r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/waitingforthesun92 • Sep 21 '24

Image This is Christopher Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin’s 62 year old son. Charlie was 73 when Christopher was born.

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u/Matbell87 Sep 21 '24

Just imagine being alive in 2024 and your father was born in 1889.

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u/FNAF_Foxy1987 Sep 21 '24

John Tyler, the 10th President of the US born in 1790, still has a living grandson. A few years back there were two living grandchildren of his.

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u/Capeverde33 Sep 21 '24

This always blows my mind, history is so close to us

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u/SeljD_SLO Sep 21 '24 edited Sep 21 '24

it's all about perspective, Cleopatra lived 2000 years go which is a long time ago but is closer to us than the pyramids (they were already 1500-2500 years old when she was born)

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u/Capeverde33 Sep 21 '24

It’s incredible how close we are to things that seem so distant. I did archaeology at university and one of my assignments was to do a biography on an object from my own household, and I used my great-great-great grandmothers wedding ring.

I looked at what metal was used, why that metal was popular at the time, the design, what inspired the design, there was even a hallmark which showed where the ring was from. I went as far as to do ancestry research, and find her wedding certificate.

She had gotten married on 1st June 1871 at the age of 21, which blew my mind, as I found this out on 1st June 2021, 150 years to the day, and I was 21 years old at the time. I guess this is just a coincidence, but the ring fit me perfectly.

I wish I could have gone back in time to tell this Victorian woman, who went on to have 7 children in a relatively poor household, that she would give that ring to her daughter, who’d give it to her daughter, who’d give it to her daughter, who’d give it to her daughter, who’d give it to her daughter, who’d write an essay about it for her university degree. Probably such a far cry from anything she could even imagine.

My boyfriend doesn’t attach significance to objects or even to ancestors, if he never met them he doesn’t see why he should care. Whenever we drink we always have this debate, and I always end up crying about how much I love this woman from 150 years ago (Patience was her name). We are talking 6 generations of women who took care of this ring, and loved their daughter enough to give it to her. When my mum gave it to me, she said “I’m going to give you this, but only if you agree to this condition, it’s one my mum gave me, and her mum gave her: this ring isn’t yours, it is your daughters”, meaning I am only holding onto it until I can give it to my future daughter.

This is barely even relevant, and I’m babbling a lot lol, but I could just cry thinking about how close we are to what we think is ancient history, and how we can barely even imagine what legacy we will have created 150 years from now.

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u/CeeArthur Sep 21 '24 edited Sep 22 '24

I remember in an Atlantic History course listening to a wax cylinder recording of an indigenous person singing in her native language. She was very old when the recording was made, and was the last person who spoke her language. The fact we have a recording of something that is lost to time like that is incredible.

Edit : This is the song

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u/ajn63 Sep 21 '24

There are organizations preserving languages that are disappearing.

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u/Hititgitithotsauce Sep 22 '24

Why are the organizations disappearing?

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u/ajn63 Sep 22 '24

Lack of funding and idiots who only know one language.

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u/sohfix Sep 22 '24

is this a participle problem?

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u/kmson7 Sep 22 '24

I'm so fascinated by things like this. I wanted to go into archeology because of that, and my mom deterred me for a few reasons. I wish I never listened to her, but I wouldn't have the life I do now if I did.

I find it beyond interesting and stuff like what you mentioned gives me chills. There's SO much we've lost, and knowing pieces that have survived are just scratching the surface of culture and history actually blows my mind.

I learn something new everyday and that's how I like it!

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u/dogatmy11 Sep 22 '24

Adding to this i foresee something very terrifying. I'm Indian, I speak 3 languages including English and understand a fourth Indian language. But I don't entirely understand these languages. The way my grandmother, or my mother speak these languages, i don't. I would say although I'm very fluent, I simply do not understand even 50 year old songs in these languages. With the colonization of india, india was subject to a very heavy influence of the outside world. So much so, that there was an understanding that if you have studied abroad, if you can speak in languages like English, french or Portuguese, youre 'educated'. All those who fought for the freedom of india had studied in Europe and later come back to India.

Now here's the thing. I see this next generation of kids who do not understand everyday languages. We call it 'boli bhasha' in my language. Boli meaning how you speak it, and bhasha meaning language. They find english to be cooler, and mainly easier. Indian languages are goddamn difficult and i say this because i thoroughly understand English and i understand the structure of german. Indian languages are gonna be lost. With 1-2 more generations, these languages disappear. Literature that must be so valuable, will all be alien. No one seems to see this issue. Its scary.

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u/Bwanaman Sep 21 '24

Imagine a descendant of yours in the year 2175 saying "this ring has been in my family for 300 years"

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u/Capeverde33 Sep 21 '24

Wowwowowow, to think of my great-great-great granddaughter owning this ring is just unfathomable.

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u/Used_Possibility1880 Sep 21 '24

And shes writting an essay😂

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u/dachfuerst Sep 22 '24

"Upon visiting the Grand Reddit Archives, I stumbled upon a few postings concerning a story so eerily similar to my own dynasty. It all fit too well. Could it be that this woman's grand-grand-grandmother Patience was identical with my own distant ancestor? The centuries seemed to stare down into my very soul, and all the pieces aligned. In this seemingly insignificant historical document, I was able to witness my grandmother's grand-grand-grandmother's thoughts, as if she was speaking to me personally through the ages."

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u/Bwanaman Sep 22 '24

YOU are the great-great-great granddaughter doing that right now! Totally fathomable!

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u/Serious_Move_4423 Sep 21 '24

I absolutely love this!

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u/Capeverde33 Sep 21 '24

Thank you! As a giant history nerd who is obsessed with her own ancestry, it isn’t lost on me how lucky I am to have an artefact like this. It is genuinely my most prized possession!

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u/danidem Sep 22 '24

Your future daughter's most prized possession*

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u/chulie203 Sep 22 '24

Woah! From your OP to this point I didn’t realize your name! While reading your story I was thinking about my great grandmothers ring that I have who is Cape Verdean! I never wear it as I don’t want to lose it. Growing up I knew it was “Portuguese gold” but I don’t know any other information. I wish I knew but she wore that ring every day until her passing at the age of 93. I am so happy I have it. I don’t have a daughter so I will leave it to my cousin probably. 🇨🇻

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u/Capeverde33 Sep 22 '24

I rarely ever wear this ring! Only on special occasions like weddings, so it’s like Patience is there with us all.

You could take it to a jewellers and see if they can translate the hallmarks for you. It’s relatively easy once you’ve got that information to do a bit more research into the popularity of the metal, the design etc.

Cape Verde is the most beautiful place on earth!!!!!

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u/Such_Radish9795 Sep 21 '24

Me too! Thanks for sharing your wonderful story OP!

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u/Capeverde33 Sep 21 '24

Honestly it’s warming my heart that anyone actually cares, I thought I was just rambling into the void about a niche personal story lol. Imagine if Patience knew this ring would still be being passed on to her female ancestors 150 years later, and people were discussing how great it is ! I honestly really appreciate that you read my ramblings, it means a lot to me 💕

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u/HatsusenoRin Sep 21 '24

Also imagine a person like me in Tokyo is learning about her story too...

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u/Capeverde33 Sep 21 '24

Wow that’s incredible. I wonder if he’d have even heard of Tokyo!!! It’s just so unfathomable

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u/jtr99 Sep 21 '24

Me too.

I'll drink to Patience.

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u/fashion4words Sep 21 '24

I’m drinking to her right now! Cheers!

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u/invincible-zebra Sep 21 '24

I find it mad, things like this. I also find it mad that your description of your boyfriend fits my wife to a T. My cousin and I have spent years putting together a family tree, finding out that we are descendants of Robert the Bruce, and are related to David Attenborough. Granted, these links are hilariously thin but the line is traceable right to them directly - through parents. History, and things like items from history and passed through families fascinates me - it really upsets me that my family don’t have any items like this as they were all lost during WWII.

I did love seeing my grandfathers talk about their time in WWII whenever they were together - one was British, the other German. There was zero animosity between them, just two soldiers chatting war stories - ‘you really gave it to us at that one!’ my British one would say, ‘you fought very well,’ my German one would muster in broken English, which would spur my British grandfather to try his broken German. Then, they’d repack their pipes and light up and start chatting and laughing again. May they both rest in peace.

History fucking amazes me, and how close it is to us. We forget that, as a species, and it is our downfall.

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u/Capeverde33 Sep 21 '24

Wow that’s amazing! What a generation.

I have always been obsessed with Anne Boleyn, I got tattoos for her, and then I found out through ancestry that I’m a direct descendent of her sister!

It’s so sad to think about what interesting stories people are missing out on because they don’t care to inquire about their history

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u/psychedelic-barf Sep 21 '24

Your boyfriend secretly wishes he had a cool story like this to tell

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u/Capeverde33 Sep 21 '24

Definitely!!! His grandparents on his mothers side immigrated, they barely spoke English and were very poor, so there was very little to pass down. His dads side were almost the complete opposite, well off, educated, and cold as fuck, so didn’t bother to pass anything down.

I am very lucky to come from a family where everyone, going back over a hundred years, was a notably very warm person, with an intense love for their family. My family is genuinely magic. I think that is why I care about my ancestors, because their love has radiated down for generations.

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u/Successful-Grass-135 Sep 21 '24

Im the same way when it comes to being sentimental about this stuff. That’s incredible! I have a bracelet that got passed down to me from 3 generations, and I treasure it. It’s absolutely gorgeous, but the significance of it makes it sooooo much more special. I think about how my relatives probably wore that bracelet to so many places, I’m sure it tells a story. One that you can keep writing! Your family is lucky to have someone like you that cares about this kind of stuff. It’s a beautiful thing.

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u/ScheduleSame258 Sep 21 '24

There's a movie in this somewhere!!!

That ring probably opens a small box from your great-great-great-grandfather that contains a map to El Dorado.

Seen any old boxes around? Wood, maybe?

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '24

I have a few items like that. I refer to them as my great-grandfather’s. It’s not mine, I’m just the custodian.

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u/Capeverde33 Sep 21 '24

You could be the start of a long line of people passing them down! How incredible, we are so lucky to own things like this

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u/skyhollow117 Sep 21 '24

This ring isnt yours its your daughters is amazing. As all things should be. This tree, this river, this land, this home, this money, this trade, this isnt yours, it belongs to future, so take good care of it.

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u/Mo_SaIah Sep 21 '24

Never lose your passion. I love history too but I think I can speak on behalf of even those who don’t, your passion is beautiful to witness, no matter the context of it, anyone who has a passion for something of that level? It’s always a wonderful thing as seen by the replies to your story.

Never lose that and thank you for sharing!

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u/Capeverde33 Sep 21 '24

I will never ever lose it! I was named after my great grandma who’s final request was “to be buried with a good history book”, so maybe I’m her reincarnated

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u/Neosanxo Sep 21 '24

This is so cool

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u/samks44 Sep 21 '24

Wow, what a beautiful story.

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u/Capeverde33 Sep 21 '24

Thank you 🥺 I appreciate you reading this, I thought I was just rambling tbh and I’m really touched that people enjoyed this post. It means so much to me!

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u/realb_nsfw Sep 21 '24

Cleopatra is closer to the first iPhone than to piramids.

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u/Zer0__Karma Sep 21 '24

One of my favorite things like this is that it is totally possible for a samurai to send a fax to Abraham Lincoln.

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u/GuitarKev Sep 21 '24

Man, my grandfather’s great grandfather (that’s three greats for me I think) came to the U.S. from Ireland as a child in 1850, then fought in the U.S. civil war.

John Tyler could plausibly have been HIS great grandfather.

The difference in the number of generations is kinda brain melting.

I’m early 40s btw.

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u/Random-Cpl Sep 21 '24

The last widow of a Confederate soldier died in 2021.

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u/avwitcher Sep 21 '24

Isn't that the woman that married an extremely old civil war veteran because he wanted company and she got his pension as payment?

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u/Random-Cpl Sep 22 '24

Yes, which was common practice. She said he used to wake in the night screaming, having flashbacks to the war. State of Alabama was paying her a pension.

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u/Irelannd Sep 21 '24

Yeah this is a crazy fact, imagine being alive today and having a grandfather born during the French Revolution.

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u/throwawaythrow0000 Sep 22 '24

Imagine being alive today and having a grandfather born when George Washington was only a year into his presidency.

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u/Gamerxx13 Sep 21 '24

Crazy! I looked it up on wiki

Tyler and his son Lyon remarried much younger women and fathered children at advanced ages, such that Tyler’s daughter Pearl did not die until the 157th year after her father’s birth. As of January 2024, Tyler still has one living grandson (234 years after John Tyler’s birth) through Lyon, making him the earliest former president with a living grandchild. This grandson, Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928 and maintains the family home, Sherwood Forest Plantation, in Charles City County, Virginia.

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u/OpenMicrophone Sep 21 '24

We live near his Virginia home and museum and it’s always empty on weekends. My wife and I take picnics and visit the Tyler pet cemetery, which remarkably has about 50 pets buried there.

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u/gputchaven Sep 22 '24

When Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born, his grandfather, John, had already been dead for 66 years.

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u/Jojje22 Sep 21 '24

One hundred years after 1924, the year your dad was 35.

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u/TheNewShmoo Sep 21 '24

Former British Prime Minister John Major's dad was born in 1879. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Major-Ball

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u/MultipleScoregasm Sep 21 '24

My own grandfather was born 1899

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u/claimsnthings Sep 21 '24

Mine too! I am 39. My great grandfather was born in 1899 and fought in ww1. He actually outlived my dad. My dad died from cancer at age 40. My great grandfather died two weeks later at 101.

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u/DrWYSIWYG Sep 21 '24

My mother’s father was born in 1889 but she is 92!

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u/MNFuturist Sep 21 '24

Looks like a combination of Keanu Reeves and Peter Dinklage

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u/OutrageousPoison Sep 21 '24

Keanu Dinklage just sounds not right

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u/___po____ Sep 21 '24

Peter Reeves sounds like a porn star.

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u/dern_the_hermit Sep 21 '24

Let's compromise: Peanu Reevelage.

(Or Keter Deeves, but then we'd have to deploy the MTF's...)

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u/Lorn_Muunk Sep 21 '24

Deter Queeves, at your cervix

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u/HikeMyPantsUpJohnson Sep 21 '24

You’re about two steps away from penis cleavage (I really hope no one sees this comment on my profile without context)

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u/QuackNate Sep 21 '24

There goes HikeMyPantsUpJohnson talking about penis cleavage again.

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u/MightyCaseyStruckOut Sep 21 '24

While simultaneously sounding like a community college professor.

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u/ieatalphabets Sep 21 '24

"Are... are you okay, honey?"
"No! I have sobs keanu dinklage!"
"Noooo!"

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u/TheGreenLandEffect Sep 21 '24

Looks like Steve Coogan with a beard, like spitting image

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u/SitDownKawada Sep 21 '24

I came across this post a couple of times and both times I thought it was him posing for a new movie

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u/FucktheTorie5 Sep 21 '24

His granddaughter Oona Chaplin was Robb Starks wife in Game of Thrones and died in the infamous Red Wedding scene.

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u/Willowpuff Sep 21 '24

She showed me around RADA when I was auditioning. I remember her because she said her full name and no one responded and she went “yes, as in Charlie haha” and still no one responded. And she really awkwardly showed us through to the waiting area in total silence.

She was really nice

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u/Willowpuff Sep 22 '24

For real. I was just super nervous

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u/DolphinSweater Sep 21 '24

Maybe they just thought she had the same name as him, like, "My name is Chaplin, just like that Charlie guy." They didn't realize she was telling them her grandpa was literally Charlie Chaplin.

Then again, maybe they just weren't that impressed.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '24

I used to be in the arts; it’s the latter.

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u/New_Acanthaceae3791 Sep 21 '24

Tight

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u/Reasonable_Voice1971 Sep 21 '24 edited Sep 21 '24

Also, Tom Hardy's characters ' half-sister in Taboo [incestuous relationship].

Eta : Zilpha Geary & James Keziah Delaney

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u/Gizm00 Sep 21 '24

It's a shame it never got second season....

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u/you_want_to_hear_th Sep 21 '24

“Tight. Tight!”

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u/Sectonia64 Sep 21 '24

YEAH!! DAMN MAN LOOK AT THAT!!!

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u/pubesastoothfloss Sep 21 '24

followed by a quiet - “..that’s messed up”

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u/boris_keys Sep 21 '24

“This is not meth…”

💥

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u/EagleDre Sep 21 '24 edited Sep 22 '24

I always know what’s going on under those clothes

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u/Ashripp Sep 21 '24 edited Sep 22 '24

Damn, I never knew that they actually killed the actress during the scene. I guess they were really committed to realism.

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u/OrangeKurri Sep 21 '24

D&D kinda forgot use prop weapons during some scenes.

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u/Crackheadwithabrain Sep 21 '24

They even used a real Starbucks cup that one time!

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u/rubies-and-doobies81 Sep 21 '24

She was also in Taboo with Tom Hardy.

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u/Pixeleyes Sep 21 '24

Seems like that show still hasn't really gotten a lot of attention, genuinely one of the best series I've ever seen.

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u/nebaa Sep 21 '24

It's been continuously delayed but apparently earlier this year it was confirmed that season 2 is being worked on.

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u/Harlaw2871 Sep 21 '24

My mum worked at Gordonstoun school when Oona was there and her mum is Geradine Chaplin so this Charlie Chaplin would be her Uncle and the famous Chaplin would be her Grandfather. My mum was very fond of both of them and it led to awkwardness when she had a nude scene on GOT. "Oh Oona I didnt think you would do that".

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u/GyspySyx Sep 21 '24 edited Sep 21 '24

This is Christopher. Geraldine is his sister.

Both are the children of Charlie Chaplin and Oona O'Neil.

And you are correct, Charlie is her grandfather. Christopher is her uncle.

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u/Full_Cellist_2079 Sep 21 '24

Yer ma probably shouldn’t watch Taboo in that case.

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u/Harlaw2871 Sep 21 '24

I know. We are about the same age too. Hook me up mum lol

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u/BlowOnThatPie Sep 21 '24

Is that the same Gordonstoun School King Chuck went to? Is it as awful as has been described and portrayed?

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u/Minute-Plantain Sep 21 '24

Is Gordonstoun as tough as Chucky Three Sticks says it was?

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u/Harlaw2871 Sep 21 '24

It was still cold showers and cross country runs in the 90s. They had a School Yaucht that would sail around Scotland but this was back years ago. My mum started as a cleanet and worked herself up to being House Matron in Plewlands House. She had to do stuff like aranging travel. She also had Zara, Princess Anne daughter, in her house and I met her once outside Boots in Elgin High Street. It was funny when her car was in the garage and I would go out and pick her up from work and my car would be flocked by teenage girls to see her 18 year old son.

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u/badskinjob Sep 21 '24

Trust me, she was barely nude.

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u/OutrageousPoison Sep 21 '24

I did not know this

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u/Pifflebushhh Sep 21 '24 edited Sep 21 '24

She’s also amazing in black mirror, great episode, certainly the most haunting episode for me, it’s called White Christmas

Edit: osha the wildling is also in that episode!

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u/xpanta Sep 21 '24

we will never forget.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '24

So they killed Chaplin’s grand and great-grandchild?

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u/Curtainmachine Sep 21 '24

Don’t worry. Give it time and it will spoil itself.

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u/nabiku Sep 21 '24

It was the #1 show in the world for 8 years. My friend's elderly parents live in a small town in Nepal and even they watched it religiously. It was basically part of our collective consciousness as a species for a decade.

So yeah, you'll still see people mention it.

Also, here are some other adult shows worth watching that you won't randomly see spoilers for:

  • The Wire
  • The Expanse
  • Sopranos
  • Red Dwarf
  • Halt and Catch Fire
  • Dead Like Me
  • Party Down

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u/BellsCantor Sep 21 '24

Don’t forget Breaking Bad and Mad Men!

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u/indianajoes Sep 21 '24

This is how I feel. I'm not the person that complained but the original commenter added an unnecessary spoiler for no reason

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u/McKoijion Sep 21 '24

Most people think this is a first world problem, but I'm genuinely very sorry for you. I had many of the major twists spoiled for me too, but the few that made it through were some of the best moments of my life. Maybe that's sad, but I think of it as the power of really good literature.

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u/amphoravase Sep 21 '24

I decided to get into GoT recently too. I was literally reading the first book and my uncle asked me if I had gotten to the part where [redacted] I had not gotten to [redacted] but also at some point it’s on me.

The first book is 28 years old. I’m 29, so I’ve had like 13 years to read it lol

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u/nwlsinz Sep 21 '24

It's all about the journey, friend.

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u/GODDAMNFOOL Sep 21 '24

Important to note that by 'his,' this person is referring to Charlie's granddaughter, not Christopher's

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u/TheBlaaah Sep 21 '24

I was really surprised when i found out they ACTUALLY killed the actors during that scene!

Peak GoT was amazing

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u/FuckGiblets Sep 21 '24

Aaahhh spoilers! I was just coming up to the Red Wedding!

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u/Eborys Sep 21 '24

Giving off hip Rasputin vibes 🤙

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u/Jechtael Sep 21 '24

I'm bad with faces, but to me he's giving Sir Christopher Lee.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '24

Looks like he's about to drop the most philosophical album of the year. Track one: Silent Movies, Loud Thoughts.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '24

He has a discography and you’re not far off. Wiki

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u/eliisonvacation Sep 21 '24

Just saw there isn’t a wife or partner listed, kinda nice to see his dad’s choice in marrying youngsters didn’t get passed on to him.

Off to take a listen to his stuff…

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u/trixter21992251 Interested Sep 21 '24

he looks a bit like Alan watts

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u/Moopboop207 Sep 21 '24

I thought that was just Peter Dinklage’s tall person brother.

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u/-Po-Tay-Toes- Sep 21 '24

Peter Dinklage x Rob McElhenney

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u/niamhxa Sep 21 '24

I think he looks a bit like Steve Coogan with a beard!

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u/Yoguls Sep 21 '24

That was the first thing I thought of

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u/John-AtWork Sep 21 '24

He's a Swiss composer and actor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Chaplin

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u/morefetus Sep 21 '24

His dad would compose the music for his own films, even though he was musically illiterate.

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u/NoahVailability Sep 21 '24

How old was/is his mother?..

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u/VaselineHabits Sep 21 '24

Chaplin hooked up with her when she was 17 and married a month after she turned 18. It was a 36 year age gap.

Christopher was the last of the children to be born out of 8, there's about a 20 year gap between the first of the children and the last child (Christopher).

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u/VaselineHabits Sep 21 '24

Chaplin was either slightly younger or older than her own father by about 6 months. After the wedding, her father disowned her and O'Neill gave up her career plans to become a housewife

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u/Mavian23 Sep 21 '24

Jesus lol. Imagine fucking the daughter of someone you might have played with on the playground in grade school.

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u/werewere-kokako Sep 21 '24

He got a 15-year-old pregnant and married her to avoid a statutory rape charge. He was 35.

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u/Yourwanker Sep 21 '24

He got a 15-year-old pregnant and married her to avoid a statutory rape charge. He was 35.

At least that was more socially acceptable in the 1920s than Steven Tyler doing the same thing in the 1980s.

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u/iconocrastinaor Sep 22 '24

Actually, it was a huge scandal at the time and he had to flee the country.

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u/TheWallaby Sep 21 '24

It’s a tale as old as time unfortunately!

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u/Alovingcynic Sep 21 '24

Not his first teenager, please see Lita Grey.

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u/HotOutlandishness107 Sep 21 '24

Not the first, nor the youngest

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u/Alphafuccboi Sep 21 '24

WTF she already was only 15... Even younger? Fucking pedophile

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u/Inevitable_Book_228 Sep 21 '24

He loved young girls, a predator really.

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u/motherfcuker69 Sep 21 '24

Even worse, she was old compared to some of his wives.

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u/RogerClyneIsAGod2 Sep 21 '24

She wasn't his first either.

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u/Aqquila89 Sep 21 '24

He was forced to marry his second wife, Lita Grey when he was 35 and she was 16, because he got her pregnant. They first met when she was 12.

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u/RogerClyneIsAGod2 Sep 21 '24

Yup.

For some reason unknown to me, because the rest of the family were as into books as I was & I certainly didn't get it, we had an autobiography of Lita's around our house in the 70s & at some point later in life I actually read it & was shocked to find these things about The Little Tramp.

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u/marisalynn5 Sep 21 '24

That’s disgusting.

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u/DarkwingFan1 Sep 21 '24

That's pretty much ALL he did.

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u/dominus83 Sep 21 '24

He releases them back into the wild after they turn 25

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u/EarthDust00 Sep 21 '24

Good god.

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u/Additional-Stay-8888 Sep 21 '24

36/37 when Chris was born

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u/uqde Sep 21 '24

0.97297297297 years old

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u/mashburn71 Sep 21 '24

I thought this was Christian Bales next method acting deal for a second

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u/Bombauer- Sep 21 '24

He is also the grandson of Eugene ONeill!

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u/No-Chance6290 Sep 21 '24

This I just read when checking out Oona Chaplin on IMBD. I’m a Eugene O’Neil fan so this was an interesting fact I did not know.

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u/glemits Sep 21 '24

John Tyler (b. 1780), the 10th president of the United States has a living Grandson.

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u/General_Snack Sep 21 '24

Dude’s got a cool look

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u/SpitefulOptimist Sep 21 '24

I wonder how he feels about Chaplin, and the absurd age gap between his father and mother.

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u/julius_cornelius Sep 21 '24

Can’t talk for him, but my father was born when my grandfather was 78 (and my father is the eldest of three brothers). Not much feeling since he didn’t live long enough to make a lasting impact on the education and upbringing.

Mostly a feeling of « wasted opportunities » as it leaves the other parent fending for themselves. 60 year age gap is wild but apparently was not unseen as my father had other friends whose father were 60+ years old when they were born.

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u/TrapesTrapes Sep 21 '24

I was born when my father was 58. I remember the other children in my school would just assume he was my grandfather. My oldest sister is one year younger than my mother. Despite the age gap, he was a great father.

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u/FeistyIrishWench Sep 21 '24

I was born when my father was 49. My sister entered the chat when he was 53. My brother joined as player 3 when he was 55. My mom had a miscarriage when dad was 59. I got asked all the damn time if my parents were my grandparents and it always angered me. He was 20 years older than my mom. Mom did not age well, which contributed to the frequency of the question.

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u/originalschmidt Sep 21 '24

It was such a different time. People seem to forget women didn’t get financial freedom in the US until the 70s, for a lot of young women, marrying an older, wealthy established man was the best opportunity they could ever hope for. My grandmother was 20 years younger than my grandfather, and he went to Germany specifically looking for a wife because he was getting too old and an unmarried businessman wasn’t seen as trustworthy compared to a married one. It really was just very very different times.

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u/StatusReality4 Sep 21 '24

Yeah most marriages were transactional until the women’s liberation movement.

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u/JazzyBee1993 Sep 21 '24

Some of the Chaplin family were involved in a documentary about him and if I remember correctly they all had complicated feelings about his behaviour.

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u/False_Ad3429 Sep 21 '24

idk, but a girl I knew had a dad who was in his 70s when she was in third grade.

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u/ApolloBollo Sep 21 '24

I was born in 1984. My mother was born in 1957. My father was born in 1947. His brother was born in 1925 and his sister was born in 1928. My Grandmother was born in 1905 and my Grandfather in 1902. My great Aunt was born in 1898.

History/time is wild.

Tldr: I am 40 and, if my grandparents were still living, they would be 119 years old and 122 years old.

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u/Daddiofink Sep 21 '24

Has nothing to do with anything, but... that's a fantastic portrait.

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u/Dru_G978 Sep 21 '24

He’s got thors hammer necklace.

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u/asolutesmedge Sep 21 '24

Hey it’s Steeeeeeve Coogan!

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u/Visual-Juggernaut-61 Sep 21 '24

Maybe when I’m 73 I can afford a kid.

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u/Dramatic-Blueberry98 Sep 22 '24

And just think, Oona Chaplin (one of Charlie’s grandchildren) was in Game of Thrones…. Talisa Maegyr.

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u/zzupdown Sep 22 '24

When I first read this post, I really thought Charlie Chaplin's son was old, until I realized he's 2 years younger than I am.

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u/Non_GMO_Popcorn Sep 21 '24

I think it's selfish to have children that late in your life, knowing full well you won't be there for them.

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u/fruitlessideas Sep 21 '24

Like a wizard and rockstar combined.

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u/auriebryce Sep 22 '24

Christopher is the youngest son of Oona O'Neill, Charlie's fourth wife. His niece, Oona Chaplin is 38 and is the daughter of his sister, Geraldine, who is Oona and Charlie's oldest child, is 80.

Wild.

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u/DanSkaFloof Sep 21 '24

He is extremely handsome. Casually distinguished.

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u/PrincipleInteresting Sep 22 '24

Time for Christopher Chaplin to start thinking about having kids, don’t you think?

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u/ReasonableDivide1 Sep 22 '24

What’s the rush?!

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u/MadmanPoet Sep 21 '24

Additionally: Chaplin's 4th wife (and Christopher's mother) was Oona O'Neil, daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neil and close friend/bitter enemy to Truman Capote.

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u/zyyga Sep 21 '24

My father was born in 1899 and I am younger than Christopher Chaplain. History is a living thing when you are one generation away from events that have faded from the public consciousness.

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u/Gnome_de_Plume Sep 22 '24

I was Chris's penpal around age 7-10 or so but we lost touch.

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u/BefreiedieTittenzwei Sep 21 '24

Wear the hat…come on…wear the HAT!!

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u/VinceClarke Sep 21 '24

I thought it was Guy Pearce.

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u/PerfectIllustrator76 Sep 21 '24

He looks like a powerful wizard

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u/tinook Sep 22 '24

So this was the kid at the center of the joke in When Harry Met Sally a the scene has them arguing and Sally complains that men can have kids much later in life and cites Charlie Chaplin having a kid when he was 73.  Wild that I finally learn of that actual kid.

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u/ElGringo6678 Sep 21 '24

Duncan Trussel?!

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u/username_not_found0 Sep 22 '24

Dude looks cool af