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there is now a big CRT sitting on our computer chair and we have no room for this in our apartment why did we take it

oh right, because CRTs are neat and it was free

really need to clean up the apartment some......

because that is absolutely something toady one would do

the existence of words that are horribly offensive slurs in British English and either completely benign or just nonexistent words in American English will never not feel _really weird_ to me

like the word spaz in the US is word for an overly rambunctious child but in the UK is a hugely offensive word for someone with cerebral palsy

and the not-word "paki" is apparently a really offensive word in the UK for someone of middle-eastern or south-asian descent, but in the US we didn't even know that it _wasn't_ the proper term for someone from pakistan until recently (the proper term, breaking the convention of other -stan countries, is "pakistanian")

Are there similar cases of words that are massively offensive in American English but are perfectly ordinary in British English? I can't think of any

(note to europeans: american apple cider is non-alcoholic unless otherwise specified, which we recently learned is not the case in europe)

have apple cider. mmm <3

what would a nonbinary athlete even do to play pro sports

so why are sports segregated based on gender anyway

most of the entertainment will probably be from both the players and the commentators trying to figure out what the rules are

new sport idea: put a bunch of athletes into a stadium with a bunch of random sports equipment and let them invent their own sport

*hands everyone a single piece of candy corn*

can we just take a moment to appreciate how _good_ the final battle music sequence of chrono trigger is

what is postgre and why does no one talk about pregre

random thought: are there any game boy games that don't play properly on a game boy color? likewise for gb/gbc on gba?

but a fun kind of disastrous

thinking it'd be kinda neat to play that multiworlds ocarina of time randomizer thing with friends sometime

or the alttp version

would probably be disastrous given that we've never done anything speedrun-adjacent in either game (not even 100%ed it that we can remember)

we learned a while back that deviled eggs are called that because they were, at the time, considered to be "devilishly" spicy (similar to Mexican/Southwestern foods being called something like "Diablo tacos" or whatever) and

either the recipe for deviled eggs has changed a lot over the centuries, or medieval people had no tolerance for spicy food