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Originally Posted by Ab
If you can't show how you're related to me, I don't care how many biscuits you bring me.
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Random Maoribrain moment just last week.
New lady joined the office team, she's Scottish, everyone in the same place for the first time in a while, office small talk to welcome her, mentioned I was a Kiwi with Scots connections on my Dad's side, she asked how, without thinking I responded "my Dad's mother's mother's father's mother's father was a Burns from Argyll" and there was like a silent record scratch moment and I remembered that I am in Australia and not everyone carries 10 generations of family tree in their heads at all times just in case they need to find family connections with anyone they meet.