He’s really old but I see him fairly regularly to take care of his cat but mostly just to hang out with him. He doesn’t really understand the internet and his interpretation is that there’s like 5 people on here who are all my friends. He has agreed to do an AMA but in his style where it might take a while to actually get some answers from him for each individual question.
The best way to do this is I think is to ask the questions you want him to answer the most and then I’ll probably update this post or make a new with with the first batch of answers and so on. He will give long answers because it’ll be like an interview of sorts but I can shorten them so they’re more friendly to digest.
He does know English but like teaching him to use a phone or my laptop would be difficult so I think it’s best I do it this way.
Don’t be shy to ask whatever you want. I will try my best to get him to answer them but if there’s a few hundred questions that might be too hard lol.
Anyways take care and looking forward to it
UPDATE
Hey gang really sorry to do this. I managed to ask him about 6 questions and he gave really detailed answers but one of the questions I gave him threw him off and kinda put him in a bad mood and he was saying “who would ask such stupidity?” So I moved onto a question I thought would take his mind off the other one but I think his bad mood persisted throughout and he got somewhat irate.
I don’t really know what he was expecting but he seems to think the questions weren’t good enough. I showed him the site and he got kinda upset once he realized that it wasn’t just some random chat board but rather a website with hundreds of concurrent users. He literally said “stop using that moronic website” lol. I’ll see if he comes around but he’s pretty pissed. He did give detailed answers to about 5/6 questions so I can transcribe these but sorry that we couldn’t finish this.
He is old and this is kinda how he gets sometimes but this is the first time he’s gotten this way in a while. He’ll be okay though I’ll just buy him ice cream or some shit lol.
Damn, I had been looking forward to answers to a bunch of the great questions that were posed. I’m really curious what specifically made him mad, though. Like,
Which question was it? And when he said “who would ask such stupidity?” was it about that particular question or the things you were asking him in general?
I’m sure it will be apparent when you post the 5 detailed answers he did give, but I think it would have been good if we had known beforehand what kind of general sentiment he has about the USSR. I would ask different questions of someone I knew looked back on the USSR fondly with nostalgia versus someone who saw it mostly as an impediment to the way they wanted to live. I realize it’s probably too late now, but if you get the chance and it doesn’t seem inappropriate, I want to know what kind of questions he wanted us to ask. Since he agreed to do it in the first place, even if he didn’t quite understand the situation, I would think there must have been something he did want to share - but what was it?
I think it would be nicer if I don’t disclose the question that set him off because I don’t want the person/s who asked the questions to feel singled out.
I’ll say though that he did get mad at the cat comments because he got confused and thought people were thinking he was a cat because of the image attachment. The way he sees it is being called a cat means he’s cunning and untrustworthy so because he was already in a bad mood this set him off further.
He is fond of the USSR but he legitimately thinks people here are too LARPy lol. I hope he doesn’t think that of me, I did distance myself to try and save face by saying “yeah grandpa I agree” but his determination of this website’s user base just from comments alone isn’t a good one. Good thing I’m not posting from main
Well why would our most treasured comrade say that? I would never even think of betraying the revolution or anything.
I’m hopeful this won’t have ruined multiple days for your grandad - because this reaction alone is incredible (and really makes me miss my Algerian gma). And please give the cat (actual cat) scritches to make up for this transgression.
I’m assuming, maybe incorrectly, that he immigrated to a country in the west. If that’s the case, when did that happen and why? These are questions I also assume you, OP can answer for us without having to further question him.