shit that looks like an onion article but isn't

Kurt had no idea what BRAT Summer is

We were robbed of his Klon Centaur era.

I don't know if your father's career before you hit puberty makes "KGB-affiliated" a good criticism tbh.

It does when Boris Johnson hotfoots you into the House of Lords because Vladimir Putin conceptually funded your daddy's purchase of the Evening Standard! Not that this has much to do with the late and lamented (by some) Kurt Cobain anyway.

Who is Boris Johnson?

Is something Kurt Cobain would ask if he were alive today.

Roadie for the Melvins, always wears a battle vest with a Motörhead patch

If Kurt had only lived another decade or so he could have scored heroin on the Silk Road

https://nichegamer.com/the-vatican-unveils-official-anime-girl-mascot/

anime is the one without tentacles, right?

^ The Onion only needs to change one word in that title if they do an item on this story

it's an anime boy, ahem

ha, good catch. blue hair = boy. it's much more obvious when you see the pic with all of them on.

Girl, boy, I’m just really sad Kurt Cobain didn’t live to see them

"Welshman has completed the largest GPS drawing of a penis"

Kurt would have love that

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From 1979 to 1985, the Overseas Broadcasting Department of the Libyan Jamahiriya produced and distributed 15 funk and disco records to promote Colonel Gaddafi's theories worldwide.

We're on a mission to locate, digitize, and make these records available to everyone. For free. pic.twitter.com/8eqcXIJleX

— VOFS - Voice of Friendship and Solidarity (@RadioVOFS) November 10, 2024

(definitely hit follow because I 100% want to hear them if they're all found)

yeah those could be really sick

lol the fubky world music digger impulse leads people down some interesting avenues

funky

Inevitably Colonel Gaddafi has a Discogs.com entry, presumably for recordings of his political speeches. And so does Nicolae Ceaușescu! This album seems to be a "collected speeches of Soviet leaders" record, thus making it a motherlode for Zhivkov-core.

I learn from it that Erich Honecker released a 7" single in 1972, a kind of Marxist rap without beats:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qJyn_KDaGo

Noel Gallagher Made a Six-Hour Ambient Version of “Champagne Supernova”

https://consequence.net/2024/11/noel-gallagher-champagne-supernova-oasis-london-exhibit/

Muslims who voted for Trump upset by his pro-Israel cabinet picks

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/muslims-who-voted-trump-upset-by-his-pro-israel-cabinet-picks-2024-11-15/

the chotiner interview with the leader of that arabs for trump group was already deep onion territory a couple months ago

https://www.wsmv.com/2024/11/27/power-outage-caused-by-former-tn-mayor-crashing-while-reaching-sausage-biscuit/

https://en.cibercuba.com/noticias/2024-12-18-u1-e129488-s27061-nid294011-macabro-cubano-llevaba-ano-desaparecido-espana

murder solved by Google street view picture of the body being loaded into a car

Somewhere in San Francisco very soon after street view started it photo’ed some kids stealing hubcaps off a parked car.

"https://www.wsmv.com/2024/11/27/power-outage-caused-by-former-tn-mayor-crashing-while-reaching-sausage-biscuit/";

So, what's a sausage biscuit? I realise that WSMV4 news probably isn't aimed at a UK audience, but what is it? A bit of googling reveals it's so common in the United States that no-one needs to be told what it is. The pictures suggest that it's a kind of sausage McMuffin.

Is it literally shortbread biscuits with a cooked sausage in the middle? Is this a transatlantic misunderstanding of the word "biscuit", as in the other thread where it turns out that Americans have a completely different version of "O Little Town of Bethlehem" breathe in question mark?

No, it's a sausage flavored cracker you use to lure dogs into vans

The mayor is also a sausage flavored cracker

Is this a transatlantic misunderstanding of the word "biscuit", as in the other thread where it turns out that Americans have a completely different version of "O Little Town of Bethlehem"

yes

It looks like a scone with a beefburger in it, delish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscuit_(bread)

See also
Scone — a British leavened bread-like baked good that is similar

iirc biscuit is one of those words that had a more general meaning, and then became more specific in branching ways depending on locale

learning a bunch of stuff I did not know abt biscuits in the US on wikipedia today #onethread

Biscuit is a weird word, pretty common in French also where it also doesn't neatly map onto either the American or British definition and is also used slightly differently in Quebec (a general term meaning cookie) and France (used for only specific kind of cookies).

Don’t worry, Americans are just as puzzled of having beans and toast for breakfast.

If anything that article angers me even more. Because it leads to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscuits_and_gravy

Which is illustrated with this awful, awful, horrible thing:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Biscuits-and-gravy.jpg/800px-Biscuits-and-gravy.jpg

Whatever that substance is, it's not gravy. I've tasted gravy. I've made gravy. I've fed gravy to my pet rat for internet likes. You, sir, are not gravy. It's not just the substance that offends me, it's the implication that it's so obviously gravy it doesn't need to have a qualification.

This is why Americans are so annoying. It's not that they're ignorant of the rest of the world, it's that they're unaware that the rest of the world exists. I'm reminded of Donald Rumsfeld's "unknown unknowns". From a British perspective the rest of the world is a "known unknown", e.g. I'm willing to accept that it exists, even though I know nothing about it. I'm willing to accept that Luxembourg exists, but apart from the fact that it has a huge petrol station where truckers go to fill up their trucks with cheap fuel I don't know anything about it.

See, I was browsing Reddit earlier today. r/cinematography. There was a link to the 1997 Blackcurrant Tango advert where Ray Gardner challenges Sebastian to a boxing match. You know! With the helicopter shot. You must remember. You must. For a brief moment I was happy, but one of the commentators, an American - I could tell - didn't know what Tango was. He wasn't aware of Ray Gardner and Sebastian. Or Tango. He didn't know what it was.

It struck me that Americans have the form of a human being, the surface appearance of humanity, but there's nothing on the inside. Just second-hand pop culture and things they've learned from television. At the back of my mind is the horrible suspicion that I am exactly the same. But the point still stands. From what I remember Tango Blackcurrant tasted a bit like Britvic. I remember thinking "what's the point" and "blackcurrants are stupid" and wondering if the campaign was a reference to Willy Wonka. Bearing in mind that the rest of Tango's 1997s adverts had a cartoonish, anarchic tone. But presumably they didn't have the rights to the Wonka name. But it was just on the far side of being explicit. But why? To this day I've never seen Robin Williams' Toys the end.

You do realise that the fight isn’t real and the American commentator is an actor reading from a script?

wtf that gravy looks delicious, get outta here

i have never seen that tango ad - but it's here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNDP11XVg94

> Tango Blackcurrant tasted a bit like Britvic

britvic was the company that made tango. do you mean ribena?

Biscuits and gravy is the bee's knees. One of my favorite southern U.S. things.

Who knew the English were such gravy snobs?

I don’t like gravy but that looks like pretty standard country gravy in overly dramatic light.

that famous English condiment, "country gravy"

any Brit complaining about US food clearly doesn’t understand anything about food