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Is pork intestine really that weird? I'm not saying I eat it all the time but I've eaten it a few times in my life. I'd never consider it like super exotic or weird or anything. Jellyfish I guess is kind of weird but not any weirder than squid.
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I think this thread has been around long enough for people to know that what can be a kind of endearing quirk at first will inevitably turn into a maddening drain on your life. Doing something constantly to your partner that they find annoying makes you a lovely partner.
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Jan 25, 2022 04:24
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The "first bite" insistence sounds like some kind of power thing.
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Jan 25, 2022 04:32
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Baronjutter posted:Yeah I've met people like that, my friend dated a girl just like her. She was white but it was a huge point of pride that she wasn't like the other whites, she liked weird exotic foods all you YT mayo eaters couldn't imagine. Her favourite show? Oh it's a real niche anime that never became popular in the west. Xun posted:yeah you eat the caps of the jellyfish, not the tentacles. Idk, something about that post just screams what a smug white guy thinks asians will do once he shows off his amazing ability to eat some tripe and tasteless vaguely gelatinous strips Related to this, I need some opinions. Is this a justifiably frustrated person who can't spell "Kenyan," or something different? quote:as someone who's mother danced in a folklore slavic dance group as a hobby in her youth, and as a 100% slavic person myself, I feel extremely angered and shocked about this news coverage. I fully stand behind ANY preservation of cultures (my personal interest lies in particular in the Japanese and Northern European cultures). It would be a loss if we started to neglect and censor cultures. How is it bad that I talk with a Chinese person about China, or a Khenian person about Khenia, or a Syrian person about Syria? Doesn't matter where they are born, why are such topics censored? I want to ask them questions but I am told I might offend them? I NEVER happened to offend ANYONE with a question. How is a question or a discourse about a culture offensive? How is me acknoledging their families' roots and wanting to talk about it offensive? I am not taking away any of their achievements by asking them. I actively seek out info about other cultures and races, and I travel there. Therefore you can't even call me racist, cause I see past the skin. I see the culture and behaviour and thinking behind it. But PC for example people lump every black person into "black". How is a Carribbean black the same as a Khenian black? No. This needs to stop.
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Jan 25, 2022 04:37
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trickybiscuits posted:Related to this, I need some opinions. Is this a justifiably frustrated person who can't spell "Kenyan," or something different? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khene They must obviously mean Laotian people 
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Jan 25, 2022 04:42
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Nebrilos posted:The "first bite" insistence sounds like some kind of power thing. Yeah, I was gonna say it's like some strange dominance game, similar to the way you always feed your dog after the humans in the household have finished eating.
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Jan 25, 2022 04:58
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:Is pork intestine really that weird? I'm not saying I eat it all the time but I've eaten it a few times in my life. I'd never consider it like super exotic or weird or anything. Jellyfish I guess is kind of weird but not any weirder than squid. No. Seriously, take some down south redneck to that place and go "yeah, it's just their version of chitlins" and watch him order it and ask for extra hot sauce. The entire story is weird because unless it's the only authentic Chinese restaurant in Ohio the whole "arguing with the waiter" and the Chef wanting to watch sounds like a sitcom plot.
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Jan 25, 2022 05:00
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trickybiscuits posted:Related to this, I need some opinions. Is this a justifiably frustrated person who can't spell "Kenyan," or something different? Without the lead-in context, not justifiable. That whole "I don't care whether you're American, I want information about your ROOTS because you've got to have some sort of insight" shtick is really loving tiring.
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Jan 25, 2022 05:02
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come on nobody has called for this one yet? r/relationships: bizarre culinary version of jus primae noctis
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Jan 25, 2022 05:03
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trickybiscuits posted:Related to this, I need some opinions. Is this a justifiably frustrated person who can't spell "Kenyan," or something different? Sounds like "I'm not racist, I'm racialist" which is gross and weird, and not somebody you want getting comfortable enough around you to tell you what they mean by that.
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Jan 25, 2022 05:08
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When he goes to Arby's it's au jus primae noctis.
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Bruceski posted:Without the lead-in context, not justifiable. That whole "I don't care whether you're American, I want information about your ROOTS because you've got to have some sort of insight" shtick is really loving tiring. I can't tell from how it's written if the OP espouses your interpretation. I think they're saying they want to engage and learn from people from different countries (that have different cultures). This line: > Doesn't matter where they are born, why are such topics censored? didn't read like to me that they wanted to apply the same attention to later generation immigrants. Just that people are from various places. I do think their complaint about assigning identity to people under POC or Black labels is uninformed and irrelevant.
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Jan 25, 2022 05:12
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Nebrilos posted:The "first bite" insistence sounds like some kind of power thing. Take a single bite out of everything while in the car, including every fry, then wrap them all back up and bring them home. Watch her lose her poo poo.
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Jan 25, 2022 05:16
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Cowslips Warren posted:Reminds me of a marine bio course I took, where we had to give class presentations, and one group decided to present on kelp forests, and brought in urchin sushi, with a 5 minute horrible presentation with lovely reading off some printed report. I think the professor ate most of it. Christ poly relationships sound exhausting
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Jan 25, 2022 05:19
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Bruceski posted:Without the lead-in context, not justifiable. That whole "I don't care whether you're American, I want information about your ROOTS because you've got to have some sort of insight" shtick is really loving tiring. A few weeks ago I found a book that claimed that Jefferson Davis was planning to free all the slaves/abolish slavery in the confederacy. I've been in a foul mood at any sign of racism ever since and just wanted to make sure I wasn't overreacting (I wasn't, someone else in the comments used the phrase "anti-European agenda"). Let's file this under "white person furious that their claims to non-racism aren't lauded" and continue with our lives. Cowslips Warren posted:AITA for eating my fast food in the car so my girlfriend can’t have the first bite? This is so loving obnoxious that I want to hear the girlfriend's side of the story to see how much and what specific kind of an awful person she is.
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Jan 25, 2022 05:35
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pentyne posted:No. Seriously, take some down south redneck to that place and go "yeah, it's just their version of chitlins" and watch him order it and ask for extra hot sauce. Once again, no, they really do that poo poo all the time. I once had like 4 people leave the kitchen to stare at me eat soup at a Thai place because I ordered a level 3 of 5 spice level, which wasn't even that hot at all but they expected me to instantly die or something And yes I've had to argue with waiters on things like that, one time to the point that I was ready to leave because he was frustrating me so much
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Baronjutter posted:Yeah I've met people like that, my friend dated a girl just like her. She was white but it was a huge point of pride that she wasn't like the other whites, she liked weird exotic foods all you YT mayo eaters couldn't imagine. Her favourite show? Oh it's a real niche anime that never became popular in the west. Absolutely. I've spent most of my life now living abroad and travelling a lot, but I never really tell people when I'm back in the US because it sounds like bragging and I'm kind of tired of answering the same basic questions about it at all. I was out with some old highschool buddies and my friend's gf is a Korean-American and asks us if we love Korean food. Of course we do. So she brags that she is going to take us to a Real Korean Place that isn't like all that basic Mall Stuff. Sure, sounds good. We go to this place in Koreatown. The whole ride over she is telling us how authentic the place is and everything. We get in, sit down, and the waiter brings us a single menu that is all in Korean. There's only a few things on the menu because it is a bbq place. The girl looks us all over and asks for an English menu 'for her friends'. The waiter looks over at the other table full of white people and kind of gestures at how the English menu is 'occupied', so I just say it's fine and start translating the Korean menu for the table. She looked loving livid so I apologize and hand it to her and ask if she has any favorites she'd recommend and it took her a very very long time to admit that she does not read Korean, and only admitted so after she pointed at something and I balked and asked the table if they really want chicken feet. Later on she spoke to me in private and claimed that I humiliated her by ... knowing some Korean? I don't even speak it well I am just a drunken glutton so I know what I like to order already.
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Das Boo posted:Take a single bite out of everything while in the car, including every fry, then wrap them all back up and bring them home. I mean she already lost her poo poo, because how dare he eat food(??!?!?)
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Jan 25, 2022 06:00
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trickybiscuits posted:Related to this, I need some opinions. Is this a justifiably frustrated person who can't spell "Kenyan," or something different? If they're American, lots of immigrant communities coalesced in towns and cities and having that specific identity is a huge point of pride. That person can't or won't wrap their head around not having an identity you can pick out on a map, which the overwhelming majority of Black people in America don't have. It should be pretty obvious just by thinking about it, so I'd lean towards rude, but they could very well be strikingly obtuse.
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Kenshin posted:come on nobody has called for this one yet? We're too classy for rape jokes in gbs these days.
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AITA For telling my sister that her mashed potatoes were disgustingquote:So my family recently had get together where each person would bring a dish. My sister hasn't cooked before, (her words not mine) but she wanted to try new things. So we meet up at my mom's and we sat our dishes down, and began chatting. Since my sister doesn't really cook i was intrested in how she made the mashed potatos, so i asked what recipe she used and she said she boiled potato chips and added butter and cream. I was surprised as I had never heard of mashed potatos made this way, but I didn't say anything because maybe they were good. Once we sat down and started eating I tried the mashed potatoes and they were bad. (This is where i might be TA) After dinner I pulled my sister aside and told her that I thought they were disgusting, but I could give her some recipes and we could try to make them together sometime. She then got really mad and threw water at me and stormed out. So was I TA here? But at least it didn't uave raisins!
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DemoneeHo posted:AITA For telling my sister that her mashed potatoes were disgusting lmfao
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Absurd Alhazred posted:They can go to a restaurant but can't meet her parents? Yeah, if her parents are in China and they’re not. Or if they’re in any two other different countries.
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Is kinda funny how people apparently are so used to the sheltered white guy who loses his poo poo over anything other than nuggies and ketchup that they apparently get completely dumbfounded by the universal archetype of the guy who will eat literally anything, and with gusto.house of the dad posted:I think this thread has been around long enough for people to know that what can be a kind of endearing quirk at first will inevitably turn into a maddening drain on your life. Doing something constantly to your partner that they find annoying makes you a lovely partner. Yeah, does seem like the kind of extremely performative quirk that they will probably die on a hill for and never give anything resembling a coherent justification or explanation for.
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trickybiscuits posted:Related to this, I need some opinions. Is this a justifiably frustrated person who can't spell "Kenyan," or something different?
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I figured it out when they said they were into Japanese and "Northern European" culture.
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Kenshin posted:come on nobody has called for this one yet? Maybe we don't want to reference rape in the thread title?
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trickybiscuits posted:A few weeks ago I found a book that claimed that Jefferson Davis was planning to free all the slaves/abolish slavery in the confederacy. How could anyone have such a baffling opinion? Why even secede, then? The seceding states even said when they did it that it was for slavery! AHHHHHHHH!
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Count me in the camp of folks who just really wants to eat some jellyfish now. I figure it's similar to squid, and I like squid a lot! Yes it's flavorless and chewy, but it's nutrient rich and that's what sauces and spices are for.
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Jan 25, 2022 07:46
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Nebrilos posted:How could anyone have such a baffling opinion? Why even secede, then? The seceding states even said when they did it that it was for slavery! AHHHHHHHH! Pretty much immediately after losing the Confederacy began a massive nonstop propaganda campaign claiming that everything they did was good and justified, which received next to zero pushback, at the same time re-enslaving black people in all but name. This never really stopped.
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Nebrilos posted:How could anyone have such a baffling opinion? Why even secede, then? The seceding states even said when they did it that it was for slavery! AHHHHHHHH! This is the "lost cause" myth, which essentially started by taking as fact that the confederacy was good and honorable and spun out whatever was necessary to justify it from there
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Peaceful Anarchy posted:I know you said you figured it out in a subsequent post, but this is all I needed to know it's a Nazi enthusiast. The "ANY culture" bit is the same one white nationalists use to argue it's not hate, just segregation for everyone's Which is wild because Nazis considered Slavs subhuman.
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Blastedhellscape posted:Count me in the camp of folks who just really wants to eat some jellyfish now. I figure it's similar to squid, and I like squid a lot! Yes it's flavorless and chewy, but it's nutrient rich and that's what sauces and spices are for. It's kind of like wakame, if you've had that
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AITA for refusing to do a Titanic-themed wedding?quote:My fiance (33M) is obsessed with the Titanic movie and wants our whole wedding to be Titanic-themed. I (23M) don't really like the movie that much and I figured that it'd be unfair to theme our entire wedding about something that only one of us cares about. I told him I wouldn't mind some Titanic references here and there but he started crying and said he wants the whole thing to be Titanic-themed because that's "the wedding he always dreamed about". He then stormed out the house and hasn't spoken to me since (this was two days ago). I feel bad for making him cry but I still think he's being unreasonable. I spoke to my parents about it and they said that if I want to get married I need to learn to make sacrifices so I should just go along with it. AITA?
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Miserable Maid posted:Once again, no, they really do that poo poo all the time. I once had like 4 people leave the kitchen to stare at me eat soup at a Thai place because I ordered a level 3 of 5 spice level, which wasn't even that hot at all but they expected me to instantly die or something Yeah I feel like a lot of people haven't actually gone to these sort of restaurants? It is absolutely a thing. I lived in Asia for years and was frequently asked 'Can you eat ______?' like it was a big achievement and anytime you say yes they make a big show of approval. It's a combination of pride in their own culture and disbelief that a foreigner would be into the stuff. It is totally common for me to order something 'unusual' from a street stand and the lady will get excited and get the attention of all the neighboring stands to watch me eat it. Sometimes they are encouraging, sometimes they are doubtful, sometimes they are super impressed, but it is quite frequently a Big Deal. I worked at a Korean middle school and they straight out had an 'initiation' night for new foreign teachers where they would take us out and make us drink soju and eat bugs and other weird stuff and anyone who managed it was considered Very Good And Surprising while anyone who recoiled or refused would confirm their suspicion that 'Foreigners can't eat this.' I'll eat everything, often just to prove a point, but I've also found some new favorites by just trying stuff. I avoided raw blood soup for months until I was 'challenged' about eating it and now I actually order it even without a cheering audience. The waitresses will still try to talk me out of it. It is quite common to also go a little overboard with it just to shut them up. Like if they put some super spicy sauce on the table and insinuate that it is too much for foreigners, I'll just put a big glob of it on my next bite and smile it down. Sometimes they get the unspoken message, sometimes they don't. I actually like all sorts of weird stuff, but then again I'm the guy who eats all sorts of weird White People food like anchovies, tripe, blood sausage, liver, etc, so it doesn't really faze me to be presented with a fried scorpion or a live octopus. I just try everything with a big smile because I have zero allergies and the worst case scenario is that my mouth is slightly uncomfortable for a few seconds. People are loving weirdos about food.
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Man, my “foreigners won’t eat this!!!!” experience has been salmiakki, kräftor, and blodpudding. Not keen on either of the three. Still haven’t crossed the surströmming bridge as I’ve yet to have the opportunity* *I might abuse this for a charity-type sitch in nicer weather
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AITA for 'overreacting' when my boyfriend put IcyHot in my bra?quote:I'm so mad right now, my hands are shaking. Apologies for all typos.
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Kurieg posted:I mean she already lost her poo poo, because how dare he eat food(??!?!?) Once at a bar I met up with a girl I had been barely dating. I told her I was starving and asked if she wanted any food. She declined, so I ordered myself a burger and fries, chilled for awhile, and then noticed I had paint stains on my fingernails. I went into the bathroom for about 7 minutes to wash up. I came back out and we sat and drank again for awhile, and did the bar trivia game. I got so caught up in the trivia that I forgot the burger I ordered, and went to go ask about it. The waiter seemed confused, the place was super busy, and I just assumed it got lost in the shuffle. I sat down and told the girl about it and she acted concerned and complained about the service in this joint and how rude it was for them to let me go hungry for 2 hours. After trivia is over her and her friends go to another bar and I go to pay up the tab. My burger is on my tab. I complain to the manager about it and he shows me the footage from the security camera of the burger getting delivered to my seat and this girl just housing the entire thing and the fries in about 3 minutes, then giving the plate to a waiter to clean up. All this happened while I was washing my hands. Stone cold.
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[CA] Roommate left 30 bottles of piss in his room.quote:So recently my roommate left after he got into a fight with us. I didn’t care cause we all hated him anyways, but after he left I found at least 30 bottles of piss, if not more, inside his cabinet.
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I wouldn't immediately ping "Khenia" as a weird racist thing; my first thought would be that that's how it's spelled in or transliterated from their first language and they could be (falsely) assuming that there are multiple valid spellings in English, like how someone using a Wade-Giles transliteration of Chinese (like Mao Tse-Tung or Szechuan pepper) is probably not doing a racialist power play if it's the only off thing they're saying. It's, uh, not the only off thing that dude is saying. trickybiscuits posted:Context was it was a comment on an internet video titled "Were the Vikings really diverse? Expert counters fake news" which felt concerning. I didn't want to watch it. Ah yeah, I actually know this story. The video is exactly what you think; the "fake news" is a paper published by a research group comprising geneticists and archeologists, which idly noted that dark eyes and hair were fairly common in medieval Scandinavia, and the "expert" is a historian who co-authored the paper and went on record saying that that's totally bogus, the vikings were all blonde and blue-eyed Adones. I'm not sure why he was a co-author in the first place, but the other authors of the paper released a brief statement debunking the video and saying they would not collaborate with him in the future. E: The video was originally posted on Survive the Jive, which, also, is exactly what it sounds like. Zulily Zoetrope fucked around with this message at 09:37 on Jan 25, 2022 |
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