think of pancakes as flapjacks
#no-wow-discussion
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pancakes?
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the separate term is better
arent british pancakes just butchered crepes?
yes, yes they are
american pancakes arent crepes
theyre unique
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not sure what butchered crepes tastes like but i'm intrigued
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again, flapjacks is definitely a better term
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flapjacks are oats and honey
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Flapjack
Oat bar
A flapjack, muesli bar, cereal bar, or granola bar is a sweet tray-baked oat bar made from rolled oats, butter, brown sugar and golden syrup.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flapjack_(oat_bar)
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oats :gross:
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also, apparently american pancakes are similar to scottish pancakes
pancake (or hotcake, griddlecake, or flapjack)
versed pebble
hold on, remember you got words from us, so technically you're the one thats wrong
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the british took words from other languages too tho, right?
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a torch
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makes no sense
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anything that produces light is a torch
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should be called "sticklight" at least
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no, cos it still has a lumen level
versed pebble
I...
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Samurai is speechless. 
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it makes more sense than torch
spring burrow
Do places call them hotcakes?
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considering a torch is a stick with oiled cloth lit on fire
oh yeah
its mostly a southern or midwestern term
spring burrow
Thats another name for them
versed pebble
we have hotcakes here Hock
spice goblet
u don't have lucky charms
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apparently a british pancake is literally just a crepe
which is what i dont understand
versed pebble
thick crepe, yes
storm tapir
there's not really a correct way to make a "pancake" though
versed pebble
cos thats french and we already stole enough french words
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they're so different depending on what country you're in.
neon hinge
What's the difference between USA Pancake and a crepe?
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we have crepes and pancakes, they are two different things
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small and thick
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a pancake is thicker
spring burrow
Crepes are super thin
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and has buttermilk usually
neon hinge
Ah, tru
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so fat
neon hinge
Everything in america is made with butter
spice goblet
USA pancake is a lot less tasty than USA crepe
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you eat them in a stack with butter and sometimes syrup
neon hinge
Forgot that
versed pebble
yup
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there are some really good pancakes
spice goblet
'tis ok
neon hinge
No, olive oil 😃
spice goblet
;-;
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you cant put olive oil on something sweet
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sounds weird. I LIKE IT
versed pebble
yes you can
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we use olive oil for other things - pasta, cooking eggs, etc.
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you can literally use olive oil as a dip
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shh
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unless you are dipping bread, i dont want to
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antoher thing we stole from the french to be fair
spring burrow
Bread with olive oil is great
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^
versed pebble
thank you hock
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they have frogs in Cambodia too
as in, on the menu
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that sounds italian
versed pebble
that I totally agree with you on, but thats not american
neon hinge
My crepes doesn't have butter at all
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america is a cultural crockpot
neon hinge
Milk and flavour
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the thing is, America doesn;t have much thats original
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And that's it I think
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no
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your country is still one of the youngest in the world
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America is the kid in school who tries to be like everyone but fails
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hell, there is a house across the road from mine older than your countries history
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modern french fries
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what we have done to them?
storm tapir
the hamburger is german isnt it
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they are now
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french fries are french duh
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french cut
versed pebble
omg, you must love trump
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idk where burgers come from
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ew liberals
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but we have seriously changed it
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liberals don;t spout their country is the best
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im not saying it is
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(i'm kidding tbh)
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im just saying i dont want to be british
i dislike the food
brexit is currently killing your economy
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but you'd accept our freedom?
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what about our health system and lack of guns?
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o.O
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no guns, government healthcare
im for that
better education, more science funding
free or at least severely reduced college costs
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trump and the banks are killing the economy of usa
spice goblet
it's already happened
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yeah i know
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yup, and our economy is growing again now brexit is gettign shaky
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theres going to be another collapse
its very predictable
its why im not taking loans from banks
im only taking government loans for schools
they cant default
not until like 2050 or something
along with that, i have no stock
but i have money for when it drops
and thankfully, my family is self employed
BUT
a collapse will probably ruin the republican party in this country
because they wont be able to blame anyone
but back to what i was saying before
i could leave and move to another country
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but yeah, back to food 😛
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i wanna move to a nicer place, in terms of economy tbh
after i graduate college ofc. if i do college
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you really haven't eaten good food til you have a proper english sunday roast
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but your rights are technically more limited than ours, i cant stand parliamentary systems, and again, i love steak and hamburgers
we have pot roast over here
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peach, can u ask samurai to unblock me?
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im jewish, so pot roasts are delicious - they are like the number 1 go to food
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good jew or bad jew (I only ask cos my bad jew friend was filling his face with a burger the other day)
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as long as ur not like
anti-atheist or whatever, ur a good jew
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im reformed
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well most people don;t chant, "I'm so naughty, I'm so naughty" noming a burger with all the trimmings 😄
versed pebble
hahah
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also, you guys dont have good jewish delis
good corned beef, coleslaw, pickles, bagels
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because my mother visits britain at least 2 times a year
versed pebble
where to?
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mostly the greater london area
versed pebble
thats why
spice goblet
can ur mom pick me up next time
i wanna go
versed pebble
love iceland
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oohh
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each way ofc
plus hotels and stuff
you could definitely have a satisfying trip for like 1000 bucks
versed pebble
hotels are pretty good there, been a fw times for EvE Fanfest
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fyi
we do have some unique food
we did invent the bagel
also, the modern doughnut
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the bagel I will totally give you
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tbh, the bagel is basically just a donut
that's like, one thing
versed pebble
and see? "modern" donut
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yeah, circular, glazed
versed pebble
if you have to put "modern" ont eh front, it's not yours 😄
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its a derivative of the dutch
new york used to be dutch
new amsterdam before we bought it
versed pebble
oh i know
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well you bought it i think
i think britain bought it
not sure
its really unimportant who bought it
wait
no
it had to be
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because it was part of the 13 colonies
omg, i totally forgot about tater tots and meatloaf
those are both so good
mac and cheese
that article is so helpful
versed pebble
mac adn cheese is italian
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pasta with cheese is italian
spice goblet
that article may not be 100% accurate tbh
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macaroni is italian
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idk
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putting a beschemal sauce on pasta is american
french sauce
italian pasta
american result
spice goblet
spice goblet
always ;)
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Define "french sauce"
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beschemele
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see/ everything you mention is a variation on antoehr countries food
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i def butchered that spelling
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'Cause there's a damn lot of it
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carbonera is not mac n cheese
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Béchamel ?
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tuscony...
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put that on some macroroni, cook for like another minute or two to cook off excess liquid, BAM
bechamel is italian?
huh
wait
no it isnt
thats just wrong
thats not the right sauce
Balsamella or Besciamella is the Italian equivalent of the French Béchamel
it is french
and the french version is just a cheese sauce
with milk
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The Pina Colada was invented in puerto rico rip
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I mean... There's milk. I wouldn't have called that a cheese saucr
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Origin
Balsamella or Besciamella is the Italian equivalent of the French Béchamel: a very simple white sauce of flour, butter and milk. The sauce was originally from renaissance Tuscany and was known as “Salsa Colla or Colletta” ("glue sauce") because of the gluey consistency of the sauce, and was brought to France by the chefs of Catherina de’ Medici in 1533. Louis de Béchamel, Marquis de Nointel, [6] was a financier who held the honorary post of chief steward to King Louis XIV. The sauce was prominent in Italian cooking texts of the Renaissance as "salsa colla", but was renamed much later in Le Cuisinier François, published in 1651 by François Pierre La Varenne (1615–1678), chef de cuisine to Nicolas Chalon du Blé, marquis d'Uxelles. The foundation of French cuisine, the Cuisinier François ran through some thirty editions in seventy-five years.
The sauce originally was a veal velouté with a large amount of cream added.[7]
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puerto rico is american
spice goblet
wot?
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You don't put cheese in the béchamel
versed pebble
i coudl keep proving you wrong on everything, but i have a meeting
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Well, normaly
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actually we do in /england to thicken it up Inay
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sauvages
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usually simple mature cheddar for taste
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yeah we do too
versed pebble
yeah, but still, UK > 'Murica 😉
spice goblet
'Murica does suck tho
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If were talking food France + Italy (+Spain) > anything anglo saxon
spice goblet
how does this sound? "Flan pudding wrapped in Grilled Fruit"
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peach, the difference is, I would happily cook for you if you were here and I guarantee you wou'd love everything I cooked
havign been to america a lot, I had to introduce my freinds there to better, healthier food
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"guarantee" "love"
dunno but that seems fallacial
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I've heard about the despair of someone having to eat us bread after having been to France. It was kinda funny
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i cant cook for the life of me
versed pebble
there you go
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but my sister is gods gift for food
shes only 14
but goddamn is she one of the best cooks
all she does it watch food network
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lol
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(And then I remember that we have less and less good breaderies and sad)
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well, it's through the rob cage, but yeah
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rip
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not saying its bad
versed pebble
i hate quiche
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just dont like it
i dont really like quiche either BUT my sister made quiche, and she added bacon and it was so good
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I'm not à great cook, not patient enough hélas.
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how about this? "Fried and Salted Vanilla Icecream with a fruit salad and honey on the side"
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??? Fried icecream?
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yeah, it's a thing
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fried ice cream is delicious
theres mexican fried ice cream all over my city
its delicious
but i dont put other stuff with my icecream
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I like quiches lorraines ! I know how to do these ones
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i believe that ice cream should be tried on its own
spice goblet
eh
that's why it's on the side
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if you need to add fruit and honey, you have problems with your ice cream
spice goblet
pff
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it should be satisfying on its own
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I'm curious, how do one fry icecfzam?
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deep freeze
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*icecream
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i dunno
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flash fry
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oh oh oh, new thing here, chocolate brownie pie!
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oooo
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what about cheesecake? Not totally american, but new york cheesecake is signficantly different enough
versed pebble
now... cheesecake
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and this? "Shrimp burger with fettuccine alfredo on the side. Black bean bun as an alternative to wheat/ grain bun."
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yeah, chicago and NY do two things very wrong, but still tasty...
pizza and cheesecake
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versed pebble
i do like chicago pizza pie
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om nom nom
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chicago pizza and new york pizza are different enough to almost be different food
spice goblet
you got "wrong" and "unique" confused?
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no
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What are the différences?
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no, no. that was to samurai
even though they're not gonna read my message ;-;
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Deep dish?
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yeah
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in Chicago the pizza base goes in a pan with a crusty cake like edge
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beat me to it
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its so good
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.. What the hell is that
versed pebble
but it is called a pizza pie
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stuffed pizza
versed pebble
it's pizza
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It looks..
spice goblet
gross? tasty?
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it looks kind of gross
versed pebble
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Eh, unexpected, let's say!
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but its fantastic
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Milk also sounds gross but we still drink/ eat it
spice goblet
is that the thing in all those bakeries?
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(I don't drink milk, for one)
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it's lush Inay
versed pebble
I can't drink milk
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streetfood
spice goblet
so, yes?
that's what i meant
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New York-style cheesecake, made famous by Lindy's and Junior's Deli, relies upon heavy cream, cream cheese, eggs and egg yolks to add a richness and a smooth consistency. Also called Jewish-style, it is baked in a special 5- to 6-inch tall springform pan in many restaurants
it's also sometimes baked
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I don't like the taste of drinkable milk. Love cheese tho'. Well, not the most blues ones but most cheese
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jews are the reason there is good american food
as a jew, i can say that there are two things you can find in a jewish family - good food, and comedy
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cos they bought it to America with them 😛
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yeah
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so not American 😄
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serious about the comedy thing
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drops mic
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like half the comedians here are jewish
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only half?
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it could be more
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it is
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im being conservative
spice goblet
most of the food invented in america is junky so it's a little not good but tasty
good =/= tasty
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I have heard that you have some cheeses
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Yeah
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we have a state famous for cheese
spice goblet
is that wisconsin?
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sheep cheese, goat cheese, cow cheese, orange cheese, white cheese, green cheese, blue cheese 😛
yes
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!! I have questions ! (On state, not cheese)
Why the fuck is Kansas not prununced like Arkansas?
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thats two different states
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.. Green cheese?
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kansas
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why the fuck isn't it?
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It's written the same, why don't you say it the same?
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and then we butchered the spelling
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'MURICA! 😛
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you dunno how to use the letter U properly 😄
spice goblet
Colour with a u looks sexy
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Oh yeah, don't say the last S so it's french's fault! (.. It probably is, we hate last letters)
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that would be pronounced col-our though
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like Colour, or Flavour
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i mean
it is pronounced colour
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Couleur!
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see? you forgot the U
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do you say favour too?
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it's just slightly different because of different accents
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yup
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Faveurs!
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Faveurs? wut
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neighbour
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It's not a random U, it's a french U
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o i c
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see? is the buttonm broken?
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uuuuuu
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Armour
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armor
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low fat
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its not french
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culture
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😛
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are we still talking about food or language again?
fresh osprey
its like spelling the louvre
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Saveurs, faveurs, couleurs, uh... Armure, culture
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why is there an re after louv
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... You say it
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we pronounce it Loo-v
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we dont
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They are innocent
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The Louvre (US: /ˈluːv(rə)/),[2] or the Louvre Museum (French: Musée du Louvre [myze dy luvʁ] (About this sound listen)), is the world's largest art museum and a historic monument in Paris, France.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Musée_du_Louvre_pronunciation.ogg
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is the R in the back of your throat?
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oh if you say the French is wrong, you need to see Welsh
fresh osprey
like you swallowed something wrong?
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it's Louv-re
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dont the welsh say f instead of th
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I'm.. Not sure? Never analysed my r, wait
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the only welsh actor i can think of is billie piper, so shes my only example
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Louvre is more with the tong
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(or phwoar if you're trump)
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Bit back of the longue, but not in the throat
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do your news people have accents other than that traditional british accent?
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do you ever end up with news people you cant understand?
like if they have a thick cockney accent
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the pirate accent is my regions accent
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i will fly over there and hit you...
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im serious though
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no, they are south west, gloucester, bristol and cornwall...
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historically the irish were taken as slaves, or forced labor aboard early pirate ships
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I think Lone is "bloody southerner"
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its the reason that most pirate shanties are in 6/8
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PAHAHAHA
irish? slaves? good luck with that
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Like Mei said
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also, thats why they used the word lass
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Lass is scottish, but we use it country wide
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hmmm
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it's heavily used in Yorkshire
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lemme get my go to article
oh sorry
apparently i mixed up scottish and irish - not culturally, just the word in this case
i know they arent the same
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cos the thing is, I have the BBC radio voice, but my main accent is very pirate/farmer
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and scots and irish are always generally angry at us
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well you did fuck them multiple times
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yup
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historically speaking ofc
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Don't worry Peach, it happen to confuse words
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I'd say the Welsh just let it happen, but Dragon is watching over my shoulder adn WILL hit me
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i mean
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Who the British didn't fuck, historically?
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(actually they were too busy fighting each other)
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we fucked everyone
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well
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historically and literally
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sometimes france and belgium had a hand in the pot
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Oh yeah, absolutly
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the congo is belgiums fault, all of the middle east is britain
vietnam is a mix of france and america
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but also remember, we made slavery illegal before the american constituion was even written
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mostly france
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France fucked up big time in Algeria
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oh i know
well
thats only partially true
slavery in the british isles was around
the ones in cuba
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oh no, we married them
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And take part in the triangle commerce, which is unforgivable
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i mean
you cant say its unforgivable
at least half of the people in this country have ancestors that didnt arrive until long after slavery was abolished
probably more than half
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Meant France did it!
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yeah, british slave trade was banned in 1807
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I don't type fast enough on the phone, sorry
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we may have started the slave trade, but we stopped first too 😄
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In every single year of USA's history, it has not not been at war
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at that point, French aristocracy were still using the hallways as toilets
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so i think USA is worse than UK
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nope, i was told it IN FRANCE 😄
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Welp
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versailles was just filled with plague
it's where the plague in London came from
rats that came over
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Didn't know that, can't say that I'm surprised. Doubt that London were terribly hygienic either tho' :p
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totally agreed
but we used to poop in a bucket and throw it out the window into the middle of the street where the sewer was a stream
but still ina bucket 😛
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the most hygienic continent during that time was probably America
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I remember that people in Mexic were waaaaay more advanced than any european at the time
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actually Native Americans were themost hygenic, if wasteful people
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because none of the disease and stuff from France, Spain, UK, Scandinavia, etc came over
and they used every piece of their kills
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Spain screwed mexico
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nowadays, they don't do that anymore but eh
and then the asshole gunmen came along shooting everything in sight, for sport
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well... not quite
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wot
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*to create a famine
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they did for indivdual kills, but they were notorious for herding herds of bison off cliffs
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ah
well then
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still less wasteful than current America
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depends how you see it
the reason herds are dying off isn;t over farming, it's loss of grazing
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eh
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Europeans fucked up a lot of the world, but humans are humans everywhere. Our specie is responsible for many extinction. (On other continents too)
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Bison grazed from one side of NA to the other and back
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(Unless there have been new infos since last time I read on it -which may!- humans are the main factor for megafauna extinction in America and Australia. Except the moose cause fuck you I'm a moose,I guess)
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but then you could say Ghengis Khan was a great ecologist, he killed so many civilisations whole forests grew back in places
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of all the great mass-murderers of the world, Ghengis was also one of the worst, ironically
turns out, less humans = a better world
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Russian people still carry bunch of mnglolo tatar genes after 300 years of living under the Golden Horde (hence kinda round faces)
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or best, ~Mother Nature
actually Khans genes are all the way to western europe, even England
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Main reason he stopped was he run out of good pastures for the horses
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yup
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Kinda crazy to think that golden horde lasted for longer than US existed as a country.
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yup
plus it boggle me they don;t teach about the vampire hunting Abraham Lincoln did to save you all
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Pretty sure she is actual OG French
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OMG... watching Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, it's so bad its amazing
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OG french?
young frigate
original
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The truth is....
<drum roll for suspens>
I'm both.
I have the double nationality, my dad's french and my mom's from quebec.
young frigate
now that's a plot twist
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And my great grand father is italian!
I know that no one asked
But now you know anyway
Does that make me like a collector french? A shiny?
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yes inay, it does
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I never quite understood why there is a huge stigma against french people in US and quebecois in Canada.
I mean .. Quebec did try to seprate from CA a few times
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For the US, I've heard that it was because our government didn't wanted to attack Irack or something like that
For Canada, I would guess "indignation of the english speaker confronted to someone daring to speak another language in the viciny" (we have assholes like that in France too, don't worry, just change english-speaker to french)
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every country has a "Our Country First" faction
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and those factions are usually comprised of reactionary xenophobes who hate any sort of progress
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^
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yup
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tbf globalization has caused a lot of problems in the developed world, not least of which is the destabilization of the lower-middle class, but those faction's response to the trend is just flat out wrong and can be, in some cases, quite inhumane
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It's something I don't understand, the indignation when someone speak another language than the main one of the country in a public place. Like, why do you care if the two ladies behind you in the bus speak russian rather than french ? They are not talking to you anyway!
versed pebble
actualy my neighbours were talkign to me about that
in their house, they speak polish with their kids
out side the front door, they speak english, cos this is england
I thought that was really considerate
vapid sable
opaque basin
It's cool that their kids are bilingual, and I guess it's nice of them to do that, but still, I don't see that as an obligation. I mean, as long as you don't go to speak to random people/public servants in X language.
I guess there's the stigma against immigrants that play too
tulip bronze
yeah, it doesn't matter to me what language you speak to others
lusty jungle
Most parents do that, they want kids to retain original language.
young frigate
english speakers expect people who visit their countries to be able to speak the language with perfect fluency and then go to other countries and expect them to speak english there too to accommodate them
lusty jungle
Most kids kinda fail to od that, especially if there sibblings
Seapking original language becomes "uncool"
Some do retain a bit of knowledge about household things etc, but won't be able to say discuss politics
The usual sentiment I hear from American about French that french are "rude" whcih I suspect mean "French are not smiling plastic smiles at me" (Amerians alsmost awlays smile especialy in customer facing positions, its creepy)
tulip bronze
yeah the american tendency to smile is weird
us USians are weird tho
I mean, we elected trump after all
opaque basin
Paris people have a réputation for rudeness in the rest of the country too, but they have some reasons with the sheer quantity of tourists they see everyday, and living in Paris...
versed pebble
Paris is horrible
opaque basin
I would be rude if I had to live in Paris everyday too
versed pebble
but I've been to the Adeche region a few times, beautiful area
lovely, friendly people
never drunk so much wine in my life
versed pebble
shit, sorry I did
opaque basin
No problem :p
versed pebble
funilly my first time was when I was 13 with schol on a watersports holiday
kayaking down teh ardeche river, then seing it go backwards at night 😄
opaque basin
It's a very isolated part of the country, I was in Ardèche this summer (first time! Visiting family of family)
We did kayaking too!
:D
versed pebble
the whirlpools going backwards while they pump the water back up was wierd
versed pebble
plus those times the current is taking you and you can stop paddling and just... go with the flow man...
versed pebble
down there though, you have to keep shoes on, those scorpions are a menace
opaque basin
Why? D:
versed pebble
she's scared of spiders
versed pebble
hahha
neon hinge
But spiders is a no no
opaque basin
She was nice And didn't move from her wall, I promise
versed pebble
opaque basin
And the tunnel-one killed a wasp, so she's good
opaque basin
<nod>
versed pebble
I mean, how glorious...
opaque basin
Spider
neon hinge
😢
tulip bronze
what a cutie
versed pebble
and dragon just screamed and ran out of the room
neon hinge
That one is almost cutie
versed pebble
he is cute though
opaque basin
She's pretty isn't she?
versed pebble
discord needs spoilers tags
tulip bronze
or, if I were to channel my inner steve irwin, what a beaut
versed pebble
haha
opaque basin
She was on the garden wall near the table
versed pebble
if Dragon was there, the table would be on fire
opaque basin
Warning, one more spider pic incoming
versed pebble
we painted our fence last year, I had to stop her setting fire to it
opaque basin
lusty jungle
I like that spider
opaque basin
The tunnel-one
lusty jungle
wasp sucker
versed pebble
funnel web spiders are incredibly dangerous
opaque basin
For wasps?
opaque basin
Ardèche view so the Dragon and Intervencion forgive me
versed pebble
OMG, I need this funko...
opaque basin
Hahaha
neon hinge
ah... yes
versed pebble
WOOHOO!
neon hinge
Sexy sexy
fresh osprey
awesome
i guess the first 4 were testing the water
and so they hadnt started production because they didnt want to waste money if it sucked
versed pebble
actually the art house working on it had financial issues
the first four did well enough to fix that
fresh osprey
huh
but its funded by netflix
how do you have financial issues when a big company is funding?
neon hinge
Anime is expensive af
lusty jungle
who is ion malcomn
Did black mirror get renwed for season 5 or was black museum suppose to series finalle
It kinda felt like it
fresh osprey
it isnt a series
its like twlight zone
each episode is sort of independent
so theres no real finale - each season end episode is just more over the top
versed pebble
PAHAHA
spice goblet
is that AC: Origins?
lusty jungle
move the payload?
mystic wolf
WSG.
versed pebble
We're not too sure how this #NintendoLabo stuff works but we'll figure it out
We're is one the case...
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/202500754894880769/403695764385169408/26904790_10155986660833349_9158450130094155816_n.png
unreal bluff
http://amethystsadachbia.tumblr.com/post/169902552933/id-just-like-to-posit-that-the-cheating-on-his
lusty jungle
Or maybe it is because "happily ever afters" are precious and rare and not a norm or expectaction
young frigate
god, real life is shit enough, at least let people take refuge in the happy endings of fictional worlds
versed pebble
gotta love an "everybody dies" story sometimes
young frigate
once in a while, maybe
the "gritty realism" approach is getting pretty tiresome, though
what's the point of getting invested in a story you know will end in tragedy?
versed pebble
oh agreed
but for every Harry Potter you need a dose of Game of Thrones too
that red wedding 😮
lusty jungle
James Bond never gets happy ever after, I don't see too many complaints about that
unreal bluff
How the hell is Harry Potter a happy ending?
Hedwig died and Harry thought it would be fine to name one of his kids after a creepy racist who couldn’t take no for an answer
lusty jungle
He married a red head, had a child, and working in profession he loves, that happy ever after for me
unreal bluff
Wasn’t it three?
lusty jungle
See the happy ending suppose to be for characters, not for you, the 3rd party observer
lusty jungle
Most people who are married do not use condoms
young frigate
3 is a perfectly normal amount of children :V
lusty jungle
Condoms are for casual sex with strangers
neon hinge
No is not. @young frigate
unreal bluff
Hermione and Ron stopped after two
neon hinge
Yeah it has to be selfish af to try to control the population of earth 😃
unreal bluff
I’m one of 6 tho
neon hinge
Or better, let children cry in orphanges!
lusty jungle
IT is not your job to control population of earth
young frigate
that's not a problem for me personally. never wanted children.
also it'd help if more governments would allow LGBT couples to adopt :V
versed pebble
good riddance...
http://www.pcgamer.com/overwatch-league-pro-suspended-for-homophobic-insult-against-opponent/
neon hinge
¯_(ツ)_/¯
unreal bluff
But if I adopt I don’t get to experience pregnancy for research purposes
neon hinge
Go to some shithole country @young frigate
young frigate
...why?
versed pebble
Mei is already in teh UK, Trumpp thinks we're a shithole country cos we don;t like him 😛
neon hinge
meh, spain allows everything about adoptions iirc
versed pebble
yup, thats why a lot of UK adoptions go through spain for kids of different ethnicities
lusty jungle
Most people outright do not wish to adopt esepcially adopt older children
neon hinge
You brits come to spain for a lot of things 😛
lusty jungle
US is actually pretty good about adopting older children
neon hinge
Adopt is like
lusty jungle
Including from other countries
young frigate
I did say it would help to allow LGBT couples to adopt more
I didn't say it'd solve the problem entirely
unreal bluff
Adoption is also expensive AF
lusty jungle
I wasn't aware LGBT were not allowed to adopt to be honest
lusty jungle
And yes adoption is espensive
unreal bluff
Sure but it’s spread across 18 years instead of 30K in advance
neon hinge
And perhaps a babycar too
young frigate
@lusty jungle they're not in a lot of places
neon hinge
It depends on the country you adopt from too
unreal bluff
My heart bleeds for the kids in orphanages but fuck if I’m gonna spend the cost of a new car to take care of someone else’s offspring
lusty jungle
I know some countries actually put in restriction on foreigners adoption children
neon hinge
Russia I think does that
lusty jungle
Due to a few cases of "Bad apples" adoptive parents
neon hinge
But I'm not adopting anything from Rusia
versed pebble
LGBT can in UK
neon hinge
They're a mafia still
versed pebble
and the US isn;t Inter?
versed pebble
loads adopt from Africa
neon hinge
I bet its cheaper
lusty jungle
And then she got divorced
Good job adopting and and then setting example as single parent
versed pebble
well, I get the reasoning there to be fair, they grew apart both workign away
versed pebble
indeed
lusty jungle
Mm hmm
young frigate
I still don't understand how only having one child is selfish
I'm an only child and never really wanted for a sibling :V
lusty jungle
I am projecting mei
neon hinge
It's not
lusty jungle
Becasue I am only child and I awlays wanted a sinbling
neon hinge
World has enough humans already
You can have 2:1 and don't worry about balance
Cuz it's already imbalanced
lusty jungle
I am not worried about balance.
young frigate
eh, the environment will destroy us soon enough
neon hinge
Because earth is overpopulated.
lusty jungle
Though single child policy in Chinda DID leave to huge imbalance
versed pebble
oh no, theres plenty of room, trouble is we have overpopulated and destroyed areas
lusty jungle
Which probably will lead to war eventually
neon hinge
Cuz they think women is no good for work
versed pebble
in 2016 China abolished the one child act, the population is still in a decline
lusty jungle
Wealthy Chinese women come here, to CA (near blizzard HQ actually) to have children here, so they are american citizens
versed pebble
that too
neon hinge
yup
versed pebble
we actulaly have a chinese/english language school here, huge china populating in my town, they're great
mmm... steak and onion pie, chips and steamed veggies... nom
versed pebble
so...
Kim and Kanye West have named their new baby after pizza... Chicago West.
neon hinge
I barely got food this night
lusty jungle
Still better than nevaeh
I guess I am bad at kicking track of RL world celebs
Especially since I do not listen to "hip hop"
versed pebble
if you're on twitter all day like me, you see shit trending
lusty jungle
is not.
As a matter of fact I get most of my pop news from dicord
My intake of pop culture info increased drmatically over last year thnaks to discord
versed pebble
kim and kanye are certainly not pop culture
lusty jungle
No?
versed pebble
hell no
versed pebble
they can disagree, he's hiphop culture though
Popular culture or pop culture is the entirety of attitudes, ideas, images, perspectives, and other phenomena within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid-20th
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_culture
plus Kanye thinks he's the best in teh world, I can name you five better for music off the top of my head, but #1 is Freddy Mercury
young frigate
I like the blurriness of this one more personally
there's probably some good khadgar ones out there
oh, yep, there's one
grand flame
ok yeah i like your one way more
young frigate
grand flame
young frigate
grand flame
thank
young frigate
welc
leaden stream
Hey if I linked an mmo champion item, would that cause an uproar?
versed pebble
why would it, it likely came from wowhead anyway 😄
frosty tundra
It just depends adam... is this something that's linkable on Wowhead instead or something only on MMOC.
If you're talking about a forum post on mmoc then we're unlikely to mind. Really is just situational.
lusty jungle
Looks like US fed are shutdown again
versed pebble
wait, what?
versed pebble
so whats that mean then?
tulip bronze
that means that some/all federal agencies are shut down because funding from previous resolutions has run out
so those employees don't get paid, and those services don't get provided, etc
like, imagine if the NHS and other things funded by the UK stopped functioning until a budget can be passed, that's what happened in the us
versed pebble
I gotya
earnest sky
Again.
versed pebble
yeah...
luckily we have strike action written into law here, IIRC when a strike is on, emergency service are not allowed to be affected, but standard services can be cut to a quarter
tulip bronze
I mean, Repubs can't pass budget resolutions without bipartisan support, so they've been passing short term budgets, 4x in the past 4 months or so
opaque basin
Nice scaly legs Adhara
Why not add more parties btw? Like one or three so you don't have blocks
amber jasper
versed pebble
hey guys, what doyou think?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKnWLVYVdzo
https://media.giphy.com/media/xULW8LOhxYCsUePdTO/giphy.gif
it's a Dark Souls style game
versed pebble
the devs are awesome, you should check out their discord
fresh osprey
im not much of a souls like person, personally. im just the guy who finds the game and gives them to my friends who do love souls games
i like watching people be good at these games
because i know i cant
versed pebble
they have a big release next week I'm involved in covering, are you a Final fantasy fan?
versed pebble
if you liked 8, you'll love Legrand Legacy
fresh osprey
im more of a 6 fan
versed pebble
ahh old school
but here you go
: http://store.steampowered.com/app/556740/LEGRAND_LEGACY_Tale_of_the_Fatebounds/
fresh osprey
although tbh, ive generally outgrown turn-based combat
versed pebble
it's the time sink for me mostly
fresh osprey
i still have xenoblade chronicles 2 to finish
im also replaying the witcher 3 with a mod made by one of the devs
versed pebble
I heard that mod changes the game
fresh osprey
and again, back into ffxiv
it changes a lot of little things
makes it feel more like you are more powerful, but also makes things more balanced
and it gives more accuracy to the story from the books
did you play through the witcher 3?
versed pebble
I didn;t, when we got it to review I gave it to one of my team cos I was all over wow
versed pebble
and I was still playign the final Fantasy X HD remake
fresh osprey
essentially about half the features were brainstormed for the game, but were removed either because of worries about players not understanding why they exist, or because of the increased difficulty seeming unreasonable at points
it also fixes a lot of bugs
i need to get to ffX HD
eventually
unreal bluff
thank you @sly garnet
also the ugandan knuckles meme is racist and could we please stop sharing it
versed pebble
hopefully teh mods will start removing it and the racists posting it
hey guys, anyone got any new leveling screenies for an article?
unreal bluff
fun fact: there aren't actually any click languages in Uganda
karmic pebble
gaunt notch
nice Blizzard tshirt 😛
red tartan
Greetings. Recently I've been seeing a lot of adverts on Facebook for organisations that are selling various merchandise with World of Warcraft art on it. Today it was mouse mats with female characters, where their breasts were a wrist rest, but in the past it's looked like someone's taken some fan art, put it on a shirt and put some unrelated phrase over the top. Unfortunately I just lost the example I was going to post. Has anyone else experienced this?
versed pebble
loads
versed pebble
it's happened to everyone of my artist friends
yeah, quite a few steal artwork off line, especially through deviantart
spring heath
Pintrest has a plethora of stolen art and it's really hard to find the proper source sometime because of it.
young frigate
pinterest is trash
spring heath
I like it for food recipes but otherwise cringe
red tartan
Is there anything that can be done? I hate people who steal others' work and shamelessly use it for profit.
neon hinge
I don't know honestly.
spring heath
Honestly, all you can do is try to find the artist and inform them of what site, providing links or whathaveyou. Depending on their personal copyright they can send Take Down orders to the site because permissions and such but otherwise... it's a plague.
versed pebble
you have to contact the shirt company and ask them to remove it, if they refuse THEY are the ones that stole it
young frigate
if you can find the original artist for a piece, let them know.
yeah, what wolf said.
red tartan
A challenging task. But good info. Thanks.
young frigate
google reverse image search is very helpful
if you need a hand pinning down a source, feel free to ask here. I have experience digging up that kind of thing.
red tartan
Thank you.
versed pebble
hey guys, for those MMO junkies that don't just play wow...
https://twitter.com/SanitariumFM/status/954884317842493440
brazen berry
If anyone is bored, I'm streaming on twitch at drockzoids playing rocksmith 2014. I'm mediocre so come laugh at my failure.
unreal bluff
Considering how much standard drugstore peroxide damages cells if left to sit on skin, how much damage would it do to a zombie if you splashed it on them? In fact, why couldn't you just find a way to immobilise a zombie and dissolve them in bleach, or acid, or lye? That'd have the nice side-effect of disinfecting whatever virus turned them into a zombie, too…
amber jasper
hello
versed pebble
oooh...
sly garnet
wait, what? they are changing to P2P AGAIN?
sly garnet
the fug?
sly garnet
it depends on if they will continue to add stuff to F2P and not keep it exclusive to P2P
versed pebble
read the article
sly garnet
i am checking the sanitarium page the tweet is removed
sly garnet
oh thank the all father they wont add open pvp to existing pve servers
sly garnet
i got feed up with the all open pvp in archage to many griefers
versed pebble
yeah