My wife looked it up. It's a hard licorice candy with a salty filling from the Netherlands called Napolean Zwart-Wit (which loosely translates to "tarred scrotum").
I got a monthly food box for my wife a number of years ago. Each month they sent snacks from a different country.
I can't remember which country it was from, but one month we got some round, hard candies. It was one of the most unfortunate things I have ever intentionally put into my mouth.
I don't even remember the flavor (licorice, maybe?), because my brain attempted to bleach it out.
Kirby Superstar (SNES) is great for this, I play it with my 5-year-old. The second player plays as the "helper" character, and when they die, Kirby can create them again. It effectively plays like a "buddy mode." That game is also one of my all-time favorites just for what it is, so I'm a bit biased.
Strategy favorite: Root - it's rules-heavy, but each faction functions completely differently, and the art is fantastic.
Strategy blah: Axis and Allies. It's more of a history lesson than a game, and I've never heard of a game taking less than four hours.
Chance favorite: Egyptian War (goes by other names, I think). Technically it's not pure chance, but mostly (which is probably why I like it).
Chance blah: Left Center Right. The most mind-numbing experience.
For the record, Bingo isn't dull if you play it the way those older ladies do, with like 12 cards at a time. Then it's just a rush of anxiety. Still not fun, but not dull.
As of right now, your other post has 15 downvotes and 3 comments from others (the other 4 are you). All three comments say that you're posting bait. This is hardly "oblivion."
To answer your question, people are harsh on the transracial thing because they feel it's similar to how some pedophiles are trying to normalize pedophilia, and are trying to make themselves part of the LGBTQ+ movements (even though most people don't recognize that as legitimate). Whatever your views on any of these issues, many people feel that injecting illigitmate (or bad faith) cases like this actually takes away from the people fighting for legitimate things.
I'm not taking sides right now, just trying to help you understand why you're getting this response. If you're vying for transracial identities as legitimate, you've got a long and harsh road ahead, expect more pushback like this in almost all spaces.
The best records we have of Jesus' teachings are the gospel books that are typically referenced. And there are enough references to Jesus of Nazareth in other texts to suggest this is what he was like and taught.
Jesus' teachings on government and social structures are nuanced and difficult to apply to our human structures, because he proposed a government ruled by a perfectly good, benevolent monarch (which, in theory, is a great system if you can guarantee the monarch is really perfectly good). He preached a lot about "the kingdom of God" and contrasted it to how we do things on earth. So the point was never to provide a blueprint of how we should do government, but that there was something above all earthly governments that superceded it all.
Unfortunately, people have used those teachings in very bad ways (the same reasoning that the religious leaders used to kill Jesus). All of that to say--there are a lot of congregations that have more in common with the Pharisees than the early church.
Ironically, western culture today suffers from one of the same falsehoods that Jesus himself preached against: the idea that poverty is a moral failing. They believe that the rich are wealthy because they've "earned it" in some way, and therefore must be morally superior for their work ethic. Conveniently, this also allows the wealthy to keep a clean conscience--if everyone was as "good" as they are, they could all be enjoying this life too.
So with this mindset, all "good" people who are poor are just temporarily embarrassed millionaires--they identify with the rich, who actively abuse and suppress them, because they believe themselves to be part of the same "moral party."
I (male) tend to do more tidying, while my spouse (female) tends to do more cleaning.
I'd say the stereotypes are dated from when men weren't expected to care for themselves or their home. And I know plenty of boomers and a few Gen X who fit into that, but I don't see it as common in more recent generations.
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My wife looked it up. It's a hard licorice candy with a salty filling from the Netherlands called Napolean Zwart-Wit (which loosely translates to "tarred scrotum").