cattywampas

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[–] cattywampas@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago (11 children)

I know the article mentions these, but it's time to bring back oral exams and handwritten-in-class essays

[–] cattywampas@lemm.ee 113 points 1 month ago (5 children)

An argument isn't just saying "no it isn't."

Yes it is.

No it isn't!

[–] cattywampas@lemm.ee 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wizards and spaceships? It'll never work.

[–] cattywampas@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've never heard of English mustard, but I don't Americans as a whole are afraid of spicy mustard.

[–] cattywampas@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's why I don't do street drugs anymore. Fentanyl is everywhere and it only takes a tiny amount to kill you.

[–] cattywampas@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Colonization. But that was the insinuation of the post, that they colonized the world and have nothing to show for it. But in reality there is a lot of cultural exchange that happened.

[–] cattywampas@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago (13 children)

American food can get spicy/spiced as hell

[–] cattywampas@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Oops! We were so close, just missed it

[–] cattywampas@lemm.ee 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Not the longest, but I once worked with a Thai lady named Soda Pop. She swore it was her real name, it was on all her work documents and everything.

[–] cattywampas@lemm.ee 26 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Chicken tikka masala would like a word.

[–] cattywampas@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

Food is fine to go down garbage disposals, that's the point of them. Just don't put eggshells in them because the sediment they create is heavy and sits in your P-trap.

[–] cattywampas@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

This planet has been a soulless hellscape longer than any of us have been alive

This right here is an important realization. It's how reading a lot of history and anthropology helps me feel better about the world and how we're doing a lot better than the people who came before us.

It pains us because we focus on and hope for what could be, but it's important to also realize how things were for most of our existence.

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