Hoist the Colours

every person can feel freddie’s presence in their souls when they sing MAMAAAAAA UUHHHH, I DONT WANNA DIE, I SOMETIMES I WISH I’VE NEVER BEEN BORN AT ALL with all the air in their lungs i’m not joking

it’s fucking crazy to think about the amount of people who have sung bohemian rhapsody? like it’s such a unifying song, by nature of the fact that so many people know it. it holds so many good memories for me and other people. it’s a song you scream in the car with your friends while you drive around your boring hometown, it’s a song you drunkenly sing with your arm around your best friend, or a song you sing along to with strangers when it’s on in public. it’s bittersweet to think about freddie’s legacy carrying on like that through his masterpiece. freddie carries on because he’s a part of so many people’s good memories and bohemian rhapsody is a huge part of that.

Reblog if you have sung bohemian rhapsody with your friends

Only days before my state went into lockdown, “Bohemian Rhapsody” came on in the restaurant kitchen I’d just been hired at and, no shit, every single worker in that little diner started singing along. Me (the only queer afaik), the manager, all the other kitchen workers, the dishwasher up front, the two people on the counter, all but two of the men over 30. Just belting out Freddie Mercury at the top of their lungs. And you can bet when “sometimes I wish I’d never been born at all” came around, we every single one of us ramped up the intensity and basically made sure Freddie could hear us in the afterlife.

honestly did the Nichijo team ever animate anything else cause

This anime is in my top 5 for sure.

the background music really cements this as an Experience

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Did she get any like arts grants for this

THIS ACTUALY HAPPENED! I THOUGHT I FUCKING MADE THIS SHIT UP IN A DREAM OR SOME FUCKING SHIT. MY LIFE IS COMPLETE NOW!!!

I never noticed it was cut, but I do remember thinking “this seems different” the last time I watched the episode lol

Foreigners tend to assume that the big cultural confusions between Australians and most other countries are gonna be based on our food, or social services, or weather, or weird animals. But it’s never that. In my experience, the real cultural confusions re: Australians are about The Respect Thing almost one hundred per cent of the time.

? I realize im proving your point but what

I have long noticed that Americans have absolutely the same cultural attitude to the President as they would to a serving monarchy. They just think they don’t on a technicality.

Can confirm that if I call someone ‘Sir/Madam’ I generally mean ‘asshole’ (unless talking to an animal or tiny child) and that if I get called Ma’am I feel like I’m being called the asshole, which made time in Atlanta, Georgia suoer weird.

Australians have a very good attitude to respect

…so this explains why I have spent the last fourteen years low-grade pissed off at nearly every Australian I meet, because every time I try to be American Polite at them it pisses them off. And, for that matter, why my second boss here, the one I was so careful to be Formally Respectful of and always called “sir,” took such an intense dislike to me.

Yeah, even if that boss understood that you were American and what that meant, their instincts would’ve been screaming at them the whole time that you were being a dick. It’s a difficult thing for us to get used to even when we know the culture is different’.

As a Brit visiting Australia, the most vivid experience I had of this is: in the UK it’s really uncool to get into the passenger seat of a cab - you’re expected to get in the back. In Australia the reverse was apparently true.

… I am only just now realising that inAmerican and British movies and stuff, people don’t get in the passenger seat of a taxi.

covid update: you’re now meant to get in the back seat for social distancing and IT FEELS SO RUDE. sorry taxi person I AM NOT TRYING TO SHUN YOu just I know there are rules and we’re protecting each other. let’s be intensely awkward for a while.

Reblogging this because I just remembered the time Molly Meldrum absolutely horrified Prince Charles by describing meeting the Queen as “I saw your mum last week”.

One of my favorite travel books described humanity as, broadly speaking, having two types of culture: one where formal is respectful and informal is rude, and vice versa. Australian culture sees formality as hostile or unfriendly and familiarity as warmth. It’s decidedly not the case in USA as a whole, though as with any broad category the dichotomy changes as the group gets smaller.

YOU PUT THE THING INTO WORDS!

Different cultures are fascinating.

That Simpsons episode was surprisingly accurate in many ways. (Mad at them for telling the rest of the world about our Boot though.)

As a pathologically overpolite midwesterner,I assume I would get fucking decked within five minutes in Australia

You’d get a reputation for being a bit of a cunt, definitely.

If an American family moved to Australia and the parents had the kids call them ‘ma’am’ and ‘sir’ unironically would they assume it’s abuse?

Adult peers would probably also mock the shit out of the parents if they found out about it.

Ok but what about, like, those of us who use “hon” and “sweetheart” as a thing? Does that come off as sass?

Unless it’s to a close friend or family member, or you’re over the age of eighty, it comes off as massively demeaning.

As a fellow Aussie, I endorse this post

This is super interesting to me, because I grew up in Sweden, which is super informal… but there is a specific event that pushed us there. So like, we used to be all about titles. But not generally… generic titles. Like, if you didn’t know someone, sure, a generic “mr/mrs/ms” might be fine. But it used to be that you were supposed to learn and use every single person’s profession as a title. Like “Greetings, Grocer Svensson” (you could even omit the surname if you wanted to), etc etc. And then use second person plural after the fact (“du” = you, singular (like English used to have “thou” for that), “ni” = you, plural… but “ni” ALSO = you, formal (like English just started using “you” for everyone just to be polite and then completely lost “thou”))… But then, we just kind of… in the late 1960s, we just decided to stop doing that? And over the next few decades, it fell out of use completely. To the point that I, being born in the mid-1980s, never titled anyone, ever. Except they tried a little bit in school, but even little primary schoolers were like “that’s bullshit, we’re not doing that” and not only didn’t title our teachers, we called them all by their first names. Or nicknames. We just decided to drop the whole system, and in the end, we wound up instead of the title system and a polite pronoun, we went… call everyone by their first name and use the informal you. And just… at this point, I believe the only institutionalized formality we really have left is a rule that says you can’t just “du” the sitting monarch. And even there, it’s not like “would his royal highness care for some refreshment?”, just… more like “hey, king, want some coffee?” So yeah, going from a country where you address everyone the same to the US was weird. I still don’t feel like I fully “get” it.

It’s kinda like getting invited into the parlor/formal living room versus getting invited into the kitchen. There’s some cultures where the Good Furniture Room is the place to bring your treasured guests, and there’s some cultures where you really know you’re accepted when you get invited into the kitchen.

why repaint the mona lisa

Bea Arthur was like: “sure I’ll take a promo pic….ONCE.”

i hope the debate over whether or not it was misogynistic for bernie sanders to wear a coat continues for at least another three days

The solution to “our society demands women put in way more effort into how they look” isn’t “how come this 80 year old dude isn’t freezing himself half to death during a pandemic for equality”

If ur feminist hot take is "everyone needs to suffer as I have suffered" you need to read one (1) book on feminist theory.

I started using Head and Shoulders ten years ago for itchy scalp and dandruff, and then for ten years I have not had itchy scalp and dandruff, so I thought "why do I still buy shampoo to combat itchy scalp and dandruff when I do not have itchy scalp and dandruff," so I stopped buying the shampoo for itchy scalp and dandruff and can you guess I have now? Can you predict what currently afflicts me? It's alright if you can't because apparently I fuckin couldn't either

Cutting something out of your life because you think you don't need it any more only to realize that it was in fact working as intended and preventing a problem that will return should you stop doing this is a good experiment to run periodically with something small like dandruff shampoo, lest you start to think it would be a good idea to do this with like let's say public health and the social safety net and vaccines