please yell at me in the replies, i thrive on confrontation

This is like when people insist they’re alpha. That is to say, if you have to say it, it’s probably not true.

Well to be fair it probably is pessimism. That doesn’t make you a pessimist in the same way that me expecting to wake up every morning doesn’t make me an optimist.

I think that flu thing is an old wives tale. You usually get flu because you breathed it in. The association with cold is because during cold weather people spend more time in poorly ventilated areas.

Same. Often finish the can with a feeling of disappointment and thirst.

Oh yeah I forgot about the whole “choosing your candidate” piece. You wouldn’t want other parties messing with that…we just vote for a party and the party chooses its leader and can change it whenever they want.

Why do they ask? That seems so weird to me. I have never been asked (by the government) what party I support, and would be outraged if I ever was.

You have to register your political affiliation when getting a driving license?

Ummmm you might care to remember that the USSR also “bailed out” Europe.

You know…in the sense that you were dragged into a war you had no intention of joining, by a foe that had already gone 11 rounds with the UK and Russia.

The UK spent an entire empire “bailing out” europe. Twice. But we don’t hark on about it.

But you’re right about one thing - no one is coming to bail you out. You’ve made it abundantly clear you will only act unilaterally. Europe will stay in its lane, quietly hope that Trump has a stroke, but ready to stand on its own for a 3rd time.

I find it odd that the three candidates you mentioned were all elected. What’s your point again?

Both seem to work.

You got me.

It took me until your comment to realise I had skimmed over the word “half” in the OP. Now this whole thing makes sense.

A person of culture I see. Thank you kind person.

You know you’re pronouncing egg wrong when you have to spell it some other way.

There are no gay people in Russia.

Looks like night in the meme?

Pretty sure our right wing is left of your left wing. So no you can’t have it because you don’t have a system that supports anything other than the right-wing hellscape you got now.

Nah was just a shitpost tbh, I wouldn’t read much into it.

Better is subjective. If one measured the merits of the language on its rich cultural history, then British (as usual) wins. However, if it’s measured by accessibility for simpletons then the US (as usual) wins.

What’s to wrap your head around? It’s 6.35kg or 12lbs.

Importantly it is only ever used to measure the weight of humans