Put away the umbrella; I do not need your shade.
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21 Feb 2024
We’re two-thirds of the way through the month and yet it’s only Tuesday
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I’m watching this Camelot series on Amazon and it’s a hot mess but Eva Green is in it as Morgan and I would watch anything she’s in. She just makes for such a great villain with her sad eyes and that natural frown
Yes even that terrible 300 sequel
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Claire Forlani plays Arthur’s mom; Sean Pertwee plays his dad. Lots of pretty people, no weird DEI casting. (Unlike The Winter King, where Guinevere is played by a half-black, half-lebanese woman with bushy black eyebrows and blonde streaked hair)
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Wednesday will be the first birthday I’ve had where I’m away from any and all family and I’m not too torn up about it. We’ll video chat at some point
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Really the only thing I’m going to miss is how my sis or mom would make pancit which is de rigeur for birthdays. I’m not spending six hours making that for myself so at least there are two Filipino restaurants in driving distance
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Speaking of Filipino food:
A lot of the dishes that are huge hits at potlucks that Americans hoover up (and many times leave half-eaten and discarded) take long hours to make. Pancit is a six hour ordeal for a noodle dish. Lumpia takes time to manually roll. If I ever make our food to share it’s one-pot dishes that take fifteen minutes to put together and an hour to simmer
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If a person said to me "I want to move to rural America" I would tell them to locate near a college that is likely to survive.
Property won't really be all that more expensive than otherwise, and it will be 100x easier socially.
You probably don't want "real" rural America!
Collegetows are America's truly unique and superior life environments, specially for full-grown adults. Not NYC. So many people that are miserable trying and failing to make it in NYC would be so much happier in Ithaca.
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Marat was a monster, but he knew a thing or two about being creative during baths, because here I am editing my lifting recap vid at the LA Fitness hot tub getting it ready for posting
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Next you’ll tell us that domestically produced brie isn’t actually brie.
It’s the Euro bread discourse all over again
Jun 14
I am learning tonight that Americans really think the cheddar on their supermarket shelves is actually cheddar
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Most mass-produced cheddar globally (not just in the US) is made using the stirred-curd method, which automates agitation to expel whey rather than stacking curd blocks. Alternative procedures are recognised as cheddar as long as the product is physically/chemically identical ecfr.gov/current/title-… doi.org/10.3168/jds.20…
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A 100-year-old veteran of the Revolutionary War named Nicholas Veeder poses in his uniform, 1860.
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Jun 14
There are a ton of Brands/Business leaning into 250 birthday. Anyone telling you its poisonous us lying or stupid
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Jun 13
At the America 250th Celebration there should be a slideshow of things we avoided by gaining our independence, and this should be the first photo.
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Today’s pull day recap video with some extra pics at the end. For on-screen commentary view it on my insta, link in thread
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i think the worst fake 90s romanticizing is when they say all the desserts were made from scratch at home. you will never know how good grocery store dessert was in the 90s. private equity will never allow that level of quality again
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Jun 13
Something Americans probably don’t realise they take for granted… space.
Space on the roads.
Space in shops.
Space in cars.
Coming from the UK, it’s one of the first things you notice.
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Jun 13
Of all the places I would find a real life samoyed it would be in South Florida. In a gym.
This is Lily and she’s an extremely camera-aware floof.
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Jun 13
I’m not a big material possessions guy, but I am a snob about lakes.
Growing up on Lake Michigan and the inland lakes of Northern MI has ruined me. I need clear turquoise water and a sandy bottom.
Most US lakes are brown, murky, and full of seaweed.
No thanks.
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Spursy’s Mum is correct
I'm resting on Mum's bed, chatting.
I asked her opinion of the various World Cup tourists who are complimentary about the States.
"You told me they're German, Scottish, Japanese, Swedish. Notice how they're all nordic peoples. Latin Europeans are more resentful of the US."
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