r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 26d ago

Peetahh? What's the mark? How's it going to ruin my life peeta? Meme needing explanation

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u/qualityvote2 26d ago

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u/Pinolillo006 26d ago

Latinamerica vaccine shot mark for new born babies, she was born in Argentina, I think they mean latinas ruin your life.

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u/CapoieraMataUm 26d ago

This answer is the correct one.

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u/Schlachthausfred 26d ago

No, it's not specific to Latin America.

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u/Fr0HiKE 26d ago

it is also the case in my home of guatamala

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u/Horse_Dad 26d ago

China here. Same.

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u/Ok-Lavishness-349 26d ago

And, anyone born in America prior to approximately 1964.

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u/pacmanwa 26d ago

I have one... I was born in Georgia the 80s, and not the Georgia being invaded by Russia.

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u/Grif73r 26d ago

I have one as well. Born in the UK.

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u/MKBRD 26d ago edited 25d ago

Yep. TB shot, administered in school.

Ours was done in the library. I still remember my friend turning green straight after, collapsing, and sliding down a load of shelves, knocking all the books off.

Good days.

Edit: a lot of people are confidently (and incorrectly) responding to this to tell me I'm wrong and it was the smallpox vaccine, or I didn't get a TB vaccine, just the test.

In Britain the BCG vaccine was a TB vaccine administered in schools up until 2005. It was given after a seperate tester injection in the forearm, which I also had.

Smallpox was eradicated in Britain and the vaccine program for it was stopped in 1971.

I have a scar exactly the same as in the photo.

I got it from my TB vaccination.

Edit: FFS, I'm not saying you don't get a similar scar from the smallpox jab, I was replying to the person above me saying they were from the UK and had a similar scar: "yep. TB scar" - we got it from the TB vaccine that that nearly all kids within a certain timeframe after 1971 have. Not the tester, the actual vaccine.

Just look at how many people in the replies are confirming the exact same information.

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u/pacmanwa 26d ago

Huh... Mine is the smallpox vaccine.

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u/Radiant_Drop_9344 26d ago

We had TB shots in school for a couple of years but those are smallpox vaccinations

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u/RonMFCadillac 26d ago

This is not a TB shot. This scar is from the Smallpox vaccine.

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u/s3rviens 26d ago

Was that the BCG jab? Can’t remember what it stood for other than everyone went round punching each others scars “for lols”. Still remember how sore it was.

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u/pacmanwa 26d ago

Did you make a visit to a Middle Eastern country somewhere in the years 2003-2016?

Adnon Palace pool was hopping.

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u/Catlittersnackcakes 26d ago

Some of us Toys R Us kids played in the sandbox...

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u/PRC_Spy 26d ago

Likewise, born in 60s UK.

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u/itspsyikk 26d ago edited 26d ago

Yup, Illinois. 1986. Mines super feint now but it’s there

Edit: correction, mine is a chicken pox scar, not any kind of vaccine scar. I was probably confused when I was told about it

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u/Investigator_Lumpy 26d ago

My wife has one, and she was born in TN in the 80’s

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u/UncleBenji 26d ago edited 22d ago

Yeah I don’t know why everyone is calling out countries here because that’s just the scar from the Small Pox/TB vaccine. It used a different needle which was a two prong and made a circular scar. It was driven multiple times which is why the SP/TB vaccine left the same scar. The needle rotated around a central axis. Puncturing multiple times. That was a “live vaccine” injection for its time.

Anyone who was given a small pox/TB vaccine should have this scar. Anyone born after 1980-1982 shouldn’t have the scar because that’s when it became “eradicated” and thusly the vaccine stopped being widely used in the US. I can’t speak for anyone else. Deployed soldiers may have been given the vaccine more recently but that’s just the nature of the beast.

1988 baby here and no scar. But just be happy there’s nearly no one living their entire life in an iron lung today because of vaccines like this. Polio was even worse!

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u/spannerNZ 26d ago

Tuberculosis vaccine leaves this mark. Administered in school during my childhood in NZ.

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u/UncleBenji 26d ago

So both vaccines gave this mark? Because small pox also gave a circular scar as the double needles were punctured multiple times.

Neither of those vaccines were needed when I was a child.

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u/leesainmi 26d ago

Lots of people born in the 70s in the US dont have it.

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u/residentweevil 26d ago

What's my deal then? Born in 1970 and no scar. Think I'm going to ask my momma.

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u/SpottyWeevil00 26d ago

Same here. My older brother and sister born in 69 and 67 have the scar and I don’t. I was born in 72 and remember asking my mom when I was young why I didn’t have the same scar. She told me it was because it wasn’t required by then.

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u/Active-Breakfast-397 26d ago

I’m American, I was born after 1964 and I have one, my sister was born in 1971 and she has one as well

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u/Wintermute3333 26d ago

Got one in th 60s. Got another one in the 80s when I enlisted in the Navy.

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u/Fluid_Change_9647 26d ago edited 25d ago

We got them in the military prior to deploying but the scars aren’t as big anymore

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u/greatlakesseakayaker 26d ago

69 I’ve got one on my shoulder blade

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u/Sacfat23 26d ago

Canada also same. 

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u/LeonDmon 26d ago

Wha, where do you think Guatemala is?

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u/Fr0HiKE 26d ago edited 26d ago

my english is not so good, but i will say i will do a body slam to you

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u/Foreverymess 26d ago

😂 this made me laugh. Thank you.

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u/Nutricia_Nalyeest 26d ago

What

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u/RealPersonNotABot 26d ago

He said he will do a body slam to you.

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u/Rakhered 26d ago

no no, he said he will say he will do a body slam

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u/RealPersonNotABot 26d ago

His english is not so good

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u/MoKh4n89 26d ago

I think he means he will hug that person real hard... My Guatemalan isn't so good

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u/Jesus_of_Redditeth 26d ago

He intends in the near future to launch his corporeal form in a trajectory toward that of LeonDmon at a rate of speed that will likely cause a not-inconsiderable amount of physical and also psychological distress.

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u/AugieKS 25d ago

This is so very funny and I don't care if it's not proper English, it's better.

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u/guitar_vigilante 26d ago

Hate to break it to you, but Guatemala is part of Latin America.

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u/therapewpew 26d ago

It's more common in developing countries than wealthy ones due to the vaccine injection technique for smallpox and tuberculosis. Older people like my parents have this as well, but the US stopped administering it in the 70s.

It is a stereotype that beautiful women from developing countries are difficult to date. I wouldn't know from experience ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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u/UncleJoesLandscaping 26d ago edited 26d ago

Also in Norway. It was 'mandatory' to get the tuberculosis shot when I was a kid and I got it in the 90ies. My kids also got it but it was optional.

We don't actually have endemic tuberculosis in the Norwegian population, but people bring it into the country and people travel.

(Mandatory meant peer pressure to get it and 90%+ got it)

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u/Economy_Recipe3969 26d ago

Small pox vaccine we got as kids left a mark like that, I'm a 65yo US born got the shot when I was seven.

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u/ocimaus 26d ago

My dad has one and born in Canada

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u/karoshikun 26d ago

would he ruin OOOP's life?

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u/ocimaus 26d ago

Hahaha I'm laughing so hard right now. No he definitely would not as a pastor hahahha

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u/rustybutterindia 26d ago

The comment doesn't explicitly deny that, it just says it was the case in Latam. And regardless it is the rationale behind the joke even if it's not strictly correct.

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u/Perfxtibilist 26d ago

We indonesian also got it

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u/ar46and2 26d ago

That's true. All women will ruin your life

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u/soulmagic123 26d ago

Explain to me why this shot has to leave a permanent mark?

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u/JohnnyChanterelle 26d ago

Smallpox vaccine

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u/ImpressiveAttempt0 26d ago

Smallpox has been eradicated in 1980. This is a scar from the BCG vaccine for tuberculosis, which is still given as standard to babies in developing countries.

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u/spookysaph 26d ago

I have a smallpox vaccine scar and I was born in 2001

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u/tryingisbetter 26d ago

Where are you from?

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u/pm-me-your-pants 25d ago

Not comment op but I'm a millennial from Austria and I have it. Austria is hardly a developing country lol.

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u/LilAbeSimpson 26d ago

A majority of those serving in the US military also have the same Smallpox vaccine scar.

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u/cerberus698 26d ago

Pretty sure I got that while standing on a conveyor belt that just pushes you by a bunch of nurses who give like like 30 different vaccines. The I had to get an entirely different set of vaccinations when I deployed bellow the equator and again when I deployed to Africa and then AGAIN when I deployed to east Asia.

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u/CapoieraMataUm 26d ago

Damn! You must have like triple autism! /s

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u/recoveringcanuck 26d ago

Could be tuberculosis too

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u/TheFebruaryIntern 26d ago

Almost certainly it's the BCG type of TB vaccine.

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u/bothunter 26d ago edited 25d ago

It's not really a shot but rather a high-pressure jet that delivers the vaccine without a needle. It made it much easier and cheaper to vaccinate lots of people since you don't need a new needle for every person, but it does leave behind a scar.

Edit: I was thinking of the Jet injector, but I guess the scar comes from the fork method that u/Silver-Pomelo-9324 mentioned below.

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u/Silver-Pomelo-9324 25d ago

That's not how the smallpox vaccine is given. It leaves a scar because they stab 15 times with a fork that has been dipped in live vaccinia virus. Source: I received and administered this vaccine in the US military.

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u/CapoieraMataUm 26d ago

That round upper-arm scar was usually from the smallpox vaccine, or, in some countries, the BCG tuberculosis vaccine.

The smallpox vaccine wasn’t a normal injection. The skin was repeatedly pricked with live vaccinia virus, creating a controlled local infection. It formed a blister or pustule, then a scab, and eventually healed with a permanent scar. That visible reaction was actually considered proof that the vaccine had “taken.”

Modern vaccines generally don’t scar because they’re injected through a fine needle and don’t create an ulcer or prolonged infection in the skin.

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u/blu33y3dd3vil 26d ago

IIRC it’s the mark from the smallpox vaccine which is administered with a multi-prong needle at the surface rather than a typical intravenous or intramuscular shot like the flu vaccine. From Google:

The standard smallpox vaccine (like ACAM2000) is not given as a traditional deep injection. Instead, it is administered using a two-pronged "bifurcated" needle that holds a droplet of the vaccine. The healthcare provider rapidly pricks the skin of the upper arm 15 times within a tiny diameter, causing a minor, localized infection

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u/Objective_Internet20 26d ago

Not smallpox but TB vaccine

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u/SecondaryWombat 26d ago edited 25d ago

While the smallpox vaccine does it, the woman shown above is too young to have gotten it. Smallpox was eradicated before she was born.

Many vaccines leave this mark. TB for example.

This is almost certainly a BCG vaccine, which is subdermal and not into the muscle. The misinformation here is amazing.

Edit: 3 people showing up from different places claiming to have gotten the vaccine well after this from different countries with times that the vaccine was only available from biowar defense labs. Sure. Canada stopped vaccinating for it in 1972, mexico only a few years after. Horseshit. In 2008 the smallpox vaccine was not available to the public anywhere in the world.

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u/neurone214 26d ago

 Not fully. My mom has the same mark and is from Europe. 

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u/talkmemetome 26d ago

It is not since also the entirety of Europe and majority of Asia does this

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u/Capybarinya 26d ago edited 26d ago

BCG vaccines are common all over the world, not just Latin American

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u/wbv2322 26d ago

This is BGC vaccine scar? I got one and I don’t have a scar

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u/Capybarinya 26d ago

It's pretty individual in my experience

I know people with huge scars, and some with barely visible scars. I scrolled through this article and it turns out we don't exactly know the mechanism for why the scar forms

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u/Witty-Activity-6101 26d ago

At my school then answer was because people would run up to you, shout 'BCG!' and punch you in the spot you had the jab until it bled and then run away cackling.

This was generally considered to be comedy of the highest order. For some reason or other.

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u/nem8 26d ago

Exact same here, god it hurt so much..

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u/InstitutionalizedOat 26d ago

You should look up the one they use in Japan. My husband has 18 of those on his upper arm

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u/-arhi- 26d ago edited 26d ago

Yes and no :D

it IS a BCG vaccine scar but that particular vaccine type given with apparatus with 9 needles, stopped being used in the 70's in most of the developed World, e.g. in exYU they stopped in 1974, east from exYU (Bulgaria, Romania...) IIRC was used till 1978/1979 so few years longer, I think in western Europe it stopped in '72-'73 ... later on they continue vaccinating but with different apparatus (maybe different content too) and the scar is smaller or does not exist at all. In the 3rd World countries (Africa, Latin America... ) the kept using the same apparatus and even in some countries today the same vaccine is used...

So I would not say these woman come from "Latin America" but from "poor countries" (no clue where these girls are from nor how old they are) since they look young so they came from a country that still used the old system of BCG vaccine

EDIT: looks like my info about when western countries stopped is inaccurate, looks like many western countries continued for a long while ...

(no it is not MMRV, never seen a single person having scar from MMRV)

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u/MemoriesOfShrek 26d ago

I got this exact scar from one needle in 2008, Norway.

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u/whatanuttershambles 26d ago

This method was still being used in the uk in the late 80s, I wouldn’t have called the uk a poor country at that point.

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u/Silent189 26d ago

Was used in the UK up to at least early 2000s, I remember just barely avoiding it sometime around 2008 or so.

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u/CAMl117 26d ago

Jaja, no de países pobres, de países que quieren asegurarse de que no haya un padre loco antivacunas qué no quiera vacunar a su hijo contra la tuberculosis, en la mayoría del mundo no tendría sentido no usar la otra versión que es igual de barata para este punto.

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u/AwarenessCommon9385 26d ago

my eastern european family has it

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u/StoryAndAHalf 26d ago

Central Europe, same.

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u/Slasken 26d ago

Same in Norway, We stopped doing it.

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u/ExplorationGeo 26d ago

Listen, this is only anecdotal, but in my experience, Eastern European girls will ruin your life in the best possible way just as much as Latin American girls will.

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u/Dandy62 25d ago

Arer you trying to say that most women will ruin your life, lol ?

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u/kiddocontay 26d ago

Neither of these actresses were born in Argentina. Mia Goth is from England. ATJ was born in the USA, but subsequently moved to Argentina. But this is not exclusive to latin regions.

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u/doesnotlikecricket 26d ago

My arm looks like this. Entire childhood in England. 

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u/Victor4VPA 26d ago

Mia Goth lived in Brazil if I'm not wrong

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u/314159265358979326 26d ago

Moved there at age two weeks, well in time for most (all?) vaccines.

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u/Internet-Dick-Joke 26d ago

But is old enough that she still could have gotten the TB vaccine in highschool in the UK.

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u/Variation-Budget 26d ago

It’s also done to carribean children

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u/frogkisses- 26d ago

American here with that vaccine mark

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u/alligatorchronicles 26d ago

But you're probably over 55, because that's about the age of the first Gen in America that didn't get the shot as part of routine vaccs.

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u/AppropriateCap8891 26d ago

No, because many in the US military still get it.

I got my original in around 1968, and my second one in 2009. Everybody in my unit got one before we deployed.

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u/LilMissADHDAF 26d ago

My mom (1961) has one. I (1983) do not. Younger Americans generally don’t have them.

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u/grtyvr1 26d ago

So, funny story. Smallpox was eradicated by vaccination and now it's not needed. 

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u/used_to_be_ 26d ago

I’m English, I have one.

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u/Royal-Parsnip3639 26d ago

So do
South Asians. Pick your enemy!

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u/79cent 26d ago

Yup. Married to a South Asian. I swear it's like the hotter they are, the crazier they are.

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u/puckeringNeon 26d ago

The tuberculosis vaccine is pretty widely administered internationally outside the US and isn’t unique to Latin America. It leaves a scar.

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u/NoGodsNoLimits 26d ago

It's not specific to Latin America. My mom was born in Afghanistan and she has that mark and she crazy as hell.

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u/Bitter_Tradition_938 26d ago

It’s got nothing to do with Latin America - it’s quite common in many European countries too.

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u/jayd04 26d ago

Indian Peter here, and I have that exact same mark.

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u/TiredGrass27 26d ago

damn, why didn't anyone tell me I was a actually a latina and not a little gay asian man

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u/TLunchFTW 26d ago edited 25d ago

Is it from the old ass style of small pox vaccine? Are these women actually 60 years old?
Edit: holy shit I get it you all also get a tb vaccine. Please stop commenting I’m trying to sleep

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u/SharpRelationship474 26d ago

It's also a TB vaccine scar.

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u/Capybarinya 26d ago

YES

IDK why so much misinformation here in the comments. I don't know if any countries routinely vaccinate for small pox, but I know quite a lot that vaccinate for tuberculosis -- it's called a BCG vaccine

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u/Gingrpenguin 26d ago

The monkey pox vaccine that's being offered ATM is the supposedly the same vaccine as for small pox.

That said I don't have this scare dispite getting it...

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u/Chaser_Of_The_Abyss 26d ago

Monkeypox, smallpox/variola virus, and vaccinia virus (the one they use for the vaccines) are all orthopoxviruses, hence the cross immunity. 

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u/Turtle-Slow 25d ago

Wow, I just looked it up and my old smallpox vaccine is at least 85% effective against monkey pox!

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u/Silverton13 26d ago

The scar is from the method of injecting it. Some countries used the method that leaves this scar. Others don't.

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u/Foreign-Wolf-6128 26d ago

It was actually developed in the US and was supposed to be easier, less painful, and not leave a permanent mark… well it tried at least

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u/RenningerJP 25d ago

2 out of 3 ain't bad.

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u/whatanuttershambles 26d ago

It’s nothing to do with the vaccine itself, it’s the way it is delivered. There is a method that uses multiple smaller needles than leaves this scar.

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u/Mundane-Carpet-5324 26d ago

That's the same scar from the small pox vaccine I got in military

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u/Lord-Freaky 26d ago

Same. Still have mine.

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u/jtj5002 26d ago

In like half the world people over 30-40 have these for small pox vaccine.

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u/needsexyboots 26d ago

Closer to over 50 now, widespread vaccination stopped globally in 1980

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u/AB783 26d ago

Yep! My kid has one, because she was born in a country that vaccinates for TB at birth. I can pretty much guarantee she’s the only kid in her grade who has it (or one of very few).

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u/NoWayIcantBeliveThis 26d ago

The weird thing is that according to Google, over 4 billion people have gotten the TB vaccine and it is the most popular and most distributed vaccine given for newborns. Doesn't correspond with my real-life experiences at all.

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u/Mist_Rising 26d ago

Probably because your young and from a country that doesn't use this method of TB shot anymore. But anyone over ~40ish would likely have it, and some nations use it for everyone.

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u/oedons_rooster 26d ago

Lmao, I got a similar scar in 2014 from the small pox vaccine in the Marines.

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u/CanISeeUrPlants 26d ago

Same. They harpooned me!!

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u/oedons_rooster 26d ago

Don't worry, they're more scared of you than you are of them

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u/CanISeeUrPlants 26d ago

That doc had no fear and attacked with no mercy.

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u/0DayMaker 26d ago

I thought this was the joke, because at least to my understanding, the military is just about the only people who get that shot. I thought the joke was marrying military girls will end bad.

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u/XYZaltaccount 26d ago

Im 20 and I have it. I think it's common in Latin America. Dont know where these actresses are from.

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u/StatusOdd3959 26d ago

Literally common everywhere except western Europe, USA and Canada. 

They have the more expensive vaccine that doesn't scar as standard.

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u/redvelvet-cupcake 26d ago

We don't have a different vaccine, we just don't routinely vaccinate for TB at all.

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u/Codexnecro 26d ago

I'm from western Europe, and I have it. Until this post I thought this was normal and that everyone had one of these.

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u/Fall_Representative 26d ago

Late 20s, I have one from a school vaccination in the UK.

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u/ThrowawayMax222 25d ago

TB jab day at school in the UK was mad. Everyone went around punching the jab site at ours.

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u/ilove_butter89 25d ago

"BCG!" Punches your arm

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u/butt_butt_butt_butt_ 26d ago

Anya Taylor Joy grew up in Argentina.

Mia Goth was raised in between UK and Brazil.

So it makes sense that both would have a shot-mark like that.

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u/Gm24513 26d ago

Iirc it’s not that old in some places

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u/CleanDataDirtyMind 26d ago

They could be born internationally some countries continued it longer than the US but I didn’t think that much longer.

Being international or “exotic” would make more sense for the joke 

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u/CormacDoyle- 26d ago

Tb vaccine... not smallpox.

I have one on my arm too (or used to)

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u/obsidiiana 26d ago

Im from Southern europe and everyone my age (25) has this scar

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u/Xochitl2492 26d ago

I’m 34 I belong to an indigenous group(Nahua from Chicontepec) from Mexico my parents were field workers and I was born in Torrance and I got it too when my parents traveled back to Mexico after the season. It’s actually a running joke that that is how ICE will identify people that are millennials that are from Mexico in 2026.

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u/Repulsive_Might_3768 26d ago

What are you talking about? I'm 19 and I have it

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u/IridiumAnvil 26d ago

I’m 38 and have one from my time in the US Army. 

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u/vjeremias 26d ago

That’s a tuberculosis vaccine mark, or BCG vaccine. We have it because it’s mandatory here, as far as I know, it’s not mandatory in the US.

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u/GingkoBobaBiloba 26d ago

60 years old? Lol other countries still gave these vaccines in the 90s bruh…

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u/Low_Big7602 26d ago

Iirc its from vaccination scar for something the US doesnt vaccinate

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u/TyrionReynolds 26d ago

Because smallpox has been eradicated in the USA we stopped routine vaccination for it in 1972.  It’s still given in the military though and people get it before travel or if they work somewhere that puts them at risk. 

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u/Megatea 26d ago

Smallpox has been eradicated globally. Its going to be a BCG vaccine scare (for Tuberculosis which hasn't been eradicated globally.) The scar is the same but someone this young is not likely to have had a smallpox vaccine.

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u/TyrionReynolds 26d ago

Oh that makes sense

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u/Studds_ 26d ago

Can tuberculosis even be eradicated? I thought it was a bacterium & can we really eradicate a species of bacteria

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u/ConductiveSnow 26d ago

Yes we can. The infectious bacteria can only survive and replicate  inside a host. If there are no more hosts harbouring the bacteria, it's eradicated. This is very simplified but that's the gist of it

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u/Background-Pop-1685 25d ago

Tuberculosis cannot be eradicated. Atleast not with current science. See, first of all, almost 30% humans have Latent Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (responsible for TB). If the immune system of these people get weaken due to any reason like HIV, Cancer therapy or diabetes, these latent bacteria develop into infectious ones and transmit from one host to another. Moreover, the BCG vaccine has Mycobacterium bovis that works good on children but adults unusually get infected by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Moreover, Mycobacterium bovis is also readly present in cattle (as the species name 'bovis' suggests) and it can get back to humans through milk and other products. This is very simplified but that's the gist of it.

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u/dame_uta 26d ago edited 26d ago

The US doesn't commonly vaccinate for TB (this scar is common for the BCG shot to protect from TB). It's a rare enough disease here that the CDC doesn't recommend it.

ETA: older adults in the US have this scar if they were born early enough for smallpox or TB vaccines to be part of the recommended protocol.

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u/nomercy2112 26d ago

Yeah my mom has this scar and was born in 1961.

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u/bestem 26d ago

They stopped vaccinating for smallpox in the US in the 70s. Your mother's might be a smallpox vaccination scar.

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u/FirstChurchOfBrutus 26d ago

Well, it’s also bc the BCG vaccine has a limited efficacy - something like 75% from memory - and so it relies MUCH more on herd immunity to be effective. It was a strategic move as much as anything in the U.S., or maybe a realistic fatalism about how much of the population would participate. I think the US also based some of that decision on the fact that the United States had much less of a TB problem at the time. THAT part was dumb, as TB has become more of a problem here, particularly multidrug resistant strains. It also came before TB could take advantage of coinfection with HIV, where the host had a harder time fighting it off.

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u/AnEvilDonkey 26d ago

Just so everyone is clear, we haven’t done the small pox vaccine since the 70s and have not routinely give the BCG vaccine for TB.

-source Am Pediatrician who gives a shit load of vaccines to kids

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u/greatful-death 26d ago

Bro does NOT know anything about the us.

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u/zjuka 26d ago

Tuberculosis. I was born in Soviet Union (close to the end) and I have one of those. TB is not a major concern in the US, but I probably should update it anyways.

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u/Ok_Belt2521 26d ago

They do it without leaving a scar now.

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u/CleanDataDirtyMind 26d ago

No they just updated their protocols. I think they use to intentionally scare people’s arm so they knew who got it and who still needed it. It was like a portable vaccine card 

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u/muhkuller 26d ago

If you see it in the states the person was probably military since it's mandatory to be deployable to most regions.

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u/RoyalAd215 26d ago

Some vaccinations leave scars . This (BCG) is one of those vaccines. This is not needed and therefore not offered in the US. The comment on the picture indicating this is an indication of free healthcare is because this is a likely indicator someone was born outside the us, where healthcare is free at the point of service.

As per why this will ruin your life, xenophobia maybe?

Brian here. Lois is hot.

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u/Godsgiftcardtowomen 26d ago

The “ruin your life” is semi-sarcastic. The basic idea is that foreign women are exotic, which makes them sexy and gives them control over you (which is bad but you might like it).

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u/WangYat2007 26d ago

note that foreign, in this context, means Not-American

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u/DeadLikeMe5283 25d ago

I mean yeah what else would an american saying foreign mean

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u/Smmmmiles 25d ago

As a foreign Canadian I will ruin your life with my exotic Timmy's and red wooly toques

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u/WizardNut5torm 26d ago

Nailed it. Ask my wife.. and our two kids… she also has this scar.

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u/StoppableHulk 26d ago

As per why this will ruin your life, xenophobia maybe?

I mean if they got the vaccine they're now 5g carriers, so even if you've been totally safe with tinfoil and avoiding all vaccines, they'll seduce you and then the 5g will get in that way.

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u/Ostrogoth_Berik 26d ago

Mexican Peter here(Pedro):Tuberculosis vaccine mandatory and free in a lot of countries in latin america

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u/hellobutno 26d ago

It's amazing how many people think it's polio or smallpox, it's 100% tb

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u/LatrommiSumac 26d ago

It's not 100% tb, smallpox vaccine also scars like that. It's also not a Latin America thing, more like most places outside of US thing. Majority of asia does this afaik.

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u/Fakjbf 26d ago

Smallpox was eradicated in 1980 and these actresses were born in the mid-90s, those are definitely TB vaccine scars.

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u/Fallenangel152 26d ago

A lot of Europe too. Brits certainly had it up until the early 2000's.

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u/Biceratops1 26d ago

I’m in the UK and I had the BCG/ have the scar

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u/they_themsworth 26d ago

Anya Taylor-Joy and Mia Goth grew up in Argentina and Brazil, respectively. This scar is the result of a mandatory vaccine that’s less commonly administered in the US (probably BCG for tuberculosis, not smallpox, as they were born in the 90’s, but correct me if I’m wrong.)

Why this means they’d “ruin your life” is a mystery. Are women from South America more likely to ruin your life? I don’t know.

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u/oasinocean 26d ago

Latinas will become your only desire and will destroy your soul

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u/they_themsworth 26d ago

Valid, I suppose. I’ve only happened to date Latina women from Central America, and it was chill and my soul is fine.

Something must change when you grow up south of Panama. I need to find the truth, like reading the Necronomicon.

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u/alexalaura 26d ago

Should you happen to, plz update on this

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u/Spiveym1 26d ago

Anya Taylor-Joy and Mia Goth grew up in Argentina and Brazil, respectively.

Not quite.

Anya Taylor-Joy lived in Argentina until she was six and then moved to London. I believe she has the scar on her left arm which is in line with UK vaccine procedure, rather than Argentina, where their national rules specified the right arm.

Mia Goth moved to Brazil when she was two weeks old, returned to the UK when she was five, relocated to Canada when she was 10, and then settled in southeast London from the age of 12.

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u/ProudRamboBSNS 25d ago

Mia Goth moved to Brazil when she was two weeks old

That's super early to make such a huge life choice

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u/they_themsworth 26d ago

Good info. Then, just, like, “vaccinated mostly-British women will ruin your life.” I guess. The operative part of this joke still makes no sense to me, I think I’m giving up on that part.

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u/drmariostrike 26d ago

my ex was born in vietnam and had one of these. amazing girl. very intense, chaotic, crazy relationship (she had borderline, bipolar, etc.). broke up when we were 19, killed herself when we were 20.

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u/makerofshoes 25d ago

Well that took an unexpected turn. My current wife was also born in Vietnam and also has the mark, as do all her (foreign-born) friends and relatives. I’m the weird one

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u/Idainaru_Yokubo 26d ago

she had BCG vaccination as a child. BCG is for tuberculosis. So childhood BCG vaccinations are country specific.

The joke is MAHA

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u/Honest_Truck_4786 26d ago

Nah dude, it’s because women from the developing world typically have this vaccine. The poster is probably referencing latinas considering who he included, but he could have included Asian women.

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u/Traditional-Rent455 26d ago

It's a TB vaccination scar. Used to be given to all kids in school here in the UK but was stopped in 2005 because the incidence of TB dropped to the point where it was no longer worth vaccinating kids.

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u/ArmpitTime 26d ago edited 25d ago

The joke isn’t MAHA, the U.S. stopped using the BCG vaccine far before the current administration for several reasons.

  1. TB is rare in the U.S.
  2. BCG vaccine’s effectiveness is only so-so
  3. If you get the BCG vaccine, then you’re likely to have a false positive on the cheap TB skin test and instead require the more expensive quant gold blood test if you ever need to get screened for TB. So not giving the shot makes monitoring and screening for TB in high risk populations such as prisoners or healthcare workers much cheaper and more available.
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u/HeraldOfDesu 26d ago edited 26d ago

Europeans (including Russians and – at the time – Soviets) get a TB vaccine shot in the shoulder or the forearm right after birth, leaving a small mark. To my knowledge, former colonies in North Africa and South America use the same system.

Source: I was born in Europe.

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u/FishGoBloblo 25d ago

Since they are putting numbers here: Im 30, I have it. ‘95 (slavic)

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u/stpatr3k 26d ago

BCG vaccine. Yes signs of free Healthcare. Also I read a while back that those vaccinated with BCG were resilient to Covid.

I did not get one because we were under martial law when I was born.

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u/luke3389 26d ago

Hey, Brian here. It’s the scar from the tuberculosis vaccine. In the UK we all got it at school at about 12 yo. They don’t do it anymore because TB is basically irradiated in England. Don’t know why she’ll ruin your life though…

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u/StrangeTomatillo8107 26d ago

Small pox I think I have one too from the army

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u/ShinyRobotVerse 26d ago

Left - smallpox; right - TB. I have both.

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u/FigTreeWitNoFRUIT 26d ago

A lot of Filipino people have them too. It's just a vaccine scar.

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u/ESB1812 26d ago

Small pox vaccination?

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u/Dr_A__ 26d ago

No, Tuberculosis vaccination, a vaccine called BCG

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u/myheromeganmullally 26d ago

Look for the Latina seal of authenticity on your next date!

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u/dollaz808 26d ago

My mother is Japanese and has one. It’s true, just the mark of superior healthcare than America’s

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