happy families
(British) A children's card game played with a pack of 44 picture cards that depict a father, mother son and daughter of 11 families mostly having occupational surnames (e.g.
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A heartwarming thread to start the day! Tolstoy had it right: "All happy families are alike and they don't use burner accounts."
Dumbfuck GOP considers women to be chattel and should just reproduce more nazi youth for the Fatherland. Banned abortions = Bigger, happy families is the mathing of morons.
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(British) A children's card game played with a pack of 44 picture cards that depict a father, mother son and daughter of 11 families mostly having occupational surnames (e.g. Mr Bun the Baker); players have to collect entire families.
“A heartwarming thread to start the day! Tolstoy had it right: "All happy families are alike and they don't use burner accounts."”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Dumbfuck GOP considers women to be chattel and should just reproduce more nazi youth for the Fatherland. Banned abortions = Bigger, happy families is the mathing of morons.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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