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Associate Professor, SWPS University. Welsh by birth. English by upbringing. Irish by design. Polish by choice. I am a lineman for the county.
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They do this for all their worldwide audiences.
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I’d pay at least half of what my last printer cartridge cost me to see that, though
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When the internet of things can administer mild electric shocks to my son until he loads his bloody plate and cutlery into said device, I will conceivably show some interest. And not until.
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"announced to boycott" is a formulation not entirely unreminiscent of how a Pole might phrase it
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He looks like the man at the academic conference who kicks off the Q&A by telling you that he’s read your paper and it’s shit.
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Certainly not in hers.
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This is exactly what I had imagined in advance, and I don’t claim any prescience.
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Oooh, I wonder how Goodwin-adjacent the definition of “British descendants” is.
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Yes, and it wasn’t as if they were doing something that other footballers couldn’t have done. If Vitinha goes studs up into the back of someone‘s legs, he’s going to hurt them just as badly as Kevin Muscat would have.
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unbothered by the silly injunction against drinking coffee with foamed milk after 11am.
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Take cappuccino. I like cappuccino. I do not like drinking cappuccino in the morning. I am told there is something terribly wrong with this. I am also told I must have been imagining things when I mention that last time I was in a cafe in Bologna several very Italian ladies also seemed serenely
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What I dislike about Italian cuisine is less the cuisine itself but the absurd collection of pointless shibboleths that have grown up around it, many of which are heeded more by performatively outraged TikTokers and foreigners who want to show you they’re in the know than they are by actual natives.
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It made me laugh out loud on the train. Something about “Donny” just makes it all the funnier.
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Yes, this exactly. I remember that conversation. The “but it’s not *really* British” thing is just “yes, but where are you *really* from?” with a lick of cultural-appropriation paint.
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Instead, people protesting against the authoritarian use of force against immigrants are casually equated with people *invading the seat of the legislative branch of power and bent on attacking elected representatives* because they’ve bought into some dumb conspiracy theory about a stolen election.
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…and watch your family use it to prop doors open
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It looks like an autopsy being conducted on a Danish wrestler, there’s no getting round that.
(Tastes great, if you like that kind of thing. I like that kind of thing.) The point is that the reaction it elicits varies depending on whose culinary tradition it’s attributed to.
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It looks to me like it tastes great. I’m not sure what’s wrong with having stuffing with beef.
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Take timpano, for example. If ever there were a dish that gets a free ride on the updrafts of Italian culinary soft power, it’s this. If it were made by an overly-enthusiastic American on one of those Instagram channels where they deep-fry blocks of cheese, the reaction would be very different.
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“Someone should tell the poor guys the Luftwaffe aren’t flying overhead, they have time to cook their egg before rushing to the bomb shelter” - that kind of thing. These days people tend to think of memes as throwaway amusements, but as per the original definition they’re powerful cultural scripts.
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Ever tried showing someone a video of someone making one of those Japanese omelettes that are basically raw egg in the middle, and claiming it’s a traditional British dish? It’s an experiment that almost invariably yields the usual scorn mixed with condescension.
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And yet here is the internet, insisting that this is 1953, the only olive oil to be found is dispensed by the otolaryngologist, and all egg is powdered.
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Keep preaching…
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I simply don’t respond. Let them have their little victory - it’s just a waste of time engaging any further.
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you think *that*, then? It follows that you must also think *this*, which is now what I’m going to make the discussion about” trick.
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I wonder how much of it is genuinely being bad at this, and how much is just bad-faith manipulation. I’ve had plenty of experiences on social media where people who are clearly intelligent will shortcut their way out of properly countering an argument of mine they disagree with by doing the “ah, so
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In retrospect the design of that bottle did look like it contained something that could have done dual purpose disinfecting things in hospitals