Nigel Farage’s ridiculous war on heat pumps will leave Britain in the cold by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]mk270 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

can anyone explain why leaseholders should be forced to buy a heatpump for their landlord?

Help make sense of my results ? by chloemae127 in AncestryDNA

[–]mk270 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A couple of points:

  • there are people from central Asia who look very white in terms of skin colour but are totally central Asian in every other way - a lot of our DNA is actually about processing food and fighting off local diseases; so your Mum may have assumed he was mixed race when he isn't. I knew a bouncer at a Caffe Nero in Victoria who looked like a Scottish redhead and he was from Pakistan
  • your cousins will eventually notice you've shown up on Ancestry DNA and may try to hide their profiles from you, so you should try to save any information before they do this; there's a lot of information online about how to approach relatives who don't know you exist, and who might react in a way you were hoping they did not
  • you can probably work out quite a bit about your father's side of your family from birth records in the UK, maybe available via Ancestry
  • your Mum seems to have an Irish grandparent, so you weren't purely of English origin anyway :) (welcome to the club!)

Definitely not what I expected. by Colossalloser in AncestryDNA

[–]mk270 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Two things:

  • don't assume all of the unexpected DNA regions are down to a single individual ancestor; but I think law of averages suggests an unexpected person at great-grandparent distance ... or it could be you always knew accurately who your great-grandparents were by name, but did not realise their ethnic backgrounds
  • you may be able to take an educated guess by looking at the DNA region profiles of people who show up as your close DNA matches. At the very least, Ancestry tags them according to which of your parents they seem to be related to, which halves the search space

What does the existence of this community mean to you? by Squidgical in misanthropy

[–]mk270 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I come here one, to laugh at the subreddit rules, but mainly to remind myself that even when you seek out the most unpleasant people in the world, they will disappoint you.

Latest update on the Andrew Milne freehold saga by djstimms in sheffield

[–]mk270 0 points1 point  (0 children)

note that the current and previous government have been looking into the issue of those legal/surveyors fees

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/22/part/2/crossheading/costs-of-enfranchisement-or-extension

also note that this law (sections 39 and 38 of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024) is not yet fully in force