You missed “I’ll probably watch it eventually when it’s free on Disney+ but no way in hell am I dropping $30 on this garbage, especially when I’m already paying for Disney+”
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Honestly, I advise against it. I made it to the 5’ mark? Maybe? And this from a person who watched all of The Vampire Diaries unironically.
BTW
I guess this is going to be a heated argument, but I find cinema tickets and streaming services seriously overpriced. I might watch it in another way, but that doesn’t mean the company is losing the 9 euros that I would pay to watch it in the cinema, because no way I would drop the money to watch that movie. When something is good (and I don’t mean quality good, I mean entertainment good), I will gladly pay for it.
I don’t think we even have Disney+ here yet. And the funniest thing, when Europeans were ready and willing to pay and kept asking “why can’t we get Netflix” “why can’t we get HBO”, the answer was that their infrastructure could handle it. But. Miraculously. When covid happened and everyone was inside and they saw the $$$/€€€, suddenly all streaming services somehow could handle it. Hm. I wonder.
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I find that none of the recent remade Disney classics is any good. They’ve completely lost the charm that the old 2D animations have.
Same with the new Star Wars films, the Hobbit (compared to LotR) or the new TRON; they miss the humanness that the old films had.
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Disney understands that something is wrong in the original because of public reaction, and tries to fix the remake to alienate less people, but since they don’t really get what’s wrong, they end up like psychopaths trying to imitate a smile. The muscles are all there but the eyes are all wrong.
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Disney ? Will I be watched as an elitist if I say it’s not my things?
Does English sound more like:
- French?
- German?
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- English?
- Norwegian minus German?
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I’m kindof cheating because I’m a native English speaker and thus it’s more that French and German have similarities to English from my perspective, but I’m also aware it’s a Germanic language, and I’m not sure how exactly to tell how I would answer if I wasn’t aware of that.
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Try reading a French and a German text, and you’ll see English is more like German than like French.
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I agree that written english resembles german mor than it resembles french. But when you hear some speak, for example with a yorkshire accent, then i am not sure i can choose between french and german so easily.
Off topic: I do have wat i belive to be a good description of how dutch sounds when spoken: an english man, speaking german with a french accent. The position of “english” and “german” are interchangeable
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I’m outright stealing @PiggyStardust
- cringy
- cringey
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- more cring(e)y (based on above)
- cringier
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What is the question?
Btw, what if I would probably say “more cringe” instead of any of those options for the second poll?
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Now that you said it, it really sounds like the only correct option.
Young one is right, everybody, sorry. 
(I mean, I guess, it’s not even my native language hahahaha)
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For anyone curious, “Macaroni” in the Yankee Doodle song refers to what was at the time British high fashion. The song is mostly about mocking Americans. In the first verse, the eponymous hero is being mocked for riding a pony instead of a horse and thinking himself fashionable for sticking a feather in his cap.
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Neither, it’s “more cringe”. Because that absolutely checks out.
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Does anyone remember that fad from a few years ago that involved people at a social gathering striking a stylized pose and freezing it? Kind of like a tableau vivant but without the period costumes? They had a name for it but I’ve forgotten. As I recall, it came and went very quickly even by fad standards.
Should this practice be revived? Please explain.
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Mannequin challenge?
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Yeah, that’s it, the mannequin challenge. Thank you for that. Funny, but I remember it as somehow more satirical, with exaggerated facial expressions. Apparently it was more about arrested motion.
I remember playing red light green light as a kid. Same basic objective, but far less elaborate.
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