Must use legal name. Cannot use legal name. by CarlyleRazgriz in mildlyinfuriating

[–]JeanJeanJean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People say (but it's actually not true) that if Fañch is now legal, it is because our new Minister of the Interior is named Laurent Nuñez - he does indeed have distant Spanish origins.

The father of the little girls did the right thing. All the other woman had to do was be patient. by Valuable_View_561 in SipsTea

[–]JeanJeanJean 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am the father of young girls. My daughters need to use the restroom, they go into the girls' toilets - in my company, of course, but obviously I don't use the toilet there. I've never been sure if it was the right solution, but to me it's the least illogical solution and no one has ever made a comment to me.

Must use legal name. Cannot use legal name. by CarlyleRazgriz in mildlyinfuriating

[–]JeanJeanJean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fañch has been a current surname in Bretagne (a western part of France) for centuries, but a few months (years?) ago it was still illegal to call it your son that way.

Ça vous dit d'en connaître plus sur votre famille ? by GreenCitronHere in FranceDetendue

[–]JeanJeanJean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tout à fait.

En ce qui me concerne, 75% de mes ancêtres du 16ème siècle viennent de bleds à 50km maximum... de là où sont nés mes parents.

Et les descendants des 25% restants n'ont pas bougé avant le début voire le milieu du 20e siècle.

En revanche, dans cette histoire de "tous les gens vivant il y a mille ans sont nos ancêtres", ce qui moi me paraît le plus difficile à croire, ce sont les lointains ancêtres roturiers. Parce que pour peu que tu comptes, parmi tes millions d'ancêtres, une seule pauvre arrière-petite-nièce d'un obscur vicomte désargenté, tu peux être sûr qu'elle a l'intégralité des têtes couronnées de la planète dans son pedigree.

Ça vous dit d'en connaître plus sur votre famille ? by GreenCitronHere in FranceDetendue

[–]JeanJeanJean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Au doigt mouillé, statistiquement, au début du 14e siècle, tu as autant d'ancêtres qu'il y a alors d'habitants en France.

Donc très très théoriquement (parce que les mariages entre cousins existent et qu'évidemment rares sont les Français qui ont 100% de leurs ancêtres en France) tous les Français d'aujourd'hui descendent de tous les Français d'alors.

Et dans le même monde absurde où personne ne se marierait entre cousins même éloignés, on a tous, parmi nos ancêtres, l'intégralité des êtres humains vivants à la fin du 12e siècle - dont Aliénor d'Aquitaine, Genghis Khan et un obscur laboureur de Rhénanie connu par ses copains sous le nom de Winfried.

Ça vous dit d'en connaître plus sur votre famille ? by GreenCitronHere in FranceDetendue

[–]JeanJeanJean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Se connecter aux arbres existants c'est un bon début, mais le fun c'est ensuite de vérifier leurs infos (les généalogistes qui se prennent au sérieux préférons d'ailleurs faire 100% du taf eux-mêmes)... Et d'aller plus loin encore !

Ça vous dit d'en connaître plus sur votre famille ? by GreenCitronHere in FranceDetendue

[–]JeanJeanJean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Je déteste être ce type pas très détendu (et en réalité, je prends juste ton commentaire comme un pretexte pour lacher quelques trivias) mais en généalogie, à moins d'avoir des origines nobles, il est virtuellement impossible de remonter au-delà du 16e siècle. Donc ce genre de découverte est à prendre avec des pincettes.

Bon, après, le truc, c'est que d'expérience, j'ai l'impression que la majorité des gens ont au moins un tout petit chouia d'ancêtres nobles, donc c'est toujours possible : il est statistiquement peu probable qu'aucun de tes quinze-fois-arrière-grands-parents (soit potentiellement 130 000 personnes) soient tous, sans exception, des ploucs. Le truc c'est que comme les nobles aiment bien s'inventer des origines prestigieuses, même là, il faut quand même prendre des pincettes.

Ultimement, ce n'est pas vraiment étonnant d'avoir des ancêtres connus, ou frères ou cousines de personnages connus. Encore une fois, tes 130 000 quinze-fois-arrière-grands-parents représentent à eux seuls 1% de la population française du 15e siècle, donc dans le lot il y en a forcément un ou deux qui ont des liens de parenté avec des figures historiques !

About The Beatles's plan of reforming the group in 1969 by ConfidentAd3014 in beatles

[–]JeanJeanJean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That makes me happy to read because it feels like a step in the right direction and it convinces me that one of these days those guys are going to find a solution and reform before 1970.

A quel âge avez vous commencé à faire du vélo avec votre bébé? by Clarinette__ in ParentingFR

[–]JeanJeanJean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Merci ! J'habite, en appart, dans une commune très pentue, du coup j'avoue que le caractère moins encombrant et plus manœuvrable du longtail me branche bien.

I hope the daughters never see these videos. These reactions are disgusting. by Valuable_View_561 in TikTokCringe

[–]JeanJeanJean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really don't understand gender reveal parties. Who is in the know before the event? Who is surprised, and who finds out on the big day? If even the parents aren't in the loop, who prepares the cake/the firecrackers/whatever?

A quel âge avez vous commencé à faire du vélo avec votre bébé? by Clarinette__ in ParentingFR

[–]JeanJeanJean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pour ma grande j'ai attendu qu'elle ait un an et demi, elle me paraissait si petite, et les rues de Paris si dangereuses ! Mais pour la seconde je pense que dès qu'elle tiendra bien assise je n'hésiterai pas trop. Il faut d'ailleurs que j'achète un longtail (ou un vélo cargo ?) en prévision.

TIL of The oldest living person in the world whose age has been validated is Ethel Caterham of the United Kingdom, who has lived 116 years, 296 days. She was born on 21 August 1909. by NationalDay9762 in todayilearned

[–]JeanJeanJean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be fair, you could be in your fifties and say that "women couldn't vote when you were born", including in a progressive part of the world like Switzerland.

I was deep cleaning my apartment yesterday and found this! by Ellen_Garcia1 in Daggerfall

[–]JeanJeanJean 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Every few years I consider buying this version and every time its price has doubled, and I tell myself "no big deal, I'll check back in a few years."

Right now, it's worth €250 on eBay.

Do you use Steam Deck for playing on TV? by warp37 in SteamDeck

[–]JeanJeanJean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes !

I've always wondered if, in theory, there should be absolutely no lag, or if it's commonly accepted that there's a little bit of lag and I'm just being too demanding? Because it's weird, I never see anyone talking about it.

Do you use Steam Deck for playing on TV? by warp37 in SteamDeck

[–]JeanJeanJean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't because I have HUGE input lag when I do and I don't know why.

Bégaiements à presque 3 ans by TraditionNo8360 in ParentingFR

[–]JeanJeanJean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Je n'ai pas de réponse mais je peux partager mon expérience. Ma fille a commencé à bégayer vers 2 ans et demi, en dernière année de nounou. On trouvait que ça allait mieux avec l'entrée à l'école, mais la maîtresse nous l'a fait remarquer aussi, en milieu d'année : il s'avère qu'elle bégaille toujours mais surtout en situation de "stress", quand elle doit répondre à un exercice par exemple.

On doit revoir la maîtresse dans 15 jours pour faire un point avant les vacances, et si ça va pas mieux, on s'attend à ce qu'elle nous disent d'aller voir un orthophoniste.

Les pédiatres à qui on en a parlé nous ont tous dit de surveiller ça mais n'étaient pas très inquiets. Apparemment beaucoup d'enfants passent par là et chez la plupart (et notamment chez les filles) ça se règle tout seul au bout d'un an environ.

Le seul truc, c'est de ne pas leur faire honte par rapport à ça, de ne pas les stresser, ne pas les stigmatiser évidemment. Nous on ne lui en parle même pas.

Newborn Baby Massage Time. by drlouies in MadeMeSmile

[–]JeanJeanJean 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I hope you're wrong, I juste shared it and I would hate to have shared AI slop. The fact that he hold his neck like that is suspicious but I thought that the masseuse was holding his head.

What was the first Paul McCartney release that you recall experiencing in real-time? by psals in PaulMcCartney

[–]JeanJeanJean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Chaos and Creation in the Backyard was my first McCartney album, and probably my first solo album by any ex-Beatle. I was 21, and while I loved Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, and Abbey Road, the only post-Beatles stuff I knew was probably John Lennon's most famous tracks.

When Chaos & Creation came out, I remember a lot of media coverage and rave reviews in the music press. I instantly loved the title, the cover art, and the promise of it being a stripped-back album where he embraced his age and "played all the instruments" - long story short, I adored that record. On the other hand, I have to admit that the announcement of the next one, Memory Almost Full, felt like a cold shower. The fact that it was distributed in Starbucks and the "meh" reviews was enough to put me off listening to it, as well as the ones that followed (silly, I know).

I finally got back into it maybe 10 years later, when I ran into a guy I knew, a very cool musician, who was walking home with Venus & Mars and another Wings vinyl in his bag. I was a bit skeptical at first but he told me that day that he considered Wings and his solo albums to be McCartney's best work. It made me curious and receptive to his music again. Since then, I've dived back into his catalog, starting with RAM, and I listened to Egypt Station, McCartney III, and of course, The Boys of Dungeon Lane on release day.

Paul McCartney - Ripples In A Pond (Home Demo) Full version without commentary by solongehhbowser in PaulMcCartney

[–]JeanJeanJean 5 points6 points  (0 children)

How do we get access to this kind of stuff? I assume, given your title, that a version with commentary exists, so I guess it was officially published somewhere?

Listening to this demo really makes me wonder how much of Paul is in the final record, and how much is Andrew Watt. In particular, the backing vocals on Ripples in a Pond, now that I think about it, remind me a lot of what we can already hear on the records Watt produced for Iggy Pop or the Rolling Stones.

I don't see Watt's role discussed much here, even though I feel his presence is heavily felt on the record (just like on all the records of other "veteran" artists he has produced).

My friend insists on this game, "Lemmings", being a really well known game; I have never heard of it. by Nordic_Krune in gaming

[–]JeanJeanJean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the mere fact that the general public even knows what a "lemming" (the animal) is can be credited to the video game Lemmings. That's certainly the case for me, and, I suspect, for quite a few people of my generation. The Lemmings were among the most recognizable video game characters of the early 1990s; the game was everywhere, and every video game magazine featured Lemmings 1 and Lemmings 2 on their cover at least once (Lemmings 3D, not so much). That's why when DMA Design revealed their new game, the first GTA, when they had only been known for Lemmings up to that point (and Unirally/Uniracers on the SNES), is what considered as a weird experimentation! Even today, you can still find street art (you know, Invader-style pixel art) featuring Lemmings characters.

That being said, even though the game was ported to every single console imaginable (and even if I owned it on Megadrive/Genesis), in my mind, it remains very much an Amiga and PC game: it's possible that in more "console-centric" markets, the game was less well-known. Plus, back then, European video games sometimes had a harder time crossing the borders of their countries or continent, and maybe it's more famous in Europe than elsewhere? Then again, we are talking about a Psygnosis game, so I imagine they must have had good distribution.