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I have no reference for drinking because I live in Australia and when I realised drinking was ruining my life the response from everyone was "eh, you aren't that bad". Alcoholism is standard here. But also yeah, Americans are also very prissy about drinking too. I like non alcoholic beers, and I'd be happy to have a six pack for a lazy day. No worse than having a day of soft drinks tbh.
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pentyne posted:On the subject of surstromming and food chat in general, a big thing with a lot of these delicacies is you have to eat/prepare it certain ways or it just sucks. Vegemite has gone from the classic disgusting weird Aussie food to the big "you aren't eating it right" thing on social media. I mean I don't know about vegemite specifically, but 'eating it right' for Marmite is just to spread it on toast. It's not hard.
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Jan 26, 2022 12:56
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feedmegin posted:I mean I don't know about vegemite specifically, but 'eating it right' for Marmite is just to spread it on toast. It's not hard. In all sincerity, have you not seen how Americans apply condiments? Imagine a 2cm thick slab of marmite on toast and you'll get close. edit: remembered this gem from the start of the plague https://twitter.com/tomhanks/status/1239098302294970368?t=u5D21VG8FLszqyhHxGfb8w&s=19
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Jan 26, 2022 13:15
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feedmegin posted:I mean I don't know about vegemite specifically, but 'eating it right' for Marmite is just to spread it on toast. It's not hard. Spread it on BREAD! Spread it on THICK! Wash it all down with A cup of cold SICK!
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Jan 26, 2022 13:22
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You should see how much cream cheese Americans think is acceptable on a bagel It's a truly disgusting amount
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teen witch posted:Man, my “foreigners won’t eat this!!!!” experience has been salmiakki, kräftor, and blodpudding. My parents fed me black pudding when I was about 13 without telling me what it was in advance. I was unimpressed when they told me afterwords. Salmiakki is pretty good, though.
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Jan 26, 2022 13:26
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StrangersInTheNight posted:You should see how much cream cheese Americans think is acceptable on a bagel I am guilty of this - my bagels look more like cream cheese sandwiches they're delicious (to me) 
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Jan 26, 2022 13:28
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AITA for telling my brother's girlfriend what he was planning to do before he passed away?quote:My (M17) older brother (M26) passed away 3 weeks ago in an auto accident. It was devastating for the entire family though he was low contact with them for minor disagreements. His girlfriend was the one devastated the most, She didn't eat or take a shower for an entire week. My parents took her in last week because she could no longer afford rent for the apartment she shared with my brother.
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Jan 26, 2022 13:35
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Soylent Pudding posted:AITA for telling my brother's girlfriend what he was planning to do before he passed away? And a great reply: Commenter posted:INFO: Are you going back upstairs to kick her later? Might as well. OP posted:No, we would never. She is family to us.
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Jan 26, 2022 13:40
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I've definitely known people who had a trouble with people drinking around them and could get a bit pushy about it. Pretty much always related to growing up around alcoholism. I don't think that what's going on there and I've never seen anybody be quite that unreasonable, but it could be.
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Jan 26, 2022 13:50
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a podcast for cats posted:I'm not getting that vibe. Instead I'll try to insinuate that Americans are a bit uptight about drinking which has always been kind of weird. Let's get a bit of context on that; how many beers do you drink on a typical workday afternoon?
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Jan 26, 2022 13:54
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Soylent Pudding posted:AITA for telling my brother's girlfriend what he was planning to do before he passed away? oh my loving god this guy sucks
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Jan 26, 2022 14:02
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:Let's get a bit of context on that; how many beers do you drink on a typical workday afternoon? Because only alcoholics could possibly disagree with you? I'm also not getting that vibe. I think a lot of posters assume facts not in evidence.
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Jan 26, 2022 14:03
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AITA for being angry about my parents and grandparents keeping a secret and hiding a part of our family history from me?quote:My grandfather (my mom's dad) passed away recently. After he died my grandmother decided to move into a seniors community. She was moving from a house to a one bedroom flat so there was lots of items she didn't need. The house was pretty full and lived in because she and my grandfather lived in it for like 50 years. When we were going through the attic we found boxes and boxes of old pictures. My grandmother wanted to go through them. In some there were pictures of my mom when she was little and there was a baby in them or a kid younger then her. I asked her who it was because she doesn't have a sister, and she doesn't have any aunts and uncles so no cousins either. My dad said my mom had a younger sister but she died from cot death and to not say anything to my grandmother because it would upset her to talk about especially so close after my grandfather's death. At the time what my parents told me made sense.
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Jan 26, 2022 14:11
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StrangersInTheNight posted:You should see how much cream cheese Americans think is acceptable on a bagel It's the cupcakes that I don't understand. Buttercream frosting isn't that nice at the best of times, but I've seen cupcakes which have literally got more frosting than there is cake.
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Jan 26, 2022 14:14
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:Let's get a bit of context on that; how many beers do you drink on a typical workday afternoon? Yes, this attitude is almost exactly what I meant, thanks for the helpful example. Cheers even.
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Jan 26, 2022 14:23
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Yeah, that’s what I thought.
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Gerblyn posted:It's the cupcakes that I don't understand. Buttercream frosting isn't that nice at the best of times, but I've seen cupcakes which have literally got more frosting than there is cake. Instagram destroyed the cupcake as a discrete enjoyable unit of cake. So many of those videos start with a "blorp" of frosting the size of the cupcake itself, which serves as a foundation for more icing decoration, candy, sprinkles, and maybe even a whole cookie or a piece of brittle. It's bad
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Jan 26, 2022 14:35
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Let me just step in and say that anyone continuing the same old Americans vs Australians vs UK drinking derail will have to provide a complete itinerary of all their alcohol consumption for an entire week complete with amounts and times of day due on February 3rd, thank you.
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Jan 26, 2022 14:39
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I drink an IPA between 10:30 and 11 pm then fall asleep
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Jan 26, 2022 14:41
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Let me just step in and say that anyone continuing the same old Americans vs Australians vs UK drinking derail will have to provide a complete itinerary of all their alcohol consumption for an entire week complete with amounts and times of day due on February 3rd, thank you. Mines easy I haven't had any alcohol since the start of the year Lawyered this up 
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Jan 26, 2022 14:42
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Seth Pecksniff posted:Mines easy I haven't had any alcohol since the start of the year Same, but company Christmas dinner in early December. So, not really that hard to list everything.
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Jan 26, 2022 14:45
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AITA for making a joke about my pregnant SIL or is my brother overreacting?quote:Throwaway for obvious reasons.
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Jan 26, 2022 14:46
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Soylent Pudding posted:AITA for making a joke about my pregnant SIL or is my brother overreacting? quote:I (32M) am child free. Didn't have to read past that because there has never been a time in recorded reddit history where that phrase appears and they're NTA
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Jan 26, 2022 14:48
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axolotl farmer posted:The classic way to eat surströmming is to put it in a wrap with boiled potatoes, butter, sour cream and red onions. That way, you can barely taste the fish. The fish itself is mostly salty and gelatinous. Stuff like this reminds me of the old jokes my gramps would tell about people cooking carp. "Know how you cook carp? Clean it, bake it on a pan in the oven, then chuck the fish & eat the pan"
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I had half a pitcher of some cocktail I did not mix and do not know the contents of, and maybe a third of a flask of whiskey, on New Year’s day. Probably a dreg of champagne, too. Nothin since though. E: oh yeah and a red wine’s glass worth of port, most of which I probably drank after midnight. Zulily Zoetrope fucked around with this message at 14:55 on Jan 26, 2022 |
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Why is everyone calling me an rear end in a top hat and getting weird just because I called a woman, who is also a wife, daughter, and mother a "broodmare" basically in front of all those relations?
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Jan 26, 2022 14:56
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If he really meant it as a joke he wouldn't have been so irritated at his brother asking he explain it.
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Jan 26, 2022 14:56
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Asking someone to explain how and why an offensive joke is funny is one of the greatest tools against assholes.
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Gather round, y'all, it's time for the comedy workshop with some dipshit rear end in a top hat! He's gonna teach us some funny-rear end misogyny so listen up
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Jan 26, 2022 15:06
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teen witch posted:Man, my “foreigners won’t eat this!!!!” experience has been salmiakki, kräftor, and blodpudding. The first time I tried salmiakki I was pretty sure someone tricked me into eating soap. But the second time I had it, and knew kind of what to expect, it was pretty good.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Let me just step in and say that anyone continuing the same old Americans vs Australians vs UK drinking derail will have to provide a complete itinerary of all their alcohol consumption for an entire week complete with amounts and times of day due on February 3rd, thank you. The joke's on you, I don't drink.
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AITA for making a bake shop re-do my order multiple times?quote:I (f29) got married to my partner of three years (m28) last weekend. We wanted our wedding to be untraditional, and we had decided we wanted tiers of cupcakes rather than a normal wedding cake. We married on a Friday, and on the previous Wednesday morning, I went to a local bake shop to pick up my order of 120 cupcakes. I had specified that they were all to be vanilla cupcakes with white frosting in the center that would ombré into the outlines of the cupcakes' frosting which would be black. When I arrived on Wednesday at 7:30 AM, I found that they were nothing like I had ordered. I asked why the frosting on top was completely black, and they said that the cupcakes were filled with white frosting inside and topped with black frosting. I explained how it wasn't what I asked for, and the worker (a probably 70-year-old woman) agreed to have my order redone by that afternoon, except I'd still have to pay part of the price of the first cupcakes since my "directions were unclear."
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lol at butthole cupcakes
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Invisible Clergy posted:AITA for getting a non-alcoholic beer at 5PM Evil Willow posted:AITA for telling my cousin he can’t do an interpretive dance at my dad’s funeral? Miserable Maid posted:My friend has a nude drawing of my GF and is being an rear end in a top hat about it, my girlfriend wants me to to buy it but I can’t afford the price he’s setting. Midnight Voyager posted:I feel like you could nip this poo poo in the bud if you tell his teacher that he's getting one of their nude models harassed.
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DemoneeHo posted:AITA for making a bake shop re-do my order multiple times? I'm torn. I work with artists doing various illustration for various things. You have to be extremely detailed when communicating what you want. I can kinda forgive the woman requesting the cakes for not understanding how clear and detailed you have to be. But I can also kinda blame her for not understanding that the cake lady can't read her mind. Did she post her original instructions? Did she even write them out or did she just vaguely describe what she wanted verbally?
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spacetoaster posted:I'm torn. I work with artists doing various illustration for various things. You have to be extremely detailed when communicating what you want. She did an online order with incredibly minimal instruction and reveals she didn't give a reference image until after they had redone it twice.
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spacetoaster posted:I'm torn. I work with artists doing various illustration for various things. You have to be extremely detailed when communicating what you want. She did: quote:I said I wanted "120 vanilla cupcakes with white and black vanilla frosting in an ombré pattern with the white in the middle and black on the outside." And she also said it was an online order. Also they were so important, but she never got any pictures of the final results at the wedding because quote:I didn't get many photos at the wedding at all because I wanted to experience the moment rather than having cameras in my face the whole time.
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Halloween Jack posted:Are you all sure you're not reading too much into this guy's girlfriend being annoying? I guess it depends on whether you think "every now and then" means a few times a week or month or a few times a day. IME alcoholics are after putting alcohol in their system, not the taste of beer, which is why alcoholics don't hide bottles of O'Doul's around the house. The line preceding that one is "She claims she doesn't want to be controlling, but every time I go to get a beer I'm always worried I'll be met with rolled eyes, 'how many have you had tonight?'" and I'm struggling to read that in any way that suggests he just drinks a few times a week.
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spacetoaster posted:I'm torn. I work with artists doing various illustration for various things. You have to be extremely detailed when communicating what you want. Yeah, details matter here. Though with visual artistry of any kind of can be a bit of a crapshoot. You can provide written and visual reference and the artist will obviously skim or ignore the written details and focus on the visual one, or take one minor detail and get carried away with it until it takes over the whole work. But then, Zore posted:She did an online order with incredibly minimal instruction and reveals she didn't give a reference image until after they had redone it twice. Yeah, that sounds right. Preparing the description for a commissioned work is a complex and important task in itself not to be taken lightly.
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