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Fake, she’s not even blowing on it.
Shes using an advanced technique common in bass instruments known as “slapping.”
I was there Gandalf, I was there three thousand years ago…
Darkness took me and I strayed away through thought and time. Stars wheeled overhead and every meme was as long as a life age of the earth…
╓───────────────╖ ╏I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE╏ ╙───────────────╜I’ve never seen this but it feels at least 10 years old
I’ve never seen this specific photo, but it absolutely was popular ~2010.
Tubas and trombones were popular choices among band students
Yeah, it has real ‘Early 00s Smartphone Camera’ vibes
There were no smartphones in the early 2000s though.
There were plenty low quality digital point and shoot cameras though.
This dude’s never heard of Symbian or Blackberry I guess. Or Sony Ericsson and Nokia N*** phones.
Yeah, I was thinking about Symbian too. The basic functionality of an Android phone today, Symbian already had with the limitations of its time. In 2003, you could use your Symbian to share internet to a PC, navigate maps, edit documents, take pictures, edit pictures, browse the web, etc. There was a good amount of third party apps too, including browsers like Opera and games like Chessmaster. And this was a shitty OS for this, Maemo was way better, but it came later.
I used a Symbian phone to find a cafe in Providence once while working there in winter 2005/6 or so. And got charged like $2 from Cingular for loading one yelp page listing. I was so cold, and had to shit so bad I didn’t care.
I remember. Mobile internet was ridiculously expensive. Browsers used to have an option to not download images and videos, that used to help a lot. Then Opera Mini came and these problems were gone for good.
I thought that was when you just spammed ranged attacks?
If japs didn’t exist, they should be invented.
Are you aware that’s a slur?
I’m italian and in Italy that’s not considered a slur. It’s more telling someone they’re funny or amusing.
In english there’s a similar sounding word that means a joke or something done in jest, Jape with a long a
You really need to use your hands more so we know you’re Italian. 🤌
Not the sentiment, the word used for Japanese people. Saying “if Japanese people didn’t exist, they should be invented” would be totally acceptable.
It can be hard to avoid slurs in other languages though, especially when English has so many. My husband’s not a native English speaker and it comes up maybe every other month that he’ll say something and I’ll have to tell him to avoid that word or only use it in one specific usage. I’ve only been corrected/gaped at for inadvertently using slurs twice in over five years living in Germany, for comparison.
Ok, now I get it. I didn’t use “japs” as derogatory, obviously.
Yeah, it is an easy mistake to make. Generally abbreviations/diminutives for nationalities are insulting (Brit excluded)
Like Germs
When written, Italian does look a lot like English then.
Please explain
“Japs” was used by Americans during WW2 so it has pretty negative connotations there.
Well said
Worth pointing out that for the rest of the world this is often hard to navigate. Americans have a reputation for excessive self-censorship based on pearl-clutching, with “the F word” or “p*rn” or censoring nipples.
So sometimes actual strongly hateful or dehumanising language gets dismissed as another example of oversensitity.
Just to clarify, I didn’t think OP was being insensitive. My question was genuine, and I didn’t think they knew. And yes, there is a lot of unnecessary censorship in the US. You can’t say fuck on TV or the radio. I was listening to a station from New Zealand and that made me realize we’re the only Country that does that. Censoring nipples is fucking stupid too. I really don’t censor myself. I’m told I’m a very outspoken person. The only words I won’t say are slurs because I believe they are actually harmful and disrespectful.
Thanks!
Is this the next Hibiki Euphonium series?
