How does the World view America these days?

  On 10/9/2017 at 11:52 AM, Amen Warrior said:

I don't have even the most basic grasp of what this sauce shit is about. It's very confusing. Is this what getting old feels like?

Everyone calm down, there's more sauce:

https://uk.yahoo.com/finance/news/not-cool-mcdonalds-promises-szechuan-sauce-police-called-quell-angry-fans-121355194.html

#saucegate2017

  On 10/9/2017 at 6:56 AM, chenGOD said:

I mean losing to the scouse is never good, but then I just think to myself that Tom Cleverly, Bebe and Anderson have won more PL medals than Steven Gerrard. ;)

 

I worked for a tick in the anthropology/archaeology department at my uni. Met some interesting people, had some interesting convos, and got some good reads in. Anyone who's "woke af" and takes intro soci and intro anthro will come to that conclusion re: place and space.

 

Love of place is inherently different than the vitriolic nationalism that resulted in trump, thatcher, hitler et al. That's the type of nationalism I'm referring to. Which I would have though was obvious, but of course the web is a terrible medium for communication. And I'm not sure what you're getting at with your opening paragraph, so I'll leave it alone.

 

Sorry all y'all for the off topic transgression. Won't happen again for at least mmmm a hot minute.

apologies, there was no need to cuss, i thought you were joining the circling bandwagons waiving the "you're a nationalist stick" a la Ewwwgenie & a few others

the main differentials were the US def has a money worship problem, not every single individual of course, but its endemic & that was the tipping point between declaring an open preference for living here & living there, cue toys flying out of prams

thats not expressing all Yanks are cunts, far from it, but on the east coast particularly that money altar is pretty prrrrretty prrrrrrrrretty hard to escape & that clearly resonated with some US citizens who post here even if others disagreed

equally, expressing a respect for certain achievements that have been made within a nation's remit isnt nationalism & thats why i took exception to "BALKAN LOLOL" gimpery, the NHS being a prime example

no-one can defend Britain's crimes, the list of sins is simply too vast to extrapolate here, 70yrs since a million people died from the partition of India/Pakistan is just one anniversary alone this year, yet these crimes are rarely discussed openly in our society as to just how terribly some of our ancestors have behaved, so they fester in the collective subconscious.....Bristol's a good example, a city i love for its openness & music, but during the slave trade? another story entirely & that money effectively built up that city's infrastructure and put countless residents thru some of Britain's most exclusive fee paying schools

its not "white guilt", more an inescapable catalog of global crimes that get pushed to the recesses of people's minds cos those were "just our landlords" & other excuses

however, the US might've trumped (no pun intended) our sins in the relatively brief period since the end of WWII with rabidly aggressive foreign policies and a seemingly ingrained allergy to anything that might be remotely associated with socialist-lite domestic/internal social policy

and if any American here disagrees with the money worship statement, travel around Scandinavia to witness just how successful integrating the needs of the collective and the needs of the individual can be balanced to create more harmonious  societies

Sure but money worship is far worse in places like China, South Korea, India, much of SE Asia etc etc. The conspicuous consumption there is particularly crass. Japanese love money as well, they tend to be a little more reserved in showing it off.

And just to push the Brits' buttons-at least money affords social mobility in America and one doesn't have to worry about all the other shit that goes into classism like in the U.K. ;)

Back on point: lol at queuing for McDonald's sauce.

RIKKENMORDY THO

And I though that lady biting another lady over that Tickle-Me-Elmo shit on Black Friday back in '96 was ridiculous. This is why I don't partake in zombie-like mindless consumerism.

Someone might leak the recipe eventually 

  On 10/9/2017 at 3:33 PM, sweepstakes said:

 

  On 10/9/2017 at 11:52 AM, Amen Warrior said:

I don't have even the most basic grasp of what this sauce shit is about. It's very confusing. Is this what getting old feels like?

 

Episode 1 of season 3 had a Family Guy-esque joke about a defunct sauce made by McDonalds for the launch of Mulan.

it was actually pretty funny, if you're into absurdity.

Then autism got a hold of it (see: Pickle Rick)

And now:

Are fans of that show now the lamest group of fandom? Do we finally have someone to look down on?

I feel like that show's success is more due to nerds wanting a show to bond over than anything interesting or funny about the show itself. I mean it's fine, it's probably above average as far as cartoons go, I just don't understand getting sincerely excited about it.

  On 10/9/2017 at 11:38 PM, tec said:

Are fans of that show now the lamest group of fandom? Do we finally have someone to look down on?

I would hesitate to confirm that.

Have you ever been on /r/aphextwin?

*shudders*

  On 10/9/2017 at 11:44 PM, hello spiral said:

 

  On 10/9/2017 at 11:38 PM, tec said:

Are fans of that show now the lamest group of fandom? Do we finally have someone to look down on?

 

I would hesitate to confirm that.

 

Have you ever been on /r/aphextwin?

 

*shudders*

 

Oh god, I hadn't even thought about that....

Now it's like Pandora's Box...I know about it...I'm tempted by it...

  On 10/9/2017 at 11:31 PM, hello spiral said:

 

  On 10/9/2017 at 3:33 PM, sweepstakes said:

 

  On 10/9/2017 at 11:52 AM, Amen Warrior said:

I don't have even the most basic grasp of what this sauce shit is about. It's very confusing. Is this what getting old feels like?

 

 

Episode 1 of season 3 had a Family Guy-esque joke about a defunct sauce made by McDonalds for the launch of Mulan.

 

 

 

it was actually pretty funny, if you're into absurdity.

 

Then autism got a hold of it (see: Pickle Rick)

And now:

 

 

lol the frightened child

  On 10/10/2017 at 3:01 AM, chenGOD said:

 

  On 10/9/2017 at 11:44 PM, hello spiral said:

 

  On 10/9/2017 at 11:38 PM, tec said:

Are fans of that show now the lamest group of fandom? Do we finally have someone to look down on?

 

I would hesitate to confirm that.

 

Have you ever been on /r/aphextwin?

 

*shudders*

 

 

Oh god, I hadn't even thought about that....

Now it's like Pandora's Box...I know about it...I'm tempted by it...

 

oh no is it that bad?

I've only visited the 2017 liveset threads, they seemed okay

Do you want to know why it's so bad? Full of americans. Proves my point

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/videos/10104094186863501/

ffs, how do you embed facebook videos on this website?

Impossible

Stop using Facebook pleb. Don't you know the govt is spying on you?

  On 10/10/2017 at 12:19 PM, Amen Warrior said:

Do you want to know why it's so bad? Full of americans. Proves my point

What point? Must have missed it.

I heard that most Americans still believe in god, lol.

  On 10/10/2017 at 7:47 PM, ambermonk said:

 

  On 10/10/2017 at 12:19 PM, Amen Warrior said:

Do you want to know why it's so bad? Full of americans. Proves my point

What point? Must have missed it.

My point is it's embarrassing for the rest of us to watch Americans pretend to understand Intelligent Dance Music.

help me understand

  On 10/10/2017 at 10:37 PM, zaphod said:

help me understand

Step 1: Be autistic

Step 2: ???????? Szechuan Sauce

Step 3: Profit

Not sure what's going on here, but I put full blame on Rick and Morty.

lol