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  1. BogLady

    BogLady Active Member

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    I have found this entire genealogy process extremely interesting. I also did the DNA piece so that has added a bit of excitement to the process. It really is like the commercials say, thought I was one thing, discovered I was something else. I am 27% Irish, who knew!
    Also learned I have relatives that walked the trail of tears which means I am native American too. And rumored famous relatives are not true relatives after all.
    Very fascinating stuff.
     
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    My grandparents on my father's side were German Mennonites living in the Ukraine. They were driven to Canada by the Russian Revolution.

    So, my grandparents spoke English, German, and Russian.
    My father spoke English and German.
    I only speak English.
    It's a good thing I have no children - they wouldn't be able to speak at all. o_O
     
  3. Iain Aschendale

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    Iain Aschendale Lying, dog-faced pony Marine Supporter Contributor

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    There used to be a beautiful little clip on youtube, with the final scene from "Apocalypto" (Mel Gibson's Central American torture porn flick) that showed the reunited family, in the forest above a beach, looking as the Spanish came ashore, and making the wise choice to melt into the jungle.

    The quote that ended up the video was from Iain M. Banks' book Excession:

     
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    Yup, from about 1:45 or so.

    Edit 1:40 or so.

    Second edit: I think the clip I saw stitched all the Spaniard bits together with just a bit of reaction by the locals.
     
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    Open it, I dare you..
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    Cave Troll It's Coffee O'clock everywhere. Contributor

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    Ask him if he can come back from the dead.

    :D
     
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    Hey ladies and gents--is this still the random thought thread? Anyone mind if I bus-jack this for a second?

    I'm having a conversation with a dear friend about thoughtfulness and mindfulness--yes, it sounds pretentious as f**k, but I promise it's friendly! He's of the opinion that Robbin Williams is totally right in the movie "Flubber" to forget his wedding three times. He argues that some people are just forgetful, and that has no bearing on how much they care about a given subject. He says the solution is constant reminders and communication towards the forgetful person, and that the forgetful person can't be blamed for being forgetful any more than an emotional person can be blamed for being emotional--its just a part of who they are.

    I argue that that's total BS and that the thought you put into something is directly correlated to how much you care about it. If you forget your wedding three times, then you don't care about it enough to find some way to commit it to memory--you're being lazy if you think 'i forgot' is a reasonable excuse.

    What are your guys' thoughts?!
     
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    He's right. Think about amnesia.
     
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    Tenderiser Not a man or BayView

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    In the absence of significant medical problems, I don't know how anybody could "forget" their own wedding. I haven't seen Flubber so don't know if he had problems or not.
     
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    Eh, no. The wedding is an extreme example, but being forgetful is a thing. Asking me to stop being absent-minded is much like asking you to fly.
     
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    He's still in the wrong.

    The scientist (I think that's what he was at least) committed to being somewhere at a certain time and place knowing that he'd probably forget.

    That's like telling your kid you're going to be there forever when you have stage 4 cancer and you know it's not true.
     
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    Am I the only one who gets put off of reading a book because of the formatting/font? That's why I originally stopped reading ASOIAF, because the copy of A Clash Of Kings I had (before replacing it) had too small of a font/line width, oddly that puts me off a lot of books
     
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    BayView Huh. Interesting. Contributor

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    I'm really forgetful. I think some of it's inherent, but often it's because I don't care that much.

    I've caught myself at social events not even trying to remember someone's name. Like, I'll be introduced, turn away, and already have forgotten the name of the person I was just introduced to. I'm not sure I even heard it in the first place. I'm not stupid--if I tried, I could remember the person's name. But I don't put the effort in because I don't care. It's not a good trait!

    Social events? They're rarely on the top of my mind, so I write them down and I've trained myself to check my agenda daily.

    So, forgetting a wedding? If it's, like, the date came up in conversation and the person didn't immediately twig that it was significant, sure, that's just innocent forgetfulness. But if the person actually missed the wedding? That's just not caring enough to make an effort.
     
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    I once attended to wrong wedding (not as the groom i hasten to add) .... it was only when the bride entered that I realised and by then it was too late to leave... turns out i'd got the time wrong this was at 10am and my friends were getting married in the same venue at 1pm
     
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  20. Homer Potvin

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    Yeah you can't forget your own wedding. It's not like a dental appointment you made six months in advance. I had something specific to do every day for two weeks before my wedding, and there were fifty family members floating around in the days prior to remind me that something important must have been imminent.
     
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    I don't agree with the message of most Robbin Williams movies.

    Mrs. Doubtfire - creepy and stalkerish
    Dead poet society - Completely missed the message of the poem they drew from.
    Good Will Hunting - Pushed the message that all achievement is just a lottery draw, all that matters in life is 'love'.

    I mean there's a lot more, but those are the major ones to me.

    I did like some of his later work, like Worlds Greatest Dad, morbid as it was.
     
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    This is me to a tee. Some of it is just inherent (I have a tendency to over-commit) and/or "shiny object syndrome", but goodness, the number times I've been told I was ADD and had to bite my tongue from saying "No, that would mean I cared and didn't remember. This just didn't interest me enough to commit the brain cells to follow-up." :whistle:
     
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    Yep me too - apparently i was supposed to pick up a compost bin last night i bought on ebay ... completely forgot about it.... oh well
     
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    A lot of popular movies have really bad messages.

    Disney's The Little Mermaid: If you're pretty and well-connected consequences don't apply to you.

    I mean, seriously... Ursula sang Arial a whole song about how she was going to fuck her over and then showed her the field of fucked-over souls as proof. o_O
     
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    Oh man, this could be a game

    I recently saw Me Before You and what I took out of it was:

    Wouldn't it be great if the most handsome guy was in a terrible accident, so that he'd finally pay attention to a girl like you, but he was still handsome, and rich and you got to take care of him, but didn't have to do any of the gross stuff because someone else did that, and he loved you, but you already had a super successful, handsome, and in-shape boyfriend, but he just wasn't that perfect 'right' type for you, and he broke up with you, but only because you were having second thoughts, so you didn't have to feel guilty, and even though you loved the handsome crippled guy, he was going to die so you wouldn't have to deal with him being crippled your whole life, and he left you money to go follow your dreams, and he gave your father a job so that you wouldn't feel guiled to stay at home....

    If you read that as a terrible run-on sentence it's working as intended.

    I swear that whole movie mistook wish fulfillment for romance.
     
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