Didn’t they have an episode with Bigfoot? That kind of would proove you wrong, potentially.
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Unless of course Mulder & the featured Bigfoot were secretly working together to further confuse the issue 
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I mean have you ever seen Mulder and Bigfoot in the same room?
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Oh you mean Mulder’s sister who’s just conveniently missing? I’ve only seen 4 maybe 5 episodes tops but I am positive that Mulder is a Bigfeet. And Burt Reynolds is God.
The evidence only piles up the closer you look.
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Sooooo…my DNA results are very interesting. While I am mostly from English and Scottish descent, I have some interesting mix in there too along with my Native American mix…except its a little bit sad too. 
My mother was a bit surprised at the Scottish part since she always thought her mother’s father was Irish.
Don’t hate me @toddumptious
Ok ok…I have 1% Senegal and 2% Nigerian…that is straight from the heart of the slave trade… 
So I fear there is a really sad story in there somewhere.
But hey, I have tribes everywhere. 
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A lot of Scottish people have Irish ancestry. That’s because Scotland was invaded by the Irish in the Dark Ages - The Lords of The Isles, The Dal Riada, and all that. That’s why Gaelic is spoken in Scotland to this day - it wasn’t their original language - it was imposed on them by Irish conquerors.
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Hey we only quietly vacationed over there while Rome withdrew and nobody seemed to mind. We love our Q-Celtic brethren <3
Dont you mind about who was there before I’m pretty sure we just bred ourselves into them, as is Irish tradition. Just ask the Normans where they’ve gotten off to.
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Exactly. That’s why if you examine the genetics of people from Scotland, you’re likely to find Irish DNA.
When you invade a place, you have to bring a sizeable army with you. Otherwise you just get your arse kicked. Once you’ve established yourself in power, your army just mixes and intermarries with the local population. It happened with the Romans, with the Saxons, with the Vikings (both the early pirates, and the organised Danes), and yes, with the Normans.
That’s why any talk of a “Pure British Race” is laughable.
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Not just that. The purpose of Invasions changed quite a bit throughout history. While the british empire was mostly just after control over law and economy, in earlier history invasions were quite commonly about land acquisition, i.e. settlement. It would be rather difficult to settle a place without breeding into or displacing the local population…
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We also went through that awkward Big Dick Energy period where it was just warring tribes and high kings vying for the title of Biggest Dick Goin. Queen Maedbh having notoriously, the bigges dichus. (and also not real but she may as well have been since anything from that time period in our history is a horrible mess of truth and folklore/legend).
Any further back and we’re dealing with Beaker people, and its still in dispute when the celtic cultures arrived to the island. It gets even more confusing when the person you are talking to insists it was during the bronze age but you have to point out switching to bronze didnt happen overnight. Ireland was well Neolithic past its popularity in europe. It was somewheres in between, give or take a few centuries. So everyones right, in a sense.
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I had a good laugh at this. My DNA results backed up an ancestry search a great Aunt had commissioned.
A fun fact is that my paternal grandfather kept referring to a “block-headed Swede” at work. Then my great aunt’s ancestry result came in … Our roots were Swedish!
We never heard the phrase “block-headed Swede” again. 
To make matters even more interesting, the coat of arms was a shield with a black background and three gold mullets (stars) adorned with a silver unicorn and wreath.
Cool, I thought. I have three kids.
Then I learned that black was a sign of bastardy. I just could not resist imparting that knowledge to grandpa. 
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They totally do that! You can be on the top* floor in the middle of a city and look into your flowerpot, bam! grasshopper. We need more of this grasshoppy attitude:
(*European top floor, not American.)
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Life is a bed of roses for someone. 
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You make physics mama scream
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This is the kind of stuff that makes me scream
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After 2 minutes…I quit…she takes all the funny out of everything
She should take a pilgrimage here
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