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I signed up for a gothic class my frosh year that was described as American gothic-- vampires, werewolves, all that good stuff. I dunno if the prof didn’t write the course description or if it got changed later but it was English gothic, which apart from the origins of the genre (Walpole, which ended up being hilarious because tons of modern tropes originated there, like the maiden in the castle using the subterranean staircase to flee from the mad king when a gust of wind blows her candle out) and some of the more satirical stuff (Austin), it was incredibly boring to read.

There was one called The Mysteries of Udolpho that’s this meme times 10, where during a wagon trip there are literal 30 page descriptions of tress. I get if we’d been warned that this sort of thing was largely historical and we could pretty much skip the sweeping depictions of scenery that only existed because most people in the 19th century didn’t get to travel much so it was exciting to read about exotic landscapes, but the assignment merely amounted to “Here’s a 650 page novel, go read it for next week.”

At least we got to do Frankenstein and I think there was one Poe story thrown in as well (despite being American).

I still use my s10e every day on my commute with the headphone jack plugged into a radio tuner so I can listen to podcasts

What’s it look like without wax?

Did they ever fix the issue that an American teen used a hilariously bad interpretation of the Scots language to write thousands of articles on the Scots wiki?

https://slate.com/technology/2020/09/scots-wikipedia-language-american-teenager.html

https://old.reddit.com/r/Scotland/comments/ig9jia/ive_discovered_that_almost_every_single_article/

But who put all the furniture in place?

Plus sounds like a dinosaur

Wasn’t that Ugly Americans? I was disappointed it didn’t get more seasons

Carnac

I never watched Carson but then I found out about art fern a couple years ago. Looks like I’ve got another set of sketches to look up now

There’s def already stuff like interpreting use of emojis. For example sometimes you have text messages show up in a court case and there are people who can officially “interpret” what the emojis mean for the court.

I remember something similar from a kids riddle book like 30 years ago about cooking stuff in an oven

Japanese home baths are almost always right next to a shower, and you take a shower before getting in the bathtub to soak. Because you’re clean before using the tub, a family will leave it full until everyone has had a bath. They still empty the tub after everyone has used it though-- it’s not like they keep the same water for days on end.

It’s a similar concept at bathhouses, where everyone gets in the same baths after showering.

I used to use a website where you could send a postcard to a randomly assigned address of another site member on there, and in return you’d get a postcard back from a different random member. One time I wrote the address too close to the stamp area so I could only fit one stamp up there, and had to put the remaining stamp postage at the bottom, and then I dropped it in a mailbox in town somewhere.

Japan Post missed the extra stamps at the bottom and so returned it to my house, despite it being a postcard with no return address to a random country I had no connection to. I lived in the boonies so there weren’t a lot of foreigners in town, but there were definitely at least a few others.

guerilla gorilla?

I dunno if he was known for it or not, but Chaplin did this sort of thing too. There’s a roller skating clip of him “almost falling” a couple floors in this compilation (2nd clip)

https://youtu.be/oBSpuZDKaKI

Men’s lib and men’s rights are vastly different groups

In Japanese they don’t say yes, they say good. The word for good is ii (sounds like eee). There’s not a different consonant or vowel to break up saying “good” over and over, so you just hear iiiiiiiiiiiiii.

Sounds like squid propaganda!

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fidel

I’m not sure Castro would’ve classified himself as a pirate, but close enough