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I meant pegged at less than 18. Several are 16. And even at that Europe is usually lower.

He was. Is that the only connection though?

OK. I’ll ask you what I ask homophobes.

Tell me about the time when, as a teen, you choose who and what to be attracted to. Whatever your sexual needs and foibles, when and how did you choose them? What about things that turn you off? That was also a decision!

You sound exactly like a homophobe. “They made that choice!”

Look up “age of consent” laws. Several US states are pegged at 18. If you’re in Europe, almost always lower. And as others have said, most places have Romeo and Juliet laws, check that was well.

Morally? No problem.

Guess I’ll find out what it’s like to be a young conservative lesbian. Going to be a wild ride. How would I even get dates?!

Sorry, that’s plain wrong. No one gets a choice as to what attracts or repels them.

^ This guy right here

There was a Winn Dixie by my old house where the manager had a thing for pretty, young, white girls. Every single cashier was really young and really pretty, no exceptions. It was so obvious my ex-wife and I laughed about it all the time. Seemingly overnight, suddenly the cashiers were all ages, races and varying attractiveness. I would kill to know the story behind that.

Worked at Eskimo Joe’s in college and all the servers were white girls and insanely hot. Something changed and we got a single waiter and some not so pretty waitresses. I think someone sued them or tried to, been over 30 years ago, can’t remember.

My incognito Bing history would fit the bill.

I drink Keystone almost every day. Can’t stand anything stronger. Also, I don’t trust myself on anything stronger.

Nothing wrong with fantasies unless they’re harming your day-to-day life.

Had to scroll a bit to get to the correct answer.

Obama: “Um.”

Vonnegut: “Um.”

Yeah, um, it works.

I say I say BOY! How dare you tarnish my FINE reputation with such slander!

(Um, I not certain I’ve ever operated a kayak sober, at least later in the day. Which is why my wife drives home.)

In college I got chunked in the drunk tank for riding my bike buzzed. Did the roadside aerobics perfectly, they cuffed me when I did the alphabet backwards and mixed up M and N. No shit.

Was helping a commenter with his gun problem and wondered if there was something he could try “to retard the action”. Mods were great in that sub, but still almost caught ban. “We don’t use that word here.”

OK. Name an economic system that does not depend on constant growth. I’ll wait patiently.

I have a take no one else has talked about. I think much of the recent hate is down to there being too many damned people, and suddenly it seems a lot of them are brown.

Young me honestly wasn’t quite sure what Hispanic meant because there weren’t any around. LOL, imagine my culture shock when I moved to Chicago! Then I came down to Florida, and once again, no Hispanics. They were so rare it was kinda freaky. Then Hurricane Ivan flattened us, loads of immigrants showed up to build and never left.

Now people are looking around and seeing America on the first downward trajectory since the Great Depression. They’re casting about to lay blame. Know what’s different? Well lookee here, millions of new brown people that weren’t here before!

I don’t think liberals understand just how many immigrants came across the southern border in the last 20 years. When I brought up that there was indeed a crisis at the border during the Biden admin, I got beat up here and on reddit. Y’all can stick your fingers in your collective ear, but shitloads of people were piling up to get it. It was a humanitarian crisis.

Not saying the hate is logical, but I can at least understand where it’s coming from. It’s a little more nuanced that screaming RACIST at everyone.

Someone’s boat was blasting that at the 4th of July on the water. My brother in Christ, I understood the lyrics back in 1984. It’s a jammin’ tune, but damn.

How embarrassing for him. He’s not looking too thrilled, bet a superior stuck him with posing for this idiot pic.