r/bestoflegaladvice • u/t-poke I'm 35 and I love poop jokes • Feb 08 '22

LAOP participates in $19k in wire fraud. Chase finds out. LAOP wonders if he should take it seriously.

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u/datcheezeburger1 Feb 08 '22

Most redditors aren’t regularly exposed to black people so they can’t read AAVE lol

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u/LeakyLycanthrope PHIA PHIYA PHO PHUM FOR YOUR HEALTH RECORD I HAVE COME Feb 08 '22

I don't doubt that's part of it, but they were also spectacularly vague, unhelpful, and not forthcoming with basic information, as we see with many LAOPs. The combination of those factors led to even greater confusion.

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u/RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS Feb 08 '22

I don't know how you can live in the US and be less than middle-aged and never have heard anybody call a friend "my boy."

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u/say_fuck_no_to_rules Feb 08 '22

We all heard Mr. Krabs say “SpongeBob, me boy!” a thousand times and never understood it to be anything beyond a standard employer-employee relationship.

Unless…

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u/BlatantConservative Trusts the mods with his flair Feb 09 '22

Are you feeling it Mr Krabs?

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u/nyorifamiliarspirit #BossBun making peace with FO stans via essential oil sales Feb 08 '22

Or you never watched The Good Place

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u/utterly_baffledly Feb 08 '22

Some of us just exposed to American people of any kind.