My grandpa was an alcoholic, unsuccessful writer, most of my father's side of the family were either alcoholics, writers, communists or all of the above.
My grandpa was in the SS. BUT just as a translator. He just tried to make a living somehow. He was a Physics/Chemistry teacher after the war. Ultimate badass
[QUOTE=Droogie;25731037]My grandpa was an alcoholic, unsuccessful writer, most of my father's side of the family were either alcoholics, writers, communists or all of the above.[/QUOTE]
sounds like my kind of family.
My grandpa (dads side) served in the Vietnamese war and took swords off the corpses and in his later life he played Ultima Online, and after he retired he spent most of the day playing xbox, until one day he ended up with a brain tumor after a gaming session (Oblivion) and eventually died after they could not remove it
My great grandad designed the early B2's.
Both of my grandfathers (Dad's and mother's fathers) fought in WW2, Dad's dad died, shot 4 times. Mom's dad shot a spy during a training session.
My grandfather was in the navy but he never really spoke about it much. He was awesome though. During the last few weeks of his life he escaped twice from his nursing home. Once we saw him standing at a bus stop while on the way to visit him. :3:
My grandpa lived off the land, built his house himself using the trees on his land, whenever he got sick he always knew of some old fashioned remedy to help cure it, in the rare event that he got sick he would go out in the woods, pick up some peppermint, boil it and breathe in the steam, next day he'd be good as new. No he's not native American.
I miss him.
[QUOTE=strayebyrd;25731457]sounds like my kind of family.[/QUOTE]
He was a great conversationalist when we weren't quarreling over ideologies.
I've inherited a lot of Soviet memorabilia from them, along with a fairly large collection of golden age Russian literature. I'm also told my great (or great, great) grandfather studied under some Soviet commandant but there's not a lot of people alive to confirm it.
My grandma used to shout things in Russian and refer to me as her little revolutionist, I was like 8 at the time though so I didn't really get to appreciate her eccentricity.
My grandad on my mothers side used to work for IBM. He was pretty high up I believe, but I have never really asked him to much about that.
As of late though, he has been telling me all these kick ass stories. His latest was when he went to Brazil for work related stuff. He was in a taxi one day, and as he comes out from a tunnel, the driver in the car infront stopped, got out, shot someone on the street, got back in his car, and drove casually away.
He also went to a football game later in the week, where the pitch was blocked off from the crowd by a barbed wire fence, and a freaking moat! A riot errupted during the game, and the police just ended up shooting people.
Infact, quite alot of stories he's told me about include shootings...
I wish I still had a grandpa :(
My great grandfather and his two brothers skied across about a 1/16th of Russia during the Tsarist era and skied all the way to Finland. The reason being that they had recently escaped a work camp after being there for 5 years. One of the brothers was shot and stayed behind, to live in a camp for 15 more years. My great grandfather hated Russia so much (still don't know why) that he completely forgot the language (note: he was Ingrian, so he spoke Finnish as a native language). He was later shot by communists because he was a bank manager. During the second world war he was a prison guard and basically made the Russian prisoners farm for him (he paid them too).
My grandpa served under the Soviets during WWII, got his leg blown off by mines.
[QUOTE=Murkat;25727331]You sure your great-grandfather didn't just happen to be a jew and the guard didn't just happen to not be a Nazi asshole?[/QUOTE]
No, he emptied the ashes in the crematorium and was somehow thrown into the mob.
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[url]http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/8471061.WANSTEAD__Mother_who_changed_military_history_dies/[/url]
My Nan, died last week on 21st - it would've been her wedding anniversary that exact same day. And Grandad died on December 22nd 2008.
In short: My dad's brother died in Aden(Government won't tell us true reason of how he died, conspiracies), & they wouldn't allow his body to be brought home for burial. Previously soldiers were just buried at their location of death - but they changed that, so all those dying in Afghanistan right now wouldn't make it back to the UK without them doing what they did.
If you would like to know more about it then contact me over Steam/Facepunch/Email & I'll create a page for it with everything I have. I'd like to do it anyway.
Here is a Radio Play done about what they did by a family friend, it's 45 minutes so I understand if you don't want to listen to it all - but I'd suggest you do if you're interested:
[url=http://www.thenewrepublic.net/files/Bringing%20Eddie%20Home.m4a]Bringing Eddie Home - John Peacock[/url]
Additional info can be found by typing "Bring Eddie Home - John Peacock" into Google, & there are some links here:
[url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076yf5]BBC Radio Page[/url]
[url=http://web.ukonline.co.uk/suttonelms/articles23.html]Radio Archive Page[/url]
[url=http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/programmes/bringing_eddie_home.html]Cast and Roles[/url]
If anyone wishes to come to the funeral on Tuesday at Midday, then please do - I don't want people travelling across the country though, so only if you're close to Wanstead. I doubt any of you will but it'd be nice.
My grandpa is a fatass Brazilian who doesn't give a fuck
:smug:
My great grandpa was an immigrant from Austria..........
He and his wife were obviously nymphomaniacs.......
What an exciting story.
I'll put it this way. The only German my Mother knows, she learned from her Grandmother. In the car. During rush hour. And she prefers not to use them.
My great grandpa was the first to own a car in the area he was in. I'm not sure who this was, but either him or my grandpa was a soldier for Nazis during WW2. Oh man the Jews and my people sure have been weird with each other, some hunted them down, some hid them, and now the Jews and Israelis love us no matter what.
my grandpa is 80 years old and can do 20 pushups on his knuckles
My Grandfather on my dads side worked at Dugway Proving Grounds in Nevada. Just testing biological and chemical weapons, no big deal compared to you guys.
Mine on my moms side plays golf.
My grandfather was in the army, however I can't ask him what it was like, as he died a year before I was born. :sigh:
my great uncle won a nobel prize for his work on the neutrino effect, got rich, wrote off the family, now i live in the woods.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Reines[/url]
My grandfather on my father's side, Bartlett J. McCartin I, founded McCartin McAuliffe Mechanical Contractors. Too bad I never knew him.
My grandfather on my mother's side was a gambler who had connections with the Chicago Mob. The guy that gave Al Capone the boot - he knew him.
My family (on my father's side) is famous and even goes back to Medieval Irish royalty (not as in kings and queens, more like Barons, Dukes and the like). My mother's side isn't that famous, but we had some famous people. One of my relatives was the guy on the titanic who, in order to get off the boat, had to cross-dress and pretend to be a woman. The story about that one woman who committed suicide in the office of a famous cinema was about my great aunt. My great grandfather on my mother's mother's side set the safety standard for working in high places, like flagpoles and skyscrapers.
My father raced for Porsche before following in his father's footsteps. My brother worked for Regan as an intern, and in 2002 during the recession, he saved McCartin McAuliffe from bankruptcy.
I also know that I got carried away just now. I'm very proud of my heritage.
My grandpa had the honor of working with Gracie Hopper on COBOL, one of the first programming languages. He's famous for making the [url="http://www.sdtimes.com/link/33510"]COBOL tombstone[/url] because he thought the whole thing was going to fail miserably (it's still used today).
My great great grandpa was a Russian alcoholic who married my great great grandma only because he won her in a card game. He then pissed off the Tzar and got the whole family exiled to Siberia. In Siberia he somehow amassed a fortune and became nobility, only to be forced into exile again when the comies came to kill the bourgeois (my family had 3 hours notice of their arrival; they had to leave everything behind). Russia is so badass. :ussr:
My Granny and Grandpa (Christine, David) were both art teachers, they're awesome (Granny plays computer games, introduced me to them when I was about 3), born in 1943 and 1954ish.
My other grandparents, my grandma (Joyce) died about 6 years ago and my grandad (Frank) is in his late 80s, he was a policeman at one point, if I remember correctly he was in the RAF during WW2 and afterwards worked for a chemical company. For the past few years he's been going all around the world, particularly South America. He's very typical grandad and very awesome.
I also knew half of my great grandparents and know a bit about the others. My grandpa's dad (Fred) joined the Territorial Army in 1939 because of the benefits it granted - then one day he went off to training and he ended up in France. At Dunkirk he just missed a boat that was sunk with all on board and then later in the war he was injured and sent home to recover, meanwhile all his friends were sent to Italy where all but 2 died and they were driven mad by their months long escape from a PoW camp to the frontline. He died in 1999 or so. I only saw him a few times, but he was awesome.
My granny's dad (Ian) was a reverend, apparently quite important in the Church of Scotland because there was a webpage about him until a year or two ago. He died in 2005 just after his 90th birthday. During WW2 he was the youngest army Pastor in North Africa. His enormous religiousness and pushiness resulted in my granny becoming an atheist, he wouldn't even be in the same house as my parents when my mum was pregnant with me until they got married. He probably wouldn't like me now, but he wasn't nasty.
My Grandad's dad was a taxi driver. The most notable thing I've heard about him is that he drove Agatha Christie from the Swan Hydropathic Hotel when she disappeared in 1926.
My grandpa's dead :frown:
My grandpa was a coal miner. My other one is factory parts salesman.
:sigh:
Boring grandparents. But I love them and they're still alive.
my grandfather was a chief petty officer in the US navy. my other grandfather was a mechanic and from what I hear a pretty cool guy. never met him though
My mothers side grandfather was a welder and he built some cranes in Finland. And my fathers side he was a bussinessman who met the president on multiple occasions. Too bad i never met him.
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