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Cake day: January 3rd, 2026

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  • As a foreigner whose native tongue has gendered nouns and adjectives: we default to sir to sir-presenting people, ma’am to ma’am presenting, and "sir? ma’am? " when unsure and clarification is needed.

    I do not understand why you’d want to preemptively force gender someone by choosing a neutral/or newspeak/ form of address - to me it seems much much much worse than defaulting to asking for preference (“sir? ma’am?” option is the best - it declares you’ve noticed the interlocutor is a nb and passes the ball to them).

    If you’re looking for 1 word that would always work, I recommend embracing your inner old British Lady and calling everyone pet (petal), dear or love. :-)










  • Nestle is Swiss

    Fuck me with a rusty rake. You’re right. It is Swiss.

    The Doritos are called that because Euro countries call our “ranch” dressing “American” dressing

    Literally we don’t eat ranch dressing here, it is only in chips and mcdonalds and shiet. And that is for sure USA owned.

    Turkiye is on the Eurasian border with parts in both continents.

    Turkey is not European, whenever it might lie.

    the rest of the world is using our country’s name as an adjective for food so fuck you we’re doing it too.

    No, it is your style - see “french fries”. In Europe it’s “fries”.