The problem is that whenever billionaires are about to get hit by a bus … government usually throws a bunch of poor people in front of them to cushion or even stop the bus from hurting anyone with money.

The origin story of why that genie got stuck in that bottle for 2,000 years

Just because they have mandatory French in Canada … doesn’t mean that people go on to learn the language. I’m in northern Ontario among a lot of Francophones. Lots of people went through school around me that had French but they went through the programs and never bothered to learn beyond that and then forgot it all as adults because their families looked down at the French language and French culture.

Many people don’t get to go to post secondary school unless you or your family have a bit of wealth … so they don’t bother learning another language for any reason. So being poor and from an anglocentric culture that looks down at other enthnicities usually ends up with people not learning or wanting to learn another language.

The sad part is that I’m Indigenous Canadian … my first language is Ojibway/Cree, it was the first language I learned and spoke fluently until I was about ten years of age - I learned English in school but it was more or less a foreign language to me until later in life. The sad part is that this was all about 40 years ago and now the majority of people being born into my family almost all of them speak only English and know little of our Ojibway language.

When you are poor and don’t have the means … you almost have no choice but to get stuck in one language because you don’t have the time, energy or resources to have the luxury to learn another language and poverty has the double edged sword of taking away any language you or your family already had.

Flesh

How many languages do you speak?

Most North Americans are shocked that a human can learn more than one language

A glacial ice sheet has formed over Highway 17 and it is now 100 feet deep and compacting at the bottom into solid ice … all animal life is freezing to death in the minus 60 degree weather … but if you’re careful, you can still make it to Walmart before closing

I’m in northern Ontario and no matter how terrible and blinding snow it is outside … we’ll still have people on social media in our area asking things like … ‘How are the highways today? I want to go to Walmart’

It will be rain, sleet, snow, solid ice on the highway, blinding snow, no visibility and there will always be a dozen people asking … ‘How are the roads? We need to get to grandma’s for a party’

Hunger is a normal part of life … I keep trying to remind myself of that

Just because you are hungry, it doesn’t mean that you are starving or dying … sometimes it’s just your dumb greedy biological system wanting to eat everything in sight because it still thinks that you live in the African savanna and there’s no food around.

I grew up poor and as a kid, hunger was just a normal part of life. We weren’t starving, mom and dad gave us enough nutrition every day to be comfortable but not to live in complete luxury where we could eat any time we wanted. I remember wanting snacks during the day and there were none … so you just drank some hot tea to satisfy the craving and then went on with your day. By the time we were teens, we were lean, built and none of my friends were overweight (this was in the 80s and early 90s). It wasn’t until we all had free access to cheap snacks and sugar water that we all started having problems with our weight. I’m middle aged now and I constantly have to battle my urge to want to eat any and everything in sight.

The best part of this comment is that I’m snacking on a tube of pringles as I’m writing this.

Usually when I meet people who say they travelled to Europe … I’ll ask them a million questions about what they did there, what they saw, what they thought about it, the food, the weather, the people … which places did they go? what are your recommendations? what did you like? what did you not like? any weird things that happened? any great things that happened?

It’s usually a source of a ton of information.

Hell of a lot better conversation starter than to ask the person what they’ve done in the small town you’ve both lived in all your lives and know every single detail about.

lol … sounds a lot like the evangelical preacher with the million dollar private jet who asked his parishers to give more money to buy a second jet because it would save more people

(I remembered this story from a few years ago and thought it was ‘a second jet’ … I was wrong … the preacher was asking for donations to buy his FOURTH JET!!!)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44305873

Trump isn’t running a country … he’s an evangelical preacher leading a ministry called the United States

Don’t know … I can’t afford internet credits in order to access a connection.

Just do the dishes naked … maybe keep your socks on

Tuck it into your groin

More like a take from … The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

… but not as funny :(

It sounds like you’ll fit right in … great to have you here … have fun!

Last time this happened, the country affected needed electro shock therapy to help them snap out of their delusions.

I was making light of your question … partly to have a bit of fun … and partly to show that the community enjoys sharing these silly little bits of movie quotes that act like memes. The one I was using is from the movie “The Naked Gun” (the original film from 1988 with Leslie Nielson)

A lot of the meme communities enjoy old slapstick movie content as there is a lot of memeable content there … films like ‘The Naked Gun’ series, Hot Shots, any of the Mel Brooks films and Monty Python.

Don’t be afraid to test your boundaries, comment as you like but with an open mind and kind heart … people will let you know if you’ve said or implied anything negative or positive. Don’t be discouraged if you get no response either … it’s not a popularity contest. The longer you stay, the more you comment, the more you get to know people and the more they get to know you and eventually you become a regular part of the community.

Welcome to Lemmy and welcome to the fediverse.

The only dumb thing I see now is how dumb America has generally become to normalize all this stupidity.

He’s an idiot president leading a nation of idiots.

I think you’re confusing the nostalgia of other people.

Most people are very fond and attached to their own personal nostalgia.

But most often are not familiar or even don’t understand other people’s nostalgia.

Then tell them they’re part of the gang and to join everyone else as we go wedgie and noogie the next new guy