Awake My Sons

@RealBobtheorc @chirno_helmet If it's the French we're talking about, it should be the tiny frog telling the human what to do.

@chirno_helmet We continue to use Imperial measurement units because it pisses off the French. 🍿

アメリカ人へ Xにいる日本人の多くがアメリカに好意的なのはわかってもらえたと思う。 ただ、俺を含めたそういった日本人全員がアメリカに対してどうしても許せないことがある。 ヤードポンド法という悪しき単位だ。なぜ世界標準であるメートル法を頑なに拒み続けるんだ。

@chirno_helmet Metric only works in base 10, haven't you read Project Hail Mary? Americans can understand how metric works all we want, because we already work in base 10 numbers. You just get confused or mad at our system. And we love that.

@WhiteBabyFac Duplex it.

Do you think sharing a 3-4 bedroom home with another young family could be a good way to deal with the unaffordability of housing?

@SandyofCthulhu I once had saurkraut at a German Christmas market in the US that was like warm applesauce. It was delicious.

As a kid, the only sauerkraut I ever had was cold straight from the can and ladled onto the occasional hot dog. On my first trip to Germany, I ordered some kind of wurst and lo and behold there was a hateful glob of sauerkraut right there on the plate next to it. Eyuuch. But, not wanting to offend my hosts, I took a bite. It was amazing. It's wasn't just pickle. It had strips of carrot, onion, BACON, cooked cabbage, caraway seeds. I loved it. Basically Germany taught me that sauerkraut is an ingredient, not a condiment, and ever since then when I add sauerkraut to a meal (which I frequently do), I always cook it with other ingredients. It's particularly toothsome with sliced apple - trust me on this. Yay Germany.

@ankoromochuu My family all dressed up as Studio Ghibli characters for Halloween!

海外の皆さんはジブリを観ますか？ 日本が舞台の「となりのトトロ」は観たことありますか？ メイは私の妹の幼い頃にそっくりなのです😂

@SandyofCthulhu My Kobolds have a God who rewards them for suicidal obedience to their master, whomever that is. If they die in obedience, they go straight to heaven. They can always make more Kobolds. Eggs are cheap.

What Elven Maid Inn is saying. Here. I have always felt there is NO POINT to having non-humans if they're just different humans. If you want someone who's selfish or brutal or elegant or sexy humans can already do all that. Non-humans need to be something more. Runequest does a good job here. Modern D&D can do better.

@SandyofCthulhu Jack London! Also westerns are kind of American fantasy.

We do have explicit American fantasy though: The Oz books Alvin Maker Series Something Wicked This Way Comes Indian in the Cupboard Etc.

@TheGermanicist The first woman looks like the before picture for Hollywood movie makeover.

@themattosaurus 😂 I don’t get it

Bring back hot women in college sports

@themormonr We had published evidence of horses from the time of the Nephites back in the 1960s, but people ignored that one, so...

@JAEbberts That would be a wonderful thing. Denaturalization should be much more of a thing.

@GuyInco15542744 A guy I baptized claims he left the church because Hebrews says there isn't an aaronic priesthood anymore. I am pretty sure it's because he married a member of the church who didn't want children, but he did, and it ended in a messy divorce.

It’s always amazing to me how anyone thinks the Book of Hebrews, one of the most pro LDS books in the New Testament somehow hurts the church.

@WhiteBabyFac My grandfather was 24 when he married my 16 year old grandmother. It was the best marriage I have personally experienced. That being said, a 16 year old would need to be incredibly mature for her and in our day for this to work, and I haven't met the modern 16 year old who fits

Traditionally it was socially acceptable for a 16 year old woman to marry a man who was 10-15 years older than her. Many people in modern times consider this immoral, and it's illegal in many states and western countries. I would much rather have my daughter marry a mature man when she's 16 and start her family young, rather than have a string of boyfriends (or worse) until she finally gets married at 30-40 and has 1-2 kids if she's lucky - which is the new normal for women. Do you side with tradition or modern thinking on this issue?

@usuallypregnant This was pretty much all of the women I ever dated. It was basically a requirement of mine.

MEN - If she tells you on the first date that she is dating for marriage and is saving sex for marriage, would you want a second date? Why or why not?

@WhiteBabyFac Very true. You should know the person, but don't need to have seen him/her in every possible situation. Commit or end it without wasting each other's time.

People who are willing to get married within 6 months of meeting actually take the marital commitment more seriously than people who insist on dating for multiple years before getting engaged. The long-term daters have the attitude that they need to be in a relationship for years so they can see the all the negative aspects of the other person. They don't want to commit until they feel confident that the other person doesn't have any negative traits they haven't seen yet. What's the implication here? If their boyfriend or girlfriend does have issues that they didn't know about, then the marriage was a mistake. They'll more likely want a divorce if unforeseen character flaws do arise after marriage. They're trying to prevent this at all costs by dating for years before marriage. Those who are willing to marry within 6 months are sending the opposite message: They may not be aware of every negative aspect of the person they're dating, but they'll make the commitment anyway. They're showing that they really are willing to stay together for better or worse. Imperfections might surface a few years into marriage, and that's okay. They're willing to accept that as part of marriage that they can deal with instead of viewing it as a dealbreaker. Just my opinion, what do you think?

@SandyofCthulhu This is so true! People like it when organic growth happens that doesn't overwhelm the system or change the culture.

One of the dumbest Hollywood film ideas is that "outsiders" are disliked and distrusted in small towns. At least in the West and South it's not true. Your neighbors will be over at your house helping you move in your furniture, inviting you to church, bringing a casserole for your supper. Maybe it's true in New England, or outside the USA, but where I've seen new people move in, the "new guy" is the most popular, the "new girl" is considered the hottest. And so forth. I think the idea comes from Hollywood writers knowing absolutely nothing about real small towns except their own Los Angeles neighborhood prejudices. Note: this doesn't apply to a new guy who showed up by walking down the railroad tracks; i.e. a hobo. It also doesn't apply to a huge group that arrives all at once, since that upsets the status. Those have been true since Neanderthal times. But though we might balk at having a thousand Haitians suddenly moved to public housing next door, if just one or two Haitian families moved into a small town neighborhood, the folks would be intrigued.

@LDSLaw What about Joseph Smith and the restoration? Is that ok?

Go tell it on the mountain, Sister!

@SandyofCthulhu Tempura sushi is also awesome!

When I was a teenager, I went to a “tempura bar” in Los Angeles. The idea was you ordered 30 minutes, or 45 minutes, or an hour and sat at a bar and for the duration the chef would shove freshly-fried tempura at you. It was quite possibly the best meal of my entire life. This was a decade before I’d had sushi. There is so much good Japanese food but so often it’s all just ignored (in the West) in favor of sushi. I get why - sushi is colorful and classy and subtle. My all-tempura meal was pretty much just shades of crunchy beige. But it included chrysanthemum leaves, lotus root, scallops, shiso leaves, burdock, and for dessert apples and my first-ever fried banana. Potent, vigorous flavors that blew away sushi’s subtle nuances. So good.

@FiredUpCoug They put corn, peas, and many other odd vegetables on pizza in Brazil.

I know I said I would not judge. But I lied. There should be a section added to the Geneva conventions that bans some of these toppings on pizza. If the Italians ever find out that you are putting corn and mayo on pizza, they might declare war on Japan! Good thing Mario is there as your chief diplomat.

Hello Japanese X. While all my American friends are asleep, I have a question for you. What is the strangest topping you have seen on a pizza in Japan? This is a safe space, no judgement.

@MUKIDEZA2 We had an activity where we raced to see who could move a bowl full of M&Ms to another bowl the fastest.

@MUKIDEZA2 In my college dorm I had a drawer full of chopsticks that I used to not only learn to use chopsticks, but to figure out the different types.

日本の箸って今、アメリカでどれくらい使える人居るんだろう？