So... What are YOU doing? - Part 4

[NewCreation435]

I've been in meetings all day and will be going to see a client in about an hour then home. I'm sore from working out yesterday

 

[Lamb]

I'm watching tv and playing games on the computer.

 

[tango]

Mowed the yard and pulled another 60-odd gallons of cellulose out of the crawl space. Sadly my cyclone separator didn't work too well on this one so I had to do it by hand. Nasty work.

 

[tango]

Thinking I might have to figure a way to put a separator on a honking great bucket (maybe a burn barrel or similar) and use a less powerful vacuum. That might make it easier to get at all of the fiddly corners in the crawl space, and hopefully make it much easier to clear out the other crawl space. Based on what I've done so far there's probably another 400-odd gallons in there too. And that's before I consider the main part of the attic. It's going to take a while to get rid of all of it - even taking it to landfill is awkward because it takes up so much space. Maybe I can figure a way to compress it into bricks or something, so there's less air to haul around, and borrow someone's truck or something...

 

[MoreCoffee]

I'm watching tv and playing games on the computer.

You can type lots of CH posts if you like

:smirk:

 

[Confessional Lutheran]

After working all day, I'm amusing myself by comparing my ethnicity to my DNA Relatives on 23 and Me. Also, I'm looking back and forth on other sites, as well. Nearly time for my evening Port.

 

[MoreCoffee]

After working all day, I'm amusing myself by comparing my ethnicity to my DNA Relatives on 23 and Me. Also, I'm looking back and forth on other sites, as well. Nearly time for my evening Port.

I have some port that I've been using for cooking. It makes a very tasty additive to Pasta sauces.

 

[Confessional Lutheran]

I have some port that I've been using for cooking. It makes a very tasty additive to Pasta sauces.

It tastes good with Sprite too, but we ran out of that a few days back. Just had straight Port tonight. On page ten with my DNA relatives. Funny how most of them are third and fourth cousins. I take that back. I just found a second cousin.

 

[MoreCoffee]

It tastes good with Sprite too, but we ran out of that a few days back. Just had straight Port tonight. On page ten with my DNA relatives. Funny how most of them are third and fourth cousins.

Have you discovered a persecuted minority that you can adopt as your own ... that was the theme in a South Park episode

 

[Confessional Lutheran]

Have you discovered a persecuted minority that you can adopt as your own ... that was the theme in a South Park episode

Which episode was that? Was that Cartman screaming " Saida?"

 

[Confessional Lutheran]

Have you discovered a persecuted minority that you can adopt as your own ... that was the theme in a South Park episode

Nah. I look to the left of the decimal points rather than to the right of them. :disgonbegood:

Andrew Gooding
100%

European
99.6%
East Asian & Native American
0.2%
Sub-Saharan African
0.2%
Unassigned
< 0.1%

See all 31 tested populations
European
99.6%

Northwestern European
98.5%
British & Irish
57.3%
French & German
17.2%
Scandinavian
3.3%
Finnish
0.3%
Broadly Northwestern European
20.4%
Southern European
0.3%
Broadly Southern European
0.3%

Broadly European
0.7%

Much of Europe was buried under miles of ice ten thousand years ago. As the glaciers receded over millennia, Neolithic farmers from the Near East joined Paleolithic hunter-gatherers to settle Europe.

Everybody needs to have a hobby and this is just one more of several.

 

[tango]

Have you discovered a persecuted minority that you can adopt as your own ... that was the theme in a South Park episode

I remember some TV show or other that checked peoples ancestry and the surprise when a pretty hardcore white supremacist found out he was something like 16% African

I think everyone on the panel got a bit of a chuckle about that. Everyone except the white supremacist, of course...

 

[MoreCoffee]

I remember some TV show or other that checked peoples ancestry and the surprise when a pretty hardcore white supremacist found out he was something like 16% African

I think everyone on the panel got a bit of a chuckle about that. Everyone except the white supremacist, of course...

Yes, I can imagine his chagrin. But the South Park episode suggested that it has become trendy to be part something as long as the part is small enough and is from a persecuted minority. It's like being able to say "My people were slaves too!" and "I too am a native American." I do not know if that is currently trendy in some circles in the USA but South Park suggested it was.

 

[Confessional Lutheran]

Now I'm on my Lutheran Facebook page and reading over stuff around here. Having a nice cup of coffee in the process.

 

[Lamb]

Now I'm on my Lutheran Facebook page and reading over stuff around here. Having a nice cup of coffee in the process.

Personal page or other page on FB?

 

[Confessional Lutheran]

Personal page or other page on FB?

Orthodox Lutheran Fellowship. It's a net group. Right now, people are picking on the admin. He's being a remarkably good sport about it.

 

[MoreCoffee]

Orthodox Lutheran Fellowship. It's a net group. Right now, people are picking on the admin. He's being a remarkably good sport about it.

Thick hide helps with moderating.

 

[tango]

Yes, I can imagine his chagrin. But the South Park episode suggested that it has become trendy to be part something as long as the part is small enough and is from a persecuted minority. It's like being able to say "My people were slaves too!" and "I too am a native American." I do not know if that is currently trendy in some circles in the USA but South Park suggested it was.

If there's a perception that being a member of some minority or another is advantageous it's hardly surprising that people seek to take advantage if they qualify, even if only on a technicality.

I know a lady who is something like 15% native American. She's only very marginally short of the requirement to classify herself as a native American and get federal benefits for it.

 

[Confessional Lutheran]

If there's a perception that being a member of some minority or another is advantageous it's hardly surprising that people seek to take advantage if they qualify, even if only on a technicality.

I know a lady who is something like 15% native American. She's only very marginally short of the requirement to classify herself as a native American and get federal benefits for it.

Well, if being 1/8 of an ethnicity means that a great- grandparent was that ethnicity and 1/8= 12.5%, if she was 15%, she had American Indian blood from another great- grandparent.. There are those Indian nations who only need one to have a great- great grandparent who was a full- blooded tribal member to qualify for citizenship in that nation. My own great- grandmother was from a town in Southern Louisiana that is now part of the Chitimacha Reservation ( I know this because I visited the town, Charenton, LA, for my fortieth birthday and I visited their cultural museum. Their constitution is on display there and that includes a 1/16 blood quantum as a citizenship requirement. I visited the graves of that part of the family in the necropolis that surrounded the Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception in that town. My great- great- great- great grandparents, Charles Pecot and Claire Sigur are buried there).

I, personally, hardly see the point of claiming ancestry that you have to tell people you have without their noticing right away. Free money is good, no doubt, but there are those people those funds were actually intended for..

 

[Imalive]

We went to the kids farm cause there was no school today. Teachers refused to work and want more money. So I took a day off, otherwise they had to be w the nasty stepmother who thinks kids should obey their parents, which means sit still, draw paintings and be quiet and stay inside the whole day, cuz her kids did that too LOL.
I don't have days anymore to take days off. Whatever, I'll buy some extra. There was storm and rain, we hid in the cows house and one couldnt get out of the tree, so I got him out and then another boy who was also stuck in a tree. There was a group of 20 kids w one woman. My goodness, imagine getting 20 kids out of trees and the parents just work and let her take care of em. One day the teachers refuse to work. Total chaos. Kids farm closed early, you couldnt get coffee cause the schools were closed and he had to go to his own kids. Poor guys working there, they were w 2 and all of a sudden the major decided to come visit. Guy was exhausted. They had to clean everything up like an idiot.