"Oh look at that... it's Swedish." - from my dad.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:47 (three years ago) link
Typically Romanian body language, especially when mildly inebriated and/or expressing annoyance.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:47 (three years ago) link
Would love to have been a fly on the wall for dinnertime Obama conversations.
― clemenza, Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:47 (three years ago) link
My dad likes to say we come of sturdy pedant stock.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:50 (three years ago) link
My brother may well show up in this thread to say that no he doesn't do this and what am I talking about.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:51 (three years ago) link
Should have been a SNL sketch in 2008!
― clemenza, Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:52 (three years ago) link
Cant actually think of anything tbh, which strikes me as odd once i think of it
― beware the ídes of mairt (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 March 2021 21:31 (three years ago) link
I can think of quirks I inherited from my grandparents but I feel like I maybe only inherited neuroses from my parents.
― Stefan Twerkelle (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 March 2021 21:37 (three years ago) link
Oh, I guess when I'm barefoot I tend to pick shit up off the floor with my toes like my mom does.
― Stefan Twerkelle (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 March 2021 21:39 (three years ago) link
― scampless, rattled and puce (gyac), Thursday, 4 March 2021 21:39 (three years ago) link
All I can think is of is physical traits like skin tone from my dad who my grandma used to call Omar Sharif and a big aquiline nose from my mum who had such a complex about her nose she used to scratch it out in any pics of her in photo albums, but not any quirks as such. Anything possible quirks I can think of are perhaps just standard human being stuff.
― calzino, Thursday, 4 March 2021 21:41 (three years ago) link
What does this mean?
You'll see.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 4 March 2021 21:43 (three years ago) link
i can really only think of things i take from my father, other than physical appearance - i look a lot more like my mum, other than my nose and stooped, bad posture.. my dad is very cheery and upbeat, although i suffer form depression and am often the opposite of those things, when im in a good mood i sing and dance around the apartment, frequently, when doing the dishes etc. which comes from my dad (ive never heard my mother sing and she's generally calmer and more placid). i like to constantly tease people, which to be honest is definitely just in the air in scotland just in general but my dad is really into it, and he's not even from there.
― himpathy with the devil (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 4 March 2021 22:11 (three years ago) link
oh yes i also have jiggling legs which comes from my dad and his mother before him
― himpathy with the devil (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 4 March 2021 22:12 (three years ago) link
Oh i sing, everywhere i go, thats from dad
― beware the ídes of mairt (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 March 2021 22:14 (three years ago) link
impulsively crossing small boundaries in order to feel connected to people but instead driving them away? thanks mom
― map ca. 1890 (map), Thursday, 4 March 2021 22:15 (three years ago) link
I'm the kind of guy who uses Romanian body language that's typicalCan't understand what I mean?You soon will
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 4 March 2021 22:22 (three years ago) link
Exactly.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 4 March 2021 22:24 (three years ago) link
does a predilection for alcohol and ciggies count as a quirk?
― calzino, Thursday, 4 March 2021 22:29 (three years ago) link
I emulated my dad's accent even though I've always lived in Canada, not England.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 4 March 2021 22:48 (three years ago) link
Interesting. Only when you were little or have you kept it up?
― pomenitul, Thursday, 4 March 2021 22:53 (three years ago) link
I've never tried to imitate him, and more than four decades out of the house has taken the edges off, but people still ask where I'm from.
He taught, and at parent/teacher meetings, they would tell him that his students developed accents after a year in his classes.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 4 March 2021 23:09 (three years ago) link
Hah, now that's charisma.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 4 March 2021 23:11 (three years ago) link
I once took one of those "where does your accent place you?" quizzes, and it gave me "Philadelphia" and "Northern Virginia" as the answer, which happens to be exactly where my parents grew up, respectively. It was pretty uncanny.
One less passive thing I got from my dad was a love of '50s rock and roll (makes sense) but also his love of reggae (no idea how that got on his radar). From my mom (probably), a tendency toward rambling anecdotes.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 March 2021 00:47 (three years ago) link
i met my mom once and i could see etches of her face's contours in mine
i started talking to my dad as an adult and my stepmom says me and him say a couple of the same phrases, despite never having lived together ever, which i find odd
i could never relate to anyone in my family, though, and i always felt like an alien among them
one funny thing is my best friend is from england, so some of his pronunciation rubbed off on me because we would spend so much time together
― Punster McPunisher, Friday, 5 March 2021 04:05 (three years ago) link
Some fifteen years after my mom bought me one as a gift (to which I was indifferent), I started picking up the fountain pen habit. Like her, I'm almost invariably up for an hour or two reading in the middle of the night.
Like my Dad, I floss my teeth in front of the computer before going to bed.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Friday, 5 March 2021 05:33 (three years ago) link