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I spent 5 days there around Easter on a Geography field trip for school, and the weather was just hilariously awful. Rain, snow, hail, and I mean "Oh what's that fog over....that's too fast to be fog....oh gently caress! IT'S HEAVY HAIL.THERE'S NO SHELTER. OW! I HATE THIS PLACE" Another highlight was when we messing around with what we were told before getting there was a low escarpment with a small waterfall into a stream, which on the day was a raging torrent that had burst it's banks. We all got soaking wet, then had to walk miles back to the coach, with a howling gale in our faces the whole way.
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The Lake District is a wonderful place for birds and other wildlife 10 months of the year, and for about 2 months it's nice for humans to visit too. Easter is not one of them. Mega Comrade has a new favorite as of 09:52 on Sep 5, 2020 |
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Even more annoyingly, in the prep before we went, they'd shown us pictures from the class trip from the previous year. Glorious bloody sunshine in every shot.
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Deptfordx posted:Another highlight was when we messing around with what we were told before getting there was a low escarpment with a small waterfall into a stream, which on the day was a raging torrent that had burst it's banks. Yeah it does that, one of the side effects of being 100% valleys and rain is that every surface basically turns into a river which then runs down into the big river at the bottom of the valley. I should point out that I don't consider this a point against the lake district, you just have to treat it like a permanent underwater holiday. You're never going to be dry if you go there and the sooner you accept that the happier you will be.
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Sep 5, 2020 10:23
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OwlFancier posted:Yeah it does that, one of the side effects of being 100% valleys and rain is that every surface basically turns into a river which then runs down into the big river at the bottom of the valley. At least rain keeps the midges down - silver linings and all that.
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Sep 5, 2020 10:27
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OwlFancier posted:I would generally suggest you probably don't know, for that reason. Well, some of us UKers developed a sudden interest when we remembered an Irish grandparent would get us an Irish passport. Unfortunately looks like mum's parents weren't actually born in Ireland dammit mum.
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Runcible Cat posted:Well, some of us UKers developed a sudden interest when we remembered an Irish grandparent would get us an Irish passport. You've just reminded me of when John Hurt went on Who Do You Think You Are? and said at the start that his family had come from Ireland a few generations back, and how he'd always felt a great connection to the country, from the very first time he set foot in it. Then they did the research and it showed that not only was his family 100% english as far back as they could trace, but that his great-grandfather was an absolutely tremendous liar. Poor John Hurt was very disappointed  Also sorry about your passport troubles 
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RatHat posted:https://twitter.com/CursedBoomers/status/1301928103296602112?s=20 He still lives in LA right? How loving angry and depressed do you think he gets every time he drives past a Jimmy Kimmel billboard?
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Pookah posted:You've just reminded me of when John Hurt went on Who Do You Think You Are? and said at the start that his family had come from Ireland a few generations back, and how he'd always felt a great connection to the country, from the very first time he set foot in it. Then they did the research and it showed that not only was his family 100% english as far back as they could trace, but that his great-grandfather was an absolutely tremendous liar. Poor John Hurt was very disappointed It loving kills me that people lost their jobs on that show because Ben Affleck didn't want people to know some of his ancestors were slave owners.
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Skwirl posted:It loving kills me that people lost their jobs on that show because Ben Affleck didn't want people to know some of his ancestors were slave owners. What an absolute dick. I just googled that and he wanted the information surpressed because he was ashamed and embarassed? Hey Ben, it'd be a lot more decent to face your own family history, since it's the kind of thing that proobably contributed to how America developed as a country. Or just pretend the bad stuff didn't happen because you think its icky.
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Pookah posted:What an absolute dick. I just googled that and he wanted the information surpressed because he was ashamed and embarassed? Hey Ben, it'd be a lot more decent to face your own family history, since it's the kind of thing that proobably contributed to how America developed as a country. Or just pretend the bad stuff didn't happen because you think its icky. I suspect it's because he's so loving Boston and Massachusetts was a free state since the inception of the country. Anderson Cooper had slave owning ancestors and his response was "holy poo poo, that's hosed up" and they showed that response on television.
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grittyreboot posted:Lots of people's families immigrated here within living memory and if not they probably had a grandparent/ great grandparent who did. It's not considered progressive to expect them to shelve those cultural practices they inherited. What's truly hosed up is how many people chanting "build the wall" are currently angry about all the Oktoberfests across the country being cancelled. A normal person: "My grandmother moved here from Ireland." An American: "I'm Irish."
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Tiggum posted:A normal person: "My grandmother moved here from Ireland."
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ThE iRiSh WeRe SlAvEs ToO
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Question Mark Mound posted:What is it about Americans that makes so many of them weebs but for Ireland? (Also decades of v. good marketing by Bord Fáilte) Yeah, it's this: kirbysuperstar posted:potato lust Pookah has a new favorite as of 12:42 on Sep 5, 2020 |
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Question Mark Mound posted:What is it about Americans that makes so many of them weebs but for Ireland? potato lust
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Question Mark Mound posted:What is it about Americans that makes so many of them weebs but for Ireland? They've become the default Good Ones immigrant story for conservative assholes who think that if people would just come in the right way and bootstrap their way to success then no one would have a problem with immigration. See also Italians (German's got kicked out of the club for being the enemy in two wars.)
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Additionally Historic.ly has straight up used NazBol sources and is generally a monumental source of turdery so this is like vomit insulting a diarrheatic slurry. https://twitter.com/BirdsEnthusiast/status/1302066554159284225?s=20
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For this recipe, you will need one medium onion, or six to eight whole bulbs of garlic.
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Elviscat posted:I got to travel to Poland, and see the birth records for my great-grandparents at the Chapel in their little town, those records, incidentally, had been buried for several years to help hide the genealogy of local Jews from the Nazis, then they were dug up and lovingly restored in the 50s. That was pretty cool. It depends on the sutuation I’d say! I’m from Poland myself, but my dad’s branch of family lived in Prussia, which later became Poland, and my mom’s in Poland, which later became Belarus. And that only became possible to describe like that after Poland came back into existence after WW1 where they probably figured as citizens of the respective occupying force. Both possible sources of records were burned to the ground or airbombed. All that’s left was the word of mouth of my grandparents which are all dead now. In contrast, the US and the UK never really went through multiple wars and border changes. You could be from a region and have that region just be itself rather than five different countries with various ideas on how to keep books
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theironjef posted:Maybe he's going to expand on this thought: This needs that dasharezone about soup. gently caress soup.
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kirbysuperstar posted:potato lust Spud fever.
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I wonder if he's trying to allude to that Simpsons bit about George HW Bush being a weird out-of-touch old man by trying to order stew in the Krusty Burger drive-thru
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kirbysuperstar posted:potato lust I just think they're neat
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The reason you see so many white americans claiming certain ethnicities (everyone’s irish but practically no one cares about being english for example) is that those ethnicities actually mattered not that long ago and families don’t just immediately forget it because the current generation is generic white. Irish, german, and italian are gonna be the biggest examples. My best friend in high school lived with an irish grandma who still had her accent, for instance. There’s still loads of people alive whose parents and grandparents spoke german at home and read german language newspapers before the wars.
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kirbysuperstar posted:potato lust
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:The reason you see so many white americans claiming certain ethnicities (everyone’s irish but practically no one cares about being english for example) is that those ethnicities actually mattered not that long ago and families don’t just immediately forget it because the current generation is generic white. Irish, german, and italian are gonna be the biggest examples. My best friend in high school lived with an irish grandma who still had her accent, for instance. There’s still loads of people alive whose parents and grandparents spoke german at home and read german language newspapers before the wars. "The Wars" are both about a full century old now. The people who read those newspapers are either dead or extremely elderly. Exceptions will always abound, but most US white kids claim they're Irish or Italian or w/e because they're going "me too" after seeing their black, Latin, Native, and Asian friends get five extra minutes of "see kids this classmate is from another culture" every so often in elementary school.
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dialhforhero posted:This needs that dasharezone about soup. Gumbo is amazing though
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mind the walrus posted:"The Wars" are both about a full century old now. The people who read those newspapers are either dead or extremely elderly. yes, that’s why op said that it was the parents and grandparents of living people who read the German papers, I believe
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dialhforhero posted:This needs that dasharezone about soup.  Bonus: 
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people are still obsessed with ethnicities, although maybe that’s changed in the past ten years. source: me, who grew up identifying herself as full blooded asian only for people to keep asking me what i really was. years later my mom admitted to me that i’m actually mixed and was the result of an affair. i still identify myself as asian but the amount of people - a lot of them complete strangers - who asked why i look so white or which one of my parents is the asian one is shockingly high.
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I'm half mexican but for some reason all my dads melanin skipped me and went to my brother so I've always been in a confused position as far as to what I "am". No doubt that I'm my dad's daughter, my bone structure/facial features are 100% his, but being a weird mutt in a country so obsessed with race is a strange experience. I always have this weird feeling like i need to categorize myself, but in a way other people will accept? Saying I'm white feels weird because I'm like a recolor of my dad, but i have pale skin and auburn hair so idk. Being american is weird.
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Euphoriaphone posted:Of the two Loveline hosts, at least Corolla is straight up about being a chud. yeah it tipped me off that he was actually just a dumbass when he started doing poo poo like teen mom they both so transparently let money go to their heads, they don't have an ounce of self awareness or dignity between them
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Bismuth posted:I'm half mexican but for some reason all my dads melanin skipped me and went to my brother so I've always been in a confused position as far as to what I "am". No doubt that I'm my dad's daughter, my bone structure/facial features are 100% his, but being a weird mutt in a country so obsessed with race is a strange experience. I always have this weird feeling like i need to categorize myself, but in a way other people will accept? Saying I'm white feels weird because I'm like a recolor of my dad, but i have pale skin and auburn hair so idk. Being american is weird. You've been here for 10 years, you're now more Goon than anything else. I'm sorry.
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Desert Bus posted:You've been here for 10 years, you're now more Goon than anything else. I'm sorry. No no, that's a definite answer, Ill take it. Better than just answering "im gay"
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12 year old Mark Zuckerberg knew what was up.
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Comments suggest he's trying to make an allegory between Richard Jewell and Kyle Rittenhouse, which is also stupid, but for different reasons than how stupid it initially appears.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:The reason you see so many white americans claiming certain ethnicities (everyone’s irish but practically no one cares about being english for example) is that those ethnicities actually mattered not that long ago and families don’t just immediately forget it because the current generation is generic white. Irish, german, and italian are gonna be the biggest examples. My best friend in high school lived with an irish grandma who still had her accent, for instance. There’s still loads of people alive whose parents and grandparents spoke german at home and read german language newspapers before the wars. My grandpa loves to tell stories about how his grandfather immigrated from Germany and never learned a word of English. He also loves to complain about how Latin and Muslim immigrants aren't assimilating 
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