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3rd culture kid in DC, third culturing around. Scooby & the gang taught us that the real monsters are people. Be weird, be whatever, just don’t be a monster. Twit: DCboyisangry
3rd culture kid in DC, third culturing around. Scooby & the gang taught us that the real monsters are people. Be weird, be whatever, just don’t be a monster. Twit: DCboyisangry
![Brandon
Flowers of the Killers told NME that he felt "depressed" after hearing The Strokes' album Is This It. "That record just sounded so perfect", he said.
"We threw away everything [we were working on] and the only song that made the cut and remained was "Mr.
Brightside"'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6awk5byvn4n4rashohtrkyo4/bafkreih5fz4x4uk6febb5wot6xgx6fvgkhtko5v4lt223bz44knfrfdis4)
![A screenshot of a tweet from some rando:
In a traditional German toilet, the hole into which shit disappears after we flush is right at the front, so that shit is first laid out for us to sniff and inspect for traces of illness. In the typical French toilet, on the contrary, the hole is at the back, i.e. shit is supposed to disappear as quickly as possible. Finally, the American (Anglo-Saxon) toilet presents a synthesis, a mediation between these opposites: the toilet basin is full of water, so that the shit floats in it, visible, but not to be inspected. [...] It is clear that none of these versions can be accounted for in purely utilitarian terms: each involves a certain ideological perception of how the subject should relate to excrement. Hegel was among the first to see in the geographical triad of Germany, France and England an expression of three different existential attitudes: reflective thoroughness (German), revolutionary hastiness (French), utilitarian pragmatism (English). In political terms, this triad can be read as German conservatism, French revolutionary radicalism and English liberalism. [...] The point about…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6awk5byvn4n4rashohtrkyo4/bafkreidhlwiqcwxeuxn26p3pkj5dk4mxxfd6pqda4ztxdcljmxzlqqzske)
