When are you considered an adult?

[Mark Renton]

If becoming an adult implies having a beard then im gonna be a boi 4lyfe

[Ronald Wilson Reagan]

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a friend and i had this conversation once...
one thing we came up with is that you are officially an adult when you purchase an expensive appliance, like a washer/dryer or fridge.  nobody but adults spends all that money on stuff like that.

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I like this one

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this one is good


how about buying new furniture from a place other than ikea

Both of these imply poor people can never become adults.

[midwestmiddleman]

You are an adult if you know about building seven  WAKE UP

[KOOL MIKE]

when you beat your first women

[Will Easley]

when you beat your first women

[doomstation55]

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a friend and i had this conversation once...
one thing we came up with is that you are officially an adult when you purchase an expensive appliance, like a washer/dryer or fridge.  nobody but adults spends all that money on stuff like that.

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I like this one

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this one is good


how about buying new furniture from a place other than ikea

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Both of these imply poor people can never become adults.

That's jumping to conclusions a bit. I think the idea is that it is an "adult" decision to save up money in order to spend it on something that's not flashy/sexy/you can show it off but rather more practical. At least I'm pretty sure no one is explicitly saying that poor people cannot become adults. Depending on the person/scenario it could easily be something less expensive then an appliance or furniture.

[noone1234]

If becoming an adult implies having a beard then im gonna be a boi 4lyfe

never trust a man that cannot grow facial hair

[bakingsoda]

Once you can shit into your own hand, smell it, and with confiedence break down and discribe what the feces consists of you are a man. I heard it's some sort of fathering skill or something.

[Ronald Wilson Reagan]

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a friend and i had this conversation once...
one thing we came up with is that you are officially an adult when you purchase an expensive appliance, like a washer/dryer or fridge.  nobody but adults spends all that money on stuff like that.

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I like this one

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this one is good


how about buying new furniture from a place other than ikea

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Both of these imply poor people can never become adults.

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That's jumping to conclusions a bit. I think the idea is that it is an "adult" decision to save up money in order to spend it on something that's not flashy/sexy/you can show it off but rather more practical. At least I'm pretty sure no one is explicitly saying that poor people cannot become adults. Depending on the person/scenario it could easily be something less expensive then an appliance or furniture.

If you can't afford a home, you ain't buying a fridge or a washer/dryer.
If you don't have much in the budget, you stick to ikea and the thrift store for furniture.
Saving up money is a luxury of disposable income, not living paycheck to paycheck.

I'm not saying there isn't some truth to it, I'm just saying not everybody gets there, and plenty of them are adults.

[76-88]

I did the buying sensible stuff at 19, but didn't have the life defining Gipper thing till I was 23, then again at 27. I'm now 37, married for ten years, three kids, a mortgage and a 9 to 5 job. I still don't feel like an "adult" half the time. The moment you stop laughing at dick jokes I think you're considered dead.

[Yu Dum]

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When you make a wall of fame on some restaurant eating challenge?

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If that's the case, then I was a man by the age of 15. 1 lb. burger challenge at Cheeburger Cheeburger. Couldn't shit right for a week. Well worth it.

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Only 1 pound?

Doesn't matter. It got my name and picture on the wall.