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[Cthulhu]

On a side note, I played kobold camp and had one that likes cobalt XD

It's funny because the name for Cobalt comes from Kobold.

Well done.

I'm a hunter and jokes are my quarry.  I kill without remorse.

[Leafsnail]

Huh, I'm sure this is old, but apparently a Virgina school banned the Diaries of Anne Frank because they had the version that included the thoughts Anne had that I'm sure every teenager thought of when they had little time for the Birds and the Bees.

Because every twelve-year-old asks her best friend if they can touch each other's breasts, right?

And if they do, what exactly is wrong with it?  Will it turn them into some kind of crazed lesbian rapist?

I don't know about y'all, but my searches don't typically end up with pornography (though to be fair, there was some definite furry going on at a blog I stumbled on after looking for "Victorian flower symbolism").

Mine do .  And safesearch only works on images - very little stuff is blocked in the web search.

Ah, but there's commercial website-blocker thingers, often employed by school districts.  Dunno how you're ending up with so much porn, though... probably has something to do with the different things we search for.

No, I don't always end up with porn, but it's pretty common to get something worse than "Oral stimulation of the genitals" at least.

[Duke 2.0]

On a side note, I played kobold camp and had one that likes cobalt XD

It's funny because the name for Cobalt comes from Kobold.

Well done.

I'm a hunter and jokes are my quarry.  I kill without remorse.

Spoiler: This mistake has been made before. (click to show/hide)

 It's a dog guy wielding a bone, so I assume the developers meant Kobold.

[CobaltKobold]

*cough*
<<<
Intentional, though.

[Cthulhu]

It's actually a piece of metal disguised as a kobold.  (Referring to Duke's pic)

On topic, lots of kids play weird games when they're really little, because they don't know any better.  By the time they're 12 or so, they probably should have gotten all the sexual experimentation out of their system until college.

As for Count o' Monte Cristo, are you sure it was censored?  Maybe it was a different translation with a different chapter makeup?  Is there stuff in the book that would be censored?  Books generally aren't something I've seen to get hugely bowdlerized, except when kids are involved.  And honestly, if the thought of keeping books with sexual content away from young kids bothers you, you probably need to take a deep breath, put LCS down, and realize that, even on Bay12, there is a such thing as being too liberal.

Then again, this is really a parenting issue.  It shouldn't be the author or publisher's responsibility to take care of your kids.  That's the TV's job.

[Creaca]

On topic, lots of kids play weird games when they're really little, because they don't know any better.  By the time they're 12 or so, they probably should have gotten all the sexual experimentation out of their system until college.

By the time they hit twelve, they're either on the cusp of, or already having puberty...

[Cthulhu]

That's another crazy thing.  A hundred years ago kids didn't hit puberty till they were 17.  Pretty soon fetuses will have D-Cups

[Jackrabbit]

That'll make birth a whole lot more painful.

[Creaca]

I believe it. Evolution's a clever bitch.

[Aqizzar]

That's another crazy thing.  A hundred years ago kids didn't hit puberty till they were 17.  Pretty soon fetuses will have D-Cups

And won't that be hilarious.

Just because I feel like nerding out, that is a real phenomenon.  Malnourishment in childhood makes puberty start later and take longer.  In poor-ass countries, you'll find people close to twenty who look like they're twelve, and until modern wealth and food came along everyone worked like that.  Which makes the medieval ages really weird, because you were an adult at like fourteen.  That's one reason why knights were so badass, they were the only people who ate well enough to actually be grown when they were supposed to start fighting.

[Leafsnail]

I suppose the idea is that, if you're barely surviving, development isn't your body's top priority.

Actually... it must've been the same back in prehistoric times, right?  Man, it puts a different perspective on things when you realise most "cavemen" were just overgrown kids...

[Cthulhu]

I always thought it was cow hormones.

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[cowofdoom78963]

I dont think people maturing as fast as they do is the way nature intended.

It makes for some unbalanced characters.

[Jude]

I'd say that culture does have an impact - 100 years ago or so it was a woman's ankle that was meant to be the unspeakable area, and other cultures can ascribe beauty to different body parts (for an extreme example, think of the foot fetishism in ancient China).

Yeah but I'll bet the ancient Chinese thought boobs and asses were even more unspeakable than ankles and feet

They didn't though.  Chinese girls and women had to have their feet bound and crushed into certain shapes in order to make them more attractive.  The reason why is not nice.

Where is your evidence for telling me that the ancient Chinese thought feet were sexier of a body part than junk in the trunk

And yeah, while we're at it, Vector's evidence that prepubescent "sexual" experimentation causes moral corruption as opposed to being a totally normal and natural part of development

[Creaca]

Nature certainly didn't intend for us to have the kind of nutritional control (and lack there of) we have these days. People with slower metabolisms probably where doing pretty good back in the day, storing fat longer and all that jazz.

Now they have to be buried in piano cases.

And yeah, while we're at it, Vector's evidence that prepubescent "sexual" experimentation causes moral corruption as opposed to being a totally normal and natural part of development

Probably the same scientists saying that sitting in front of a TV, manipulating a piece of plastic with your thumbs crafts you into a killer.