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-Aurele
-Aurele
{ When articles use the term "highest grossing movie", do they look at inflation or just the numbers as is? }
-Aurele
@Bramblestar257 I think about it all the time lol. Anytime I see a headline that's like "[insert movie] has the highest box office..." I just wonder if that includes inflation or no. Because, like Cecelia said above, yeah Moana 2 (I'm just taking her example) is making a whole ton of money, but so has other movies. And I wonder all the time how the numbers and data would look different if inflation was calculated and stuff. You know?
Bramblestar257
@-Aurele That's an interesting question actually, all I know is that it's how much it made in the box office.
-Aurele
{ Latin America ate with the cultural costumes this year at Miss Universe lol
Miss Bolivia, Miss Costa Rica, Miss Mexico, Miss Ecuador; they were all fantastic and had amazing outfits, I loved them.
Miss Samoa and Miss Zimbabwe always does amazing too, I loved her outfit this year. }
-Aurele
@-Cecelia I agree! I don't think the outfit was bad but it didn't scream "Brazil" which is like the whole point of the cultural costumes. The outfit Miss Perú got should've been the outfit Miss Uruguay got. Europe in general sucked ass. The only one I found myself actually saying "ooh" to in a positive way was Miss Malta because it was really cute and I loved the fit. Maybe Miss Italy but it still wasn't great compared to Miss Mongolia or Miss Jamaica. I knowwwww. Miss Slovakia would've been so cute if they didn't crop her shirt and just let her wear a cultural outfit! I don't think it was a bad fit but it was just odd to me they would do that.
-Aurele
{ Israel has just banned a UN (who previously helped Palestinian refugees) from helping Palestinian refugees.
Since the 1960s, UNRWA had provided services for Palestinian refugees. This morning, Israel's parilment banned that. Israel banned itself from having any contact with the UNRWA, alongside banning any of its occupied territory from having contact with the UNRWA.
Boaz Bismuth claimed "Anyone that behaves like a terrorist has no rights in Israel…. UNRWA equals Hamas, period.”
Even the United States has expressed concerns about this ban as it could impact the education, food, and healcare of millions of Palestinians.
Israel claims the UNRWA was teaching Palestinian kids to hate Israel and how to be antisemitic. Israel lawmaker, Yulia Malinovsky, also claimed UNRWA told Palatinian children they would be able to come back to Israel, following that statement with "This will bot happen" }
-Aurele
Source[s];
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/28/israeli-lawmakers-pass-bill-that-could-halt-unwra-relief-work-in-gaza
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/04/1148821
[Those were the only two I could find at the moment regarding the ban and the accusations made towards UNWRA, but it's very new so more will probably be out about the situations.]
[And I say "this morning" because it's almost midnight where I am lol-]
-Aurele
{ ONE OF THE ONE DIRECTION BOYS DIED?!?!?!?!
I'M IN SHOCK. LIKE ACTUALLY. }
-Aurele
{ Has anyone read Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie?
I just finished it and I'm obsessed (I loved it so much you have no idea) but I feel like nobody else has read it so I have nobody to talk to about it. }
A_Peacock
@-Aurele OMG AGATHA CRISTIE! I LOVE DETECTIVE STORIES BUT UNFORTUNATELY I HAVEN'T HAD THE CHANCE TO READ HER WORKS YET
-Aurele
@BigBoy4000 That's alright! It's a murder mystery! A woman gets killed on a boat going through the Nile and everybody else is a suspect. It's with Agatha Christie's reoccurring detective, Poirot as well. I really liked it! It took a bit for it to get interesting (imo) and I had to write down the character and how they were all related (since theres a lot), but once it did I was really into it and stayed up to finish it.
FutureDiaryAyano
Bro how do I get into Countryhumans?
-Aurele
@FutureDiaryAyano I don't know, it was my covid thing lol. I got into it through meme complications on youtube (I've always been a big fan of history and other cultures so I think that played a role too!)
-Aurele
{ Okay, someone on the r/countryhumans subreddit asked what the best ship was and everybody is saying "France x UK"
Like? No?
I don't have anything wrong with people who like that ship (I can see the background and its not like it makes absolutely no sense) but like... they were enemies and fighting against each other for 7–8 centuries. Don't you think the "best ship" should be one where the two have always been friends? Where they haven't always been fighting each other? Where they've always been alliances and fighting with each other, not against?
I don't know, maybe I'm just ignorant? But I don't think FrUK is the "best ship" and I think there's other, better ones. }
SpinThatThing34
@-Aurele hehehe don't get me wrong I love shipping (gonna ignore my humancountry shipping era...) , keep doing your thing! But yet right, I wish some trends weren't so... How do I say, influential? Especially when they are bad (do you remember the airplane toilet licking in 2021-2022???)
-Aurele
@SpinThatThing34 I get that. I'm one of those people who gets into things through fanart (literally how I got into countryhumans and the reason I like certain characters lol) but with that being said, it is unfortunate [?] how influential fanart and artists sometimes. Just because there are some artists & writers who encourage not so good things (like bad/unaccurate ships or stereotypes) and people who see that will want to copy/imitate it. Like France x UK is one of those ships that was everywhere because people wanted to hop in on the trend/do what everybody else was doing and like what everybody else liked. (And I'm not saying every artist is bad at all, I'm just referring to those people who have a large following that encourage/draw not-so-good/inaccurate/harmful things!) I personally like shipping (ik it's unhinged and weird but I love having my characters be in love and having them fall in love in different ways lol) but I can see why people find it weird & don't like it and I respect your opinion!
SpinThatThing34
Like New jersey said, it's a matter of popularity and unfortunately if you ship something else people think it's weird,
People may also get attached upon seing good Fanart and stories (that's how they get popular in the first place) also CRAZY OPINION, But shipping personifications of countries is a little unhinged LOL
But that's us humanity
A_Peacock
Aurelee
-Aurele
{ *sigh* Good morning. Its about 7:51 am here in France. A good 18°C, everybody is just waking up, and an Argentine tourist is already pissed off at me that the croissants are not finished baking.
We don't even open until 8:00. We are closed.
Happy Monday. }
-Aurele
@Masquerader_01 I do agree! I think she could've handled it a lot better (speaking she was a grown adult lol). I don't agree with what she did at all, I just sort of see why she would've been frustration to some extent, I guess? And thanks. I meet a lot of people each day from different parts of the world because I live in such a touristy part of France (and of course I see a lot of people online too) but I don't judge an entire nation just because of a few people or one bad experience I have! (I know there's a lot of nations that have bad statistics and bad parts of them but I still think there's good people and good aspect to them that should be acknowledged too! And vice versa where countries seen as great and wonderful have some bad aspect that should play a role in their character too!)