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I AM THE TRASH CAT

@valkyrie-draco / valkyrie-draco.tumblr.com

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parakeet

14 y old me didnt think i’d live to be 16 but i’m 23 now and im blowin this shit out of the water. believe in urself

i just realized im only 22

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The breadsticks thing to me is hilarious I think it must be another Europe/America thing bc my whole life ‘breadsticks’ have been these hard crunchy thin stick things you buy them at the supermarket and it says breadsticks on the box Never in my life has anyone around me referred to an actual stick of bread as a breadstick lmao But then we don’t have Olive Garden either

wait, that’s not what they’re talking about?

Are you telling me this meme is not about grissini? My life is a lie!

WHAT

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entomancy

I… did wonder why there would be such a focus on going to somewhere with unlimited dry wheat twigs.  Googling ‘olive garden breadsticks’ does seem to suggest a tastier thing.

Huh.

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crumplelush

this changes everything

I mean, I thought it was odd that they everyone was so excited about breadsticks… but then I thought, well, it’s America…

Wait they’re talking about actual bread???

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kernezelda

grissini:

breadsticks:

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cyanwrites

… I want American breadsticks. ;_;

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shanology

@goodbyecassiel - this is the Great Breadstick Misunderstanding, companion to the Epic Lemonade Confusion post

@charlottedabookworm my life is a lie

Omfg same

wtaf why did nobody ever tell us they were talking about actual bread?!?!

We literally did tell you. We. We used the word BREAD.

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ardent-ace

but………… those aren’t breadsticks!

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swoodthis

We call the first ones “pretzel rods” or “pretzel sticks” in America. They also have salt on them over here, and I love them.

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Anyway if you’re from the US and you ever wanted to know what tumblr feels like from a non-USAmerican perspective (please note that the rest of the world is not a monolith either and none of these apply without exception):

  • Everybody’s talking about brands and stores you’ve never seen in real life. You generally assume they exist, but they might as well be one giant prank the rest of the internet is in on.
  • You find a post that just sounds wrong. It makes no sense. It’s like OP lives in a weird alternate reality. 9/10 times, it’s just some USAmerican Thing.
  • You’re still not entirely sure how much an inch is. Or a foot. Or even how many of the former there are in the latter. You maybe know your height in feet and inches.
  • You have no idea how much a pound is. You’d also like to know how the fuck pound shortens to lbs.
  • What the fuck is “military time”
  • Somebody talks about some legal process or something similar. They don’t mention which country’s legal system this pertains to. You know anyway.
  • People talk about politics. None of it pertains to you. Many posts contain guilt tripping. “How can you not care about this?? Why won’t you reblog this?? People need to know this about x candidate for y position!” You’re busy trying to stay on top of the political landscape in your own country.
  • You pick up some random slang from the internet. Monkey see monkey do. You’re called racist. You didn’t know it was AAVE. You learnt it from black letters on white background, not from the mouths of people whose faces you could see. How would you have known? You try to unlearn it.
  • People tell you that you must publicly denounce Chick-fil-A or you’re homophobic. You don’t even know what a Chick-fil-A is.
  • People say you don’t know LGBTQ+ history. What they mean is you don’t know USAmerican LGBTQ+ history. Nobody cares about your country’s history.
  • You’re “called out” on using an “offensive” term. It’s (a direct translation of) a completely harmless word where you live.
  • People expect you to have an idea of how far apart 2 USAmerican states are. You barely know geography past your country’s immediate neighbors.
  • You randomly switch between British and American spellings. Nothing’s real and there are no rules.
  • People talk about multiple hour car rides and you get twitchy just thinking about it. You suddenly understand why USAmerican cars are so big.
  • Somebody talks about school shooting drills. You only ever had fire alarm drills.
  • You see a cool statistic. The study’s only about the US. It’s unfortunately of no use to you.
  • People misuse/misspell words and names from your native language. It’s tiring.
  • (You feel sorry for the French. Nobody should be allowed to mangle the word déjà vu like that.)
  • You’re still not over the fact that USAmerican school children are supposed to say that pledge thing every morning. You’re never getting over that.
  • You still don’t know why the men are fresh or what the fuck a sophomore is.
  • Who the fuck pays up first and then fills up gas??? That’s made up, right??
  • Everybody has a weird obsession with some comfort food you’d never even heard of before you signed up here.

Fellow non-USAmericans, please add anything else you can think of.

ive been to us (mostly georgia) a bunch because of family, but i still have stuff i cant wrap my head around

- drive through bank

- a waffle house (all same brand) on every dang corner

- 2h drives there are treated like 20min drives in europe, like wtf, at 2h I need bathroom breaks ok?!

- outdoors smells like car no matter location/time

- needing to take a jacket in 35C/99% humidity weather cause all indoors locations (including home) are 18C and arid

- the public water fountain thing cant that spread, right?

- ALL THE SUBURBS LOOK THE SAME

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swoodthis

I’m from America, but here’s the thing about America: it is BIG. There are regions of America that are vastly different from some other regions. I happen to live in the state of Michigan. Here’s a visual on where I live.

There are no Waffle Houses where I live. And that makes me sad. Because those waffles are the BEST.

Living in America is crazy, because there are so many different groups and cultures everywhere. We have a chain of stores called Meijer’s that only exists in rural areas in six states out of fifty and nobody else knows what they are.

I can testify that there are Meijer’s in urban areas as I live in an urban area with a Meijer in it.

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I’m having a fuckin aneurysm

Well ya see here, you got the starbucks, they do the coffee and the cookies in the morning and they got that internet thing in the store and i gotta tell ya, imeanijushimeanijushgottathemBAZONKERSondatderescreenAH HEH HEH HEHso anywyas, the starbucks people are gonna Ban….. the internet. Not the internet but the… thethethethethetheshechPORNsites.*scoff*. So you got this guy at the bottom, Oh excuse me, this LADY at the bottom, and she says “Damn, no more fap and frap fridays”. Now folks, i ain’t gotta tell yas what a fap is, i mean heh heh, scumbannawannajigglebungaWE ALL DO IT HEH HEHEH. So a frap is a type of drink at starbucks, grumbaannasugamushugnaerrrr It’s like a milkshake but really runny. So what she does is take fap, because of the internet porn, and fap because of the tallywackin some guys are doin, and BOOM! there’s the punchline.

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