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today on the overlong-named "felthry continues to learn differences between american and european food cultures because it's watching a british person review food gadgets", apparently british people buy hot dogs, even ones explicitly stated as american-style, in jars or cans, marinating in brine o.O

also apparently baked beans are a breakfast item???

i don't know why these minor cultural differences feel so interesting and weird to me but they do

Does anyone want a copy of Endless Space plus the dlc? I ended up with a spare steam key that expires in three days and i'd like to give it to someone who would appreciate it

first person who asks for it gets it

this is kind of one of those "i don't know X and at this point i'm afraid to ask" but i'm not afraid to ask so here, i'm asking

who the hell is thanos and why does it apparently spell doom for half the universe or something if they snap their fingers

sorry about your boosts and replies

redrafted to fix a word omission oops

today's bad idea: applying SI prefixes to money

"this candy bar is 2/1€, or 500m€ each"
"i wanted a new computer, but at a price of 2 kilodollars I think i might prefer a used one"
"sony has annual profits of multiple terayen"

aaaaaaaa that feeling when you notice a typo and want to delete+redraft but multiple people have already boosted it

(yes i looked up sony's market data for this)

today on felthry learns things it didn't know were different are different: apparently american pancakes are very different from british ones

why are bananas curved anyway

consider: straight bananas

if you think about it, a bridge over a river is just a very short pipe that people can go over the top of.

I kind of want to know whether the lyrics of this one piece of music are actually japanese like I suspect or some other language or just vocalization that isn't in any language

but i don't know anyone fluent in japanese, at least not closely enough to be comfortable just asking them to do a favor even as minor as this

which fits with its usage in AmE, it's just weird seeing it applied to something that isn't a person

another thing I am learning about british english: apparently "butch" is more than just a type of lesbian presentation in BrE and it means... "tough"? "strong"? something along those lines

i still don't understand why we call deutschland germany and call people from the netherlands dutch instead

for some reason i'm watching youtube videos of a british person reviewing kitchen gadgets and i have learned so many things that have different names in this person's dialect of english

apparently zucchini are "courgiettes" which I guess is borrowed from french

also they pronounce taco as /tækoʊ/ instead of the american pronunciation /tɐkoʊ/, which is weird because generally the american pronunciation has the more front vowel when it comes to /æ/ or /ɐ/ or /ɑ/ sounds (like in "bath")