Hell yes. These socks go anywhere: stay home where the wood(like) floor is at, you get to speed skate and drift the corners all day long on your way to the kitchen. Someone calls you up and wants to go out, you just need a cute dress and some patent leather shoes. Shit is awesome
This is an example of the type of tongue-replacing creature you found, not necessarily the same species.
So that's a fun twofer: you know a possible name for what you saw, and you know that a parasite replacing a host's organ is one of nature's fun survival strategies!
Incredible, right?! Telling them you're moving internationally speeds up account cancelation, but they'll still keep you on the phone for like ten minutes!
I'm an American. I'm not one of the "good" Americans, though, since I'm disabled, not Christian, not capitalist, and not white. I've spent my whole life getting shit on as a third-class citizen by Americans steeped in American culture and public school education that has, at every turn, preached American exceptionalism and pulling oneself up by their bootstraps while totally ignoring every benefit offered to them and withheld from people like me.
I think that you've been lucky so far, but now that you're being asked to sit the fuck down and listen while other people talk, you're taking it badly. After a lifetime of privilege, it's really easy to mistake being brought into line with everybody else's equality for oppression; please don't do that. It's a bad look and sets you up to feel bad unnecessarily.
There are like 8 billion people on this planet and you're one of about 330 million Americans. It's pretty reasonable that your perspective isn't the majority opinion, and that other people from other countries may also think their home is the best possible place to live and everyone else is an unlucky chump. Instead of dismissing all the critical comments as the kvetching of the jealous, unwashed masses outside your borders, it may help to look at them as nothing more than other people sharing their own viewpoints. Also, reading about events like Juneteenth, the MOVE bombing, the Kent State massacre, the Jackson State killings, and the Tulsa massacre may help you better understand why people from other places side eye Americans.
And seriously, the metric system is based on the physical properties of Earth and base 10 counting, not dead oppressors.
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So, like, half a Smurf?