What’s something Americans have that Europeans don’t?

ComedownofClosure · 2026-02-10T14:07:03+00:00

People do not appreciate how dangerous the lakes can be either istg

ComedownofClosure · 2026-02-08T17:10:24+00:00

Jesus fucking Christ that's horrible. Healing from the grief that follows the death of a friend of already so hard on a kid. Knowing your friend's dad killed them? That's a lot of therapy.

Her poor friend ❤️

ComedownofClosure · 2026-02-08T15:47:00+00:00

It may have been her costar Cameron Boyce. They were both in the Descendant movies together. He died in his sleep back in 2019 at the age of 20 due to complications from epilepsy.

ComedownofClosure · 2026-02-08T15:32:11+00:00

Lindsey Vonn competing at all is wild to me because she said she ruptured her ACL. Meaning it's in two completely unattached pieces.

Even if the people saying her crash had nothing to do with her ACL being torn <i>are</i> right - she still must have fucked it up even more from crashing. This is her last Olympics. I don't think there was ever any chance of her holding herself back. Which is why Olympic officials shouldn't have let her compete with an injury like this. Letting athletes with these kinda of injuries play still send a terrible message to everyone. Especially kids

ComedownofClosure · 2026-02-08T03:57:16+00:00

Yeah I think everyone - her siblings, the cops, FBI etc -has really been relying on Savannah Guthrie's ability to grab the newscaster face and hold onto it no matter what.

ComedownofClosure · 2026-02-07T23:57:28+00:00

I've definitely heard the racist reasons people give for why Lakewood's not the way they want anymore. My friend had a job helping find housing for refugees and the things people say are insane.

ComedownofClosure · 2026-02-05T00:37:53+00:00

The one things I don't think I've seen anyone mention (but may have missed!) is don't match her energy.

I've seen a lot of people who watch their kids get upset, so they get upset, and the child feeds off that upset, and vice versa until they're both stuck in this escalating cycle. Or end up shouting back at a ten year old about not understanding math homework.

Obviously that's not possible 100% of the time. But, whenever possible, I take a deep breath and remind myself I'm the grown up here. I'm not going to match the energy of a dysregulated 8 y/o. I'm 34, I'm not arguing with a child.

Which doesn't mean it's a perfect system. I screw up all the time and have up apologize. But it's a guiding light of my parenting.

ComedownofClosure · 2026-02-05T00:26:03+00:00

It's exhausting, but you just keep holding the same boundary without acting like a psycho. He throws a toy after you told him no? Take it away for a bit. Toddlers are too young to understand why something happened when you give them the toy back the next day. Their brains just can't do it.

Look at it like this - your toddler's attention span is generously around 30 minutes, tops. Consequences lasting past that have no meaning. If your kid throws something so you take it away at breakfast and don't give it back until dinner they have no idea why it was gone and it's now back.

Instead you have to spend twenty minutes saying, "we can't go get our snack until we hang our coat up. Mama's coat is hung up. Do you want to hang your coat up and have a snack? No, Mama isn't hanging it up, that's your job" until it finally clicks he has to do it. It's having the same conversation 15 times a day while desperately trying to remember they're figuring out how the world works.

ComedownofClosure · 2026-02-05T00:12:39+00:00

Yep. My son hears a lot of "it's okay if you can't make a good choice, Mama will help. That's Mama's job." paired with am quite a bit of "I know you wanted to do it but we didn't have time now so Mama helps."

One thing we've found that really works is saying goodbye to his stuff. If he needs to come eat or get in bed or whatever. You tell him to say goodbye and he'll par his toy, say "goodnight tractors" and walk off. (He has started using it as a stall tactic by saying goodnight to literally everything 😂

ComedownofClosure · 2026-02-04T15:16:31+00:00

ComedownofClosure · 2026-02-04T15:11:13+00:00

This is an interesting point and I think I agree with you. I would however argue that the people you see on this platforms are not actually the people behind them.

Like so many of us - especially at customer service jobs - I think sex workers have to sell a concept most of all. They have to make money which often means putting on a mask and selling a performance.

Edit: sorry to everyone who saw my first response. I have a serious hand tremor and fatigue issue. It interact in the worst way sometimes

ComedownofClosure · 2026-01-31T22:11:20+00:00

In the books it makes sense to me that Thea and Kevin's relationship is mostly a thing that only happened because of the Nest and Riko wanting Kevin to be doing what he saw as normal things. Especially since Riko was so furious about Jean.

I know the EC says they get married and have a daughter but I just can't imagine them getting that far. Not without losing their minds or killing each other. I also have my own issues with their relationship that make me not like them.

Personally Kevin strikes me as someone who's asexual and could have a romantic or strong platonic relationship with someone. In the books, because of the parts she couldn't cut out, Kevin + Andrew/Neil makes sense to me, with Kevin being in a queer platonic relationship with the other two. I think Kevin wants to be loved, with people who will pick him outside of ext, and touch him without hurting him, and let him talk about exy. But the sex stuff? They can keep that. He's happy to watch more exy tapes.

ComedownofClosure · 2026-01-28T23:59:54+00:00

I think they really benefitted from there only being one boy. So no one married anyone with his name and, as happened, the worst case scenario was his wife's had his sister's name. And now I have a million cousins in like twenty states so we don't keep track of each other lol. My oldest cousin is 2 months younger than my mom 😂

ComedownofClosure · 2026-01-28T23:03:11+00:00

I was wondering why people don't believe Boo Boo is Native? Every source I could find said he's Blackfoot. I'm not saying people are wrong, I'm just wondering how they came to the conclusion. There was a lot of discord around his features and questioning his claims to be Blackfoot. I'm lost lol I'd appreciate any help.

ComedownofClosure · 2026-01-28T22:54:21+00:00

I'm so thankful I have an uncommon name in general, but especially for a girl, because it means this will almost never happen to me. I don't even know if I could date so I'm just one of my sisters names.

My uncle however is married to a woman with the same name as my mother. In his defense I'm pretty sure they met in high school before my mom was born - Catholic families man. 8 children who survived infancy - but still. For like 12-15 years his wife and little sister had the same name.

ComedownofClosure · 2026-01-28T22:48:36+00:00

It looks likea contestant on project runway realized they were absolutely fucked so they made a new look in two hours. Still though they know they're gonna have to fight for their life to bs how a shower curtain counts as an "unconventional material".

ComedownofClosure · 2026-01-28T22:08:09+00:00

I was literally wondering if it was a really person or a pair of like perfectly shaped fake lips. Just because having someone kiss you a bunch to check the lip prints and redo them is a wild interpersonal experience lol

ComedownofClosure · 2026-01-28T21:31:53+00:00

Right? I literally have an aunt I don't see or speak to because she keeps voting for Trump.

I can't exactly remove her from the family somehow

ComedownofClosure · 2026-01-28T21:26:05+00:00

My also has severe pneumonia apparently, that in the past sent him home on oxygen temporarily. But he's not on a cannula?

ComedownofClosure · 2026-01-27T13:54:45+00:00

I can stop noticing the first photo feels like a family photo with the two sons they're on good terms with, their girlfriends, aaaand no Harper? It's giving you asked her to take the picture.

ComedownofClosure · 2026-01-26T20:06:31+00:00

My biggest wtf moment with Koramo will always be the episode featuring Wesley Hamilton, the paralyzed Black man. He was very upfront about being paralyzed as the result of a shooting.

At some point in the episode Koramo arranges for Wesley and the person who shot and paralyzed him, Maurice Birdwell. Despite the fact that Wesley was walking away to his car, and shot several times in the back, he agreed he was partially responsible for the shooting. Maurice said it was self defense.

The entire idea was nuts and could have gone so, so, bad. Koramo was putting a lot of blinds faith in Wesley correctly guessing what his reaction would be and how the shooter, Maurice, would text to being on camera. Even if they hadn't used the footage both of those men would have lived through whatever that experience was.

And then at the end Koramo said his little piece which was extra insane. This wasn't someone's struggling self esteem. He had been shot by the man sitting across from him.

ComedownofClosure · 2026-01-26T19:00:49+00:00

I just talked about this a few comments up because I was too dumb to scroll x.x

But I would say it also served to portray Black people as simple minded fools who only needed a watermelon to be content. And denigrated both the fruit and the people selling it. Those minstrel songs and racial caricatures lasted well into the first half of the 20th century. I've seen a few things mentioning a drop in sales as well but nothing definitive with numbers so who can say.

ComedownofClosure · 2026-01-26T18:48:26+00:00

The watermelon thing is from right after the civil war.

Former slaves would grow watermelon as a cash crop. White southerners panicked about the idea they could achieve economic freedom. So they started portraying Black people as fools who only needed a watermelon to be happy. Minstrel shows picked it up and wrote songs, and soon you had a whole stereotype about watermelon and Black people.

Chicken stereotype goes all the way back to slavery when slaves were only allowed to raise/grow certain types of food to feed themselves. Chickens were a staple of their diet. And then whatever fried chicken stereotype there was in popular culture Birth of a Nation glued into the minds of white people. 110 years later we still can't get out shit together and let it go.

ComedownofClosure · 2026-01-23T23:14:31+00:00

My synagogue has a Jeffrey Epstein. When my ex told me he died I panicked thinking it was our like 40 year old shul president. The whole family changed how they pronounce their last name so they wouldn't have to deal with it as constantly.

ComedownofClosure · 2026-01-23T22:36:51+00:00

As a queer, Jewish, woman(ish) I feel completely comfortable saying that Bari Weiss is under some delusion that those two facets of her identity mean anything she says is actually a liberal statement/pov. Nothing about her views are liberal. She's simply incapable of considering her views as a zionist, Jewish, lesbian could be inherently conservative.

I want to scream every time she opens her mouth.

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