fast you sprint. And if you size them right, with very little extra space (usually one size down from snugly-fitting skate shoes or sneakers), they're perfect climbing shoes for chain-link fences, etc. At least if you have small-ish feet. I'm sure if someone wore a size 13 chucks they'd have trouble. I'm a 9 in chucks.

They will always have a place among my shoes. They are amazing. Everyone who runs from police at some point in their life should wear them anytime that's a possibility. They definitely saved my ass several times.

[Ose]

My grandparents were all dead by the time I was 10. I felt no grief (schizoid?). My dad's parent's were cool, my mum's (adopted) not so. I've heard stories from when I was too young to remember of my older sister (with whom I share only a mother) having to protect me by preventing my maternal grandparents from hitting me.

As for my parents (they are still kind of a couple but they live apart), I am on very good terms with both. My mum has a very addictive personality, just like me, so we get on well and she gives me free drugs whenever I go to stay with her. My dad is the opposite in that respect, but I share his sense of humour, and his advice has helped me no end. I don't know where I'd be without that motherfucker.

I think I'm pretty lucky family-wise.

[Pretty Flaco]

my uncle was a pretty good boxer and he was even smart. he used to play chess a lot and even won a tournament once! but he had problems and he ruined any chance of a boxing career because he got locked up for assault and when he got out he drug problems. he died a few years ago... but i'll never forget him. he was a good man.

my dad used to get in a lot of fights. my dad's good friend told me once "goddamn was your dad scrappy". he has dentures for about a third of the teeth in his mouth because he lost most of them in fights when he was younger.

[Pretty Flaco]

oh my grandma lost both her parents during the great depression and she raised her younger brother all by herself. she told me that for a while they were homeless and wandered looking to get money any way they could.

[The Young Pioneer]

I'm related to Sarah Palin.

I think I'll leave it at that. :unsure:

[Os Cangaceiros]

I'm related to Sarah Palin.

lol

[MotherCossack]

my granddad was called terence fortunata marcantonio. he grew up in birmingham and when ww11 started he had to change it to terence joseph marks.
still a pretty cool name, i reckon.

[MotherCossack]

Can we include ourselves?
hey... i can .... cos i am the kernals mum/parent...
so... yeah... haa!

I drove a train when I was 10.!
My step-dad used to be a train driver.
Before that he was a second man in Scotland.
he did the fort william to mallaig line...
For those who don't know....
IT IS A WELL NICE BIT OF THE WEST HIGHLANDS AND ...

OCH.aye..ME AN MA WEE SESTAIR an me wee mam an me wee grempy step-dadde leved innia beg hoos en morar, a wee vellage nexti mallaig, a feshin toun nearti skye.
skye es a beg ireland ne far frowm tha meinland. och.aye.. me an me sestaier went orna wee boot te envairness wence it was brewyant.

eng. version.
Oh yes.. My little sister and me and my mum and my grumpy step-dad lived in a big house in morar a little village next to mallaig, a fishing town near to Skye.
Skye is a big island not far from the mainland.Oh yes my sister and me went on a little boat to Inverness once it was brilliant.

i have loads of great stories about living there...
but driving the train... yeah... all the drivers had many wee drams before, during and after driving the trains. being the daughter of the 2nd man i always got to sit in 1st class or the drivers cabin at the front of the train. this time it was my birthday ... i was on the way back from highland dancing lessons.. and the driver was our neighbour [and part-time sheep farmer] Hughie Macleish macleish or something similar. he had been having more wee drams than usual... i still recall the smell of whiskey...
i sat on the seat [ raised especially] shitting myself... in case i did it wrong... the train lost 12 minutes while i tried to pluck up enough courage... to start it... i remember there was one lever and a handle i had to move in a quarter circle from oclock to quarter past. their might have been a kind of pump handle/lever thing i cant remember... anyway it was a memorable event...

[coda]

edit: oops..way too much said....

Life is complicated---

it really doesn't have to be, people...

[Agent Ducky]

WHAT

High-top converse chucks. Colloquially referred to as Dippin' Chucks because you can tie them tight around your ankle and they won't fall off no hammer how crazy fast you sprint. And if you size them right, with very little extra space (usually one size down from snugly-fitting skate shoes or sneakers), they're perfect climbing shoes for chain-link fences, etc. At least if you have small-ish feet. I'm sure if someone wore a size 13 chucks they'd have trouble. I'm a 9 in chucks.

They will always have a place among my shoes. They are amazing. Everyone who runs from police at some point in their life should wear them anytime that's a possibility. They definitely saved my ass several times.
I know, right? She says the white tips make my feet look big and she thinks they look too manly on me or some shit. Newsflash, mom. I'm not really all that feminine at all. Making rules about the shit I wear isn't going to change that. I don't give a shit what society thinks of it. And society wouldn't give a shit. Girls wearing Converse isn't weird. My mom just has some weird bias against them. >_<

[PC LOAD LETTER]

I know, right? She says the white tips make my feet look big and she thinks they look too manly on me or some shit. Newsflash, mom. I'm not really all that feminine at all. Making rules about the shit I wear isn't going to change that. I don't give a shit what society thinks of it. And society wouldn't give a shit. Girls wearing Converse isn't weird. My mom just has some weird bias against them. >_<
It probably has to something to do with them being basketball shoes in the 20s. Or maybe your mom has something against Kurt Cobain.

If she thinks the white tips look weird, look out for the solid black ones. Those are tight. And they're still only like $30 new

http://www.sportsworldcheapprice.com/images_products/chucks-converse-black.jpg

[MotherCossack]

my mum used to go to my parents evening with hairy legs that you could see through her see-through tights!
i hated it... used to pray she would not go.

[MotherCossack]

In Scotland, when I was a wee bairn [about 9 or 10] we had a sports day every year....
In the mums race and the dads race... my mum and step-dad would show up paralytic. [ totally drunk] they were always so pissed that it became a question of whether they could complete the circuit without collapsing.
The sight of them staggering along, in fits of laughter, almost always falling in spectacular fashion, will stay with me forever....
At the time I was traumatised on a regular basis... but revisiting the memory now I cant help but smile... they were so clearly having a right laugh!
Sounds awful... right? Until I add that this was the established pattern of behaviour for parents up there, at that time. Especially dads.
the funniest ...of all was the year they introduced the three legged mum and dad race...
God it was funny... I can still see them keel over and smile at the memory.

Of course I am speaking as one who became a staunch pioneer many moons ago.

[Agathor]

Mum's family are working class Tories. Grandfather on my dad's side is a middle class social democrat and a former communist. Dad was an old-labour social-democrat then he joined the bourgeoisie and became a New Labour dolt.

It's a weird situation. My mum's side are all from the poorer areas of the east Midlands, and they won't hear a bad word about Margaret Thatcher. My dad's side live mostly in the south-east and in London, and I'm certain that a number of them would emotionally disown me if I joined the conservatives.

[GoddessCleoLover]

Both of my parents are liberal Democrats (in the US sense, not the UK's LDP), so at least I was spared being raised in a Republican household. Are British working class Tories like American working class Tea Partiers, that is to say people who allow nationalistic emotional symbols to cloud their class consciousness?

[PC LOAD LETTER]

Both of my parents are liberal Democrats (in the US sense, not the UK's LDP), so at least I was spared being raised in a Republican household. Are British working class Tories like American working class Tea Partiers, that is to say people who allow nationalistic emotional symbols to cloud their class consciousness?
There are working class tea partiers? All the ones I know are upper-middle-class business owners. And that's like 3.

[Raúl Duke]

My ancestor to the family name was a french soldier who arrived in the province of Quebec around the time of its founding, probably fought native americans or the british (and their native american allies). Allegedly he was good at shooting a musket or crossbow, as the last name alludes to that.

My maternal great-grandfather on one side was a land-owner in Puerto Rico. Allegedly a Spaniard...but he could have been a Spaniard born in PR...so I'm not sure if he's peninsular or criollo.

But the land-holding, like many others, during the US administration of the island fell apart due to competition of suger companies and also the fact that my great-grandfather had many children, legitimate and illegitimate, who all got small shares of the land. Thus my grandparents had a mostly working class existence yet lived in at the time what was probably a middle-class household.

My great-grandparents and grandparents on my father side are working class for the most part.

My parents grew up in working class conditions, but being Puerto Rico in the late 70s-80s, had avenues which they took advantage of to gain middle-class existence as professionals.

I grew up in a middle-class household, which since recently has been having financial problems due to the housing bubble popping and an "underwater" mortgage. The whole "underwater" mortgage and the financial shenanigans from the banks plus Wall St. make me hate strongly the financial capitalist banksters and fat cats at a semi-personal level.

[gorillafuck]

Girls wearing Converse isn't weird.that's weird that she thinks that. converse are so common, and even more common in girls. they are probably the most mainstream shoe that exists today, tbh.

[eric922]

My father is really smart and a really good guy, but a bit of an idealist and walking contradiction.

He used to be a cop, but would often let people go if he thought they had just made a mistake and didn't deserve to go to jail, especially if they were poor. Now he works as PI for defense lawyers, so he now works against the police and DA.

At one point he said he considers himself a social-democrat and would like the U.S. to follow the Nordic Model, but he freely admits that both parties are owned by the elites.

He sadly has some slight racist tendencies, but he went to jail in protest of a black man being sent to the back of the bus in Alabama, years before MLK got started.

On the bright side, he agrees with me that organized religion is stupid as all hell.

Overall though I can't complain too much about either of my parents, they work hard and are helping me get through school without too much debt.

[Ostrinski]

I'm related to Sarah Palin.On what grounds?

[gorillafuck]

my dad is center-left with a really hardass attitude on corruption. he is also a bit of a misanthrope. and my mom is an apolitical democrat.

nothing interesting.

[Ostrinski]

Let's see here. My great great grandfather fought at Iwo Jima. His mother was an Apache native american. His son (my grandfather) fought in Vietnam and is very conservative. Ironically, I'm closer to him than most people in my family. We talk a lot about philosophy and history. He is actually very intelligent and doesn't hold the same dogmatic criticisms of communism as most conservatives. My mother is a social worker. Her mother's parents' families (my great great grandparents) were German working class communists and trade unionists that fled shortly after the fascists came to power. Just found this out recently in fact. That's my mother's side.

My father is a schizophrenic who lives off disability. I do not know much about his mother's side. His father was a spy in the air force during the cold war. He flew over the SU and was based in Pakistan. He comes from a family of working class French-Basques that came here sometime during the 19th century. Him and I are really close as well. That's about all I know.

Fun stuff.

Edit: Aunts and uncles. My dad's sister is a principal at a California school and her husband is a teacher there. My mom's brother is a recently divorced suicidal alcoholic.

[NewLeft]

My parents are conservatives.. Sucks cause they got a red son.

[MotherCossack]

hey... everyone... wait til you get a load of the 16th birthday cake that i made for my little kernal... the one you know as colonel cossack!

i warn you though it was a very big cake and its`a very big picture....
i am so chuffed wiv it i am!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LlJs7XzOq6I/T11GLdscDII/AAAAAAAAAEk/KkiguMm8620/s1600/DSCN0939.JPG



i hope you can tell what it is!

[Agent Ducky]

What the heck does it say?

[MotherCossack]

aahhh!!!
i spent ages making it aswell!!!!
its a hammer and sickle aint it!
tasted nice aswell... lot a chocolate though!

[ColonelCossack]

What the heck does it say?

"Pip* is 16 Happy Birthday"

*My nickname**. Not my real name. That's allowed, ain't it?

**See how many aliases I have? :p

[Deicide]

My mum, who was indoctrinated from birth about greatness of ''Communism'' and Comrade Lenin in the Soviet Union, is completely apolitical.

[Lanky Wanker]

My dad used his business (he's a mechanic) to let money flood in while his only employee was working his knob off alone in the garage, then it all went downhill and he had to let the guy go. Despite this, my dad still thinks conservatives are the only ones who want to exploit the working class. Apparently his father was anti-capitalist though which I only found out after he died a year ago next week or something, but that's still pretty cool. :cool: And to MotherCossack: I want a cake like that for my birthday!

[MotherCossack]

My dad used his business (he's a mechanic) to let money flood in while his only employee was working his knob off alone in the garage, then it all went downhill and he had to let the guy go. Despite this, my dad still thinks conservatives are the only ones who want to exploit the working class. Apparently his father was anti-capitalist though which I only found out after he died a year ago next week or something, but that's still pretty cool. :cool: And to MotherCossack: I want a cake like that for my birthday!

i'm flattered.
i am proud of me birthday cakes... such fun... and so much chocolate and food colouring!
its the washing up afterwards that i fail at! dismal like.

domestication is generally an area in which i fall short...like so short that if i was a pair of trousers i'd be a bra...
no that doesnt work... so short that if i was a piece of string i'd be a dot on the table....
or ...err... so short that if i was a book i'd be a brief statement....
'she struggled throughout' .... or something

[Lanky Wanker]

Don't worry, we'll have robots to clean for us soon... I hope. If I understand the whole situation properly, it'll also bring capitalism to a screeching halt. :cool: Justice for housewives and workers!

[lombas]

My parents are normal. I have a creepy mother and a warm and loving father.

But of course, that would be too hard to admit for many other people.

:cool:

[Veovis]

My great-grandmother (the mother of my mother's mother) used to refer to blue jeans as 'overalls,' even if they're not actually overalls.

Also, she must not have been raised to be racially sensitive, as she let fly that particular 'n-word' around the black nurse in the assisted living facility.

[NorwegianCommunist]

My grandfather lived in Yugoslavia and doesnt like communism.
So nobody in my family knows that I am a communist -.-

He doesnt know what communism is really, he says that it has killed millions etc, I don't argue with him just so that he doesnt get mad :p

[MotherCossack]

"Pip* is 16 Happy Birthday"

*My nickname**. Not my real name. That's allowed, ain't it?

**See how many aliases I have? :p

oh my word.... colonel cossack is uncovered!!!!!

but hang about pip....

shall we do it properly?

lets do it properly....

it is actually p-i-p-s-q-u-e-a-k !

you, my dear boy, are now strapping, glorious, and the assured owner of a very proud mater, who, has known you since you were, literally, the size of one pip of an apple....

ha ha ha i know it sounds weird....
imagine being that diddy... but that is how big you were when i first found out about you.
how bizarre!!!!!!
<> or O or (). I reckon they are about right.

now i am no hippy.... but that is deep!

you still suit the name pip even though..... you are about how much bigger than that now?

GOOD QUESTION....... How much bigger than the pip of an apple is your average to tall, slimmish 16 year old?
who knows.... about 10 000 times?

[ColonelCossack]

oh my word.... colonel cossack is uncovered!!!!!

but hang about pip....

shall we do it properly?

lets do it properly....

it is actually p-i-p-s-q-u-e-a-k !

you, my dear boy, are now strapping, glorious, and the assured owner of a very proud mater, who, has known you since you were, literally, the size of one pip of an apple....

ha ha ha i know it sounds weird....
imagine being that diddy... but that is how big you were when i first found out about you.
how bizarre!!!!!!
<> or O or (). I reckon they are about right.

now i am no hippy.... but that is deep!

you still suit the name pip even though..... you are about how much bigger than that now?

GOOD QUESTION....... How much bigger than the pip of an apple is your average to tall, slimmish 16 year old?
who knows.... about 10 000 times?

liar

[Yugo45]

My mom was a member of the Communist party back in the day.

Grandfather (not bloodline grandfather, because my grandmother remarried after my real grandpa died, when my mom was like 6) was a hardcore communist and anti-fascist. His last words to me were about how Hitler was a douche :)

All three of my grandfathers were Yugoslav Partisans. My real mother's-side grandfather was a truck driver (died in an accident). Mother's stepfather was a bus driver. Ironically, he got hit by a bus, long after he retired, and died soon. I have no idea what my father's-side grandfather/grandmother were, since they died when I was very young.. Gotta ask my mom, she probably knows.

Today, only my mother and grandmother (mother's side) are alive. My father, his parents, my mother's father and stepfather, all long gone :(

[MotherCossack]

liar

ok.... ok... i am a liar.
i admit it....
errr...ummmm...err..
what really happened is this....
i went to see a little old lady with a shiny broom and whiskers on her chin.
said i wanted a lovely little boy to go with my nice specked blue carpet.
she cackled and said....

hubble bubble toil and stubble,
i'll send you a boy but he'll be nuffing but trouble.

when the hurly burly's done
and you've had a bit of fun

in your oven there will be a bun

you'll tear and howl with towel on chair
and end up with a pain down there

a little lad will be your prize
but as you will soon realize
the boy will grow and give you grief
and might knock out all your teeth.

the rest is still unclear
just dont let the boy drink too much beer.


oops sorry p-face cossack
love you to bits

[ColonelCossack]

ok.... ok... i am a liar.
i admit it....
errr...ummmm...err..
what really happened is this....
i went to see a little old lady with a shiny broom and whiskers on her chin.
said i wanted a lovely little boy to go with my nice specked blue carpet.
she cackled and said....

hubble bubble toil and stubble,
i'll send you a boy but he'll be nuffing but trouble.

when the hurly burly's done
and you've had a bit of fun

in your oven there will be a bun

you'll tear and howl with towel on chair
and end up with a pain down there

a little lad will be your prize
but as you will soon realize
the boy will grow and give you grief
and might knock out all your teeth.

the rest is still unclear
just dont let the boy drink too much beer.


oops sorry p-face cossack
love you to bits

lolwut

[Lanky Wanker]

lolwut

Your mother is quite the poet, make good use of her talents.

[ColonelCossack]

Your mother is quite the poet, make good use of her talents.

It was quite good, but It didn't really make any sense...

[Crux]

I was raised by a friendly bear and a cheetah in the jungle.

[PC LOAD LETTER]

I was raised by a friendly bear and a cheetah in the jungle.
'Sup, Mowgli

[Zav]

My family was all conservative back two hundred years with the exception of my uncle, who's a Democrat, and I.

[The Young Pioneer]

On what grounds?

lol If I was gonna specify I would've already done so. Clearly I do not feel comfortable with that. Let's just say I'm the black sheep of the family. ;)

[MotherCossack]

Your mother is quite the poet, make good use of her talents.

you should read the whole thing....
i re-wrote the whole of macbeth....
it was an adaptation for a handful of actors ...5/6 and is a bit hilarious...i had such a laugh writing it... took ages .... dont know what to do with it now though.... any ideas?

[Lanky Wanker]

It was quite good, but It didn't really make any sense...

It's poetry, it doesn't have to make sense. :lol:


you should read the whole thing....
i re-wrote the whole of macbeth....
it was an adaptation for a handful of actors ...5/6 and is a bit hilarious...i had such a laugh writing it... took ages .... dont know what to do with it now though.... any ideas?

Sell it to some big theatre company and have them make big money off you, but get big money in return. :cool: Or get a camera and some actors and create this piece of artwork yourself!

[ColonelCossack]

It's poetry, it doesn't have to make sense. :lol:



Fair Do's.

[MotherCossack]

yeah but i am so rubbish at singing african folk songs....
which is a shame.... cos i think they are soooooo funky!