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Hey just gonna drop in here because it’s getting tense and I know we all know capitalist whizz-boy Bill Gates is getting a divorce.   I wanted to let everyone know I am going to continue to get

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I mean losing to the scouse is never good, but then I just think to myself that Tom Cleverly, Bebe and Anderson have won more PL medals than Steven Gerrard. ;)

 

I worked for a tick in the anthropology/archaeology department at my uni. Met some interesting people, had some interesting convos, and got some good reads in. Anyone who's "woke af" and takes intro soci and intro anthro will come to that conclusion re: place and space.

 

Love of place is inherently different than the vitriolic nationalism that resulted in trump, thatcher, hitler et al. That's the type of nationalism I'm referring to. Which I would have though was obvious, but of course the web is a terrible medium for communication. And I'm not sure what you're getting at with your opening paragraph, so I'll leave it alone.

 

Sorry all y'all for the off topic transgression. Won't happen again for at least mmmm a hot minute.

 

 

apologies, there was no need to cuss, i thought you were joining the circling bandwagons waiving the "you're a nationalist stick" a la Ewwwgenie & a few others

 

the main differentials were the US def has a money worship problem, not every single individual of course, but its endemic & that was the tipping point between declaring an open preference for living here & living there, cue toys flying out of prams

 

thats not expressing all Yanks are cunts, far from it, but on the east coast particularly that money altar is pretty prrrrretty prrrrrrrrretty hard to escape & that clearly resonated with some US citizens who post here even if others disagreed

 

equally, expressing a respect for certain achievements that have been made within a nation's remit isnt nationalism & thats why i took exception to "BALKAN LOLOL" gimpery, the NHS being a prime example

 

no-one can defend Britain's crimes, the list of sins is simply too vast to extrapolate here, 70yrs since a million people died from the partition of India/Pakistan is just one anniversary alone this year, yet these crimes are rarely discussed openly in our society as to just how terribly some of our ancestors have behaved, so they fester in the collective subconscious.....Bristol's a good example, a city i love for its openness & music, but during the slave trade? another story entirely & that money effectively built up that city's infrastructure and put countless residents thru some of Britain's most exclusive fee paying schools

 

its not "white guilt", more an inescapable catalog of global crimes that get pushed to the recesses of people's minds cos those were "just our landlords" & other excuses

 

however, the US might've trumped (no pun intended) our sins in the relatively brief period since the end of WWII with rabidly aggressive foreign policies and a seemingly ingrained allergy to anything that might be remotely associated with socialist-lite domestic/internal social policy

 

and if any American here disagrees with the money worship statement, travel around Scandinavia to witness just how successful integrating the needs of the collective and the needs of the individual can be balanced to create more harmonious  societies

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Sure but money worship is far worse in places like China, South Korea, India, much of SE Asia etc etc. The conspicuous consumption there is particularly crass. Japanese love money as well, they tend to be a little more reserved in showing it off.

 

And just to push the Brits' buttons-at least money affords social mobility in America and one doesn't have to worry about all the other shit that goes into classism like in the U.K. ;)

 

Back on point: lol at queuing for McDonald's sauce.

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And I though that lady biting another lady over that Tickle-Me-Elmo shit on Black Friday back in '96 was ridiculous. This is why I don't partake in zombie-like mindless consumerism.

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I don't have even the most basic grasp of what this sauce shit is about. It's very confusing. Is this what getting old feels like?

 

 

Episode 1 of season 3 had a Family Guy-esque joke about a defunct sauce made by McDonalds for the launch of Mulan.

 

 

 

it was actually pretty funny, if you're into absurdity.

 

Then autism got a hold of it (see: Pickle Rick)

And now:

 

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I feel like that show's success is more due to nerds wanting a show to bond over than anything interesting or funny about the show itself. I mean it's fine, it's probably above average as far as cartoons go, I just don't understand getting sincerely excited about it.

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Are fans of that show now the lamest group of fandom? Do we finally have someone to look down on?

 

I would hesitate to confirm that.

 

Have you ever been on /r/aphextwin?

 

*shudders*

 

 

Oh god, I hadn't even thought about that....

Now it's like Pandora's Box...I know about it...I'm tempted by it...

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I don't have even the most basic grasp of what this sauce shit is about. It's very confusing. Is this what getting old feels like?

 

 

Episode 1 of season 3 had a Family Guy-esque joke about a defunct sauce made by McDonalds for the launch of Mulan.

 

 

 

it was actually pretty funny, if you're into absurdity.

 

Then autism got a hold of it (see: Pickle Rick)

And now:

 

 

lol the frightened child

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Are fans of that show now the lamest group of fandom? Do we finally have someone to look down on?

 

I would hesitate to confirm that.

 

Have you ever been on /r/aphextwin?

 

*shudders*

 

 

Oh god, I hadn't even thought about that....

Now it's like Pandora's Box...I know about it...I'm tempted by it...

 

 

oh no is it that bad?

 

I've only visited the 2017 liveset threads, they seemed okay

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