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user-inactivated  ·  2727 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Queen Offers to Restore British Rule Over United States - The New Yorker

Did she really?





lil  ·  2727 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's satire.

rezzeJ  ·  2727 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's what we want you to think. Soon your rivers will run brown with tea.

WanderingEng  ·  2727 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The last time that happened you all got really upset. I think the scarier threat would be to replace our coffee with tea.

ButterflyEffect  ·  2727 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Which, depending on how climate change effects coffee growing regions (hint: not very well in terms of growing), might happen anyway down the road.

am_Unition  ·  2727 days ago  ·  link  ·  

People in my f-book newsfeed were up in arms about this, which is always enjoyable to see. I think it should be called "getting Onion'd". The New Yorker is especially good at it because they also publish actual news.

user-inactivated  ·  2727 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Any way I should've known that before asking? I don't think I've seen anything in the article apart from the writer doing some comedy. Should that have tipped me off?

lil  ·  2727 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Whether it is satire or not, don't believe anything you read on the internet, even if it's linked from a normally reliable hubski correspondent.

user-inactivated  ·  2727 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Eh. In my head, "why would you write something that's not true?", even though this is pretty much how humor works. Maybe this is the extent of my trust issues.