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hey, don't cry. 40,000 in small bills in the bag, alright? quickly

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OKAY series of polls about sock preferences because i'm a curious autistic fuck:

(if you don't wear socks don't answer any of the other questions)

#i wear socks but i do not like them #i bought a few ''professional-looking'' sandals to wear to work in the summer so i don't have to #I don't like my feet being confined #i answered no/other to the wool socks bc I'm too cheap to buy them #and i would throw away a sock w a hole unless they were sentimental #(i lose socks too fast for them to get holes though)

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what is your holy trinity of fruits

#blackberry‚ cherry‚ peach

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I love not describing settings. Use your imagination.

#agreed #it's the woooooooorst

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as far as i'm concerned all gore is necessary

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#a purple cow named ''baby'' #as far back as i remember it's been entirely unrecognizable as a cow. loved too much

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Any recommendations for catchy songs about specific American historical events? Hurricane by The Band of Heathens (unless I'm mistaken, it's pretty explicitlu about Katrina) and The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald are examples.

i love the song hurricane, but i didn't know about the other til now. thank you for the inadvertent rec!

also i don't know about catchy necessarily but i do have a few historical event tunes to recommend.

It's About Blood by Steve Earle is about West Virginia coal mining disasters, at the end of which he lists by name around two dozen victims of specific disasters. this one gives me chills. this whole album Ghosts of West Virginia does actually

Big Time in the Jungle by Old Crow Medicine Show is about snatching up poor, uneducated southern boys and shippin em off to Vietnam. pretty catchy, v fuckin dark by the end

Battle of Blair Mountain by David Rovics is about,, well,, the battle of blair mountain

Seneca Creek by Charles Wesley Godwin mentions the WV flood of 1985 though is about the singer's grandparents iirc

... and as i made this list i realized i sure talk a lot about and revere west virginia for someone whos never lived there (but plans to <3). anyway here's some non-appalachia specific stuff to balance it

Casey Jones by The Grateful Dead is about a conductor in Tennessee who stayed on a runaway train to let others escape to safety and ultimaetly died (and is catchy as fuck actually)

Battle of New Orleans by Johnny Horton is pretty straightforwardly about the war of 1812

Ohio by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young is about the Kent State Massacre

American Pie by Don McClean was written in response to the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. Richardson Jr. i feel like everyone knows this song but maybe not the actual meaning, i didn't know til a few years ago. so maybe i'm just behind

anyway if yall know any please add in reblogs or leave in the replies, i love this kinda thing

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the funniest dynamc between my boyfriend and i is the chef/baker divide runs so deep. experimentally my boyfriend is a genius with figuring out what flavor profiles will not just taste good together but also will be enjoyed by the specific audience he is cooking for. a recipe is not a guidebook so much as a suggestion and he will frankenstein ideas together to get exactly what he wants to happen. he also didnt know that sugar will not work properly if you dont mix it with the wet ingredients in banana bread and when i asked 'why didnt you do it in the order of the recipe' he said 'i didnt really think it mattered'. autistically i exploded his head in my mind

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The computer is a machine built for looking at pictures of fish you wouldn't otherwise see. Anything else you can do with a computer was an accident and unintended

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You can always tell when I've started listening to a new podcast because my "fun facts" start veering into new territory

#I don't particularly care about pop music from when i was 11 but these music podcasts I've gotten into keep teaching me things anyway #(hit parade‚ one song‚ ongoing history of new music‚ etc)

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somebody get that girl a large sized beverage before she loses it completely

#me in japan #i think this country gets a lot of things wrong but one thing the US got right was Big Drink

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did anyone ever tell the Backstreet Boys why

#it's bc the guy who wrote the song didn't know English well #there's an alternate version out there that makes sense btw #(the comment saying it has the same energy as the writer of Baby One More Time trying to explain it is very funny bc its the same guy lmfao)

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#macerated berries #if it's just fresh fruit then you need some syrup of some kind but macerated fruit makes its own syrup #if syrup is involved though then it has to be real maple. none of that corn syrup shit for this snob

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you came back wrong and i am racked with guilt because i cannot bear to see you like this and i should have let you rest. i loved you so much that i defied death itself but i do not think either of us are happy