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I know a guy who ended up becoming a professional chef because of the tim burton charlie and the chocolate factory movie and i guarantee none of you will be able to guess how
ok so this movie came out like, 2005ish? And this kid was in his early teens, so 12-14 years old i guess. And he’s watching this movie and there’s the scene where the chewing gum kid, Violet something, is chewing the gum that tastes like a three course meal and the first two tastes are tomato soup and roast beef and that’s all well and good but then it gets to blueberry pie and OOP she’s all swollen up like a ten-foot tall human blueberry.
And this kid, being the age he was, had just kinda started puberty and might’ve had a little crush on Violet to start with, so all the feelings and hormones got a lil mixed up while watching that scene and he ended up with a great big inflation kink.
So this is a thing for a few more years, he’s cranking his hog to deviantart pictures of big ol balloon ladies and the kink develops (as they sometimes do) into one where he gets off from watching those videos where people eat a ton of food.
But then from there he starts to become interested, not in the person eating the food, but the food itself. Pretty soon he’s watching cooking video tutorials and attempting to cook for his family and within a couple years he’s got good. Real good. So good, in fact, that he publishes a modest cookbook at age 17 and makes enough money off selling it to buy himself a car. By the time he’s graduated highschool he’s had scholarships and apprenticeship offers from no less that 5 separate cooking schools, three of which were international.
He told me all this inbetween throwing up in a bathtub at a party we were both at. I hadn’t actually met him beforehand but id seen him around school a few times (he was a couple years older than me).
Last I heard of him, he’s working as the head chef in some big boy restaurant back in my city and has at least one award for something.
And that’s how some guy became a professional chef thanks to tim burtons charlie and the chocolate factory movie
You can’t lower the age to vote and raise the age in which it is legal to drink, own a firearm, and serve in the armed forces. An individual is either a full citizen, or they’re not.
I’m very happy I wasn’t allowed to vote at 16
What would this even accomplish? A lower percentage of young people voting?
Anyways, lower the voting age, fine. But let legal adults smoke (21 in California now), drink, rent cars, etc etc.
Give everyone everything at 17, across the board. Full self ownership to be a household, adopt, get a drivers liscence, vote, consume alcohol, cigarrettes, give sexual consent, and whatever other responsibilities we randomly dump on them throughout adolescence and young adulthood, and also stop letting 14 year olds work, 17 should be the point at which child labor laws no longer apply to you. We pretend we have set a line of adulthood, when obviously we set a bunch of random transitional ones. It’s going to be a little arbitrary wherevery it is set, and people personally developed at different rates technically, but for the sake of legal simplicity, I think 17 is a good point where people can be given adulthood and adult responsibilities.
Teenagers are impressionable.
Unfortunately, this is just a way for political parties to expand and bolster its ranks. Especially when the majority of education centers lean to certain political parties rather than the ideal apolitical.
Invoking Godwin’s law, you could say this is a proto-hitler’s youth.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
16 year old me would’ve been overjoyed to vote.
But 16 year old me would’ve also voted for Donald Trump and not even thought twice about it.
If you want to lower the voting age? Fine. Just keep in mind that you’re not exactly unleashing an army of progressives ready to reshape the country into a socialist paradise.
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