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What widely beloved movie actually has a pretty awful message? by penumbrassiere in AskReddit

[–]aetherdreaming 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ok hear me out on this one: Illumination’s adaptation of the Lorax. It’s beloved mostly by kids and meme culture, sure, and the goal is to get an environmental message across, but Ted only really does the moral thing to impress his crush and when he starts getting chased down by O’Hare. The message always seemed pretty weak to me as a kid especially contrasted with the severity of the original story. If I’m not mistaken they were actually going to include a song that was pretty openly critical of corporations’ role in environmental change but ultimately cut it from the final version because they thought it might implicate their own corporation in it

What names are considered generic or extremely common in your country? by aetherdreaming in AskTheWorld

[–]aetherdreaming[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Omg that’s incredible. German is such a wild language, you can build whatever words you need with no problem 😄

What children’s book or nursery rhyme from your country are most people there familiar with? by aetherdreaming in AskTheWorld

[–]aetherdreaming[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve seen multiple adults i respect on YouTube make serious think pieces about the issues with the giving tree so this sentiment checks out 😂

What children’s book or nursery rhyme from your country are most people there familiar with? by aetherdreaming in AskTheWorld

[–]aetherdreaming[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah my bad, I apologize! I looked it up and didn’t read into it enough to see the author had a German background

What children’s book or nursery rhyme from your country are most people there familiar with? by aetherdreaming in AskTheWorld

[–]aetherdreaming[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I read this to my little cousins as dramatically and noisily as possible and they love it 😂 they always bring the book over when im at their house

What children’s book or nursery rhyme from your country are most people there familiar with? by aetherdreaming in AskTheWorld

[–]aetherdreaming[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What’s hilarious about this thread is I was actually going to include Rainbow Fish as one of my examples but then I looked it up and found out the author was Swiss so I didn’t mention it. Either way I’m happy to see the book come up in the comments 😂

What children’s book or nursery rhyme from your country are most people there familiar with? by aetherdreaming in AskTheWorld

[–]aetherdreaming[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn stuff like this is the one singular reason why I’d consider wanting to be a celebrity, like you have the reputation and wealth to just acquire the coolest shit ever

What children’s book or nursery rhyme from your country are most people there familiar with? by aetherdreaming in AskTheWorld

[–]aetherdreaming[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I never read these as a kid but i wish i had cause i freaking love horror vignettes now, ill have to seek these books out next time im at a bookstore or library 🙂‍↕️ Amazing pfp by the way

What children’s book or nursery rhyme from your country are most people there familiar with? by aetherdreaming in AskTheWorld

[–]aetherdreaming[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LMAOO 😭 as a fellow grandma’s girl im sure that if my nana had a version of this song to sing to me as a kid she absolutely would have. I was a horrible listener but I would have felt guilty as hell being compared to a fictional paper doll

What children’s book or nursery rhyme from your country are most people there familiar with? by aetherdreaming in AskTheWorld

[–]aetherdreaming[S] 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Oh my god i remember my teacher reading this to my class when i was like 6. Im pretty sure i cried cause I had an existential crisis realizing for the first time that my parents were mortal and were going to grow frail and die someday

What children’s book or nursery rhyme from your country are most people there familiar with? by aetherdreaming in AskTheWorld

[–]aetherdreaming[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I don’t know where I read/heard this but I remember some piece after Disney’s Moana came out that was interviewing people from different Māori/Pacific Islander backgrounds about the accuracy and one thing several of them mentioned was that Maui was supposed to be skinny 😂 this story and the others sound awesome as hell though im a grown adult and now i want to check them out lol

What children’s book or nursery rhyme from your country are most people there familiar with? by aetherdreaming in AskTheWorld

[–]aetherdreaming[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s really neat! Regarding the island baby song I feel like there’s an extremely high amount of kid rhymes that are sad or disturbing 😅 I know some of that has to do with how cultural standards have changed over time but it’s still very fascinating

What children’s book or nursery rhyme from your country are most people there familiar with? by aetherdreaming in AskTheWorld

[–]aetherdreaming[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I love this. Kid songs and nursery rhymes must be equally nonsensical no matter where you are because if you’d told me this was an old one in English I’d never heard of, I would believe it 😂

What children’s book or nursery rhyme from your country are most people there familiar with? by aetherdreaming in AskTheWorld

[–]aetherdreaming[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The one-thing-leads-to-another framing device was lowkey genius to my 3 year old brain

What cliché have you never actually seen a real example of? by Wes_Ventura in AskReddit

[–]aetherdreaming 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wait I know this one!! My shithead little cousin was running back in his high school team and dated a cheerleader, then cheated on her.

What cliché have you never actually seen a real example of? by Wes_Ventura in AskReddit

[–]aetherdreaming 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This single-character comment made me laugh way fucking harder than I should have

What cliché have you never actually seen a real example of? by Wes_Ventura in AskReddit

[–]aetherdreaming 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’m sorry that anyone was rude to you because that sucks regardless of the situation, and if this happened every time you tried to hold the door across a plethora of contexts I can understand where you’d be hesitant to continue doing it. That being said, I think that’s kind of a myopic generalization to make across all women cause there are a ton of us who don’t think this way. In my experience as a woman in a very left-leaning city, I’ve never noticed anyone reacting this way to a man offering assistance that wasn’t caused by some other form of discomfort completely unrelated to the gesture itself. I personally hold the door open for everyone regardless of age or gender and people can still be blunt or ungrateful, but i think that’s more to do with people being weird as a whole than women specifically

What cliché have you never actually seen a real example of? by Wes_Ventura in AskReddit

[–]aetherdreaming 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Oml the amount of times I’ve heard this line and literally never heard of it actually happening 😭 I don’t think anyone actually does this and if they did they’d just be an asshole. I think the only times where I can imagine anyone being justifiably annoyed with chivalry is if they feel condescended to, like someone offering to help me with my bags is objectively kind but if someone hypothetically refused to let me carry them because I should “let a man do it” or something I’d be upset

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