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Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Dad shows a gun to show OP he’s a badass. Op doesn’t realize and shows his gun.

Common American culture is that you’re supposed to show your gun on the third date with the family, not the first. You’re also supposed to have a Mexican standoff when you walk into the house, with dad aiming at you, you’re aiming at dad, dog aims at GF, etc. And if he’s lucky, they have a rousing game of Russian roulette before tapas.

Totally understandable if you didn’t know. Just basic 2A knowledge every American learns about during elementary school.

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And009@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Thanks for explaining the culture, they never show real America in the movies

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- cosmicrookie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah. Real America sounds tougher than Sons of Anarchy
  
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  - DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Leave it to Hollywood to sanitize real American living and make it so kid friendly!
    
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- HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It’s important to remember if you’re ever in Los Angeles, New York, or Miami, all three of the major American cities.
  
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ProstheticBrain@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I guess this is where the concept of the “nuclear family” comes from then? After the initial courtship hostilities, the escalation of the arms race is inevitable.

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- captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yes, by the time you have a steady relationship you’re at a place of Mutually Assured Dating
  
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SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

dad aiming at you, you’re aiming at dad, dog aims at GF, etc.

The Aristocrats!

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classic@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
You start learning it in day care depending on the region

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- Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  So are those armoured backpacks for children considered cheating?
  
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  - A7thStone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Some people can afford better load outs. Normal p2w bullshit.
    
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  - dumbass@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yeah, it does Give them a slightly unfair advantage over the active shooter, that’s why the cops had to wait, they were required to give them a head start.
    
    A surprising amount of rules involved in it.
    
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  - HelixDab2@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Cheapskate parents, actually. Most parents get their kids a BALCS carrier with some level III soft inserts, some ESAPI plates, and a level III or IIIa helmet. But some parents cheap out and just get their kid a backpack and split a set of plates between kids.
    
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zzx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
They taught me in kindergarten

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refalo@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
what the fuck

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- EpeeGnome@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The first sentence is real, the rest is just a fun bit of hyperbole. It really is not that common for an overprotective father to brandish a gun at his daughter’s new boyfriend, but it has happened enough times to become something of a trope.
  
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