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[scriver]

Which tattoo is code for being a Ricky Martin fan?

[dragdeler]

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[Kagus]

Why is it considered socially unacceptable to curse around young children, when they give you so many reasons to do so?

[Hanslanda]

Why is it considered socially unacceptable to curse around young children, when they give you so many reasons to do so?

I second this question. Also why I am expected to lie to my child about tooth fairies and crazy fat guys that live with elves?

[Frumple]

Yeah, it's mostly because they functionally have the self-control of a particularly stoned wombat. The problem with normalizing vulgarity around kids in some situations is they haven't quite had enough time and experience to suss out they shouldn't expand that to all situations and then they're swearing a blue streak at the traffic officer and that speeding ticket or whatever suddenly isn't sliding with just a warning.

So you avoid cursing around them so they don't think cursing around other people (or at the absolute least around adults) is a casually done thing. It's inculcating communicative survival instincts through (lack of) exposure.

[Rowanas]

Interesting that this came up today.  Last night I visited my daughter and we decorated gingerbread men and santa faces.  I decorated one as Soviet Santa, and told my daughter that he gave good children presents if they did not already have the resources the required, and sent bad children to the Gulags.  My ex-wife told me off.

I suppose the reasoning is much the same as swearing, which I do not do around her.

[Kagus]

Sometimes when I overcontract my calf it'll suddenly have a pretty heavy spasm for a few seconds, no matter how well rested I am.

Anyone know why this happens?

For We are created in His image.

[Iduno]

Sometimes when I overcontract my calf it'll suddenly have a pretty heavy spasm for a few seconds, no matter how well rested I am.

Anyone know why this happens?

You getting enough water? Eating healthy-ish?

Yeah, my back's been all shitty like that this week.

[CABL]

Hey liberals grishanites! If grisha5 is so good, why there's no grisha6?

[TD1]

Because Five is an odd number. Grisha is the lord of the strange and the outcast. He extends His hand to all, and those who clasp it... He lifts up. It is a limitation, to be sure, holding Himself to the form of "Grisha5". But Grisha so loved his worshippers that He formed for them the divine reality most appropriate to their needs.

The need of the "odd" number to be embraced.
Our need to be loved.

[Gentlefish]

Five is not only an odd number, but also a prime! It cannot divide, only multiply what you already have.

[TD1]

Truly, Grisha works in numerical ways.

[Kagus]

If you ask someone if they prefer milk or dark chocolate, and they answer "White", just how untrustworthy is that person?

[scriver]

"It's okay to like white"

[Hanslanda]

Fun fact: American milk chocolate uses curdled milk. You can taste it if you try.