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Graham

Call me old fashioned but one doesn't have sex with women who are unconscious.

— The Holiday · 2006

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker states a basic moral boundary in a dry, understated way, calling it old-fashioned rather than obvious. That understatement alone makes the line comic, treating an absolute minimum standard as a quaint personal preference. It's a wry way of turning a plain statement into a joke about manners.

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