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[beautifulscreaminglady]

[electrickitten]

This frame and quote is giving Lindsey McDonald.

[attackfish]

As it is Passover again, it is time for the annual debate as to whether the frog plague, which thanks to a quirk in the Hebrew, is written as a plague of frog, singular, rather than the plural, plague of frogs, was in fact, as generally imagined, a plague of many frogs, or instead a singular giant Kaiju frog. This is an ancient and venerable argument that actually goes back to the Talmud because this is what the Jewish people are. If we can't argue for fun about this sort of thing, what are we even doing.

In that spirit, I would like to submit a third possibility, which is that in fact it was one perfectly normal sized frog, who was absolutely acing Untitled Frog Game: Ancient Egypt Edition. One particularly obnoxious frog, who through sheer hard work, managed to plague all of Egypt.

[koshercosplay]

[sweaterkittensahoy]

thank you to @establishedalibi for explaining this translation question to me years ago so I can always consider the frog question.

[ravenlilyrose]

In most fandoms, a mob boss au is transplanting all of the characters into a completely different genre, tone, setting.

For Leverage, it’s just a few rewritten lines of dialogue and a half-step to the left in presentation.

[discountliquor]

[orchidbreezefc]

its that time of year

[catgirlfield]

yall are missing this classic as well

[fuckboyzuko]

It’s that time of year~

[misshasclass]

add this one to the list!

[vexwerewolf]

One industry AI can never replace

[electrickitten]

Rental Family in the US of A

[richaldis]

[aardvaark]

beth riesgraf’s instagram story today:

[podcastwizard]

some royal jewels were stolen from the louvre which is unfortunate for historical reasons but you gotta appreciate a classic crime. so many crimes are online these days it’s nice to see heist culture is still alive

[dsmsix]

[dsmsix]

[naamahdarling]

"In the same way that your heart feels and your mind thinks, you, mortal beings, are the instrument by which the universe cares. If you choose to care, then the universe cares. If you don't, then it doesn't." -- Brennan Lee Mulligan, D20, Fantasy High

[calmsmedown]

🧶 helenkayeknitwear on instagram

[wilwheaton]

Judge a man by the quality of his character, they say.

[liberalsarecool]

Deplorables forget their opinions mean zilch.

[dovand]

an australian walks up to a bar

[mygoodrabbit]

The number of people in the notes of this post who think this is Americans being weird about BRAND NAMES fascinates me.

In the US, 'lemonade' is not a category- it is not ANY drink/soda that is lemon flavored. Lemonade is, specifically, a drink made from combining water, sugar, and actual lemon juice. There might be other flavor additives, like lavender or strawberry, if you're getting fancy with it, but it's almost never going to be carbonated.

There are commercially produced lemonades, you CAN get it in a can or bottle, but it's easy to make at home and probably a majority of Americans are going to think of the homemade stuff before ever thinking of branded versions. Many restaurants, indie and chains, here make their own lemonades to serve, and may ALSO serve lemon-lime sodas like Sprite, which they would not even think to call lemonade.

[lunammoon]

The reason why the stereotypical thing for a kid to do to make money in American media is a lemonade stand is that American Lemonade is kind of like Smores in the sense that it's a really simple thing that a child can make with limited supervision. In fact, there's no fire, so even no supervision.

A standard one-serving recipe (in metric) One whole lemon squeezed. 50 g Sugar (about equal amounts sugar and lemon) 240 ml water.

Mix. Serve cold. With ice.

While Spite and other lemon lime sodas are clear and fizzy, lemonade is flat and cloudy and yellow.

Different places will mess with the ratios (some have less water or more sugar or more lemon or something)

A restaurant that sells lemonade will have something like this

Where there'll have lemonade, and then maybe lemonade mixed with iced tea or lemonade mixed with some other fruit.

The point, is that when you ask for a "lemonade" it's again, not them being petty about brain names. It genuinely does not occur to them that you could possibly mean spite. I have never heard of Spite being referred to as Lemonade. We do have Fizzy Lemondae, but that's again, sugar, lemon, and carbonated water. Sprite is Lemon-Lime. It would not occur to an American to consider Sprite as ANY kind of lemonade.

[dazzling-galaxy]

“american lemonade is easy to make, just like smores”

i need you to know that smores are also an american thing that i don’t even begin to understand how to make “easily” as a dutchman

[lunammoon]

Hold a marshmallow over flame on a stick (you can also hold it with your bare hands if you're derranged)

sandwich between chocolate and graham cracker on both sides with the chocolate facing the marshmallow

the gooey chocolate and marshmellow act like glue for the graham cracker

either wait for it to cool or burn your mouth biting into it\

And Illustrated Guide

[three--rings]

I regret to inform my fellow Americans that Graham Crackers are also a thing that only America has.

Basically for Brits, it's a biscuit made with graham flour.

Oh wait, graham flour is also American. It's coarsely ground whole wheat flour. The crackers are thin and crunchy and mildly sweet. They're similar to digestive biscuits but thinner and crunchier and easier to bite through.

[hollowedskin]

I remember being really confused as a kid by the whole lemonade stand thing. Because how the hell do you make it fizzy?

Also the "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade" thing was also confusing because it was like. When life gives you lemons... take inspiration from the flavour of them and then go do something else I guess?

Like most phrases given to people who are struggling, it was completely useless. So I never questioned that perhaps lemonade was not sprite everywhere.

[hollowedskin]

@featherfur

Yeah, a lot of things Americans think are universal are not. I have never had a Graham cracker and am unsure why they would be the go-to for marshmallows.

With some exceptions, like enormous brands such as coke, pepsi, and nestle, most branded things (things described only by their brand such as Graham crackers instead of like, chocolate biscuits or something) you'll find in American are American specials.

We don't have Dr pepper or Hershey's in Australia either. There are guaranteed to be others that I don't know, but I know those two are mentioned a lot.

Conversely you guys don't get timtams, Milo, monte carlos, shapes, chicken salt, deep fried dimsims, maltesers, cherry ripes, violet crumbles, freddo frogs or indeed any type of Cadburys, musksticks, fizzers, redskins, wizz fizz, or even the ingredients to make Anzac biscuits. Which sucks for you because all those things are awesome. AND your soft drinks have that weird slime texture.

We do have oreos tho. And we have a better version which has orange paste instead, which you also miss out on.

[bramblepatch]

Further point of clarification for non-Americans, the graham in graham cracker is a generic name for the variety, not a brand name. It refers to their inventor, Reverend Sylvester Graham, a nineteenth century Presbyterian minister who believed that eating rich and heavily spiced foods excited people's libido and therefore it was virtuous and healthy to eat the most boring food possible.

Modern graham crackers are typically slightly sweetened. They're cheap, are designed to break into pieces approximately the size of a toasted marshmallow, and have a slightly coarse texture that complements the marshmallow and melted chocolate. It's also common to eat them dipped in milk, and to use a mixture of graham cracker crumbs, sugar, and butter to make a crumbly crust for cheesecake or cream pies.

If I ever get access to a time machine my first stop will be explaining s'mores to Rev. Graham.

[brightlotusmoon]

It took me seeing screenshots of that infamous Great British Bake Off episode with the s'mores to truly hit home about the Graham crackers being American.

Sometimes I'll eat plain Graham crackers right out of the sleeve, I used to have a thing for honey flavored teddy grahams which were shaped like toy bears.

[electrickitten]

Graham crackers out of the sleeve are fine. Sometimes, I eat them as sandwiches by spreading on pre-made icing. The kind in containers from the cake mix section at the grocery store.

[radiomaru]

If no one dies in the SP series, what the baloney happens to the evil exes? Does their existence transfigure into coinage?

They respawn in their homes, having learned their lesson. CANON.

[re-dracula]

We're going to be adapting Carmilla!

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[brainstatic]

Jurassic World did the Avatar thing where it made a gajillion dollars and left no cultural footprint whatsoever. Name your favorite Jurassic World character. What was your favorite line. It evaporated despite everyone seeing it.

[emptyjunior]

WRONG fav character was the extra that ran away from the pterodactyls with two margheritas in hand

[ssskeletonsoffun]

[thatsoneforamerica]

Gotta do everything myself around here

[otterology]

So, I went into this guy’s Wikipedia page, because he looked familiar. And there’s this big “Controversies” section, so I was preparing myself to read that even the margaritas/pterodactyls guy has sexually assaulted someone. But it turns out that he hasn’t. However, he:

- Has been sued for copyright infringement for a ‘blasphemous’ musical rendition of a monologue from the 1950s

- He was on a plane with U2′s Bono and his family, and the plane was shot by the Jamaican police, who believed they were smuggling marijuana. He wrote a song about the incident.

- He’s actually a singer, and his better known song in called MARGARITAVILLE. He also owns the Margaritaville Cafe restaurant chain. And has licensed Margaritaville Tequila, Margaritaville Footwear, and a Margaritaville Foods. He owns the Margaritaville Casino, has released a “Margaritaville Online” game, and he wrote and starred in a musical called “Escape to Margaritaville”

- He also wrote a song called “Math Suks”, which was condemned by the US National Council of Teachers of Mathematics for its alleged negative effect on children’s education. 

- He was thrown out of a basketball game he was watching for using blasphemous language in front of kids.

- And he was detained by French customs for allegedly carrying over 100 pills of ecstasy. Although he was released after paying a fine, and, according to him, the pills were a B-vitamin supplement.

So, yeah, that was refreshing controversies section-wise, but now I don’t know what to do with all that information.

[backyardbob01]

Maybe its my age, but i’m a little concerned that the fact he is a singer and wrote Margaritaville wasn’t prior knowledge and is considered a controversy

[steelblaidd]

☝️

Beach, booze, Buffett.

[alexseanchai]

Jimmy Buffett plays the margarita guy in Jurassic World because his most famous song is “Margaritaville” and this is therefore hilarious, I thought

[kipplekipple]

I think that it is actually really awesome to watch people discover a part of pop culture that you believed was ubiquitous. Like we don’t know! Is this user young? Are they perhaps not American? Are they neither of those but just one of those people who exists a little to the left of popular society? I am aware of Jimmy Buffet but I have only ever heard the BNL pisstake of Margaritaville and I couldn’t pick him out of a lineup of 1.

It’s like one time when I was 21 or so, a friend of mine who was 17 or 18 told me he found “a great old band” in his stepdad’s CD collection called Skunk Anansie and I was just faced with the extent to which the things we get exposed to vary so wildly.

[beowulf22121]

“he wrote a song”

seriously? Bars have events where they play his entire music career and it lasts until the bar has to close, without repeating.

They usually decorate the bar to look like a tropical beach. If they trust their regulars they’ll even dump some sand in the corner with a plastic palm tree for pictures.

I prefer Pave Paradise and Put Up a Parking Lot but he’s got some jams.

[secondbeatsongs]

RIP Jimmy Buffett

[powells]

"Much has been written about her, but one question remains... who is she?"

[kickmuncher3]

i fucking hate everything.

[thymewayster]

If a company feels they need to make content inaccessible for cost-cutting reasons, then that content should be made available to the public some other way.

[electrickitten]

Crater was such a great movie, too. It had a nostalgic feel, like Goonies, that isn't seen often these days.