Why is that white person giving a presentation on racism? The issue doesn’t pertain to them.
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Cake day: July 10th, 2023
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2·3 days agoLovely spot! However, the location I’m looking at is far from where you showed me.
There is a lake on Victoria Island in the arctic archipelago that I am reasonably sure has never been seen by a real person, and it is unnamed. Furthermore, the lake has a small island on it. One of my life’s goals is to see this lake and island someday.
4·3 days agoNah, his milk doesn’t contain enough plaster of Paris, asbestos and starch to be from back then
Like a prion
Folded for the very first time!
1 + 1 = 2, or sometimes it’s 6, you know things can move sometimes
WWII war crimes, apparently
We will dive into the history of this franchise, but fir—
The franchise began in 1967, when…Me:
I have heard it analogized that English is a language that follows other languages into dark alleys to beat them up and steal their words.
Mine is full of ‘oreos’ (Oreoles), ‘emeralds’ (Admirals), ‘see-ment’ (cement), and very cute regionalisms like ‘roundy-rounds’ (roundabouts). I love it
They’d be looking like that one chick from the 2016 election that screamed Noooooo!
You lost me at the vegetable oil
My infosec skills are far too sophisticated for infiltration (small piece of black tape)
Yeah same, I got ones that smell like Shea butter, they’re pretty nice. I mean if the store had other ones branded differently with the same wipes I would just buy those lol. I feel like the only ones triggered by the imagery are ironically the guys who are insecure in their masculinity and feel threatened by a literal moist toilette.
I have Dude Wipes in my car but that’s just because I thought they smelled good and they were on sale at Kroger. I have a very dirty and dusty job and some days I gotta wipe the gruel off after a shift.
3·11 days agoCock and Fall Torture
1·12 days agoI think you a word there
4·12 days agoI appreciate your cheekiness, sir
I find Germans have an easier time replying to things very frankly and without garnishment or humor. I can ask a German, “How are you?”, and he may reply with “I’m fine” and it can be taken at face value.
Americans tend to be more, I don’t know, conflict avoidant in their replies? There’s more expectation of subtext, of irony, and it’s not as typical to take “I’m fine” at face value.
“Can’t complain” is another good one. It’s often heard as, “I can’t complain [because nobody would listen anyway]”. Tone is important, as is environmental context. Blue collar workers at the site say this, yeah their day is going to shit. Your buddy says it over drinks, maybe he’s having a neutral, normal time of life, or maybe his life is going to shit and he’s giving the ironic answer to avoid diving into his real issues, while still communicating that things are not perfect.
Last week I was asked how my day was. It had been a perfectly normal, decent day, good time at work, beautiful weather, and my reply was “Life’s a peach”. I got back, “That bad, huh?” Yeah, the American habit of taking genuine expression and searching for a darkness under it can be tiring sometimes.