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Fil5000 posted:One of my dad's friends moved to the Netherlands for work back in the 90s. They were out there for a decade and his wife basically made a point of not learning a loving word of Dutch. How do you spend a decade somewhere and not pick up ANYTHING without deliberately trying? The Netherlands is slightly different, because virtually everyone actually does speak English (which isn't true in Germany, that dude's in a bubble), and Dutch people love to show off their English skills, and (in the words of my Dutch teacher) they like to have a secret language for themselves that the foreigners don't understand - so they're not huffy if you don't speak Dutch, even after several years. BUT, you would still have to insulate yourself on purpose to fail to pick up the basics. More importantly, why wouldn't you take advantage of being in that situation! People ask me how to learn a language well, and "living there" is top of the list, which sadly most people don't get the chance to do. And these people squander it 
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pentyne posted:There's a lot of stories of Chinese/Korean tourists who bring entire suitcases full of instant noodles because they don't believe they can get noodles in overseas countries. I saw a comedy band once who had a song called "Giant Illegal Stew" about such tourists going to Australia and getting fined for bringing food in.
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BrigadierSensible posted:On the last name stuff. We have a very noticably Indian last name, (as noticably Indian as Tendulkar, but way more common.) And as such are constantly getting people surprised when they learn our names. My brother's wife cops it as well. She is a kindergarten teacher, and has parents come up to her and say "When my daughter said her teacher was Mrs "Tendulkar"(not our real name), I didn't expect it to be a white woman. This was an interesting post. And this bit makes me wonder how much overlap there is between the "wife and children must have husband's name!!" people we see in this thread, and the "white woman is called Mrs Jayawardene?? Does not compute" people..
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Foo Diddley posted:oh you deliberately humiliated me on my first day at work in order to undermine my career, how thoughtful and sweet of you Treating Ross Geller as an instruction manual
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Soylent Pudding posted:AITA For Reporting My Brother For Child Abandonment?  That's not calling her bluff. He had no reason to think she was lying about being away, and she had no idea he was going to dump them, so there's no reason for her to have stayed out of guilt either.
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Skellybones posted:to avoid confusion: Me=Me, My wife= Wife - proceeds to refer to Alex (I assume) as "he" on first mention, making it sound like the farmer uncle met Megan in college.
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Hey, it's me. I enjoy being the photographer at friends' weddings, gives me something to do, makes them happy, and it's an easy high-value low-cost wedding present. But I wait to be asked, after my wife (/assistant/social wrangler) has hinted that I might be up for it - in a way they can just ignore if they want someone else, or don't like my style. And we have wedding experience (that poster's right that it's not a walk in the park).
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Excellent combination of 2 great genres, "help people are speaking not-English" and "stop doing that or get out... wait where are you going?" Also great response: Arsenic Lupin posted:I approached Sam when she was alone and told her that I would appreciate it she refrained from speaking Spanish in my home. She said okay. I thought it was a done deal when she added ‘I’ll just speak Portuguese then.’
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Pomme de Terror posted:What's he actually getting at...? Ooh, less microagressions, that sounds good! [touches earpiece] I'm sorry, that's "less people complaining about microagressions, which I think are made up"
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[sprinkling her with graphite dust] "This is the only allotrope of carbon you're going to see from me!"
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Admiral Joeslop posted:AITA for disciplining my daughter for crashing my car? My perception of US driving instruction is "lax", mainly based on these forums and US media, but in Europe it's very normal for the accompanying adult to be legally seen as the driver. In which case, she could turn around and tell him he's going to jail for manslaughter, put on her sunglasses and walk away from the accident he (legally speaking) is responsible for But I'm guessing that's not a thing (everywhere) in the US?
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Nearly all the tea etiquette can translate seamlessly to coffee for Americans, and indeed it's really not that hard. It's prepackaged ingredients, boiling water, and often signature or marked vessels so you know whose is whose. loving it up repeatedly is a sign of Problems one way or another. The most tea-disciplined theatre I toured to in the UK warned touring companies to bring their own mugs from home/digs, because everyone had their own mug in the green room, no spares, wash your own, don't touch other people's. And the whole building stopped for tea at the same time, morning and afternoon, so everyone saw each other regardless of what their job was. It was nice.
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Hughlander posted:
If a men has scorch masks, does that mean he's cheating with his best friend.?
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ad090 posted:AITA for "ruining" a birthday party because the planner disrespected me? What do you MEAN I'm kicking the kid out of her OWN house? Do you SEE her name on the DEED??
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edogawa rando posted:AITA for not switching seats? There's only 1 type of train from London to Paris, and it works like a plane, with assigned seating, passport control, security checks, and crew you can ask to enforce your seat. The Americans obviously didn't choose their seats ahead of time (or weren't able to because it was a tour), didn't like the random ones they'd been assigned, saw a table and nabbed it. Which is fine up to the point of making a fuss when asked to move. Also from mom of the year: quote:He said if it was Rachel I wouldn't have made that assumption, though I assured him this wasn't true Sure, there definitely exists a situation in which Rachel starts acting weird/sick and the mom just assumes she's looking for attention 
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Probably because I'm Brit-ish, but the term "a twin bed" makes me instantly angry. "Twin beds" is a description of how many beds are in the room. It's right there in the name! And every hotel I've stayed in with twin beds has had 2x "Full" or bigger, as per the diagram above. Now that I've calmly explained this, AITA*? *Reddit acronym meaning "Account Is Throwaway" Bobstar fucked around with this message at 15:13 on Jul 11, 2023 |
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Tobermory posted:Husband got a “married sex” education and I don’t know what I think about it Of course not, if they were "blood" related they would share the same Christiocytes that make a person religious Re DNA guy, that reminded me that when I was very young and first learned about genes via the medium of the classic double helix picture (in pretty colours) and being told these were inside you, I pictured these helices inside my abdomen alongside the guts, the size of long party streamers all stuffed in there. But then I turned into a functioning adult...
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oh dope posted:Yes banks are famous for bluffing about unpaid mortgages. But he did pay his mortgage. Sure, it wasn't "the right amount" or "every month", but it should still count
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artsy fartsy posted:AITA for not giving my sister my prom photos? Normally I get very judge’y about bizarre apostrophe usage (Steve and I's or fiance') but I quite like that one
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oh jay posted:This is what happens when when AI tries to cook. Well before the current round of """AI""" kicked off, I remember reading neural network recipes like this quote:¼ cup coconut fluff rings
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Jul 31, 2023 19:54
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Arsenic Lupin posted:AITA for the way I reacted to my neurotypical children telling me they won't be caring for their sibling? "I'm not telling you to put your lives on hold, I'm telling you to stand by to put your lives on hold!"
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I like how often it’s a cocktail napkin. This proof is written on a cocktail napkin And it still says 0.9999... = 1 And 1 is spelled wrong! The Maroon Hawk posted:"I loving depended on you and I love Calvin's dad. Is that the binoculars moment?
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Cerekk posted:Billions of people every day do poo poo they don't enjoy in exchange for payment Because of your crazy moon units, I initially parsed 110° as the arc of the mess, or possibly how far the portapotty span 
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"I thought we were having a steak dinner" "Ohh nooo, I said 'cake sinner' - that's what I call Devil's Food Cake" ... "Yes, and you call it 'cake sinner' despite the fact that it obviously has vanilla icing"
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Khanstant posted:I'd be mean to Easton too. Hey be nice, Sheena Easton saved his life as a baby
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CannonFodder posted:Hi. I worked as a janitor and in other jobs where I mopped up the floor. But what if you fill the entire bucket with cleaning fluid instead of water? Then by definition it can never get dirty Checkmate, "mop expert"
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blatman posted:i dont have the soapy cilantro gene but i love eating soap so i just buy cilantro flavored soap INFO: Are you the King of Town?
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Oh ye gods! My roast is ruined! But what if... I were to get the youngun to order some food with their newfangled tiktoks, while mocking them for not understanding technology that was obsolete a decade before they were born? Oh ho ho Delightfully devilish, Boom-mour
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When I was a kid on holiday in Portugal, I needed a hat, so we just grabbed a baseball cap that said "sporting" on it. I thought it was just a generic hat supporting the concept of sports I wore it to school and my Portuguese friend was very angry. Apparently "Sporting Lisbon" were his football team's deadly rivals. But we were like 9. This guy sucks.
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3 words: Airside Pod Hotel (or High Speed Rail, but I hear that's communism)
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Cowslips Warren posted:MIL told my daughter that Santa isn’t real, so I told her that God isn’t real I liked the incongruous de-escalation of things in this part. "You tried to kidnap our daughter. You're under arrest, you might go to prison, or a mental health facility, we've taken out a restraining order against you... ...oh and you're OFF the pick up list!!" Like I know it needed doing too, just kind of goes without saying 
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Cowslips Warren posted:AITA for punishing my 16-year-old step-daughter after we found out she was bullying a kid for being poor Holy Simpsons Frogurt Meme Cowslips Warren posted:(f16) Cowslips Warren posted:i was furious as we thought we didnt raise her to behave that way Cowslips Warren posted:her mom and I's money Cowslips Warren posted:(punishment stuff) Cowslips Warren posted:Windows computer
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Kaiju15 posted:I'm sorry. Did your mother give birth to you when she was 5? I also read that as "I'm closer in age to my mother than I am to my sister", because the alternative reading "I, the older sibling, am closer in age to my mother than my sister is", is both trivial and generally not a thing in terms of shared interests 
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Job: +10 Cat: +2000 Yoga class: +230 Divorces: -50000 Monthly fancy meal: +110 Someone who is good at human happiness please help me, my heart is dying
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quantumwell posted:They had a year to get their act together and wasted it being slackers and horrible breeders. No landlord is going to allow six non-potty trained weiner dogs in their property "Property viewing for... ay, six wieners!? Aw crud"
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:WIBTA for (more politely) telling my boyfriend to grow a spine? If they need to do a risky parachute jump to get to the dealership, I feel like everyone should be there.
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Hughlander posted:AITA for kicking my brother and his family out after he tried to give me a whore-a-vention Un-Christian behaviour: helping the poor, the gambler, the addict, the criminal*, housing the unhoused, supporting family Christian behaviour: copious judging and ingratitude; stating "I am a Christian" Hmmmmm *this still counts even though it's all the same guy
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