Today, in a bit of synchronicity, I heard two totally unrelated references to the proverbial “slacker who lives in his mother’s basement” (in one, he spends every waking hour playing WoW; in the other, tweeting insane conspuracy theories).

Is this something that actually happens? It seems to me that if a child never leaves home, or returns home after graduation or whatever, he’d be in his old bedroom. Kinda rude to banish him into the basement, innit?