• @atlasraven31
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    Aww, she wants you to have a girl so she can bug you about grandchildren.

    • CandyDumDubOP
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      Just imagine that a woman has about 10 children, then forced them to have about 5 grandchildren per child. Now she has a gang. And all of that only because she wants to have full control over the neighborhood /s

          • @Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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            There isn’t much detail in the English article, but to give you an example of how crazy things got, the 25th child of a family had free education… The average was 14 child per family at its peak! French Canadians in New Brunswick went from 15% to 40% of the province’s population over a century even if french immigration was basically non existent while English immigration was…

      • @XTornado@lemmy.ml
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        9 months ago

        You make it sound like bad to have a family gang. It has so many uses, great for ilegal stuff, great for polítics, great for business, it is all benefits of controlling up to certain point a large group of people and having a strong link with them.

  • @Wanderer
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    Never mention a girl to my parents ever.

    Last time I mentioned one was my girlfriend of 6 months (at the time) that wanted to come visit. I was in my 20’s.

    If you going to bully me about my personal life then you don’t deserve to hear about it.

  • @maiskanzler@feddit.de
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    219 months ago

    If we all told them more about our everyday stuff, then maybe it wouldn’t come off as particularly special if you mention a girl’s name once

    • @persolb@lemmy.ml
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      269 months ago

      I don’t think moms realize this can go the other way. When I was a kid I learned to just never mention any girl’s name, regardless of the reason.

  • @kameecoding@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    not just moms, friends can do this too, oh you are talking to a woman? Are you in love? what’s going on?

    what’s going on is nothing, we talk sometimes like friends/acquaintances do.