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The Tower of Babel

Aug27

by David Bishop on 27th August 2008 at 19:16

Chapter: Running Around Mashing Buttons

└ Tags: cultural appropriation, cultural identity, food, loan words, self-conscious Americanism, transatlantic western culture soup, wait this is England?, we dress the same way only our accents change, words words words

Nogxious

Dec24

by David Bishop on 24th December 2008 at 19:35

Chapter: Running Around Mashing Buttons

I’ve never been brave enough to actually use raw eggs, even though I’m sure the alcohol is sufficient to kill all known germs. Maybe I just like the smell of warm spiced milk in my kitchen before Christmas. David’s Eggnog[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

└ Tags: alcohol, America and Americans, cooking, cultural appropriation, eggnog, food, nope, self-conscious Americanism, wait this is England?

Oh No He Didn’t

Apr15

by David Bishop on 15th April 2018 at 04:30

Chapter: Crisis of Dissonant Shirts: Part One

└ Tags: America and Americans, bad advice, Bob to the rescue, cultural appropriation, cultural identity, don't hate the player hate the game, England and the English, Jack's Hawaiian shirt, nope, player-hating, pork chop sandwiches, potentially offensive assumptions about others, self-conscious Americanism, the latest trends, transatlantic western culture soup, unhelpful comments, wait this is England?, yikes