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Kunnen we die wereldleiders niet adviseren om de Randstad te vermijden en waar mogelijk thuis te werken?

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Two strange movies:

- How I Met Your Dragon

- How To Train Your Mother

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uooooogh the christian God is actually deer skull and raccoon salmon in pickup truck ooooooooooooooo and She (god) (usually refererd to as Male but im Queering it) talked to me in parking lot and said uh h Life Is Decay Anr Rotting and Sunlight is actually the souls of deer skull and i was like woah but im just little old me from somewhere in the contiguous USA and She (god) (Queering it) said being Yourself is th e most important thing and that i should Vote

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Op een dag als deze ligt ook een breinstaking op de loer

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you should be thankful to have been born in this era

you're lucky enough to have been born in the exact time period where a coalition of differing and contradictory interests who have made political alliances for historically contingent reasons have just so happened to arrive at the objectively Correct morality whose opinions on all issues are so true that anyone who disagreed is motivated by pure evil!

AND you're fortunate enough that the objectively correct ideology happens to be the one supported by your peer group who you want to align with and gain the esteem of!

AND, all of the evil people in the world who only want to spread harm to others have conveniently sorted themselves into a single group who you can easily identify as evil people who have no internal perception of the world and only want to cause harm!

modernity has added so much convenience to your life!

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Ik dacht ineens terug aan Gom van Strien.

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Delighted to inform everyone that it's even more complicated:

Koffiewinkel ('coffee shop') - they sell coffee beans/ground coffee and coffee-making accessories Koffietent/koffiezaak/koffiebar ('coffee place/joint/bar') - they serve coffee and tea, possibly some pastries or breakfast items Koffiehuis ('coffee house') - sometimes like koffietent but also Turkish/Arab establishments for smoking shisha Café (French for coffee) - very broad term, any kind of bar or pub Coffeeshop (in English, but written as one word) - THEY sell weed. Confusingly, some of them also serve coffee.

I know. I know coffee shop in english means something else. that it's an establishment for drinks. but I STILL do a double take every single time I see the word used with mentions of drinks or stuff like that. dutch curse.

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I have found a fearsome beast of an earworm and now I will inflict it upon everyone.

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I joke about hating French but for real the fascinating thing to me about francophone culture is just how close to and yet how distant it is from anglophone culture.

Like historically French and English speakers have been very close to each other physically. There’s also a lot of French speakers who speak English and vice versa and yet they’re both a minority in both spaces.

Both native French and native English speakers are resistant to learning each others languages and yet they’ve had such a profound influence on each other.

They’re both the languages of former huge colonizers. They’re both spoken on almost every continent. They’re both incredibly common second languages. Native speakers of both are known for kind of being being dicks about it. They’re the two most common administrative languages in Africa. They’re both spoken in India. Despite having endless varieties worldwide the speakers in the wealthier areas of their home countries act like they’re the only ones speaking it properly.

They both also have a like separate mainstream going on. They’ve got their own very famous musicians, artists, authors, many of which are translated into the other language but also many of which stay fully contained within their own spheres.

English and French are like… I don’t know. I don’t have a metaphor, they just are. Strangest large scale worldwide relationship if you think about it. Not interested in each other and yet they are. Neither would exist as they are today without the other and yet they are so distant. So distinct despite their interconnection.

But anyways mandatory reminder that I hate the French academy bye

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Amsterdam, Netherlands 🇳🇱

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omg how interesting, the Germans have a long word for everything, even for the concept of sticking multiple words together! However, the fact that it translates as Multiplewordstogethersticking must surely be a coincidence.

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What kind of gender reveal party is this

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A couple I saw at the train station the other day.

Both I'd guess late twenties. Holding hands while rushing to the platform.

Him: pastel-coloured three-piece suit & tie. Well-dressed but unremarkable. Like a guest at a fancy outdoor wedding.

Her: full-on anime cosplay.

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I think next conclave should introduce semifinals and make them televote only

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This is such a good time to be an America hater bc this shit is done for like pack it up and hand over the keys

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i cant believe sam reich created and funded a commit to the bit competition featuring the most known commit to the bit comedians in the dropout-sphere and then was surprised with how hard they all committed to the bit.

sam fr thank you for this masterpiece