Or be Danish:

American: I have been to Denmark! I love Denmark.

Visits Copenhagen only 🤡

Especially offensive if you are a Jut like moi. You motherfuckers come here and think Copenhagen is Denmark, yet entirely ignore the rest of the country and especially Jutland where the vikings lived, Amleth’s grave is, where the king’s used to be crowned, the earliest Danish law that predates your frigging country by several centuries AND it is the place that Tolkien based Middle Earth and characters like Eowyn on. You could literally go visit the real Helms Deep, Isengard, Aros and Esgaroth and you could go visit the place of the legendary shieldmaiden Hervør who inspired Eowyn and in some ways Aragorn too.

But no no. cOpEnHaGen is Denmark. The one city in Denmark where no one speaks Danish, lol.

Same. It satisfies my craving for popping bubble plast. More environmentally friendly too. Win/win.

Stick a cross in it and the transformation is complete.

As someone who lives three borders away from Ukraine, I beg to fucking differ, my friend 🫠

Den er jeg med på. 👍

Tbf, the new movie was kinda mid. I know I watched it too, but I also forgot most of it afterwards. Not saying the original Blade Runner was the best movie ever made, but it’s at least memorable and I just assumed people would at least know what it was.

I don’t think people would think of replicant being associated with Blade Runner in a vacuum either, but when paired with a picture/a gif of Rachel, then I would assume people at least knew that it’s a blade runner reference.

I dunno. When I was young on the internet, there was a ton of popculture - especially American popculture - that I know nothing about because I’m not American, but I learned a bunch of it, as well as slang etc to get a basic understanding of the “language” people spoke on the internet. Which is 80% memes anyway.

I guess I find it weird that there are people out there who don’t do any kind of research to understand contexts in conversations online and end up assuming weird things when most contexts are a simple search away.

I also refuse to believe there are people who don’t know what Harry Potter is xD

I can’t tell if there are actually people put there who don’t know what Blade Runner is. I may be getting too old to follow along with the youth of today, but to me, Blade Runner is as much a part of popculture as Star Wars and Harry Potter.

Blade Runner, at its core is about a dystopian future where artificial humans, called “replicants” have become part of society, yet are seen and treated as lesser. This is a very simplistic description, but there’s a lot of philosophical discussions about what it means to be human and whether or not we can dehumanize artificial humans if what they sense and feel is real to them despite their bodies, brains and memories all being artificial.

In essence it is about empathy.

Sadly, a lot of people who watch blade runner fail to understand its message and just see a protagonist be an unempathetic pos to replicants in several scenes and deem it a misogynistic and bigoted work, which is certainly a take one can have if they insist on being complete media illiterate, but on a deeper level, the movie is definitely wanting people to consider what humanity is and what makes someone human and that everyone deserves empathy. Else we will end up with a cold, brutalist society where you can meet someone and question their validity as a human.

Sounds pretty gay.

In case you aren’t joking: Blade Runner

Allie is a fantastic writer too. Omg. I haven’t checked on her since she went radio silent after the major depression she suffered, but I just checked her blog and SHES STILL CREATING STORIES!!

In 2020 she apparently posted one about how she stalked her neighbor. Absolutely hilarious. I genuinely thought she had stopped writing and drawing stories entirely. I used to read her blog religiously back in the early 2010s and held out hope for a few years that she would return, but life just kinda moves on, you know. Btw, her blog “Depression Part Two” is still a frigging masterpiece. It is a crime that there are people out there who have no idea about her nor her blog and think her contribution to internet culture is “reddit memes”.

I’m so happy to see that she’s still making things. Even if the newest update is 5 years old. I’m fucking thrilled.

Lol, well, if we go by that standard, then we can all ride the coat tails of the soldiers of every generation who were drafted to fight someone else’s war. My country, per capita, were the country to lose the most men in Afghanistan. I have friends who went to Afghanistan and their experiences were varied.

But my point still stands: the bad in every generation came in intervals and affected groups differently. A lot of boomers had nothing to do with Vietnam just like a lot of Gen X and millennials had nothing to do with Iraq and Afghanistan.

But we all had slower lives and we did get to be relatively protected in childhood from the worst of the news out there.

In this day and age, youths and children are bombarded woth the most heinous shit 24/7 and it is everything, everywhere, all at once.

None of the prior generations have had back to back to back terrible world events happening like the youths of today have. We all live through it, but most of us are old enough and hardened enough by life that we deal with it.

I don’t think it is a coincidence that anxiety among children and youths today has sky rocketed. And it isn’t just news, it is also the negative effects of social media and that whole psychosis and how it distorts and perverts identity and self love nowadays.

There is no contest. It is not remotely anything our generations had to deal with.

And yeah, we can make a ton of whataboutisms where we pick out minority groups who went to war or were brought up in war torn countries. That has happened and will happen always.

But none of us old facts had the perversion of current day internet to deal with on top of intervals of this and that crisis and none of us had to deal with all our generations’ crises all at the same time over the span of a few years. That is what I’m saying. We simply cannot imagine what it is like for the young ones today because their world is so far removed from the world we grew up in.

I am a millennial, neither an old or a young millennial, but an in the middle one. I grew up in a world without internet and had myself introduced to the world wide web in my teens. My childhood and teen hood is still much closer to that of a boomer’s childhood and teen hood than it is the kids and teens today. I cannot comprehend what childhood even looks like or feels like for kids today. All I know is that anxiety and body image issues and thoughts of world problems have sprung from the mouths of kindergarteners and that is not something I have seen to this extent ever before.

The goofy part about this type of generational cock contest meme is that we all live through it together. Every generation alive has gone through horrific shit and every generation has gone through periods of peace. Some for longer than others.

I’m a millennial and I have been pretty lucky if I may say so myself. Compared to what young people and kids go through today, us older generations had it good.

Yes, our times of youth also brought on wars and economic struggles and what not, but they came in intervals.

Nowadays it is all happening at the same time and at lightening speed.

And us peeps, boomers, Gen X and millennials sit here all smug about it, like we went through ANYTHING comparable to what young people go through today.

We had it good. We are lucky to all be in our 30s and up during this stretch of history. I feel for the youths of today. They are the ones going through some shit in their formative years.

The 2020s are happening to all of us, but the kids of today have way more worries thrust upon them than any of us old fucks ever did.

I vote for “the screaming twenties” to be the official name for this decade. Brilliant.

It’s a texture thing for me. Prawns and crab etc have a texture that makes me want to puke. I have tried many times in the past to learn to be okay with different types of shellfish and I have failed everytime. Even ordered scallops on a fancy restaurant once and they tasted really nice, but the texture made my skin crawl.

I’m sure landbugs would be the same for me. Nice tastes, repulsive texture.

I find both repulsive.

If you were concerned, then why not send a private message instead? “Not trying to be rude”, sure. Sounds like you’re trying to intimidate. Maybe you shouldn’t do that.

I mean, if it was posted when millennials were young, it is still not at all accurate.

True. It is not a boomer who made that meme. It is either a troll or yet another bitter Gen X.

When the fuck do we get to retire from the “young and stupid” category?

Also, I had red eyes in most photos from my child- and teenhood. I spent a lot of money on film in my teens before I got my first phone with a proper camera in 2007.

Next you’re gonna condescendingly explain what a floppy disc or a cassette tape is too? Even Gen z is old enough to know about those.

Well, you get boring human writing instead:

“Inaction Man! There’s a seven story building burning with kids and kittens on the top floor!”

Inaction Man scratches his belly and pops another potato chip into his mouth.

“Have you considered calling the fire department instead of me? They are doing reruns of the Sopranos so I’m busy.”