Biscuitman
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Age: 46
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Biscuitman
Veteran
Joined: 11 Mar 2013
Age: 46
Gender: Male
Posts: 2,674
Location: Dunking jammy dodgers
11 Jun 2020, 1:08 am
11 Jun 2020, 1:12 am
Were they speaking 'as gaeilge'? 
12 Jun 2020, 9:02 am
Karamazov wrote:
I never admitted to having Irish ancestry on my maternal grandfather’s side, or French Romani ancestry on my paternal grandmother’s... assume I’d have had a worse time of it if I did.
My maternal grandfather was Irish American and my paternal grandmother was French Romani
That is freaky. Do you also have a Canadian paternal grandfather?
12 Jun 2020, 9:08 am
fluffysaurus wrote:
Karamazov wrote:
I never admitted to having Irish ancestry on my maternal grandfather’s side, or French Romani ancestry on my paternal grandmother’s... assume I’d have had a worse time of it if I did.
My maternal grandfather was Irish American and my paternal grandmother was French Romani
That is freaky. Do you also have a Canadian paternal grandfather?
No, he was physicist from Gloucester.
His dad was a gardener/odd-job man around that city: further back than that probably Welsh ancestors given the family surname and characteristic physique, but don’t really know.
12 Jun 2020, 9:59 am
Karamazov wrote:
fluffysaurus wrote:
Karamazov wrote:
I never admitted to having Irish ancestry on my maternal grandfather’s side, or French Romani ancestry on my paternal grandmother’s... assume I’d have had a worse time of it if I did.
My maternal grandfather was Irish American and my paternal grandmother was French Romani
That is freaky. Do you also have a Canadian paternal grandfather?
No, he was physicist from Gloucester.
His dad was a gardener/odd-job man around that city: further back than that probably Welsh ancestors given the family surname and characteristic physique, but don’t really know.
That's a relief, I was starting to suspect we were the same person.
12 Jun 2020, 10:22 am
fluffysaurus wrote:
Karamazov wrote:
fluffysaurus wrote:
Karamazov wrote:
I never admitted to having Irish ancestry on my maternal grandfather’s side, or French Romani ancestry on my paternal grandmother’s... assume I’d have had a worse time of it if I did.
My maternal grandfather was Irish American and my paternal grandmother was French Romani
That is freaky. Do you also have a Canadian paternal grandfather?
No, he was physicist from Gloucester.
His dad was a gardener/odd-job man around that city: further back than that probably Welsh ancestors given the family surname and characteristic physique, but don’t really know.
That's a relief, I was starting to suspect we were the same person.
Quantum Superposition of the Person.
12 Jun 2020, 11:26 am
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12 Jun 2020, 12:18 pm
12 Jun 2020, 12:25 pm
12 Jun 2020, 12:31 pm
Karamazov wrote:
Oh yes: the cowboy builders thing from the nineties!
I remember that being in my dad’s paper (Sunday Times) don’t recall it being linked with travelling folk of either ethnicity though.
I remember that being in my dad’s paper (Sunday Times) don’t recall it being linked with travelling folk of either ethnicity though.
Yikes, the nineties is 20 years ago...
About a decade ago a woman I know in England was caught by this driveway scam, at the time I was surprised that she didnt know that it was a standard scam, or know the difference between an Irish traveller accent and the provincial accents, but as it turns out most people cant.
When I was a kid in the countryside a scam I remember was door to door sales, while you were distracted at the front door, you were being robbed by entry to your back door, which in rural areas was often unlocked.
12 Jun 2020, 1:07 pm
Amity wrote:
Karamazov wrote:
Oh yes: the cowboy builders thing from the nineties!
I remember that being in my dad’s paper (Sunday Times) don’t recall it being linked with travelling folk of either ethnicity though.
I remember that being in my dad’s paper (Sunday Times) don’t recall it being linked with travelling folk of either ethnicity though.
Yikes, the nineties is 20 years ago...
About a decade ago a woman I know in England was caught by this driveway scam, at the time I was surprised that she didnt know that it was a standard scam, or know the difference between an Irish traveller accent and the provincial accents, but as it turns out most people cant.
When I was a kid in the countryside a scam I remember was door to door sales, while you were distracted at the front door, you were being robbed by entry to your back door, which in rural areas was often unlocked.
Yes, one of my customers has all sorts of “solutions” in her garden courtesy of cowboys.
She also has a psychological aversion to change... so I’m stuck managing the chaotic deterioration of the place as best I can whilst seeing clearly how it could be remade.
Such is life
