Ryany

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[–] Ryany -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Firstly, it's not a city, it's a town.

Secondly, definition of fortress:

"1) A fortified place, especially a large, permanent military stronghold that often includes a town.

  1. A fortified town or position; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; hence, any place of defense or security"

It literally comes from the word fortification, which means making something more defendable using walls, fortifying it etc. What did people need to fortify? Towns.

MSM? No idea what that is. If it's what is shown in the image, it's not "ugly" and nobody ever said it was, it's just underwhelming. The USA doesn't have a long history compared to countries in Europe, and they didn't have to defend against invaders and therefore never fortified their towns and cities. As a result, there's no impressive fortresses in the USA.

Are you from the USA?

[–] Ryany 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Did you only visit London?

[–] Ryany 6 points 1 year ago

Don't you know the point of this sub?

They already blew up my car! What else can they do?

[–] Ryany 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

Ehhh as a Scot I disagree. Have you travelled Europe? I have. And I'd love to do it again. The UK is quite nice to live in, but it has many flaws and definitely isn't the best. Suck it Brit.

[–] Ryany -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (16 children)

Americans more often get obnoxious and angry when they are drunk, Brits usually get funny and silly. I've lived in both (USA for 2 years, visited New York, Miami, etc). Granted people from each country can be chill or assholes, but drinking culture is much different. In the UK, drinking until you puke is looked down upon, the aim is to get as drunk as possible without puking. In the USA, people brag about drinking till they puke.

I'd say that Britain is the Japan of Europe, when it comes to binge drinking culture. If you're curious:

https://www.boredpanda.com/drunk-japanese-photography-lee-chapman/

[–] Ryany 4 points 1 year ago

Excluding the UK, they refuse to speak other languages and will tell you proudly that they can't speak another language. They won't even attempt to say they speak it well.

[–] Ryany 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yeah, people are aware, we have all heard of it. That's what makes this joke funny, it's a misdirection.

[–] Ryany 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't think that our prime minister, Ricky Sushi, is a TERF, because that would require him to be a feminist.

But honestly he's from the right wing party, what do you expect? If I judged all Americans based off what the GOP does or says, America would be 100x worse.

So as a Scot, fuck your nonsense

[–] Ryany 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed, it's incredible and perfectly encapsulates UK night-out culture

[–] Ryany 3 points 1 year ago

Glad you liked it haha

[–] Ryany 4 points 1 year ago

This is genius.

Especially because italics indicates a change in how the words are spoken

And mama mia Italians are the gods of doing that.

[–] Ryany 1 points 1 year ago

Can we add flairs or is that not a thing on Lemmy?

What makes the 2x4u subs work is that people's flairs tell you where they're from so banter is possible.

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