I might be a little too old for this particular match…

My dad helped me shave my face, it’s really not very different. It’s just personal grooming.

Ah ha!

Holy shit that sucks… Something?

Yeah, sure… My understanding of philo-semitism really isn’t that it implies blind support for genocidal efforts, though.

That being said, I was really just commenting on the word itself, not the news article.

Not to tell you how to live your life - and do take note that I don’t know you or your dad personally - but this sounds like a piece of generational trauma that you have the opportunity to get rid of. Best of luck!

I’d assume the term would be semitiphilism.

Looking it up, Judeophilia would be a word for philo-semitism as well.

Hasbro had to base their designs on something, I guess…

Why the fuck did you have to pay rent the day you turned 18?!

Yeah, that would be a detriment to your financial stability.

There’s a place called New Land, New Found Land?! Hilarious.

Convenient for me, that is.

Not here; They’re still called Toys “R” Us.

And from looking at the Wikipedia for Smyths it seems that they bought the Toys “R” Us stores in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Not really the same thing as here (Portugal, btw), I think, since they kept the branding, but IDK, I’m not an IP lawyer…

Oh, alright, I guess…

If you say so… It guess there’s a lot of unempathetic people around.

Do I?

Uh, looking that up, it really doesn’t seem to be true.

None of these ever existed in my country, except for Toys “R” Us, which still exists.

I guess this depends on the parents. Well, and on you, I suppose.

You would notice that I wrote, as a condition of the hypothetical, that you agree with the banning. Hence, it is perfectly irrelevant if you think it’s crazy, in actuality. It’s a hypothetical. You know? A hypothetical - a make-believe situation, if you will - to illustrate the question. It’s when you imagine something that isn’t real in hopes that, that way, you could maybe distance yourself from other factors that could cloud your judgement if you were tackling a real problem.

It does seem, based on yours and others’ replies, that this particular hypothetical wasn’t very effective. For that, I apologize.

I will, however, point out that it is indeed normal to be upset at other people when they wear intense and obtrusive perfumes, or if they smell intensely of something. If you smell terrible - including strong or disagreeable perfumes - you won’t be allowed into many establishments, may be kicked out of public transport, etc. So no, it’s not utter insanity, it’s actually perfectly normal.

Then again, nobody was arguing about that! So, I guess that’s that.

Lotsa fun :D