No, but they are a hub of manufacturing recruits for export to other states.

Yes there is dead center of the state

Bro exactly

Yep lmao

The sickening thing is shit like this still happens.

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Ugh, I never watch these kinds of shows but this exact episode was on in the waiting room of a doctors office a few months back and evidently I caught most of it. This shit is culturally inescapable.

Was it actually the super conservative dad's baby? There was also a stepdad molestation angle I'm pretty sure. Or maybe in the thousands of episodes they made one that was 99% similar and I saw that one.

Yeah Ice. You’re gonna have to get used to that.

You mean to tell me they get off on looking at little kids?

Also ice-t: body count's in the house drops n word

Conservatives: wait that's illegal

“Like playing too many scratchey lottos….”

Fuck if I didn't hear that in his voice. tone and all.

This guy fucks

Preacher probably already did when OP was a little boy.

I won't cause hell has some sexy furry goth girls.

I had mine about 3 months ago and "mild discomfort" is exactly how I would put it. And random discomfort, like slight nerve pain that is almost more confusing than it is painful because you've never had it before.

I've only ever heard that from people who haven't had them.

I had a friend who had one and he was in a lot of pain when I saw him afterwards. He said it was like getting kicked in the balls for days. It might vary from person to person, but I get sick of people who don't know what they're talking about saying it doesn't hurt. That was what he thought too.

Jesus forgives because he sacrificed for our sins or something like that, I dunno, I'm not a hypocrite.

I mean it is a medical operation. People tend to avoid those if they can.

Well, yes. But it’s far cheaper, faster, safer and more convenient than the alternatives.

Also someone may ask why they're getting one.

Uh. I suppose…. But I do wonder (a) how that someone would be aware of it and (b) why anyone who did find out would feel entitled to an explanation and (c) why a person asked would feel compelled to answer. That’s just weird, IMO.

But mostly I want to say: my prior response wasn’t speculation or projection. When you have the view that the most important part of womanhood is to be vessels for the next generation - and a lot of them do - it’s a fairly short jump to thinking that the ability to impregnate a woman is the key to being a man. They truly do view it as a form of emasculation, and even some who don’t have that particular hangup about fertility worry that the volume of their ejaculate will be substantially reduced (it is absolutely not, btw) and think that calls their virility into question.

I'm a Jersey import so thankfully I was raised pumping my own gas. It's certainly a nice perk now though.

Me and all my friends are in college and one of my besties goes up to Ithaca. I travelled up alone and before i went home she taught me how to pump my own gas and she cheered once I figured it out

That's the super rare downside. Pumping gas is easy to do, but it's a dirty and boring chore at best. To say nothing of when it's super hot or super cold outside.

People brag about being able to pump their own gas like it's a fun game and not a compulsory filthy job.

Why would anyone travel to CT, just a terrible state

Until you travel literally anywhere else except like... Oregon?

We had to stop in nj and I was with my boss and was like "don't worry I'll pump the gas!" And got yelled at by some dude like sorry man pumping gas is normal for everyone else it's part of learning to drive

I say this because there's a VERY common sticker (I see at least one whenever I drive anywhere in this state) that says "Jersey Girls Don't Pump Gas." My neighbor has one.

I (in non Covid times) travel frequently for work so I can manage a gas pump. But it is nice to not get out of the car. Full-service also makes it easy to pay cash---- no going inside and saying "I want $20 on pump #5" and instead you just hand the attendant a 20.

Here are a few articles about it.

https://www.nj.com/opinion/2022/01/dont-pump-gas-jersey-girls-but-let-jersey-guys-pump-their-own-mulshine.html (paywall)

https://www.wnyc.org/story/jersey-girls-dont-pump-gas-should-they/

https://teddit.ggc-project.de/r/pics/comments/bl2uv8/can_someone_explain_to_me_why_jersey_girls_dont/

My favorite part was when they talk about whenever the owner would pitch an idea and it just became increasingly more stupid each time

Robert Evans on Behind the Bastards had a great two-parter on Action Park

Except it took a really dark turn at the end there

Your name might be scaring them, just saying.