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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • True story time: when my dad assembled my family’s first trampoline, he was really struggling to get the last spring in place. He was alternating between trying to stretch it from the canvas to the frame or from the frame to the canvas. Finally, on one of his attempts, the spring slipped out from his hand, hooked into his other forearm, and tore its way up along leaving a massive gash on his arm.

    He probably needed stitches, but was terrified of doctors and needles, so he just applied lots of, used a ridiculous amount of butterfly bandages, and tightly wrapped the shit out of his arm.

    He bled through this setup three times before the bleeding slowed down enough that my sisters and I stopped crying that he was going to die.

    Trampoline springs are no fucking joke.

    But the joke pictured in OP’s post is 10/10 gold









  • Why are y’all making me do your research for you?

    Also, you put that text in quotes, but I don’t see it anywhere in that page, which is very misleading to do.

    It’s literally stated within the summary of the page; third paragraph from the bottom.

    That’s contradicted by the link content.

    Try clicking the links within the content to see if maybe you’re missing some context.

    Michigan

    The name of the state is hyperlinked, click on it and you’ll find section of the Michigan Legislature contains statutory age limits on marriage. The site linked from my quote is out of date because the minimum age is now 18. This is an absolute win and something to be celebrated, it just sucks that it took until 2023 to bump the age up and remove a judge’s ability to enter a child into marriage. I considered editing my quote to cross out Michigan, but that seemed dishonest. Can’t really win either way, apparently.

    Mississippi

    Let’s click the name of this state and we end up at a summary page with a specific comment:

    Minors under minimum age may obtain license with parental consent and approval of court. Minor females age 15 yrs. and older and males 17 yrs. and older but under 21 may obtain license with parental consent and court order.

    But since we’re “doing our own research” (you’re welcome), let’s not trust the content on a third party site and instead look up the listed section of the Mississippi code dealing with conditions of issuing a marriage license in which we find that

    If the male applicant is under seventeen (17) years of age or the female is under fifteen (15) years of age, and satisfactory proof is furnished to the judge of any circuit, chancery or county court that sufficient reasons exist and that the parties desire to be married to each other and that the parents or other person in loco parentis of the person or persons so under age consent to the marriage, then the judge of any such court in the county where either of the parties resides may waive the minimum age requirement and by written instrument authorize the clerk of the court to issue the marriage license to the parties if they are otherwise qualified by law.

    Same info! They’re not lying! Wait… That’s bad news. Damnit!

    There appears to be an amendment that I can’t tell if it’s passed or not, but it only raises the minimum age of girls (15) to that of boys (17). I refuse to say “men” and “women” because 17 is still a child.

    Washington

    Great news! Two months ago, Washington passed a law eliminating marriage of minors! I genuinely had no clue about this one. Obviously, the site wouldn’t have this update, but there you have it.


    Anyway, there you have it. The info you could’ve read for yourself, but chose not to before declaring yourself a victim of misinformation.

    HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!