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https://twitter.com/samhuxley/status/1452685614239948801?s=20

>> No.19298137

>>19298074
Is it catamites?

>> No.19298162

>>19298074
Did he say "doughnuts"?

>> No.19298166

>>19298074
its ambrosia (cum)

>> No.19298170

Gyro?

>> No.19298179

>>19298162
Homer Simpson

>> No.19298184

I don't know how I feel about this. It's embarrassing, but I don't expect everybody to know about this stuff.

>> No.19298220

>>19298074
That hurt to watch; though, in their defense, the pressure of being on a game show probably reduces your ability to think critically

>> No.19298231

its funny i saw some cuck on youtube who said that the Simpsons was subversive
kek

>> No.19298272 [DELETED] 

love it. good telly.

>> No.19298288

>>19298074
I mean donuts who wouldn't like donuts.

>> No.19298304
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19298304

Brexit education.

>> No.19298305

>>19298074
Big fan of the host's reactions there.

>> No.19298318

This is what i believe, he watches some sitcoms (like my mom, i thank jesus every day he freed me from here) and they make a funny joke about donuts and gods.
I start to feel really unwell about this.

>> No.19298325

>>19298318
No he was confused with Homer Simpson, who loves donuts

>> No.19298329

No, I didn't. I would have guessed wine or something. It has been a long time since I read the Iliad.

>> No.19298330

>>19298074
>did you know this?
Yeah.

>> No.19298342

>>19298288
I've read the illiad and still would have got it wrong. Would have guessed a sacrifice or something like that.

>> No.19298344

Lad's right, donuf are a lot tastier than ambrosia

>> No.19298348

>>19298074
I grabbed my head from embarrassment, holy shit.

>> No.19298355
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19298355

If you didn't guess "ambrosia," you DIDN'T "Start with the Greeks," you merely TRIED to start and FAILED.

>> No.19298357

>>19298074
Do Americans really?

>> No.19298360

>>19298074
Garmonbozia

>> No.19298376

>>19298342
Yeah no i listen to the illiad in an audio book cause i do things that are izzy. Holy shit i had a hard time to learn english you cant expect me to learn greek.

>> No.19298380

>>19298357
Watch British quiz shows? I guess.

>> No.19298515

>>19298329
>I would have guessed wine
>They drank nectar and ate wine
that's even dumber though

>> No.19298527

If you want to get depressed watch old game shows from the 70s. The average intellect has degraded so far.

>> No.19298534

>>19298074
I can't watch cause I'm working. Can someone give me a quick rundown. I know the answer is ambrosia and I've never even read Homer.

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19298535

>>19298074
I know because I'm from Alabama

>> No.19298540

>>19298534
They think the question is referring to Homer Simpson.

>> No.19298548

>>19298540
To bongistanis still actually watch the simpsons?

>> No.19298552

Yes, I finished reading Homer last week. Even without that though I knew that ambrosia was the food of the greek gods because I used to watch Xena.

>> No.19298559

>>19298535
American cuisine is unironically based
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKxWd1uOJE8

>> No.19298564

>>19298074
Honestly? not the worst mistake he could have made, but I'm probably only being charitable because he's being made fun of by Twitter midwits.

>> No.19298575

>>19298074
"Nectar and ambrosia" is a common saying in my language or at least I've heard it a lot to express the same meaning as "la crème de la crème", I thought this was common knowledge.

>> No.19298580

>>19298074
pusy

>> No.19298584

My first thought was "Donuts? Why donuts? ... Oh..."
Am I as dumb as this guy, just from the other side?

>> No.19298589

>>19298559
>American cuisine is unironically based
I don't have that pic of the pig laying down on a pile of trash but imagine I quoted your post with that pic attached.

>> No.19298590

>>19298559
They had youtube in the 80s?

>> No.19298614

>>19298559
i would bust so hard all over amy lynn's face

>> No.19298621

>>19298564
>not the worst mistake he could have made
I mean, the worst mistke would have been to say they ate the flesh of dead transexual niggers. He made the second worst mistake.

>> No.19298622

>>19298584
No.

>> No.19298645

>>19298355
Oh shit, you're right, i thought they were just straight up after 'milk'

>> No.19298685

>>19298621
Filtered

>> No.19298732

>>19298342
>guessed a sacrifice
/:

>> No.19298814

>>19298584
epic bro but im really just here for guenon posting how do i unsubscribe?

>> No.19299083

>>19298184
I'm with you /most/ of the time, but OP's video is pretty inexcusable. The host starts with "In his epic poems." If the host didn't begin with this, I wouldn't fault the players for thinking Homer SIMPSONS. But it was obvious the host was talking about Ancient Greece at least in some respect, so while they don't know the word "ambrosia" they could have said something like "wine", "corn", oil", "olives", "bread", instead they choose a modern invention because their brains have been destroyed by pop culture and media.

>>19298220
There is this, however. For all I know, they missed the important part "In his epic poems" due to either the pressure of being on TV and/or the host saying it too fast.

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19299124

>>19298355
I skipped the Greeks but knew the answer

>> No.19299133

Lmao what is wrong with you autists? They obviously didn't know the answer so they made a joke. Kinda lame sense of humour on both their parts but still far less cringe than everyone itt judging them as if they were giving that answer genuinely.

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19299162

Okay, time for our contestant Anon.
Anon, what 'N' was the Greek Goddess of retribution?

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19299176

>>19298074

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19299199

>yes, yes I do know this random, insignificant factoid!!

>> No.19299220

>>19298535
I prefer aunt myra's cheese salad myself
https://youtu.be/Qf_W7As6xbk

>> No.19299224

>>19298074
I want those 27 seconds of my life back

>> No.19299228

>>19299199
factoids are things that sound like facts but are not. hence the oid suffix

>> No.19299232

>>19298074
>british public school fags have a television show just to laugh at the plebes who did not have their gay education
Cringe.

>> No.19299238

>>19299199
>Also posts gripes about not remembering everything with computer perfection

>> No.19299247

>>19299162
Nemesis

It's always interesting to see how words that are fairly common in my language are obscure to An*los

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu0p6CtioZk

>> No.19299249

>>19298535
what the fuck is this? I want/need to eat it

>> No.19299265

>>19299249
Fruit walnut and cream of some sort.

>> No.19299271

>>19299199
>random
It's no uncommon to reference this "insignificant" factiod in literature.
Fucking 5th graders learn this when they're studying about Greek myths and institutions of the ancient era.

>> No.19299274

>>19298074

The world is going to shit.

>>19298220

Really ? Donuts ? I didn't even read Homer and I've hear about ambrosia.

>> No.19299281

>>19298231
It really was. Some of it still is decades later

>> No.19299285

>>19298355
I knew the answer from some Asterix and Obelix comic

>> No.19299304
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19299304

>>19299285
Based
Luv Idefix
Simple as

>> No.19299306

>>19298342
I watched Kevin Sorbo's Hercules and I would've gotten it right.

>> No.19299313

>>19299249
See>>19298559
It's whipped cream, marshmallows, fruit, nuts, coconut. Kinda trashy but i like it

>> No.19299336

>>19298559
This shit might actually be good if they used fresh ingredients but of course everything is frozen and canned.

>> No.19299356

>>19299336
I'm sure you pick your mallow straight from the marsh.

>> No.19299372

>>19299304
I want to blast my cum onto her tongue. I bet her pussy is tight.

>> No.19299394

>>19299372
>I want to blast my cum onto her tongue.
Same
>I bet her pussy is tight.
No idea
Probably tastes like ambrosia though

>> No.19299485

Is the answer ambrosia? I thought Ambrosia was nectar.

>> No.19299490

>>19298527
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Kss30IQV0A&t=3s&ab_channel=InsideEdition

>> No.19299743

>>19299083
>The host starts with "In his epic poems."
This man may bring the modern usage of "epic" to mind, which is even sadder.

>> No.19299755

>>19298355
This. Also fuck off from /lit/ because if you didn’t know the answer you never got to the Greeks at all.

>> No.19299757

Ambrosia?

>> No.19299758

I knew the answer, but let's be honest, this knowledge isn't different from movie or video game trivia

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19299769

>>19298355
I knew it from Percy Jackson and The Olympians

>> No.19299787

>>19299757
hi welcome to the thread fren

>> No.19299794

>>19299758
This movie like trivia is knowledge on Greek mythology that shows up often in literature. It's not just a dumb trivia.

>> No.19300222

>>19299758
This is how I feel when people call me smart. I'm not smart, I just know a lot of things.

>> No.19300441

>>19298342
>Would have guessed a sacrifice
Yeah, I was thinking of hecatombs.

>> No.19300520

>>19298515
I always imagined ambrosia as a liquid as well anyways. I know "eating" wine makes no sense.
In fact to be entirely honest I think I've thought ambrosia and nectar were more or less synonyms.

>> No.19300588

>>19299083
Writers should have added ancient greek Homer to the question or at least should have given the host a note that he should mention it as remark after reading the question for the first time. The problem is the writers are so full of themselves that they didn't even consider Homer Simpson and normies dropping classical literature or 2bh literature in general. Can't wait for Netflix series to be discussed in English courses

>> No.19300726

>>19298231

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-T5eSUm-js

>> No.19300743

>>19300588
>>19299083
Oh what the fuck I just realized why he said donuts. Jesus Christ

>> No.19300805

>>19299228
He did in fact use factoid correctly

>> No.19300823

>>19299247
>nemesis
>obscure to anglos
Spoken like a true ESL

>> No.19301030

>>19298074
Im dumb so off the top of my head I was thinking pomegranates because I know they were significant in Greek culture but I knew that wasn't the answer they were looking for. Once I saw a kind anon say ambrosia I knew that was the answer.

Now time to get shit on for being honest.

>> No.19301099

>>19298074
If someone asked me "what do greek gods eat" I would probably say ambrosia. The way it was phrased confused me as when I think about homer I think about how boring the illiad was

>> No.19301176

i thought brits were smarter than burgers
what the fuck

>> No.19301278

>>19301176
Anyone who watches or participates in game show television is 85 IQ, doesn't matter which race

>> No.19301283

>>19299769
Based, that's literally how I started with the Greeks.

>> No.19301317

I thought of the lotus-eaters, but I couldn't remember the name and came up with "lily pads" instead. Lily pads, food of the gods

>> No.19301351

>>19298074
I would have guessed grapes.

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19301355

>>19301176
WOT DID YOU JUTHT THAY?

>> No.19302477

>>19298074
desu I would be so nervous/adrenaline pumped to be on TV that my scattered brain would probably just pick out they key words like "Homer" and yeah, say something stupid like that

>> No.19302496

>>19301176
Not the peasants.

>> No.19302507

>>19299769
kek, me too

>> No.19302538

>>19300588
>The problem is the writers are so full of themselves that they didn't even consider Homer Simpson and normies dropping classical literature or 2bh literature in general.
Or maybe, just maybe, it's a game show, and it's not supposed to be that easy.

>> No.19302541

>>19300588
if they meant homer simpson they would have explicitly said homer simpson

>> No.19302581

I knew it from Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

>> No.19302599

First thought was "Ambrosia", but not sure if that refers specifically to food rather than drink.

>> No.19302799
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>>19298074

>> No.19302808

>>19298074
yes

damn its sad enough when americans do this shit but bongs being stupid is something else

>> No.19302875

A moment of hesitation on the sight of the host's incredulity, but a heroic resolve to carry on despite all doubt.

>> No.19302883

>>19298220
To be fair on a show like that if I heard the word Homer, drink and food my brain would be on the Simpsons immediately. Although seeing the host's face might make me think to ask him to repeat the question

>> No.19303228

>>19298074
I actually did know this, but only because I've played Hades and Immortals: Fenyx Rising recently. So that's perhaps more embarrassing than not know it.

>> No.19303231

>>19299133
They did give that answer genuinely you autist. It doesn't mean they committed some great moral wrong but if you're reading some hidden joke in that you're spastically overthinking it.

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>>19298355
I haven't even read the Iliad and I still guessed it LMAO

>> No.19303307

>>19298074
The absolute state of British education. Every American I know would have answered this correctly.

>> No.19303326

am i retarded if i thought ambrosia and nectar were basically the same thing? i was under the assumption ambrosia was liquid too.

>> No.19303344

>>19298074
If you're not familiar with the term ambrosia you shouldn't be posting on this board lol that is the absolute most basic shit ever holy fuck

>> No.19303351

>>19303326
no you're right, ambrosia was sometimes used as a catchall term to refer to whatever the gods consumed on olympus, which included nectar. but sometimes they delineated between the two as well.

>> No.19304663

>>19300823
Prove me wrong, faggot.

>> No.19304754

>>19298074
yes, I learned this by watching Astérix et Obelix as a kid, like every non-philistine