Allegedly, it's piggybacking off some evolutionary tribalism instinct to protect our species' young. But the instinct went too hard, so we want to preserve everyone else's young too, like puppies and kitties.
But this explanation still doesn't account for people who respond to baby schema in animals but find it repulsive in human babies lol
Went into it expecting Airplane-type humor and was sort of let down. I think I might have been born just past the cut off for the age demo where the jokes land, as well as for The Jerk, which I was shocked to find I didn't laugh even once at the first time I finally put it on despite being a fan of most Steve Martin stuff. Oh well.
That's nuts. I remember being 11 years old and one of our friends snuck a copy of South Park's Bigger, Longer, and Uncut they stole from their older brother over to my place, and when they started singing the "Uncle Fucker" song, we lost our minds laughing, fumbling for the remote to turn down the volume before the neighbor ladies overheard and got us in trouble lol
It's crazy how much Tiktok has normalized censorship for this generation
My favorite thing about Russian is that most things translated to English sound so rude out of context, haha
Most of the speech sounds like aggressive dictation "Come over", "Sit down", which is such a stark contrast to the English manner of speech: "Do you think it might be possible if it doesn't terribly trouble you to pass the salt?"
I also learned a little while ago that apparently this manner of speech is also seen as somewhat offensive in parts of Scandinavia because it's seen as passive aggressive lol
It's so weird how you can sneeze a million times and people will treat you like the panda meme, but a few coughs in the row and suddenly this quiet blanket of dread falls over the room like "Are they dying? Should we call the CDC?" 😂
I did this during the entire training day of one of my first jobs, and at the end my boss asked me if I'd ever been in the ROTC. I said no, having no clue what it was, until I looked it up later at home.
Most British food, haggis, black pudding, kidney pie. Also tried marinated intestine once in Shanghai and got addicted to it, so now I'm always on the hunt for authentic Chinese restaurants that serve it.
That was beautiful.
And the alt-text made me laugh hard enough to hurt myself lol