The General Discussion Thread

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You might not change train though, depends where you're coming from and whether you have to change overground trains to get to Hackney

But remember my advice cause it'll save you money, the places to tap them are on the platforms

Is the card at least shaped like an oyster?

I ****ing wish

I think the idea is that "London is your oyster" and the card is your path to unlocking it or some shit

charging bombs and oyster cards. weirdass british gibberish.

gibberitish

That's deep I never thought about that

Originally posted by Scribble
I think the idea is that "London is your oyster" and the card is your path to unlocking it or some shit

I don't use an oyster anymore cba topping it up, I just use my debit card

It's Billie Joe's birthday

Originally posted by walshy
It's Billie Joe's birthday
Who?

uh oh

i guess my days of avoiding windows 10 are over. wtf man.

Originally posted by James T. Kirk
Who?
green Day front man songwriter singer guitarist and all round swell guy

Originally posted by Bashar Teg
charging bombs and oyster cards. weirdass british gibberish.
I think it's meant to be 'cost a bomb' or 'charge you a fortune' but I'm in the language mashup business so what I says goes

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Any y'all dirty pot heads try this before

I had a Vietnamese roommate in college. One time someone mentioned apples and my roommate said he could rip them in half. We all called bullshit and so he did it to shut us up. It was pretty cool. But then he claimed that "All Vietnamese people can do it." That didn't sound right.

So now whenever I meet a new Vietnamese person, I ask (in as polite and not creepy and not racist a way as I can) if they can rip an apple in half, and I'll be damned if every person I've ever asked goes "Yeah, sure!" Also, most of them follow up with "...all Vietnamese people can rip apples in half."

Then I always ask if that's just how people in Vietnam eat apples, and they always say "No, we just eat them the normal way, but all Vietnamese people can rip them in half if they want to."

I truly don't know if I'm being trolled or not. If I ask the question and have an apple, I'll always give it to the person who claims they can do this, and they always can, so there's some truth to it... but I cannot figure out why, in my experience, almost all Vietnamese people claim that all Vietnamese people can rip apples in half. That's a weird thing to claim. How are they so sure about what every other Vietnamese person can do? Are they implying that Laotians and Thai people can't do this? Is it a special trick they teach only in Vietnam? I would never claim that "All Americans can juggle" or that "All white people can juggle"... See, I don't even know if they're suggesting it's a racial trait, or a cultural skill.

Or is it that Vietnamese people are just really proud of their culture, so they like to fib about the skills everyone else has? And then when tested with an apple, all Vietnamese people are just so confident that they're awesome enough to do it that they just brute-force the apple in half?

Or was there a meeting once, and all Vietnamese people realized that they could help each other by making wild fruit claims about the skills of the Vietnamese so that they could trick dumb white boys like me into giving them free fruit to test their powers?

I would welcome any data anyone else can offer on this. My sample size is admittedly small, about 8 Vietnamese people, so this could just be a statistical fluke. But when 6 people, who have almost certainly never met each other before, independently claim that all Vietnamese people have fruit powers, it makes you wonder whether it might just be true.

https://www.reddit.com/r/VietNam/comments/7s5kp4/so_whats_the_deal_with_ripping_apples_in_half/