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LOOK HOW MANY FLYERS HAVE BEEN STUck on tHIS LAMPOST?? germans are crazy

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made a picture i will use a lot

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We can put them back together....we have the technology...

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There’s always something on Reddit

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From watching videos about French culture I’ve learned about the peach and coconut culture theory.

A peach culture being a people who are outwardly friendly but secretly difficult to actually get to know and a coconut culture being a people that are difficult to even start a conversation with but once you get in they’re very easy to form lasting relationships with.

Obviously this analogy has its flaws but I think this explains to me a lot about cultural misunderstandings. Everybody guards their personal life. The question is just where they put that barrier.

This leads to people from “peach” cultures feeling like everyone from “coconut” cultures is mean and rude and the other way around people from “coconut” cultures feel like everyone from “peach” cultures is shallow or inauthentic.

Neither is true, really. We just put our social shells in different spots. Like an American for example will invite you into his house the day he meets you but forming an actual deep friendship with him will still take 2-12 business years whereas a German might think you’re creepy if you try to talk to him but once you figure out how to break that barrier you’re friends forever.

Again, it’s not that simple in reality but the metaphor helped me understand some things.

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Spite can be a incredible motivator

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for the last few months, not knowing 100 gecs was a band, ive been saying "100 gecs" whenever i meant to say "lmao", "lol" and "lmfao" as a direct result of me misunderstanding this tweet.

my friends knew the band so they didnt have this misconception. and still they just kinda rolled with it??? like imagine something like your friend seemingly randomly saying the beatles, sometimes in all caps in the middle of their messages HELPP

i also thought the amount of "gecs" would change depending on how funny something was, so for example just sort of saying lol at the end of a message would be translated to about 20 gecs. a standard lmao would be about 60 gecs, and a proper LMFAOO was 100 gecs. i had a whole system

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If you mess up a social interaction you can say "Failed Experiment" and move on

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yeah im “transitioning” *dissolves into tiny pieces as i click to the next slide*

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is high jump kicking peoples dogs punk

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i dont get offended at white people jokes even though im white because: 

i can recognize white people as a whole have systemically oppressed POC in america, which is where i live 

most people when they make white people jokes only mean the shitty white people and i am not a shitty white person 

im not a pissbaby

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I’ve discovered my new favorite gimmick account on twitter lmao

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psychic plural Russian girl asking permission to mind meld: can you give me headmate

her Australian roommate, immediately tying up her hair: I thought you would never ask