@rinanpakkala
If the pandemic had happened a couple years earlier, they might have had to cancle the show with all the travel restrictions, and it would forever be remembered as an unfinished masterpiece.
@JuneSayers1
This is giving me flashbacks to that time film journalists were trying to convince people, someone was going to commit a mass shooting after seeing Joker.
@ItsBCJim
Supposedly, when the Spaniards gave a Cuban chief the choice between conversion and death, and explained the doctrines of Christianity to him, he replied that he would prefer being in Hell to spending eternity with the Spaniards.
@TheLincoln
I thought this was going to be a point about communal life and multi-generational households, which I wasn't necessarily going to agree with, but this elicits a big oof.
@PinstripeBungle
One guy was talking about how much he misses the old days when he'd ride and fight with his comrades, and now he's stuck with a desk in some ministry scrolling through Twitter all day.
@BookishCauldron
I used to think that the whole YA-shtick was about appealing to teenagers by adressing them like they're adults. It turns out that the precise opposite is true.
@mekkaokerekebye
@poppy_haze
You'd think the fact that every one of the applicants was late would clue her in to the fact that it was an issue with the software, but I guess not.
@Rumaan
One lady posted that her mother had a book called "Beyond Jennifer and Jason - A Thousand Baby Names and their Meanings" or smn, and she deadass named her two kids Jennifer and Jason
@Is_Not_Brian
This clip always struck me like something from a movie. Like, some bizarre cartoon or black comedy. They're gone and they run in with their matresses in hand.
@butleriano
Paradoxically, Spain ended up being poor for looting so much gold and silver from its colonies. It meant they could just buy anything they needed, and didn't develop their own industry.
@Hezbolsonaro
I thought this was one of those battle-infographics with factions, leaders, strength, casualties, and Children for Peace was going to have caused Israeli soldiers anxiety or some shit.
@queasy_f_bby
Reminds me of a geography teacher who'd show up late and hung-over, read the attendance sheet and give some pointless assignment. My brother tells me he once saw him ride his bicycle onto the yard, fall down on his side, and not get up for quite some time.
@LRH_Superfan
"You hear what I said Tone? This guy talks with a Jersey accent, because he learned English from The Sopranos."
"I can't have this conversation again."
@NoContextBrits
This number is based on biased sources, namely early modern urban writers idealising traditional rural life, and undercounting the actual amount of work involved.
@GracchusT1
@Vain_Utopian
@hegellacan1
This map is nonsense, there are no US bases in Kazakhstan, a country where Russian troops just crushed a revolt. Nor are there ones in Svalbard, it's a demilitarised zone where Russia owns a mining colony.
@Goodtweet_man
@ChrisExpTheNews
"You never know what you're capable of. I didn't think I was capable of shooting down a German plane. But last year, I proved myself wrong."
@LRH_Superfan
I'm given to understand it's about water rights to a river in an area increasingly affected by droughts, so both sides feel they have no choice but to fight.
@BeijingPalmer
I'm told pre-9/11 you could cross the Canadian border without a passport in some places if you pinky-promised you were a citizen and you were going to be right back.
@LRH_Superfan
It would have been a German century if Wilhelm and Bethman Hollweg had figured out selling cars to everyone was more profitable than going to war. With the German university system intact, we probably would have been first to nuclear weapons.
@OrcGirlBoss
A generation of writers and journalists can only conceive of storytelling as explicit moral instruction: "You are supposed to be this way."
@GoldwagNathan
That meme about peasants working less than modern workers is based on an uncritical reading of biased sources idealising rural life that significantly undercount the actual amount of work involved.
@bobfrombrockley
@AlanRMacLeod
MacLoad works for a Russian propaganda outlet, to disseminate Putin's talking points to Western audiences, don't try to reason with him.
@ettingermentum
That bothers me so much. Austerlitz happened deep in Austrian territory, they were the on the defensive, familiar with the terrain, entrenched on the hills.
@ASPertierra
My favourite is that of someone waving the flag of Georgia, the one in the Caucasus. Presumably, he typed Georgia flag into the Amazon search bar, and got the first result, lol.
@MenshevikM
Schwarzenegger didn't get to voice himself in the German dubbing, because his rural Austrian accent wouldn't have fit a futuristic killer machine.
@CoKeynesian
You see that this is just white supremacy? It's like Southerners in the United States saying they can't emancipate the slaves / we can't have Latin immigration, because it'd turn whites into a minority voting block.
@polishXcellence
It has been pointed out that this conversation only ever imagines a comfortable disabled person paying for their shopping, not, say, an (under-)paid shopper struggling with dyslexia.
@Sturgeons_Law
How do you major in English in college and teach it for ten years without enjoying the classics lol. Apparently not even Jane Austen, the Brontë-sisters, Mary Shelly, Oscar Wilde etc
@anwaltsgelaber
Ich hab als Kurier für eine Apotheke gearbeitet. Ein Typ in einer Villa hat immer im Bademantel die Tür geöffnet, um 17 Uhr, und mich im Wohnzimmer mit Glasfront zum Rhein warten lassen, während er das Geld holte. Gab wenigstens immer 5€ Trinkgeld.
@drmistercody
It doesn't even make any sense in the context of Voltaire's life. Everybody knew who was in charge in the ancién régime, and Voltaire was actually imprisoned and exiled for being too uppity.
@barista__morg
@poppy_haze
The problem people in East Germany had was not that they had no money, but that you could buy nothing with it. A worthless currency didn't pay for imports and GDR didn't produce enough consumer goods, unless you could get your hands on Western money, it was a bartering economy.