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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I mean I suppose literally almost everyone who watched TV during the 90s counts as "a specific section of the American populace", but... I had a pavlovian craving for chips and salsa when I saw this. Typical Sunday football snack with Dad.
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orange juche posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj6Dvt1UNx8 You are vastly under estimating how much American popular culture spreads elsewhere. A lot of companies will just dub commercials. Plus the internet. I wasn’t allowed to watch tv in English - we only had three English channels anyway - until I was like 12, and yet I can still quote the “another scorcher!” commercial. poo poo, Fox released the first season box set of the Simpsons with the European French dub here and I’m surprised there were no holy wars over it. God drat that dub sucks.
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American culture is widespread and theres also no shortage of people you can survey or hire to make sure your message hits the right notes. They are good videos, but people are being weird about them imo.
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May 20, 2023 01:14
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FrozenVent posted:You are vastly under estimating how much American popular culture spreads elsewhere. A lot of companies will just dub commercials. Yeah but Canada is basically America's hat so that's not surprising
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May 20, 2023 01:15
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One time I was stuck in the waiting room of a brothel in Russia* for an uncomfortably long time (long story) and the tv was playing Major Payne with documentary style Russian dubs. American culture permeates. *this was over 15 years ago
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I got this at Future Shop as a kid and I'm still fuming about how bad it was. Marge and Homer were the worst.
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Bronze Fonz posted:I got this at Future Shop and I'm still fuming about how bad it was. Marge and Homer were the worst. Seriously. I don’t need Bart speaking like Schwarzenegger.
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golden bubble posted:If I remember correctly, in the beginning Ukraine only had about 5000 reliable fighters total in 2014. In those desperate times, they couldn't afford to turn down any help, no matter who it was. Times have changed since then. Also they make up a significantly small amount, and are not well supported. The actual party associated with Azov Nazis lost all but one seat in Ukrainian Parliament. There are problem children/Nazis in Ukraine for sure, but at this point most of the stuff is Russia screaming about it while fully supporting Nazis that'll help them fight Ukraine (like Wagner which is out and out White Supremacist AND Nazi).
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FrozenVent posted:One time I was stuck in the waiting room of a brothel in Russia* for an uncomfortably long time (long story) and the tv was playing Major Payne with documentary style Russian dubs. Were they even trying to do the voice or was it just flat Russian speaking
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Baghdad, 2003- we stopped a kid to ask what he was listening to. "50 Cent!" Sure enough, this 11 year kid was bumping NY Hip Hop in a war zone. America's greatest foreign policy trick is making us media so ubiquitous and homogeneous, it's like dust- a thin layer every where.
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May 20, 2023 01:27
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FrozenVent posted:One time I was stuck in the waiting room of a brothel in Russia* for an uncomfortably long time (long story) and the tv was playing Major Payne with documentary style Russian dubs. Tabarnak! You can't just say that without telling the story.
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CainFortea posted:Were they even trying to do the voice or was it just flat Russian speaking Flat as gently caress Russian speaking, it was glorious and fascinating to my drunk rear end. Not enough to make me forget the security dude with the sub machine gun but hey. bulletsponge13 posted:
American culture is basically the default worldwide, except in small pockets of eg China.
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bulletsponge13 posted:America's greatest foreign policy trick is making us media so ubiquitous and homogeneous, it's like dust- a thin layer every where. Yeah, the missionaria protectiva is a real thing.
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FrozenVent posted:Flat as gently caress Russian speaking, it was glorious and fascinating to my drunk rear end. Not enough to make me forget the security dude with the sub machine gun but hey.
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FrozenVent posted:One time I was stuck in the waiting room of a brothel in Russia* for an uncomfortably long time (long story) and the tv was playing Major Payne with documentary style Russian dubs. My dude, one day in Moscow I drunkenly saw a Russian dub of “Don’t be a Menace”
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bulletsponge13 posted:Baghdad, 2003- we stopped a kid to ask what he was listening to. While searching jingle trucks in Afghanistan a buddy of mine found a cassette of some CCR. I just imagine his whole truck shaking back and forth driving the passes from Pakistan while blasting Bad Moon Rising.
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FrozenVent posted:One time I was stuck in the waiting room of a brothel in Russia* for an uncomfortably long time (long story) and the tv was playing Major Payne with documentary style Russian dubs. I had an ex who was stationed way out in the bush in a place literally called by most Europeans "green hell" where old ladies still have facial tattoos in a village that was only accessable by plane but 12 year old girls still listen to Taylor swift and I had to tell people that vaccines do not cause autism. Some details didn't quite make it through. One day, her counterpart came into work distraught, sat down and asked her: "did you know Elton John is a gay?!" "Miss, he's like, the king of the gays." Also, In my village, the kindergarteners had Sharknado screened for them on the last day of school. They loving loved it. Borscht fucked around with this message at 01:53 on May 20, 2023 |
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Wrong Theory posted:While searching jingle trucks in Afghanistan a buddy of mine found a cassette of some CCR. I just imagine his whole truck shaking back and forth driving the passes from Pakistan while blasting Bad Moon Rising. One of the most surreal moments was walking in a living room, and seeing a picture of Imam Hussain and Britney Spears.
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Wrong Theory posted:While searching jingle trucks in Afghanistan a buddy of mine found a cassette of some CCR. I just imagine his whole truck shaking back and forth driving the passes from Pakistan while blasting Bad Moon Rising. gently caress yes
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orange juche posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj6Dvt1UNx8 PR and ad agencies know what they are doing cr0y fucked around with this message at 02:20 on May 20, 2023 |
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Borscht posted:I had an ex who was stationed way out in the bush in a place literally called by most Europeans "green hell" where old ladies still have facial tattoos in a village that was only accessable by plane but 12 year old girls still listen to Taylor swift and I had to tell people that vaccines do not cause autism. Some details didn't quite make it through. One day, her counterpart came into work distraught, sat down and asked her: "did you know Elton John is a gay?!" Anecdotes like these are what make the internet a magical place.
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bulletsponge13 posted:One of the most surreal moments was walking in a living room, and seeing a picture of Imam Hussain and Britney Spears. Imagine how weird it is for people not from the US to find poo poo from their culture bleeding into a hinterland. My dad took the Trans-Siberian from one end to the other as an unattached tourist. That is, alone and without a tourist guide. The first people he met on the train were American Menonnites. They spoke in German and English thoughout the entire journey. Very much later, in Mongolia, he took a cab to do some shopping and the cab driver was listening to Krautrock (Spliff, I think) on the tape deck. "Hallo! I like this band. Do you speak German?" And the man responds in a broad Berlin accent, "Yes! I spent five years there to earn my degree! So nice to meet a German here!" Even more extreme for a German is Cornelius Rost's escape into Iran from a Siberian prison camp. Caught by the Iranians, unable to communicate effectively, and facing explusion back to the USSR, the elevator he is riding in has a maker's plaque with the name of the company his uncle (who had worked and lived in Turkey for a number of years) worked at. That sparked his mind to ask for his uncle, who ultimately got him out of confinement and back into Europe. For myself, I hated the leaking of US poo poo into Europe when I was a teen. Things used to seep through slower in the 90's, so I got three summers of the Macarena craze. US, Germany, and then Czechia. Like, girls doing the dance was fine for teenage MiT, but walking through the old towns with it blaring from every speaker got old quick.
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FrozenVent posted:One time I was stuck in the waiting room of a brothel in Russia* for an uncomfortably long time (long story) and the tv was playing Major Payne with documentary style Russian dubs. Хочешь, я отвлеку тебя от этой боли? Georgia had an infantry unit in Baqubah, stationed out of FOB Warhorse. One of the few of them that spoke English had a CD Discman that someone had given him, with one CD. Shania Twain. Four hour guard shift with himm, all I heard faintly from his headset was the "Feel Like A Woman". That blaring beginning. BLANNN DAN DUN DUN DUN, DUN DUN For the better part of two weeks. Four hours a day. So I burn him at least 30 CDs, I asked around, got everyone in the unit to offer up music. Snoop, No Doubt, Metallica, everything. Give him a huge stack. Nice guy, very appreciative, very happy. Beginning of the very next shift. Guard briefing, ride to the tower, etc. Get the gear down, do a shift change brief, scan the sector. BLANNN DAN DUN DUN DUN, DUN DUN Sigh.
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When I lived in Russia I made friends with the other students at the hostel and my Russian buds excitedly made plans to go out to dinner with me, their new American pal, and made a big deal out of it. we went to fuckin kfc
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When I was in Beijing on a work trip a local fan club of our product wanted to meet up…at Sizzler. It had a pretty acceptable wine list, though.
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mllaneza posted:I need to see that picture. "The guy"?? That's Laszlo Cravensworth you cretin
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He's the toast of London!
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That's Jackie Daytona, you nitwits
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GD_American posted:That's Jackie Daytona, you nitwits Regular human bartender.
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bananana nana nana nanana.
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GD_American posted:That's Jackie Daytona, you nitwits No, it's a picture of a self-propelled gun with an exploded barrel.
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Hannibal Rex posted:https://twitter.com/OAlexanderDK/status/1659666109820293120?t=J22TbaFInIzAVrnOG4vGLQ&s=19 There would be so much infighting among potential successors that anyone competent would take months to gain control.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:No, it's a picture of a self-propelled gun with an exploded barrel. No, thats a regular human bartender
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I was staying at a hostel in Zaragoza, Spain for a metal festival when Michael Jackson died. I immediately became both his head of PR and a cultural ambassador from the US for every drunken Spanish metalhead wishing to offer their condolences and ask me about my views on his life.
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GD_American posted:That's Jackie Daytona, you nitwits In that case, I’d like a regular human beer please.
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Sir, this is a Wendy's. For content, Zelenski is at the G7 summit. https://www.nu.nl/300483/video/zelensky-aangekomen-voor-g7-top-in-hiroshima.html RBA-Wintrow fucked around with this message at 11:17 on May 20, 2023 |
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RBA-Wintrow posted:For content, Zelenski is at the G7 summit. I always forget how drat tall J-Trizzle is compared to a lot of world leaders until I see a lineup where his six-foot-two rear end stands apart. 
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I did a couple years as an exchange officer with the German navy. Our boat got deployed to the Med for the UN Lebanon mission, but the maritime component was based out of Cyprus. Our first night on island, the other officers wanted to go out to someplace new for dinner. As we cruise around Limassol, they unanimously decide on where they want to eat: Bennigan's
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Hannibal Rex posted:I'm not seriously considering this. Killing Shoigu would be interrupting your enemy while he's making a mistake and vacate his job for someone who might be more competent.
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