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so i hauve covid rn and i must say, American cold medicine is the absolute bees knees. You go to a UK pharmacy and they tenderly press like eight (8) paracetamol into the palm of your hand... God FORBID you're sick in France, i had to scour every pharmacy in Paris for something that wasn't HOMEOPATHIC PASTILLES. meanwhile last night i took the last of my stash of Nyquil that expired in 2019 and it was like getting hit by a fucking baseball bat (affectionate). press X to timeskip. LOVE me a cheeky little medically induced coma. you can really feel that it's a precursor to meth. i know that everything is fucking awful over there my friedns and my heart goes out to every one of you but if you need one small bright light of national pride in this time of strife please know that i envy you your cold medicine every day

i once took an american antihistamine pill just a basic one for seasonal allergies and i had to immediately lay down and while doing so i vividly hallucinated that i was a steerage passenger on the titanic resigned to my death as my cabin filled up rapidly with water. then i blacked out and when i woke up again my allergies were gone for the entire season.

The Hat Man is our greatest export

Our industrial sized thing of paracetamol (acetaminophen) is almost gone and I despair because I am not going to the US any time soon.

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"Liver failure in a bottle" is fucking right.

Look, America is good at Pharmaceuticals, but Canada will sell me Acetaminophen with Metcarbamol (a muscle relaxant) over the counter. My Chronically Ill ass will happily sing Oh Canada for this stuff. Bless living a 2 hour drive from the border.

Last time I was in the US, I grabbed four bottles of ibuprofen before coming back to Germany. I did the math, and those four bottles alone basically saved us the cost of the plane tickets over the lifetime of the bottles (not to mention the other meds we brought back with us. My German wife now swears by Tums).

i like how all cats regardless of species can either look rlly badass and cool or just incredibly silly stupid

"the worst part of being a trans man is wearing boring plain masculine clothes" skill issue, i look cool as fuck

@so-i-did-this-thing is a fantastic example of transmasc style not being "boring"

My job had a training on AI and I was surprised how honest it was about AI’s limitations and problems, and we spent our activity time finding errors and issues with responses made by AI. But it did beg the question, why would I use this

i’m sorry i still can’t get over this picture.. this is the most plushie he’s been

That's just a plushie with a cat's head on it

cultures that do an afternoon nap are OBJECTIVELY CORRECT and the world should be learning from them

you've heard of the spanish siesta now get ready for places like Vietnam where it's commonplace to see workers pull out a mattress & take an afternoon nap on the office/store floor. very powerful way to roll. give kindergarten-style naptime BACK to the people ✊

He is 16 by the way. Things keep going in the UK the way they're going he could easily outlast another 3, I think.

Ragebaiting my fat dog? More like master baiting my fat hog!!!!!!!!

today I found out my mother doesn’t know what dandelions are and now I’m wondering what other strange secrets she’s been quietly harboring

Where do you live that you don’t have dandelions?

we have dandelions EVERYWHERE, they are basically our State Weed, it is absolutely impossible that my mom has never interacted with a dandelion before, this requires further investigation

See, folks in the southern US will tell you up and down those are buttercups, actually.

Wait I thought those bigger cup ones were Easter Lillies???

They’re marigolds and I know a bitch when I see one!

….we need to start taking the phrase “go touch grass” more literally. go outside and examine a flower i beg u

my grandfather was talking to me about a book he read on how politicians gave control to rich people and it fucked america and he was like "oh yeah this reminded me of a video I watched. It was Robert Reich. Do you know who Robert Reich is? He was clinton's secretary of labor" and I just nodded silently because I didn't know how to explain to my grandpa that yes I know who Robert Reich is. I watch his son psychologically torment improv comedians