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In Asia you can get some basic sushi at 7-Eleven and Family Mart, Circle K, etc…
It’s not the best but it won’t kill you. Unless you’re allergic to fish.
If I walk down the street to 7-11, I could buy sushi. I never would, but the option is there, at least on the central coast of California (So, you know, not where you might actually want to do this).
This Tristan chump looks like a cartoon character but I have trouble remembering who he reminds me of. Maybe Doug Funny? Kind of? This will bother me now. I hate Tristan!
*(In an obsessive, mostly performative manner)
**(Just like everyone else in our church group, because you’re been very inexpertly stalking me for literal years now)
Rotary, traffic circle or round-about? We have a book that talks about the different terms in the US. Mine is such a weird mix since I grew up in New England but regularly visit family in the Midwest and west, so I commonly use terms (or pronunciations) interchangeably depending on who I am with. There are a few terms I don’t do that for though, like kitty-corner (I always use diagonal) and service roads (which I don’t know if they exist in New England). NYTimes had a quiz called “How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk” in 2013 that you can still find online and do.
I grew up on the east coast and had a mom from Montana whose family we would visit. I would always alternate between calling it soda or pop and inevitably use the wrong one (tennis shoes vs sneakers too). I end up just calling it soda pop sometimes.
It’s not actually that similar to Becky’s hair– Misha’s character model shows her with a ponytail, but it hasn’t really been visible in any panels of the actual comic thus far. Plus it’s kinda unlikely that Misha having short hair would’ve been socially acceptable to their congregation. I still misidentified her as Becky a few times, though.
Eyebrows might be the easiest way if the hair looks too similar to you; Misha has heavy dark ones while Becky’s bangs are thick enough you can’t even see hers beneath them.
I’m pretty much entirely going by the fact Misha is wearing a white t-shirt and Becky is wearing what I’d call a vest, but Americans don’t, because that’s what you call a waistcoat, and I don’t know what you do call it.
I’ve heard it’s because there was a long-running reality tv show called Cops, about arresting people, and the guys in domestic violence cases were always wearing those same white sleeveless undershirts/tanktops/whatevers.
So when you saw a white sleeveless top like that, you pretty much knew it was gonna be about arresting a DV offender.
It pre-dates Cops. It gets traced back at least to a 1979 domestic violence case that that used the term. Probably traces back farther to movies with the stereotype maybe starting with Brando wearing one in Streetcar Named Desire.
It’s supposed to evoke an old working class, probably immigrant, stereotype, linking them to domestic violence, despite such violence not at all being linked to class or ethnicity.
It’s also specifically a male, white tank top intended to be worn as an undershirt, but being worn as the only shirt. Becky’s version wouldn’t qualify, since it’s colored, even if she wasn’t a girl.
Huh. I’m American, but I’ve always been annoyed, disgusted, and confused about why the hell we call those “wife-beaters”! …Now I’m just annoyed and disgusted, haha. Seriously though, thanks for the explanation!
Honestly, I think I’m just going to continue my policy of calling them “tank tops” regardless of color, gender, or intent, even though now I know there’s an actual coherent distinction that defines them. It just makes more sense, damn it, and people know what I mean.
Notably, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE had the wife beater t-shirt as the iconic attire of Stanley Kowalski as played by Marlon Brando. Notably, he was in fact an abusive spouse.
Considering how often people seem to not notice me, forget that I am there, or don’t recognize me if I wear makeup or take off my glasses, I often wonder if I am in the wrong line of work. My only issue is that I have a distinct voice due to a speech impediment that I haven’t fully trained out of.
LOLing at the “I guess we call it soda here.” One time my church (in the Houston area, for reference) got a new Youth Pastor from Nebraska; she asked if anyone wanted “pop” at a lock-in and nobody except me knew what the hell she was talking about.
I’m from Nebraska, and the first big run-in I had with someone who didn’t understand what I meant was when I was in high school in Central Texas, and I was at the state German competition at Baylor. It was late on a Saturday afternoon, and the eateries in their student union were already closed. I searched everywhere in that building and couldn’t find a vending machine. So I asked another student from my school if she had seen a “pop machine” anywhere. It took me several rephrasings before she finally went “Oh, you mean ‘soda’, I thought you were looking for a ‘pot machine’!” Which was a totally ludicrous assumption for anyone who knew high school me to make…I was not the right type of nerd for that at the time. (Years later as an adult I’ve shifted to where I’m open to trying edibles whenever I next visit a state where it’s legal.)
I wonder if Becky’s realized she’s gay yet in this strip. She definitely didn’t realize she was gay for Joyce specifically until she went to Anderson without her, but this very much reads to me like she’s trying to figure out if Joyce is also gay, and thus potentially someone she can safely confide in.
I mean it depends if they’re meant to have hit puberty. Some know beforehand but others need the realization they just don’t feel the way some of their peers do.
Very easy to read it as just her teasing Joyce for an obvious crush.
I do think this is too early for Becky to be testing the waters to see if she can safely confide in Joyce, it really feels like Anderson should be the moment things clicked into place for her.
That’s what I was thinking. One relationship I got into in high school was definitely because that person liked me. It can be hard to navigate feelings when you’re autistic, especially when you don’t know you’re autistic. In elementary in middle school it was very easy for me to decide I had a crush on someone, but it wasn’t always for legit reasons.
I know, right? Even if you figure out the difference between “this person is cordial” and “this person likes me”, you still have to figure out what the hell to do with that information. It gets easier with time (and hindsight), but only so much easier.
Is it such a bad thing, to be legit interested in a person because they’re probably interested in you? I think it’s pretty fine for an adolescent to go, “Hey, neat, this person might really like me! For the first time ever! Do I like him, too? That could be really fun and exciting. Let’s find out!”
…Better than my first relationship, which was more like “my sad friend likes me, I don’t want him to be sad. Oh hey, *I* know what’d make him happy!”
lol that’s def part of first/blind dates, though it would be nice if someone else liked you first since maybe you’d have the ‘upper hand’, not that it should be about that but it’d be nice if someone likes you more than you like them at first since there might be less risk
Oh, are we harping on the different things people call a carbonated beverage, as if every single person all of us have ever met only called it by one name and hadn’t so much as heard any of the other names? Sure, I’ll play along and pretend I’ve only ever heard it called soda. Insert performatively performative value judgement about other people’s lived experiences, worded in an overly harsh manner.
This is how I feel about when people give me a hard time about saying gif as “jif”. I’ve heard so many exaggerated shocked and offended reactions and I’m so bored with the conversation.
To answer in a way that doesn’t assume you asked “why”, there’s really nothing wrong with it. People just like to playfully make fun of how People From Somewhere Else talk, it’s all in good tribalism fun.
If you call it “soda”, you say that it contains sodium bicarbonate, aka baking soda, which is used to make drinks fizzy.
If you call it “coke”, you say that it contains cocaine, aka coke, which is used to make drinks addictive. This comes from Coca-Cola, a beverage that originally contained cocaine, cola nuts, and caffeine, and was itself derived from the Mariani Wine that contained all these things and alcohol. Prohibition meant that Mariani Wine couldn’t be sold in the USA anymore, and so Coca-Cola was born.
If you call it “pop”, it means that it contains your dad.
Interesting. When I was in Germany there was mineral water — it’s just hard water. (However the same brand also offers sparkling mineral water, IOW carbonated.) I don’t know what they call Pepsi, Sprite, etc. as a class.
In the UK they’re fizzy drinks (or pop, but that’s seen as a bit old fashioned). I believe in some parts of Scotland (not up here) they’re all called ginger, which strikes me as even more confusing than them all being called coke.
Wikipedia isn’t the best source for this sorta thing, but it tells me that it comes from Latin -ata which was, allegedly, a past participle for forming nouns and came as a loan word from French? Says it may be carbonated or non carbonated.
Also, in the US we have lemonade and limeade. Orangeade is a thing we know exists because media but doesn’t actually exist over here and I’ve never heard of cherryade before. Lucozade sounds like a brand which we don’t have.
But I stand by the claim that, regardless of its origins, in modern British English “-ade” means “fizzy”. Like “henge” for “things that look like Stonehenge”, “-athon” for “a very long contest”, or “-gate” for a political scandal, the suffix is given a meaning that is nothing to do with the actual etymology.
having unrequited crushes never bothered me (well not like i could’ve dated even if i wanted to) tho crushes during youth to me was more like “oh they’re cute/i don’t mind staring at them and never talking to them” versus accidentally falling for a friend tho my group of friends was affectionate, i think it’d have only made me miserable if they turned out to be a bully/ shitty or treated my friends badly rather than going out with a friedn/scquaintance
tho i was miserable in middle school in general before moving lol
I remember that Europe had some pretty good orange soda-pop that was made with actual orange juice and had pulp in it. I can’t find it in the US though. Even my dad has talked about having it when he was over there while in the navy, so it has been around a while over there. We both also want some version of actual bread like they make in France over here in the US. Nothing is really a very good equivalent over here, though maybe if you shell out a lot of money. I find US bread to be too squishy and not hold up well. If I wanted bread that smushes into a tortilla when you eat it, I would get a tortilla. I could also still be traumatized from a 6th grade teacher smushing a loaf of bread flat on her desk, though I still only liked grilled or toasted bread sandwiches before that. Wasn’t until I went to France and had sandwiches with the bread there that I actually liked sandwiches.
Indeed: in the US, if you really care about bread, you should either make your own or live down the street from a retail bakery (if you can find one).
Here industrial bread is just an edible napkin to keep the sauce off your fingers when eating a stack of meat and cheese with your hands. Nobody tastes it. Sad.
I think I heard somewhere that there are differences with the flour too. I find that even bread made “in-store” in grocery stores tends to be more like industrial bread than bread I had in France. As for bakeries, I unfortunately live in too rural for things like that. Now that I have a stand mixer, I might start making my own bread. Doing it all by hand is more time consuming than I really have time for, but having a heavy duty mixer helps.
As for carbonated drinks, there are machines that you can use now to do carbonation at home. There is one called drinkmate that is $120 on Amazon. Not cheap, but you could carbonate orange juice with it, or another type like say guava.
Tristan will not ever be aware of Joyce’s crush. Nothing will happen between them. We know this because Joyce’s crush continues into the present day. At least nothing happened to turn that crush sour.
oblivious guys are pretty common even when ur clearly flirting (tho shame not more ppl like that around when i was a student b/c that’s more endearing than some immature teens that get a swollen head from a single compliment) i have seen stories where it’s like “i literally invited him to sleep in my bed and they brushed it off/didn’t realize” or so lol
This was me in college (back when I was a boy) and tbh still true today. I had a friend who has invited me into her bed on no fewer than three occasions, but to my mind… if I’m sharing a bed I’m sharing a bed! That’s the extent of the interaction! She seemed to read a few too many “there was only one bed” fanfics if you ask me. Love her though.
tbh that’d prolly make me find someone more appealing, tho i wouldn’t rly expect sex if it’s not an established relationship versus just hanging out in a clearly party vibe and invited into some dorm room but other than cuddling i’d think if it’s them starting to touch your chest/groping after inviting, i’d be concerned that they wouldn’t be saying something versus just having ‘ bedroom’ eyes or clearly taking out a condom
must be awkward for diff cultures where it’s common to share a bed with siblings up til ur teens or even with your parents still lol
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uh oh, the source of many a drama
CONVENIENCE STORES
Turns out this was the convenience store that Asher and Sal hit right before the big one.
No that was in Evansville. Not sure where this one is
At the end of all things, there will be a convenience store. And its sushi will still be lethal.
I have seen many a grocery store selling sushi in recent times, but never a convenience store.
Please tell me that there isn’t a convenience store chain that sells sushi.
There is a convenience store chain that sells sushi, at least in New Zealand.
In Asia you can get some basic sushi at 7-Eleven and Family Mart, Circle K, etc…
It’s not the best but it won’t kill you. Unless you’re allergic to fish.
Yeah, Asian convenience store sushi is at least safe to eat. Not exactly tasty tho.
I have heard that sushi from Japanese 7-11 stores is pretty good.
If I walk down the street to 7-11, I could buy sushi. I never would, but the option is there, at least on the central coast of California (So, you know, not where you might actually want to do this).
7-11, Am-Pm, every grocery store over here. The curse of California.
Kwik Trip in the Midwest.
not to be confused with Qwik Trip.
7-11’s in OKC have pre-pared sushi in some of the stores.
I’m not even supposed to work today!
I am now shipping Tristan and Joyce. They clearly are meant to be together!
Like Becky and Joyce.
And Joyce and Dorothy.
And Walky and Joyce.
And Joyce and Joyce.
And Maytag and Joyce.
Maytag is the Automatic for Joyce!
https://www.tumblr.com/vintascope/741412479340544000
Don’t forget Mac and Cheese and Joyce, and Washing Machine and Joyce.
Wait is that Mac and Maytag Cheese?
Mac & Cheese isn’t to be romanced, it’s to be worshipped. Mac & Cheese is life. Mac & Cheese is love.
You shippers sure are a contentious people.
That’s it! Now I’m shipping you and Joyce! – Groundskeeper Willie voice
Contentious is an odd way to spell insanely optimistic.
I am not a cardboard box that can be unfolded into a display for the items it contains!
Joyce is the Usagi Tsukino, of, “Dumbing of Age”; you can ship her with anyone in DoA, and it would be the best, most adorable ship ever.
Joyce and Mary
Joyce and Mary
Joyce and Robin
Joyce and Buckets of Blood Guy
Joyce and Raidah
Joyce and the Dean
Joyce and the Iguana
Joyce and Hank
Joyce and
Joyce and Hank
Well, now I see where the stuff at the bottom disappeared to.
Dang it, I left out Joyce and dead Mike.
Joyce and Galasso
Joyce and Linda
Joyce and Blaine
Joyce and Toedad
Joyce and Ryan
Apologies to Galasso for lumping him in with those other four assholes. He doesn’t deserve such an insult.
But even so, Joylasso would still not be the best, most adorable ship ever.
Joyce and Snoop 5EVAR
This Tristan chump looks like a cartoon character but I have trouble remembering who he reminds me of. Maybe Doug Funny? Kind of? This will bother me now. I hate Tristan!
He’s got the Han Solo vest thing going on.
Joyce: I love you*…
Tristan: I know**.
*(In an obsessive, mostly performative manner)
**(Just like everyone else in our church group, because you’re been very inexpertly stalking me for literal years now)
Out of Joyce’s whole homeschool group, I think she’s the best socialized.
that wasn’t supposed to be a reply. In the original reply, I was going to guess John Cusack, but he’s not a cartoon character, so I “hit cancel”.
Damn, we’re canceling John Cusack for not being a cartoon character? But he was, in both Anastasia and Igor!
Wait, what? John Cusack’s not a cartoon character?
His sister is, though. (Hey, Toy Story counts in my book.)
Darn right it’s called soda!
[EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER NOISE]
Wonder what Canada, Australia and the UK say?
Australia here: Soft Drink. Soda water is like, unflavoured water with bubbles in it. It’s nasty stuff and I don’t understand why people drink it.
I have had a ginger lime one that is good, but it works with the bitterness of carbonated water.
I like it for mixing, but have never understood how anyone can drink it straight.
In Canada we say Pop.
Pretty sure they’ve got multiple regional answers just like the US does.
Apparently they call it “pop” in some places. We don’t talk about those places.
Those places are wrong.
And we definitely don’t talk about the Coke places. *shudder*
I’m from one of the “coke” places. We definitely shouldn’t talk about here.
But… but… there’s poems and everything….
Song of the Pop-Bottlers
by Morris Gilbert Bishop
Pop bottles pop-bottles
In pop shops;
The pop-bottles Pop bottles
Poor Pop drops.
When Pop drops pop-bottles,
Pop-bottles plop!
Pop-bottle-tops topple!
Pop mops slop!
Stop! Pop’ll drop bottle!
Stop, Pop, stop!
When Pop bottles pop-bottles,
Pop-bottles pop!
In Chicago and Northern Illinois it was always pop.
jsyk https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/File:carbonated_beverage_language_map.png
Clearly it’s called soda. By many people.
It’s also called pop. By many people.
Can’t we all just get along, split the difference, and call it soda pop? Please? In the interest of world pea-
*flees for dear pitchfork-fearing life*
Why would you call a coke soda pop?
Rotary, traffic circle or round-about? We have a book that talks about the different terms in the US. Mine is such a weird mix since I grew up in New England but regularly visit family in the Midwest and west, so I commonly use terms (or pronunciations) interchangeably depending on who I am with. There are a few terms I don’t do that for though, like kitty-corner (I always use diagonal) and service roads (which I don’t know if they exist in New England). NYTimes had a quiz called “How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk” in 2013 that you can still find online and do.
There was (still is, I guess) a nifty instrumental piece called Celestial Soda Pop.
I grew up on the east coast and had a mom from Montana whose family we would visit. I would always alternate between calling it soda or pop and inevitably use the wrong one (tennis shoes vs sneakers too). I end up just calling it soda pop sometimes.
“What kind of coke do you want to drink?”
Georgia? Georgia!
Hell yeah!
(Even though 6-year-old me was extremely disappointed the first time he had “soda bread”.)
The soda / pop border runs through Wisconsin. I lived on both sides as a kid so I’m bilingual.
I always called it by brand name (or brand name it’s knocking off, in those cases) or “a drink”.
lol i’m used to calling itsoda but if i didn’t know if i heard ‘want some pop’ i’d think it was either a candy or a drug XD
I admit I struggle to tell the difference between Misha and Becky.
It’d be easier in colour
She has Becky’s new haircut in this flashback! I noticed that too.
It’s not actually that similar to Becky’s hair– Misha’s character model shows her with a ponytail, but it hasn’t really been visible in any panels of the actual comic thus far. Plus it’s kinda unlikely that Misha having short hair would’ve been socially acceptable to their congregation. I still misidentified her as Becky a few times, though.
(our cod is an awesome cod)
He rains from salmon above
That’s really the name they went with for that site, is it?
Nah, I just linked to a third-party front-end because it’s easier to navigate than the utter mess Apartheid Clyde has reduced the actual site to.
Eyebrows might be the easiest way if the hair looks too similar to you; Misha has heavy dark ones while Becky’s bangs are thick enough you can’t even see hers beneath them.
Or in a pinch you could do what the rest of us do and look down at the tags.
Misha has an upturned nose and a more angular face.
And Becky has freckles
I’m pretty much entirely going by the fact Misha is wearing a white t-shirt and Becky is wearing what I’d call a vest, but Americans don’t, because that’s what you call a waistcoat, and I don’t know what you do call it.
A tank top!
(Also a wife-beater?? Really, America?)
I’ve heard it’s because there was a long-running reality tv show called Cops, about arresting people, and the guys in domestic violence cases were always wearing those same white sleeveless undershirts/tanktops/whatevers.
So when you saw a white sleeveless top like that, you pretty much knew it was gonna be about arresting a DV offender.
It pre-dates Cops. It gets traced back at least to a 1979 domestic violence case that that used the term. Probably traces back farther to movies with the stereotype maybe starting with Brando wearing one in Streetcar Named Desire.
It’s supposed to evoke an old working class, probably immigrant, stereotype, linking them to domestic violence, despite such violence not at all being linked to class or ethnicity.
It’s also specifically a male, white tank top intended to be worn as an undershirt, but being worn as the only shirt. Becky’s version wouldn’t qualify, since it’s colored, even if she wasn’t a girl.
Huh. I’m American, but I’ve always been annoyed, disgusted, and confused about why the hell we call those “wife-beaters”! …Now I’m just annoyed and disgusted, haha. Seriously though, thanks for the explanation!
Honestly, I think I’m just going to continue my policy of calling them “tank tops” regardless of color, gender, or intent, even though now I know there’s an actual coherent distinction that defines them. It just makes more sense, damn it, and people know what I mean.
Notably, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE had the wife beater t-shirt as the iconic attire of Stanley Kowalski as played by Marlon Brando. Notably, he was in fact an abusive spouse.
Wife beater. Goes back to Brando in a movie. The more you know. https://www.snopes.com/articles/465371/wife-beater-tank-top-origin-of-phrase/
watch as it flash forwards to present time and misha is an even ‘louder’ lesbian than becky XD
Misha’s nose is more upturned, and Becky has her hair down.
The trick to telling them apart is that Becky is the one who’s a lesbian.
*The one who we know is a lesbian.
I was going to say.
Joyce missed her calling as a P.I.
She’s unironically really good at information gathering in the present day, good instincts for spycraft.
Considering how often people seem to not notice me, forget that I am there, or don’t recognize me if I wear makeup or take off my glasses, I often wonder if I am in the wrong line of work. My only issue is that I have a distinct voice due to a speech impediment that I haven’t fully trained out of.
She hasn’t missed it, she’s just extremely specialized when it comes to the types of cases she gets.
Oops, that was supposed to have a link to this strip I’m just gonna post rather than risk mucking up the html again: https://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-7/04-the-do-list/creeeaaation/
LOLing at the “I guess we call it soda here.” One time my church (in the Houston area, for reference) got a new Youth Pastor from Nebraska; she asked if anyone wanted “pop” at a lock-in and nobody except me knew what the hell she was talking about.
Man, i forgot about lock-ins. What a trip that this was presented as “fun” haha. To be fair the ones i went to were actually fun, of a given variety.
My cousins called it “pop”. Sounds fake if you ask me
Yeah, “pop” is what bubbles and balloons do.
You’ll never guess what’s in pop (it’s bubbles from carbonation).
So are champagne and beer also pop?
Oooh I think I finally get to make a Semler reference!
Youth group lock-ins are a really strange concept,
That youth group leaders seem to really like…
(maybe a little cw for religious trauma, that’s the main theme of most of her stuff tbh)
I’m from Nebraska, and the first big run-in I had with someone who didn’t understand what I meant was when I was in high school in Central Texas, and I was at the state German competition at Baylor. It was late on a Saturday afternoon, and the eateries in their student union were already closed. I searched everywhere in that building and couldn’t find a vending machine. So I asked another student from my school if she had seen a “pop machine” anywhere. It took me several rephrasings before she finally went “Oh, you mean ‘soda’, I thought you were looking for a ‘pot machine’!” Which was a totally ludicrous assumption for anyone who knew high school me to make…I was not the right type of nerd for that at the time. (Years later as an adult I’ve shifted to where I’m open to trying edibles whenever I next visit a state where it’s legal.)
I admit, I sometimes forget how much I love Joyce. There’s so many good characters but Joyce really is the heart of DOA.
It’s why I became rapidly obsessed with Liz because she is also Joyce.
Oh well then, if you haven’t looked in thirty whole seconds it changes things!
She stans him three times over.
Ah, Wisconsin. Come smell our dairy air
Everyone needs a state motto.
I wonder if Becky’s realized she’s gay yet in this strip. She definitely didn’t realize she was gay for Joyce specifically until she went to Anderson without her, but this very much reads to me like she’s trying to figure out if Joyce is also gay, and thus potentially someone she can safely confide in.
I mean it depends if they’re meant to have hit puberty. Some know beforehand but others need the realization they just don’t feel the way some of their peers do.
Very easy to read it as just her teasing Joyce for an obvious crush.
I do think this is too early for Becky to be testing the waters to see if she can safely confide in Joyce, it really feels like Anderson should be the moment things clicked into place for her.
I think she’s a bit jealous but doesn’t understand why.
maybe she only realized it in the dorm room with her other roommate, but i’m sure she could’ve subconsciously thought it
Maybe what Joyce liked about Tristan all along was that he potentially liked her. Relatable. Ouch.
That’s what I was thinking. One relationship I got into in high school was definitely because that person liked me. It can be hard to navigate feelings when you’re autistic, especially when you don’t know you’re autistic. In elementary in middle school it was very easy for me to decide I had a crush on someone, but it wasn’t always for legit reasons.
I know, right? Even if you figure out the difference between “this person is cordial” and “this person likes me”, you still have to figure out what the hell to do with that information. It gets easier with time (and hindsight), but only so much easier.
Is it such a bad thing, to be legit interested in a person because they’re probably interested in you? I think it’s pretty fine for an adolescent to go, “Hey, neat, this person might really like me! For the first time ever! Do I like him, too? That could be really fun and exciting. Let’s find out!”
…Better than my first relationship, which was more like “my sad friend likes me, I don’t want him to be sad. Oh hey, *I* know what’d make him happy!”
lol that’s def part of first/blind dates, though it would be nice if someone else liked you first since maybe you’d have the ‘upper hand’, not that it should be about that but it’d be nice if someone likes you more than you like them at first since there might be less risk
It’s a fine ingredient but a bummer if it’s the whole meal.
From budding interest to budding obsession, this is.
Gas n’ Go, not to be confused to be the soon-formerly known as █um & Go
Sneed’s Feed & Seed, formerly Chuck’s?
31, 32, 33…
Oh, are we harping on the different things people call a carbonated beverage, as if every single person all of us have ever met only called it by one name and hadn’t so much as heard any of the other names? Sure, I’ll play along and pretend I’ve only ever heard it called soda. Insert performatively performative value judgement about other people’s lived experiences, worded in an overly harsh manner.
Cocaineless fizzy sugar drink.
Our Overconfident Nostalgia Is Stupid
This is how I feel about when people give me a hard time about saying gif as “jif”. I’ve heard so many exaggerated shocked and offended reactions and I’m so bored with the conversation.
Hot dang, I’m out of permanent moderation limbo! You can see me! What year is it?!
Who can keep track? They keep changing it just to mess you up. If they’d just pick a year and stick with it…
It’s Thursday.
i would just call it something completely unrelated to troll XD like “let’s all have some weed/no no juice”
What’s wrong with calling it soda?
Because it’s cola.
Sprite is cola?
Because it’s a regional name that I don’t use.
To answer in a way that doesn’t assume you asked “why”, there’s really nothing wrong with it. People just like to playfully make fun of how People From Somewhere Else talk, it’s all in good
tribalismfun.If you call it “soda”, you say that it contains sodium bicarbonate, aka baking soda, which is used to make drinks fizzy.
If you call it “coke”, you say that it contains cocaine, aka coke, which is used to make drinks addictive. This comes from Coca-Cola, a beverage that originally contained cocaine, cola nuts, and caffeine, and was itself derived from the Mariani Wine that contained all these things and alcohol. Prohibition meant that Mariani Wine couldn’t be sold in the USA anymore, and so Coca-Cola was born.
If you call it “pop”, it means that it contains your dad.
Yeah, and you don’t drink the father, only the son.
The last three aisles at the supermarket: Pop, Wine, Spirit
I love that your country tried to ban alcohol as a drink ingredient before cocaine.
If you call it soft drink, it suggests it could be either non-acoholic or mildly alcoholic, but definitely anything within those labels.
In Ireland, we call them “minerals”.
Interesting. When I was in Germany there was mineral water — it’s just hard water. (However the same brand also offers sparkling mineral water, IOW carbonated.) I don’t know what they call Pepsi, Sprite, etc. as a class.
In the UK they’re fizzy drinks (or pop, but that’s seen as a bit old fashioned). I believe in some parts of Scotland (not up here) they’re all called ginger, which strikes me as even more confusing than them all being called coke.
Oh, and there might be some parts of England that call them all lemonade, but I’m not sure about that.
(Yes, lemonade is fizzy, America, that’s what “-ade” means. See also limeade, orangeade, cherryade and Lucozade.)
I don’t think Americans know about Lucozade, it’s all Gatorade over there.
Wikipedia isn’t the best source for this sorta thing, but it tells me that it comes from Latin -ata which was, allegedly, a past participle for forming nouns and came as a loan word from French? Says it may be carbonated or non carbonated.
Also, in the US we have lemonade and limeade. Orangeade is a thing we know exists because media but doesn’t actually exist over here and I’ve never heard of cherryade before. Lucozade sounds like a brand which we don’t have.
Yes, I was being a bit flippant.
But I stand by the claim that, regardless of its origins, in modern British English “-ade” means “fizzy”. Like “henge” for “things that look like Stonehenge”, “-athon” for “a very long contest”, or “-gate” for a political scandal, the suffix is given a meaning that is nothing to do with the actual etymology.
I don’t know about Wisconsin, but in Minnesota we called it pop.
I wonder if this has happened yet: https://www.dumbingofage.com/tyler/
Assuming Joyce and Dorothy are the same age, no. It would be the next year at the earliest.
I know the “weird in Wisconsin” is about soda, but I like to imagine Joyce is being weird about Tristan because she’s in Wisconsin.
I had an instant crush happen to me in middle school.
Made me absolutely miserable.
having unrequited crushes never bothered me (well not like i could’ve dated even if i wanted to) tho crushes during youth to me was more like “oh they’re cute/i don’t mind staring at them and never talking to them” versus accidentally falling for a friend tho my group of friends was affectionate, i think it’d have only made me miserable if they turned out to be a bully/ shitty or treated my friends badly rather than going out with a friedn/scquaintance
tho i was miserable in middle school in general before moving lol
I remember that Europe had some pretty good orange soda-pop that was made with actual orange juice and had pulp in it. I can’t find it in the US though. Even my dad has talked about having it when he was over there while in the navy, so it has been around a while over there. We both also want some version of actual bread like they make in France over here in the US. Nothing is really a very good equivalent over here, though maybe if you shell out a lot of money. I find US bread to be too squishy and not hold up well. If I wanted bread that smushes into a tortilla when you eat it, I would get a tortilla. I could also still be traumatized from a 6th grade teacher smushing a loaf of bread flat on her desk, though I still only liked grilled or toasted bread sandwiches before that. Wasn’t until I went to France and had sandwiches with the bread there that I actually liked sandwiches.
You mean Orangina?
Personally, my favourite orange fizzy drink is Finland’s Jaffa.
As for bread, at least it is possible to learn to bake that yourself, bit harder to replicate specific fizzy drinks.
Indeed: in the US, if you really care about bread, you should either make your own or live down the street from a retail bakery (if you can find one).
Here industrial bread is just an edible napkin to keep the sauce off your fingers when eating a stack of meat and cheese with your hands. Nobody tastes it. Sad.
Orangina! Come for the tangy fizziness, stay for the furry porn adverts!
Everybody needs a state motto.
I think I heard somewhere that there are differences with the flour too. I find that even bread made “in-store” in grocery stores tends to be more like industrial bread than bread I had in France. As for bakeries, I unfortunately live in too rural for things like that. Now that I have a stand mixer, I might start making my own bread. Doing it all by hand is more time consuming than I really have time for, but having a heavy duty mixer helps.
As for carbonated drinks, there are machines that you can use now to do carbonation at home. There is one called drinkmate that is $120 on Amazon. Not cheap, but you could carbonate orange juice with it, or another type like say guava.
Joyce’s learning that life is not only Bible and school
Ah yes, Joyce entering her own Mabel Pines phase.
oh no
Just throwing this link out here for no particular reason:
https://xkcd.com/2372/
All this soft drink talk… but what’s really weird is how large the juice section is for a fuel depot.
*reads the alt text*
I am horribly offended.
*sips soda*
Tristan will not ever be aware of Joyce’s crush. Nothing will happen between them. We know this because Joyce’s crush continues into the present day. At least nothing happened to turn that crush sour.
oblivious guys are pretty common even when ur clearly flirting (tho shame not more ppl like that around when i was a student b/c that’s more endearing than some immature teens that get a swollen head from a single compliment) i have seen stories where it’s like “i literally invited him to sleep in my bed and they brushed it off/didn’t realize” or so lol
This was me in college (back when I was a boy) and tbh still true today. I had a friend who has invited me into her bed on no fewer than three occasions, but to my mind… if I’m sharing a bed I’m sharing a bed! That’s the extent of the interaction! She seemed to read a few too many “there was only one bed” fanfics if you ask me. Love her though.
tbh that’d prolly make me find someone more appealing, tho i wouldn’t rly expect sex if it’s not an established relationship versus just hanging out in a clearly party vibe and invited into some dorm room but other than cuddling i’d think if it’s them starting to touch your chest/groping after inviting, i’d be concerned that they wouldn’t be saying something versus just having ‘ bedroom’ eyes or clearly taking out a condom
must be awkward for diff cultures where it’s common to share a bed with siblings up til ur teens or even with your parents still lol
lol must be a chill place , iguess some cashiers wouldn’t mind kids but i can imagine some being told to not sit that close to teh trash can