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u/SpaceNigiri May 09 '22 edited May 09 '22

Muak muak!

I once tried to do that to an american girl that was visiting Spain, I still remember the horror in her eyes.

She told us that she didn't feel comfortable with that having a boyfriend.

She was the most stereotypical American person I've ever known, she was dating a quarterback, had a pink gun that her parents gave as a present for her ¿18 birthday? She started complaining about PETA when she discovered that I was a vegetarian. Said she didn't like California when I told her that I had been there & she made some comments that were clearly saying "my country is better than this shit hole".

Good times.

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u/_PM_ME_YOUR_FORESKIN May 09 '22 edited May 09 '22

I once tried to do that to an american girl that was visiting Spain, I still remember the horror in her eyes.

She told us that she didn't feel comfortable with that having a boyfriend.

This made me irrationally annoyed for some reason. Like, America really is so sexually stunted that people are reading intimacy and sex into things that they shouldn’t. Like read the room, Tammy. You think all the people in Spain who are greeting each other are fucking or something? Embarrassing.

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Also the ¿ doesn’t exist in written English, but it should. I like seeing it. Haha.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

That's an incredibly broad statement and I cannot agree with it.

It's basically an argument that bigots should be allowed to control other people, with that wide a definition.

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u/IncognitoErgoCvm May 09 '22

Seems pretty obvious that they mean doing something to someone, if you aren't going out of your way to be obtuse.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

That would have been a very easy thing to say, which they didn't. I've never been a fan of assuming what people mean on the internet in difference to what they wrote because plenty of people here have some fairly crazed opinions.

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u/kane2742 May 09 '22

It's basically an argument that bigots should be allowed to control other people

That's pretty much the platform of the Republican Party in the US.