if you’re american and coming to australia, I’m gonna go ahead and say that you should be 100 percent way more worried about being king hit by a dude named “dane” in a bintang singlet than any fucking spiders that exist here
what does this say in english
“Good sir, if you are a resident of the United States of America and coming to visit the sunny land of Australia, allow me to inform you that you should be rather more concerned about being sucker punched by a gentleman named ‘Dane’ who is likely to be seen wearing a wifebeater with a beer company logo on it than by any of the dangerous spiders that exist on this lovely continent”.
ok so what does it say in american
“You’re more likely to get sucker punched/cold-cocked by an asshole than you are to be bitten by a spider”.
thank you
Well rattle my spoons, that don’t make a lick of sense. Wot in tarnation does this hootenanny say?
“If ya mosey on by Australia, you best be fixin’ to get to some fisticuffs more’n checkin fer spiders.”
Preston’s account of the fight to decriminalize male homosexuality in Britain is especially enjoyable. In this story the hero is Lord Arran, the quirky peer who moved the bill in the House of Lords. On the rare occasions that the eighth earl, Boofy to his friends, had previously spoken in the House, it was to advocate for the rights of badgers. He and his wife, a champion powerboat racer, allowed badgers to roam freely in their home in Hemel Hempstead, “and always wore gumboots indoors to stop their ankles from being bitten.” Nevertheless, Arran was driven by the memory of his gay elder brother, who had committed suicide days after succeeding to the title. Later, after a successful but bruising legislative battle, Arran was asked why homosexual law reform had passed while badgers were still unprotected. “He paused,” Preston reports, “and then said ruminatively, ‘There are not many badgers in the House of Lords.’ ” [x]
them: listen the government and big pharma are drugging up the people over medicating them not letting them be themselves the entire structure of capitalism is about drugging people into submission maybe we should just fuck a tree instead
I feel like racism is more pronounced in America. The disease is still there, it’s the same disease, but it just manifests in a different way. British culture is way more reserved, so it’s more systematic. – Daniel Kaluuya
This is what I always think when people claim that Americans spend too much time on racism, and that racism isn’t as bad as it is in other countires, and that we just make it more than what it is.
Like, it’s just as bad, but you have all inernlized it to the point of thinking it’s disapeared. You think your country is the best regarding racism, partly because you are someoen who doesn’t/can’t experience it.
It’s always white people who are regarding racism as a sort of American thing, not realizing that you all think racism is non-existent because you perpetrate an idea and system that makes it impossible for it to be as pronounced. and when it’s not as pronounced, it never gets fixed.
When I was a kid, I read the autobiographical novel To Sir, With Love by
the African-British writer
E.R. Braithwaite. It was written in 1959, and he made the exact same observations about US vs UK racism. It was something that always stuck with me, how the same racism can look different in different places. 60 years later, what has changed?
wupacing 