Author under fire for using asian pen name!

[Nicole Wilson]

I know when I blush (which is hard to get me to do these days) I look like I just got an instant sunburn. Now, @Nicole Wilson , you know why I live in WA. The sun never shines here! (Yeah, right!). One good thing, I'm 63 and have no gray hair. I do have a few white ones, though.

Nice! Well I live in Houston where it's summer like 10 months out of the year, so that's exciting . Ditto to the instant sunburn. I was talking to a new friend at work today for a while and, by the end of it, I looked like I was wearing blush all over my face.

 

[Stephen Drake]

Nice! Well I live in Houston where it's summer like 10 months out of the year, so that's exciting . Ditto to the instant sunburn. I was talking to a new friend at work today for a while and, by the end of it, I looked like I was wearing blush all over my face.

You poor thing! I know exactly what that's like!
Do you ever get asked if you're feeling okay?

 

[Nicole Wilson]

You poor thing! I know exactly what that's like!
Do you ever get asked if you're feeling okay?

From people who don't know me, yeah. The people that do just brush it off. OR my friends at my last job actually started to make a game out of how red they could turn Nicole. They'd make me do speeches and stuff to see how red I'd get. Which was fun for the most part, but sometimes it's like "all right guys. I turn red. Believe me, I can feel it" haha.

 

[Jason Byrne]

Oh ho ho can I tell you about blushing. Good grief. My face turns the color of my hair more often than I'd like to admit. But back to the sunburn thing (cuz that's like my life), I have to wear 100 spf sunscreen when I run for anything longer than 40 minutes or I'm in pain for days. If hubby and I go for a picnic, sunscreen. Play volleyball outside, sunscreen. Take an antibiotic that makes me more sensitive to the sun and now I want to walk to the car, sunscreen. Freakin ridiculous.

Whoa. I had no idea! That is dark. Seattle. That's the way to go.

 

[Jason Byrne]

From people who don't know me, yeah. The people that do just brush it off. OR my friends at my last job actually started to make a game out of how red they could turn Nicole. They'd make me do speeches and stuff to see how red I'd get. Which was fun for the most part, but sometimes it's like "all right guys. I turn red. Believe me, I can feel it" haha.

Hahaha, how delightful!

 

[Stephen Drake]

Whoa. I had no idea! That is dark. Seattle. That's the way to go.

People around the US think Seattle is the "rain capital" of the US (one year we had 90 straight days of rain all day). Usually, it is. Jokes like "people in Seattle don't tan, they rust" and "Seattle rain festival from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31". It isn't true. Some years it just seems that way, but we have been in drought for the last couple of years and so we've gotten summers that are hot and dry. Now that fall is close at hand, the rain has started again.

 

[Jason Byrne]

Climate change. Ruining our Seattle jokes... ruining our Scottish redhead jokes...

 

[Alistair Roberts]

USA might turn into the northern Australia if climate change keeps going...

 

[Stephen Drake]

Climate change. Ruining our Seattle jokes... ruining our Scottish redhead jokes...

IMO, genetics engineering will do more for eliminating "gingers" than anything else.

 

[Nicole Wilson]

Climate change. Ruining our Seattle jokes... ruining our Scottish redhead jokes...

Interesting. Most people assume redheads are Irish (as that's where most of us get the color from). I was all prepared to say "ha! I'm not Irish" but I guess I don't have to. I'm actually (among a mutt of other things European and a random Native American line) a combo of German and Scottish, which is where my hair comes from.

 

[Jason Byrne]

Interesting. Most people assume redheads are Irish (as that's where most of us get the color from). I was all prepared to say "ha! I'm not Irish" but I guess I don't have to. I'm actually (among a mutt of other things European and a random Native American line) a combo of German and Scottish, which is where my hair comes from.

Lot of redheads, come out of Scotland. Also Brenden Gleeson. Oh no wait — he's Irish. Never mind.

MontanaMan you look like Brenden Gleeson.

Dunn'ee?

I digress. A lot. Also I'm Irish, but not a redhead.

 

[Stephen Drake]

LOL! Not anymore! The pic for me is an old one. Back when I was first started riding (2002). I now have very short hair and no goatee.
I do happen to be Irish, English, German, Dutch. After reading @Karen Gray's books, I wonder if I'm becoming Scottish (Scot ish). Maybe I'm just a numpty heid.

 

[Jason Byrne]

LOL! Not anymore! The pic for me is an old one. Back when I was first started riding (2002). I now have very short hair and no goatee.
I do happen to be Irish, English, German, Dutch. After reading @Karen Gray's books, I wonder if I'm becoming Scottish (Scot ish). Maybe I'm just a numpty heid.

Unfathomable. MontanaMan has a goatee — you must be an impostor.

I think we're all numpty-heids. Or else lankit an gangly as a Tattie-bogle on a wobbly pole.

 

[Stephen Drake]

I'm Irish, but not a redhead.

You don't need to have red hair to be Irish, but it is usually assumed that you are Irish if you do. I really don't like stereotypical assumptions.

 

[Stephen Drake]

Unfathomable. MontanaMan has a goatee — you must be an impostor.

I think we're all numpty-heids. Or else lankit an gangly as a Tattie-bogle on a wobbly pole.

pmsl! That was good! I always count on Jason to say something to make me laugh. I haven't always had a goatee and I don't think I'm an impostor, unless the government has changed things on me without notification.

 

[Karen Gray]

Unfathomable. MontanaMan has a goatee — you must be an impostor.

I think we're all numpty-heids. Or else lankit an gangly as a Tattie-bogle on a wobbly pole.

Haha! That's one of my favourite lines so it is

Also the comeback about the dog and the nettle

 

[Karen Gray]

You don't need to have red hair to be Irish, but it is usually assumed that you are Irish if you do. I really don't like stereotypical assumptions.

Red in the beard. That's the biggest sign of Celtic descent

 

[Stephen Drake]

Red in the beard. That's the biggest sign of Celtic descent

Aren't Irish considered Celtic?

 

[Karen Gray]

Celtic Nations
Ireland
Scotland
Isle of Man
Wales
Cornwall
Brittany

 

[Jason Byrne]

pmsl! That was good! I always count on Jason to say something to make me laugh. I haven't always had a goatee and I don't think I'm an impostor, unless the government has changed things on me without notification.

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Whoa... very well! I stand corrected.

 

[Stephen Drake]

This is scary! Me and my sis in 1974

 

[Jason Byrne]

Celtic Nations
Ireland
Scotland
Isle of Man
Wales
Cornwall
Brittany

So the crazy thing? The Celts were actually originally Germanic. For example, Danu of the Tuatha Dé Danann is believed to be a mother goddess derived from the Danube River.

 

[Jason Byrne]

This is scary!
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Ooh impromptu TBT! Crap I don't have my old pictures with me!

Let's see... does the beginning of May four months ago count as TBT?

 

[Emurelda]

Oh my...where's my popcorn..never mind biccies will do.

 

[Stephen Drake]

Ooh impromptu TBT! Crap I don't have my old pictures with me!

If you look, you can see my sis has red hair. She is more of a strawberry blonde than me. At one time, people thought we were twins.

 

[Stephen Drake]

Ooh impromptu TBT! Crap I don't have my old pictures with me!

Let's see... does the beginning of May four months ago count as TBT?
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It does if you want it to... pmsl

 

[Emurelda]

It does if you want it to... pmsl

He definitely looks younger

 

[Nicole Wilson]

I think we're all numpty-heids. Or else lankit an gangly as a Tattie-bogle on a wobbly pole

I have no idea what that means....

 

[Karen Gray]

I have no idea what that means....

It means that you are as lanky and unbalanced as a scarecrow on a wobbly pole.

I presume you get numpty heid? It means eejit basically. Silly person. Dough heid, heid the baw blah blah etc

 

[Jennifer Stone]

It means that you are as lanky and unbalanced as a scarecrow on a wobbly pole.

I presume you get numpty heid? It means eejit basically. Silly person. Dough heid, heid the baw blah blah etc

Aye my wee lassie, I get yer.