I used to regularly refer to myself as a “Jewish German Russian Pole” but that was basically to reflect that every branch of my family had been ousted from somewhere.
Maybe not, but I bet you've hung a contentious flag pre-emptively to clap back at someone weeks before you've actually had a conflict with them.
I mean, who hasn't?
But Martha-Ann is the LiFe oF tHe pArTy! Maybe she meant Martha's the one who gets drunk, loud and obnoxious at every gathering. I guess that's lively?
Then she throws in wanting an Italian-inspired "Vergogna" flag, covering two of three bases of a certain early 20th century Euro political movement. All she needs is to go Franco on something and she's hit the trifecta.
I've heard things like it gives you an appreciation for the finer things in life (college ex-boyfriend, R) and my dad threw a party when the Berlin Wall came down, but beyond a strong suspicion of the Bund, I'm baffled by this idea.
Yeah, the Germans aren't known as violent so much as really methodical. There are a few exceptions to this, mostly involving death camps, and this is where this becomes really uncomfortable.
But the whole "Beware my XXXX temper!" is something that abusive parents say to excuse slapping their kids.
If anything I'd be more scared if my enemy said they were say, Italian or Spanish or like Croatian or Chechen. My German enemy? Is he going to hit me with an BMW or choke me with a week old strudel?
My grandparents emigrated from Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. My enemies would be more confused than intimated if I approached them fists drawn warning, "This is about to go down Atlantic Canada style."
All my Byrne ancestry is through Newfoundland. (There's even a building with our name on it St. John's!) Family names among my PEI ancestors include Sullivan, O'Halloran, Gill, McElmeel, and Mellish.
Well, I’m mostly English and Scottish. So I’m going to do either the “Henry V” Saint Crispin’s Day speech (“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers”), or the Braveheart speech. Apologies to all Scots.
My ancestry is Mexican Indian so the chances that someone in my family cut hearts out of peoples chests while they still lived and displayed their skulls as warnings are greater than zero. I should use that!
There's a church in my neighborhood that used to have a rainbow flag and a sign that said 'All are welcome.' The flag eventually just faded and was worn out from weather, I suppose. They still have a rainbow colored wooden fence. It seems to be non-denominational, maybe Universalist Unitarian or ?
My mom was off the boat German. She lived through WW2 with Nazis occupying her home. She was German and hated Germany. We hear you loud and clear Mrs Alito.
My ancestry is mostly British. Wrong me, and I shall invade your home and liberate all your historical artifacts, along with your spice rack, which I will then summarily ignore.
You do realize the French Resistance was instrumental on D-Day and during WWII, and that the French fought against the British and supplied the Continental army to help the US win independence, as well as brokering the treaty that made us a country, yes?
I know the journalist who recorded that convo had to maintain her cover, but I would've LOVED to hear Frau Alito answer a follow-up question about what, exactly, she meant by that.
What’s the German word for when a person not actually of German descent but eager to claim its mantle invokes idolized German values in a quest to wreak vengeance on domestic groups that have been traditionally oppressed?
Like Martha-Ann, I was born on a military base in German, and was also a librarian. I'm not known for my love of flags, or support of insurrectionists, or spitting on my neighbors. Odd.
Because that would be a truly unhinged thing to do. As a German, that’s not something you do, ever. Unless, you know, you want to evoke the impression that you’re a raging right wing lunatic. So seems on brand for her. Jeez.
Oh you should. I'm part Cuban & part Sicilian and hell yeah I bring that up. A college friend said it meant I have a short temper & a loooonnng memory. Perfect for grudges!
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*test comes back showing I'm fully Austrian-German*
me; OH COME ON
I should probably get out more.
I mean, who hasn't?
She's throwing it out like it's some well known ethnic stereotype and ...
Everybody knows that, right?
right??
THOSE Germans just wait, motherfucker
https://youtu.be/cqWU9huMMco?feature=shared
Telly, tho: I’m from New York, I just want the bread, baby
But the whole "Beware my XXXX temper!" is something that abusive parents say to excuse slapping their kids.
All my Byrne ancestry is through Newfoundland. (There's even a building with our name on it St. John's!) Family names among my PEI ancestors include Sullivan, O'Halloran, Gill, McElmeel, and Mellish.
I'll blitzkrieg your house, and then surrender once you come back.
Especially considering my family came over AS FRENCH MERCENARIES to fight in the American Revolution.
Forgive me, I just get really tired of hearing ignorant conservatives haw haw over how "lazy" and "wimpy" the French are.
but I'm:
Quarter Gaelic Irish,
Quarter Ulster-Scot,
Quarter Anglo-Irish,
Quarter Et Cetera
threatening vengeance against your life is how I show love,
Maybe its the same?
(v.) österreichisch
(n.) Österreicher
*Flexes and eats milk chocolate*
[Mind you, just about every German I've ever met has been lovely. But I'm pretty sure I've translated this accurately]