America First
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@Maciejasjmj said in America First:
At least you're not French, whose response is to just mumble condescendingly even more, since if you don't understand the glorious French language then you obviously don't deserve whatever it is they want to tell you.
When my mom visited Paris (many years ago), she absolutely hated it because of that. Until she ran into another traveler who spoke French. Then she had a great time.
edit: Forgot to mention, but she had a great time in the countryside even without knowing French.
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@boomzilla yes, I guess chaperone is a right word. Especially in France.
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@dcon said in America First:
When my mom visited Paris (many years ago), she absolutely hated it because of that.
It's better now. You can do more without talking to anyone at all.
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@remi said in America First:
The barman then asks "dry?" to which they scream "nein, zwei!"
That only works if the barman is German, or maybe French
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Haven't seen these yet (lies! I saw Spain), but here they are.
Armenia
https://youtu.be/X6ATIHjjUMI?t=12Iceland
https://youtu.be/eRFT29UQY70Israel
https://youtu.be/n-HXJ7M70kAFinland
https://youtu.be/yP9Qt-bSz40New Zealand
https://youtu.be/Jp0zp3c-Al4Slovakia
https://youtu.be/dK4i8bmiATc
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Somehow Slovakia started playing almost automagically ...
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@Luhmann Then it's Slovakia first, I guess?
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@remi said in America First:
@Luhmann Then it's Slovakia first, I guess?
Nah, it's Slovakia second, Czech first.
... wait, this isn't about seducing tourists on Croatian beaches, is it?
Best beaches btw. You'll love them.
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@remi said in America First:
@Onyx said in America First:
Best
beachesbitches btw. You'll love them.TTFY
Only if they are HUGE!
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@remi said in America First:
@Onyx said in America First:
Best
beachesbitches btw. You'll love them.TTFY
As long as you don't attribute it to me.
I mean, my chances are low as it is, don't need extra handicaps...
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@Luhmann said in America First:
@remi said in America First:
@Onyx said in America First:
Best
beachesbitches btw. You'll love them.TTFY
Only if they are HUGE!
And orange or gold.
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@Luhmann said in America First:
@Onyx said in America First:
my chances are low as it is
So they are not HUGE?
It's like a wall I cannot climb over. It's the best wall. Absolutely amazing.
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@Luhmann said in America First:
@remi said in America First:
@Onyx said in America First:
Best
beachesbitches btw. You'll love them.TTFY
Only if they are
HYUUUGE!
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@Onyx said in America First:
Nah, it's Slovakia second, Czech first.
... wait, this isn't about seducing tourists on Croatian beaches, is it?
Not strictly related to seducing tourists, but I read an article a while back about the Czech Republic. This was back when there was a bunch of controversy in the news over Russian mail-order brides. Apparently that's starting to become a big thing in the Czech Republic too.
They call them Czech Mates.
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Also: here is a short film about healthy international rivalry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voG4mZYgvUw
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@Zecc said in America First:
Serbia
I'm enjoying Croatia / Serbia cross-trolling parts immensely because I know there are still people around who will be genuinely bothered by that. Makes it funnier.
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@Gąska said in America First:
@Zecc he's not exaggerating; he's flat out wrong here - literally everyone under 30 speaks English to some degree, and most of the 30-50 group. Older people not so much (because of the Iron Curtain), but overall, you can get by in Poland speaking just English. Unlike France or Spain.
Why so much interest in English there?
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@fbmac it dates back to late 1400s when every cool noble had to show off his mad Italian language skillz everywhere they went. As the years passed, Italian fell out of fashion and got replaced by Latin, which was already dead, which made it cool. Hence the abundance of Latin proverbs in the books of 17th century. Later on, Paris became the center of European culture, so nobles switched from Latin to French. Then occupation came and they purged Polish nobility. I don't know what happened in the period between liberating Poland in 1918 and liberating Poland in 1945, but in the end, all western languages were banned and Polish people were forced to learn Russian. And nobility was purged again. After forty years, people got fed up and overthrew communist regime, completely cutting ties to Russia - which left us without a cool foreign language. So we quickly had to adapt a new one - and because we hate Russians, we went with the most anti-Russian thing we could think of - which at the time was whatever they speak the most in USA.
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@fbmac as for a serious answer, it had a lot to do with computers and Internet becoming popular, and ultra-rich American corporations expanding to Eastern Europe shortly after the fall of USSR, bringing their corporate culture and buzzwords.
Fun fact: the Polish word for manager is "kierownik". In mid-2000s, it almost completely fell out of use and got replaced by "menedżer".
Fun fact: NodeBB's default font only supports ASCII characters, and the missing characters are drawn with browser's default font which has slightly larger letters, making Polish words look ugly.
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@Gąska The default font being Roboto (the old Android UI font), that's surprising, as that font normally has fairly good support for extended Latin characters.
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@Gąska said in America First:
Fun fact: NodeBB's default font only supports ASCII characters, and the missing characters are drawn with browser's default font which has slightly larger letters, making Polish words look ugly.
Which browser / OS? Copied from wikipedia:
When followed by l or ł (for example przyjęli, przyjęły), ę is pronounced as just e
When followed by l or ł (for example przyjęli, przyjęły), ę is pronounced as just e
Hmm...it looks fine to me when not quoted, but the funny stuff is smaller when it is.
(Linux, 64-bit Chrome 56)
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@boomzilla Windows 10, Opera 43:
Since this looks different on different systems, it's definately missing non-ASCIIs in font and fallback to default.
Also looks the same for me on Edge.
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Happens in Chrome on Windows too, and I think I know why:
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@RaceProUK the weird thing is, if I change default font to Comic Sans, nothing changes. Might be that the fallback is actually in CSS?
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@Gąska The revelant CSS rule is
body { font-family: Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.42857143; color: #333 }
So yes, it's in the list. However, it's only falling back to Arial because, for some reason, the right part of Roboto is not being loaded. The CSS to load the font itself is loading them from Google Fonts, and there, Roboto has support for Latin Extended and Vietnamese (the latter of which uses so many diacritics it's almost Zalgotext), so the only reason the fallback is being used is the NodeBB devs dun fcukd up.
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@RaceProUK said in America First:
Happens in Chrome on Windows too, and I think I know why:
Ah, never noticed that. Here's what I have:
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@boomzilla If I had to guess, you have Roboto installed locally, and the browser's picking those up as fallback.
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@RaceProUK No, Roboto isn't local.
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Just to confuse things more:
Chrome, Windows 7
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@Jaloopa That's not even in the CSS rule!
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You use a different theme, don't you?
Edit: Three tries to post this...Then again, it could be worse: we could still be on Discourse.
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@Yamikuronue This is what I get:
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@RaceProUK said in America First:
You use a different theme, don't you?
No, you use a different theme