To put it politely, the French are very particular about their food. Gastronomy has been their bag ever since Escoffier. They’re fiercely proud of having a boulangerie on every street corner, and they’ve invented more cheeses than it’s even possible to imagine. France is a country insistent that it lives to eat. However, not everybody …
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Europeans Share Things Americans Aren’t Ready To Hear
American culture can be pretty cringe. Even though I’m pro-America on some Europe vs. America issues (Stephen Sondheim over Andrew Lloyd Webber any day), I am not ignorant of my nation’s flaws. The Pledge of Allegiance is one of my favorite stupid things Americans force children to do. Not only did I have to recite …
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French Woman Claims English is a «Simple» Language, Gets Schooled By Linguists
A fun fact about me is that I got a Linguistics minor in college. Educated diva, I know. Getting a linguistics minor isn’t the most challenging thing in the world: all you need is five courses, but I learned so much about language. The most important thing I learned in Linguistics class is that no …
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Workers Discuss The Possibility of a 4-Day Workweek
The four-day workweek is a very appealing concept to a lot of workers. Everybody always wants a day between Saturday and Sunday. We’re always doing chores and upkeep on Saturday and recovering from the week on Sunday. Maybe we should make that extra day a reality! Most of us spend the majority of our waking …
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Funny Times English Movie Titles Were Edited to Appeal to French Audiences
Ever see a movie title and think, «Man, they could do better»? Yeah, me too. While Snakes on a Plane may not fall into this category, there are plenty of American titles that could, well, be better. Thanks to a Twitter thread from @juanbuis, we now know that the French would have to agree. In …
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Funniest Tweets and Memes About the Thrilling FIFA World Cup Final
Football. Soccer. The beautiful game. That sport where players drop to the floor and wiggle around at the merest touch from one of the opposing team. Whatever you want to call it, it can’t be denied that it was played at a truly breathtaking level yesterday at the World Cup final. While the tournament at …
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‘Band of Brothers’ Memes For Lovers of the HBO Miniseries
I guess I need to admit that we don’t all have the urge to watch gruesome, bleak, and violent war movies and read books about statecraft and strategy. I fully recognize that as a 34-year-old woman, this may be considered an odd passion or pastime. But if you, too, watched Band of Brothers as many …
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Spicy History Memes That Playfully Poke Fun At the Past
Many people say we’re living in unprecedented times, but we imagine there have been more than several periods of history that felt charged with the same precarious energy. This may be our first time really getting those rights taken away from us, but we all know that it’s happened before. Which is pretty damn backwards. …
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Funny Memes To Haha And Hoho To
I love when people have such unique laughs that simply hearing them laughing will make you laugh. It really adds some much-needed biodiversity to the ecosystem of laughter. I don’t know about you, but I feel like my laugh has definitely changed and evolved over the years. I used to watch a comedian who herself …
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Woman Perfectly Emulates That Pretentious American Who Returns From Abroad With a Whole New Personality and Terrible Accent
That reverse culture-shock though