Also, you may find a local store or boutique that sells quirky items. One popular brand that they’ll often carry is Fred, they make lots of ridiculous items. Other brands that I’ve found over the years are Larissa Loden, and Blue Q

Ah, thank you! I don’t know how I missed that meme!

Depending on the audience, there are cute little plush things, Giant Microbes, which have a line of sexual transmitted diseases. If you get one for an SO, they can say, “13esq gave me chlamydia for Christmas…”

Other good joke gifts can come from any inside joke that you may have with your SO, so these are very situational. At one point, I had joked that my SO was a sugar mama because she was paying for something expensive for us. I later got her a t-shirt for a candy called Sugar Mama.

On one date, we were the only ones dining at an outside patio at a nicer Italian restaurant. We had ordered wood fire pizzas. Anyway, a very large rat came to visit the patio, and we had joked about it at the time, even naming the rat. I later gave her an ornament of a felt rat holding a pizza slice (which is apparently a thing).

I can’t think of any others right now, but I love giving little joke gifts to people along with real ones.

Granted Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, where you could see the transition into cubism, was from 1907. He continued to create famous abstract works well into the 50s. Dali’s famous The Persistence of Memory (the melting clocks) is from 1931.

It’s wild that people think of the abstract movement pre-1900s to me! Pre-1900 was the Impressionists, and with Art Nouveau coming in at the turn of the century.

The 1930’s was really primed for the abstract modern painters.

More like AI

Exactly. That’s why the “13yo” kid having sex seems less worrisome.

The picture seems weird. The parent asking about emojis, ends their question with a kiss emoji? I don’t know that I buy it’s real

I thought the same. I wonder, if there has been a shift, if it’s related to a general trend of starting families later in life, too. Does it hit as their kids grow up and become independent?

Thank you for posting this! I immediately thought of this public announcement of sorts when I read the question.

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That’s good!

They’re not wizards, but did Jawas from Star Wars establish the aesthetic?

What’s the opposite of the False Consensus Effect, where you feel like no one probably agrees with you?

Thanks for doing this! I’ve really enjoyed the early comics so far!

Not to mention, there’s also a lot of human slop.

0 for 5… who needs happiness anyway, when my bitterness keeps me warm at night?

I’ve been out of the game for a few years. What do people use now instead with simple html sites?

I forgo my vegetables, the bat shaped Reese’s are hands down the best ones!

I feel this in the depths of my soul

Stepson might involve some kind of adoption, or, I don’t know… My dad remarried when I was in my late teens, but I didn’t see him much. His wife has never been referred to as my stepmom, etc, but my situation might be different due to a lack of closeness. The OP clearly has some kind of relationship with the kid since they are going to pick them up, but I can see how they might not have that kind of label.