What did you use to look like? Old photos.

http://i.imgur.com/S2at776.jpg

Oh, OK, here I am

oh yeah, totally cute, vegemitegrrl!

spring 1990
so cool
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8250/8605858971_2b31c58960_n.jpg

never felt more depressed about my appearance than I do atm. resulting in me v uncharacteristically looking through old photos & actually liking what I see. Old photos of wins inflicted on uncaring strangers YAY

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8254/8607810346_b28f3527ef_m.jpg

brighton beach 06(?) unaware of photo being taken, doubt I'll ever be as happy again as then. I am wearing a backpack?

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8119/8607882406_a3c507eb3d_m.jpg
Brighton Pride 07, pls to ignore hot friend to the left THIS ISN'T ABOUT HIM

http://www.flickr.com/photos/92794640@N07/8606780027/

mexico, 08

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8114/8606780027_356dd9301f.jpg
2492_66392790241_4648009_n by arnie_snarb

will this work

no one is going to say anything about my hilarious shorts?

I thought maybe they were culottes

omg they were hideous awful huge white shorts to go with my gigantic black tshirt
somewhere i have an identical picture only instead of white shorts i was wearing pea green overall shorts
same dumb glasses + face

Problem is, LL, you still look awesome even in goofy '90s clothes. So hilarious shorts somehow become less hilarious.

I dunno, looks p ridiculous to me!

I think the truth content of this thread is that ILXors in general have a talent for somehow straddling the line between looking awesome and looking hilarious.

pic is huge so I will link instead of embedding:

http://www.alpslabs.com/PANO/Family_Reunion/Carter_Family_Reunion_Photograph.jpg

I am 10 years old, standing right next to Jimmy Carter in goofy black shorts

I had no idea you were related!

he's my third cousin, twice removed. it was a very inclusive family "reunion," never seen him or most of those people since

nice!

awww! you're related to Teeth! that is so cool!

crut are you a peanut farmer

crut tell me about yr bicycle

I'm not adapting very well to this "seeing acquaintances as children back when I was driving my third car" phenomena.

only 4 1/2 years before my first ILX post

babby crut

"he's my third cousin, twice removed"

Can someone explain the whole "removed" thing to me? I've never understood it. What does it mean?!

only 4 1/2 years before my first ILX post

I seriously am ready for the ice floe.

Take heart in global warming! There won't be any ice.

The old people will be left to bake like sun dried tomatoes.

I had to look pretty hard at crüt's pic to figure out who the black sheep were and I'm still not sure I've pegged them.

I think Billy had passed by then.

Holy crap, crüt!

Can someone explain the whole "removed" thing to me? I've never understood it. What does it mean?!

― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Monday, April 29, 2013 8:06 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's to do with the fact that 'cousins' aren't necessarily from the same generation. It's kind of hard to explain. The wiki chart might help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin#Cousin_chart

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Cousin_tree.png

So cruts and jimmy earl share the same great-great grandparents. (Correct me if I'm wrong.)

It's probably easier to picture in that graphic Carter as "me" and cruts as the green block.

Well, that's very complicated but I *think* I get it.

So, for example, my 1st cousin has two kids who I always thought were my second cousins but they're not, they're my 1st cousins once removed?

Looks like it.

The weird part of that graph is the first-cousin, once and twice removed slots. Your first cousin, once removed is likely to be about as old as your parents (your parent's first cousin) and your first cousin, twice removed is likely as old as your grandparents. But those are still first cousins to you?

Hmmm is that right though? Cause using my example above those kids are my first cousins once removed and their much younger than I am not the same age as my parents? Maybe I'm wrong about what they are - I got that from Emily's wiki chart not the figure. Hmmmmm.

Seems to be about asymmetric relations -> you can be 'removed' either upwards or downwards, the removed part indicates a generational gap.

Wiki again:

Sometimes "upwards" or "downwards" is used to indicate the direction of this difference. For example, if A has a grandparent whose sibling is B's parent, then B is A's "first cousin, once removed (upwards)", whereas A is B's "first cousin once removed (downwards)". Note that this is not standard terminology, and is completely absent from many major dictionaries.

first cousins once removed = first cousin's children
second cousins = cousins of your first cousins by marriage on the other side of the family that you are related to them through

OK wait - this explains it, I think.

First cousins once removed:

The child of one's first cousin OR the first cousin of one's parent.

So, both my metal cousin Jorg's two kids and my Dad's crazy cousin Jurgen (RIP it was sad when you fell off a barstool) would be considered my first cousins once removed and while the first two are much younger than I am, Jurgen would (had he not fallen off aforementioned barstool) be roughly the same age as my dad.

metal cousin Jorg

xxxxxp - to LL - I had very similar shorts that I would also wear with a huge black t-shirt - mine were homemade, and black/white/burgundy plaid - there is a picture somewhere in my possession of these

x-post - Yep.

my great-great-great-great-grandparents are Jimmy's great-great-grandparents.

right-o! and those grey dots in the diagram represent the 'outsider' genes that kept marrying into the offshoot line and 'removing' you, by diluting the original genes your common ancestors passed down.

lmao i love how you posted up right next to him

were there secret service there?

shh crut is secret service

7ecret 7ervice

bh ideas sort of ambience to the carter family pic

Been cool if you all had formed the outline of Georgia or a peanut.

my mom says she lost the pic of oprah holding me when I was a baby

according to the story oprah held me as she went up an escalator

lmao i love how you posted up right next to him

were there secret service there?

― ְ֮֠֓֟֬֩ (gr8080), Monday, April 29, 2013 6:38 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol, someone actually pulled me out of the crowd and placed me there because I was short. I can't remember if there were secret service there but I can't imagine why there wouldn't be

crappy b/w scan but anyway

ms mac with her new fella, grad night 2005

https://www.dropbox.com/s/76uv8h8vbvwqhrd/IMAG0064.jpg