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[–] [email protected] 110 points 1 year ago (15 children)

10 is old enough to be a mom.

16 is old enough to fall into a meat vat.

18 is old enough to give them a rifle.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did hunter safety when I was 12 in Wisconsin.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What else is there to do in Wisconsin though? Eat cheese? Tip over the cows? Disappear on lake Michigan or Superior?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No wonder my German ancestor settled there, buncha cows, cheese, foreboding natural features, and alcohal. Mustve reminded him of Baden.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine a bunch of Oregon trail style settlers hiking to the entrance to Wisconsin, and the German starts whooping and hollering and the rest look like they've seen a ghost lmao

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Knowing that side of the family he probably fought a bear for fun while in a berserk fury on the way there. Or he beat someone to death, its honestly 50/50.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The NOFX song about Minnesota applies to Wisconsin I believe...

It's 3 o'clock at the Triple Rock Another round of watching Paddy talk It's where you wanna get snowed in when you get Snowed in, outside it's 10 below, is it day or night, we don't care or know What we know is that we don't wanna be Anywhere but here, please don't make us leave When in Minnesota and you got a drinking quota

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