Who could say no to scaling the Washington monument…
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Mine is just peasants in China…
Then my grandparents got phds and we escaped peasantry
I’m now pissed off with my grandparents. And I guess my grandchildren are going to be pissed off with me.
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most of my family are still peasants quite literally, especially on my mum’s side. Most of her male cousins and uncles are drunk deadbeats
My dads side has produced some pretty cool ppl. My paternal grandpa actually has a mini shrine thing of family members who got PhD’s
Our branch just got lucky ig
This feels like a weird thing to measure someones value with.
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They more or less worship education bc it’s what saved their lives and allowed subsequent generations live far better ones
Even during the famines in China, students were guaranteed food.
My grandma told me stories of coworkers starving to death bc they didn’t have access to food
They became professors and bc of that have a generous pension, free housing and an army of very loyal students who regularly wish them well.
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Have you committed a crime so heinous it will be felt for generations, or are you just reflecting that grandparents are likely to piss kids off in the general scheme of things?
I don’t have a PhD so I’m condemning my descendants to peasantry. A heinous crime indeed!
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Ah! I wasn’t connecting the two posts. I am also pissed off at my grandparents, though I would have rathered they gather wealth than academic titles. There was no reason for them NOT to become giants of industry or in on the ground floor of tech, but laziness and apathy.
Which as you note of yourself, are traits I also exhibit.
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I strongly disagree
I have three siblings, two of us have PhDs. My grandmother, who also has a PhD (as do two of her other grandchildren) refers to my PhD-less siblings as “those two that allegedly had been good at sports but I didn’t see them winning any major medals”.
When I announced at an extended family dinner that my wife was pregnant with our first child, my grandma said, and I quote: “finally the smart one is also procreating” prompting my PhD-less brother and sister to leave the table. I was always amazed at the amount of emotional damage she could inflict even in her late seventies.
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Damn.
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My paternal grandma is a otherwise nice lady, but there was one time she took my little bro aside and basically blamed his “lack of academic effort” for ruining my parents’ marriage.
My brother told mum and mum refused to speak to her for at least 3 months
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This is the ultimate embodiment of the Carbohydrates for the Muscles thread.
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I did not see that thread and I must resist temptation…
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If you’re bored, it’s a good place for some comic relief
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I read the first post of that thread, in which keyboard warriors were claiming that Frank Zane wasn’t good enough and thats enough for me.
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