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Greatest hits of FIFA cultural exchanges thus far:

Learning about flyovers and pyrotechnics at American games being a thing

Non-americans discovering the size of American football stadiums....for high schools in texas. Also the size of our stadiums in general.

Going to baseball games as a side treat! Lmao.

Non-americans losing their minds over "like, 100 petrol pumps," at buc-ees.

Related: Americans often forget how huge target and Walmart is.

People discovering American BBQ

Non-americans being obsessed with mid American restaurant chains like Golden Corral and Taco Bell

A lot of them really did feel god in this chile's apparently

The rightful obsession with waffle house

New understanding of American Big Drink With Ice supremacy as summer creeps in

Begrudging acceptance of mandatory water breaks during games

Americans realizing we have a Team USA and we are not, in fact, just "hosting our friends" from around the world — mostly because we won our first match and our team is decent??? Not amazing but not the worst.

Side rant: us women's football team is legendary good and we should care about that more like. Hello???

Admitting Americans are right about air conditioning

Related: the english team did warm ups in Florida RIP, and also the there's a video of the French team just being like fuck the heat, fuck the sun, this is so hot...

Americans who do not normally care about international football but fucking love a sport and cheering so we're just hyping whatever team is nearby, like we see a party and just show up and learn the chant. Like sorry many of us don't know shit about soccer but if we see a bunch of people in viking helmets or kilts or holding a bunch of flags and cheering we're game.

TAILGATING!!!!

I already said this but American yellow school bus is an international celebrity

The Scottish drank Boston dry of beer apparently, like they quadrupled what Boston normally sells for fourth of July weekend. SAM ADAMS HAD TO GET AN EMERGENCY BEER DELIVERY.

Also the English team fans got kicked out of The Londoner pub in Dallas after drinking 5,000 beers and going over max capacity lmao

Free refill drinks, tortilla chips & salsa.

So many non-americans are going to be here for the 4th of July for our 250th anniversary which is going to be great and hilarious

Non-americans discovering ranch as a beloved condiment

Non-americans understanding American obsession with hamburger now

Japan's homebase is in Texas and the cultural differences are frankly great and also the Japanese fans are SO NICE and helped clean up the stadium after a match???

All the short videos with the eagle screech (which I think is actually a hawk but whatever)

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On the note of Americans embracing whatever team is nearby, please enjoy this clip of Kansans going all in for Algeria:

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Americans: always down to party

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When you don't know the sport or but a horde from across the world has shown up for it:

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Hell yeah

Various additions:

Kansas has adopted team Algeria ❤️❤️

Every single person who tries one of the following for the first time and literally ascends: BBQ, soul food, seafood boil, tacos etc is great.

Tartan army hired yellow school buses to take them to the stadium

Also they put traffic cones on a bajillion statues in Boston

~~*~~Post cancelled because I said begrudging acceptance of hydration, apparently everyone is throwing a tantrum about it ruining the game for ads. Ads suck but heat stroke kills people — XOXO, your gal who grew up in one of the top #5 sunniest cities on earth, and in a desert. Summer is just now starting. Be mad about ad breaks all you want, but as a reminder for ALL fans: DRINK WATER. WEAR SUNSCREEN. even if you don't think you need to. Eat snacks to replenish ur electrolytes.

No but seriously I'm going to start blocking people for WELL ACKTUALLY'ing me about water. I don't care to hear it 5,000 times. I truly fucking don't. I should've just posted "saw video clip of team france dying in the sun and seeming to desperately be drinking water in the shade sitting down and cursing in French and also international fans chugging water." Whatever. Stop being annoying guys.

Also Japan's homebase is Tennessee apparently oops.

Um I noticed team Brazil learned about the rocky curse here in Philly (when non-philly teams put a jersey on the rocky statue at the Philly art museum, they immediately lose.) so. Brazil fans blocked access to the rocky statue. They had signs and blazer uniforms 😂

Also shout out to the guy from Japan who went to a Wawa and said it was like an American conbini. You're 100% correct. Wawa is the closest we have to a conbini.

Shout-out to the folks discovering the giant pirate ship inside that one stadium in Florida lmao

Oh I do appreciate the football team that dresses up as vikings. 10/10 photoshoot.

"have you learned anything about football, Americans?" Babe I know the answer where I live is: "go birds 🦅🦅🦅🦅" Did I learn anything new about soccer? No I still know the same amount, roughly, which is about the same amount I know about basketball. Which is mostly nothing outside of like, how points happen and how the ball is moved. If I could afford a ticket I would go to a game and learn, but alas.

Speaking of basketball, shout out to everyone visiting New York and getting to experience the knicks winning. ⚽🏀⚽

Yes the sound clip is the red tail hawk

Someone said this was all about food and consumerism as if this was some kind of own or something. Personally I usually have to eat food when I visit other countries. Sometimes I even buy souvenirs. Wild, I know.

Someone said Boston and Glasgow are now becoming sister cities and I did not fact check this but hilarious if true. They should probably also share liver transplant lists.

I have been told team USA's fan chants suck. I believe this is true on account of the fact that I don't think we knew that was a thing. The chant we all know is U-S-A 🇺🇸 U-S-A 🇺🇸 and like, the national anthem. The only generic sport song I know is for baseball. Also I'm going to be real, what I know about other football fan chants is that some of them are wildly offensive in a variety of ways, so I don't know that we should be encouraged to make up chants that might involve aggressive racism & antisemitism. Let's just do the wave instead.

Btw has anyone told visitors that the restaurant portion sizes are huge because you're taking home the leftovers? Did we all explain this? I feel like we should mention it.

Yes loud excited Americans will cheer and whoo for other teams. It's fun.

Our airport security (TSA) has had to tell people ranch is a liquid you can't put in your carry on, and also do not chug ranch at airport security. Amazing. Feels similar to when I was at Seoul Incheon airport and all the signs said absolutely no kimchi in your carry on bags.

Also yes I hope everyone gets to see fireflies

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people who don't follow chess I promise this post is really funny

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Karpov had cemented his position as the world's best player and world champion by the time Garry Kasparov arrived on the scene. In their first match, the World Chess Championship 1984 in Moscow, the first player to win six games would win the match. Karpov built a 4–0 lead after nine games. The next 17 games were drawn, setting a record for world title matches, and it took Karpov until game 27 to gain his fifth win. In game 31, Karpov had a winning position but failed to take advantage and settled for a draw. He lost the next game, after which 14 more draws ensued. Karpov held a solidly winning position in Game 41, but again blundered and had to settle for a draw. After Kasparov won games 47 and 48, FIDE President Florencio Campomanes unilaterally terminated the match, citing the players' health. Karpov is said to have lost 10 kg over the course of the match. The match had lasted an unprecedented five months, with five wins for Karpov, three for Kasparov, and 40 draws.

okay, yeah this is pretty funny

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Him getting smaller and smaller as he walks up to the truck is some real Peter Jackson The Lord of the Rings forced perspective movie magic

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Yes, come on in!

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Yes, yes, come in to my cabin, watch your step please.

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You Have A Lovely Hombe

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Thank you, Horace. Sit, make yourself at hombe. Or would you like to play a game of Billiards in my special room over here?

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Oh I Just Love To Play Balls

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We’ll get along splendidly, then.

Some wine?

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Oh Enough Chit-Chat And Lets Talk Creams.

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Go on.

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Well I Just Love Creams. Well They Taste Good. And. Oh The Texture An-

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*Shrnf…*

Smells Of Steel.

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*All pretense and friendly affect is dropped, eyes fixing coldly on the boar*

*Advances*

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Well I Simply Knew All A Long

*And Horace Delivers A Series Of Funny Kicks And Rageful SMACKS To The Assailant’s Solar Plexus And Hip Bones*

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AAAAAIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! DEFL…AAAA…a.aa….aaating….

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Hm Hm Hm That Aought To Teach You Scoundrel

*Horace Turns His Handsome Snout To Face YOU*

Rememboar: Dont Go In A Strangor’s House Or Something I Forget

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EXCUSE ME THERE IS A PLANT THAT CAN MIMIC FAKE PLANTS?????

IT'S CALLED A BOQUILA TRIOFOLIOLATA AND IT'S FUCKING WITH MY BRAIN

IT APPARENTLY CAN MIMIC OTHER PLANTS AND AT FIRST I WAS LIKE "oh cool man it must take it's genetic code and copy it or feel the roots or something like that!! :3"

AND THEN I READ AN ARTICLE ON IT AND THESE FUCKING PARAGRAPHS HIT ME LIKE A BUS

LIKE READ THIS SHIT

WHAT THE FUCK MOTHER NATURE

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I went to find the article. It's fascinating.

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In retrospect, consider the number 1 thing every grade-schooler knows about plants is they take in light, the idea they might be able to see should not wreck my shit as hard as it does

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Found my 53yo very-much-not-online father in the kitchen today meticulously arranging cutlery on the countertop and i was like 'what are you doing' and he looked up at me with the world's most shit-eating grin and said "Your mother told me this is how you rick-roll the Youth" and i looked over and it was fucking. Loss.jpg.

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i must stress that he's never seen the original comic. My mother simply showed him the shorthand symbol and he memorized it. As far as he is aware this is just a fucking hieroglyph that deals instant psychic damage to everyone under the age of 30

Itchy snoot.

HE DIRT BROKEN :(

Random worldbuilding: there's a region in the country with a strong culture of offering homecooked dishes as gifts for all occasion. And over time, they have accumulated an entire category of dishware that aren't any particular individual's property - they are constantly in rotation, being gifted and re-gifted as the dish holding a pie, a casserole, loaf of bread, the list goes on. Once a gift dish is in your possession, you need to make something in it as a gift in return - not necessarily to the one you received it from, but to someone nonetheless.

They're called lovers' dishes, but not for any romantic reasons. The name was adopted after people started deeming the previous name, courtesan bowls, inappropriate. The term courtesan bowl was also a slightly more cleaned-up term replacing a previous one, as the dishware were originally known as slut cups. As they, you understand, they get around.

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Source

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“Ghosts are real” I can see how you could believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real” it’s very fair and rational that you believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real anymore” I’m about to hear a poem or very sad story

“Ghosts aren’t real yet” the fuck are you going to do

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the problem with movie remakes is that they always remake something that was already good, meaning at worst you ruin it and at best your remake is largely redundant. to make a truly good remake you need to start with source material that is absolute dogwater. ignore the pull of nostalgia. redeem the sins of moviemaking past.

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scientists in the 1990s, putting a Get More Purple gene attached to a harmless plant virus into an already purple petunia: please get more purple

the petunia, sensing an apparent honest to god Get More Purple Disease, using the previously undiscovered RNAi antiviral ability to shut down all other purple genes along with it just in case: you put VIRUS in petunia? you infect her with the More Purple?? oh! oh! her children shall bloom white! jail for mother, jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!