• @[email protected]
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    3 days ago

    I talked to an older relative from the Soviet Union about gay marriage and she told me that on the one hand, it seems strange that something she had been raised to view as a mental illness was now getting official recognition, but on the other hand there were always people like the two nice guys she used to work with who were best friends, lived together, and never found the right women to marry…

    (She did work in a metallurgical plant but those guys were probably engineers rather than burly steelworkers.)


    She also said that she didn’t like the Chinese engineers sent to visit her plant because they smiled too much. A similar thing happened when my family came to the USA, before we got used to things here. I recall my mother being bothered that a cashier had smiled at her because the cashier didn’t know her and had no reason to be happy to see her.

    • @PugJesusOPM
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      but on the other hand there were always people like the two guys she used to work with who were best friends, lived together, and never found the right women to marry…

      Bestie goals

      She also said that she didn’t like the Chinese engineers sent to visit her plant because they smiled too much. A similar thing happened when my family came to the USA, before we got used to things here. I recall my mother being bothered that a cashier had smiled at her because the cashier didn’t know her and had no reason to be happy to see her.

      lmao, an acquaintance of mine feels uncomfortable back in their home country because people aren’t amicable to strangers like they are in the States, and that amicable reaction feels like the ‘normal’ to them now.

    • @PugJesusOPM
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      123 days ago

      Dorothy is an awfully popular comrade! Everywhere I go people seem to know her!

      • @ummthatguy
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        73 days ago

        “We’ve met before sir”

        “I don’t think so”

        “Oh we have sir…”

        The film My Fellow Americans had its moments.

      • @SpaceNoodle
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        113 days ago

        No, metallurgical is an adjective.

        • @GreenAppleTree
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          33 days ago

          To be fair, “sabbatical” sets a precedence on adopting adjectives into nouns. I’m all for using “metallurgical” as a noun denoting workplaces that do metallurgy.

  • @Godric
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    83 days ago

    Fantastic title

  • @njm1314
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    73 days ago

    About when were these coming out? Are we talking like early 50s here?

    • @PugJesusOPM
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      73 days ago

      Almost certainly pre-Sino-Soviet Split, some links on reverse image search say 1950.

      • @njm1314
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        23 days ago

        Yeah that was why I was asking I figured there had to be a pretty narrow time here where these could have been made

  • @[email protected]
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    43 days ago

    The funny thing is the translation of “comrades” in Chinese is using as a reference to gay these days in China.