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HairyQueen
12/12/22 3:50:32 AM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/5/3/AAfFpMAAD-v9.jpg

Sorry but this is true^

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Garioshi
12/12/22 3:51:30 AM
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True, family is chosen.

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Naysaspace
12/12/22 3:52:01 AM
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this bitch just bitter he gets weekend visits and has to clean up his apartment on the 2-week regular because of it.
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MICHALECOLE
12/12/22 3:57:04 AM
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Naysaspace posted...
this bitch just bitter he gets weekend visits and has to clean up his apartment on the 2-week regular because of it.
This sounds like a well adjusted adult human being
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darkprince45
12/12/22 3:57:38 AM
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I feel like this is an argument or point that has never actually existed as a problem until Twitter

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MICHALECOLE
12/12/22 3:58:24 AM
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darkprince45 posted...
I feel like this is an argument or point that has never actually existed as a problem until Twitter
Agreed
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UnfairRepresent
12/12/22 4:02:37 AM
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Jeez this is splitting hairs.

It has:
"Good morning"
"ACTUALLY IT'S AFTERNOON!"

Vibes.

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Collat
12/12/22 4:06:41 AM
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darkprince45 posted...
I feel like this is an argument or point that has never actually existed as a problem until Twitter
Nope. People who try to push couples to have kids when it's none of their business has always been a thing.
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Solid_Snake07
12/12/22 4:12:53 AM
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On todays episode of pretending to be upset about benign things that dont matter

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Mibahlzitch
12/12/22 4:19:53 AM
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Naysaspace posted...
this bitch just bitter he gets weekend visits and has to clean up his apartment on the 2-week regular because of it.
Are you familiar with an uncensored version of this tweet or did you assume it was a woman just so you could be sexist to the woman you invented

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pinky0926
12/12/22 4:32:02 AM
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darkprince45 posted...
I feel like this is an argument or point that has never actually existed as a problem until Twitter

That is more or less every conversation on twitter

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Philip027
12/12/22 4:43:35 AM
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To them, a family means kids. Who are you to try to tell them otherwise?

They aren't trying to suggest anything about what you or anyone else considers family.
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HairyQueen
12/12/22 4:58:40 AM
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Philip027 posted...
To them, a family means kids. Who are you to try to tell them otherwise?

They aren't trying to suggest anything about what you or anyone else considers family.
Not if those people are asking someone else "when are you going to start a family" when they mean "when are you going to have kids". That's what this is about tbh

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Doe
12/12/22 4:59:16 AM
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A single person and her cat is not a family.

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Philip027
12/12/22 5:40:20 AM
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HairyQueen posted...
Not if those people are asking someone else "when are you going to start a family" when they mean "when are you going to have kids". That's what this is about tbh

Idk man, sounds a lot like the quoted tweet is trying to dictate to everyone else what they think counts as a family, not the other way around
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AsucaHayashi
12/12/22 5:57:04 AM
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what about a single person without a plant, cats, roommates etc. but are still single?

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Lost_All_Senses
12/12/22 6:33:16 AM
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Professional victim energy

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cuttin_in_farm
12/12/22 7:00:59 AM
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Ehhh

To me, a family means related by blood.

Your friends can be like a family, but they arent your family in a literal sense.

A couple, by themselves, isnt really a family either. Ive never heard someone refer to their singular spouse as thats my family.

I would argue a family does necessitate children.

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cuttin_in_farm
12/12/22 7:02:26 AM
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Hell..

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/0/0/AAZ897AAD-ws.jpg

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CARRRNE_ASADA
12/12/22 7:10:17 AM
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Ahhh daily angry twitter rant about nonsense. I think most people dont have a problem if you want call those a family, but it has a historic meaning that you just cant change overnight.

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Glob
12/12/22 7:12:52 AM
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cuttin_in_farm posted...
Ehhh

To me, a family means related by blood.

Your friends can be like a family, but they arent your family in a literal sense.

A couple, by themselves, isnt really a family either. Ive never heard someone refer to their singular spouse as thats my family.

I would argue a family does necessitate children.

I would argue that if thats all that family means, its a pretty useless term.

As somebody who comes from a horrific background in terms of my blood relatives, I do genuinely feel that my closest friends are family. And I get that you might not feel the same way and thats fine, but it doesnt invalidate how I feel either.
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K181
12/12/22 7:14:36 AM
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There should be zero pressure on people wanting to stay single or for a couple not wanting kids, but even by twitter standards this is really dumb.

Unless youre Vin Diesel, then a few bros is totally a family.

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HairyQueen
12/12/22 7:19:36 AM
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cuttin_in_farm posted...
Ehhh

To me, a family means related by blood.

Your friends can be like a family, but they arent your family in a literal sense.

A couple, by themselves, isnt really a family either. Ive never heard someone refer to their singular spouse as thats my family.

I would argue a family does necessitate children.
Damn, fuck adopted kids then I guess?

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IfGodCouldDie
12/12/22 7:25:46 AM
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cuttin_in_farm posted...
Ehhh

To me, a family means related by blood.

Your friends can be like a family, but they arent your family in a literal sense.

A couple, by themselves, isnt really a family either. Ive never heard someone refer to their singular spouse as thats my family.

I would argue a family does necessitate children.
So a person and their spouse need to be blood related to be family?

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IfGodCouldDie
12/12/22 7:26:57 AM
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HairyQueen posted...
Damn, fuck adopted kids then I guess?
Also a good point.

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Fony
12/12/22 7:33:16 AM
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Today's copium.

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cuttin_in_farm
12/12/22 8:15:12 AM
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HairyQueen posted...
Damn, fuck adopted kids then I guess?

Ever heard of the term, adoptive family?

Glob posted...
As somebody who comes from a horrific background in terms of my blood relatives, I do genuinely feel that my closest friends are family. And I get that you might not feel the same way and thats fine, but it doesnt invalidate how I feel either.

Family holds no greater weight than friends.

I have a shit family too. But I dont give blood any specific value like society wants to try to.

So while I get how My friends are my family is supposed to give an image of how close they are being family doesnt mean anything as far as closeness.

Family just means related by blood.

IfGodCouldDie posted...
So a person and their spouse need to be blood related to be family?

You can marry into a family. But that means you include your spouses parents. Which now includes a blood relation via your spouse.

I genuinely dont think a husband and wife by themselves are a family until they have a kid. Theyre just a couple until then. Each spouse has their own, separate family since they would be a child. But that couple isnt a family until the have a kid.

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IfGodCouldDie
12/12/22 8:21:02 AM
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cuttin_in_farm posted...
Ever heard of the term, adoptive family?

Ill go get my violin.

Family holds no greater weight than friends.

I have a shit family too. But I dont give blood any specific value like society wants to try to.

So while I get how My friends are my family os supposed to give an image of how close they are being family doesnt mean anything as far as closeness.

Family just means related by blood.

You can marry into a family. But that means you include your spouses parents. Which now includes a blood relation via your spouse.
Seems like you're just gate keeping what family is. Words are constantly evolving in the English language and you seem to be stuck in the mindset that family is only equal to the nuclear family of the days past.

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HairyQueen
12/12/22 8:34:29 AM
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cuttin_in_farm posted...
Ehhh

To me, a family means related by blood.

cuttin_in_farm posted...
Ever heard of the term, adoptive family?
Have you?

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zado19
12/12/22 8:36:15 AM
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A family is by definition a unit of parent(s) and children...

Im part of a family (kind of impossible to exist otherwise tbh), but i dont have my own yet, because I dont have any kids

You and your cat is not a family... you may be content like that, and you want to tell people to mind their own damn business, but you and your cat, or you and your roommates (unless they are part of your family already), you you and your plants (wtf...?) are not a family

In the english language, words have meanings
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DrizztLink
12/12/22 8:36:34 AM
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cuttin_in_farm posted...
Family just means related by blood.
Have you considered that you might have issues related to the word "family" that could be coloring your perceptions here?

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Dat_Cracka_Jax
12/12/22 8:37:23 AM
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IfGodCouldDie posted...
Seems like you're just gate keeping what family is.
Seems to me he's using the literal definition as it was shared earlier in this topic

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HairyQueen
12/12/22 8:44:16 AM
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Dat_Cracka_Jax posted...
Seems to me he's using the literal definition as it was shared earlier in this topic
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/4/4/AAfFpMAAD-xY.jpg

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cuttin_in_farm
12/12/22 8:54:03 AM
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HairyQueen posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/4/4/AAfFpMAAD-xY.jpg

Did did you read it?


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HairyQueen
12/12/22 8:57:29 AM
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cuttin_in_farm posted...
Did did you read it?

cuttin_in_farm posted...
To me, a family means related by blood.
Did you? I'm just pointing out that there are other definitions besides the one you posted. One of those includes people who aren't related by blood.

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HudGard
12/12/22 8:57:49 AM
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The family planning labeled aisle at the pharmacy must be triggering.
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Zikten
12/12/22 8:58:39 AM
#41:


The plant example is stupid . Unless you are Poison Ivy from DC Comics, plants are not your family
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cuttin_in_farm
12/12/22 9:00:30 AM
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HairyQueen posted...
Did you? I'm just pointing out that there are other definitions besides the one you posted. One of those includes people who aren't related by blood.

What is that? You just posted a definition I already posted earlier and said nothing else. The thing you posted supports what Ive been saying.

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rexcrk
12/12/22 9:02:32 AM
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Zikten posted...
The plant example is stupid . Unless you are Poison Ivy from DC Comics, plants are not your family


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HairyQueen
12/12/22 9:04:53 AM
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cuttin_in_farm posted...
What is that? You just posted a definition I already posted earlier and said nothing else. The thing you posted supports what Ive been saying.
You're saying that a family = blood-relation and it "necessitates children". The definition you posted in post#22 defines family that way. But you failed to click the little down arrow next to it that lists other definitions, which is what I posted. Go back and read it.

I should clarify that spouses would fall under "related by marriage". That's even codified in law.

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ThyCorndog
12/12/22 9:16:00 AM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/5/9/AAF8aeAAD-xn.jpg

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Zikten
12/12/22 9:18:59 AM
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rexcrk posted...
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I thought maybe she was going to turn him into a plant at the end. For some reason that idea came to me. Like all the plants in the room are guys she brought home
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cuttin_in_farm
12/12/22 9:28:47 AM
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HairyQueen posted...
You're saying that a family = blood-relation and it "necessitates children". The definition you posted in post#22 defines family that way. But you failed to click the little down arrow next to it that lists other definitions, which is what I posted. Go back and read it.

I should clarify that spouses would fall under "related by marriage". That's even codified in law.

I addressed that you can marry into a family earlier tho. You just join eachothers family.

Like, when you divorce someone, nobody says I left my family.

Either way, the tweet is dumb. Acting like Family = children is unheard of is silly. Especially when you start mentioning plants, cats, or roommates.

Those things can be closer than family. Of course. But those aint family.

Thus, agree to disagree if you dont think Im giving a good definition.

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Jagr_68
12/12/22 9:35:11 AM
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HairyQueen
12/12/22 9:36:06 AM
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cuttin_in_farm posted...
I addressed that you can marry into a family earlier tho. You just join eachothers family.

Like, when you divorce someone, nobody says I left my family.

Either way, the tweet is dumb. Acting like Family = children is unheard of is silly. Especially when you start mentioning plants, cats, or roommates.

Those things can be closer than family. Of course. But those aint family.

Thus, agree to disagree if you dont think Im giving a good definition.
Well, I never said that believing that family = children is unheard of. Obviously many people would say that. I'm just saying that it's important to be aware that there are various definitions and types of families.

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BurmesePenguin
12/12/22 9:36:08 AM
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Claiming you cant correctly refer to your adopted children as your family without having the word adoptive included in there is the grossest thing Ive read today
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rexcrk
12/12/22 9:43:19 AM
#53:


Zikten posted...
I thought maybe she was going to turn him into a plant at the end. For some reason that idea came to me. Like all the plants in the room are guys she brought home


That wouldve been a good twist lmao


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