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Last Post: 4:09:28pm, 08/17/2023
adjl posted...
You mean to tell me that if you - as a ~24-year-old - were expecting to hang out with a bunch of friends of similar ages and one of them brought along their 17-year-old coworker, you wouldn't find that odd or off-putting?
This is tautological, you say outright in your hypothetical I'm expecting a certain number of similar-aged friends. Of course I'd find it odd if one extra guy showed up, you said I wasn't expecting it, lol.
adjl posted...
This is, of course, saying nothing about the fact that you've still just picked the most extreme values you think you'll be able to get away with without being accused of deliberately picking the most extreme values possible.
You won't be satisfied until I say 13 and 39 because you wanted this to be easier. You also undermine yourself here in the next bit by saying 1 year is massive anyway, so why the nitpicking? Because, of course, you aren't engaging honestly and want to make your setup as extreme as possible.
adjl posted...
As has been said, that's not to say that an adult can't have a friendly relationship with a high school student, but to be close friends or especially "best friends" is pretty odd, given how little they have in common in terms of fundamental day-to-day experience.
I've yet to hear a good argument for why dissimilar people aren't allowed to be friends, especially when it's such a trivial thing as knowing how to pay bills or whatever you think is so fundamental to being an adult.
adjl posted...
Well, I did a two-year community college program from 29-31 in which I was mostly surrounded by 18-23-year-olds when the program started (at least the domestic students, the international ones were more around my age). I still made friends among them,
So you're literally a creep by your own standard. Why is it literally always projection?
adjl posted...
Again, maybe that's not the case. Maybe it's more legitimate than that. But at face value, this looks like dude groomed his wife while she was a student in his care, and there's been no evidence presented to suggest that that's not the case.
Thankfully the burden of evidence doesn't work that way. People are presumed innocent until proven guilty, both in court and in (civilized) society.
adjl posted...
"A 30-year-old making friends with 14-year-olds is creepy"
"I don't know why you have a problem with 21-year-olds making friends with 19-year-olds"
It's like disingenuity 101.
The guy I was replying to was talking about MacDonalds employees, which will generally never be under 16. Calls me disingenuous and then straight up lies about what I was talking about, lol. More projection.