• TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    What are you talking about? I heard that Tim Walz microwaves his water when he makes tea rather than using a tea kettle. What kind of monster does that?

    • davidagain@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      See - he’d be a disaster for international diplomacy, because this is guaranteed to make Englishmen tut or even shake their heads slightly.

      • Zeppo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 months ago

        My Australian friend thought I was a complete barbarian for heating water for tea on the stove in a pot

        • davidagain@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          That at least has the weight of tradition behind it.

          Wait, you do mean a stove kettle, don’t you? You don’t mean just a normal vegetables pot? You can’t mean that, surely?

          • Zeppo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            2 months ago

            I do mean just a saucepan with some water in it. I ended up getting an electric kettle…

            • davidagain@lemmy.world
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              2 months ago

              Congratulations: civilisation has arrived in your home. We’ll talk no more of what happened before.

      • cybervseas@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        When you call him out on it he says that there’s one extra “for good luck.”. Yeah, right!

  • Andrew@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The world would be a very dull place if no-one can be expected to pick up on context clues. This community’s description doesn’t need changing, any more than The Onion’s by-line needs changing from “America’s Finest News Source” - it’s part of the fun that you’re supposed to realise that it’s not.

    If you have a tendency to take things very literally, it’s kind of on you to realise that about yourself, and spend a bit more time investigating, or confirming things with other people in your life, or asking in communities for other people who tend to be a bit literal (for whatever reason), or even something like ‘nostupidquestions’. But not here - you’re interrupting play because you haven’t grasped the rules.

  • showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website
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    2 months ago

    I know you’re getting a lot of blow back, but I think you’re not wrong. yeah I really love this /c and think its a laugh but just remember when r/the_donald started out as satire and it was funny too but then it got taken over by nutters who didn’t see the satire, and I’d hate to see that here too.