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nuclearbummer

maplebungus-deactivated20221118

last name is “down on a brand new Toyota Camry”

monogramscorner

dankmemeuniversity

officialfist

These people are demons

legsdemandias

Non-Americans who escalate inter-nationality teasing immediately to “school shootings and trump” stop challenge

legsdemandias

American’s Teasing England: Tea in the shower, u have a queen, other relatively benign stereotypes

American’s Teasing Canada: u have moose and beavers, maple syrup u like it

American’s Teasing Australia: kangaroos and koalas, it’s hot there, summer time, toilets flush backward

Canada, England, and Australia retaliating from that teasing: school shootings, kill a child today hm? your police murder you, you’re gonna die from a preventable disease, everyone in the country is hopelessly poor and dying, everyone’s in debt, you can’t even afford to die. THAT’ll teach u to tease us about having ANIMALS in our country!

legsdemandias

I mean, sure, it’s all fun and games to you. But I’ve had friends legitimately try to kill themselves just thinking about a future in this country. I have co-workers who cried on the first day of school because they were scared of dying. While I was working at a school there were three school shooting threats in 4 weeks. I had friends break out into tears after the massacre in 2018 talking about it in class, terrified that they were going to die while working–or watch students die.

My high school history teacher was shot in the back on campus. Everyone here knows someone who’s been affected by gun violence. Everyone knows someone who’s been affected by healthcare, or lack thereof. Everyone knows someone whose life has been ruined by college debt.

The day in, day out nightmare of living in America is not a fucking “GOTCHA” for when you’re trying to tease America. Why is this so hard to comprehend.

legsdemandias

Non-Americans: Ugh americans are so entitled and mean and rude

Also Non-Americans: Oh you’re gonna make fun of me drinking tea? Well you’re gonna be violently murdered and then you’ll go into thousands upon thousands of dollars in debt from the act lol this is an equivalent comparison and doesn’t make me look like the asshole in the situation at all!! Americans are soooo rude!

miyotesse

Any examples of what we can tease you about then? Any universal Americanisms that cause the right amount of offense without stepping over the line?

legsdemandias

Imperial system

Shoes on in house

Smiling too much

High school football

Opossums, raccoons, deer, etc.

Carpet (I’ve heard other countries aren’t as obsessed with carpet as Americans)

Sales tax (how much will this cost? Nobody knows!)

Roadside tourist attractions (world’s biggest ball of yarn etc)

“it’s only a 6 hour drive”

Buying tea in a gallon jug

Being in the prairie states and there literally being nothing in any direction for miles not even trees

Tornadoes anything to do with tornado culture

Waffle house

The mere concept of semi trucks / 18 wheelers

Every state except California claiming they have the weirdest weather

kawree

five petrol stations within a two block radius, sometimes two of the same brand ketchup is too spicy mayonnaise on/in literally everything we put noodles and mayo in a bowl and call it a salad i shit you not absolute failures at geography deep fried everything. seriously. we deep fry BUTTER.

paracosim

Absolutely everything and anything somehow being a casserole

HELL IS REAL billboard here in Ohio

The giant dinosaur roadside tourist attraction out in the middle of nowhere

Route 66

Corn fields, everywhere you look

petrichorepoch

Weird salads (like ambrosia)

Fanny packs

Prom (I’ve heard other countries don’t have prom? Or any of the other 100 school dances a year??)

People microwave their tea instead of boiling it

The white people half-jog-and-wave combo when crossing the street

Endless ads for pharmaceuticals

legsdemandias

captainlordauditor

how about not having our laundry machines in any sensible places? mine’s in the fucking basement, so all of us have to haul our laundry up and down a flight of stairs. this is extremely common

rizaoftheowls

The difficulty is that all our Stupid Nonsense is so regional. For example, the appropriate wildlife joke here in the Northeast is bears. But my family in Florida has had to shoo alligators out of the backyard like a common nuisance.

fernlom

There is the well agreed upon hatred of California and Texas, and the agreed upon mocking of Florida

brokentoys-co-deactivated202411

Omg fucking fLORIDA ITS SO STUPID IS IT ACTUALLY OF THIS UNIVERSE LIKE WHAT THE HELL

yourpersonaljaskier

There’s a w h a t sign in Ohio?

legsdemandias

guardianofscrewingup

There are a lot of regional variations but one universal is everyone makes fun of New Jersey.

Including people from New Jersey.

very-hairy-wizard

There are also cultural constants.

BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY!!!

If someone bumps into you you are legally required to yell

“Ei’ um walkin’ ova here”

in a New York accent.

Without even mentioning our cryptids which are both amazing and I will fight anyone over the objective superiority of mothman. And at the same time its… a moth… man… like?????

shivasdarknight

If ya wanna pick fun at the Northeast, you could always pick fun at the accent! Words like “faster” becomes “fastah” while words like “pizza” become “pizzer”

You don’t park your car in the drive way, it’s the pahk yahd. Mainer and Bostonian are similar, but you could compare Bostonian to being more aggressive and mobster like, but Mainah as the North Texan accent. Take ya cah and take a drive daown tah Bah Habah for an outtin’, may not have the best lobstah in the airyah but it’s a wicked beautyfuhl spot y'hear.

Lobsters, moose, bears, trees that vastly outnumber the population, how everyone from Massachusetts is a Masshole and a fuckin awful driver

Or that Stephen King is a local cryptid in Maine

or that New England is haunted by the ghosts of old - any old building is likely haunted by some 1700s-1800s widow of a sailor

marauders4evr

So my brother and I were just talking on the phone and we realized: Aang might have mastered all four elements but Sokka mastered the non-bending styles from all four nations!

He already knew how to fight with Water Tribe weapons/regalia:

Then, in what’s likely the first Earth Kingdom village he’s ever visited, he learned how to fight with the Warriors of Kyoshi:

When he reached the Northern Air Temple, he was able to tap into the philosophy of the airbenders and realize that the best way to win a battle is to avoid face-to-face confrontation by instead using creative means (and the sky) to take down your opponent:

And finally, when he reached the Fire Nation, Piandao taught him how to forge a unique weapon and hone his swordsmanship:

Sokka learned all four non-bending styles!

Really puts Iroh’s quote into a different context:

“Understanding the other nations will help you become whole.”

marcitlali

the way men think eating meat feeds into their masculinity is so fucking funny like miss thing you didn’t wrestle that shit with your bare hands you took your dumpy ass to costco in your wife’s pt cruiser you might as well be a drag queen at this point

weedass

this bitch is sequencing dna in the tags

skeletonpendeja

ghostresidues

did i ever tell u all that when i was 15 i went on a school trip to see romeo and juliet at the globe but my teacher didn’t realise until after he’d booked it that it was a ~sexy~ version with bdsm in it

ghostresidues

ok people wanted the whole story here are the most Memorable Moments™️

•the production made a lot of people very very angry and the reviews were calling it ‘a desecration of shakespeare’ , other people said it was akin to vandalism

•a warning letter had to be sent home to parents because it was too late to cancel the booking

•all the teachers there looked like they wanted to die cause we were 13-15 years old lmaoo

•the play opened with really aggressive confetti cannons and in the centre of the stage there was this really muscled guy wearing almost nothing and there were four women in essentially lingerie just.. gyrating over him

•this had nothing to do with the plot by the way it was just there

•we’re only five minutes in and i think the teachers were considering evacuating us

•romeo’s dad is in an inflatable dinosaur costume for an entire scene.. no context was given

•i’ve blocked the actual sex scene out of my memory

•i might have imagined this but in the masked ball scene i swear someone was in full bdsm gear i SWEAR

•mercutio was played by a woman and just started stripping during a monologue which was an Experience

•lots and lots of twerking from background actors

•romeo was just dressed like an emo the whole time

ghostresidues

for any doubters here’s an excerpt from an article on it ! by the financial times for some reason

yarnlegend

This is 100% what Shakespeare would have wanted

sar-kalu

it really fucking is

crystal-jack-asripines

PLEASE tell me someone filmed this! Because holy SHIT do I wanna watch this!!!!

squided

Shakespeare would watch this and be like "damn why the fuck didn't I think of nipple tassels"

silentthevoice

Petition to change “he looked at her like she was the sun” to “he looked at her like she was the moon” and any other variation bc I look at the moon in wonder and love and amazement while I’ve only ever just squinted angrily at the sun

louisamayanniecat

He looked at her like she was the sun, in that he never looked at her except in frustration. He basked in her warmth, he complained when she was gone, but he never looked. On days she was muted, he complained. On days she was stronger, he hid from her. He never looked at her until she was leaving, and in the beauty of the sunset he wondered how he’d never seen her before.

legolokiismighty

dude

omghotmemes

Gotta make money somehow

superiorjello

The older this gets the funnier it is

ultrafacts

Source

Video of Tama

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majikkant-deactivated20180504

The picture in the background of the second one

pizzaismylifepizzaisking

Tama is boss

ultrafacts

cat-fandom

THE TRAINS HAVE CARTOON TAMAS ON THEM

ultrafacts

Sad update everyone, Tama recently passed away… An estimated 3,000 people, including railway officials, attended Tama the cat’s funeral on Sunday, days after she died of heart failure aged 16. [x]

retro-geek-deactivated20220412

For those who haven’t read articles about it, the local shrine elevated her to a god. She’s now the Eternal Stationmaster and patron god of the station.

karinanotcinerina

Beautiful.

system-fail-ure-deactivated2021

Now I’m crying thanks

sapphic-matriarchy

and a new cat was hired right?

clarenecessities

yep! her name is Nitama (essentially ”second tama” or “tama II”) and she served under Tama as an apprentice before being appointed her deputy

she works very hard

beasti

Everytime this crosses my dash, I reblog. It is the law.

lafayettelabaguette

Law

tooiconic

I’m crying at 11pm over train cats

sighinastorm

Nitama, already now a mature cat (born 2010), has a protege named Yontama (fourth Tama, b. 2016). There is no information available for either the physical befellment or tragic self-disgrace which has removed Santama from contention.

^Nitama majestic, and below with Yontama

Yontama.

linkislost

a legacy

bemusedlybespectacled

okay but actually what happened to santama (or sun-tama-tama, which is her name because it’s a pun on santama) was that she was basically sent to train for the position in okayama and they liked her so much they refused to send her back

kindaoffkilter

“Sun-tama-tama” (a pun off of “Santama”, lit. “third Tama”) was a calico cat sent for training in Okayama. Sun-tama-tama was considered as a candidate for Tama’s successor, but the Okayama Public Relations representative who had been caring for Sun-tama-tama refused to give the cat up writing, “I will not let go of this child, she will stay in Okayama.” [25]

As of September 2018, Sun-tama-tama is working as the stationmaster in Naka-ku, Okayama and appears occasionally on Tama’s Twitter account.

cryoverkiltmilk

Every time I see this post there’s new info and it gets better

northeastartist

You are only allowed to scroll pass this after you pay tribute to the great Tama Station masters.

redchrominance

The shrine of Tama Daimyōjin (Great gracious deity Tama), next to the Kishi station where she worked.

Nitama presenting her yearly offerings to Tama Daimyōjin on the anniversary of Tama’s Death, June 23 (The offerings are presented by the company president, as Nitama is a cat and thus can’t hold the offerings herself) (Not pictured, but also present, Yontama)

twimmythebabywitch

you cannot pass without reblogging guys. i’m sorry, i don’t make the rules.

the-real-skeletor

Tama (a mortal) received God status, now I’m no expert on religion but I’m guessing that it doesnt happen much so it’s a big deal

safitheartist

Shinto is a very different religion from western book religions like Christianity. This is a really high honor, yeah, but it’s not all that uncommon for Japan.

Shinto is very ritual focused and puts a lot of emphasis on nature and spirituality. Kami and the myth around them are very different from the western understanding of gods or spirits. Infact a lot of experts argue that translating them as gods is honestly not right at all.

Kami can essentially be anything that comes from nature. Animals, nature forces, landmarks and even humans that passed away. Infact a lot of Japans past emperor’s are regarded as Kami (Yeah Japan is no stranger to using religion as a way of propaganda, we got that in common).

Tama getting a Kami statue isn’t at all surprising since she very much encompasses what one would describe as “the way of the Kami.”

Another great example for this would be Hachiko

Hachiko or “Faithfull dog Hachiko” was a very beloved dog in Japan who went to the Shibuya station everyday to meet his owner, even when said long since had died.

He was so beloved that after his death they made a Kami statue for him at the station which is one of Shibuya’s best known landmarks.

It’s said petting him will bring good fortune.

Basically when you left a long lasting positive impact on a lot of people, there is a great chance that you can be considered a Kami after your passing and might even get a shrine dedicated to you.

At least that’s my understanding.

Shinto is honestly a fascinating religion and I advice everyone to do their own research on it and also to take my words with a grain of salt, since I am not Japanese nor participate in Shintoism, I simply happen to be very curious.