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Oh, the other Americans are gonna have to face the music eventually too. I just never had any issue with foreign cultures to begin with. I was the kind of kid who was on web forums in the early aughts saying "don't judge the guy for his grammar, he might not be a native speaker, you don't know that". And that was before I learned of the concept of a dialect. So I'm just overall tired of dealing with this sort of childish "my culture good their culture bad" thinking that nobody seems to have grown out of.

But, you know, I have a very special beef with englishmen, because every time I was like "oh hey have you heard of biscuits and gravy" they'd be like "no wonder Americans are so fat" immediately, without second thought, and refuse to listen to the clarification about what a biscuit is (this was before I knew a British scone was basically an American biscuit but richer and sweet).

And, I mean, it's all superficial and silly until you remember what happens when someone dares to fiddle with European food and make it their own. Masala Chai, Vietnamese Banh Mi, Philipino Spaghetti, all these innovations were met with by violence from the colonizers. Couldn't let people just enjoy their own things.

But it's gonna be different this time. When America's empire falls, there will be no western power to take its place. The era of global western hegemony is finally coming to an end.

Let me be absolutely clear.

Y'ALL classist assholes can go fuck y'all's selves. Ain't nobody has no right to decide what words mean what, no matter how many dictionary companies y'all buy out. Language has no fecking rules. None. It's completely artificial and it evolves over time, but y'all motherfuckers can't be fecked to learn an ounce of linguistics.

Go right to hell, dipshit.

Mmm, that's how I make my sausage gravy. Got made fun of by an Appalachian guy for it being like concrete but hey, why not if you've got the meat, right?

It doesn't work with the joke though: Americans use the word "pudding" to refer to something sweet while Brits use the word "biscuit" to refer to something sweet. Fries aren't sweet in either of the two opposing dialects. So both should be able to see the appeal

The English word "Sherbert" and the bangla word "Sharbat" derive from a common linguistic ancestor from before the indo-european split. One word refers to flavored ice, and another refers to a cold, sweet drink.

Odds are, neither one is the same as the original proto-indo-european refreshment that they derived from. When a people goes to a new place, they take their tastes with them and apply them to what's available to them there.

Words, too, change meaning over time. It's just the way things go. Nothing stays the same. Cultures drift, and people evolve.

What I call a biscuit may be closer to what you call a scone, and white gravy may be an abomination to your eyes, but it is just as cherished to me as Yorkshire pudding and brown gravy likely is to you.

And hell, y'all's empire fell to pieces long ago. The time is coming where y'all're gonna have to start engaging with cultures other than y'all's own as equals instead of with that insufferable smug sense of superiority for once. Best start practicing now

The core joke here is that Yorkshire pudding is unsweetened, just as American biscuits are unsweetened

I think I saw the exact video you're referencing here 😂

Usually, you'll find they'll start making fun of you before you can even explain what it is

Without words we communicate with our eyes

True, but this actress ain't doing that. She's completely dissociated in the pic, her expression so blank and emotionless, screaming that she's dead inside. While a dissociated character could make a good villain, it's not hard to see that the character in the poster for the musical isn't a dissociated villian who is unaware of her cruelty but someone who is fully conscious of and revels in it. It's only natural that people who are fans of the original work notice just how out of character this is and try to fix it.

Don't like it? Stop making stupid remakes of ancient stuff and make something original for once! Maybe try putting some emotion into it!

But you know, that'd require Hollywood actually put in effort and they've probably forgotten how to do that by now. Seriously, is anyone watching the new shit that they fart out over there these days? Most everyone I know either rewatches old shit or watches anime. Hey, maybe we'll see the rise of Bollywood over the next couple decades, who knows?

Did your elementary school not cover similes or something? It's not that witty

My nightmares largely stopped after being awake tired af and terrified of sleeping, when I said "damn you nightmares, you can't scare me into sleep deprivation! I'm coming in there and I'm gonna fight back", and then went right back to sleep. I don't know what nightmare I had that drove me to get angry at my nightmares, I didn't even have a plan to fight back. But that's when it stopped, when I stopped being afraid of them.

The difference between a matrix and a 2d array of numbers is the operations that are performed

A tensor really isn't standardized in the same way so it's basically just an n-d array in my mind

I have a cousin who's vegan and I was legit curious about this, and she literally said exactly that - "the bees can leave if they want", but from what I understand there are other vegans who disagree

Google narcissistic collapse

Oh god it would be HILARIOUS if that was happening to him, I'd be so happy

Oh fuck, looks like I gotta switch again...

Not fond of meaningless arguments about definitions designed to derail a discussion.

Lots of firefox mentions, no mention of Vivaldi tho...?

Random memory recovered!

Back in early 2016, we made the joke "Don Old Rump", who wants that lol

This certainly ain't standard - I lived in the states until about a year ago, iirc Carl's Jr was the only one that served non-breakfast during "breakfast hours". Even at McDonald's in Hong Kong or mainland china has a breakfast hour thing where you can't get burgers or nugs during breakfast. I think the other fast food chains do it differently but I've stopped eating fast food since it's more expensive than local stuff anyway. Hell, certain places I like don't serve anything but youtiao and soy milk in the morning when I really just want some basic rice & whatnot

Idk maybe I'm just in the wrong corner of Asia lol

There's a video, maybe not my favorite, but I have watched it twice, and it's in the 24 hour range. The one where Breath of the Wild was first 100%'ed in under 24 hours. Really like it bc it's from before the discovery of windbombs (the trick where they launch themselves great distances using the bomb rune), so it's slower, more methodical. It's quite relaxing, but yeah it isn't something to watch in one sitting, even though the video was made in one sitting.