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Reminds me of shit saying I heard when I was 14. "Old enough to bleed, old enough to breed". Even then that was a fucked up thing to say. But I heard it a lot as a teenager. Mostly from other teen boys who didn't know shit about sex.
There’s also “if there’s grass on the field, play ball”
When cherry's are red the ripe for plucking, when girls are 16...
You get the rest.
Jimmy Savile and Trump are cut from the same cloth. The fact other people were doing it too doesn't make their behaviour less abhorrent, it just means that abhorrent behaviour was more common.
I’m with you until this:
Did something I posted indicate I think otherwise or was this just an additional thought?
For the record, I don’t care who the paedophile is, it’s disgusting and perverse regardless. I do question whether the behavior was more common or if it’s just gotten pushed further out of public view because of social norms changing.
This. Sorry if I made you think I thought you thought otherwise.
All good, that’s why I checked.
Think I heard that one too, but the other was more popular. Of course I heard fat mommy jokes and "You're so stupid" jokes. Even the dumb blonde jokes. I mean in 90's you didn't have worry about getting canceled for your fuck up humor.
We really didn’t. Though those expressions, while still wrong, come across a lot different from a 13 year old than they do from a 50 year old man. 🤮
Yeah I remember sitting around with other 10-12 year olds as we told jokes we read in Playboy magazine. Same magazines we found either in the woods, or your step dads drawers. I only remember a couple of the jokes. But I know a couple of them looking back would only be funny to a 10 year old boy.
Whilst I begin to clutch at my pearls,
refers to cabinets. Right???
Yes, it a southern thing. But you can say that too.
Yeah this is the generation that brought us 4Chan and the Xbox gaming lobby.
I God damn wish there had been consequences for the hate some of my bosses had flung around back then. Just like constantly putting down anyone deemed lesser.
"If not, flip her over and play in the mud."
I always heard the reply, “a well used field grows no grass”. I don’t like to think about that though, it’s my friend’s dad who I heard it from most memorably.
That sounds like slut shaming. Never heard it before.
Also have a listen to Lucille Bogan's classic song "Shave It Dry." The implication is by friction, not with a razor.
And if there isn't...
Oh I'm sure they had an excused lined up for that too. I just don't want hear what it is.
Yeah I could have lived without hearing that from a grown-ass man this month.
I remember hearing "if there's grass play ball" from fellow kids meanwhile we didn't even have any grass, or any idea what playing ball really entailed. At least those of us who were lucky.
Yeah maybe that was a baseball thing, because I didn't hear that one. Probably saw it in a tweet or something. But as kid no, just the one I posted. Plus knew a kid that his goodbye was. "Got cows to feed, and women to breed" He said this shit everytime he had to go.
Oh, you only heard the short version.
My stepdad and uncle would say that shit all the fucking time.
What's the long version?
Old enough to bleed, old enough for me; 8 to 80, blind, crippled, or crazy.
Holy shit! Tell me they were joking?
Yeah, but it is still a pretty shitty "joke"
"si hay pelito, no hay delito" - if there's hair, there's no crime.
"Si pesa más que un pollo, me lo follo" - if it weights more than a chicken, I'm fucking it.
I love that people would think, "Well ... It rhymes so it must be true."
"If It Doesn't Fit, You Must Acquit"