I meant the censoring of “whore”…

The wildest bit of unnecessary censoring I’ve ever seen…

Yes.

From my own personal view I find it very difficult to disagree with every part of your second sentence.

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I browse… Twitter, 9gag, 4chan, BlueSky, Lemmy and Mastodon. I find a mixed bag of cunts and diamonds on all of them - and loads of people in between.

The world is not as black and white as you see it.

Perhaps you might try sorting the wheat from the chaff next time before you make definitive sweeping statements about various platforms.

Jesus Fucking Christ man… is this really how you see the world?

My almost five year old piece of under powered apple trash cost me less than 45 US cents a day, still has regular OS updates and works between eight to ten hours most days running my entire life. I might even splurge out and buy a new one if they ever release an overpowered non trash handset…

I was talking to a black guy from the US one day at a sailing club. He said that a lot of his ancestors had had a bad experience the first time they’d been on a boat; so water based activities weren’t that popular… I thought about it for a second or two and then we both started laughing. History is brutal.

If she is in Toronto then smoking weed from a bong is no more illegal than drinking a beer from a glass - if that was your worry about the visible paraphernalia.

Thanks for the update. I’ve put an edit in my post so I’ll stop spreading misinformation.

The only time a brand should really matter is for critical use. Unbranded defibrillator? No thanks. Going mountaineering? Don’t buy from temu. Motorbike helmet? Not from Shein.

Funnily enough I wondered about the whole “Jews have big noses” thing myself whilst reading and replying.

Interesting. I’m happy with that.

You also make the good point that tropes, stereotypes, generalisations etc often say more about the people who use them then the people they’re aimed at.

I’ve got no idea why German and English seem to have flipped the trope. I hope someone else can provide an answer here.

I knew about the whiteness, obesity (and body odour?) but the long noses is new to me. Kind of makes sense, there they are, sticking out of your face for everyone to see.

Sadly I can believe that.

Fascinating. The trope in the English speaking world seems to be:

Probably - make cheap, sell high is good business sense, at the end of the day; if you’re only concern is pure profit.

USian garment manufacturer who has sweat shops multiple employment opportunities for slave labour workers out in Asia; therefore their products will now be tariffed upon import.

Edit: They are Canadian, see below, but incorporated in the US.

The UK has an ice hockey league - not sure how many natives are in the teams though. Hockey is massive in (parts of) India - but they tend to play the version without ice…