This is precisely what i was thinking of when i made this post!

I’ve known people who do put-on the “romcom/sitcom protsgonist persona” which you describe - overly bubbly, intonating words wrong, corporate speak - and long story short, they’re always untrustworthy.

Honestly an important reality check. I’d convinced myself it was super easy

Oh man! I never knew

Yep heard of this one! It’s pretty f-ed up that people are going out looking for fights thinking that thwre’s no harm in them or themselves getting a concussion

Talking animals are real, but if you witness it you’re in imminent danger and unlikely to live to tell the tale

Yes, also hollywood portrays friends and family as cussing each other off and being really pissy with each other because “nothing mean that we say is lasting or counts as an insult because we already have emotional invulnerability to one another” - it is not like this AT ALL in real life. The people who can hurt you most are the ones closest to you, and i think that this is an example where real life has been imitating the art too much - people are much more emotionally abusive of one another than before, taking banter much too far.

So true, really common one, and that cuts to the heart of the “fakeness” that hollywood conveys in its movies

This is a really big one. I have to revise all of my heroic self insert fantasies where i cover up a dead person’s eyes

There’s probably no way for me to prove to you that it makes sense to me, unless you learn how to make sense of it yourself. I mentioned “which” and “they” because, as an english speaker knowing context about cats and rats, i can infer what connective could go there, but i don’t need it because without the connectives we get a more colloquial informal way of saying it all.

Is english your first language or is something else ?

Nope, that makes perfect sense to me without which that or who.

“Washington cats florida rats chase annoy vegas whores”

1. The washington cats 2. Which florida rats chase 3. They annoy vegas whores

It’s a question of where you put pauses and intonation, when sounding it out in your head (or to another person). If you read it monotone it makes little sense. Unfortunately, knowing how its said requires deciphering it first. A lot of english novels have stuff like this, you’ll probably find - you have to read sentences twice to understand what it means

Not an essential word if you the listener have context! It’s just that understanding this phrase is reliant on reader knowing context (i…e either that buffalo tend to buffalo buffalo OR just the theory/gimmick of the sentence itself.)

Also i believe OP made some effort to indicate via Capitalisation that one repeated buffalo is a proper noun. (Place name)

See: Buffalo(pl) buffalo(an) Buffalo(pl) buffalo(an) buffalo(vrb), buffalo(vrb) Buffalo(pl) buffalo(an)

pl: place, an: animal, vrb: verb.

I seek neither to rule nor to serve.
And its hands would weave the entrails of the priest,
For the lack of a cord with which to strangle kings.

What does that even mean? What thing’s hands are we talking aboit by the second line?

great post

Let’s make a tierlist sbout how urgent it is for them to change:

S:

• Poland’s flag is supposedly derived from a white bird against a setting sun. To me it would make sense to include that imagery on the flag, or a historical coat of arms.
• I think places like Syria, Egypt, Libya, Iraq need to agree on a different colour scheme for themselves. At the moment they’re confusingly similar
• Russia’s current flsg i bslieve it’s literslly just copying the french and netherlands colours because Peter the Great was so inspired by them.

A:

• Israel (changing flag after a hopeful regime change would be prudent because it’s like a symbol of genocide now.)

B:

• Luxembourg (too similar to Netherlands),
• China (i find china’s flag really dull even if it is iconic. They surely want to invoke their historical longevity rather than just Communism. Stars represent the key chinese regions, which seems like a good feature - the red does not.)

F:

• I don’t think i’d change it, but Canada seems as/more close to britain than Australia so it makes more sense to give a little Union Jack in the top left corner.