Various ways, really. People ask me to please not shoot up the university here; they say that I’m probably used to [the sound of a car backfiring] because I went to school in the US; they remark that kids these days are impolite, but at least they don’t shoot up schools like where I’m from; they ask if my backpack is bulletproof.

Yeah. To be totally fair, it’s not a lot of people percentage wise, but it’s a lot of jokes for me to experience because I work at a busy bakery, and chat with easily a hundred people in a shift. I probably get ~10 casual jokes about mass shootings in a week, most of which are about schools, but not all.

It happens more in social gatherings like larger parties or when playing with strangers at a game store, but I can push back more there, so it’s not as bothersome.

As an American living in Germany: I won’t say any of that if you please just stop joking about school shootings to me in every context.

A) I’m clearly okay living in a scenario where guns are more restricted, and

B) I’m from not too far away from sandy hook (elementary school, 2012, ~25 kids and teachers died, the first one Alex jones convinced people was fake), and know multiple families who lost a child to it- your edgy joke just brought them to mind at eight am at work. It’s fucking tragic and I can’t laugh about it- the only reason you can is that it’s not real to you.

I have no context for what meatbox and ab pack mean, but given multiple options, I don’t think there’s a chance in the world that I would have matched those two terms, lol.

Depending on the community near you, Unitarian Universalists sometimes have basically that. I’ve been an atheist since I was four, but I have no problem with other people being religious and it was perfect for me. If you’re the type to be annoyed by people talking about the universe in a way that suggests the supernatural, you might not want to deal with even the UU’s very mild language. When I went as a kid, we learned about volcanoes in Sunday School, as a gauge for how religious they are.

Or if you want evil church without religion, can I interest you in crossfit?

Plus she “rented” it to family whom she regularly stayed with!

Charles as well. Charlie, chuck, or Chaz?

I’ve heard of ass burgers before…

Yeah, my internet usage is mostly fediverse, word games, and ao3, none of which were affected

Werthers original are German candies, and I’ve definitely heard jokes about old people liking them (or campino Früchte, or something similar) in Germany. Root beer is a North American thing though

Then it would smell like vanilla

Reading books, writing, doing crafts, going on walks, hanging out with pets, gardening, doing chores, cooking, making art, looking at the stars…

Oh thank god

“But why would people want to do feed their community without a profit motive?” - people telling on themselves just as much as when they ask why someone would behave ethically without the threat of hell.

I mean, it’s a nice dish that takes some effort, but it’s not molecular gastronomy or anything. I feel weird bragging about an award winning recipe that’s basically a standard zucchini quiche.

I also forgot to note the red onions, but I initially added the balsamic because I was too lazy to want to wait for them to caramelize on their own and figured a little bit of sweetness would approximate caramelization pretty well. Turns out, zucchini, balsamic, onion and Parmesan work well together.

Was that supposed to be beast piss or are you just not particular about the candida levels of the person creating the piss?

I just assumed they were based out of Colorado, lol.

All hail Ron Swanson. Truly, what an original thought.

They’re talking about health insurance, water safety, and education. I’m not a fan of the Democratic Party, but these aren’t things like whether the US gets chosen for the Olympics or something like that.

Actually thinking about the idiom, I wonder if people used to complain a lot about the types or quality of vegetables they grew. It might be purely metaphorical, but I can definitely imagine it, having lived in a place where the owners didn’t box in their zucchini and I had to eat it twice a day for two months. I have a bunch of bomb zucchini recipes, including a self created prize winning quiche recipe (it’s just good homemade crust with an egg and no water, blind baked, then filled with zucchini rounds about 4mm thick sautéed with thin sliced red onions, balsamic vinegar, and rosemary, a little bit of good Parmesan and only two eggs in a 2:1 ratio with heavy cream- I don’t have it more precisely at hand rn), but I couldn’t enjoy it for a decade afterward.