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@mozonaut @Babygravy9 The Spanish did yes They named everything familiar to them in Spanish terms

@hereforthat8 @Babygravy9 Would they then later give it a spanish name, the same the Spaniards were using for the exact dish?

This reminds me of the time I went to a Taiwanese hospital because I'd been bitten by a spider and had a huge suppurating wound on my arm and the doctor asked for my credit card, sprayed it with surgical alcohol and then used it to pop the bite.

@mozonaut @Babygravy9 They had the dish before Spain came

@Babygravy9 Lechon is a spanish word, Philipinos got that dish from Spain no doubt.

@messymayussa Save them mase

I need a girl like Mary Poppins

@messymayussa Does this count? x.com/i/status/18819…

@messymayussa Listen to your sister she knows

@messymayussa I might have to steal this

@messymayussa Ok flexing long eye lashes

@messymayussa @cemburuya When you're older this is what you need for your back to feel better

so pressed wood is literally pressed wood

@messymayussa So that's why snakes don't have hands

@Slatzism @XJosh The user already brings up Jugaad which is exactly like what you're describing

You got the izzat primer via @XJosh, but now it's time for the “chaalaki” primer. Chaalaki is a concept in Indian culture that roughly translates to shrewd “cleverness.” It often refers to the ability to create the appearance of hard work while actually doing very little. Pleasing superiors, gaining admiration from an audience, and perhaps even developing a reputation as a “hard worker” while minimizing or avoiding real work entirely - that’s chaalaki, and it’s considered a morally ambiguous, if begrudgingly respected, form of system scamming. I am convinced that Indians gravitate towards cringe LinkedIn “hustle culture” and “founder culture” precisely because it’s basically a chaalaki Olympics. It’s not about doing actual work, delivering results, or adding real value. It’s about creating the ILLUSION of being busy, important, or successful while not really doing anything. Taking photos of yourself pattering away at your laptop, pretending to look stressed or busy, captioning it with some cringe bullshit about how you grind 19 hours a day, all while not having a single functional deliverable that warrants any of that… chaalaki. Anyone who has worked with an Indian or even just seen an Indian working has probably experienced or witnessed some degree of chaalaki at play. The Indian employee is always visible, attentive, and always APPEARS to be doing something… but closer scrutiny quickly raises the question of what, exactly, they are doing or what they’ve achieved. The results they do produce, after what seems to be an incredible amount of effort, tend to be incomplete, irrelevant, or littered with issues others then have to step in to fix. Why? Because no effort was exerted at all. It was just an illusion. A minstrel show of what they think effort looks like to cultivate the correct external signals. Not just in the workplace, universities are where Indians really refine their chaalaki. As students, they APPEAR to constantly be studying, but their education is limited to memorizing patterns rather than developing genuine understanding. So their grades are good and they have the appearance of being well-educated, but in reality they have learned exceedingly little. At its best, chaalaki is a form of optics-managed incompetence. At its worst, it promotes the ideal conditions for scamming, lying, cutting corners, or cheating to maintain the illusion of competence or effort while minimizing the need for any real hard work. This is an alien concept to the vast majority of the world, where hard work is considered a virtue, and only actual results (as opposed to the appearance of results) are praised. With chaalaki, the longer or further you can go while doing as little as possible - the more clever you must be. Combine izzat and chaalaki and you now have a pretty good understanding of why India is the way it is.

You were never Christian if you believe this Jesus Christ was a friend to sinners who sought him out including prostitutes

What strikes me most about modern movies is they’re all the same tone. Animals sound like middle managers. Everyone is snarky and self-conscious. You don’t actually go to another world even when you’re literally not even human anymore. No one writes in mythic mode. No one writes people who don’t talk like the bored college kid or their whiny parent. What’s the point of imagining all these things if it’s just a version of you in a beaver fursuit? I long for the honesty and courage of a Watership Down that dares us to imagine that rabbits have their own inner life, and challenges us to become rabbits, rather than remaking all the world in our own narrow postmodern image.

I deserve a slightly chubby foid like this that makes me dinner every night and it’s also a nymphomaniac

@messymayussa Are they scary?

@messymayussa Just frame the fabric with scorch marks Apparently the post is doing good lol

@messymayussa The scorch marks look cool at least Fire resistant too I would think fabric like that would have burnt down a house

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Lol that's entirely based off who you meet You're the one picking these guys subconsciously or not

Not really maybe for the immediate time But eventually the pendulum swings back, there's a reason tradwife was and still is popular. People are even fetishizing blue collar workers now