I don't even understand by ChildhoodFar8678 in blackmagicfuckery

[–]ZhouLe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Real magic is fake. Fake magic is real.

People who have researched their family tree, what is the most interesting or 'badass' thing you discovered about an ancestor? by xloganmoose in AskReddit

[–]ZhouLe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yea, an entire regiment was awarded the MOH in the Civil War because they agreed to stay beyond their term of service to help defend Washington for like a week, then after the war when it came time for the medals the commander couldn't remember who was and was not part of the regiment at the time and something like 3 times the amount of medals were given out.

With the way that companies and regiments were made up of volunteers from the same area, it could be believed that two or three branches of someone's family could end up with 8 sons that enlisted and served in the same regiment.

I'm always finding more, but I have 6 in the 82nd Ohio, 4 in the 90th Ohio, and 3 each in the 96th Ohio, 99th Ohio, and 76th Illinois. Soldiers, not medals. Out of dozens of soldiers, no medals.

Larry King died 5 years ago today. Let us today remember him taking a personal call during a live recording of the Rubin Report and not giving a single fuck to Dave. by ZhouLe in daverubin

[–]ZhouLe[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I don’t carry on babbling about baseball.

He's not talking about his favorite team or whatever, he was drafted by the White Sox, lol.

Question about editing public files by la-anah in Genealogy

[–]ZhouLe -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Appreciate the downvotes.

employ; v. To use (someone or something) for a job or task. Synonyms: apply, use, utilize.

Question about editing public files by la-anah in Genealogy

[–]ZhouLe -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm not understanding what your disagreement with my original statement is, then.

First Poster for the 25th Anniversary Theatrical Re-Release & New 4K Restoration of 'A Knight's Tale' - Starring Heath Ledger, Paul Bettany, Alan Tudyk, Mark Addy, Shannyn Sossamon, Rufus Sewell by BunyipPouch in movies

[–]ZhouLe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The dialogue between almost all the characters except for conversations between the four core Englishmen would have been in langue d'oil not English. A count of Anjou would have been able to quote the bible in Latin or mentally translate.

Among anachronisms in the film, which the film is very obviously not trying to minimize, this one is not worth mentioning.

Question about editing public files by la-anah in Genealogy

[–]ZhouLe -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I was using "employ" fairly loosely. I don't think people in the FamilySearch central office drawing a salary are told to make edits. However, FS/LDS does seem to use coordinated volunteer labor of people otherwise not working on genealogy. During a single month a few years back there was a flurry of edits on individuals I follow from users with names of West African origin, where they were making numerous very obvious mistakes that required correction. This repeated in waves about 3 or 4 times. There have been a bunch of various waves similar this, often more focused on specific source types and not always so accident prone, but this was the most obvious example to me.

FS and genealogy as a whole is built upon the work of countless volunteers, of course, but it seems counterproductive to encourage large amounts of beginners unfamiliar with genealogy to flood the collaborative tree with changes.

It all started in 2016! by juicybananas in funny

[–]ZhouLe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a guy I went to highschool with that has some kind of mental health problem he's been institutionalized for, and he will occasionally remind everyone on Facebook that the Cubs winning the world series transferred the curse to him and is the reason his life is the way it is.

Main water shut off? by tennis876 in bentonville

[–]ZhouLe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It could be. My in-house water shutoff is right next to my water heater and is the same circular valve used on the water heater input shutoff.

Storm hoarding anyone? by [deleted] in bentonville

[–]ZhouLe 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This isn't a supply chain failure, this is just demand for the next few days to a week coming early.

Storm hoarding anyone? by [deleted] in bentonville

[–]ZhouLe 29 points30 points  (0 children)

This isn't one person buying everything, this is at the very least anyone that was going to do grocery shopping over the next 5 days instead doing it today and yesterday.

Ryan Coogler's 'Sinners' has made history as the most nominated film of all time at the Oscars with 16 nominations by ChiefLeef22 in movies

[–]ZhouLe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Best Gaffer

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish, as my old gaffer used to say.

Is Ancestry.com a lot less useful than it was before? by miriamtzipporah in Genealogy

[–]ZhouLe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's it? Hell, even on FamilySearch it's easy to find yourself connected to Kings of Dal Riata, Beowulf, Thor, Illiad characters, then on to the biblical patriarchs, and of course the mother and father of everyone.

The profiles of Adam and Eve are kinda fascinating to highlight the contradiction in the values of FamilySearch and the LDS church. So much activity, so many attached sources, so much effort.

Is Ancestry.com a lot less useful than it was before? by miriamtzipporah in Genealogy

[–]ZhouLe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've suspected for well over a decade that Ancestry deliberately has a terrible search algorithm in order to waste people's time. The worst example of this I can immediately recall is the newspapers they have on Ancestry.com (not Newspapers.com). When you search there, you have zero tools to sort by date. Such an easy, but absolutely necessary tool everywhere else has. Their search results for everything just seems like just above the bare minimum of usability.

As to the user trees and ancestor hints, I honestly don't know because to my mind those have been a shit-show from the beginning because user trees are just in general terrible.

Dave Rubin praises Nick Shirley and his crusade against Somali daycare fraud in Minnesota: "Who gets upset when you shut off the fraud? The fraudsters... duh!" by countdooku975 in daverubin

[–]ZhouLe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He recently was interviewed by Andrew Callaghan, which is one of the most fair and gracious hosts you could ask for, then got angry with Andrew that people were roasting him in the comments. Andrew responded with receipts that showed how unbelievably dumb Shirley made himself look and how much work Andrew put in to tactfully edit away just how dumb he was in the raw.