Ptephine

@KaiserLoengramm FINALLY! Someone gets it!

I have quite an odd origin story for being an Anglophile, which is that I first fell in love with British cooking. I had heard so often the stereotype of it being terrible, so I went to an English pub and actually tried the stuff. I found it phenomenal and fitting to my palette. It really is quite great. Bangers and mash, beef Wellington, shepherds pie, meat pies, yes even things like beans on toast are all great, hearty food that is honestly my favorite cuisine. My favorite breakfast of all is a full English, with black pudding and all, alongside a cup of English breakfast tea with a splash of milk. I am actually of the belief that this particular stereotype was actually crafted specifically to facilitate mass replacement migration, to build false pretenses that the native ethnic foods and culture of European peoples were simply inferior to nons, when that could not be further from the truth.

「どうかしたかしら？」

@atarimoe @makipilled Ah yes, that's the one! I've no clue why I am babbling about a, rather ridiculous, bird!

@ptephine @makipilled What’s Turkey? Do you mean Anatolia?

Reminder that you should ALWAYS use “archaic” terms when referring to people or countries. Feign ignorance and really rile them up Hindoos ✅ Hindus ❌ Mohammedans/Saracens ✅ Muslims ❌ Peking ✅ Beijing ❌ Cathay ✅ China ❌ Ceylon ✅ Sri Lanka ❌ Rhodesia ✅ Zimbabwe ❌

I wish that I wasn't tired during the day! Admittedly, I've always been more of an evenings person, but damn it all! The day is my evenings, why can't my body act so? Song of the day: Lock Howl - Storm Corrosion

@MorrisNelly2 @makipilled Neat, thank you!

@ptephine @makipilled Zaire is what Mobutu changed it to to sound less europeanised (ironic as he was the puppet after Lumumba)

Tea and toast. It would be the perfect breakfast if it weren't 2am...

@Random_Moe_ Modern art

Lain bowling

There's been something quite ethereal about the last few days, maybe it's just that the weather has been an ideal for me, that makes me a sense of sadness for having neglected finding and acknowledging it. It's hard to put into words. Song of the day: An Even Harder Shade of Dark - Third Eye Foundation

@BasedGotz That was pleasant.

The song of the day is "Smile Mode" by Kana Hanazawa!

@BasedGotz Waoh...

@ptephine It truly can be in some places. But where I'm at, its a different kind of magical.

Saw a wigger crossing the road wearing pit vipers. And in a pink sleeveless shirt that said alligator alcatraz on it. The print was three AI alligator men crossing their muscular arms. Then not a second later, I see a white pitbull waiting at a bus stop by itself. This is crazy!!

Got to a part of a book I'm going back over and I'm so grateful that I've actually highlighted stuff in an adquate manner! Song of the day: Ending Theme - Pain of Salvation

Had the feeling that something's been stuck in my eye for the last couple days and there's nothing there... Very irritating.

@balle2guerre @ithacarising Interesting. Thank you for that perspective.

@ptephine @ithacarising Il se trouve une chose, c'est que je n'ai jamais croisé de toute ma vie un français qui disait du sale du les anglais. En revanche l'inverse je l'ai vu toute ma vie.

The English have spent a thousand years giving them grief - Agincourt, Waterloo, endless Channel-side eye-rolling - and they just keep bouncing back with annoying flair. Silver medallists of Western civilisation, forever. They take a battlefield thrashing and turn it into a tragic romance with violins. They turn a baguette into a national religion. It’s ridiculous. And yet... Deep down (under several layers of warm beer and irony) the English can't help loving the French. They've been each other's favourite sparring partners for a millennium: proper rivals, proper brothers-in-arms, the only people who ever made each other raise their game. Respect? Sure, they've earned it. In great big glistening heaps of garlic butter. 🇫🇷🇬🇧

@MrSanity @LePesctateur @ithacarising Netherlands? FUCK YOU TOO! THE SEAS ARE OURS!

@LePesctateur @ptephine @ithacarising We truly are rival brothers who hate each other, yet don't stand for anyone else stepping in and hating the other - That's our job dammit, and we won't stand for them trying to muscle in on our territory!!

@BasedGotz Yes, they do! I love showing people the Mitsubishi pencil, it's awesome.

@ptephine Mitsubishi makes pencils?! :O

I use Mitsubishi pencils, because I like Mitsubishi, but I wonder if there are any other interestingly branded pencils...

That's unfortunate... If you did have that offer, I would've suggested using it as a bargaining chip for possible negotiation... But it might still be worth asking for your wages to be reassessed, though I might not recommend it now depending on if discussions about pay go against any contracts that you might've signed. Hopefully you can get a better prospect or see if it can get resolved.

@ptephine A promising new job oppurtunity for me was denied. And I found out that our newest employee is making much much more then I am. Despite my 3 year seniority and level of work effort being much higher.

Happy Mayushii☆ Monday!

@BasedGotz That's not good... Is it something you'd want to share? Either way, I hope that things turn around.

@ptephine Its not starting off the greatest. But I hope you have a great Monday☆ Ptephine!