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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aww, she wants you to have a girl so she can bug you about grandchildren.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Just imagine that a woman has about 10 children, then forced them to have about 5 grandchildren per child. Now she has a gang. And all of that only because she wants to have full control over the neighborhood /s

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow. History never ceases to amaze me

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There isn't much detail in the English article, but to give you an example of how crazy things got, the 25th child of a family had free education... The average was 14 child per family at its peak! French Canadians in New Brunswick went from 15% to 40% of the province's population over a century even if french immigration was basically non existent while English immigration was...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You make it sound like bad to have a family gang. It has so many uses, great for ilegal stuff, great for polítics, great for business, it is all benefits of controlling up to certain point a large group of people and having a strong link with them.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Never mention a girl to my parents ever.

Last time I mentioned one was my girlfriend of 6 months (at the time) that wanted to come visit. I was in my 20's.

If you going to bully me about my personal life then you don't deserve to hear about it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If we all told them more about our everyday stuff, then maybe it wouldn't come off as particularly special if you mention a girl's name once

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

I don’t think moms realize this can go the other way. When I was a kid I learned to just never mention any girl’s name, regardless of the reason.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My mom still does this ... about a girl I went out with in 1987 ... who went back to Belgium afterwards.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Probably wants that chocolate and trappist beer!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

not just moms, friends can do this too, oh you are talking to a woman? Are you in love? what's going on?

what's going on is nothing, we talk sometimes like friends/acquaintances do.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Then they go suuuuure and wink at you

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Omg my does this too. It's so annoying

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

RIP Doge T_T

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

RIP cheems 🫡