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Yeah that happens on a night out

5. In flight snack.

This feels like it should not be real. But it is real.

With dignity, with grace, with my apologies.

I've read several books written in the 2nd person, and I struggle to imagine how these people would react to those.

one time i was in a pub in london and saw lemonade on the menu and i was like mmmm lemonade!!! but i’ve been to australia and been tricked before so i was like hey is this actual lemonade lemonade or is it just sprite and she was like it’s actual lemonade so i ordered some and she brought it back and it was sprite. i hate england

They just meant it didn’t have lime in it

sprite has lime in it wym

honestly only americans who have been to england or australia or new zealand understand the frustration.  Also you literally can’t even explain to them what real lemonade is. they simply don’t get it

i’m actually not american i just have functioning taste buds. but GOD HONESTLY like “sprite is a type of lemonade because it has lemon flavouring in it!” no. go to jail. lemonade does not have lime and corn syrup in it, and it’s not carbonated. that’s not a sweet refreshing summer beverage, it’s canned sadness. 

These guys are honestly right. In Australia there is nothing that even closely resembles American “lemonade”. You’d have to make it yourself. I only vaguely know how to make it from American cartoons and it’s never sounded even slightly appetising. I guess it’s like Vegemite. You have to grow up with it.

If you’re insinuating that lemonade is like vegemite than you’re an idiot that has never tried lemonade. 

god bless you

If it makes it any better, it happens in reverse too - when I was in the US with my family, my dad asked for ‘lemonade’ at a restaurant once, and was perplexed when he didn’t get sprite. It was delicious though! I wish we COULD get in in New Zealand.

I never understood this problem cause like. Isn’t american lemonade just lemon juice? Like you dont call orange juice orangade in america do you?

This entire conversation thread feels like it has become cursed. I thought I knew what all these drinks were at the beginning & while everything is still technically what I thought it was I feel like it’s somehow all tilted slightly to the left as well. How the heck did this happen?

This is because blackcurrants were illegal in the US for decades.

I genuinely don't understand anything that's going on in this thread, almost nothing reflects any of my experiences in the UK. When I visited the US and ordered "lemonade" I was given sprite, and that happened to me several times, but everywhere I've been in the UK and everyone I know understands that if you get given sprite when you ask for lemonade that's wrong. If you want to be specific when ordering, there are terms you can use to distinguish fizzy transparent soda lemonade and "made from lemon juice, sugar and water" lemonade. If you want Schwepps you can ask for "white lemonade" and if you want non-fizzy lemon+sugar+water you can ask for "fresh lemonade". Lemon cordial is not the same as fresh lemonade. It's good, but it tastes different from freshly made lemonade. You *can* get actual fresh lemonade from some supermarkets, namely Sainsbury's and M&S. Fentimans isn't the only brand in the UK that sells carbonated fresh lemonade, San Pellegrino also sell it, as well as a few smaller brands.

It is implied through gameplay mechanics that the two kingdoms at war in chess both formally permit regnal polygamy, allowing the King to take at least nine wives of equal status, and that marriage can be bestowed as a military honour, but curiously that honour - in stark contrast to the conventional attitudes of the aristocracy - can only be bestowed upon soldiers of the unlanded class, leaving great questions to be asked of the material interests and stability of these kingdoms' aristocracies

also, their horses lack limbs & their castles are small

yknow the smallness of the castles is FAR from their most interesting distinction from the noticeably immobile ones we are familiar with

The absolute BEST I've seen one of these detectors do tells me that my own artwork is ~50% likely to be AI generated. Literally the best answer I've seen for my own hand-drawn analogue art is "50-50" which is useless to everyone. However if I put images I know for sure are gen-AI into that detector, it comes out at 25-30% likely-AI... As far as I can tell, these things are just scams. Most of them try to sell you on premium models or "hide your Gen-AI work" tools or subscription nonsense. If you want to interrogate a piece of work to see if it's Gen-AI or not, the absolute best way is to take an interest in it and pay attention to what's there. Once you're familiar with it, talk to its creator about their process, what they did and didn't do and why. Pick out features that are unusual or interesting to you and ask them why they chose to do things that way. Real artists almost always have answers to these questions, and can talk about what they struggle with and what they find natural. If you're in an educational setting, hiring for work, or otherwise assessing someone's capabilities, and you're trying to work out if your candidate actually has the skills they profess, the best way to check is to have them do something in person. Give them the appropriate tools and an hour, and get them to do a simple task for you.

It's really funny how art can be so important and enriching and sometimes downright life-changing but every single piece of art about how important and life-changing art is is the lamest shit ever.

This is weird bevause ive had this exact thought before

Actually it really does help to paint the picture

"why don't you set an alarm to remind yourself to put your marbles in your bag?" i will fill your shoes with goo

When someone tells you to do something to manage your ADHD, like changing your routine or setting an alarm, they are handing you a marble to look after.