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The dutch are known for only eating the yolks of eggs, not the whites (racism?) so people called them yokels as a slur, later joke.
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Carbon dioxide posted:Please do your research before posting in this thread. it was a yolk, friend
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Byzantine posted:The revolution will happen, and then it will descend into the same backbiting and settling accounts and dictatorship and corruption as every single other time the revolution happens. god forbid the us become a corrupted dictatorship run by backbiting morons
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Duodecimal posted:Wait, so what happened? Did the US ever build a navy? They built 2, that's why there's an entire store dedicated to selling off the Old one.
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Nessus posted:I imagine it's just some bullshit about how the real* makers** are being robbed*** by the takers**** "Examples of politicians or groups that are cited by these critics include the Reform Party of the United States of America, Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, and Lou Dobbs, as well as Jean-Marie Le Pen in France, Björn Höcke in Germany and similar dissident politicians across Europe" fuckin nailed it
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you realize Hague and Prague don't rhyme right?
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May 5, 2019 16:21
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Tashilicious posted:same with half the US tbh example:  msg in new york city
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May 23, 2019 07:19
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Kennel posted:My attempt: Went to be with me on [Proper Noun] & [Proper Noun] I sent her home by a sick soldier ed: not normandy
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Jun 9, 2019 23:58
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please stop
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Jul 28, 2019 00:12
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christmas boots posted:I don’t get it i like wordplay as much as the next guy but it was definitely going on too long
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Jul 28, 2019 06:38
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Elyv posted:What was Antillia based off of? Another legendary island, settled by christians escaping the muslim conquest of spain. it's what the Antilles are named for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antillia
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Aug 9, 2019 18:14
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Historical Fun Fact: ESL was a mistake
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pretty impressive that you're reading it upside down edit: wow now i look dumb
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Sep 5, 2019 13:16
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Shifty Nipples posted:I wonder if a new hybrid of UK and US English is developing as people on either side adopt words from the other. nah yeah nah
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Feb 25, 2020 01:06
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:fun fact, kind of: it's amusing to me how the most yee-haw, confederate-flag-wavin' klan-infested parts of the south these days are the ones that were most opposed to the original confederacy. Nowadays they're Trump country and political centres and the plantation land of old are the most progressive bits of the south (largely thanks to the black citizens of those areas, but the trend holds for white people too.) yeah it sure is weird how the poor people who got dumpstered by the federal government hate the government as opposed to the slave owners who got off easy and were allowed to keep all their land and money
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Feb 25, 2020 14:43
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I'm gonna contest your claim that the black belt and the residents of the south's large coastal cities are mainly the descendants of rich slave owners, and also that the rural inner south mainly votes for fascists because of economic anxiety uhh most of the rich white (non yankee) liberals in the south's large cities are former slave owners my dude, sorry to ruin your classist argument?
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Feb 25, 2020 15:09
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CommunityEdition posted:As an American, my people’s legend is that when the country is in danger, our leader will hide inside a mountain while the rest of us burn. in the dead city of raleigh, trump lies sleeping
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Apr 25, 2020 21:30
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Carthag Tuek posted:I found a contract from 1831 where one of my ancestors sold his farm to another dude, with the condition that he could live in a house on the property until his death. Also he was to be supplied with a liter of brandy and "a half quart" of dipping tobacco per week. Not sure what unit tobacco was usually measured in, but it can't have been the same as butter cause that would make out to 14 kilograms. idk man, as a southerner I've definitely seen people who go through a pint of tobacco a week
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Jun 2, 2020 15:17
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Carthag Tuek posted:14kg is a lot more than a pint tho Yeah but butter is way more dense than tobacco. I know ye olde measurements aren't standardized but 1 pint (half a quart) of water is only ~500 grams
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Jun 2, 2020 21:43
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oh half quarter *barrels* of tobacco uhhh yeah your ancestor was either selling it to make money or was a loving human smokehouse
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Jun 2, 2020 23:37
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Red Bones posted:Bungalow is another one, being just an adaption of Bengali, as in "a Bengali style house". The folk etymology of it being a shortening of "bung a low roof on the building" is a lot better though imo. Do Americans call them Bungalows? The only one-story small suburban houses I know of in the US are shotgun houses. Yeah america has Bungalows.  wide front porch, front sloping roof. they were a very popular suburban model of house
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Kanine posted:idk if its just because im an american who was raised fairly areligiously but the idea of people actually still giving a poo poo over whos catholic or whatever flavor of protestant or whatever in the year of our lord 2020 is absolutely insane nutso bonkers to me tbf a lot of that was cleared by noted catholic JFK. You know the poo poo about "Barack THE MUSLIM Obama"? Imagine that but John F "THE PAPIST" Kennedy and you have a pretty accurate picture of late 50s america
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Dec 13, 2020 21:35
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also why the gently caress wouldn't americans support the IRA? We have a common origin: hating the english
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Dec 13, 2020 21:39
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canyoneer posted:Handshake meme with the Irish, French, Scottish, and Americans hell yeah
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Dec 13, 2020 21:48
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Sweevo posted:This is the exact same moronic logic as "hurr blue states should secede and let the south rot". little bit different considering that the roles are reversed. in the UK England is the powerhouse that sets the rules while Scotland feels left out. In the US the North is the one who sets the rules while poor people in the South basically live in a third world country.
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drrockso20 posted:Maybe it's just me but this guy seems like a colossal rear end in a top hat rather than anything admirable so? who gives a gently caress what you think
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Feb 2, 2021 05:20
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imagine being such a backwards culture that you haven't invented surnames yet
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May 11, 2022 18:49
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Wabash = Clear Flowing Water Ohio = Good River Mississippi = Great River A lot of the Mississippi's watershed are just the local word for some variation of river
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May 17, 2022 07:17
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zedprime posted:Got nothing on the strip of the Mississippi basin/midwest that is Egypt but pronounced wrong. you mean it's not supposed to be pronounced Care-Oh?
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May 24, 2022 21:39
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the mississippi is the nile of america and thus we have named its cities after the great cities of egypt such as Memphis, Cairo, and Caruthersville
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May 24, 2022 23:45
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:When Roald Dahl was a WW2 pilot, he and his comrades were flying a sortie against a Vichy airbase in what was then Vichy french mandate of Syria. should've turned them collaborators into swiss cheese imo
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The Sausages posted:It's a shame you weren't there to show them how it's done tough guy. The hesitation was most certainly because of the presence of the women. Might as well hear it from the horse's mouth: the nazis killed men women and children day in and day out, they don't deserve a warning flyby
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Strange how some schoolbooks tell murderous nazis came in all kinds of nationalities except for american oh no there were tons of american nazis and they deserved to die
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