mojomonkeyfish
mojomonkeyfish t1_j9w1mgl wrote
Reply to comment by HeavyMetalOverbite in TIL the way NYC has bodegas, Australia has milk bars. Modeled initially on American soda fountains, they’ve been on the decline since the 70s due to competition from supermarkets by idiomaddict
If you have a minimally functional brain, incapable of qualitative analysis then, sure. It's "just another chain of convenience stores". I mean, really, it's just a building, right? It's no different from a dense thicket or pile of sticks! Wawa is just another collection of matter.
mojomonkeyfish t1_j9w11m5 wrote
Reply to comment by josetemprano in TIL the way NYC has bodegas, Australia has milk bars. Modeled initially on American soda fountains, they’ve been on the decline since the 70s due to competition from supermarkets by idiomaddict
Honestly, I was rolling my eyes and all the Wawa gaga that was going on. Obviously overrated, right. But, I dropped in to grab a diet coke one morning when visiting some tap water only relatives, and grabbed a breakfast burrito, then ended up visiting every morning for the rest of the week.
mojomonkeyfish t1_j96jd0r wrote
Reply to comment by epochpenors in TIL in the 1950’s statues depicting Christopher Columbus making an indigenous woman flinch on one side and Davy Crockett arresting an indigenous man in front of his family on the other were taken down from the US capital by hillo538
When people say "that's just how it was back then" it's kinda bullshit. It was, then, like it is now: fascists forced racist iconography and ideology onto our culture in order to secure their social standing. People thought it was bullshit to put up a lot of statues. But, it takes ten times the effort to get something taken down as it does to put it up.
mojomonkeyfish t1_j4sn0tb wrote
Reply to comment by Blood_Seeker_00 in Teenagers inside prison cell talk about life locked up for attempted murder by MiddleUziVert
Because they have metal shelves?
mojomonkeyfish t1_iw0sbw1 wrote
Reply to TIL that the 1st King of England made a law that said everyone had to be in bed by 8pm by PoppedUrMomsCherry
I made a similar law. I hope it worked out better for him.
mojomonkeyfish t1_iuwpnjk wrote
Reply to Why a Blue check mark is now $8 on Twitter and Elon Musk's Next Steps - A piece of speculative business non-fiction by BandicootKind705
If Facebook has been unable to leverage paid accounts, what would possibly make Twitter think they could do so.
mojomonkeyfish t1_jaowf3f wrote
Reply to comment by LCranstonKnows in Julia Childs cries because a dessert is so good. by Methecomet
I think I've seen every episode they've done, and can probably count on one hand how many of their dishes I'd want to eat. I loved watching them, but I was like "how do I politely decline to eat that?"
Like, in your example: I can do liver. I can do anchovy. I like olives. But, you're really asking a lot to put them all in one dish.