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My pregnant wife refuses to buy me beer from the grocery store because of observations from strangers like this.

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• michaelwww 4y ago
  Well I didn't give her a look. She wasn't even aware that I was there. But yeah, I think your wife has the right strategy, because there are people who will say something.
• nwienert 4y ago
  If only society cared less about preventing avoidable birth defects, you’d be able to buy drugs without such immense burden.
  • googlryas 4y ago
    Does the sperm donor drinking an alcoholic beverage after the sperm has been donated contribute to birth defects? News to me!
    • nwienert 4y ago
      • googlryas 4y ago
        I know that's what you got, and I'm wondering where you got it from. How does my wife buying me a beer increase the risks for birth defects for the fetus she carries?
        • nwienert 4y ago
          Damn, thought I laid it out quite nicely in short form. It's a good thing in general to have a society that cares about whether a pregnant women is putting their baby at risk - and you simply can't have that without false positives. For every false positive making it a touch more awkward to purchase beer (the smallest price I can think of to pay) you get a ton of great things like general empathy. The society that cares that much probably also grabs a dead roach out of a strangers baby's hands right before it eats it unbeknownst to their parents, for example. Your comment comes off as: How dare people care about an unborn baby having an entire life of misery if it ever-so-slightly infringes on my right to have a slight buzz for an afternoon. Not saying you are one, but this is a great example of what my generation will pull "Ok boomer" out for: the general attitude of "Don't make my fun time ever-so-slightly more inconvenient just to preserve [society|the environment|anything that will last beyond their death]".
          • googlryas 4y ago
            I understood exactly what you were saying, but felt no compunction to respond to your implied point because, basically, I thought you were being a dick. And now I know why. Because you read my comment as uncharitably as possible, and because of that, now I'm a bad person in your eyes who needs to be shamed or scorned. I'm honestly surprised you didn't accuse me of beating my wife in a rage when she doesn't return with the single 12 oz can of of 4.5% beer that I requested. And thanks for the lesson on gen-z slang. Out of curiosity, what are kids calling self-serious blowhards these days?
            • eurasiantiger 4y ago
              ”Cringe.”
          • vineyardmike 4y ago
            > you get a ton of great things like general empathy. As an outsider, nothing about this thread gave any indication of real empathy. Ps. That’s not what OKB is…
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• google234123 4y ago
  Shame culture is one large reason why paces like Japan have so much less crime. I wish there was more of this, would be nice to have cleaner streets…
  • InitialLastName 4y ago
    Plus fewer of those pesky non-conformists going out in public, and more people forced into cognitively self-destructive lives.
    • 4gotunameagain 4y ago
      You win some you lose some, can't have everything in life :)
  • synicalx 4y ago
    And way less obesity
• assttoasstmgr 4y ago
  On the plus side you get to leverage the same excuse next time she asks you to pick up tampons on the way home.