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.

[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=1cRR5...eature=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.

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.