Nangijala

I am a coward for life.

not always. I remember they cast Caroline Henderson (pretty cool scandinavian singer) to play the role of a historical norwegian viking jarl in the show Vikings, which was a very strange choice. And tbf, that show is especially guilty of depicting the fantasy version of vikings with furs and leather and modern hair cuts and dirt on their faces. I don’t have much respect for that show.

I think Vinland Saga does a much better job with historical accuracy when it comes to depictions of clothes, ships, houses and tools.

It’s because there’s an assumption that only European history and culture is interesting to audiences so they just ignore other cultures and do their weird inaccurate costumes and castings and call anyone who has criticism for it a racist or a snob.

It’s so easy to dismiss people by calling them racist when you take their culture, histories and mythogies and do nothing to represent them correctly.

And before anyone comes for me, I still find it fucking weird that Martin Scorsese decided to cast a white man in the role of Bill Smith, when the real Bill Smith was native American. It is especially weird to me, because Bill Smith is the only good white man in the movie. I just don’t understand the need to lie about his ethnicity.

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I hate that movie with a passion, btw. For many, many, many reasons.

In general, the way vikings are portrayed in media is more fantasy than fact.

It’s like everyone things vikings only wore leather and furs and caked their faces in dirt, men in reality, vikings were pretty colorful, clean and fabulous.

I love Greenland and the people up there, but I will never understand their love of whale blubber. We went on kaffemik while we were there and tasted everything both because it was polite, but also because it was kinda fun trying something new. I was especially thrilled about the small dried fish that they eat like a snack. Very chewy and extremely salty. It was pretty tippy to walk around with a whole ass fish and gnawing on it like a candy bar.

Everything tastes like fish except musk ox and reindeer. They weren’t lying when they said that you are what you eat. Whale meat taste like fish. Seal meat taste like fish. Polar bear meat taste like fish.

They had a whole ass whale tail on a small table on the balcony outside and stuck a knife in it. Feel free to cut off a piece and chew on it for tenthousand years. I just couldn’t do it. I wanted to, but everything in me was like “nope, bitch.” Meanwhile my younger siblings walked up, cut a piece and started chewing. The look on their face told me that I had made the right decision.

“It tastes like fish”

Yep.

They make mean cakes, though. And I fucking love reindeer. Tastes so good.

This reminds me of that Z propagandist whose name escapes me, who have been super pro Putin and the Ukraine War from the start, who recently turned on Putin and began criticizing him. He was thrown in prison and released and went straight back to being interviewed, talking mad shit about Putin.

It is so funny to witness Putin losing control of his own people.

I don’t even know what point you’re trying to make, friend.

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Wild!😮

Great story, but I’m getting screwed over by DragonBall flashbacks.

That is very funny!🤣

Ignorant Dane here, but wasn’t Reagan the one who removed solar panels from the White House that had been placed by another president to promote green energy back in the 70s? Or was that another idiot? I just remember hearing about it awhile ago and going “holy shit, in another timeline, the shift to green energy could have happened decades ago if Americans had bothered to elect leaders who had their best interests at heart”

And since America was the trend setter of the world, the shift to green energy would have spread earlier and maybe, we would have been in such a different place than we are right now.

At least, that part is being handled now by the rest of the world while America insists on falling behind.

Edit: bruh, my memory hasn’t failed me yet.

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The noble savage stereotype has had a long life, I see xD

I’m not a stranger to having those problems, but if you read what I said, you’d also know that I said that once you make up your mind and have the knowledge necessary to make the choices that leads to weightloss, it is very very very easy.

That hard part is breaking out of the cycle and establishing a healthier habit. Once you’re on that track, losing weight is easy.

But if you don’t have the motivation and/or the right mindset, it will not happen, and there can be a myriad of reasons as to why that is. Life circumstances, mental health and such. I myself have dealt with a lot of blows in my life recently that has caused me to gain weight and I’m going to lose the weight when I go on break and finally get some time away from the stress. And after that, it’s gonna be pretty easy to keep going.

But losing weight is easy. I will always stand by that.

This screams: I ran on the treadmill for an hour and I deserve a snack. Said snack is energy bars or something like that.

I know, because that’s how I used to think. Went to a dietist and her words were: Exercise is for toning, eating is for weightloss.

Yeah, you burn calories and you lose weight if you exercise a lot, but let’s be real, most of us aren’t exercising a lot. Going to the gym for an hour isn’t the same as doing athlete sports or manual labor.

That’s why, if we want to lose weight, we have to look at portion control, lean protein, cut down on starch and eating a lot of greens.

You can still eat a lot while losing weight, but most people aren’t going to eat the right things and that’s the issue. I was told that energy bars, crackers and anything bread-related outside of rye bread, was a weightloss killer.

It doesn’t mean you can never ever have bread again, but if your aim is to lose weight, you’re not gonna get very far if you snack on bread and crackers. If you snack on vegetables, however, you’ll be able to eat A LOT.

There are always things you can do to adjust your diet so that you will lose weight, but if you don’t know anything about what different types of food actually does to your body, you may think you’re doing the right thing by eating ten bananas a day, but the scales don’t move because you ate frigging ten bananas a day!

Doesn’t mean you can never eat bananas or squash or fatty fish ever again, but while losing weight, you’re supposed get less calories than what you need to sustain your weight. It helps reading into it and getting a basic idea of what, how and where. I didn’t know shit before I had a professional helping me. I’m still no expert and my weight still goes up and down during different seasons of my life, but I know why and I know how to fix it when I get the motivation. Losing weight is very, very, very easy once you make up your mind to do it and have a basic understanding of what food does to the body.

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It’s a comparison to 1960s soviet union and today’s America.