What parts of your life/lifestyle are unapproved by DCUM standards?

[Anonymous]

I will poop in the powder room at a party if I need to - and have done so.

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We don't do family dinners, even though our kids are now teenagers. My husband and I eat our dinner at the coffee table, in front of the TV, at 10 p.m. or later.

I stay in bed until 11:30 on weekend mornings.

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Anonymous wrote:If there is one person in the world who exemplifies all that DCUM holds dear, it is Katie Ledecky. Multiple gold medals, National Merit Scholar, Stone Ridge and Stanford, etc. Kind, classy, not flashy. Father is a Harvard/Yale educated biglaw attorney.

So true!

Also brother is a Harvard MBA

This is not a knock against Katie, but her appearance is just everything I imagine DCUM's to approve of. Not overweight, very fit (obviously). Simple haircut. Clean look. Her style seems to be preppy, modest (but not weird), muted, classic, simple. Makeup, but very natural look. No visible logos. Straight teeth. Simple jewelry.

Family lives in Bethesda. House is spacious, but not gaudy. Brick colonial. (My parents live a few blocks away, don't judge.) I'm sure it is very classy and clean on the inside.

Even her and her brother's names exemplify the DCUM dream: Katie and Michael. Simple. "Classic."

She seems utterly sexless.

What a bizarre comment. Is her sexuality supposed to be public? Is she supposed to be sexy on top of being a record breaking Olympic athlete? Like, what are you looking for out of this woman living her life?

It's very rare for a 26 year old to come off as completely sexless, so it is worth noting. I think it's true that DCUM approves of this, as the forum is mainly composed of rather unattractive, socially conservative, rule-following people.

You are so creepy. Eww.

Oh, are you the person who thinks no one should ever notice anyone else sexually, who was posting on the thread about that 40 year old man who approached a college age woman? You thought the police should be notified because one adult approached another adult? Yeah, get wrecked.

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Anonymous wrote:I love my comfortable, somewhat orthopedic sandals.

I have gray hair.

I'm 62 and don't use botox or wear makeup.

I let my hair air dry and it's still wet when I get to work.

95% of grandmas are exactly as you described. You fall in line with your peers.

This is DCUM, pp is not a grandma at 62 but rather the mom of 16 year old.

Actually that's another area where I don't comply. Met my husband at 18, married and pregnant at 20 so my daughter is going to be 43 in June, son is 37 and I'm still happily married after 42years!!

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Anonymous wrote:We don’t pay a dime towards our kid’s college education. While we fund some expenses, the loans and majority is on her.

Does she commute from your house? Is she on a full-tuition scholarship? Is she at a community college? Does she have a full-time job?

Not sure how that’s possible otherwise unless you’re understating what you mean when you say “we fund some expenses.”

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Anonymous wrote:If there is one person in the world who exemplifies all that DCUM holds dear, it is Katie Ledecky. Multiple gold medals, National Merit Scholar, Stone Ridge and Stanford, etc. Kind, classy, not flashy. Father is a Harvard/Yale educated biglaw attorney.

So true!

Also brother is a Harvard MBA

This is not a knock against Katie, but her appearance is just everything I imagine DCUM's to approve of. Not overweight, very fit (obviously). Simple haircut. Clean look. Her style seems to be preppy, modest (but not weird), muted, classic, simple. Makeup, but very natural look. No visible logos. Straight teeth. Simple jewelry.

Family lives in Bethesda. House is spacious, but not gaudy. Brick colonial. (My parents live a few blocks away, don't judge.) I'm sure it is very classy and clean on the inside.

Even her and her brother's names exemplify the DCUM dream: Katie and Michael. Simple. "Classic."

She seems utterly sexless.

Like PP said, she is everything DCUM approves of. Including that.

Her appearance is nothing to envy.

—dh

She doesn’t exist to be your sex toy.

Of course not, and I’m sure she’s a wonderful person. I am simply saying that no one needs to be envious of her appearance.

Are you joking? She’s trim and fit!

She has an older aesthetic. Nothing wrong with that, but she has a different look than the typical 26 y/o in 2023.

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Anonymous wrote:I live in pg county
I got married at 26, had my first child at 28

Are you safe? I would never live there

Guess you’d never send your kid to UMD, then.

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Anonymous wrote:I live in pg county
I got married at 26, had my first child at 28

Are you safe? I would never live there

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[Anonymous]

My husband and I are bisexual, and enjoy a MMF and FFM play dates. We enjoy cannabis as much as we enjoy red wines and bourbons. We partake as we find cannabis only enhances our already great sex life. We are on PreP, and practice safe sex.

We enjoy to spend our weekends and vacations at nudist resorts locally and abroad. We enjoy our hot tub, pool, sailboat, Winnebago motor coach and Jeep Wrangler. We enjoy to share these “toys” with our friends.

The best part of this is we’re your neighbors, and you’d never know us to be any different than your coworkers or smiling faces in the grocery store. We are professionals with high level careers, we don’t flaunt our lifestyle choices or push our opinions on anyone. We put on our underwear (when we choose to wear some) one leg at a time. We pay our taxes and treat others with respect.

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Anonymous wrote:My husband and I are bisexual, and enjoy a MMF and FFM play dates. We enjoy cannabis as much as we enjoy red wines and bourbons. We partake as we find cannabis only enhances our already great sex life. We are on PreP, and practice safe sex.

We enjoy to spend our weekends and vacations at nudist resorts locally and abroad. We enjoy our hot tub, pool, sailboat, Winnebago motor coach and Jeep Wrangler. We enjoy to share these “toys” with our friends.

The best part of this is we’re your neighbors, and you’d never know us to be any different than your coworkers or smiling faces in the grocery store. We are professionals with high level careers, we don’t flaunt our lifestyle choices or push our opinions on anyone. We put on our underwear (when we choose to wear some) one leg at a time. We pay our taxes and treat others with respect.

Any recs?

[Anonymous]

My kids both got <1100 on the SAT

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Anonymous wrote:I dip my fries in mayonnaise.

I bought my spouse a Slurpee machine and we have one daily!

I once leased a cow for the summer and we went to Switzerland to visit her and bring home a lot of cheese.

Your living the dream! How much was the slurpee machine?

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Anonymous wrote:My kids both got <1100 on the SAT

Oooh! Yeah that is a doozy!!

[Anonymous]

Apparently, driving expensive cars, buying expensive clothes, and having all the latest electronics, but simultaneously NOT sending your kids to private school and stacking away tens of millions for when I'm 95 years old is a big no-no here. I have learned over maanyyyyy posts

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in a heavily white, non-diverse neighborhood.

Where is that?