wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?
ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.
I’m hiding this under a readmore so you dont necessarily need to read garbage
“Maybe it’s because in Japan people dont have a lot of siblings” I need you to think before you talk I need you to consider a little bit what you’re saying I want everybody to take a pause and make sure they *really* want to then bring up China
biting my tongue as i listen to a guy just throw out a random "theory" about the prevalence of siscon in anime
I came across the original video of the seagull meme!
What a glorious day! I never realized it was a video, let alone a full throat and hearty evil villain laugh!
Going through records management training at work and it’s talking about maintaining records from collaboration platforms (things you have to use to do work with people outside the agency) and it mentions discord and the idea of government-related work being done in discord scares me
chilchuck going "sorry leave me outta this one. i cant fight" but then hitting literally every precise shot with an arrow or projectile he ever made in the story INCLUDING PIERCING A RED DRAGONS EYE BY THROWING A KNIFE WHILE LEAPING AWAY my bro is a rogue with dex 20 and wants no one to know biggest liar in history