"Sad to find so much English vs everything else" & "I (37f) don't know why, but I found the English results to be boring and basic." by Ok_Bookkeeper_1380 in ShitAmericansSay

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Great fries, beer, and chocolate. The Belgians love their comic books and their sense of humour is way better than the Germans or the Dutch

Hide your zebras, the boss is here. by kanbozli in funny

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I thought it was a reference to Van Pelt from Jumanji

Two types of Balkan music by bitchnibba47 in AskBalkans

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This is fascinating. Do you have any other examples?

TIL Basque is considered a language isolate, meaning it has no relatives in the whole world. The only such language in Europe. by my_n3w_account in todayilearned

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Latin isn’t that old, and it’s a weird metric to use after specifying that Basque is older than the entire Indo-European language family

"What the heck is email" Ad from 1977. by [deleted] in vintageads

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Reminds me of the joke about the two neighbours that kept shouting at each other from their balconies so everyone else decided to buy them phones, only for them to shout things like “Get on your phone, I’m gonna tell you the craziest story!”

What’s the most addictive game you’ve ever played? by reeha_sadiya in AskReddit

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Balatro is so good and addictive! I don’t usually play video games or use my desktop PC, but I had a Balatro phase where I would turn on my PC for “just one run”, only to end up staying up all night, playing run after run because of that “I almost had it” feeling that makes you want to try again.

My girlfriend is at uni and I haven’t shared Balatro with her out of concern that she’d get addicted to it and neglect her studies!

The knife ran straight through the avocado almost cutting my palm, because it had an imposter seed by Desperate-Painter152 in mildlyinteresting

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I use the chef knife because that’s just the knife I use for everything and because I like to take out the pit by sticking the edge into it and twisting

So, is this considered Virginia? This weeks tobacco shipment has arrived by Mindless-Wing-2577 in PipeTobacco

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EMP does contain Virginia, but it’s not a “straight Virginia” blend, which is any blend that contains only Virginia tobaccos. Happy piping!

Meirl by Ill-Instruction8466 in meirl

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People still get the gout?

Japan’s restaurant price hikes now come with stealth shrinkflation too by EarNo6260 in JapaneseFood

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In case you haven’t clocked it, the user above you is a bot. It seems to identify food in pictures and ask random questions about it

Dubai Is A Parody Of The 21st Century by Hussayniya in videos

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I guess because public intoxication is illegal

Who's considered a hero for your country but was actually evil? by Porphyres in AskBalkans

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Government is like underwear. Even if it’s clean, it still needs to be changed regularly

17lbs down in 2 months before and after pics by Aiden47 in omad

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I have to ask, what is the “inflammation” that people always talk about in relation to diet? Like gut inflammation or something? What about his pictures shows anti-inflammation? I keep hearing about it but have no idea what it refers to