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my wife, best friend, mother-in-law, and mother-in-law's friends (all from California) have visited and/or migrated here, and have said universally the food is generally better over here - better made, better quality, just fresher and tastier in general. they even agree we're onto something with beans on toast. (and i'm not being a hater here on American food either, i've tried a ton of southern food whilst visiting. biscuits and gravy? i'll INHALE a plate of those, i REALLY enjoy it).
but funnily enough when i bring that experience up to folk who haven't visited, everyone gets quiet 👀
Aye, food quality is a different beast. Although very keen to try some southern food, particular proper collard greens. We don't really have an equivalent here, and every video I see of people showing off their cookout food makes me want to dive in.
working class british food is good and anyone who cant appreciate the conditions it was born from really does need to check their privileges i think.
i love hearing about the origins of food and knowing that something, that i may not even personally enjoy, was able to bring people through hard times and i think, i love hearing about people finding clever ways to stretch what little they have so it can feed more, or learning about how scarce foods were preserved long enough to last far longer than they would otherwise, or finding ways to use "undesirable" ingredients because its still perfectly fine. this stuff is absolutely worth respect and even celebration!
i love the smack barm pea wet meme and the wigan kebab. i think its a bit funny to put a whole pie on a bun. at the same time though, if i was cold, tired and hungry and had some spare change? well its warm and filling, and doesnt taste bad at all. It's a humble little meal that could keep me going for a while, thats all it needs to be.
sorry u just kinda hit on a peeve of mine, i really hate when people disparage food that historically belongs to people who only had so much to work with.
Yeah, I’m already bored of the “Ahhh but other poor people from completely different countries had access to other ingredients and made globally recognised tastier food so you’re wrong” responses.
Aye, you're playing a dangerous game by pointing out 'British food bad' is classism. I've seen these debates before. They never end because people seem to think jellied eels are something we eat every day (and are for some reason really squeamish about haggis, as if it's not literally just a really, really round sausage technically).
It's a hill I will die on. Beans on toast in particular was born out of rationing during the war, and continued afterwards. Food rationing didn't stop until 1954, almost a decade after the war ended.
The UK only paid off its debt to the US and Canada during World War 2 in 2006. In some ways, the US treated its previous enemies better than its allies after the war, they forgave a significant chunk of German debt to allow the country to rebuild.
Sometimes I wonder if JKR is just a nebulous cultural concept in people's minds (esp if they do not live in the UK), because she isn't JUST posting on twitter about this. She is directly using that wealth from HP to fund anti-trans sentiment and legislation in the UK. Most recently in the past week, she was directly advertising to organisations who had been listed as anti-trans on Amnesty International UK's blacklist to apply to her fund (and would make a donation as well) for them to take legal action against AI UK. It's not just some vague association of tweets, she is already causing us material harm, how much more is it going to take for HP fans to read another damn book?
JK Rowling has had her hands in UK politics for a long time. She’s close friends with Gordon Brown, who paved the way for Tory austerity, donated to the Better Together campaign and hounded independence supporters, and, as you’ve said, actively funds anti trans legislation.
I can't stop you from reading it but if I, as a trans person find out that you read/write HP fic or fanart or whatever, I no longer feel safe around you or that I can trust you. But I'm glad you keep going back to it and talking openly about it and haven't found some other comfort media in the many years since Rowling came out as a bigot. Good for you.
You are very much allowed to write fanfiction about Harry Potter if you want. No one is going to come to your house and take away your keyboard for it--if they try, have them arrested for home invasion and assault.
There is no such thing as thought crime, in spite of what the morality police would have you believe. Right-wing or left-wing, wannabe censors still suck and should always be pushed back against.
Yes, JKR is a terrible, unhinged bigot with too much money to do damage with. So is Elon Musk, yet no one is telling people not to write Tesla fanfiction.
Irrelevant and nonsensical comparison. Tesla didn’t endorse Elon Musk, and Tesla is dead. He’s not actively funding anti trans legislation to make their lives worse, including specifically targeting individual trans people. JK Rowling is.
Not everything for everyone needs to be so rigid. I’m exhausted. I just want to go and read my fics and escape and not have to think about politics for two seconds. Fanfic is supposed to be my happy space. (I just want to reread my favourite queer HP fanfic from back in the day that I used for escapism, no I don’t support that demon lady)
I used to really enjoy listening to the Lost Prophets, their songs meant a lot to me at a formative stage of my life. I haven't listened to them since the news broke about Ian Watkins being evil.
Ultimately you can do whatever you want, and I hope you unfollow me because I really don't care about anons who want to self-soothe in my asks.
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The auto journalist and podcaster Victoria Scott made a joke similar to this recently about how if she wanted to follow her dreams of rally driving she should do it before she gets bottom surgery so she can use the piss tube
one really annoying thing about this american world cup, apart from the extra ad breaks, is they keep showing us fucking celebrities during the game. who gives a shit that beyonce is in the audience. also the dumbass half-time show theyre planning for the final. US culture is such celebrity obsessed ad-riddled garbage.
commentators here are just constantly mocking the fact that there will be a fucking half-time show at the finals, the "hydration" ad-breaks, and also that tickets to the finals cost around €4500,-
if the world cup was supposed to be like a sportswashing excercise for the USA, it has backfired pretty well. First the racist treatment of officials, players and fans by immigration, then the ridiculous open vindictive cheating by the USA by refusing visas for the Iranian team, and then the open corruption of Trump calling up the Fifa to make them cancel that red card for the US team.
A truly pathetic revelation of its national character by the USA. Mexico and Canada have been enjoyed and appreciated by all involved, in contrast.
lol, the Dutch national broadcaster isn't pulling any punches, calling out the corruption, racism, sportswashing and cheating by Trump, including bringing up the Epstein files, discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community, and the ICE murders of immigrants. As I said, the USA really used this World Cup to show itself to the world.
Translated article under the cut:
A day before the World Cup final, New York is covered in a thick layer of smog from Canadian wildfires, turning large parts of the northeastern United States gray. A symbolic conclusion to a World Cup that became a celebration of magnificent football in packed stadiums, but was also marked by extreme weather, human rights violations, and political interference.
FIFA critic Jules Boykoff doesn't have to think long about the question of what stood out most for him outside of the sport: "The reversal of that red card, following political pressure from President Donald Trump. I think that will go down in history as one of the biggest controversies in World Cup history."
For a moment, the final was in danger due to the smoke, but showers and thunderstorms seem to be driving away the smog:Spain's final training cancelled due to thunderstorms, but 'World Cup final not in danger'
With a single phone call to FIFA boss Infantino, the president managed to overturn the automatic suspension of American star player Balogun. "You really have to see that as a message to a domestic audience: that he is a strong leader who can keep international organizations in line. He can bend FIFA to his will."
The political scientist calls it sportswashing : using sport for political gain. Boykoff: "Trump does that more than any other modern American president." He believes this cannot be seen in isolation from the upcoming parliamentary elections. "His base is dissatisfied with his war on Iran; there is disappointment regarding the Epstein files. He wants to show that he is still in control."
Many not welcome
A Somali referee who was denied entry, players detained at the border, fans denied visas: the list of absentees was long. "This is a World Cup in a place where the world is not welcome," says Minky Worden of Human Rights Watch (HRW). "While the Haitian team played at the World Cup, hundreds of thousands of Haitians in the US lost their temporary residency status."
"You cannot judge this World Cup without looking at who is missing," says Lily Dong Li Rosengard of LGBTI rights organization ILGA World. "The LGBTI community is conspicuously absent because many people do not feel safe coming to the US."
"A visa is a privilege, not a right," says Andrew Giuliani, Trump's 'World Cup chief'. At a press conference, he tries to counter the criticism. "We have proven that you don't have to choose between welcoming millions of international visitors and keeping citizens and visitors safe," says Giuliani. "Americans fell in love with the World Cup and the world fell in love with America again."
There were fears beforehand of ICE operations during the World Cup. As far as is known, arrests did not occur around the stadiums. But according to Daniel Noroña of Amnesty International, the World Cup thus became a distraction from what was happening off the pitch. "Because deportations, arrests, and the unjust and cruel immigration policy simply continued."
Protest against ICE
A few kilometers from the stadium where the final is being played, protests have been ongoing for months at a detention center run by the immigration service ICE. There are concerns about food shortages and access to medication. Detainees also have hardly any access to a fair trial, says Noroña.
According to HRW, 55 people have died in ICE detention centers so far during Trump's second term. There have also been fatalities on the streets. "Just last week, two fathers were shot by ICE while on their way to work," says Worden.
Just enjoy
Fans of Argentina and Spain have their own opinions about it. "That red card… if our president called, Infantino wouldn't answer," says an Argentine fan.
"He's an asshole, or am I not allowed to say that?" says a Spanish supporter. "I don't think it should be a factor," says another Spain fan about everything that happened off the pitch this World Cup. "We should just enjoy our final, and go for our second star."
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