69 cities in the united kingdom and forty seven thousand pubs
england is smaller than my state and has like almost as many bars as the entire US combined. like it’s just 10,000 short of catching up to the US, a country with almost 5 times its population
going to one pub every single day it would take you 130 years to go to every pub in britain
It’s hard to conceptualize sometimes how much early Simpsons was counterculture and genuinely radical, before it became the hegemonic culture it had previously criticized
My anthro professor has three forbidden words for his essays: problematic, interesting, and large. Point being they’re all filler words, he wants you to just skip straight to why it’s interesting or why it’s problematic. But anyway, any time I disagree with him in class I say to him “mm, interesting, but largely problematic.”