ultrafilter posted:

Worst post of the day so far.

SpeakSlow posted:

Here's some no-brain fun. Take your most hated internet meme, stick a Transformer or two in it, and bash it to crap!

Examples of annoying meme:





Examples of memes being bashed (SO FUNNY):





Now do yours!

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Grape posted:

Though it continues to be hilarious how Brits just can't take the heat on this subject.

Butterfly Valley posted:

There is no heat to take, is the point. Self deprecation and satire are integral parts of British culture and identity whereas Americans are probably the most thin skinned nation of cry babies on the planet when it comes to any perceived slight against the nation. I left my own poo poo country because I hated the politics, the fawning deference to an evil upper class who we repeatedly elect even while they openly mock us, the rapidly accelerating deterioration of any sensible and measured public discourse, a media in bed with those in power who do nothing to question the open corruption, and the infantilisation of entertainment to the point a lot of tv shows are indistinguishable from those made up in dystopic satirical shows from years past that tried to predict the declining intellect of the people. I'm the first to take the piss about any and all of that, along with our weird cultural habits, our poo poo colonialist history, our imagined superiority to the rest of the world even though we're an increasingly irrelevant little island off the coast of a continent we voluntarily severed our main economical links with.

Our food, literature, music, comedy, and other arts-related things are about the only thing I'll defend, because they're objectively good. Americans trying to own Brits about our food usually involves referencing stupid poo poo pulled out of 200 year old cookbooks which no-one had ever heard of until they were dredged up eons later, or are super racist by telling British Indians and Pakistanis that their food culture doesn't count as British, or very quickly involve into people trying to type like Dick Van Dyke and it's just a bit embarrassing.

Good, my friend is an astrophotographer and his job has been made exponentially more difficult by Musk's vanity project here

Glad you're enjoying them.

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Douche Wolf 89 posted:

GBS Schad thread delivering due to food chat

90s Cringe Rock posted:

Yeah but could you beat a rock?

MrUnderbridge posted:

That depends. Is there vegetation around that I could use to make rudimentary paper?

Brawnfire posted:

Sounds like you've got it covered

Outrail posted:

'Pointing out my cultural appropriation is racist' is an ambitious take tho.

Gravitas Shortfall posted:

Immigrant cuisine is super interesting but also gets weird when you start trying to fit it into neat little cultural boxes because you get a lot of dishes that are in the style of traditional food but altered to either fit the majority culture's palate (or perceived palate), or modified to use different ingredients because the usual ones aren't available, or actually a version of a regional dish but done in their culture's style.

Gravitas Shortfall posted:

Immigrant cuisine is super interesting but also gets weird when you start trying to fit it into neat little cultural boxes because you get a lot of dishes that are in the style of traditional food but altered to either fit the majority culture's palate (or perceived palate), or modified to use different ingredients because the usual ones aren't available, or actually a version of a regional dish but done in their culture's style.

Breetai posted:

People who insist on sharp borders and purity of essence in food strike me as having the same kind of brainworms as the weirdos who insist on keeping languages static and unchanging without understanding what a complete bastard polyglot fuckpile of different regional tongues basically every single language already is. Like, people who unironically want to keep Italian cooking traditional and pure without considering that it would involve a shitload of Garum and no loving tomatoes because those are a recent import, and who would essentially be writing off a vast chunk of Vietnamese food.

My grandmother came to Australia with Oregano seeds sewn into the hem of her dress for want of any growing here, and had to go to the pharmacy to buy Olive Oil with which to make her disgusting foreign muck, and nowadays there's an entire shelf in the supermarket for 20 different varieties of pasta noodle.

Outrail posted:

Polyglot Fuckpile would be a great multi-language punk band name

Breetai posted:

People who insist on sharp borders and purity of essence in food strike me as having the same kind of brainworms as the weirdos who insist on keeping languages static and unchanging without understanding what a complete bastard polyglot fuckpile of different regional tongues basically every single language already is. Like, people who unironically want to keep Italian cooking traditional and pure without considering that it would involve a shitload of Garum and no loving tomatoes because those are a recent import, and who would essentially be writing off a vast chunk of Vietnamese food.

My grandmother came to Australia with Oregano seeds sewn into the hem of her dress for want of any growing here, and had to go to the pharmacy to buy Olive Oil with which to make her disgusting foreign muck, and nowadays there's an entire shelf in the supermarket for 20 different varieties of pasta noodle.

Outrail posted:

'Pointing out my cultural appropriation is racist' is an ambitious take tho.

Robobot posted:

Pasta was an import to Italy too!

Edit:
Also the Romans only used garlic for medicine. Supposedly. That one is hard for me to believe because, I mean, come on. That poo poo is delicious.

RFC2324 posted:

I imagine immigrant british or american chefs in like, thailand make some absolutely wonderful dishes for exactly the reasons you describe

A GLISTENING HODOR posted:

I bet the German food in Argentina is to die for.

A GLISTENING HODOR posted:

I bet the German food in Argentina is to die for.

Valko posted:

Alan Smithee posted:

ps1 jrpg cutscene jesus

EorayMel posted:

Outrail posted:

Argentinian pastries fresh from the oven

Splicer posted:

Karate Bastard posted:

I just appropriated all'a'y'all's culture haha it's mine now suck it you racists

brucie boner posted:

Yuo're all stupid loving nerds.

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EorayMel posted:

Your posts are a construct but instead of being composed of neon blue light like the laser bikes in Tron they are a wilty brown dead color that sits unkempt in the window at the airport gift shop day after day until the sunlight leeches all color from it and it collapes into gray nothingness.

EorayMel posted:

Your posts are a construct but instead of being composed of neon blue light like the laser bikes in Tron they are a wilty brown dead color that sits unkempt in the window at the airport gift shop day after day until the sunlight leeches all color from it and it collapes into gray nothingness.

brucie boner posted:

Institutions do matter though. Institutions are not ethereal constructs only made up by the "political class," they are upheld by masses of people. Why is that institution in place in the first place?

RFC2324 posted:

seriously tho, I don't have archives and am curious what post generated that probe reason lol

shame on an IGA posted:

you believe a German organization would decline an opportunity to file a form?

Soylent Pudding posted:

I got to listen to a lecture by the historian who wrote the book on how IBM knowingly sold machines to the Nazis that managed logistics for the Holocaust. Among other things IBM executives would fly to meetings in neutral Portugal and took great pains to ensure no written records of these meetings were taken. We know about them because the Nazis took minutes in triplicate and also always sent an extra copy to IBM with "here are the details of our illicit under the table verbal agreement for your records."

Kitfox88 posted:

meincrimes.txt

Kenning posted:

Kind of a boring post tbh:

ToxicFrog posted:

RFC2324 posted:

I just went to look at his rap sheet, and this isn't the right probations message to post matchup, based on his rap sheet.

Shenanigans!

EorayMel posted:

It's funnier to me dammit