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Nysse said:
For a while Salmiakki Koskenkorva was my favorite liquor but then I found Rubarb Koskenkorva which is great with sparkling water.
For a while Salmiakki Koskenkorva was my favorite liquor but then I found Rubarb Koskenkorva which is great with sparkling water.
Good taste! :D I've tried the normal one, the lemon one, and the raspberry one so far but not that. Do you use flavored sparkling water when you mix it?
Salmiakki/licorice and similar things like star anise taste the best in liquid form imo. Like in the Koskenkorva liqueur you mentioned and things like sambuca, ouzo, and absinthe. I don't mind salmiakki candy, both the regular and salty ones are fine, but it's not something that I like enough that I'd buy it myself
| @NS2D NS2D said: Do you use flavored sparkling water when you mix it? No I've only done kossu plain water mixes one night. And that wa unflavored sparkling water. But I'm planning on making punch for a party that uses rhubarb kossu and maybe some soda. So then it'll be flavored water. But ngl I really liked it with plain sparkling water so that's my go to drink now even tho I discovetef it like 2 months ago. I've drunk like less than 5 times in my life and never got really drunk. Last time was very tipsy tho |
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| Well. I am an American. I grew up lower–middle class, but my parents were frugal so we were never in need of anything. I went to one of the best colleges in the country (regularly in the top 10 of the U.S News & World Report, though in the tier that regularly gets tied with a bunch of others and thus sometimes is actually like 11th or something) thanks to some pretty good financial aid (though naturally, these top colleges started providing full tuition to people in my parents' income bracket soon after I graduated) and I stayed there for grad school in physics (though didn't get a PhD, mostly because my advisors kept leaving, and I finally followed one after he left for Israel, and that was awful). I give this background because it allows me to say the following: Being at a good college, especially for grad school, meant I met a lot of people from other countries, both students and professors. I've also lived in a foreign country (Israel) for a number of years, and made even more international connections and relationships. So I can say this: America owns all of you. We are better. We are better people. We are more honorable—and we are definitely smarter than you. We are definitely the least racist of peoples in the world. And because our universities still insist on distributional requirements (meaning you have to spend at least a little time on subjects outside your major), those of us who actually try, who care about our educations, end up with much broader understandings of reality. Thus, among the graduate students at least, it was clear that the Americans were the most sophisticated, and everyone else tended to be much more one-dimensional. (The Canadians I met were self-righteous, snobbish bullies who were particularly Neanderthal, having chosen astrophysics as their subfield.) So I suppose I am not like the standard American stereotype. But I think I do fit the American stereotype as far as academia goes: That of the military-industrial complex that dominates the planet. |
| I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour and who then asks: Am I then a cheat? – for he wants to perish. |
| how about 0%? i hate soccer / football with a passion, root against the national team of that "sport" (and i was sooooooooo happy when it did fail to qualify for two world cups in a row, with all its problems the basketball one attended the last same tournament and somehow arrived to the quarter finals at least). People killed each other for supporting different teams. What sucks even harder now, everything has become fanatics versus other fanatics in soccer / football style, including... especially... the disgusting politics. i hate everyone in that, including the left that i once supported. Stopped voting about a decade ago and won't apologize for it. i speak english fluently (even if it's sort of useless for human face to face interactions since i have actually never travelled outside the nation and don't even plan to), i'm not loud when speaking (probably more as a teen desperately trying to fit in and failing hard) and don't do hand gestures at all... it's annoying to both do and watch especially since i moved on my own 6+ months ago, i basically stopped eating pasta mostly because i'm too lazy to cook and need extra time to rest in bed before going to work in a pizza restaurant... yeah, here and there i bring home leftovers of it for dinner or lunch for the next day, but main reason is i don't want to waste food rarely drink coffee except for breakfast with milk and cookies, i prefer energy drinks i'm aware there was a old trope about owning one or two kind of scooters, but that was decades ago. i never even actually wanted (or could afford) to buy one, even if i was one of the very few teenagers in the early 2000's in my little town of 10000 inhabitants that didn't own a scooter (newer or older model) i basically listen to just one italian singer (Caparezza) and despise most of italian music, especially the current "stars"... i'm always quiet, major exceptions are in the past when i was attending metal concerts (Korn, Limp Bizkit, Slipknot, Godsmack...) more often, and i always wanted to enter mosh pits despite being a light weight at risk of injuries or losing glasses... and the other thing is when i had founded a firm to support my basketball team (from 2004 to 2011) and stayed sitting at the fence over the banners initiating chants with the fellow members, clapping, waving flags... i'm definitely NOT romantic, effusive and stuff. "latin lover"? LOL. Don't even dare to touch me. i'm ugly and you're not missing anything. |
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| I found a reddit post, and I discovered that my country is well-known for Lots of showers. As I only take 1 to 3 per day. Not including right after gym and the 2 you need to take when you use a pool/beach. I think it does not apply. Oh, and we are well-known to steal soap and towels from hotels. I object to that, I always carry my own towels. |
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| Stereotype: people are nice, they are good, they smile, they are cheerful, they are friendly, they are helpful. What you really get: people are fake. People are friendly today and look at you with disgust tomorrow. People are two-faced. People have a culture of gossip. People smile at you today and talk badly about you tomorrow. People try to make you look like a fool. People are dishonest, thieves. The list goes on. In summary. People are rotten. People are noisy. The concept of private space does not exist. Silence and order do not exist. People behave like baboons throwing feces in your face in the jungle. you mind your own business here and they hate you. |
| They say a lot of people from my state talk like gangsters, I guess we all do it unknowingly. O.O |
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| No, definitely not. I don't just eat beer and pretzels. Believe me, I'm funny. I don't walk around in socks and sandals. I don't like hiking. |
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No, definitely not. I don't just eat beer and pretzels. Believe me, I'm funny. I don't walk around in socks and sandals. I don't like hiking.
| @-DxP- Damn, you wrote that and it just hit me - I forgot my headlamp! |
| Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. |
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Well.
I am an American.
I grew up lower–middle class, but my parents were frugal so we were never in need of anything. I went to one of the best colleges in the country (regularly in the top 10 of the U.S News & World Report, though in the tier that regularly gets tied with a bunch of others and thus sometimes is actually like 11th or something) thanks to some pretty good financial aid (though naturally, these top colleges started providing full tuition to people in my parents' income bracket soon after I graduated) and I stayed there for grad school in physics (though didn't get a PhD, mostly because my advisors kept leaving, and I finally followed one after he left for Israel, and that was awful).
I give this background because it allows me to say the following: Being at a good college, especially for grad school, meant I met a lot of people from other countries, both students and professors. I've also lived in a foreign country (Israel) for a number of years, and made even more international connections and relationships. So I can say this:
America owns all of you. We are better. We are better people. We are more honorable—and we are definitely smarter than you.
We are definitely the least racist of peoples in the world. And because our universities still insist on distributional requirements (meaning you have to spend at least a little time on subjects outside your major), those of us who actually try, who care about our educations, end up with much broader understandings of reality. Thus, among the graduate students at least, it was clear that the Americans were the most sophisticated, and everyone else tended to be much more one-dimensional. (The Canadians I met were self-righteous, snobbish bullies who were particularly Neanderthal, having chosen astrophysics as their subfield.)
So I suppose I am not like the standard American stereotype. But I think I do fit the American stereotype as far as academia goes: That of the military-industrial complex that dominates the planet.
I am an American.
I grew up lower–middle class, but my parents were frugal so we were never in need of anything. I went to one of the best colleges in the country (regularly in the top 10 of the U.S News & World Report, though in the tier that regularly gets tied with a bunch of others and thus sometimes is actually like 11th or something) thanks to some pretty good financial aid (though naturally, these top colleges started providing full tuition to people in my parents' income bracket soon after I graduated) and I stayed there for grad school in physics (though didn't get a PhD, mostly because my advisors kept leaving, and I finally followed one after he left for Israel, and that was awful).
I give this background because it allows me to say the following: Being at a good college, especially for grad school, meant I met a lot of people from other countries, both students and professors. I've also lived in a foreign country (Israel) for a number of years, and made even more international connections and relationships. So I can say this:
America owns all of you. We are better. We are better people. We are more honorable—and we are definitely smarter than you.
We are definitely the least racist of peoples in the world. And because our universities still insist on distributional requirements (meaning you have to spend at least a little time on subjects outside your major), those of us who actually try, who care about our educations, end up with much broader understandings of reality. Thus, among the graduate students at least, it was clear that the Americans were the most sophisticated, and everyone else tended to be much more one-dimensional. (The Canadians I met were self-righteous, snobbish bullies who were particularly Neanderthal, having chosen astrophysics as their subfield.)
So I suppose I am not like the standard American stereotype. But I think I do fit the American stereotype as far as academia goes: That of the military-industrial complex that dominates the planet.
auroraloose said: And because our universities still insist on distributional requirements (meaning you have to spend at least a little time on subjects outside your major), those of us who actually try, who care about our educations, end up with much broader understandings of reality. I don't understand what difference this would make since I learned all the same things in high school. |
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auroraloose said: I've also lived in a foreign country (Israel) for a number of years, and made even more international connections and relationships. So I can say this: America owns all of you. We are better. We are better people. We are more honorable—and we are definitely smarter than you. Oh, my hand almost shot up instinctively, but I don't have a heart, and you can't see the sun in this mist. A powerless slave of the reverse-colonizers - guess I'll go read some Kipling or something. So convenient he wrote in the Christ's language... PS: I want to ask: how much of America have you actually seen? Just curious, not trying to argue. |
| Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. |
| I don't really know what the stereotypes are. Like the foreign culture I know best is Japanese, in which it seems to be primarily about manners/class systems and drinking black tea, which is pretty much irrelevant to me. But I bet they've got completely different stereotypes in places like India where the British Empire ruled. |
LoveYourSmile said: Oh, my hand almost shot up instinctively, but I don't have a heart, and you can't see the sun in this mist. A powerless slave of the reverse-colonizers - guess I'll go read some Kipling or something. So convenient he wrote in the Christ's language... PS: I want to ask: how much of America have you actually seen? Just curious, not trying to argue. Oh, I'm not actually trying to wear my heart on my sleeve here (though over on the AI thread I am attempting to say what I really and fully think). To answer your question first—thinking about the various social situations and events one can find in America (which is a rather big place), I haven't actually been to any of the particularly poor rural places in Appalachia. I also haven't experienced what a town on the border with Mexico is like, or an oil rig town. But my family did move around a lot, and we are decidedly not rich. I also have no notion of the rich life; I didn't get to be part of that at my fancy university. I also spent a year teaching at a public high school in a bad area in a big city, so I think I've seen a good chunk of what America is like. I did spend over a decade at said fancy university, so what I was around a lot was the snobbish intellectual elites, and—it's really them that my above diatribe is aimed at. Indeed, I know I've talked here more than once about my disdain for the average white, domestic graduate student; they're almost always faux-leftist boors who cheat on their graduate-level homework and bully the international students who want rigorous classes and research programs. These American academics loved the social points they could get showing off their progressive bonafides, so that one of the things they loved to do was hate on America and praise the Global South (i.e., their mindset was obvious colonialism) while they at the same time were rather racist to the Chinese students. This doesn't contradict what I said above, because both take away the ammunition of people posing as the left but actually liquidating real community for capitalist brownie points. I am a rather large partisan of having the Bible in its original King James Version (when I post quotes from scripture around here they're always KJV). |
| I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour and who then asks: Am I then a cheat? – for he wants to perish. |
Lucifrost said: auroraloose said: And because our universities still insist on distributional requirements (meaning you have to spend at least a little time on subjects outside your major), those of us who actually try, who care about our educations, end up with much broader understandings of reality. I don't understand what difference this would make since I learned all the same things in high school. There's a difference between spending a week (at most!) on ancient Greece in a high school world history class and being given (at most!) a week to read Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War in a college international relations class. And note, that particular class I took (and I did indeed read the Peloponnesian War in a week, though I rather doubt most students actually did this) was a huge introductory lecture course, not an advanced class; hundreds of students took it to help satisfy their humanities distributional requirements. |
| I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour and who then asks: Am I then a cheat? – for he wants to perish. |
| the pure amount of autism on this website is unbelievable, I thought it was a joke made to fit the stereotype, especially with this one auroraloose said: but judging from the fact I've seen this rant about homework and Peloponnesian War before, I am starting to think this is serious. I think this might be one of my favorite posts of all time, this is literally MAL in a nutshell(Israel) auroraloose said: cinema. This should be a quote in Avengers or Call of Duty or American SniperAmerica owns all of you. We are better. We are better people. We are more honorable—and we are definitely smarter than you |
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the pure amount of autism on this website is unbelievable, I thought it was a joke made to fit the stereotype, especially with this one
auroraloose said:
(Israel)
but judging from the fact I've seen this rant about homework and Peloponnesian War before, I am starting to think this is serious. I think this might be one of my favorite posts of all time, this is literally MAL in a nutshell(Israel)
auroraloose said:
America owns all of you. We are better. We are better people. We are more honorable—and we are definitely smarter than you
cinema. This should be a quote in Avengers or Call of Duty or American SniperAmerica owns all of you. We are better. We are better people. We are more honorable—and we are definitely smarter than you
| @Commit_Crime I am quite real, yes, and very much not Jewish, so. But I am confused: Putting aside the autism nonsense, I have to say I generally do not see much serious said around here. thewiru, for example, is just confused and trying to ape what he thinks seriousness is. |
| I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour and who then asks: Am I then a cheat? – for he wants to perish. |
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Lucifrost said:
I don't understand what difference this would make since I learned all the same things in high school.
auroraloose said:
And because our universities still insist on distributional requirements (meaning you have to spend at least a little time on subjects outside your major), those of us who actually try, who care about our educations, end up with much broader understandings of reality.
And because our universities still insist on distributional requirements (meaning you have to spend at least a little time on subjects outside your major), those of us who actually try, who care about our educations, end up with much broader understandings of reality.
I don't understand what difference this would make since I learned all the same things in high school.
There's a difference between spending a week (at most!) on ancient Greece in a high school world history class and being given (at most!) a week to read Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War in a college international relations class. And note, that particular class I took (and I did indeed read the Peloponnesian War in a week, though I rather doubt most students actually did this) was a huge introductory lecture course, not an advanced class; hundreds of students took it to help satisfy their humanities distributional requirements.
auroraloose said: There's a difference between spending a week (at most!) on ancient Greece in a high school world history class and being given (at most!) a week to read Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War in a college international relations class. What's the difference? I wouldn't know, since I've not heard of that book. |
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Lucifrost said: auroraloose said: There's a difference between spending a week (at most!) on ancient Greece in a high school world history class and being given (at most!) a week to read Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War in a college international relations class. What's the difference? I wouldn't know, since I've not heard of that book. Well, primarily I was giving an example of college being all-around more advanced than high school. History of the Peloponnesian War is a historical account of a war that happened in ancient Greece, one of the first historical accounts of its kind. A high schooler could of course read it, but it's generally not the kind of thing assigned in a high school class. |
| I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour and who then asks: Am I then a cheat? – for he wants to perish. |
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Lucifrost said:
What's the difference? I wouldn't know, since I've not heard of that book.
auroraloose said:
There's a difference between spending a week (at most!) on ancient Greece in a high school world history class and being given (at most!) a week to read Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War in a college international relations class.
There's a difference between spending a week (at most!) on ancient Greece in a high school world history class and being given (at most!) a week to read Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War in a college international relations class.
What's the difference? I wouldn't know, since I've not heard of that book.
Well, primarily I was giving an example of college being all-around more advanced than high school. History of the Peloponnesian War is a historical account of a war that happened in ancient Greece, one of the first historical accounts of its kind. A high schooler could of course read it, but it's generally not the kind of thing assigned in a high school class.
| @auroraloose If you say so. My college professors assigned books I'd already been assigned in high school. |
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| i love burger and hot dog :) they taste very nice |
| A little bit, but not always. I think my ethnicity and the related upbringing has a bit of impact on this kind of thing. @fleurbleue Do you feel like you relate to any stereotypes about Québécois specifically? auroraloose said: So I suppose I am not like the standard American stereotype. I don't think that's true, you sound very much like the standard American to me! This whole post was very burgercoded. I'm not entirely convinced it isn't parody, though you assured Commit_Crime it wasn't. This is just you committing to the bit, right? |
 Another hero? Oh, please! You're a god-damn philistine. |
auroraloose said: America owns all of you. We are better. We are better people. We are more honorable—and we are definitely smarter than you. Does that also apply to the maga tards? I mean, they seemingly have an inferiority complex if they seriously believe the US have ever stopped being great. |
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A little bit, but not always. I think my ethnicity and the related upbringing has a bit of impact on this kind of thing.
@fleurbleue Do you feel like you relate to any stereotypes about Québécois specifically?
I don't think that's true, you sound very much like the standard American to me! This whole post was very burgercoded.
I'm not entirely convinced it isn't parody, though you assured Commit_Crime it wasn't. This is just you committing to the bit, right?
@fleurbleue Do you feel like you relate to any stereotypes about Québécois specifically?
auroraloose said:
So I suppose I am not like the standard American stereotype.
So I suppose I am not like the standard American stereotype.
I don't think that's true, you sound very much like the standard American to me! This whole post was very burgercoded.
I'm not entirely convinced it isn't parody, though you assured Commit_Crime it wasn't. This is just you committing to the bit, right?
CC said: What would they be? I'm not really sure which stereotypes we may have that wouldn't apply elsewhere in the country. I mean, we generally are very anticlerical but that's not really a stereotype, it's just the plain truth.Do you feel like you relate to any stereotypes about Québécois specifically? |
fleurbleue said: What would they be? I'm not really sure which stereotypes we may have that wouldn't apply elsewhere in the country. I mean, we generally are very anticlerical but that's not really a stereotype, it's just the plain truth. Uh, probably not a representative figure, but when I think of Québécois I think about this guy who couldn't say "it looks like shit" in his own native tongue and had to switch back to English LOL. I am sorry in advance for your experience :d OT: I'm quite atypical to my nationality's stereotypes, let's say. But I mean I do like our national dishes, if that counts haha |
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fleurbleue said:
What would they be? I'm not really sure which stereotypes we may have that wouldn't apply elsewhere in the country. I mean, we generally are very anticlerical but that's not really a stereotype, it's just the plain truth.
What would they be? I'm not really sure which stereotypes we may have that wouldn't apply elsewhere in the country. I mean, we generally are very anticlerical but that's not really a stereotype, it's just the plain truth.
Uh, probably not a representative figure, but when I think of Québécois I think about this guy who couldn't say "it looks like shit" in his own native tongue and had to switch back to English LOL. I am sorry in advance for your experience :d
OT:
I'm quite atypical to my nationality's stereotypes, let's say. But I mean I do like our national dishes, if that counts haha
| @Auron It kinda looks like he's forgetting his own language from speaking English too much. From what I remember, that guy is MAGA so let's just say he doesn't repressent my province well, like AT ALL. |
| Let's America this shit: CC said: auroraloose said: So I suppose I am not like the standard American stereotype. I don't think that's true, you sound very much like the standard American to me! This whole post was very burgercoded. I'm not entirely convinced it isn't parody, though you assured Commit_Crime it wasn't. This is just you committing to the bit, right? I inevitably have to give this same spiel every once and a while about what I'm doing. It seems to me that you're actually asking me this sincerely, CC, as opposed to @Commit_Crime, who, though regularly funny, seems still to be on the magic end of Clarke's third law. I do think I sufficiently explained myself in my response to LoveYourSmile, but I can make it clearer since I know he's fairly perceptive: The crass America chauvinism thing is indeed a joke, yes, although as I explained there is actual meaning to what I am actually trying to say (countering the superficial left that's only in it for status). Performative America-bashing is low-level, not at all clever (e.g. bashing "maga tards"; this is usually indicative of being at that same level); I tend to be against the other stances of those who indulge in it; and a section of MAL seems to hew to it. Also I know @fleurbleue has at times appreciated my efforts at making things lively (this is not a claim that they endorse what I have to say, of course), so I figured I'd write something funny. But I'm not making stuff up about myself; I did indeed live in Israel for a time during my graduate studies, though I did not like it there; what I describe as having observed in graduate school is real. As to my goals here more generally, I have seen Commit_Crime complain about "philosophytards"; but it is fairly obvious I do not fall in this category, because I both know very well what I am talking about and have precisely the opposite goals of such people: I have a rather low forum post count, and I don't actually say much around here. This is because I don't talk here to show off, to feel good about myself, or to assuage some intellectual insecurity. Indeed, when this most recent round of my MAL activity started, I was chewing out philosophytards for wasting their actual knowledge browbeating someone just honestly asking stupid questions. If I actually want to write or talk about what I think seriously, I have serious, academic friends I share my ideas with. Rather, both they and I have for a long time found the way people think and behave on internet fora fascinating: Most people are dumb and get sucked into performative argumentative cycles, but sometimes (and even within these cycles) there are random, clever insights I would never come up with myself being of a different background (and every once and a while I do come across someone rather intelligent). If you want you can think of it as a LLM training itself on all sorts of inputs, but there's also that I care about people: They're online getting sucked into bad discursive cycles because they ultimately do want some kind of connection with others, and sometimes I, who approach internet discourse from a different modality, can dislodge them from some of these cycles. It is not rare for people who accost me as insane in online fora to turn around and like me a great deal, because I don't respond to them like anybody else would. Finally, realistic depictions of actual academics, and how the actual knowledge and skill they possess works, are so rare that what dominates in the public perception is stuff like Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory, the idiot savant in Rain Man (or much worse Cube; that is not how math works), and whatnot. As a result, people who are not at all smart but aspire to be get sucked into bad understandings of intelligence (like whining that someone is commiting the ad hominem fallacy). I think this is what has happened to thewiru (who I would tag and berate, but they don't seem capable of processing their particular problem, and I don't feel like going through a huge debate about it). And then others, who have caught on that it's easy to take apart these faux-intellectuals but have never seen the real deal, only know how to categorize actual intelligence as unreal and some kind of pose. This is only possible, though, because these others don't read. So it's fairly obvious I am not "MAL in a nutshell," particularly if one actually looks at what is statistically prevalent here. Although the real reason I'm here is that I like spouting nonsense about anime, so I do represent the standard in a sense. |
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