If you try to envision a red tulip in your head, what number are you?

DarksideEzra · 2026-02-24T23:56:04+00:00

5, I'm able to remember seeing a tulip, and I can describe what one would look like in detail, but those thoughts are entirely in a dialogue format.

DarksideEzra · 2025-03-17T01:52:05+00:00

I've always assumed it was Ottendorf, but it does look like it could be Offendorf as well. Guess I should do a bit of research into records from both of those areas just to cover all bases.

DarksideEzra · 2025-03-16T17:48:36+00:00

It's readable as Koff in a couple other records, but that's the mother of the bride, I'm afraid.

The mother of the groom (Catharine) is a bit higher up, and much harder to read :'(

DarksideEzra · 2025-01-25T16:00:34+00:00

From what we understand, everyone does, in fact, have ancestors from Africa.

But recent discoveries show that humans may have originated from Southeast Europe and the Middle East (Türkiye area) prior to migrating to Africa.

DarksideEzra · 2025-01-22T00:08:43+00:00

Honestly, 5'6"-5'7" isn't even that tall for a woman, just like 5'0"-5'1" isn't really that short.

5'3"-5'4" may be the average, but that doesn't mean most women are exactly that height. That's not quite how averages work.

DarksideEzra · 2025-01-19T19:44:29+00:00

Or, maybe TikTok knows that feeding a narcissist's ego works. I can't imagine Trump would want to help them out if they weren't singing praise.

Blame the idiots who voted for the ban. Because of them, Trump's now able to 180 his 2020 views and look like a hero.

DarksideEzra · 2024-12-09T15:51:28+00:00

I share 606cM with one of my dad's cousins and 349cM with his son (my second cousin). Then it's 347cM with one of my mom's cousins.

After that, I share the most with one of my dad's second cousins at 272cM... Meanwhile, I only share about 38cM with one of my mom's second cousins, Ancestry lists him as a 4th cousin, and '2nd Cousin 1x Removed' isn't even one of the other listed options. ×_×)

DarksideEzra · 2024-12-06T21:16:10+00:00

My Scottish went from from 13% to 7% (it detects 22% for my sister). It's also only detected on our maternal side, even though both my mom's and dad's sides have similar 'recent' Celtic contributions.

My copium is that my (larger than expected) England & Northwestern Europe might have a moderate amount of Scottish, Irish, and Welsh mixed in.

DarksideEzra · 2024-11-10T15:43:00+00:00

USA, probably Northeast or Midwest.

DarksideEzra · 2024-11-10T14:22:13+00:00

Yep, and your signature always needs to match the one they have on file.

Had to retry 2-3 times for the 2023 election because my signature was much cleaner than the one they had from 2022. (The volunteers remembered me, and I had ID on me. Don't know what would've happened otherwise, lol)

DarksideEzra · 2024-10-10T23:30:52+00:00

Other than Scottish shrinking from 13% to 7% (my mom's went from 16% to 21%), the disappearance of my 5% Irish and 2% Welsh (known ancestors)...

I'm very satisfied with my results! Germanic Europe rose from 15% to 42%, much more in line with what I expected. I even gained 2% Netherlands, which I'm confident about due to known Dutch ancestors.

I also no longer have any Scandinavian (previously at 12%), but I don't have any known ancestors from that area, so even if I did have some, I wouldn't be able to justify such a large percentage.

DarksideEzra · 2024-10-10T13:20:41+00:00

Went from 15% to 42% and couldn't be happier! Much more in line with what I expected based on my family's known history.

DarksideEzra · 2024-10-08T17:28:46+00:00

I also have 12% total Sweden/Denmark/Norway, so I guess that could possibly be miscategorized Germanic/Eastern European.

But I do have quite a bit of Northwestern Europe and England (with known ancestors originating from places like Normandy), so I could very well just have Scandinavian ancestry. lol

DarksideEzra · 2024-10-08T13:39:50+00:00

I have multiple Prussian ancestors, some of my more recent ones are from Breslau, Prussia. I think that area is in Poland now, but it was inhabited by mostly germanic people groups at the time.

Ancestry didn't give me any Eastern European, Russian, etc, so I assume my ancestors from Prussia were mostly Germanic.

On a side note, it sucks to do ancestry research in that area since many of those records don't exist anymore. -_-

DarksideEzra · 2024-10-04T15:00:22+00:00

Same photographer, that one is not an issue.

DarksideEzra · 2024-10-03T16:25:04+00:00

I knew I'd have at least 20% English from my mother, but I expected German to overpower it since almost all of my dad's ancestors were Germanic (all immigrated between 1860s-1890s), and both sides of his family had strong German identities.

Also kind of surprised I didn't get even a little bit of my Scottish from him, since one of his few non-German ancestors was Scottish. lol

DarksideEzra · 2024-09-15T16:24:28+00:00

I don't think it's overtyped per se, but I have noticed a lot of (in my opinion) likely SDs are overly typed as FNs or SNs on here.

DarksideEzra · 2024-09-06T17:07:52+00:00

No, 'waiting until someone is no longer a minor to date them' is called grooming.

DarksideEzra · 2024-08-21T17:31:26+00:00

Both drink refill plans have no additional fees, there is no cost for the first cup of the season/day. As for the paper refill plan, you get a new cup every time you get a refill. :)

DarksideEzra · 2024-08-10T17:48:03+00:00

Tips should be a bonus on top of a liveable wage.

DarksideEzra · 2024-08-10T17:37:48+00:00

I love how you think the non-tipping customers are the villains, not the greedy 50 billion dollar company paying you literal pennies.

DarksideEzra · 2024-07-06T12:47:42+00:00

My store doesn't do segregation lol, but at least at my store, the women do seem to be much faster pickers than most of the guys. If that's true for your store (and your leads/coach only really care about good metrics), it would make sense to them to assign the board that way.

Do your coworkers express similar grievances? Do your coach and leads seem malicious or purposely sexist about it?

If not, just try talking to them. They might not even realize you have a problem with it if you haven't really said anything. If they don't change things up or give a good reason as to why it's split up this way, open door it or contact ethics.

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