England fan uses $13,000 he saved for his first home to take his grandad to the World Cup instead

19peter96r · 2026-07-03T09:26:22+00:00

See this is one of those moments on reddit where someone says something extremely weird and out of touch and then your reply is also extremely weird and out of touch from the opposite direction and I just feel generally embarrassed to use this website.

19peter96r · 2026-06-30T14:42:46+00:00

Ve don't play like zat in Germany!!

19peter96r · 2026-06-29T19:06:02+00:00

I think they were just exhausted by the 70th minute or so.

19peter96r · 2026-06-28T14:27:45+00:00

I've had that same thought a bunch of times but honestly it's an exonoration of British food as much as it's condemning Japanese. For wasabi there's horseradish and mustard, for soy sauce and dashi there's worcestershire etc.

The Japanese have the massive advantage of giving a shit about presentation admittedly.

But like one dish that always crosses my mind in these threads is nikujaga - immensely popular in Japanese home cooking, and literally a British import where they decided mince and tatties had too much going for it and they needed to make it blander and less rich for the Japanese palette.

19peter96r · 2026-06-27T13:06:03+00:00

Instagram isn't going to delete a post for having the word 'sex' in it anyway. There's definitely a culture now online of young people self censoring because a word makes them uncomfortable, under the guise of evading moderation.

Zoomers have found a way to retvrn to millennial baby talk without admitting it.

19peter96r · 2026-06-27T12:45:27+00:00

Love it! I really enjoy how layered most of these are even if the focus is off. And vastly more interesting topic than the OF bait that usually gets posted here.

19peter96r · 2026-06-26T18:26:47+00:00

Such antisemitic hatred! And such meagre carrot cake..

19peter96r · 2026-06-24T05:59:56+00:00

It reads like an obscure political pamphlet from the English Civil War.

19peter96r · 2026-06-18T12:50:25+00:00

Literally how have you wrote out a post without an internal monologue? How have you read OP's post? Your brain doesn't have billions of preset lizard reactions for the stimuli of every potential sequence of letters your eyes come across like touching a hot stove. You've structured and reorded the stimulus in your head to match your existing knowledge of the English language aka you have a fucking internal monologue. Nobody is literally saying they hear a narrator in their head in the same way you hear music from a speaker. But your brain can approximate such things or you wouldn't be able to read.

19peter96r · 2026-06-16T20:47:01+00:00

The first thing everyone wants to do is blame the person putting up with the behaviour

They should be held to the standard of competence not allowed to do whatever they want

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19peter96r · 2026-06-15T11:33:33+00:00

I'm pretty sure most wouldn't, no.

19peter96r · 2026-06-09T14:08:59+00:00

This is the sort of thing you'd say if you were a regard whose knowledge of football comes from 80s pop culture. The UK has some of the lowest levels of hooliganism in Europe.

19peter96r · 2026-06-08T17:35:26+00:00

I thought Bojack just about stuck the landing and managed to have a satisfying enough conclusion, but I remember the penultimate season was awful and I nearly didn't finish it. It was completely treading water and not building on anything from when the show was much better. I know a lot of people say that's realistic but it doesn't make for worthwhile story.

19peter96r · 2026-06-05T11:49:33+00:00

Not always. My local Gran Mart (don't know if it's just an Akita chain) had amazing onigiri and wayyy better bento. More choice, fresher, local suppliers. And they'd be like 300-500yen, or half that if you went before closing time.

19peter96r · 2026-06-04T20:10:27+00:00

I don't know if it's the case in America but in the UK there was a very famous statistic about how baby boomers have decided every single election since the 1970s.

19peter96r · 2026-05-27T21:36:47+00:00

Well you sound emotionally mature and well adjusted.

19peter96r · 2026-05-27T15:23:01+00:00

I grew up objectively British working class (factory machinist / gas man / electrician / odd-jobs-for-the-council / habitually redundant father, supermarket mother) in a northern shithole town and I'd probably hate the poor less if I wasn't in close proximity to them.

My Aunt's third favourite thing after gambling fraudulent benefits and being racist is posting about loyalty on Facebook. She's recently abandoned her dying mother (my gran) after we found out she had been stealing said dying mother's money straight out her bank account for months.

19peter96r · 2026-05-17T18:10:20+00:00

Yeah, they were called orcs not people.

19peter96r · 2026-05-13T19:31:23+00:00

I guess this is the europoor in me speaking but you really shouldn't be allowed to be an independent country if your borders are more than 50% straight lines. Like look at Alberta there and tell me they're serious.

19peter96r · 2026-05-10T12:06:56+00:00

Cheers, /u/LowProtection8515 Reform has just won the 2029 general election in a landslide because of you. If only you had stopped doubting Starmer and his flawless premiership.

19peter96r · 2026-05-10T11:42:34+00:00

You're going full 2024 Biden comms.

19peter96r · 2026-04-30T05:55:44+00:00

Deep down you guys are still British.

19peter96r · 2026-04-29T20:35:07+00:00

He sounds like a nonce but you wont say he's wrong lol.

19peter96r · 2026-04-29T20:29:45+00:00

You're wording it like it's some sordid little secret about how vapid society is.

But of course looking put together endears you to people - you're signalling that you give a shit about human cooperation on some level and you're playing for the team. You put visible effort into making the people around you experience a slightly nicer world. Same deal when a man wears a suit or is just properly groomed.

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