This.

he probably is old enough to do his own laundry. some parents do their childrens laundry for as long as they live in the house.

No, not this. This is the mind of an individual that fails to realize that maybe the OP is an 18 year old who's perfectly capable of doing their own laundry but their ma just doesn't mind, or the OP is a college student home for the summer or whatever and is also capable of doing his own laundry but his mother doesn't mind. In either case the OP is old enough to do his own laundry and, by legal definition, have sex. Hell by #28's logic a 10 year old could have sex considering they definitely can do their own laundry if they wanted.

Ha! Someone needs to take some formal Logic before questioning someone else's. I recommend looking up the words inverse, converse and contrapositive. And I was using hyperbole to make fun of the OP for not doing his own laundry, whether or not he's incapable.

Wow it's amazing that you still fail to see the error in your logic and then you try to defend your assanine statement by saying you were using hyperbole. I don't give a damn what you used to make fun of the OP, the statement was still ignorant and showed an inability to assess other factors that would be pertinent to you making such an assumption. Fact is your logic suggests that if one is old enough to do laundry, then one is old enough to have sex. That is an invalid argument, which automatically makes it a fallacy. Thus it is a flaw in your logic. Don't try to downplay your ignorance by making it seem like you were using some other form of logic when the very structure of your argument is incorrect. You loose, and you're an idiot that may indeed have book sense, but common sense seems to elude you. A stupid statement is a stupid statement; regardless of the methodology used to produce it.

alls the person was ******* trying to say was that most adults(we'll assume they're an adult because chances are they arent a 10 year old), do their own laundry. i don't know of any 10 year olds that do their own laundry, but i do know MOST people that are 15 or 16 do their laundry. if you aren't doing your laundry on your own by the time you're near that age, why in gods name would you be having sex?! i'm not saying that the age you start doing laundry has any relation to when you can start having sex. i'm saying if you think you're mature enough to have sex, which seems to be a pretty big deal(to some people), why the **** wouldnt you be mature enough to do something so simple as your own laundry?!

#45 whilst your post is slightly (And I emphasize slightly... like this much |.|) more logical than the other person's post, I see that you failed to comprehend what I was saying. Actually seeing your other post I see that you just have comprehension problems as a whole. Good job at reading what made you feel good though... I award you no points; and may God have mercy on your soul.

uh huh, well some still have their parents do their laundry :)

razzumfrazzum - I agree with you, even though you're getting a bit worked up. lol I'm home from college for the summer, and my mom does the laundry sometimes because she doesn't mind. I do it sometimes while I'm here, and I do it when I'm away at school. But my mom doesn't mind doing it, so she does. It's not a big deal in my house. And I'm 21 and having sex w/ my boyfriend.

Who are these parents that "don't mind doing laundry"? As someone's child and someone's parent, I can tell you that I have yet to encounter these mythical laundry hobbyists. What I have encountered are situations where the kid is so freaking incompetent that it is easier to just do the wash yourself. Food for thought for all you whipper-snappers who think your parents "like" doing the wash. It's more like they don't want you ******* up their washer/dryer!! But, hey, whatever gets you off the hook!

Razzumfrazzum, what bug crawled up your nose? The other person said, "If not A, not B." But having A doesn't automatically result in B. You're assuming a given that was never actually given and which the other person then informed you was not at all a given, telling you that "If B, not necessarily A." So deal with it and blow your nose.

lol bexox I was quoting Happy Gilmore, it just seemed appropriate at the time :D Although human stupidity irks the hell out of me. Eresbel what given did I assume that was never really a given? Though it baffles me how one could assume a given considering its uh....a given. Maybe you should re-read their initial post instead buying into their backtracking and attempting to justify it for them. Your post contradicts itself and also shows a blatant display of backtracking. You can't say one thing, attack someone for pointing out your error, then turn around and say something completely different in an attempt to make them look dumb.

i did my own laundry at age 18 for the first time when i moved to res, i'm home for the summer right nowandmy mother does it...it's not thatbig a deal, we havelaundry going through everyday, sometimes twice a day...there are 9 people in the house and no one seperates...we all chuck it in and it's all done together, then after you can go pick whats yours outta the hamper...a lot of people do that...

im laughing so hard at this. easily the most articulate OWNAGE ever

You keep saying the inverse. If you don't know what this means, Google it. It's a logical fallacy, making your argument a strawman.

Dude I'm done with you. I'm not about to argue with an idiot and bring myself down to their level just to have him beat me by experience. I'm not saying anything except that your initial statement was assanine and ignored the obvious. Admit it, you said something stupid...it's ok. It happens to the best of us. The only thing you're doing now is digging that hole deeper and deeper. Game over man...game over. Everyone, because of this person...I've lost the game...grrr >:(

Razzumfrazzum, you kind of did misconstrue the first statement, and you're taking this entirely too seriously. Eresbel's statement makes good sense. The original commenter said, "If you're not old enough to do your own laundry, there's no way you're old enough to be having intercourse." That doesn't mean that if you ARE old enough to do laundry, then you're necessarily old enough to be having intercourse. For example, say the "age of laundry" is 12, while the "age of intercourse" is 16, and the only information we get from this FML is that the OP isn't currently at the "age of laundry." This would mean that he certainly isn't at the "age of intercourse" yet. However, even if he were old enough to do his own laundry, that doesn't necessarily mean he would be old enough to have intercourse. Hence Eresbel's, "If not A, not B." However, even if A, not necessarily B. Get it? While I realize these ages are completely arbitrary, and there are different ages for every individual, I simply used these to illustrate my point. But I also agree that laundry should probably come before intercourse. :/

razzumfrazzum, i was just trying to explain WHAT the other person was saying. seems like its your time of the month, or something. its just fml. calm down:)

I give up, clearly people seem to only read parts of posts instead of the whole one. The logic example I gave was one to illustrate how assanine the initial post was. I never said Eresbel's statement didn't make sense. What I said was that it was besides the point and irrelevant, seeing as how my point was that the initial post was a stupid statement that ignored the obvious. The obvious being that just because someone's parent does their laundry doesn't mean they're incapable of doing it on their own. More specifically it doesn't mean that they're too young. The initial post assumed this and then claimed a use of hyperbole to try and justify it. #106 while I appreciate your attempt to clarify what was going on, it was not needed. You and Eresbel commented on a sidebar argument that had nothing to do with my actual point.

I assure you, I have read through all of your posts. It seems ironic to me that you have the gall to repeatedly call the original commenter's post "assanine," (I'm assuming you mean asinine?), and then state something as ignorant as, "Hell, by #28's logic a 10 year old could have sex considering they definitely can do their own laundry if they wanted." That, my dear, was asinine, and a clear indicator that you certainly did not follow #28's logic correctly. Hence, the aforementioned "if not A, not B, though even if A, not necessarily B" argument presented by myself and Eresbel. And not only did the A/B argument appear in your first post, but also in posts thereafter: you go on to state, "Fact is your logic suggests that if one is old enough to do laundry, then one is old enough to have sex. That is an invalid argument, which automatically makes it a fallacy. Thus it is a flaw in your logic." Seems like a lot of justification for a "sidebar argument," hm? Therefore my and Eresbel's clarification seems to have been quite necessary to your understanding your own logical fallacies. I'd also like to point out that maybe you shouldn't accuse others of backtracking when your entire response to our argument is, "but that wasn't the important part! What I really meant was..." I also do not understand why you have such a difficult time grasping the fact that the original commenter WAS simply "using hyperbole to make fun of the OP for not doing his own laundry, whether or not he was capable." You see, I fully comprehend your argument, and the A/B debate is in fact quite relevant, despite your protesting against it. You see, your entire argument was that the original commenter's post was "assanine" due to the fact that the original commenter failed to address any situation in which the OP was old enough to be capable of doing laundry and simply chose not to, and that his logic would allow for a ten-year-old to have sex, assuming he knew how to do his own laundry. Well obviously, if the original commenter only meant to ridicule the OP, it would make sense to make such a statement. You see, hyperbole can be defined as "deliberate exaggeration used to achieve an effect" - and in this case, the effect would be almost a kind of joke, ie "Hey, if you're old enough to have sex, then you're probably old enough to do your own laundry, don't you think?" You can imagine a playful ribbing here. I'm sure the original commenter never meant for his seemingly benign statement to cause such a reaction in anyone reading this site. However, he was clearly mistaken, and so took the opportunity to explain the reason for his original statement. The fact that you couldn't accept this explanation simply goes to prove that YOU in fact "said something stupid," and that's okay. It does happen to the best of us. But you really are just digging yourself in deeper and deeper here sweetie, and it would probably just be for the best if you could just admit your mistake and move on. - Mouse (and I'd just like to let you know I also lost the game, dammit!)

classy!

I am truly disappointed in all of you for not quoting the textbook from the 200 level course directly. Footnotes and a bibliography were called for here.

#32, WTF?!

I know a few guys who's mothers still come over to collect their laundry and they're in their 30's. One's even married. Not that uncommon.

... that's just sad, actually. I feel bad for those women, but I guess it is partially their fault for raising their children to be that incompetent. :(

(That was supposed to be in reply to #36.)

agreed. thats also a bit too old to pretty much live at home. unless of course they are unemployed and single. then, they're just pathetic :P

I said come over to collect their laundry, so no, they don't still live at home. Their mothers seem pretty happy to do it so I don't really see the problem. One of them is a student, which is a bit more understandable, and the other two are pretty successful with their jobs and stuff.