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I'm a Vietnamese cis woman born and currently living in the U.S. You may know me from Sandwich, from Twitter or Mastodon (same username), or on Twitch as Sharkaeopteryx. I do not have a Discord or Bluesky account.
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It's hard to contest that Punch Out was a knockout of a game series, but what of the developers who thought the same and sought to emulate on their success?
Let's check out some Punch Out-likes (including Punch Outs). Starting shortly! twitch.tv/ryyudo
That’s right NO. MORE. BONKS. In 2024 none of us are getting concussions you hear me? Say it louder for the back row. 2024 is the year of maintaining balance while walking. 2024 is the year of watching for tripping hazards. In 2024 we are not rushing or running for anything if there’s a chance we can trip. In 2024 we are not sitting on tables or anything else that is not a solid stable chair. We are wearing our helmets when we ride our bikes and we are wearing our seatbelts in cars. If we fall, we are dropping everything and anything we are holding in order to use our arms to catch ourselves. It’s twenty twenty no-more-bonks.
Protect your heads girlies!!!! A girls’ girl never lets a friend risk a head injury. A girls’ girl knows that all brain injuries have lasting consequences and neurodivergence correlates with higher risk of complications and lasting consequences. A girls’ girl makes sure everyone sees that wet floor sign and watches out for black ice and icy steps. A girls’ girl isn’t afraid to look silly doing that hunched over penguin walk to avoid slipping and falling in winter.
2023 was our bonked up era. 2024 we are moving on from that. This is the post-bonk era
That is the vibe of 2024 that is the theme the energy the spirit the spell we are all casting together. NO. MORE. BONKS
i had a bonk in 2023 and it sucked sooooo bad. there are entire months in my memory that are just completely jumbled because my ability to form and retrieve memories was limited. you do NOT wanna get a concussion it's the fucking worst
“Ananke proudly presents the eVersion of Koi Hai, an anthology of letters, notes, poetry, translations & illustrations from #Pakistan & the diaspora; reinforcing the message of love & in solidarity with Palestine. Print version of the anthology is published by Zuka Books, Pakistan.”
was originally invented in 1973 not by an innovative bartender or crafty home distiller in the green hills of the Irish countryside, but instead by the research and development branch of a wine and spirits distribution company in a London office. The goal: to create a product that appealed internationally using surplus alcohol and cream. The result: Baileys. According to one of the inventors, the whole process took about 45 minutes and a blender.
well that certainly explains why Baileys is so poor quality despite being the first of its kind: it is just industrial runoff
i have an interest in certain drinks made with irish cream, and just generally with adding it to coffee and tea, so getting to try other brands of irish cream was a revelation that ruined Bailey's for me
my recommendations are:
they're both generally around 40-50% lower in cost than Baileys as well
i thought for sure i had mentioned this in the original post but it looks like not
i recently discovered another cream liqueur called Amarula, created originally in South Africa in the 80s using a fruit of the marula tree, which is native to southern Africa
it is also called the elephant tree because elephants are apparently big fans of the fruit too
i am having trouble identifying where the word marula comes from, but i believe it comes into English from Swahili, but as to its etymological origins - they remain a mystery - if you have any leads let me know!
like the word marula, the tree's distribution matches very closely to the range of the Bantu speaking people of Africa, which implies to me that throughout history people liked this tree and decided to intentionally spread it with them, they would also selectively breed it to produce larger and more substantial fruits
so thanks to the people who grew this tree both in the present and the distant past for us being able to taste a bit of it even on another continent
i think any cream or irish cream based drink would be fun to riff with this ingredient in its stead, but it has a pungent, concentrated strawberry-like flavor, so it might make for some strange coffee!
