Freshman 40? It used to be the freshman 15. Inflation is everywhere.

More autocorrect. Half my comments are edited because of this bullshit.

There is something to this but I might have described it differently.

Being obese is seen as a moral failure, and struggling to lose it is a virtue. Drugs are seen as a cheat because you haven't atoned for the moral failure by suffering, therefore you have not earned the right to be treated differently.

People who have lost weight in this thread talk about how their own attitudes changed. Is that what spurned the change for them or a result of the effects? It's probably both but it's complicated. And very, very far from a simple framing like privilege.

Go watch Quadrophenia if you can. There is an early scene of Jimmy sitting in wet jeans to get them to shape correctly. The film was released in the '70s depicting the early '60s.

You have that 100% wrong. Wealthy Viennese families were complaining that their adolescent daughters were making up stories about being molested by their fathers and uncles. Freud built an entire field around this idea of the id and subconscious desires rather than believe in child abuse. This book is written by a former Director of the Freud archives and explains the issue pretty well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Assault_on_Truth

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Also patrollers which became paterollers or pattyrollers. There is an old time banjo tune called paterollers that carries the sense of being chased. It's typically played in sawmill tuning which always casts a sad quality. The faster you play it the better it sounds.

https://youtu.be/tYa6Z5Jam2g

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Clearly you have never met stupid people. Lucky you.

In my jurisdiction that is exactly how they do it. No field sobriety test is used. Just roll down the window and blow. Refusal is the same penalty as a DUI and will earn a trip to the police station for the real test.

Ok. I sort of remember class rings but in these parts you got them at graduation. No graduation, no ring.