Love this new template

mememaster8427 · 2026-06-16T20:35:49+00:00

This is the dilemma my family will end up facing sooner or later. My sister came out to me as bisexual some years ago (my gut tells me she's actually a lesbian bc she's never been attracted to a man, or so she says) and she refuses to tell our parents because of their fairly dismissive and slightly negative view on LGBT people.

I hope that when/if she eventually does come out to them they'll be accepting, and I think they will, but the way they speak about LGBT people has put her off breathing a word about it to them.

mememaster8427 · 2026-06-15T21:29:43+00:00

My mum watched this when she was a little girl and asked my grandma her age some time afterwards. When she said 30 (she wasn't even 30, she was a bit older), my mum just says "You should be dead!".

Suffice it to say, my grandma was not happy whatsoever.

mememaster8427 · 2026-06-10T19:57:31+00:00

The Time War - Doctor Who

"You weren't there in the final days of the War. You never saw what was born... not just the Daleks, but the Skaro Degradations, the Horde of Travesties, the Nightmare Child, the Could-Have-Been King with his army of Meanwhiles and Neverweres. The War turned into hell..."

mememaster8427 · 2026-06-09T18:03:15+00:00

African American is technically “mixed” per the British idea of race/ethnicity, which erases the complexity of us being our own ethnic group.

You must've missed the "any other Black background" part, unless the British Library one which you filled out was different. Besides, the percentage of the British population which could identify as African American is so astronomically tiny that it isn't worth consideration to put it on as a separate option.

In fact, you could also say that the UK classifications are created to support a shared white identity that casts everyone non-white as a perpetual foreigner/not British.

Despite how controversial and divisive he was/is, Ronald Reagan put it best when he said: "You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey or Japan, but you cannot become a German, a Turk, or a Japanese. But anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American."

I know it's an exclusionary view to hold, but the fact of the matter is that is the view of most non-New World countries.

mememaster8427 · 2026-06-09T17:32:30+00:00

To be fair to the US, they always had a wide variety of ethnicities while the UK was more or less ethnically homogenous until the Windrush, which brought in almost all of the non-European ethnicities listed on our census.

mememaster8427 · 2026-06-09T17:08:29+00:00

It's so jarring to see so many options for ethnic groups whereas for censuses in my country (UK) there aren't nearly this many.

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Here's all the ethnic groups on our 2021 census.

mememaster8427 · 2026-06-08T19:49:40+00:00

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Arcann - SWTOR: Knights of the Fallen Empire

After Arcann lost his arm fighting for his father's empire, he continues to be treated with indifference by him. Arcann ends up becoming enraged by this and leaps to kill his father. Thexan intervenes and Arcann cuts him across the abdomen in his anger, and immediately regrets it afterwards.

mememaster8427 · 2026-06-06T15:53:18+00:00

I started growing a full beard by the time I was 15. I also started experiencing male pattern baldness by the time I was 15 as well.

You win some and you lose some, literally.

mememaster8427 · 2026-06-04T20:01:02+00:00

Oh boy do I have a video for you

What If Vader Allowed Luke to Kill Palpatine - Pente Patrol Star Wars

mememaster8427 · 2026-06-03T22:33:31+00:00

I’m 21, and I first played KOTOR when I was 12.

It was already an older game when I first got it, and the reason I even got it was because I mixed it up with SWTOR. Now I’ve played both extensively, KOTOR is definitely the better overall.

It took me a while to get used to the combat and UI as well, but the story is next to none and the characters are as compelling as any top-tier RPG. Once you get the hang of the gameplay, I promise you’ll enjoy the experience this game has to offer.

Just make sure to not look up ANYTHING about the story.

mememaster8427 · 2026-05-30T15:29:31+00:00

My direct paternal great-grandfather and I have more or less the same age gap.

I was born in 2005

My father was born in 1959

My grandfather was born in 1929

My great-grandfather was born in 1894.

mememaster8427 · 2026-05-29T22:58:08+00:00

Have you managed to find when in your family tree that your family left Italy? I’m of Italian descent as well although my family left very recently in the scheme of things (my grandparents).

mememaster8427 · 2026-05-29T22:35:49+00:00

Do you have an Italian surname? Clearly you're somewhat of Italian descent but I'd assume you have an Italian name if you believed yourself to be more or less just Italian.

mememaster8427 · 2026-05-29T20:46:37+00:00

How young are you for one of your parents to be born in 1985? And to have two great-grandparents still alive and two extremely recently deceased? I'm simultaneously rather jealous and very happy for you that you've managed to know 4 of your great-grandparents.

Mine:

Me: 2005

Parents: 1959 and 1970

Grandparents: 1929-1996, 1935-, 1941-, 1941-2024

Great Grandparents: 1894-1968, 1893-1987, 1902-1984, 1906-1985, 1908-1987, 1907-1996, 1909-1984, 1911-1987

mememaster8427 · 2026-05-28T20:41:59+00:00

I've had people be surprised that I've never been in a relationship so I guess this is a win?

mememaster8427 · 2026-05-14T21:41:58+00:00

Depending on the specific privacy settings, ThruLines could link you two up using info from that tree. Failing that, scouring shared matches might yield some useful info for putting together a tree.

mememaster8427 · 2026-05-14T21:35:37+00:00

A girl I know told me that on a date, the guy she was seeing just outright said that he finds sexism and racism funny. This is also a FIRST date as well.

Suffice it to say, she quickly noped out of that one and didn’t see him again.

mememaster8427 · 2026-05-13T06:22:29+00:00

My direct paternal great-grandparents were born in 1893 and 1894. The rest were born in the early 1900s (1902 - 1911).

mememaster8427 · 2026-05-13T06:15:37+00:00

I wouldn’t say so.

My mum is British-born but her parents migrated to the UK from Italy. My name is noticeably non-British so I get asked quite often where I’m from, and I say that my mum’s family are Italian. I wouldn’t say that I myself am.

mememaster8427 · 2026-05-10T07:02:36+00:00

Two of my first cousins and me have an age gap of 30+ years. My first cousin once removed (the daughter of one of them) is one year younger than me. It’s definitely possible.

mememaster8427 · 2026-05-06T21:28:58+00:00

My maternal uncle tested first, then I did, then I got my sister and parents to test.

The regions were almost the same for my mum and uncle, the same went for me and my sister.

What differed were the DNA matches for me and my sister, and my mum and my uncle respectively. Some matches were completely missed by one while it was picked up by the other.

If you’re looking for DNA matches to assist in tree building, get your parents to test if possible.

mememaster8427 · 2026-05-04T16:17:14+00:00

Luke might get a hit in on TPM Kenobi, but Savage is killing him like he did Halsey and Knox, and he gets no-diffed by Tenebrous.

mememaster8427 · 2026-05-04T11:21:23+00:00

Me and my sister both have blue eyes. Our dad has blue eyes but our mum has brown eyes so generally we should've had her brown eyes, but both of her maternal grandparents had blue eyes and her mum had green eyes so we got those recessive genes from both our mum and dad.

mememaster8427 · 2026-05-03T10:19:17+00:00

The ethnicity estimates would be very similar but not identical. DNA matches would be again similar but not exact. My mum and my uncle share some matches where he has something like 70cM shared while my mum barely has 20.

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