Ancestry (split from Hottest Male Player)

[*Wiro]

Lol why would you care about whatever kind of blood you have in your veins? I mean, you are you. It's not going to be any different wether you have african blood mixed with chinese blood and pig blood or german, dutch and irish.

[QueenofBlades]

No, it's not about that it's about the heritage.
It's the difference between a brand new still-smells-like-construction house or one of the turn of the century numbers that just seethes history, it's the difference between a vintage victorian dress and something made in a factory--yeah, they're both cool, and the history doesn't really matter, but it feels like it matters and so it does. Even if your culture didn't really do anything in history, they still did shit for like centuries before you were born. Which is cool, cause they did shit back when magic existed, and they survived the Plague and all sorts of cool shit like that.
I think the people who are the most obsessed with history are the ones who don't have any.

[the_antisocial_hermit]

Lol why would you care about whatever kind of blood you have in your veins? I mean, you are you. It's not going to be any different wether you have african blood mixed with chinese blood and pig blood or german, dutch and irish.

Who said it makes you any different? It doesn't. It's just interesting to know what's there in the past.

[formerly known as hf]

Yes, but - my point being - that great grandparentage Irish does not make.

Hmm, I don't think I'd ever call myself Irish because I have a little bit of Irish bloodline in my lineage. I would just say, I have a little bit of Irish bloodline in my lineage that has been quite diffused by the many other bits of bloodlines in my lineage.

I know I'm a mutt. But it is fun knowing a little bit about what's there.

Sure it's fun, I've no problem with that. It's just strange when people use it as a means to define their identity.

On a more political note, it annoys me when it's used legally to define nationality. In a world of increasing travel, migration and instant global communication it's much more than disingenuous - it's just backwards - to make it a requirement to have blood ties in order to gain nationality...

[Rebma]

Lol why would you care about whatever kind of blood you have in your veins? I mean, you are you. It's not going to be any different wether you have african blood mixed with chinese blood and pig blood or german, dutch and irish.

*raises a hand* I wear a touque, say eh, and live in a house, not an igloo. My name is Amber, and I Am Canadian! */insert crowd cheering and a brewskie*

[Armulus Satchula]

3/4 German
1/4 Irish

Explains my love of meat, potatoes, and booze.... or maybe thats just part of being a dood.

[Mr. Black]

Definitly part of being a dood. Though I'm part Irish/Scottish meself.

[Dust Puppy]

3/4 German

Ha. And you were calling me "germ". Appalling.

[QueenofBlades]

*raises a hand* I wear a touque, say eh, and live in a house, not an igloo. My name is Amber, and I Am Canadian! */insert crowd cheering and a brewskie*

Scuze me but wtf is a 'touque'?
Eh is more a northern thing than it is a canadian thing specifically--you get the cheeseheads saying that alot, and us southerners just kind of shake our head at their silly antics, like that and calling coke 'pop' and being overly obsessed with fish and lobster and eating all sorts of other gross foods.
Also--why do you guys do the whole 'cold' thing? IDGI. It makes literally ZERO sense to me. Cold literally enrages me. Yet some of you Canucks seem to love it or something. What gives?

[Rebma]

You don't know what it is? Google that shit.

Its a stereotype that we say Eh.

Coke is a type of pop, and a lot of us don't even like seafood.

Also, we love the cold because we're used to it. It gets freakin hot in the summer, and we like that just as much. Just like someone who lives at the equator their whole life loves the heat.

[QueenofBlades]

Meh, here all soda is coke.

Ok, googling....

OMG, those horrid little beanies the yups in Aspen wear? With the pompoms on?

Yuck. It's all...wooly.

Let's see, southern stereotypes I confine to...I lurrve foodies, fried chicken and biscuits and the whole shebang....I call everyone Yall and I love heat but I can't stand winter. I have lived in a trailer. I did pretty much grow up barefoot.
Surprisingly though, I only have a southern accent when I'm angry. And then it's like ghetto southern, like "Bitch na you din't!".
Also I speak British on accident sometimes, and recently French. I'm weird. >.<

[Mr. Black]

Eh, I used to have a pretty thick Okie accent, but five years of British school knocked my accent entirely away; I don't talk like a Brit, I just have Generic American Accent #1, now.

[Rebma]

No. Wrong toque. It doesn't always have the pompom..that's uncommon

[Dudel]

Let's see, southern stereotypes I confine to...I lurrve foodies, fried chicken and biscuits and the whole shebang....I call everyone Yall and I love heat but I can't stand winter. I have lived in a trailer. I did pretty much grow up barefoot.

Wait a mi-newt here! Those you call stereotypes? Well then uh... Dudel fits into said stereotypes as well, minus the trailer and odd accent. However Y'all is common with me, as you've seen.

By the way...

Soda is equal to soda. Soda IS NOT equal to pop or coke. Coke, however, is equal to soda.

Its "a square is a rectangle but a rectangle is not a square" kind of situation.

[Diego]

Coke doesn't EQUAL soda, it is a subtype of. Minor but significant difference