No licking!

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I have family in Utah and there’s a pretty common joke in this vein.

Why do you always invite two Mormons to a party?

Because if you only invite one they will drink all your beer.

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Every Mormon I’ve ever met is very serious about walking the talk, alone or not. They’re probably more serious about following the rules of their religion than any other religion. Well, them and Muslims, but Mormons seem happier doing it.

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They’re serious about following the rules because their entire social and community structure stresses conformity. If you break the norms of the faith there are serious repercussions and you can lose your entire family, community, and support structure. When they’re alone with others who aren’t of the faith they are definitely far more lax. I’ve drank beer and even had chocolate with Mormons before lol.

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“[…] even had chocolate with Mormons […]”?

Uh. There is absolutely nothing in the Mormon Word of Wisdom that says anything about chocolate. There isn’t even anything about caffeine. The phrase used is “hot drinks”, which has been interpreted by the Mor(m)on prophets to mean specifically coffee and tea (but not herbal tea). A particularly zealous bishop or stake president might counsel against caffeine consumption, but AFAIK they aren’t going to prevent you from going to a Mormon temple if you chug a case of Red Bull and Bawls every single day.

Source: raised Mormon, was active for 25-ish years, former missionary.

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In my experience, a lot of “devoutly” religious people are like this.

I grew up Independent Fundamental Baptist (westboro, but less vocally homophobic) and my dad told me a few years ago he secretly kept a stash of alcohol in the garage while he was quite aggressively teaching that the Bible expressly forbade consumption of alcohol that could get you drunk because of a long argument that basically amounts to “Paul said so.” (The proper response to that is “fuck Paul”, obv. Paul was an asshat.)

You can twist anything into anything if you try hard enough, and they’re really good at it.

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While there must certainly be some devout Muslims who try their best to keep the “rules”, as I’d expect in any group, a lot of Muslims are not so different frombthe rest of us non-Muslims.

My coworker is a former Muslim who had to leave his home country due to persecution when he became a Christian. Here, he’s made Muslim friends who regularly invite him over for dinner and they serve… Pork. They say because he is not a Muslim, they respect that and don’t force him to eat halal. But why does not forcing him to eat halal equate to them eating pork?

They are genuinely his friends, but he is also their “excuse” to break halal.

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LOL, that’s funny. They’re definitely making an excuse to eat pork.

The Muslims I know are pretty strict about following the commandments. Of course nobody’s perfect, but they pray 5 times per day, take their prayer rug to work, and follow their dietary restrictions. Of course I’m not around them all the time though, that’s just what I’ve seen.

The person who is the most serious about it that I know isn’t Arabic or Persian. He’s an African American living in the American South, and he’s very serious about his religion. The Muslims I know that seem the most relaxed about it are immigrants from Iran. Several of their first generation American kids are atheists.

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When I was in Dubai for work it was explained to me that while it is prohibited to drink alcohol for Muslims under normal situations, they are allowed to have alcohol as part of business meetings/dinners since they court an international audience for various business prospects which is crucial for their economic future as a county.

Supposedly, that’s why everyone has a “business”, and you always see 2 bros in white robes chillin at a restaurant having drinks for a “meeting”.

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I guess every religion old enough has such kind of loopholes. I know from Roman Catholic that there can be made up so many exceptions that the 40 days of lent before Easter books down to a few days of actually fasting. No lent if you’re travelling (commute to work counts), no lent if you have guests, and of course no lent if you are a guest somewhere else. And Sunday is exempt from lent anyways.

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But do they talk the walk?

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Most definitely. They even go on special years long missions to talk to everyone who will listen about the walk.

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it can’t possibly be that you’re more exposed to Mormons, right

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More exposed to them than who? Idk what you’re trying to imply.

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exposed to Mormons

That’ll get you on a list.

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How many Mormons have you met?

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It seemed we’d talk to a new pair every weekend when I was a kid. The visits got shorter when he was watering the garden.

The ones I met were upset I photographed their ID.

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Not a lot. Probably 20 in my lifetime, and only 3 are my friends.

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Jews don’t recognize Jesus.

Protestants don’t recognize the Pope.

Mormons don’t recognize each other in wendover

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That was the joke about Baptists in my hometown. It was impossible to only invite one since everyone knew everyone’s families.

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They could also use the poophole loophole.
A tampon soaked in Vodka and inserted anally gets you drunk fast.
At least that’s what a friend told me.

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But then some alcohol might get on your magic underwear and then you’re just a run of the mill sinner again

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I’ve heard it called God’s blind spot before but poophole loophole is a great phrase

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The poophole loophole usually means something different. They say anal sex doesn’t count as “losing your virginity.” So they can have all the premarital sex they want, as long as it’s in the pooper.

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Why not both?

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JD Vance on the stump in Utah: “Tim Walz wants to get your kids drunk with ass tampons”

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You could skip the tampon and just boof it.

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I’ll bet you could even get a Supreme Court justice to help with that maneuver.

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Okay. I can’t tell if you’re serious, but if that’s true, how does that work medically?

Don’t liquids get absorbed through the intestines? Can you even stick something up your butt far enough to reach your intestines?

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It’s capillary action. It just rams straight into your bloodstream, no dilution or waiting to go through stomach. It’s fast and effective.

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Plus the excitement of risking an overdose!

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So, as it doesn’t go through the stomach, do you not puke if you’re experiencing alcohol poisoning?

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Alcohol gets absorbed by mucus membrane much faster than by going through your digestive tract. And your anus is lined with mucus membrane.
It was a craze a decade or so ago where I live, cause teenagers did that to get drunk without having their breath smell of alcohol, and some of them ended up in the ER.

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Alcohol gets absorbed by mucus membrane

Cue Eyeball Paul

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It was also a crazy in the US. They called it butt chugging. It was funny to hear politicians talk about how we needed to do something about butt chugging

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cause teenagers did that to get drunk without having their breath smell of alcohol

Did they ever realize that’s not how that works?

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Additionally to what others have said it’s also quite dangerous. You can drink a fatal amount of alcohol but your body will generally puke before it absorbs enough to kill you.

Using this method (boofing), you don’t have that defense, it’s absorbed too quickly and your body doesn’t generally shit itself to expel poison.

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Colon is part of your large intestine.

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you’ve never boofed ketamine?

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This literally was a trend in alternative swiss youth a decade or so ago, it works well and fast, straight into the blood 😂

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How gaped does your ass have to be to easily insert a soaked tampon.

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Are your dumps really smaller than a tampon? If they aren’t, why do you think your hole would need to be especially gaped?

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I looked it up and I get it now. I assumed O.B. style tampon with no applicator, which would be difficult to insert. The info I found shows the soaking of the tampon inside the applicator, which makes a lot more sense.

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Its called…soaking…don’t Google that

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We know.

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You need someone else to shake the glass

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This is the type of thinking that could be the next soaking or jump jumping at BYU.

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That’s the joke.

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I see this so often now, I can’t tell if people are honestly that dense or they’re intentionally pretending to be. In the spirit of Fry and Andy Dwyer, I’m not sure I want to know the answer.

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This is why voting is so important.

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