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Post by flatandy on Apr 30, 2023 7:35:02 GMT
Not since they first hooked up they haven’t. They both married and sired offspring with others.
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Post by ootlg on Apr 30, 2023 7:45:46 GMT
Weird things, parents. I only discovered after their deaths that my mother was a divorcee and that I might have half-siblings somewhere.
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Post by wetkingcanute on Apr 30, 2023 8:43:06 GMT
This Be The Verse
BY PHILIP LARKIN
They f**k you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
But they were f**k*d up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another’s throats.
Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself.
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Post by mids on Apr 30, 2023 8:43:35 GMT
That is odd. My dad's mum had an illegitimate child so my auntie was really my half auntie. It was kept a secret for years and even now some of my cousins are reluctant to talk about it, which is just nuts.
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Post by perrykneeham on Apr 30, 2023 8:59:08 GMT
Not since they first hooked up they haven’t. They both married and sired offspring with others. That's not quite the same thing. |
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Post by perrykneeham on Apr 30, 2023 9:01:53 GMT
We're all getting to an age now where the previous generation is popping off and there's nobody to stop the skeletons cascading from cupboards. Just about every time there's a WTF revelation e.g. my mate's cousin is actually his brother, my wife's grandparents had never married, etc.
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Post by Repat Van on Apr 30, 2023 10:27:24 GMT
Anyway, another comment about King Charles. My parents recently celebrated an impressive landmark anniversary and if you apply to the palace they’ll send a card congratulating you on the longevity of your marriage. Which is very nice. But it’s not just from the palace or the monarch now. It was from the king and queen consort, “signed” by both of them and with a picture of them both. A friend commented that it’s pretty damned ironic that you get a commemoration of the longevity of your marriage from two of the most famously unfaithful people in the country. It is rather bemusing. I wonder how all those who bemoan relationship breakdown and single parent families cope with knowing that exact situation is one our current head of state has personal experience of…. *Side note - Camilla must give hope to side chicks everywhere…..  |
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Post by Repat Van on Apr 30, 2023 10:28:46 GMT
Weird things, parents. I only discovered after their deaths that my mother was a divorcee and that I might have half-siblings somewhere. On your mom’s side??? |
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Post by Repat Van on Apr 30, 2023 10:29:16 GMT
Not since they first hooked up they haven’t. They both married and sired offspring with others. That's not quite the same thing. It kinda is… |
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Post by perrykneeham on Apr 30, 2023 11:41:14 GMT
Nah.
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Post by ootlg on Apr 30, 2023 12:29:21 GMT
Weird things, parents. I only discovered after their deaths that my mother was a divorcee and that I might have half-siblings somewhere. On your mom’s side??? Yup. |
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Post by Repat Van on Apr 30, 2023 18:57:20 GMT
My family is boring - no skeletons whatsoever.
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Post by Repat Van on Apr 30, 2023 18:59:38 GMT
I know of a skeleton in a family close to ours though. Good friend of my brother going back to childhood does not know his father is not his father. He’s almost 40 and has no idea. A handful of people know (my brother is not one) but he doesn’t. That’s what caused his parents separation when his non-biological father discovered the truth. But he still has no idea.
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Post by perrykneeham on Apr 30, 2023 19:42:40 GMT
Sounds like Fathers' Day in Brixton.
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Post by flatandy on Apr 30, 2023 20:17:53 GMT
I was actually really disappointed to discover doing the DNA test stuff that my family wasn’t bullshitting me.
They’re exactly the kind to invent family lore and overhype things and make it all up. Yet everything seemed to track. It was so boring.
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Post by Repat Van on Apr 30, 2023 21:21:49 GMT
Sounds like Fathers' Day in Brixton. This joke is so old…. |
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Post by perrykneeham on May 1, 2023 6:48:23 GMT
And yet so timeless.
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Post by mids on May 2, 2023 9:20:03 GMT
Stamps 1 and 3 good; stamps 2 and 4 gay.  |
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Post by moggyonspeed on May 2, 2023 10:50:26 GMT
They look like the kind of stamps that the old DDR put out in the 50s, 60s and 70s, but then East Germany was broke, corrupt, mired in sleaze and spying on its own people at the time.
Oh, hang on ...
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Post by voice on May 2, 2023 21:25:37 GMT
Man arrested for throwing a small round bomb with a fuse in the top (not really, a shotgun shell, the horror, the horror) over Buck Pal wall. www.bbc.com/news/uk-65464885 |
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