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Barring some exceptions, every cuisine has both awful and tasty things, the problem with American cuisine is that each portion is 3x the size it should be.
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RagnarokAngel posted:I mean yeah we did and then turned on ourselves. Eh. I would say the Soviet bloc defeated itself, mostly. Just like the West is doing right now.
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fishing with the fam posted:Wait one dang minute. Claude's HP never gets that low! La 7ème Phantasie Finale, avec Claude Étriffe Arise Gainsbourg Tipha Cœur-Verrouillée Barette Valois Rouge XIII Le Grand Chat Cide Vent-Haute Juiffie Gisard Vincent Valentin et Séphirose!
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:oh honh honh honh honh j'aime beaucoup merci beaucoup 
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Yeah I'm kinda wanting to go find and read SMG's greatest hits now because I suspect he was probably making good points, just a decade ahead of his time discourse-wise IIRC I think SMG was a woman. I don't know, I always did enjoy reading her critiques, they were usually at least well-worded and thoughtful (and not in the neckbearded-chin-stroking sense). BotL was just a desperate contrarian who represented the ultimate end of "goony goon confusing critical thinking with mercilessly hating on something.
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Apr 23, 2020 20:29
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MageMage posted:"Look at what happens when a woman complains about the Karen meme. The internet doubles down even harder to harass the woman" "Look at what happens if a white person complains about some other white people being labeled nazis!" Also you forget that being a Karen, like being a nazi, is a choice, unlike being black or gay or whatever. Not only is it a choice, it is a choice to be vile, condescending and entitled, and it is extremely easy to choose not being a Karen. At least religious extremists often have the excuse of being raised in an environment of non-stop indoctrination and they know no better. You should. Get bent, dipshit. Also topical: 
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May 8, 2020 19:03
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El Burbo posted:the clone war was an inside job but the Jedi Council's e-mails
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May 13, 2020 19:20
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 A HORNY SWEARENGEN posted:Noooo you can't say everything is anime just because it comes from Japanerino no real anime has to come from Japan, otherwise it's just sparkling cartoon child porn
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May 13, 2020 21:41
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You're all having good fun now with borderline incomprehensible memes and proliferating them, making them take on even more para-meaning, but you guys do know that that's how FYAD started out its long road into becoming an actual safe space for nihilists and then for nazis, right.
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May 14, 2020 23:57
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euphronius posted:Goths were catholics so .. what am I missing wtf no the Goths were Arianists, one of the earliest non-trinitarian sects of Christianity e: also evidently the Catholics wiped them out 
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May 19, 2020 21:25
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1stGear posted:Why is Germany stealing the USA's incest stereotypes when they have some perfectly, uh, good Habsburgs right over there? The Habsburgs were Austrian
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May 24, 2020 15:54
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CopperHound posted:they did surgery in a Taco Bell
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Jun 2, 2020 22:29
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How can you gently caress up Early Modern English so badly. It's like trying to look all smug and cool in a $50K tuxedo but with a turd in your hair. 
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Jun 6, 2020 22:46
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Pretty sure they called him Hermes Trismegistos or something like that. I may be wrong but I can't remember a single Greek word that ends on a thèta, not even a loanword. 
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Jun 13, 2020 23:45
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Mierenneuker posted:I can’t find the older Big Americans pizza commercial where someone uses the spurs on his boot to slice the pie. Yeah, I was about to say... Ristorante pizzas from Dr Oetker (Dr Oetlul more like am I right) are a Food of Shame you're supposed to eat by yourself
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Jul 6, 2020 22:50
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Elfface posted:Why bother having names for colours? Just have the word colour, and then everything is night-colour, blood-colour, fire colour, plant-colour, sky-colour etc. Your first problem is how you conceptually define a colour. Many people think white and/or black aren't colours, for instance. Secondly, as someone else pointed out, nights can be black, purple, dark blue, etc. so your references would still be arbitrary. Third, even if you got past those two and for some reason people decided to adopt this particular scheme, after some time people would begin to erode your words and differentiate them more because they all sound so similar, so you might end up with stuff like nighto, bloodco, fico, skyco, planto, etc. eventually evolving into nyco, blucco, fyco, skyco, planno, bringing you right back to square one. 
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Jul 12, 2020 12:34
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The joke is that it's not the Mount Olympus on Earth, but the one on Mars You jest but that is the plot of a Dan Simmons novel
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Jul 13, 2020 18:58
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Sagebrush posted:i mean if you read latin you look at a pteranodon and are like "hmm, ol' Wingy No-Teeth, yep" It's a Greek name, though. In Latin it would be something like cornudentibussine
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Byzantine posted:You expect a pope to get anything right? 1054 Never Forget you orthodox son of a bitch
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Samovar posted:And don't get me started on Russian pirates! They're all so self-centered, going around, shouting 'Я'! It's 'ЯРР' ackshually
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As far as I know the standard English taught in continental Europe is, in fact, RP, but since there is a lot more language contact with American English, proficient L2 speakers of English end up with a vaguely American pronunciation anyway. It has given rise to a strange kind of 'European English' in trans-European business that incorporates elements from both as well as elements from L1 languages. I personally speak (a kind of) RP but that's only because I'm an English major and our uni professors all spoke RP (or an approximation thereof). Some students were allowed to use General American if they could present a good reason for it. And yes, some people do think my RP makes me sound like a pretentious twit but it's just the way I've been speaking English for 19 years now. Amusing sidenote: I had an acquaintance who didn't speak much English and went to Zambia for 2 years for a humanitarian organisation, and she came back speaking English with a Zambian accent (she was a light blonde with blue eyes). It sounded amazing  EoinCannon posted:We get a fair bit of British telly in Australia and some of the detective shows have regional accents. Vera, Happy Valley, Doc Martin (not a detective, accents kind of used as a joke) come to mind. Same in Belgium. My parents are huge fans of British police procedurals, and my mum has a really weird accent that's the result from this + Australian friends + spending time with a Northern Irish foster sibling for years.
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snergle posted:gengkis khan brought civilization to the barbarians. Infact rome payed mongolia tribute to not get hosed up by atilla so who is really the savages here. what the Mongol Empire was something from the 13th century, Atilla was from the 5th.
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And yet despite all this genetic intermingling Brits tend to look ugly as poo poo. Apparently in terms of Y-dna ancestry Brits are most similar to Belgians, yet British people have a very distinct look.
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I'm a certified dorklift driver, I can pick up dweebs from a distance of 5m and give them a machine wedgie
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Manager Hoyden posted:I can almost guarantee you're putting too much pressure on them. The solution to bad luck in dating is often dating several people at once and not immediately making plans after a date. Dating several people at once is not for everyone though, I find it extremely exhausting. Also I think that if by the 3rd or 4th date the other person would actually bring up plans for a sequel I would find that very charming. On a 1st date it would be a bit too much pressure, yeah, though all bets are off if it all happens to gel incredibly well.
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Melaneus posted:A musician almost walks into a bar, but ducks just in time. However, while beneath, he is immediately is put in handcuffs.
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burexas.irom posted:Please clap.
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Oct 21, 2020 18:32
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When I crave a quick sugar rush I do often resort back to music I liked from between I was, say 11 and 25, but I like plenty of music from before and after as well. People who get stuck in that timeframe simply have a limited taste and that's okay, they just don't need to pontificate about it. I remember getting Dua Lipa's self-titled debut album a few years ago as a Christmas gift and my best friend mocked me for it: "Pope Hilarius II, I first thought you were simply perving out to young pop queens, but it's worse than that, you actually like their music." Anyway, here's Wonderwall.
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Manager Hoyden posted:If Biden had a R beside his name he would be seen as one of the greatest monsters of 20th century us politics. This is from a page or two back but I think that if Biden was a Republican, libs would be falling all over themselves to like him because he's "one of the decent ones" to prove their dedication to bipartisanship, kind of like how Democrats inexplicably somewhat liked guys like John Huntsman, Lindsay Graham (in his pre-Trump days) and John McCain, despite them being career-long shitlords in their own way. I recall reading an article from the Obama years that Democrats have basically been conditioned like battered housewives to always try and look on the bright side of their opponents and try to work with whomever they can while ignoring the fact that the Republicans have been gradually burning down the house whenever they can out of sheer spite for the last ~30 years. meme tax: 
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marshmallow creep posted:The gently caress is going on with Linehan's head. Like, his physical head. Its like his eyes are at odd angles and his lower face was stuck on wrong. He's Irish. Seriously, I've been to Ireland and many Irish people have that sort of weird, wind-swept, bedraggled, "oh uh is it 5pm already?" face. Joke was on me though because before I opened my mouth people just assumed I was also Irish. BonHair posted:I think Loki has been appropriated as a trans hero because of (for instance) the time he disguised himself as a female horse (how do I not know the English word for a female horse?) and got pregnant with Sleipnir. But mythology is super weird, and I'm willing to bet a lot of it has various bigotry baked in. You're looking for the word "mare".
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Mr. Sunshine posted:I read Silmarillion back in my book-devouring teens. Only thing I remember is this Morgoth dude being a bit of a tosser, and a giant spider eating the magic crystals. Big-tiddy Morgoth girlfriend
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3D Megadoodoo posted:We have Oras Bidettas so we can wetify people even if they're too strong to push into the water closet. Joe Bidet
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hawowanlawow posted:I took a roman history class in college and was told that Christians didn't use the cross as their symbol for a long time, instead using a shepherd or that weird symbol Constantine saw, because it was just so damned embarrassing that their god was killed like a common criminal They also used a fish a lot because it was very easy to doodle and the Greek word for it ("ichthus") was an acronym for Ièsous Chreistos Theou Huios Sotèr (Jesus the Anointed, Son of God, Saviour) - Greek didn't have a separate character for 'H' and both 'CH' and 'TH' were one character. e: Yes I am pope-posting
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Jestery posted:While I have this soapbox Norwegian doesn't have a C essentially for this reason. It's not that the letter is useless, though, IIRC languages like Polish, Czech and Turkish use it to denote a unique phoneme all on its own. English spelling is just uniquely horrible, and Anglos (whether Americans or British) making fun of "weird words" are kind of like a guy who just shat his own pants but is trying to make fun of someone who just farted.
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BonHair posted:The Latin alphabet was lazily copied from the Greek, and adjusted to fit Latin plus a couple of common foreign sounds. Then, and I'm simplifying here, that alphabet was transplanted directly to Old/Middle English (i forget) without being a good fit. Then hundreds of years of change in pronunciation happened with only partial change in spelling, along with various borrowings that sometimes kept their native spelling but not always. That all ads up to English spelling being super dumb. The same is true for languages like Dutch and German (Latin letters transplanted unto Germanic languages), and their spelling-pronunciation relationship makes much more sense. English has no excuses.
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"Building An Army Worthy Of Mordor, Wormtongue Reaction IS PRICELESS" "Please like and subscribe (to the Dark Lord)"
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all priase LOL INVICTUS, god of incessant laughter and merriment
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This is still my favourite Kate Beaton comic. Love how the annoyed face switches from Brahe to Kepler.
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Ah yes, the infamous bathroom.wad, one of those rare times in the late tens SA crept back into public Internet consciousness.
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Empty Sandwich posted:a fatberg
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