Ashamed of Your Roots

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These are my roots. Fuck roots!

― Miles Finch, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

As Faust so wisely advised us all those years ago: "Don't Take Roots."

― Rachel Verinder, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

As sepuchura said once, "Roots baby!"

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I am rooting but I am not tooting

― Stevem On X (blueski), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I keep wondering about that place. Could you have a coup there?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Noodles was just asking me if the Isle of Man was dodgy...

― The Phantom of the Operating System (kate), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

No, but the Isle of Dogs is Manny.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Have you picked out your dress yet then, Miles?

― Paul Eater (eater), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I say we send Stevem on a reconnaissance mission to eventually conquer the island and turn it into ILXORia. Kate can then establish the Sanctuary of the Blissful Dirty Drone.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

ROOOOOOOOTS BLOODY ROOOOOOTS

― Hello [on a cellphone], greetings, it's me, an outlaw, latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Look, if you're sending anyone to do recoinnaissance and spying, it should clearly be The Spy. That said, I hear it's all a bit Wicker Man, so maybe that's not such a good idea.

― The Phantom of the Operating System (kate), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

It REALLY REALLY IS like the Fifties there. I mean they're not all my roots, I've never LIVED there. But my Gran does and my Mum did. It's fucking crazy. The key event are the classy 'TT Races' where lots of amateur motorcyclists commit ritual suicide.

― Miles Finch, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

The Isle of Wight is the seventies. Last year I bought a Flamin' Groovies e.p. in perfect nick. After staying there a week, it wasn't such a surprise! It probably only made the chart the previous week...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

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― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Snappy (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...

People who are obsessed with tracing their roots - cool or fool?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

I admit proudly to being a genealogy buff. In the end we're all related. I found out that my husband Scott and I share ancestors from the town of East Windsor CT. I also found out that my parents are distantly related. I knew my family tree was twisted, but...

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

It's a good way of grounding oneself or establishing one's cultural or personal identity for those who have been isolated or dispossesed, especially in the transient modern world.

― It Is What A Man Does Which Demeans Him, Not What Is Done To Him (kate), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 06:50 (twenty years ago)

And I do believe in some sort of ancestral memory, so I think where your ancestors were and what they did helps in some (perhaps miniscule) way to shape who you are.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

I'm certainly not obsessed by it, but I enjoy finding out interesting things about my family's past.

― In the springtime of the year / Kate (papa november), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 12:01 (twenty years ago)

Mhy family is rather dull, so I just make stuff up. It all started when I got a signed photo of a random old man in an opshop and started telling everyone it was my great uncle...

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

You don't hold any truck with this new-fangled evolution nonsense, then, Maria?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

...What I'm really into is heraldry.

― In the springtime of the year / Kate (papa november), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 12:06 (twenty years ago)

Culture is a meme that replicates as well as a gene, if modern evolutionists are to be believed, Mark.

― It Is What A Man Does Which Demeans Him, Not What Is Done To Him (kate), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)

Is that Spike from Buffy on one of Dan's hair products?

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 12:15 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

I feel this weird sense of shame when I visit the border town I grew up in. I'm embarassed to go grocery shopping. I don't know why.

― its gotta be HOOSy para steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 15 February 2009 08:35 (seventeen years ago)

Shit, I think I make too much of my roots at times, or at least I did before ILX made me self conscious about it.

I hate going grocery shopping where I grew up because they don't have things like flat leaf parsley.

― peepin' it causeative (dan m), Sunday, 15 February 2009 08:41 (seventeen years ago)

I like history, the more idiosyncratic or messy the better. If roots as in genealogy, I got interested over the past year or so because after my dad died, a bunch of stuff all fell into place re: his family; four of his ancestors/family/whatever spied for G. Washington and thought, retreating with him on the Delaware, what a good idea it would be to steal or destroy the British boats they found so the enemy couldn't chase them further. They swiped or torched the boats and changed the tenor of the war. Weird sense of wonderment/OMG this one little thing, looking at these people's correspondence on Library of Congress website.

― Choom Gang Gang Dance (suzy), Sunday, 15 February 2009 10:43 (seventeen years ago)

I'm proud of my ancestors as people, esp. my grandfathers who were pull-yrself-up-by-yr-bootstraps self-made americans of the early 20th century. what I'm less proud/ashamed of is the culture they came out of esp. the superstitious/reactionary irish catholicism of my dad's family

― m coleman, Sunday, 15 February 2009 16:42 (seventeen years ago)

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