Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Why Not Just Lie About It?



November 15, 2018

Still reeling from the possibility of people having Gender X on identification documents, I encountered this tidbit:

A Dutch man wants to make age optional as well. He doesn’t want to be 69, because he’s having a hard time getting dates online. He figures that if he says he’s 49, he’ll have better luck. So he asked a court for permission to officially change his age.

Why doesn’t he just lie about his vital statistics online, the way everybody else does?


November 17, 2018

The Post-Dispatch had a more ingenious solution: He should legally change his planet. Mars takes 687 days to orbit the sun, so if he were from Mars, he’d only be about 37.


December 9, 2018

The court rejected his request.

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