Fun fact: US has so weak food counterfeit laws and enforcement it has become the dumping ground for low quality oil or even mixed, making it an allergy hazard. If you haven’t gone out of your way to ensure you are getting the real deal, and paid a premium for it, you probably have never tasted genuine extra virgin olive oil. https://www.mashed.com/281801/the-real-reason-your-olive-oil-is-probably-fake/
The Settlers games have not been Settlers games after the fourth one. Except of course the remake, but that also was a very long time ago.
Half as Interesting explained how it ended up like this. https://piped.video/watch?v=_Bq-6GeRhys
TL;DW; Amazon tried to offload vetting of the third party vendors to the patent and trademark office by requiring their brands are registered, but the vendors ended up generating nonsense brand names that automatically pass because there are too many applications and the names aren’t obviously going to conflict with existing ones.
Yes, I do. A lot. Starting from elementary school when a class mate had a really weird pronunciation of Harry Potter.
Some of my embarrassing memories aren’t even something I did, but something I cringed hard at when I saw or heard it. Sometimes I am so afraid someone else is going to embarrass themself I have to block my ears so I don’t hear it.
Once an idea is passed to event a single other person it has spread.
This was getting popular
https://sopuli.xyz/post/1210362
But the it was posted and screenshotted on Twitter to be posted back here and everything went downhill
Demotivational posters and rage comics were varied from get go and didn’t have a single viral hit sparking them.
Not really Richard Dawkins’ original definition of the term when he created it was on the lines of
A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.
One of the earliest internet memes was just to photoshop “All Your Base Is Belong To Us” on everything.
4chan used to be the internet meme factory where ideas were copied and mutated before they broke out to the wider internet to go viral.
I don’t speak french, but I know how annoying it is when people leave out diacritics and make other mistakes they could have avoided just using a minute to verify.
It has already been immortalised in the memechain
Damn, was in a too much of a hurry and forgot to add the text in the toot
Finland. Of course that is exaggerated and there are always some chronically late people, but being any kind of late without a notice is frowned upon. That’s why we get along with Germans way better than southern europeans.
Not here. Normal is at least 5 minutes early and the fashionably late types come on the dot. If you end up even 5 minutes late, you should inform the host immediately when you realize you could be running late.
I like using Firefox, but it’s a bit ironic to have google analytics tracking on the page you declare to protect the users privacy.