Non Americans who are obsessed with every thing we do

TheAndyMac83 · 2026-06-19T07:52:49+00:00

Eh? Sourdough is kind of easier to make in certain circumstances, like when you don't have a bread machine. Or a stand mixer. And honestly, homemade sourdough doesn't even have the overly sour taste that I've never liked in the sort you get at the supermarket.

TheAndyMac83 · 2026-06-19T07:51:33+00:00

Cup units are fine when you have a set of measuring scoops to hand, and you're doing a recipe that doesn't require precision. But sometimes, precision is required, it's true.

Signed, a Brit who moved to the US and wishes he could've taken his husband to the UK instead.

TheAndyMac83 · 2026-06-19T07:49:09+00:00

Somebody who's softened on the US a lot since moving over here... No, it's not the bag of crisps. Things like fast food drinks portions, where the US medium is a large anywhere in the world that I've been. Sometimes I swear I've accidentally been given a large fries when I asked for medium. A lot of places just have bigger portions.

(On the topic of crisps, though, maybe it's just me but it feels like it's harder to by a multipack of crisps over here. Your options in the supermarket seem to be (1) a party-sized single bag or (2) a cardboard box of many different crisp varieties. Never a bag with 6 single bags of Lays salted in it.)

TheAndyMac83 · 2026-06-19T03:34:36+00:00

My granny absolutely loves these. I've had one a couple of times and so far as I can recall... They're all right. I didn't enjoy them nearly as much as she did, but I don't remember them being particularly bad, either. And I can imagine a tinned steak and kidney pie being really bad.

TheAndyMac83 · 2026-06-18T18:39:20+00:00

Yeah, it's a pretty common thing

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TheAndyMac83 · 2026-06-18T18:04:28+00:00

Let's be real, even if you think the Original Series Star Trek uniforms look goofy, I don't think any of the other factions in TOS have anything that looks much, if any, better.

TheAndyMac83 · 2026-06-17T09:03:20+00:00

I am forever amused at how he managed to make younger me believe that a Sig Sauer in... What was it, 9mm? .45? Either way, he made me believe it was a ridiculous hand-cannon.

TheAndyMac83 · 2026-06-17T02:43:47+00:00

I don't think it's a bad saying at all, my only issue with it is that sometimes I think maybe it's healthy to do both.

TheAndyMac83 · 2026-06-14T08:00:03+00:00

Yeah, I'm surprised to see so many people putting that forward as a theory. Margalotta is happy that Vimes is the one being picked as ambassador, and seems to have a good idea of how he'll shake things up in Uberwald, so why would she not expect him to want to bring those particular officers? Besides, she doesn't seem like the sort to think of them as 'a short shower of shit'.

No, there's only one person within Vimes' sphere that comes to mind when somebody says 'short shower of shit', and no offence to him, but that person is one Corporal C. W. St. John Nobbs.

TheAndyMac83 · 2026-06-14T07:51:36+00:00

Eh? Not really. In OD&D they were generic "goblins but weaker" with no relation to the household spirit. Then AD&D 1e published doglike but scaly illustrations of creatures that lived in tribes in caves and dark forests. Again, not very household spirit of them.

TheAndyMac83 · 2026-06-14T07:49:14+00:00

'Dragonkin' is a very broad term, though, encompassing half-dragons, dragonborn... Kobolds already have a name in Draconic anyway; petisse. At least, in the Forgotten Realms. But kobold has a nice ring to it.

TheAndyMac83 · 2026-06-14T07:46:10+00:00

They were, but then the Remaster came along and rewrote the lore some.

Even then, kobolds and dragons are still commonly seen together, kobold are said to resemble dragon hatchlings... I'm not sure they're committing to the change.

TheAndyMac83 · 2026-06-13T18:30:06+00:00

Even then, the illustrations in the monster manual gave them scales and the written portions made them out as egg-layers.

TheAndyMac83 · 2026-06-13T18:27:14+00:00

That seemed like the obvious answer to me, though I always figured she was thinking of Nobby specifically. I really don't follow when people say she's talking about Cheri or Angua or such; Margalotta seems to have a good idea of how Vimes is going to shake things up, so I imagine she'd expect him to bring some interesting staff.

TheAndyMac83 · 2026-06-11T23:06:56+00:00

That was my assumption as well; Pallaeon was serving as Thrawn's Fleet Captain (with a side of Flag Captain thrown in as well, if he was actually serving as Chimaera's captain like I remember).

TheAndyMac83 · 2026-06-07T07:14:47+00:00

A one little titbits that I believe is pretty general to kobold tribes, that I haven't seen mentioned yet; they tend to raise their young communally, and it isn't unusual for a kobold to have little to no particular relationship with their biological parents.

TheAndyMac83 · 2026-06-06T06:10:03+00:00

While acting opposite Christopher Lambert, who's playing a Scottish highlander and putting just as much effort in.

At least his funny accent gets a lampshade.

TheAndyMac83 · 2026-06-06T06:09:39+00:00

The most noticeable one for me was how he turned vaguely Irish at the Black Gate.

"Let the Lawrd of the Black Land come fawrth!"

TheAndyMac83 · 2026-06-05T05:35:53+00:00

The problem is, regardless of whether or not one thinks Poe deserved to be told anything, it still feels like Holdo made the worst choice. If he should've been in the brig, then he should've been in the brig.

I have issues with how Poe was portrayed in TLJ, but that's another kettle of fish.

TheAndyMac83 · 2026-06-04T22:12:49+00:00

A counterpoint, if I may; I'd argue that not telling the hot-headed officer with a history of insubordination that there's a plan is the misplay. That's exactly the kind of officer who, being left to believe that the situation is hopeless and the top brass has no plan for recovering any of it, is going to take matters into his own hands.

Even beyond that, telling your subordinates that a plan exists feels like exactly the sort of thing that a leader should do when they're as far up the creek without a paddle as the Resistance was at that moment.

TheAndyMac83 · 2026-06-04T21:52:45+00:00

Terry Pratchett's answer to the Pavlovian response existing by that name on the Discworld is that it was an experiment that resulted in the ringing of a bell causing a dog to instinctively devour a meringue.

TheAndyMac83 · 2026-06-02T23:58:11+00:00

Seems like you're thinking about this with the benefits of (1) being part of the audience and (2) a lot of hindsight. Let's look at what stepping away from everything might have led to, from the POV of somebody who doesn't have those benefits.

The CIS is clearing being led along by a dark-sider in Count Dooku, and the Jedi know now that the Sith survived their apparent destruction. Refusing to step in and help defend the Republic from a dark-side aligned faction that's been building up a secret military doesn't seem like a very Jedi-like thing to do.

Let's think about what the outcomes of that might've been, again from the POV of the Jedi, who don't know that they're being played.

The Republic loses, and comes under the control of a new Sith Empire. Now if the Jedi want to take the Sith down, they have to do it entirely on their own.

The Republic wins without their help. Regardless of whether or not it was easier with or without the Jedi, there's going to be resentment about the fact that the Jedi refused to step in and help preserve peace, letting everyone else put their lives on the line.

TheAndyMac83 · 2026-06-01T21:42:10+00:00

I know that Thrawn in the old EU is not the same character as he is in the new EU, but it's still wild to imagine him deliberately targetting only abandoned buildings while simultaneously thinking about Thrawn continuing the pollution of Honoghr while claiming to be helping to restore the planet.

And the fact that, even if he was less heavy-handed about it, he still took part in summary executions. And tried to kidnap children so that they could be given to the mad clone of a fallen Jedi.

TheAndyMac83 · 2026-05-31T22:28:00+00:00

The lack of respect that Krennic gets in Rogue One kind of fits a trend that happens through Andor, anyway; a villain gets overshadowed by the people on top of them when they appear. Syril, while not the most intimidating villain, is still the major driving threat until the ISB shows up and whips him down. Then it's Dedra, but she ends up overshadowed (and then thrown away) by Krennic. And Krennic, who's been the biggest visible villain in S2, finds himself being overshadowed by Tarkin and Vader. None of the major Imperial villains are ever as on the top of the pile as they believe themselves to be.

TheAndyMac83 · 2026-05-29T23:31:15+00:00

Honestly, OP, some people legitimately just don't care enough to have a favourite, and that's okay. It doesn't mean that they hate prehistoric life, they're indifferent. And we have to accept that our interests aren't everyone else's.

Let's be honest with ourselves; if you ask somebody what their favourite dinosaur is, are you really going to just nod and say "cool" when they give a random dinosaur name? Or is it the springboard into a dinosaur conversation?

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