don't get me wrong. it's always devastating always humbling. no one wants to fall for the lying machine it just sounds bad. but you can't dwell

#didn't know these were regionalisms? i've never heard any of these phrases in my life (via @worldwarthree)

GENUINELY before today i thought fluffernutter and american chop suey were part of National American Culture (TM). i was so puzzled by those questions that i googled both bc i was like "ohhh, this quiz maker thinks some american things aren't as widespread as they are..... they're assigning regional markers to things that aren't regional...... every american will instantly recognize these...."

and then i discovered both of these things are, in fact, particular to the new england region.

& went. What.

This summer, I will have been married to a man from Massachusetts for 25 years. You learn things.

I…know a lot of people from Boston?

My kids did better on this than they did on the Boston one. For some reason.

yaaaaaas

I need to add this to a pile of evidence I can pull out for people when they say "USAmericans all have the same culture" cause what the hell.

For context

this author's use of imagery is so questionable

i actually went "what the fuck" and had to stop for like 5 minutes after this one