Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft?
Hubi@feddit.org 14 hours agoMy German great grandpa was a pacifist and got around being drafted into WW1 and WW2 by pretending to be an alcoholic. He apparently barely ate for a month and lived only from booze and cigarettes for a month. He went to the draft office underweight and shaking and they pretty much sent him home immediately. Unfortunately he did some actual damage to his liver with it but I guess it’s better than getting blown to bits for the Emperor or the Nazis.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
God, he must have really committed to the act to do acutte liver damage in 30 days
duncan_bayne@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Or it was retrospective.
“Frank what the fuck have you been doing while I was away visiting my family out of state?”
“Um, er, ah, dodging the draft! Yeah, that’s it. Certainly not a month long bender.”
😜
Hubi@feddit.org 3 hours ago
I guess it’s not something he wanted to take any chances with. His father was fairly high up in the Austro-Hungarian military, so he knew what the frontline was like.
He still lived a long and decently healthy life and died in his 80s. Never drank or smoked again though.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Good for him, lucky the liver is respawnable