Chomp8645 posted:

Sweet 16 is just a white person quinceañera. It's is absolutely a huge deal to some people.

datajugend posted:

whats court in this context? is it like a confirmation?

Barudak posted:

They cant be the same thing, a quinceanera has a chance to be fun.

Kuros posted:

Would It Be Selfish Or Rude For Me (15F) To Ask My Court (15-22F) To Pay For Their Own Dresses?


First World Problems.

Danaru posted:

I apparently have no idea what a sweet 16 is

ArbitraryC posted:

What are you even celebrating at 16

being legally able to bone?

Chomp8645 posted:

Oh yeah obviously a huge difference between a bunch of giddy, drama-obsessed 15 year old girls and giddy, drama-obsessed 16 year old girls.

Night and day I tell you what.

Baronjutter posted:

Yeah it's roots are in weirds sex/purity things. Dads will also have weird mock wedding ceremonies where their daughter pledges to only gently caress when and who dad approves of.

Baronjutter posted:

Yeah it's roots are in weirds sex/purity things. Dads will also have weird mock wedding ceremonies where their daughter pledges to only gently caress when and who dad approves of.

Danaru posted:

Barudak posted:

Thats a different almost exclusively American thing called a purity ball.

Qotillions and Quinceneras are basically “Hey fellas, this lady is fully trained in home making and now a woman, start your courting now”

Demon Of The Fall posted:

I defiled a chick who had a purity ring from daddy way back when

quote:

I moved to a new town in October and am renting out a house. My Landlord lives next door to me and has a key to the house that i'm renting. I thought he was a nice guy and all was good until around December.

It started with my doors to my house being unlocked when i swore i locked them. I always lock my doors before bed and when i leave for work. I asked my Landlord if he was coming in and working on the house and he said no.

Then i started noticing my milk and food running out very quickly, i live alone and i don't eat much. So a day or two after i shop my food shouldn't be gone. Today was the last straw, i woke up and saw a note left in front of my coffee pot that said, "need bread" and my coffee pot was already full of coffee grounds and water, ready to go just needed to be turned on when i didn't do it yet.

My question is, Can my landlord legally come in and take my food and just chill around the house without my permission? If it's not legal how do i go about this when he denies it all? Should i buy security cameras to prove it in court? I'm a 23 year old female living alone. I never had something like this happen before, i don't even know where to start.

quote:

Buy a camera.

Buy a CO detector.

One of them will explain what's going on.

ArbitraryC posted:

What are you even celebrating at 16

being legally able to bone?

Barudak posted:

Thats a different almost exclusively American thing called a purity ball.

Qotillions and Quinceneras are basically “Hey fellas, this lady is fully trained in home making and now a woman, start your courting now”

Danaru posted:

(VT) I think my landlord is coming into my house and stealing food?

tactlessbastard posted:

Which in and of itself is wierd enough.

tactlessbastard posted:

Which in and of itself is wierd enough.

Al Borland Corp. posted:

Quinenera's are a lot more fun and less teen drama because it's generally more a party adults throw for themselves where the teen attends, not catering to the whims of a teen idiot.

quote:

My friends and I were all hanging out one day, coming back home after a store trip.

We stopped off at a pizza shop to grab something to eat, and my friend and I were outside the shop while our two female friends purchased the pizza.

My friend, he goes by doodoo, got the bright idea to stuff something into the tailpipe of a car as a prank, I don't know what he was trying to do. I urged him to stop but he did it anyway. Whatever he put in the running car's tailpipe caught fire. He took off running, and I left with my two other friends.

I plan on giving an honest statement about what happened, he was a complete idiot. Should I do this?

Also what charges are he going to face? Thank goodness nobody was in the car.

edit: doodoo's finger prints are all over the car and we were in front of stores so I bet there are cameras

quote:

what charges are he going to face

I am not going to prison over a friend who calls himself doodoo.

I don't have a lawyer, I'm 17, where can I get one? what do I do if they arrest me

La Brea Carpet posted:

It's based on an old tradition where a woman was introduced into society by her parents as eligible for courtship and engagement.

In the south cotillion is more of "polite manners" training where you have a fancy dinner and get dressed up and prove you know which way to pass the salt and which pinky you put up when you're in a lacrosse locker room circle jerk.

quote:

where did you go, love:
when I told you I was ready
when I cast my doubt aside
when I forged my commitment
in a ring.

seed planted
hopeful heart
even though, you knew I knew
it wasn’t meant to pass.

upon purple dawn
the temple whispered
otherwise

where did you go, love
when I beckoned the rest of me
to the table
when I promised these aching scavengers
no need to feed on shadows
any longer.

ten years
and then, the death of us
the birth of a child anew.

the knife, the heart
the dusty road
the song like grief’s sinew.

where did you go, love
when you called from across the desert
a siren from the great grey inbetween

what right do you have
to accept my heartbreak
and the words
that stitch the wound

perhaps no one will follow
bearing these seastorm eyes,
left instead to echo
like memories
like starlight
and perhaps that is enough.

thirty four years, today
and the body trembles
naked

the long departure begun

maybe
that is why i’ve found you, love
amidst the aching possibility
that you are, have always been
my sweetest adversary.

time, collapsed
’round the ancient spiral
fingers entwined, footsteps lingering
every inch a long exhale
companions
on the long walk home.

– IM

Danaru posted:

[Detroit] My friend's vandalism led to a car exploding


The post is already pretty good, but holy poo poo this one line from the OP in the comments:

LGD posted:

I don't think they really are weird though, at least in their original incarnations- coming of age ceremonies are extremely common cultural traditions, and setting up a system where people's now-marriageable teenage offspring are formally introduced to others of appropriate social status so mutually beneficial marriages can be arranged/occur seems pragmatic as hell for aristocrats

LadyPictureShow posted:

Either that’s a copy/paste from an oooooold GBS thread, or the joke about ‘Man baby’s mom makes him chicken nuggets while he still lives at home’ became something of a meme.

Then again I’ve been a goon for like, 12 years. Who knows where that first popped up.

(I don’t know poo poo about bitcoin; I know the price rocketed a few months back; I’m guessing there’s people crying about not selling when they had the chance?). I do know there was a guy posting in r/relationships about hating his cousin, and other redditors called him out about ‘quit being jealous that he profited off of bitcoin.

tactlessbastard posted:

My quibble is with the very concept of marriagiable teenage daughters, Jim Bob.

Chomp8645 posted:

Purity balls or whatever are pretty weird but they almost exclusively exist in states that, in hindsight, should have been just been allowed to secede. They are not a thing in most of the country barring the occasional whack job fundamentalist.

InediblePenguin posted:

When you talk about how states should have been allowed to secede you're implicitly saying it would have been fair to continue slavery in exchange for you being able to socially distance yourself from rednecks

MF_James posted:

Everybody is so drat serious on this dead comedy forum in a thread that is made to laugh at idiots from another dumb forum.