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That's quite cool actually. Apparently, one of my many great great (not sure how many greats though) grand uncle according to my parents is former US president James K Polk. I definitely would not have guessed that if I had to guess famous people that I'm related to, so it's especially cool to know someone that is related to one of the few living relics from before 1905. Next time you get to chat with her, tell her that one of the posters from another forum said hello to her.

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Please, no more teams of 20 people with the same name.

If he gets cold he could just through a few more tax receipts on the fire.

Pity he didn't feel the same way about Vietnam....

Turn on, tune in, drop dead.

I've just eaten a small plastic Star Wars figure. It was a little chewy * Yes, I know. The old 'uns are the best.

Light dusting of snow so the school is shut FFS Really  Wouldn't happen in the western Highlands. They just take the weans out to gather up bits of wicker from the island. Keeps them warm. ** I might make soup today too. And baked potatoes. Needed due to child me wanting to play in the snow

Must end up pretty confused in his logical Möbius loop.

Great post! When you think she was born in a world before the invention of aeroplanes and with telecommunications in their infancy, using Skype is an achievement indeed! "6) I'd say my chances of at least reaching 100+ are quite good too based on heredity and genetics." - make sure you're not hit crossing the road tomorrow now after saying that... "I should expect to reach the next century. (I'm currently born May 2001, age 16) " - pity you weren't born a few years earlier so you'd have a chance of spanning 19xx to 21xx. Awesome that you are exactly 100 years younger than Great Aunt Chiyo though and that she lived past the 100th anniversary of that photo! "... covered the assassination of the Russian Royal family in 1918 (which she believed to have been the most important event to have occurred in her life)." - No wonder. The Russo-Japanese War would have been one of the defining events of her early childhood. " ... to avoid the hardships of WW2 (she did not agree with the Japanese regime at all)" - What was her reaction when she heard about Hiroshima and Nagasaki? I'll just throw out some basic questions you can ask her: 1. What is the biggest technological change she has seen? (Aeroplane, telephone, television, refrigerator, penicillin, internet, etc)? 2. What is the biggest cultural change she has seen? (Let's remember Japan is a VERY different place now than it was before the war). Is it too materalistic/Americanised for her? 3. Does Abe worry her? Is Japan going back a little in a more martial "1940s" direction? 4. What was her favourite decade to live through? 5. Are people becoming more or less civilised or is human nature basically staying the same? 6. What would the people she knew as a child think of the world today if they were still around? Good points, bad points? 7. Which famous person has had the biggest impact on her life? 8. What are her favourite improvements to the way people live over the last 100 years? 9. What changes does she like the least? That'll do. There are thousands more questions I could ask but I will restrain myself...

Pot, kettle, black?

Took me a moment to realise they weren't mixing her up with Toni Morrison...

"US President Donald Trump has boasted that he would have run into the deadly Florida high school shooting, even if he didn't have a weapon." http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-27/trump-says-he-would-have-run-into-florida-shooting/9487640

The first page of Google tells me that my mum is apparently seen as scary and irritable.

Think Feb is done for me. Though if James, Jowell, Vervoort or Ding Dong die within the next 48 hours I'm gonna fucking piss. Quim's March Malingerers: 1) José "José José" Jose 2) Ken Dodd 3) Leah Bracknell 4) Sri Sri Sri Sri Sri Sri Sri Sri Sri Sri Sri Sri Sri Sri Shivakumara Swamigalu 5) Kirk Douglas

Betting doesn't go on here. Death needs no encouragement, except from those it affects. This isn't my sole pleasure...you'd be actively disgusted by some of my other pleasures/practices. My mother's dead. Yours, YW.

Aye, though if I found my mum's name on, say, DDT's DDP team, I'd be a bit worried tbh...

I'm on board with this totally. Keep on him, Phantom. Other interpretations are insulting to my intelligence. e.g. Kapoor just died of a heart attack. That ain't natural causes, that's a heart attack. SC

Not everyone is as good as dying as you Leon you dirty man!

*knowingly makes his 2nd post* No. I just feel like the amount of posts I make on a daily basis is way too high. A lot of the posts I make have often been of the annoyance of others, and that’s not really helping the forum at all imo...

Ffs why couldn't the jury just decide.