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My Bones Belong To The Mountains

@appalachianetiquette

Ray, 26. College educated hillbilly, dad of several pets, lifelong Dolly Parton fan. Gay and trans. Ready to walk into the woods and never return.

STAY SAFE!! [ID: the Gilbert Baker pride flag with the words “Happy pride to all those who are unable to celebrate openly and safely. You are loved and seen!” in all-caps black text over it. /end ID]

okay goodnight everyone happy pride eve, make sure to leave your high heels & doc martens out tonight so the spirit of leslie feinberg can fill them with queer theory and class solidarity

Everyone else talked about outdoor cats, it's time for me to talk about offleash dogs

Reasons not to have your dog offleash at a public park:

1) roads (this one is self-explanatory)

2) it makes the park inaccessible to like, entire swathes of the population. If you have experience with police dogs or guard dogs in your neighborhood, or you're a new immigrant from somewhere with a large population of feral dogs, it sucks ass going to the park and having someone's massive lab bound up to you!

3) If, for example, you are in a protected wetland area plastered with friendly signs asking you to please leash your dog to avoid causing an ecological impact, having your dog offleash might cause an ecological impact! "Oh no, my dog is well-behaved, they would never bother the wildlife" wrong! your dog is in the pond trying to eat the endangered Blandings' turtles!

4) Non-zero chance of a jokerified park guide (me) just clipping your dog to a leash and stealing them

5) “Oh but my dog is friendly!” If your unleashed “friendly” dog runs up to my leashed UNFRIENDLY dog, and my dog bites yours, guess who’s getting the blame despite doing everything right?

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filipino here and i once came across a tiktok abt an american comforting others abt the prospect of having lice. which is MIND BOGGLING to me since filipinos literally pick lice out in the open during recess or even on the sidewalk. even hair stylists dgaf if u have lice

so anyway answer my poll

if u voted i genuinely need u to reblog and add what country ur from + answer bc thats the basis of this research ok thanks

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Don't get me wrong the USA is a hell country and most of what is considered usamerican culture is a fucking NIGHTMARE and a lot of us are suffering both in and out of the country bc of it but. There's certain things that people outside of the USA make fun of and not in a jovial way that I'm like hmm. Fucka you actually

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"why are the food and drink proportions so big" why shouldn't they be??? What's so bad about nobody feeling like they're still hungry and also often times it's with the intention of having leftovers bc you're not expected to clean your plate at restaurants. Also who doesn't like a large beverage????

"americans are so FAT and LOUD and CHEERFUL" yeah and our meat is also fucking huge. got any other cool and rad things about us???

"ugh [insert food that is usually either southern food or immigrant food but especially biscuits and gravy for some fucking reason???] Looks so gross and unhealthy why would you eat that??" Because it's fucking good and tasty what're you talking about

"why would you take a road trip???" Well historically it's because due to the infastructure and lack there if that was established in the 1940s and continues to this day road trips are often the cheapest and most accessible form of travel and they come with the added practically that depending on what supplies you bring what season it is and what car you have you can sleep in said car during the journey which is an added level of both convenience and cuts down on costs further.

For most people though it's because it's fun go grab a bunch of snacks and a friend or two and go some place it rules

"cringey Americans use FAHRENHEIT for WEATHER" my thermostat is always set at 69 😎😎😎😎