in all the time, I’ve never heard a “Luke and Leia were actually Obi-Wan’s kids” take
or that “elite warrior slumming in the colonial borderlands under an assumed name” was kinda Nazi-tinted in 1977 and implied a more Mara Jade backstory
oh btw lost corpse end in a placename in i believe yorkshire (?) where there was a coffinbearers’ stone (ye olde days people had to carry coffins miles and miles along the corpse roads to get them to burial places and there were many stones along these roads for the bearers to rest the coffins on) outside an inn where apparently one time some people put a coffin, went into the inn to get something to eat, and when they came back out the corpse was just. gone.
So some anon’s been messaging me about the global eclipse of Protestantism and the possibility that a more isolationist America might further undercut it, which I don’t know where that came from but it’s worth considering.
On the other hand their first message opens with the typo “Ptotestantism” and like
Anonymous asked: Sorry I was switching over from different apps on my phone and copy and paste accidentally switched some letters around. Please forgive me wise man.
No my man you’re all good, it was just a distractingly giggly mental image
So from this Pornhub year-end report further confirmation that yes, we are in an incest porn boom. But the reddit comment thread gives a pretty good explanation for the “Why?” I’d never thought to consider - because the kink turns on the identity and relationship of the principals, it’s the only genre in this gonzo age that reliably has plot and characters.
After 800 nuclear tests from 1951 and 1992, this is the view over the Nevada Test Site (formerly known as the Nevada Proving Grounds).
All the craters seen in the photograph are from below ground tests and are collapse features from subsidence into the largely vaporized detonation zone.
Yo this is the list of every politically appointed office in the US federal executive branch and its status going into the new administration
For example searching on Portland, appointable roles include BLM chief for all Oregon/Washington (that’s a permanent appointment - guy got bumped up to California and then the Malheur occupation derailed whatever succession plan) and US Attorney (we had one resign ‘cuz she was stalking a co-worker, and then I thought her replacement got upgraded from “acting” but he shit the bed so hard on the Bundy trial it doesn’t matter)
And that’s policy-making power that matters, Jack!
Lmao this American girl walked up to a Hungry Jacks (Burger King) register with her drink and really, really loudly (I was at the other side of the place) proclaimed:
“I asked for Lemonade, you gave me Sprite” in a really bitchy, entitled voice.
The cashier (and everyone within earshot) just looked at her like “the fuck is wrong with you”
In Australia, Sprite IS lemonade as far as we’re concerned.
Yeah this is correct. Lemonade is sprite. Clear fizzy liquid type thing. Solo is closer to what American lemonade is but we don’t actually have what you guys consider lemonade anyway so she was never going to get what she wanted lmao.
Y'ALL AIN’T GOT LEMONADE?!?!??
madness…
“we don’t actually have what you guys consider lemonade“
That entire continent exists on a different realm of existence
IT IS THE SAME DAMN THING. You Yankees and your fifty brands of the same :P
LEMONADE AND SPRITE ARE NOTHING ALIKE
Things heating up in the drink fandom
I’m pretty sure the same is true in the UK at least was in 2010 except Sprite didn’t seem to be a common brand so I’d ask for Sprite get blank looks eventually figured out to ask for lemonade
Sprite is a recognised brand here, but it’s not omnipresent, it is also considered a brand of lemonade.
This is fucked up.
Sprite: lemon-lime soda (pop/carbonated beverage).
Lemonade: lemons, water, and sugar. Still.
LEMONADE IS NOT CARBONATED WHATT HEFUCC CK ARE YOU ALL DOIGN
Living? Sensibly?
Also on what planet does Sprite have lime in it.
Sprite, the lemon-lime flavored
carbonated beverage, is made on Earth.
Earth is the third planet from the Sun, the densest planet in the Solar System, the largest of the Solar System’s four terrestrial planets, and the only astronomical object known to harbor Sprite.
The people of Earth are known as “Earthlings” or “Spriteloids” interchangeably (although not to each other).
At least in the UK, if you order lemonade you’ll sometimes get Sprite, but if it’s proper it’s a lemon soda akin to the Italian gassosa - less sweet than Sprite.
Oh shit, I’ve had gassosa, it’s AMAZING.
I just want to say that the whole ‘lemonade and Sprite are interchangeable’ is pretty common throughout Asia as well, in my experience
You guys have orange juice at least, right? Grapefruit juice? In the US, Lemonade is a juice, like orange juice, but made with lemons instead of oranges. You can buy “fresh squeezed lemonade” at many restaurants and fast food venues. Typically it’s diluted a bit with sugar water, so the sour flavor of the raw lemon juice isn’t so overpowering.
In the south, it’s very common for people buy whole lemons and make their own lemonade at home using a citrus juicer.
In Germany, you’d ask for “Limonade” and yeah, you may get a Sprite or a Fanta; it’ll always be a fizzy nonalcoholic drink and usually come in lemon, lime, orange flavor. Only in healthfood or hipster establishments would it ever be an actual juice drink.
As a fan of homemade rosewater lemonade, I am twitching at the thought of sickly sweet carbonated beverages that taste like they were invented by someone who may have been in the same room as a citrus fruit once but can’t remember what it actually tastes like being called lemonade.
Wtf did y'all think beyonce was talking about????
oh wow I hadn’t even considered that. Like millions of people worldwide hearing the album title but not understanding what lemonade means even on the most superficial level.
This is so epically disturbing. Lemonade is such an integral part of spring and summertime. I just … this breaks my brain and my heart. The cultural references too. Just, all the American shows that reference lemonade and people in other countries are thinking Sprite? There’s a reason kids do freshly squeezed lemonade stands. You can’t buy it like that from a store. And there’s nothing quite like screwing it up and getting the sugar ratio wrong. And parents grinning through the too sour or too sweet mess and praising your efforts. Lemonade Is a Thing.
Wait does that mean Aussies make Shandies with sprite?????
Does this mean a significant portion of the global population don’t know what to do when life hands you lemons?
Yes, Australians make Shandies with our carbonated soft drink lemonade, though if you’re using it as a mixer, you’re less likely to be using Sprite and more likely to be using Schweppes, which looks like this:
Like. We absolutely have a concept of flat, juice-based lemonade, but as an earlier commenter said, it’s a niche hipster speciality rather than the default, and even then, it’s still going to be premade rather than fresh.
OH GOD THAT’S WHY AMERICAN CHILDREN CAN MAKE IT AND SELL IT SO EASILY. I ALWAYS WONDERED HOW KIDS COULD MAKE A CARBONATED DRINK AT HOME.
Anonymous asked: Are there any benefits to bathing in your own piss? If not, why did your white cracker cavedwelling ancestors do it while we were experiencing running water in pyramids?
I haven’t heard of bathing in piss (outside of municipal swimming pools).
Drinking piss is definitely a Hindu thing, although for best results they suggest trying cow urine, which can apparently cure cancer.
Minor anecdote about running water I find desperately sad: the decline of Rome may not have had much immediate impact on the people living nearby, and the gravity-fed aqueducts kept flowing long after no one was maintaining them, but eventually they became blocked and useless and the people went back to carrying their water in buckets from the stream, marvels of engineering lying silent as society lacked the institutions needed to fix them.
For a more impressive example of hydro-engineering that has lasted till the present day, check out the Dujiangyan irrigation system! Designing a tricky system of levees and weirs to allow irrigation and protect against floods, and digging a channel through a mountain without gunpowder, just by heating and cooling the rock to make it crack, all back in 256 BC.
I’ve seen theories about water in the pyramids, some wilder than others. Egypt had papyrus boats that according to Heyerdahl were capable of reaching the Americas, read about the Ra Expeditions if you haven’t, it’s a fun story that seems to get less attention than Kon-Tiki.
Romans sometimes bathed in piss, I’m pretty sure I read that somewhere. They thought it was medicinal. It’s not exactly a crazy thing to think. Piss has been used as a disinfectant by many societies. Some even used it to wash food. The Norse used it to clean animal pelts before fashioning them into clothing.
clean, fresh piss is a disinfectant iirc. i know there are vultures that piss down their legs to kill bacteria
anyone quotes Billy Madison and I will have this thread erased
“piss on your toes in the shower” is a common countermeasure to Athlete’s Foot
