Jennifer Parker
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@JenniferParke12
Freelance scientific editor with a legal background (PhD/JD). I like cats, nature, baking, cooking, and reading, especially science and US history & law.
I can't believe Americans don't have cheese and onion pasties, Scotch pies, Cornish pasties, Forfar bridies, macaroni pies, pork pies, steak and ale pies, steak and kidney pies, chicken pies, game pie, fidget pie, saumon en croute, balti pies, haggis pakora, smack barm pey wet
@nobodyknows2322 We also have some amazing deepwater harbors - Puget Sound, the Chesapeake, and San Diego. And San Francisco Bay was described by a Spanish explorer as "spacious enough for all the navies of the world."
Europe and Japan move people and not goods by and large--and their freight systems (mostly, I think the Swiss have good freight rail) are subpar.
The American mind cannot comprehend the pub cheese and onion roll
pergunta honesta, praticamente todos os monumentos grandes no mundo passam por processo de restauração periodicamente, pq esse não? era o objetivo inicial que ele ficasse assim mesmo?
the european mind cannot comprehend the cheese we make in Wisconsin
pergunta honesta, praticamente todos os monumentos grandes no mundo passam por processo de restauração periodicamente, pq esse não? era o objetivo inicial que ele ficasse assim mesmo?
Once you turn 30 as an American male, you instantly become obsessed with the Civil War
Yeah, soccer fans are about to be amazed by how hard New Yorkers celebrate a basketball team. Because soccer fandom is infamous worldwide for restraint, decorum, and dispassionate engagement with its sport.
@Koluma_ @jamesdurham309 @1scottishbanter I understand that
Two things I know about Paraguay: (1) their founding president had their congress pass *pro*-miscegenation laws! That's right you could only marry someone of *another* race and (2) they thought it'd be a real bright idea to fight a war against Brazil and Argentina simultaneously
