Black Man's Filipino GF Cooked His Mom Fried Chicken: AITA - "“Neither of us cook much and we eat way too much takeout, so she decided to make fried chicken because it is something she made with her mom growing up. Her mom came here from the Philippines and I guess it is pretty popular over there.” OP’s mom took it poorly. “When my mom saw the fried chicken she thought that my girlfriend was either making fun of her or just going off a racial stereotype.” “She immediately started cussing at her and demanding an apology. I explained to my mom that fried chicken is popular in the Philippines and I googled it to show her that there are a lot of Filipino recipes.” “She calmed down but did not apologize.”... Most Redditors agreed OP was not the a**hole."
Meme - "I have a colonoscopy later this week, so I've taken to swallowing these D & D figurines so that the camera operator will think that he or she has entered a magical realm..."
Why Extraterrestrial Life May Not Seem Entirely Alien - "You’re arguing that wherever organisms confront similar environmental challenges, they may come up with similar adaptive solutions. And you expect to see this throughout the universe? Consider flight, since that’s the most famous example of convergence. If you live on a planet with an atmosphere, or even with an ocean or some other fluid, if you want to get from one place to another through that fluid, there’s only a handful of ways to do it. You can jump. You can float, if you’re lighter than the medium that you’re in. The only other way is aerodynamically, with a wing, to generate lift. Those are the mechanics of moving through a fluid medium. On Earth, flight evolved four different times in four different groups: in birds and bats and pterosaurs and insects. The fact that they all use wings isn’t because they evolved on Earth; it’s because it was advantageous to fly, and wings are just about the only way to fly. And so we can expect these constraints to be operating everywhere in the universe... the things that will be the same are those things that are constrained either by the laws of physics or by the laws of evolution... Sometimes, common features in very different animals just jump up and hit you in the face. They’re hiding under the surface, but when you see them, it’s just so obvious. I saw this when I started working with wolves, after previously studying dolphin whistles. When you represent those sounds visually, using a mathematical transformation called a spectrogram, they look almost identical, apart from the scale: Dolphin whistles are much shorter and higher pitched. So I tried slowing down a dolphin whistle, and lo and behold, it sounded rather like a wolf howl. These two sounds are so different, but they have a similar underlying structure. The question is why? Well, the answer isn’t hard to find. Both dolphins and wolves use these sounds for long-range communication in an environment where sounds get distorted and absorbed. Using their kind of varying pitch is the effective way to preserve the information in the message under those conditions. Would the same thing happen on an alien planet? I think that’s a perfectly reasonable proposal."
Mary Jane and Spidergwen Kiss - [example in comments] : MemeTemplatesOfficial
Facebook - Delane Lim: "Interviews of 7 interesting young candidates for a job which is a 3k+ salary with 14 days annual leave"
For a job with 3k+ salary, Applicant D wanted a team of junior staff. When I pointed out expecting a team of staff was ridiculous for a low/entry level job, some people claimed that we couldn't know it wasn't a senior position without looking at the job description
Meanwhile, Applicant C expected twice the advertised salary
Facebook - "There’s a post that’s going around “interviews of 7 interesting young candidates for a job which pays $3k+ and 14 days annual leave”... What are the hours? What’s the start and end times? Is there weekend work? Since Applicant A asked. Of course I too won’t like the “it’s the law” answer.Where are they located? Tuas? Jurong Island?What was the advertised pay? Why would someone whose last drawn with $6k come in for an interview and why would the interviewer assume a person with last drawn twice the amount be interested? That was Applicant C.Another asked for a team of people, what was the job description and what was discussed during the interview? If the hires knew Candidate D was senior, did the job description match the CV?Annual leave. Sure that’s company policy. Seen some with 7 days, 14, 21 or 28. Can’t blame Applicant E for asking. If the employer feels insulted then that’s unfair towards the candidate isn’t it?If Applicant F was being honest, the hirer doesn’t have to be salty about it.Of course I would be a bit turned off by Applicant G lecturing the interviewer.The hirer/employer/poster went on to say“Good luck to them”“Hello.... now is economic crisis and pandemic... “I agree it’s a crisis- but it’s not any time to run people down or think that applicants or candidates should be grateful or thankful to be called for interviews."
Comment somewhere: "I mean if it's so bad of a job then why complain when they end up hiring foreigners"
Nature Heaven - Posts | Facebook - "A Himalayan Griffon Vulture, the second largest of the Old World Vultures, showing off its fake eyes."
Meme - General with few medals: "WON A WAR"
General with many medals: "LOST A WAR"
Fifteen people spent 40 days in a cave without sunlight or phones. Most want to go back - "Down there in the dark, with no access to a calendar, smartphones or a pressing need to schedule a task, she said she didn’t feel any rush to do anything."
Photographing Something You Want To Show Everyone - "Photographing Something You Want To Show Everyone is an exploitable comic which jokes that women place their faces into photographs of objects while men photograph the object by itself."
Banned — Blood Clams: a dangerous delicacy | by Danny | Age of Awareness | Medium - "Cultivated in the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic and Southeast Asia, but especially in China, these clams have risen to notoriety and been banned in numerous countries, notably the United States. Most clams lack haemoglobin in their blood, the protein molecule that gives our blood it’s colour. Blood Clams though, do contain haemoglobin. This gives them both their somewhat gruesome appearance when opened, often oozing blood all over the unlucky individual. More importantly though, it makes them susceptible to the same blood diseases as humans, notably Hepatitis A, typhoid, and dysentery. Not every clam is deadly, and, on the surface, there is nothing wrong with Blood Clams. That is to say, if raised and harvested correctly, they are harmless. Indeed, many attests to their deliciousness and delicate taste. The problem is not with the clams themselves, but the environment they’re raised in. It is only Chinese Blood Clams that are banned in the United States for one very simple reason — sanitation. Accurate records of the levels of pollution are difficult to come by in China, but the Shijang River, which feeds the Anhai Bay where 37.5 hectares of clams are cultivated, and Zhejiang Province, where 353 kilotons of Blood Clams are produced yearly, are both notoriously polluted places. Sewage is left untreated and industrial factories are free to dumb an unregulated toxic cocktail of chemicals into local rivers. These rivers carry the pathogens downstream into the very heart of Blood Clam production. This would be a problem for any food stuff being produced in these treacherous waters, but the haemoglobin in Blood Clams acts as an incubator, carrying the disease, infecting the clam, and eventually whoever is unlucky enough to consume it. Unusually high numbers of Hepatitis A sufferers have been found in Zhejiang Province, over 76,000 yearly cases during peak figures, a disease which is itself transmitted through food or water that has been contaminated by the faecal matter of an infected individual. Blood Clams are simply the perfect carrier... the lack of data from many of these countries, combined with a sometimes less-than-transparent policy on sharing that data, means that it can be near impossible to source clean, disease-free clams from the region. They remain banned across much of the world for the time being, with raids on Chinatown stores in the United States for illegal Southeast Asian Blood clams being a fact of life for these communities. For those wanting to try them, Blood Clams from the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic are generally considered safe and are available all across North and South America, as well as in parts of Europe, where they are sold as both street food and high-end cuisine. Often eaten raw with a little lime and cilantro, they allow us to reconnect with the flavours of our ancestors, while hopefully remaining disease free."
Meme - "Do Feed the Seagulls
Destroying Popular Misconceptions
Gulls aren't the problem, 7 billion (and counting) people
Seagulls haven't invaded our territory - we've invaded theirs.
DO feed the gulls - they have young mouths to fill...
Think of giving them food as rent or reparation for stealing their grounds and plundering their own natural food sources.
Gulls are unpaid cleaners removing the detritus that dirty humans litter with...
Gulls are opportunists and you're the ones supposed to be clever. Eat accordingly and don't blame them for your silliness
Get to know your gull family. If you're kind, they'll recognise you and poop on you less...
Don't believe the claptrap printed in the rags on slow news days demonising them"
Otto Von Jizzmark on Twitter - "A blue whales poo can weigh as much as 4 tonnes making it the second largest pile of shit in the world just behind the Tories."
What passes for leftist "wit"
Meme - "Mao imprisoned half my family, sent the other half to do hard labor, and starved everyone nearly to death"
"Ok cool they probably deserved it"
Meme - "Nameless wanderer @Anarkismus_: Just a reminder that bedtimes are not transhistorical, they are a Capitalist concept invented in victorian England in order to enforce labor discipline. Before capitalism people could choose when they wanted to go to bed, and it will be the same under communism"
Facebook - "OCD OF MUHAMMAD
Ever wondered why Muhammad was obsessed with washing, brushing with the miswaak obsessively, counting & repeating in odd numbers, entering with a certain foot, using specifically the right side, obsessed about heaven & hell, morality & death? Below is a document showing the symptoms of scrupolisity i.e OCD & it is quite telling! As if someone is describing Muhammad! To go along I have also attached one article showing the correlation between temporal lobe epilepsy & OCD & hyper-religiosity. Muhammad's case is as clear as it can get!"
Meme - *VR goggles: Harry Potter Movies + Porn*
*Auto master-bater*
*Separate wine & heroin drips*
"Uh, this is kind of weird"
"OMG let people enjoy things"
Meme - "Are you always going to be my customer service guy?"
"I would like to be but no, we have thousands and it is random But in spirit I will be"
Johnny with 6 apples on Twitter - "Im mad teachers told us, "if you dont do well in school you're gonna be the garbage man" and never told us the garbage man made more than them."
WaPo actively advocates for one-party system, which would put US a step closer to China | The Post Millennial - "Kathleen Parker, the article's author, feels that the Republican Party will no longer stand, due to too many of them supporting Trump, and considers there to be a death of what she calls "ordered liberty"... The article solely deigns to attack people within the Republican party, not once mentioning any of their counterparts on the Democrat side of things."
This is quite a common viewpoint on the left
WATCH: 'Environmentalist' Buttigieg unloads bike from SUV before riding the short distance to his destination - "The United States Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg was caught on video Thursday unloading a bike from an SUV just moments before riding the bike a short distance to his destination, to make it look like the 'environmentalist' was saving energy, in an epic virtue signal fail. A person off camera can even be heard questioning why the Biden administration official would be wearing a suit while bike riding. Buttigieg has been at the forefront of advocating for President Joe Biden to implement new taxes on transportation, including taxing individual’s based on the amount of distance they have driven as well as increasing taxes on gas... It’s also worth noting that Pete Buttigieg is a strong advocate for gun control legislation, although in the now viral video, Buttigieg is shown with an armed security detail protecting him from harm’s way, something the average American citizen does not get the privilege to have."
Pete Buttigieg, who enjoyed paternity leave, defends Democrats cutting paid family leave from spending package | The Post Millennial - ""It is long past time to make it possible for every American, mother, and father, to take care of their children when a new child arrives in the family," Buttigieg said in the clip from early October... While issues with the supply chain compounded over the summer, Buttigieg took several weeks of paternity leave when he and his husband Chasten adopted two newborn twins in August. Buttigieg was criticized for taking time off to focus on his family while his presence was most needed, particularly because the Biden administration was pushing the $3.5 trillion social spending package dubbed the Build Back Better Act."
8 hawker foods we love and the interesting facts behind them - "In the 1950s, earthworms were added to laksa (for saltiness), as well as maggots (to “eat away bacteria”)."
My last post blew up sooo : PornMemes - "Asians are not a virus *Alina Li*
Hispanics are not illegal *Abella Anderson/Rose Monroe*
Black People are not threats *Harley Dean*
Muslims are not terrorists *Mia Khalifa*
Native Americans are not Savages *Lola Foxx/Karlee Gray*"
Facebook - "“What is the number of veterans in this country? I mean, it’s gotta be more than a million. There are SO many people in this country that REALLY understand violence and they’re not the ones calling for violence. They’re not the “punch a Nazi people”. The people that really understand violence, that have seen violence, that have committed violence for their country, those are the MF’ers that you break glass in case of war. You need them and people don’t understand that. These people running around, calling for violence, calling for revolution; you are going to open a door that you can never close. And when those soldiers come pouring out of that door to defend what they think is an attack on their freedoms and their country, you’re F’d.” - Joe Rogan"
Watch Out: Coyotes carrying 'ACME' box could be present, sign warns - "A sign posted by the Redwood City’s Parks, Recreation and Community Services surfaced on Reddit, warning people to stay away from coyotes and be even more cautious when with pets. It’s the fine print at the bottom that’s causing for some laughs. According to the Department, you should call Animal Control if you see any of the following “dangerous coyote activity:” Coyote carrying box marked “ACME” Coyote detonating explosives/TNT Coyote in possession of giant magnet Coyote holding sign such as “detour” or “free bird seed” Coyote in possession of a catapult Coyote dropping anvil from hot air balloon"
Meme - "FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD TELL HIM HOW IMPORTANT HE IS. GET ON YOUR KNEES DAILY AND SHOW YOUR LOVE. HE WILL COME FOR YOU"
Forget Iron Man, Elon Musk's Latest Incarnation Goes Fifty Shades of Grey - "Musk Tweeted a photo of himself dressed as the Marquis de Sade. "Wore Marquis de Sade outfit for a party last night. Was v popular with women who'd read 50 Shades :)," he wrote. It was an apt choice for Musk, as he's already got the sword."
Facebook - "Hahahahahah blocking someone for disagreeing with you is the grown up adult version of covering your ears and going nananana"
Iranian film director murdered, chopped up and dumped in suitcase 'by his parents in honour killing' - "A former London-based film director has been brutally murdered and dismembered by his parents in an honour killing after he returned to his home country of Iran, police said. The chopped up body of Babak Khorramdin, 47, was found in rubbish bags and a suitcase in the town of Ekbatan, western Tehran... Middle East Analyst and Editor at Iran International TV, Jason Brodsky said: 'I think the horrific death of Babak Khorramdin is only the latest example of a long pattern of domestic violence that we have seen in Iran. 'It follows the tragic death of Ali Fazeli Monfared, who was killed by family members after they found out he was gay. 'That is not to mention the case last year of Romina Ashfrafi, a 14-year-old girl who was beheaded by her father in an honour killing.'"
‘Breaking the News’ Reveals: NBC’s Chuck Todd Was Amy Klobuchar’s Landlord, Didn’t Disclose During Interviews and Coverage - "In 2008, shortly after becoming a U.S. senator, Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and her husband, John Bessler, began renting a house in Arlington, Virginia, from Chuck Todd, then NBC News’ political director... After Klobuchar’s campaign announcement, Todd offered viewers his analysis of Klobuchar’s candidacy. Her biggest asset, according to Todd? “Location, location, location.” According to Page Six, which first reported the relationship, Klobuchar and her husband paid the Todds $3,200 a month. This relationship went undisclosed for years, even though Todd went on to question Klobuchar at least eight times on-air during her 2020 campaign, including as the moderator of two of the primary debates... This was not Todd’s only financial connection to Democratic campaigns. His wife, Kristian Denny, is a Democratic campaign consultant. According to OpenSecrets, Denny’s firm, Maverick Strategies, was paid over $900,000 by the Bernie Sanders campaign in 2020 and over $1.5 million from Sanders in 2016, among many examples."
Social justice bullies celebrate the death of a legendary Canadian journalist - "Christie Blatchford, legend of Canadian journalism passed away after a battle with lung cancer. Blatchford’s critics did not wait one second to smear her and her life’s work, condemning her for a list of ideological sins committed during the course of her storied career. It’s as though mere disagreement with a person is enough to justify cruelty. Many comments made by Twitter users were similar in nature to those waged against Jordan Peterson after news of his recent health challenges was made public by his family. Cruel, bitter, and vindictive, the users outright celebrated the 68-year-old writer’s death with abject glee... The truth is complicated and Christie Blatchford was a master at telling complicated truths. As a matter of fact, the frothing social justice crusaders hated her for it, and they just can’t let go of their hate."
Maggi seasoning: The bright yellow package is what so many global cuisines have in common - The Washington Post - "The seasoning sauce Maggi Würze, which is reminiscent of the flavor of lovage, has become so popular and beloved in Germany that Germans often colloquially referent to lovage as “maggikraut.” Like salt, fat, acid and heat, Maggi is one of the few great unifiers of the world’s kitchens and may be Switzerland’s largest and most influential culinary contribution... Today, the French version of Maggi is still highly revered in Vietnam, Nguyen says. “For cooking, you use the Chinese version,” she says. “If you really want to impress people, you whip out the French version. It’s more expensive.”... Even though the products that Maggi sells in each market are very different, they have become integral to the cuisines of many countries. Nguyen, Avila, Onwuachi and Saadat agreed that Maggi seasoning sauces and bouillon cubes give food this umami je ne sais quoi. No one could quite describe what the taste of Maggi was, but they could definitely tell if it was missing from a dish. The flavor is so necessary that Avila and Onwuachi, both chefs who have cooked in fine-dining kitchens, insist on using Maggi at their restaurants... Onwuachi takes his commitment to Maggi to new heights at his D.C. restaurant Kith and Kin. “I import cubes of Maggi from Nigeria,” he says with a laugh. “We use it to make suya and other dishes. I need it for that traditional taste.” The Maggi is so important to the kitchen, one prep cook has the pleasurable task of unwrapping hundreds of foil-wrapped bouillon cubes, one-by-one, before service. Maggi, like Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and Starbucks, is adept at localization, adapting products to fit the flavor palates of local markets. This helps to explain its global success. “Where possible, we optimize our sourcing and selectively source ingredients locally that drive authentic taste and flavor, like herbs and spices,” notes Pena. On one hand, this is advantageous for local cooks (and curious Maggi collectors). On the other hand, it makes it difficult to substitute one Maggi product with a similar one from another country."
It's used 4,600 times a second but many North Americans have never heard of Maggi - "There is one final detail that could help solve the mystery of why Maggi isn't as popular in North America. Maggi was created to add a meat-like, umami flavour to food. Pulses — the main ingredient in Maggi's early creations — were seen as a solution to improving the lives of Swiss workers, because in Nestlé's words, "nutritious meat was beyond their meagre budgets." Though Nestlé Canada declined to comment on its marketing strategy, from the beginning Maggi seasoning has been advertised as a vegetarian product. Maggi creates a meat flavour without a hefty price. It's an irresistible promise for many places in the world, but less so in North America. "We are used to getting our flavour ... from things like steak and hamburgers and other types of meat," said soy historian Shurtleff. Americans and Canadians still lead most of the world when it comes to meat consumption per capita... In addition, North Americans are often not enticed by offal or organ meats, including traditional dishes from Anglo-Saxon cultures such as black pudding, head cheese and haggis. That reflects our abundance of expensive meat in recent history, and with an abundance of expensive meat — Maggi is not a necessity to add umami."
Maggi Seasoning Sauce - "The Swiss version of the sauce is the original version. There is a French version, which some say is the best. In Mexico, where it’s called Jugo Maggi, there are several versions: plain and spicy (both are more concentrated and darker than European versions), a version called “Maggi Inglesa” (that tastes like Worcestershire sauce), a soy sauce version, and a version with lime in it. The version made in Manila, Philippines has more garlic in it. The Polish version is lighter in colour, with a tidge more sourness. Most North Americans see the Chinese-made version in stores."
Maggi Sauce Is The Secret Weapon For Making All Your Food Taste Better - "Canada has three versions of the sauce available. The Chinese rendition (yellow cap) has a more fermented flavour, but it’s the German version of Maggi that is the staple in Chinese-Canadian pantries. The German version is more complex and rich. It’s easily recognized by its red cap and is the bottle most commonly available in supermarkets."
Women In Black: The Surprising History Of Widows | HistoryExtra Podcast - HistoryExtra - "‘We were exploring for the centenary in 2018, all sorts of women involved in the suffrage. And at a certain point, we became very aware that all of the three leaders of the main suffrage parties, suffrage organizations, as you might call them, Mrs. Pankhurst, Mrs. Fawcett, Charlotte Despard. They were all widows. And we thought about it, we thought this is not coincidental. And the more you investigate it, the more you realize it isn't at all. They were women who had some financial security... They had respectability. They were married women. They, two of them had, one of them had children... And that meant that they had a sort of status and a place in society without being ridiculed or seen as harrigans or scary, frustrated spinsters in the way that some of the single women who wanted to get involved in the suffrage were. They also didn't have quite the same domestic responsibilities and expectations on them… the widows were always seen as quite the forefront of the argument as to why women couldn't have suffrage. Because they're running a household. They're responsible for their money. They're doing all the things that responsible men who are allowed to vote can, and yet somehow they couldn't vote. And all the arguments about letting women vote will bring this domestic disharmony doesn't apply to widows. So widows are ideologically and in practical terms, right at the, at the heart of the suffrage movement… the number of the early MPs, congressmen in Britain, in the States, but also in Ireland, who were widows, they, in a sense, took over their husbands seats in Parliament’"
War & Society: A Tangled Relationship | HistoryExtra Podcast - HistoryExtra - "Wars have also brought about social change. Wars have led to revolution, I think it's possible to imagine that Russia would have had a very different history without the First World War. I don't think the Bolsheviks who were a tiny little factional party could have taken power in Russia without the First World War… wars have, in some cases benefited certain sections of society who were not well treated before the war. Women got the vote. It's an obvious example. But women got the vote in Britain, for example. Or many women got the vote. Women over 30 got the vote in in the Representation of Peoples Act in 1918. And so did working class men. And I think those changes wouldn't have happened as quickly, without the First World War. I mean government simply recognize that it had depended a lot on labour, and a lot on women to sustain the war effort, and you simply couldn't deny them the vote any longer. And what wars also done is they've tended to compress big wars, demanding wars, expensive wars have tended to compress the poles in society. The rate of taxation tends to go up in war, which means that those who have a lot tend to have to give a lot. And those who are at the bottom levels of society often come up better, wages will go up, and as they have done in wars, and so there are those who argue that in fact, the greatest times of social equality, have been in the face of great catastrophes like war when we've all needed to pull together and when there's been no excuse not to do it… sometimes things are just too expensive to do in peacetime. But when a war comes when it's a matter of survival, then suddenly the question of expense becomes less important. And the classic example probably is penicillin… it was too expensive to put penicillin into production, it just seemed ridiculous. Second World War came and suddenly, of course, it's very important to keep your soldiers alive on the battlefields. And it became possible to produce penicillin on a very large scale, and it had an enormous impact on public health, generally, in the world. And so that's a very good example. I mean, what war will do is speed up innovation under the pressure of necessity’"
The Wild West: Everything You Wanted To Know | HistoryExtra Podcast - HistoryExtra - "[On Lewis and Clark] ‘1803, I think, is a really important beginning date. Then the usual end date, if you like for the Wild West, is put as 1890 by most historians, because in 1890, the year the US Census Bureau who's looking at data of settlement and population in the continent, they determine that the the data marker that was used to define a frontier, and so sort of pre settled land was less than two people per square mile in population terms. And in 1890, there's, there's no more space in the US, in the West, to which that applies. So that the the frontier is officially closed in 1890"
Bernard Cornwell On The Last Kingdom’s Finale | HistoryExtra Podcast - HistoryExtra - "‘I wondered, you know how you balance good storytelling with the constraints of what actually happens? Or conversely, how do you deal with a gap in the historical record?’
‘Well, I love gaps in the historical record, because just means I make them up. I mean, this is, I always tell people, look, I'm not a historian, I'm a storyteller. And in the end, the story must take precedence. So if the history is inconvenient, I tend to change the history. But I do like to admit that fault in a historical note at the end of the book, and say to people, look, this, this really didn't happen, or we don't know if this happened. But luckily, history is full of gaps, especially the history in the ninth and 10th centuries. And each of those gaps is an opportunity for an historical novelist’"
