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[Hanslanda]

Call it Waluigi 2: Meta AF

[Trekkin]

They should then make a sequel in which he's now trapped in that game and wants out, a la the Matrix.

"Free your mind."
"WAA!!"

[Bumber]

What about Waluigi's Taco Stand?

[Jopax]

The other day I was driving some brit folk around and one of the ladies commented how she thought it was real neat that our gas stations were such social places, with pretty much every one of them having a cafe alongside the station shop. Didn't pay much attention to it then, but then I considered it and started wondering, is that something that's rare in the rest of the world? Where a place that people stop to pour gas or buy snacks for the road can sit down and have a cup of whatever before continuing their trip. Or is almost ritual coffee drinking not that big of a deal in the rest of the world and just something we got from the ottomans?

[KittyTac]

Most gas stations in Russia which are on long roads have cafes, mostly for long-distance truckers.

[Baffler]

The same is true of the emptier or more out of the way parts of the USA.

[CABL]

Constipation is the Dark Souls of pooping, change my mind.

[dragdeler]

-snip-

[scourge728]

You mean this?

[Reelya]

The other day I was driving some brit folk around and one of the ladies commented how she thought it was real neat that our gas stations were such social places, with pretty much every one of them having a cafe alongside the station shop. Didn't pay much attention to it then, but then I considered it and started wondering, is that something that's rare in the rest of the world? Where a place that people stop to pour gas or buy snacks for the road can sit down and have a cup of whatever before continuing their trip. Or is almost ritual coffee drinking not that big of a deal in the rest of the world and just something we got from the ottomans?

In Australia we have plenty of cars, but a stinky petrol station reeking of gasoline fumes is the last place anyone would want to socialize. There might be a convenience store there, but it's the sort of place where you get in and get out ASAP.

[dragdeler]

-snip-

[KittyTac]

Glory to Bay12!

[WealthyRadish]

I was thinking about the phrase "I could eat a horse" today for whatever reason, and it occurred to me that its implied meaning and possible origin might be a bit darker than the sense it's normally used in. The thing to ask is, why a horse? Why not some other large animal that people normally eat, that it would be an exaggeration to say you were hungry enough to eat in one sitting, like a cow, pig, goat, etc? Maybe because horse is usually worse meat, which adds to the exaggeration of hunger, but I don't think that's it.

It seems to me that the hunger that the phrase is describing isn't the modern sort where most people can't go 4 hours without getting hungry, or even really a direct description of hunger at all, but rather is referring to the desperation that comes with deciding to kill and eat your farm work animal (and using that link to ordinary hunger as a little joke). Nearly all of us are the decedents of peasants who at some point in our ancestry would have been starving to death and forced to eat draught animals, most of us within the last 200 years. A phrase like "I could eat a horse" (if wasn't already an omnipresent cliche) just wouldn't be interesting enough to gain currency if it wasn't making a clever little connection to some other concept than the feeling of hunger. It's a bit interesting to think about how these things get lost over time, even if it makes no difference now.

[Hanslanda]

I've actually heard horse meat is pretty good, though on the excessively lean side like venison.

[Il Palazzo]

I've actually heard horse meat is pretty good, though on the excessively lean side like venison.

I've had Italian salami made from horse meat. It was delicious.