– ‘u dont have (insert food/music/restaurant here) over there??’
– ‘wait what time is it. shouldnt u be asleep’
– alternatively: timezoned/clockblocked again
– ‘do u need a hug. have a virtual hug’
– weird slang terms
– ‘i will fight everyone thats mean to u. i will fight them rn’
– vague embarrassment regarding ur accent
– ‘dont maKE ME COME OVER THERE’
– ‘oh yeah i have a friend who lives in (insert country here) and apparently’
– no real hugs :((
– suffering
– fahrenheit vs celsius
– the measuring of things in feet fucks one of u up, probably“- ‘dont maKE ME COME OVER THERE’”: Several times more amusing when your country has caused problems in the country of the person you’re talking to.
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#sometimes #(especially while surfing the Internet) #if I listen carefully to the inside of my head #I can almost hear them #the timezone translation algorithms quietly clicking along #over the course of spring and autumn little switches flick with changing DST statuses #2 PM in California #3 PM in Arizona in winter #10 PM in Britain #11 PM in Austria #(the Australian clocks #–not to be confused with Austria– #are buggy prototypes that still need their DST offsets programmed in) #(also I actually get the ‘wait you don’t have that’ problem *both* ways) #(in that sometimes I’m surprised when someone else doesn’t have a thing) #(and other times I know the thing is Canada-specific) #(and when I’m talking to a Canadian I’m like ‘wait a minute I can actually reference this thing and they’ll understand’)
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