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chitoryu12 posted:I think it's because of how the land was colonized. The New England area is heavily populated because it was where the original 13 colonies were located, but the rest of the land was sparsely populated by "native" tribes (it's weird to even call them natives, as they also came from Eurasia and just colonized it millenia before Europeans). So when white colonists started pushing westward, they were just setting up farms and towns across a very vast, empty land. California became popular enough to become a major cultural center, but the rest of the country has huge swaths of empty space surrounding small nexuses. Eh arriving 11ish thousand years or so ago (at least) is enough for me to qualify a people as native, give or take a hundred or so years. Also a decent portion of America was populated at that time, there is a reason why there was constant friction between colonists and Native Americans.
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The real schadenfreude is the Indians in America who sold off their land in exchange for beads
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amityville anus posted:The real schadenfreude is the Indians in America who sold off their land in exchange for beads If you are talking bout Manhattan which is really the only example of this I could find the history on that is so hazy that one of the equally valid explanations for this is that the Dutch paid the trade goods to the wrong tribal group and later had to pay the correct ones. This is also a great example of schadenfreude.
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"I'm totally reformed" said Chris Brown. "Those domestic violence charges were a wake up call to me" said Chris Brown. "I really want to be part of the solution against domestic violence" said Chris Brown. Singer Chris Brown accused of Las Vegas battery Bull-loving-poo poo, said the world. Hope they nail that piece of infectious human waste to the wall this time.
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Telsa Cola posted:If you are talking bout Manhattan which is really the only example of this I could find the history on that is so hazy that one of the equally valid explanations for this is that the Dutch paid the trade goods to the wrong tribal group and later had to pay the correct ones. This is also a great example of schadenfreude. The story I've heard is that apparently they bought Manhattan from some random tribesmen from Long Island who had gone to the place to buy booze and ripped off some gullible Europeans on the way home. And that rather than beads it was a bunch of muskets, axes, hand tools, etc.
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Memento posted:"I'm totally reformed" said Chris Brown. "Those domestic violence charges were a wake up call to me" said Chris Brown. "I really want to be part of the solution against domestic violence" said Chris Brown. Just watch his fangirls on twitter react the same way they did last time.
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Some one commented about that story on reddit. They reckon the most likely thing that happened is the woman tried to take a photo of him doing some thing tmz worthy (coke/having sex or what ever). Apparently it is common for any one entering a vegas private party with celebrities to have to leave any phones at the door because people constantly try to take photos to sell. I have no idea how true that is.
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Hey, to be fair he lasted HOURS into the new year before he had to smack a bitch. That's progress man.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Hey, to be fair he lasted HOURS into the new year before he had to smack a bitch. That's progress man. He's allowed to have one gently caress up a year, shame he used his up so early
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I can't tell exactly what is happening here, but to help out that guy in the top right right is really mad about some thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sil83FBYoMc
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e: gently caress!
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C.M. Kruger posted:The story I've heard is that apparently they bought Manhattan from some random tribesmen from Long Island who had gone to the place to buy booze and ripped off some gullible Europeans on the way home. And that rather than beads it was a bunch of muskets, axes, hand tools, etc. Yeah this is one of the equally valid theories. The thing is is that the entire transaction history was recorded something 250 years after the fact and no one has found any paper documentation and legal stuff regarding the trade so nobody really knows what the gently caress actually happened. Im pretty sure the bead story stuck around because of racism.
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Mans posted:i don't think i've ever met an American that did that. They would say "U.S." and then i'd ask them from which state and i'd do a stupid accent making fun of that location. Ooh, ooh, I'm from Washington state, let's hear what you think our accent is like
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Wanamingo posted:Ooh, ooh, I'm from Washington state, let's hear what you think our accent is like Washington is up north, so fake Canadian?
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Carbon dioxide posted:Washington is up north, so fake Canadian? We have a very subdued accent
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I like hearing about where people are from it's interesting if you have only just met.
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The only fun you have as someone living in Wales is telling people you've just met which unpronounceable town you're from and watching their face contort in a rictus of confusion and pity.
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When europeans ask when Im from I say California, because if you're not a drooling retard, you have heard of California. I guess it would be weirder for Indiana tho
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du -hast posted:When europeans ask when Im from I say California, because if you're not a drooling retard, you have heard of California. Well that'll just confuse them, they won't know if you're from Pennsylvania or Missouri or Colombia or El Salvador or any of the other dozen Californias we see in movies and TV shows all the time.
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When an American says they're from Georgia, I just assume they're from an ex-soviet country.
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dog days are over posted:The only fun you have as someone living in Wales is telling people you've just met which unpronounceable town you're from and watching their face contort in a rictus of confusion and pity. It's not unpronounceable you loving saesneg.
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Carbon dioxide posted:When an American says they're from Georgia, I just assume they're from an ex-soviet country. I know an actual Georgian. When I met her and she mentioned being from Georgia, a mutual friend found it necessary to chime in "the country, not the state!" Thanks, I couldn't figure that out from the heavy Eastern-European accent.
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instead of by state, americans should identify where they're from by the nearest mass shooting
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dog days are over posted:The only fun you have as someone living in Wales is telling people you've just met which unpronounceable town you're from and watching their face contort in a rictus of confusion and pity. Aint got poo poo on Iceland.
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Slime posted:It's not unpronounceable you loving saesneg. Trying read the Latin characters with English rules sure as gently caress makes it unpronounceable. quote:In contrast to English practice, "w" and "y" are considered vowel letters in Welsh along with "a", "e", "i", "o" and "u".
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Testekill posted:He's allowed to have one gently caress up a year, shame he used his up so early Is he? How do you get a deal like that?
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wayfinder posted:Is he? How do you get a deal like that? Be rich.
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Slime posted:It's not unpronounceable you loving saesneg. WHHYYYNNEE AAARRR LOOYYYTHHH?
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haha, did they change their headline specifically to gently caress with ROK? Brilliant.
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"Men's rights [...] cost Star Wars [...] money." Success!
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I looked up what Return of Kings is. Never go to that site. There is no schadenfreude there.
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Do go to We Hunted the Mammoth, though; they filter through that poo poo to give us the gems of stuff to mock from MRAs.
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Rondette posted:haha, did they change their headline specifically to gently caress with ROK? Brilliant. The article is entirely about how ridiculous ROK's claim is, so that Twitter post is just completely out of touch with reality. The basic premise of the article is that even if ROK's claim was really obviously bullshit, their claimed loss in revenue is 0.6% of the American box office take and 0.3% of the international take, the equivalent of someone sneaking a penny out of your wallet and laughing about how they're the best pickpocket in the world.
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chitoryu12 posted:The article is entirely about how ridiculous ROK's claim is, so that Twitter post is just completely out of touch with reality. Speaking of bad math, you only carry 1 dollar and 66.666.. cents in your wallet (or 3 dollars and 33.333... cents internationally)?
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Carbon dioxide posted:When an American says they're from Georgia, I just assume they're from an ex-soviet country. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR5otApDYRY
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Rysithusiku posted:Aint got poo poo on Iceland. Reykjavík (Ray-kyah-weak) Stokkseyri (Stocks-eh-rih) Hafnarfjörður (Have-nahr-feur-thur) Wales: Cwmamman (?) Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (????) Swansea (????????????)
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pik_d posted:Speaking of bad math, you only carry 1 dollar and 66.666.. cents in your wallet (or 3 dollars and 33.333... cents internationally)? 0.3% != 3% Then again you have decimal cents so I'm not really sure what you're going for. Anyway, the guy probably went with stealing a penny as it's the smallest denomination US coin, not that it was literally 0.6% of what you've got in your wallet.  etc.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Swansea (????????????)
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