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My mom is so proud of "being British" and then her number one result wasn't even from the isles (though two and three were). I guess her family didn't move around much where a mass migration of Angles landed and there are some anglicized surnames from the 1700s (and earlier) in her family tree that were originally German.

My dad and I found this exceptionally amusing, as he's about 95% German (genetically, he wasn't born there) and if either of us pissed off my mom enough, she'd go with a "blinking Germans!" and so on, complaining about stereotypes that she felt applied to the situation in a moment of frustration... Of course, we would not let her results go quietly because of that. Even my wife joined in. It was pretty funny how defensive she'd get about it too... Over time it became less amusing though so we stopped.

Tangent: I wonder if anyone has ever paid somebody else for their spit to get a "sure thing" desired result. It seems utterly stupid, but so are the people doing these tests for bigoted reasons.
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"message parlor" ? do you mean the post office ? - SlayerX888