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so i hauve covid rn and i must say, American cold medicine is the absolute bees knees. You go to a UK pharmacy and they tenderly press like eight (8) paracetamol into the palm of your hand... God FORBID you're sick in France, i had to scour every pharmacy in Paris for something that wasn't HOMEOPATHIC PASTILLES. meanwhile last night i took the last of my stash of Nyquil that expired in 2019 and it was like getting hit by a fucking baseball bat (affectionate). press X to timeskip. LOVE me a cheeky little medically induced coma. you can really feel that it's a precursor to meth. i know that everything is fucking awful over there my friedns and my heart goes out to every one of you but if you need one small bright light of national pride in this time of strife please know that i envy you your cold medicine every day

slowspinningredemption

i once took an american antihistamine pill just a basic one for seasonal allergies and i had to immediately lay down and while doing so i vividly hallucinated that i was a steerage passenger on the titanic resigned to my death as my cabin filled up rapidly with water. then i blacked out and when i woke up again my allergies were gone for the entire season.

acakewalkofcrocodiles

The Hat Man is our greatest export

ghostfails

plasmalogical

sentence that makes you burst into tears

cunning-linguistix

Pro tip: when you see a brand new slang term, your first question should be how that term has been used in AAVE for the past 20-30 years.

lacunaanonymoused

This, too. This is a big one as well.

sick-jan

shadedwillow

ok google how do i propose deeper friendship and intimacy to my mutuals without feeling like a pervert predator

shadedwillow

hey. can we DM? do you want a voice message? do you want to see a picture of my face? do you wanna call? do you wanna get off on call with me? do you wanna consider us friends? do you wanna share secrets? do you wanna hint vaguely at where we both live to gauge how far we are from each other? do you wanna meet? do you wanna hang out? do you wanna fuck? do you wanna hold hands and kiss? does this make me creepy? is this too far? do you wanna kill me. i'm really sorry

zyrkon01

the-wolf-emoji

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type-o-philia

I much like how Rose transforms back and forth between being a small bean shaped creature to a beautiful woman with such fluidity. I know we all do this but I like myself in particular :)

Also, of course, Rorb Lalorb

paperandpencilsandskips

freelance-fiend

whydidisavethistomyphone

boybeetles

A lot of people seem to mix up ‘community’ with ‘friend group’ so when they read ‘no one should be abandoned by the community. No matter what they did’ they think it means ‘you have to be friends with abusers’. When in reality it means ‘no matter what someone does they shouldnt be left to go homeless and be denied financial, housing, medical, etc aid’

You don’t have to be friends with these people, no one is saying that. It’s just saying that you should support rehabilitative justice, support programs that help homeless people, support funding for free medical services, and make sure they don’t turn away anyone who needs help.

castametric

tototavros

was struggling to figure out this conundrum:

- the grand duchy of Tuscany was awarded to Francis Stephen of Luxembourg after the war of the Polish Succession

- Francis Stephen was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria during the Habsburg era

- the duchy of Parma however was awarded to the crown of Austria

why are Francis Stephen and Austria distinct?

apricops

Francis Stephen mentioned! History’s best malewife. Iirc he wasn’t so much “awarded” Tuscany as much as forced to swap Lorraine for it in anticipation of him becoming Holy Roman Emperor by marriage, because there was no way that the French crown would tolerate a Holy Roman Emperor taking a sizable French border territory with him, so he had to give it up. And then they had a war about it anyway.

apricops

The War of the Austrian Succession was more of an internal HRE conflict that drew in its neighbors. So what started things off was that Joseph I said “if the male line of Habsburgs goes extinct then we should rewrite one of the basic principles of Salic inheritance laws and pass Austria’s titles first to Maria Josepha, then to Maria Amalia, and if both of them die without heirs, then it should pass to Maria Theresa, the daughter of my younger brother Charles VI.” There are always too many Marias. Anyway, Joseph I dies, and Charles VI takes the throne and says “I agree that we should rewrite Salic law but I’m putting my daughter Maria Theresa first in line” but Maria Josepha happened to be married to Frederick Augustus of Saxony, who was also the king of Poland -

long story short, when Charles VI died there were multiple people with equally strong claims to Austria’s titles and each of those people held multiple massive territories. It’s also the first time in centuries that the distinction between “the Habsburg monarchy” and “the HRE” becomes seriously relevant again. The title of Holy Roman Emperor was technically voted on by the seven electors, while the Habsburg dominions were inherited via Salic law. Francis Stephen was elected Holy Roman Emperor, while Maria Theresa was the one who actually inherited all the Habsburg lands and titles.

On paper the War of the Austrian Succession kinda looks like a ‘normal’ war with two sides fighting over something and each side having their own network of alliances, but in practice it was more like a free-for-all scramble: France wanted the Netherlands, Saxony wanted Bohemia, Prussia wanted Silesia, and Bavaria wanted the whole Habsburg inheritance. The broad anti-Habsburg coalition rapidly fell apart as each power pursued their own aims and made separate peace agreements, which is how Maria Theresa and Francis Stephen came out on top.

So, uh, to answer your question: no, not really.