Most of us are polite enough not to call you that publicly, but we're all thinking it really, really loudly.

These are all very cute, but Junior really loves their stocking.

That'd be the enormous heels, the raised arches, and empty looking toes. He looks like he's wearung a particularly ridiculous pair of highheels with a pair of fake shoes wrapped around them.

I wonder how many times we can get the money?

I very much doubt there would be a secobd time, or that you'd get to enjoy your split of the initial bounty. They're trying to turn the population against each other, and already vanishing people. This isn't rule of law stuff, this is "decades later their remain were found in an unmarked mass grave" stuff.

The best documents would be birth certificates for each generation, but there was a massive fire at the Dublin records office in 1922, which destroyed a lot of genological records from before then. If you have any information about where in Ireland your great grandparents were from, you may be able to find local records however. Things like parish registers and birth records for sone denominations were stored outside Dublin, so you may be able to find them, although it'll probably mean going there, or hireing to go there, as most of those records haven't been digitised.

Weirdly, staring at a bright light is one of the things that's almost guaranteed to put me to sleep. A phone screen works pretty well for that.

This is an important point to remember. Before you go to sea, you should always curse your legs, that who or whatever has them will continuously dance until they drop from exhaustion.

It might backfire a bit, but look at the desperate expression on that whale's face and tell me it's not worth it.

9 out of 10 wolves recommend this meme!

I did notice your username, so I suspected this might not apply to you, but maybe it'll be helpful to someone.

All I can really offer you is 'good luck, hang in there and this too shall pass', which is probably not a lot of comfort.

Not everyone will be able to move, it's true, but a lot of countries have provisions for reclaiming citizenship if you can show that an ancestor (usually only in the last couple of generations, but not always) was a citizen.

For instance, Ireland: if one of your parents was an Irish citizen, born on the island of Ireland, you can claim citizenship and a passport with minimal paperwork. If your parents weren't born there, but a grandparent was, there's more paperwork involved, but you can still get citizenship and a passport.

Once you have a passport for an EU country, you have a lot more freedom to travel, and settle, anywhere in the EU.

Many other countries have similar systems, so, if you do want to leave, it can be worth studying your family tree to see if there are any recent immigrants.

In many way I think that would be preferable to the invasive data grab approach. At least you can remove the bracelet when you leave. Unfortunately, I suspect they'll just do both.

It wouldn't be quite so bad if the previous gold rush ended first, but they seem to just be stacking up.