Ubertrout
C.A. Pinkham
Ubertrout

This image is a glorious gift upon which I shall shower many accolades. Read more

The internet wasn’t a thing, though. At least not the way it is now. Read more

This is a particular thing to Japanese, and it’s a really fucked up way to teach language studies. Immersion is great...if the student has enough of a basis in the language to even think about being able to benefit from it, and if they’re actually immersed all the time. They did it in my Japanese 102 class (101 was Read more

Yes. That was literally the entire point of mentioning it. Thank you for explaining the explicable. Read more

You know every image you’ve ever seen of eggs in popular mediums that weren’t scrambled? They were sunny side up. Read more

I’ll grant you that it’s a practice that SOUNDS way more messed up than it is, but the level of anger towards this will never not be funny. Read more

My fiancee can’t physically say “ruin” or “poem”; they come out “roin” and “poim.” No one knows where this came from; her parents don’t do this.* But that’s more an anachronism than a widespread mispronunciation, so I find it hilarious. Read more

Brent Hofacker, man. That guy is the Jordan of stock food photography. Read more

I’ve heard “kway-suh-dill-uhs” unironically before, but this is a new one to me. Read more

This story would’ve made the cut if it had been e-mailed to me. Read more

My degree is in East Asian History. Chinese History classes, the class was about 75% Chinese-American kids. Korean History classes, the class was about 75% Korean-American kids. Hell, my Central Asian history class had a student from Kazakhstan in it. Read more