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 Ouch. Diet is everything... Is the word "oma" from Dutch? I think it's grandma in Dutch, but its possible my family just used it wrong. Different grandparents claim different titles, and having a somewhat multicultural family gives them options. Part Dutch, though its a little awkward saying so, since they were total fuckers when they controlled Indonesia. Or so I hear. Anyways. I've also noticed that family-related words tend to be similar in lots of languages. Chinese, for example - mama = mom, baba = dad. Kinda crazy, considering how different the rest of the language is. 
 yeah, oma (uh-ma) is grandma, and oom is uncle (ohm)

yeah, my oma's sister was a psychotic bitch, one or two generations from aristocracy, and my whole family line in that direction is filled with rumors of pedophilia, and it happened in my family too, so, yeah, i believe it, that there was much rape and psychosis definitely in my grandma's history and i think also some in my grandfather's history as well, and my grandfather's family name, he was unable to trace it back to before the institution of family names and person registration in the netherlands

but the name itself is almost literally the transliteration of a russian word which means "bundle of sticks used to sweep" and this is the ongoing style of broom used by street sweepers in the netherlands to this day, and there is some crazy ass names that people in the netherlands have, it seems to me like sometime in the 14-15th century they got invaded and some fucked up shit went on, and if you know dutch people you will sorta have this inkling there's something wrong with them,wrong with their minds somehow