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 Lord Corellia wrote:

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 d-usa wrote:
I had a Samoa once, but it told me it wanted to be a Thin Mint.

I didn't judge and ate it anyway.

That Samoa was just packaged. It has no reason to even think about being a Thin Mint and on the other hand, shouldn't even consider it. Check the ingredients! Thin Mints need mint, but that Samoa had no mint, There is no logical way that Samoa can be a Thin Mint; it clearly has a mental disorder.

Its' bakers were clearly just indulging its whims...

I demand that baker be arrested for cookie abuse

 d-usa wrote:
I hate it when SJBs force their own concepts of identity on their baked goods.

Social Justice Bakers?

Bakers, correct. I realize the danger of being accused of having another word in mind...

 d-usa wrote:
Bakers, correct. I realize the danger of being accused of having another word in mind...

 Lord Corellia wrote:
Can we go back to playfully arguing over cookies? Please?

Those Thin Mints have made me very curious. What are they exactly? They look like some kind of chocolate cookie. I like chocolate cookies.

 Iron_Captain wrote:

 Lord Corellia wrote:
Can we go back to playfully arguing over cookies? Please?

Those Thin Mints have made me very curious. What are they exactly? They look like some kind of chocolate cookie. I like chocolate cookies.

It's a chocolate wafer with mint creme on top and then the whole thing is coated in chocolate. I like them any way, but they're best eaten frozen!

 Iron_Captain wrote:

 Lord Corellia wrote:
Can we go back to playfully arguing over cookies? Please?

Those Thin Mints have made me very curious. What are they exactly? They look like some kind of chocolate cookie. I like chocolate cookies.

Basically a mint flavored waffer that has been dipped in chocolate.

 LordofHats wrote:

 Iron_Captain wrote:

 Lord Corellia wrote:
Can we go back to playfully arguing over cookies? Please?

Those Thin Mints have made me very curious. What are they exactly? They look like some kind of chocolate cookie. I like chocolate cookies.

Basically a mint flavored waffer that has been dipped in chocolate.

Best when served frozen and with a tall glass of milk.


My oldest daughter is a Girl Scout so I get a lot of cookies every year.

Hmm, are the American ones different then? Here it's definitely more like a York peppermint patty with a slab of cookie inside...

 Lord Corellia wrote:
Hmm, are the American ones different then? Here it's definitely more like a York peppermint patty with a slab of cookie inside...

No your description was right. You were just more specific than I

 Lord Corellia wrote:

 Iron_Captain wrote:

 Lord Corellia wrote:
Can we go back to playfully arguing over cookies? Please?

Those Thin Mints have made me very curious. What are they exactly? They look like some kind of chocolate cookie. I like chocolate cookies.

It's a chocolate wafer with mint creme on top and then the whole thing is coated in chocolate. I like them any way, but they're best eaten frozen!

Sounds great!
I'll have to see if there is anything similar in the Netherlands now...
We do have chocolate cookies that have fruit flavour creme inside, but I really like mint flavour.

This is what they look like: http://www.abcsmartcookies.com/stuff/contentmgr/files/0/1da0da6da803d6ee18ac71d575c8ddf4/files/thin_mints.png

And yes, those who say that they are best frozen are very much correct. If you can get your hands on some, definitely give them some freezer time.

Don't overindulge though. Contrary to the name, they make you quite thick

 Lord Corellia wrote:

 Iron_Captain wrote:

 Lord Corellia wrote:
Can we go back to playfully arguing over cookies? Please?

Those Thin Mints have made me very curious. What are they exactly? They look like some kind of chocolate cookie. I like chocolate cookies.

It's a chocolate wafer with mint creme on top and then the whole thing is coated in chocolate. I like them any way, but they're best eaten frozen!

Uh...no one who's eaten a Thin Mint would ever describe one that way. Might as well say "bags of sand."

Seriously, though, there is no mint crime. (I wrote 'creme' but autocorrect knew the score on that one.). Samoans truly would be better cookies if Thin Mints relied on nauseating mint creme. Does your country have Keebler Grasshopper cookies? Those are nearly identical to Thin Mints.

 Orlanth wrote:
This is clearly an adult choice and an adult matter pressed into the decision making of someone way too young to make that sort of call.

{citation needed}

Why is it an adult matter?

An adult perspective is different to that of a child, a pre-teen transgender child will have inadequate experience of their birth gender and their development will be destabilised as a result.

Well yes, having less experience as their birth gender is the entire point of treating them early in life. I really fail to see how suffering through additional years in the wrong body and undergoing permanent physical changes in the wrong direction is supposed to be considered a virtue.

 d-usa wrote:
I hate it when SJBs force their own concepts of identity on their baked goods.

Say no more!



Also: aren't Thin Mints called After Eight in some places? Aka chocolate-toothpaste-sandwich? ;D

 Sigvatr wrote:
Also: aren't Thin Mints called After Eight in some places? Aka chocolate-toothpaste-sandwich? ;D

Not what we're talking about.

Thin Mint cookie:



After Eight mint:

 Peregrine wrote:

 Orlanth wrote:
This is clearly an adult choice and an adult matter pressed into the decision making of someone way too young to make that sort of call.

{citation needed}

Why is it an adult matter?

An adult perspective is different to that of a child, a pre-teen transgender child will have inadequate experience of their birth gender and their development will be destabilised as a result.

Well yes, having less experience as their birth gender is the entire point of treating them early in life. I really fail to see how suffering through additional years in the wrong body and undergoing permanent physical changes in the wrong direction is supposed to be considered a virtue.

I can only speak from personal experience, but when I was a child, there weren't really open discussions about there being other types of cookie. You were either in one box or you weren't, and it was only really the past few years when this kind of awareness of cookies opened up.

And that doesn't mean that there were no children out there who wanted other cookies than those they were allocated. It meant we didn't know that it was possible to change to another type of cookie.
By age five, I rejected my cookies internally.* By around age eight, most kids around me had sensed something in me that wasn't right. But I didn't know what it was. They didn't. Just that I was "wrong". I wasn't running about trying other cookies, I was dutifully going through the motions of eating the ones I had. Because that was the only option.

But I spent my entire life having the tar beaten out of me for not being "right", or having friends who were given the same cookies.
When I was six, a twelve year old dragged me into the car park by the hair and tried to drown me with such force that I lost the hair down one side of my head for a couple months, because I was "weird".
I didn't know I wanted other cookies. He probably didn't. I just knew I didn't like the ones I had, and that people kept forcing me to have them.
I wish I could say that was the worst that ever happened, but it's one of the few I can remember with certainty couldn't have been my fault.

These days I'm pretty happy. But I'm only just now getting professional help with my cookie aversion, because it dogs me. It'll be years now before I find out what I should have been eating.
My point is, had I been born a few decades later, maybe I'd have been recognised at the first stages, because all the signs were there. Other kids picked up on it even though adults and I didn't.

*I also decided I was going to be a wizard and drive a garbage truck. I'm not saying it's clear-cut who needs help and who's just being five.

 Orlanth wrote:
I am actually very surprised society allows a transgender pre-teen.

Why? Society has allowed gendered pre-teens forever. Indeed, it is pretty much set up to push gender roles on kids.

 Orlanth wrote:

 Not Actually Ouze wrote:

how can their parents/society/evil SJWs/whoever allow them to do this!?!??!!"

.....but without the hysteria.

Or the misattributed quotes, ideally.