Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
They're an insect and public transport - does that help?
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They're an insect and public transport - does that help?
Ahh but but but..........
1. What if the train was privately owned?
2. If you pull one leg off a fly is it still an insect ?
Punkawallah
Veteran
Only if someone is there to observe it.
Beebo
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1976 is the only year that hasn’t produced a English men’s football international player.
classic33
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For one of us to be born, it took:
2 parents
4 grandparents
8 great-grandparents
16 great-great-grandparents
32 third-great-grandparents
64 fourth-great-grandparents
128 fifth-great-grandparents
256 sixth-great-grandparents
512 seventh-great-grandparents
1,024 eighth-great-grandparents
2,048 ninth-great-grandparents
In only the last 11 generations, that’s 4,094 ancestors—roughly within the 300 years before you or I were born!
And, if you go back 33 generations, or about 1,500 years, we all have 1 billion direct ancestors, and each additional further generation doubles it
2 parents
4 grandparents
8 great-grandparents
16 great-great-grandparents
32 third-great-grandparents
64 fourth-great-grandparents
128 fifth-great-grandparents
256 sixth-great-grandparents
512 seventh-great-grandparents
1,024 eighth-great-grandparents
2,048 ninth-great-grandparents
In only the last 11 generations, that’s 4,094 ancestors—roughly within the 300 years before you or I were born!
And, if you go back 33 generations, or about 1,500 years, we all have 1 billion direct ancestors, and each additional further generation doubles it
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rikki
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- Limestone Coast, South Australia
Once you go back 33 generations, there will be a lot of duplication in those billion ancestors.
The world did not reach a 1 billion population (of people) until 1802 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population_milestones
T4tomo
Legendary Member
for those from Norfolk its only about 6 common ancestors
Chris S
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- Birmingham
He's wearing boots with a welted sole. They didn't become standard British Army issue until after the Falklands war in 1981. Either this photo was taken after then or they were issued to the SAS earlier.
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
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For isolated communities that will be the case.
Small islands are remote rural places will have plenty of inter family breeding. It would be almost impossible it to over the course of a few generations.
It wasn’t until recently on a generational level that people travelled more than 20 miles from their place of birth.
Chris S
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- Birmingham
All ethnically British people alive today are descended from William the Conqueror.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/27/not-just-danny-dyer-related-royalty-geneticist-says/
classic33
Leg End Member
A “butt” was a real unit used to measure large quantities of liquid, especially wine or ale, during medieval times and into the early modern era.
One butt equals two hogsheads, and each hogshead typically holds 63 gallons (in the imperial system), making a butt exactly 126 gallons.
One butt equals two hogsheads, and each hogshead typically holds 63 gallons (in the imperial system), making a butt exactly 126 gallons.
