r/Millennials • u/Clint_Lovecraft • 12h ago

Meme Meme for the day.

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Good ole Boomer logic. Have a good day y'all 😁

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u/1877KlownsForKids "Get Off My Lawn" Millennial 1981 12h ago

Same. My surname came from Ireland to America in 1849 and promptly popped out 13 kids. Through a combination of marriage, war, priesthood, farm accidents, and general Irish drunkenness I'm the only living male with that surname out of probably close to a thousand descendants. I have only girls.

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u/GrizzlyP33 12h ago

Sounds like your bloodline is fine, just your surname is on the way out.

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u/WileyPap 11h ago

I have only girls. But our surname is cool and they like it so... if their SO's don't have good last names they better have brothers to carry the burden. My kids aren't gonna be up for swapping their maiden name for Shittlegranger or whatever

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u/A-Halfpound 9h ago

Fun fact: his girls DO NOT have to change their last names! 

So if children are had, the child could use their mothers last name, especially of out of wedlock!

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u/StarSword-C Older Millennial 1h ago

No, they don't have to, but they still often do. My female cousin on my dad's side is the only member of my generation of the family who's had kids so far, and she took her husband's name.

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u/GrizzlyP33 7h ago

I mean, obviously yes. The way he phrased it seemed like based on their customs that was unlikely. To each their own, but it’s 2026, I don’t think we need this to be announced :)

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u/AlbacoreDumbleberg 10h ago

If you look at my family tree, one set of my grandparents had two kids; they each had two kids, who are now in their 30s and 40s, and there's only one child between us. No more are planned. If you expand my tree more, it's just more of the same. Outside of the Gen X ones, most of my second cousins have no children either. There's just 1 other child amongst the millennials and older Gen Z. Two total children out of a dozen people (plus spouses/partners) all in their 30s and 40s.

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u/ExIsStalkingMe 6h ago

This reminded me that I've always liked how the big magic bloodline in Anne Rice's vampire novels was tracked on the female side. This wasn't done as some sort of altruistic Girl Power thing; it's just the only way to ensure accuracy. If you follow the male side, on a long enough timeline, you're going to have at least one cheating woman