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"Children's children"

  • 07-02-2013 12:44am
    #1
    December2012
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,695 ✭✭✭


    Why not just say grandchildren? It's so fùcking pretentious.


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  • #2
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Children once removed!


  • #3
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    You sound like my mother's mother


  • #4
    Gatling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Yep some grandparents just can't handle the idea of being Nanny or Grandad must be an ageism stigma yes mammy and daddy your getting feck that you are old get used it ,cause it doesn't last too long
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  • #5
    donvito99
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    Thinly veiled "I know old people" thread.


  • #6
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    Fruit of my loins, fruit of their loins.


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  • #7
    Gmol
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    Fruit of the fruit of the loom.


  • #8
    efb
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    soundbites nyeh


  • #9
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    Its a phrase my father used, and his father before him...


  • #10
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,350 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    December2012 wrote: »
    Why not just say grandchildren? It's so fùcking pretentious.

    Children's children is used many times in the Bible. Whereas the use of grand in front of child, mother etc only came into the language around 1200 AD.

    The use of grand- in compounds, with the sense of "a generation older than, or younger than," is first attested c.1200, in Anglo-French graund dame "grandmother." Latin and Greek had similar usages.


  • #11
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Senna wrote: »
    Fruit of my loins, fruit of their loins.
    Buford T Justice, what a man.


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  • #12
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,350 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    im invisible wrote: »
    Its a phrase my father used, and his father before him...

    Reminds me of the joke about the official who called to a house out the country and in conversation with the oul fella who live there asked him if he ever got married. The oul fella says Me father never got married and his father before him never got married so I never got married.


  • #13
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    Where To wrote: »
    Buford T Justice, what a man.

    remind me when we get home I'm gonna hit yo momma soo hard!!!


  • #14
    Jordan 199
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,504 ✭✭✭✭Jordan 199


    That's preposterous. Get out! You're banned from this Historical Society. You, and your children, and your children's children! ... for 3 months.


  • #15
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Alright Reg, don't labour the point!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSELOCMmw4A


  • #16
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,880 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    Gatling wrote: »
    Yep some grandparents just can't handle the idea of being Nanny or Grandad must be an ageism stigma yes mammy and daddy your getting feck that you are old get used it ,cause it doesn't last too long

    Maybe it's the number of grandparents we have today that are in their mid 30s that causes the embarrassment?


  • #17
    Gatling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    That's quite possible in saying I didn't become a dad till I was 31 and yet I've friends who are already granddads or nanny's
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  • #18
    ITS_A_BADGER
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,232 ✭✭✭ITS_A_BADGER


    The little bastards of the future


  • #19
    fastrac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 721 ✭✭✭fastrac


    I have a cousin living in the U.S.A. who describes herself as a Glamma. No doubt it will be here shortly.


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