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So much British art I've seen shows Italy as this land of seduction where everyone is hot and sexually liberated which, like, might be true but it's funny how at odds it is with the framing I'm more used to. At least in my family Italy was always treated as this primordial unc soup in which everyone is constantly angry and very loud.
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@AppleAmps a sexually liberated land of angry and loud seduction

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@FawnOverFun
Ok, now you're just describing Argentina.
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@MossGrowsOnNormanRuins
Fair enough! Argentina shares a similar stratification but across the board we're a lot more sexually liberal so I guess it doesn't pack that same punch. Also for most Argentines Italy is a place our ancestors tried and succeeded to escape from, which adds other connotations.
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@MossGrowsOnNormanRuins
Not yet, no! First time I'm hearing of this, I think.
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@FawnOverFun @AppleAmps kronos (klingon homeworld)

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shroomie/joan (of the agaric system)

@MossGrowsOnNormanRuins @AppleAmps it feels kinda weird to describe any group of people as “utterly uncultured [and] endlessly sex obsessed thugs”

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@MossGrowsOnNormanRuins @shroomie
Would you say this is more of an English phenomenon or that it permeates all the British isles equally?
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shroomie/joan (of the agaric system)

@MossGrowsOnNormanRuins @AppleAmps idk the irish produce pretty good gore porn of margaret thatcher /j

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@shroomie @AppleAmps instead of star trek i call it “Star Poop” cause, more like, Star Poop. meowth saul3d

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@shroomie @AppleAmps it’s not my doodie to educate you.

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@FawnOverFun @AppleAmps have you watched any star trek?

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@shroomie @FawnOverFun
I've watched a lot of Red Letter Media which is close, if a bit gayer.
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@shroomie @AppleAmps nope! don’t care for space opera whatever’s that have a hundred episodes

i’ve seen enough clips to know i wouldn’t care for it

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shroomie/joan (of the agaric system)

@AppleAmps @FawnOverFun red letter media is. maybe similar?????????????????????????????????? i think you’d like Star Trek: The Next Generation if you’re willing to sit through the kinda ass first two seasons

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shroomie/joan (of the agaric system)

@MossGrowsOnNormanRuins @AppleAmps ig just. “deeply uncultured [and] endlessly sex obsessed thugs” feels like a combination of the american stereotypes for black and gay people. and like. even if it’s true and you know the median working class brit in and out, are these things (except for the “thug” bit) actually problems? or are they just nontraditional personality traits?

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shroomie/joan (of the agaric system)

@MossGrowsOnNormanRuins @AppleAmps idrk about pornography but i’d say that reading star wars and harry potter as fascist is a bit less of an issue with star wars (and maybe harry potter idk) and a bit more of an issue with the hero’s journey lol

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