That warm blue does look cozy, in that it looks like the color that your dad’s old too-short shorts were in the 70s.

PBS/NPR?

I’m not trying to be a jerk here, but what’s an example of a warm blue? I can’t imagine it.

I assumed it was a really dark joke about missing First Nations women

Turnabout is fair play. Remember when trump coughed on him in the 2020 debates?

What about the can of glue?

Winzig-weich took way too long for the payoff, but generally I chuckle a little. I do absolutely worry that I’m internalizing bad English linguistic interference though

I’m a native English speaker with very good German married to a native German speaker and every few weeks I come across something that I just don’t get. My husband has now developed a Pavlovian response to me saying “so you remember Zangendeutsch?”

If you don’t think to bring something with you, you have to go back and get it (for example)

We take the concept of consent to some very strange places

I really thought, because it was setting up “five spices” and china, that it was a lead-in to Chinese five spice as the only spice she could think of

That’s you indulging in your fears about cultural change through a straw man, obviously it will disgust you. Luckily it’s not real, so you can focus on other things.

They can even talk back!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Alpha

Some of them are alphas (?!)

Doctors also influence the avoidance of holidays there

In the study, Professor Henneberg and colleagues aimed to investigate the prevalence of persistent median arteries in postnatal humans over the last 250 years and to test the hypothesis that a secular trend of increase in its prevalence has occurred.

That’s a fun new definition of “secular”

Thank you! That’s it exactly

Where’s the copypasta of someone analyzing this way too hard when you need it and good god, why is google so shitty?

Oof

This is the problem.

When the author of the most widely read children’s books is media illiterate, how are we surprised that critical thinking skills are down?