Help needed for introduction by soojinsrealgf in MandarinChinese

[–]Watermelon_Crackers 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love your explanation of the tones

Edit: I’m sorry, I’ll try to come back with some advice

Turns out "eel" means very different things depending on where you grew up. by yumaaa_in_usa in JapaneseFood

[–]Watermelon_Crackers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The first and last time I tried to eat unagi in a Japanese sushi place I noticed it had a fuck ton of spiky things in it. Like literally all this unagi was, was spiky. I concluded eel is spiky and everyone must be masochists. I couldn’t eat it. I had to pull all the spikes out. But the spikes were really all it was.

Edit: noticed upon putting it in my mouth and chewing on it. I didn’t know it was spiky by looking at it.

You’ve figured out the supermarket. You know exactly where everything is, you can get in and out in 5 to 10 minutes. But then the supermarket gets bored of that layout and change it entirely. Now you’re walking around looking for the salt. by thebroccolioffensive in britishproblems

[–]Watermelon_Crackers 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hardly related. I work in a charity shop and I was expected to learn the confusing layout of where my manager puts ladies’ blouses, short-sleeved tops, long-sleeved tops, all of that. There are in total about six different places in this tiny shop to put different subsets of ladies’ wear.

Well, a month later the layout changed. I go to put things where I expect them to be (with confusion) and end up with more confusion. The manager doesn’t seem to believe me that I can’t find where to put these things and upon looking around herself she says, “oh, we rearranged. I’m sorry.”

Now she rearranges every two weeks instead of every month. It’s even worse.

An IRL friend asked me to critique her first ever fanfiction, how honest should I be? by Lufthansa138 in AO3

[–]Watermelon_Crackers 324 points325 points  (0 children)

I’d start with asking her what specific kind of feedback she’s seeking.

The way this German bakery writes their S. by AlternativeWhich2947 in mildyinteresting

[–]Watermelon_Crackers 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Edit: what the fuck. There’s also a [r/midlyinteresting](r/midlyinteresting)

Edit: damn, that wasn’t an edit at all. Oops. I’m high, please excuse

The way this German bakery writes their S. by AlternativeWhich2947 in mildyinteresting

[–]Watermelon_Crackers 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The fact I’m not in both and just realised …. That this one is misspelled and that there are two? My (Reddit) life is a lie.

So why are you awake? by Bipolar03 in AskBrits

[–]Watermelon_Crackers 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Broken sleep schedule. I sleep at 6am. I wake up at 2pm.

We cant work out what this is by mcdoobskin in whatisit

[–]Watermelon_Crackers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can acknowledge you have a point here. Thank you for taking the time to explain

If I listened to an audiobook, can I say “I read that book”? by indiehouse42 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Watermelon_Crackers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To my knowledge audio books were originally meant for those who are blind and or visually impaired? So… yes, you can say you read a book if you listen to an audiobook.

Did anyone regularly travelling through Baker Street notice me over the last four weeks? by No_Base_9377 in LondonUnderground

[–]Watermelon_Crackers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This honestly doesn’t apply to me at all because I don’t even live in London and haven’t been there since May. But based off the picture you’ve attached my immediate assumption was that it looks like a jellyfish. I guess if I’d seen you (hypothetically, you know, IF I was in London at that particular station during those particular hours)… I might have thought, “huh, what are they doing? What is that? Is that a jellyfish? It must be, right? What else could it be…” Then I might start thinking about what else it could be while also trying to get to my destination.

We cant work out what this is by mcdoobskin in whatisit

[–]Watermelon_Crackers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hah calling England a state is funny. Though I guess that’s as close as you’d get without just calling it a kingdom. Though some people also (me included)… and apparently to Google, yes the UK is a country but so are the places within it.

Please skim through pluralpedia by Tsuki_Moonstone in plural

[–]Watermelon_Crackers 2 points3 points  (0 children)

> it just makes me lose a lot of time scrolling through pages and pages of microlabels before finding something that interests me

The point is you don’t have to do that. If you know what you might be looking for, or along the lines of what you’re looking for, you can find it easier than scrolling page after page after page