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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • In the seventies and eighties the communist leaders of Hungary, when talking about the realities of the time introduced some terms to explain the difference of the real world from the ideals.

    “Socialism that exists”
    “Socialism that works”

    The jokes immediately started coming, pointing out that the socialism that exists does not work, while the socialism that works does not exist.




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    8 months ago

    Having just a very basic vocabulary in German, translating one word at a time would have been fine, except my brain just decided that what this man was contemplating on this Nepalese train, and what he had just pushed through the juicer was in fact a Gurkha.





  • When I first read about baby showers but before I first heard it said out loud, I wasn’t sure if it was shower as in a bath or shower as in show and tell. Showing made more sense to me because it was a baby that has not been seen before and babies do not take showers usually.

    I was fairly certain it wasn’t baby shower as in