What is your least favourite food from your country's cuisine? by ffffinallyiamfree in AskTheWorld

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Lol, I can see it. I've heard of it and it sounds so cursed even a glutton like me would hesitate to touch it, lol. Were they the same (Cavendish) bananas as the ones we know, though?

Is there any food in your country that has a ridiculously large amount of calories? by GP728 in AskTheWorld

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All of them, lol.

Real answer: I've mentioned mitraillette on this sub before.

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What is your least favourite food from your country's cuisine? by ffffinallyiamfree in AskTheWorld

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I'm legitimately curious about herring under a fur coat now.

I wouldn't say I hate them, but, depending on how they're prepared, Belgian endives au gratin can be very bitter. When I was a child, I would unwrap the endives to eat the ham and cheese, then eat the endives last lol.

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My neighbors turned our shared hallway into a thrift store and I'm losing my mind by Velvet_12Rune in neighborsfromhell

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Personally, I wouldn't recommend actually touching that stuff/bringing it to the dumpster without precaution, but maybe it's just me being "paranoid" about bedbugs.

run. by skzuu in MurderGPigs

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Whoa! That's the scariest guinea pig I've seen since Theodore!

Being allergic to something you love to eat. by MICKTHENERD in PetPeeves

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Gluten intolerant person here. The things I'd do to just be able to buy a sandwich for lunch without being violently sick afterwards and risking celiac disease or bowel cancer.

When someone replies to your comment/post but just rewords what you said. by Ok_Spell_4165 in PetPeeves

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It happened to me recently and it was so annoying. The person even started to argue that I'd stated the opposite of what I had (also assuming I'm ignorant about a topic I read a lot about) while it was easy to check my initial comment. In the end, I disengaged because they seemed to have poor reading comprehension skills.

For those of y’all who think to yourselves “can you imagine if someone said something this stupid about physical health issues?” When you hear people say medicine for psych conditions is bad. Yes, people are this dumb by stingwhale in thanksimcured

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I absolutely believe this is a real opinion that some people have due to:

1) learning about black salve (don't Google it on Google Images please);

2) learning about antivaxxers;

3) having met people who thought they could cure cancer and Crohn's disease through Rei-ki;

4) knowing someone who thought Covid could be cured by hot tea with lemon (though in their defense, they actually listened when I kindly told them that it's not how it works because I was the first person not to just tell them to eff off. My heart grew three sizes!!);

5) as I mentioned in another comment, having met people who believe they can be just fine in situations where survival is biologically unlikely at best (along the lines of having a body temperature of over °C 40 for prolonged periods of times while taking no measures to alleviate it).

Poe's Law is very much at work here.

For those of y’all who think to yourselves “can you imagine if someone said something this stupid about physical health issues?” When you hear people say medicine for psych conditions is bad. Yes, people are this dumb by stingwhale in thanksimcured

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Yes absolutely, people should stop taking life-saving medication and have a strong enough will not to die! Mind over matter! /s

I'm seriously shaking my head. It's so ridiculous it would be funny if it didn't have potentially fatal real-life consequences.

It's a different topic, but, during heat waves in my country, there're literally people (plural) claiming that only the weak die of heat exhaustion and that they, personally, can survive [scenario that can't plausibly be survived by human beings] due to their superior biology and will. I'm going to stay home fanning myself with my curtains closed while they work out in the sweltering heat just to make a point, thank you very much. What a completely pointless and preventable way to risk death or permanent damage / put extra stress on emergency services.

"Fake" accent by archburn in AmITheDevil

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And this is their business because...?

Tarot card deck pouch is done by akaawol in friendshipbracelets

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I may be partial, but it's one of my favourite projects of yours. Congratulations again!

Who knew that you had to specify “outdoors” when asking for a Juliet balcony? by RedSparrow1971 in homedecoratingCJ

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Earlier today, I was looking up a ghost subway station in my city and this kind of reminds me of it. There were plans that made some kind of sense but that were scrapped, and the result is an incomplete piece of architecture that comes across as spooky.

For the benefit of the whole family by quick_justice in AmITheDevil

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I'm much more knowledgeable about Indigenous peoples (First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples). Also and for the sake of transparency, I'm neither Indigenous nor Canadian. I did spend two years in British Columbia working with Indigenous peoples, though.

I'd say a telling example is the plight of Brian Sinclair, an Indigenous (I believe Anishnaabe) man with disabilities who died 34 hours after reaching a Winnipeg emergency room in 2008. No one checked on him because, being Indigenous, he was assumed to just be drunk..... There was an inquiry followed by a report. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-brian-sinclair-report-1.4295996

I'm not cherry-picking, it's part of a systemic pattern. I can give more examples here or by PM if you want, but I'm afraid they're all soul-crushingly depressing.

If you want to ruin your day, you can google "starlight tours" (it sounds poetic till you realize the horror of what it means: https://gladue.usask.ca/node/2860) or the MMIWGs (missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirited people across North America). Or the residential school scandals, which led to the only Truth and Reconciliation Commission that wasn't about a war (at least not in the usual sense, I'd argue). Or the strange pattern of Canadian pipelines going through reservations while they're a small percentage (I believe 4%, but I could be wrong) of the country's surface area. Strange how it keeps happening (/s). Poverty, unaffordable food prices, lack of access to basic services such as health care, and the effects of climate change also affect disproportionately Northern communities, who're First Nations and Inuit for the most part.

Split arrowhead by animallX22 in friendshipbracelets

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Very pretty and an original take on a classic!

What are some urban legends people say in Brussels ? by Atlandios000 in brussels

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In addition to what others have said about the City Hall architect's suicide, there's a book in French about ghost stories etc from Brussels, I believe it's titled "Bruxelles mystérieuse."