• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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    I’m having a hard time.

    American when the metric tonne of Reese’s peanutbutter cups, caramel chocolate chip…streusel?, and oreo cookies…falls?

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    Why do so many Europeans seem to think the whole country is Texas?

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      I imagine the same reason so many Americans think of the UK as just London, or France as just Paris. I don’t know what that reason is, but I imagine it’s probably the same reason.

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        Honestly I can’t get Wiltshire out of my head. Rhotal rs? What? They sound like they’re from New England until they say something that makes my brain twist. I love it.

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      That’s not true America is Texas, Florida (if it involves alligators or trans-hatred), California, Las Vegas and New York. Everything else is irrelevant.

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        Massachusetts is literally the most significant state. It’s a forest with health care. We’re basically elves.

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    Nah this ain’t it. I speak a little German and I can’t get this without a translation tool. Never seent enthält before and am not sure what it means in this context. Have never seen the candies before and am not sure what some of them are.

    Here’s one that basically doesnt need translating, though you do need to be familiar with German language and culture to “get” the joke https://debeste.de/upload/15fc2c08e3b25fbb96204b723c84088a7659.jpg

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      To contain, include, incorporate. To abstain really doesn’t make sense in this context. That abstain meaning I think uses the “return to natural state” meaning of ent- (number 1). Think “unhold” in the sense of “cease to hold a position”, that’s “to abstain”, the contain one… I’m not 100% but I think it’s number 6: A thing is furnished such that the adjective becomes true. The cookie is enholden with chocolate chips.

      karamellsirus is a misspelling, Karamellsirup should be obvious. crunshies, too, is a misspelt crunchies. Only one that shouldn’t be recognisable is Regenbogenstreusel, rainbow sprinkles. Like on doughnuts.