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I thought newpipe was super popular but every time I bring it up people go "wow no way!" so I'm making it's own post to recommend it if you watch youtube on your phone.

It acts as a youtube frontend, blocks ads by default, and you can listen to stuff on it and download videos for offline viewing (like youtube premium, but ya know, for free)

tawghasa

Living in the wrong timsezone to notice when the hellsite is down - just like old times 🥹

worstgirleva

a "teacher's pet" is a class traitor that has betrayed their peers (other students) to receive favors from the oppressor class

aurelia-which-means-sunrise

Or is it a role assigned by the teacher assigned to students (often girls) who are compliant? The same as the role of troublemaker is assigned by teachers, however subconsciously?

There have been studies done (in Germany) where the desks in classrooms usually sit two students.

Very often teachers will assign seats so that girls are seated next to boys, and especially academically well doing girls are seated next to boys who are having trouble, academically and socially.

And it is expected that the girls take on the work of managing the boys' emotions, calming them down, helping them academically. The cost it has for the girls is not thought about by most teachers, this is standard practice of managing a class.

This is not because girls are vunteering for the seats / the role, quite the opposite. When asked, most girls say that this goes on their nerves, distresses them or even makes it harder for them to concentrate in class. It's just more unpaid labour forced on actual children, more expectations put on girls.

#i cant count how many times this has happened to me in school

ohevoyev

why are british people always so mad when people make jokes about their accents. sorry you say yewchube. it’s funny though innit

bees-and-mice-and-frogs-and

This is something I’ve been dying to talk about.

There’s something called culture. People (especially USAmericans) think of culture as cultural dress, cultural food, cultural music. These are culture, but they are only the very superficial aspects of it. Like the icing on your cake. Far more deep rooted is the more meaty bits of culture: the attitudes, the ideas, the taboos.

There’s a guy on tiktok who has done a series that shows this very well, of Germans Vs Irish. In one video the German offers the Irish person two kinds of tea, green or black. The Irish person keeps putting off the choice with things like “Oh sure whatever is easiest”, “Which have you more of?” and, “Ah sure I don’t want to cause a fuss” whereas the German just wants a straight answer. This is a cultural difference of politeness.

Here in the UK, accents mark your class very openly. They let everyone know where you’re from (though this has become less pronounced in the last 50 years,) and what your background is. A lot of people (especially northerners, but also a fair contingent of working class southerners) face discrimination on the basis of their accents.

Some of us (myself included) even change register (though I believe USAmericans call it code switching) in and out of our regional accent and a close approximation of RP. We learn to do it because it makes us seem more intelligent (even though it shouldn’t) and helps us be taken more seriously.

Thus, our country carries a lot of baggage when it comes to accents. Especially those of the working class who have had their accents made fun of, or have faced discrimination based on it.

So when someone outside the country (usually USAmericans) makes fun of our accents they’re stepping on a lot of cultural taboos and boundaries. Especially because the “It’s Chewsday, gonnae wot-ch sum yewchube innit” is a working class accent.

Now, that’s not to say we can’t take a joke, but this is the kind of joke you share with someone who you have been friends with for a while. My boyfriend often will pick up on the way I say certain words, in much the same fashion I pick up on his idiosyncrasies of speech (English isn’t his first language so he says stuff like close the lights, which is adorable.) If we aren’t predisposed to liking you, then the joke you’re trying to make is more like an insult.

The way I like to think of it is if you were in a pub, and made those sorts of jokes to someone. If they knew you, and they liked you, they’d probably laugh along. If they didn’t like you or know you, they would punch you in the jaw.

HOWEVER: I recognise this post as a joke. I don’t personally find these jokes offensive, but then no one really makes fun of me or considers me stupid because of my accent.

badolmen

Oh that actually makes a lot of sense! It’s like how it’s assumed in media that the southeastern Appalachian (‘hick’ or ‘redneck’) accent is audible shorthand for ‘this American character is stupid.’ That sentiment reinforces negative stereotypes about that region which has historically been home to a large working class population that has suffered from an underfunded education system and other systematic abuses. It is ultimately an underhanded joke, but not everyone from America (or even the region necessarily) considers it to be offensive despite its classist nature.

mighty-meerkat

yes, that’s basically it! it grinds my gears when certain Very Online Americans will quite rightly say that europeans have no right to mock the us’ lack of healthcare/gun control and working-class accents…but then turn around and act like working-class british accents and foods are hilarious and should be mocked ‘bc of colonialism and the bp oil spill’ as though all british people are directly responsible for the oil spill. and then some of them conveniently forget that there are in fact british people of colour - in the wake of brexit, a smug american blog defended saying that british people upset by the referendum were getting ‘karma’ for the british empire, even when british poc pointed out that they were the ones most likely to be negatively affected by brexit, by saying ‘obviously i don’t mean you’, to which said british poc responded ‘THEN WHY DID YOU SAY BRITISH PEOPLE’

stormclouds-chainmail

The hatred, by the privileged of England, towards Scotland and any Scottish accent was so pervasive that my mother wouldn’t let my brother and I develop a Scottish accent. She was born in Jamaica but her family moved to London when she was 11. She moved to Scotland when she was pregnant with me. Both my brother and I were born in Scotland and spent out entire childhood there. Mum was adamant that neither of us would have the local accent. It was “common” and “low class” and “would hinder us in the future”. She used to fine us half our pocket money if we used any Scottish slang or said anything in a Scottish accent. I got bullied at school for having a “posh English accent” but she thought my job prospects were more important than a modicum of happiness at school. My outsider status was doubled by that. I was brown and “English”.

Even now, after decades in Scotland, I still don’t sound Scottish. The English hear a slight lilt but that disappears as soon as I spend any time with them.

I feel alienated on two fronts now, skin colour and accent. And one of those was avoidable if it hadn’t been for the prejudice against against perceived lower class accents. Even in Jamaica Mum learnt to speak in an English accent like the white girls at her school. She could switch between the two. Jamaican with her parents, posh English everywhere else. Why couldn’t I have had that?

amuseoffyre

The fact that a lot of regional actors are expected to code-switch their accent patterns the a kind of neutral English accent in Britain shows how pervasive the classism is.

When Christopher Eccleston was cast as the Doctor in Doctor Who, people were surprised that he used his own northern accent, instead of performing with an accent like every Doctor before him. That was only 15-ish years ago.

Even now, this still happens - James McAvoy made a very vocal protest a couple of years back about a critic who complained about the use of Scots accents and only applauded the “plummy English” accent of one character in a play.

Regional and working class accents were used as joke accents for decades in British media. Look up old broadcasts and notice how many people only speak RP English (ie. the formal pronunciation that smacks of elocution lessons and enunciation). As media accessibility and productions expanded, there have been more regional accents showing up, but it’s still a big problem.

sillyjimjam

Putsimply when you mock “innit” you’re mocking poor people and often people of colour. Boris Johnson doesn’t say “innit bruv”.

phoenix-ghost-town-deactivated2

I would like to add that there was a study by the Worcester College that found that people talking with a Birmingham accent were twice as likely to be accused of a crime as people who speak RP. Accents carry huge baggage in Britain.

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official linguistics post

wicked-twin-twister

http://www.dorkly.com/post/85925/pokemon-vs-yu-gi-oh

oneinamillyon

I want everyone to know that the guy who’s talking on the yugioh side of the Strategy panel has a deck so complicated it created the most infamous Excel spreadsheet in Yugioh history.

ygio

laughing, the only thing where this is slightly off for me is the convincing people to get back into it, because i love doing it by going “hey you know that childrens cartoon about card games you used to love? did you know that the original manga started as a horror, the main character kills people, and it wasnt even about cards those came later”

#this is such a blast from the past compared to karina's current artstyle #still unmistakably her tho

lemonsweet-moved

I like the part in uzumaki where it's chill for a moment and she's sitting on the beach w her fucked up boyfriend and they literally look like this

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luntfontanne

cannot stop thinking about this tweet… AUGH 😭

meatmite

"if you see someone shoplifting, no you didn't" no but like. i really didn't. i have never in my life seen someone shoplifting because i'm not watching anyone else in the grocery store..? how are y'all noticing things like that. my only goals are enter the store, survive, exit the store

partywithponies

Lady Gaga herself could be cutting about Tesco in her meat dress and I wouldn't notice.

elierlick

You shouldn’t have to be trans to get any sex characteristic-related surgery. It’s not a limited resource. Plenty of cis men get implants and cis women get breast reductions. From Colby Gordon today and Leslie Feinberg in Transgender Warriors (1996).

mynnvx

just finished harrow the ninth and i feel sick but i fucking love ianthe

#f: the locked tomb #c: ianthe tridentarius (tlt)

botanyshitposts

so many creatures putting SO much effort into putting ‘special’ fluids that TOTALLY aren’t water through every organ possible to clean them so they can use them again 2 seconds later. like why not simply sit on a damp substrate and pull water through your body by evaporating the extra out pores in your leaves lmaoooo

botanyshitposts

‘nooo nooo you don’t get it I need the big organ to run the fast firing nerves to run the machines that make the fluid go to work the big organ’. whatever chordate. lol

shaudo-of-a-doubt

troubleshooting time: arid area, low on damp substrate. what do?

botanyshitposts

good question! you could try closing your leaf pores for a while until more appears… sometimes you can also put more tubes down and feel around until you find some. water comes from the opposite direction of the sun unless it doesn’t ❤️ glad I could help!!

unwastelandunbaby

I think it’s very fun and beautiful that there are nontraditional fic formats that certain fandoms can do and do well, and whole genres of fic that are popular in one fandom that you may never see in another

unwastelandunbaby

fics that read like court documents or academic papers or journal entries or published antique love letters with footnotes by historians…25k+ of plot told through only photoshopped text and email screenshots, news headlines, and tweets… it can be so fun to find that conditions specific to certain characters or worlds lead perfectly to unique formats mmmm good shit

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hydeanachronism

pjowasmy1stfandom

I literally thought of the third one and then it manifested in the notes

marlynnofmany

Add another one to the list of hilarious examples of why generative AI doesn't produce correct answers, just statistically likely ones.

(Customers asked for how-to videos, which the company doesn't have. The AI chatbot decided that a million internet users linking to this video after similar requests couldn't be wrong.)