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Cake day: February 23rd, 2024

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  • Alice@beehaw.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    1 day ago

    It’s like a sweetened, fizzy sassafras drink. Pretty good depending where you get it.

    The USA has a weird thing where we use the words for alcoholic drinks to describe non-alcoholic ones. We also call spiced fruit drinks “cider” and actual cider “hard cider”. Not sure why.




  • Alice@beehaw.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    3 days ago

    Just because you’re aro or aroace doesn’t mean you don’t understand heartache and loss. When we empathize with fictional characters, is it because we’ve been through exactly what they’ve been through? Doubtful, because then fantasy wouldn’t exist. But we’ve had similar emotions, so it resonates.

    I don’t really see why songs would be any different.









  • Alice@beehaw.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneHairule
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    9 days ago

    That’s actually the joke of the original comic. The kid calls the guy Shrek, and the mom apologizes for her daughter’s rudeness before saying something like “no, that’s just an ugly bald man”.

    I like how every time it gets edited, there are people in the comments who notice the Shrek similarity but don’t always agree if it’s intentional. The artist did a good job on that front.