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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
"Santa was a fictitious tradition that evolved to enhance collective generosity in order to assuage class guilt" your parents said this to you at what age? i don't care how smart you are, no 5 year old would get that in those words.
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I wasn't pulling a direct quote from 30 years ago there. If I had I would have used a pair of these: "" as you did. Simply I was explaining a concept that was taught to me at an early age, in what I'm sure at the time was age-appropriate language. I was a smart kid but I doubt I knew what 'assuage' meant back then. I just assumed gfy wasn't a bunch of 5 yr olds so didn't feel the need to simplify things down to that level.
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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
sounds like you were never allowed to be a kid...
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nah, I had a wicked, happy childhood. wouldn't change a thing