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4 days agoIt’s just a game, but we’re gonna put it in EVERYTHING! Play our game peasants!
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3·13 days agoAlso not quite the same but I think radiooooo.com is fun
Not sure if the prices used to be less ridiculous but: https://www.usmint.gov/paper-currency/uncut-currency/
3·16 days agoI mean, yeah. You at least have to decide who’s on top first.
He buys (or used to anyway) sheets of $2 bills from the treasury,cuts them himself, and puts them together into a little packet. Then in tipping situations he’ll peel off a wad, just to see peoples reactions for the lolz
Yeah, talking cultures broadly I agree, but the phrasing of how respect permeates “all aspects of daily life” sticks in my craw.
There is a literal physical language and ettiquette to showing the proper amount of respect: If you do a very deep bow for something that only calls for a minor one, you’re basicslly acting like a kiss-ass, being overly dramatic. If you do a minor bow for a situation that calls for a deep bow, you’re being flippant, insulting, not taking things seriously.
This isn’t really unique to Japan, except maybe for the fact that it manifests itself as a bow. If you owe someone a really big apology and you say “Yeah, oops” you’ll come off as flippant. If you minorly inconvenience someone and you say “I’m so deeply sorry for the grave harm I’ve done to you!” you sound insincere.
You usually get the welcoming phrases, but that’s not unique to Japan. The goodbye phrase is less common I think, to the point where I’m not sure which one you’re talking about–maybe “mata yoroshiku onegaishimasu”? Bows aren’t super common either, or it could be because I live in the countryside. Maybe they’re more polite in Tokyo or something.
On an overall average I’d agree that society operates on a more considerate level, like you’d never have someone playing music on their phone on the train or something like that. So maybe it’s just the phrasing that bothered me. “Respect (how much?) in ALL aspects of daily (down to the most mundane) life” just makes it sound like “honorable citizens would never dream of showing an ounce of dishonor!”
“Showing respect in all aspects of daily life” sounds like a bit of orientalism. People aren’t exactly bowing to each other when they pick up a beer from a convenience store.
The first one. The second choked on a pretzel but he wasn’t with other county leaders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush_vomiting_incident
2·23 days agoInteresting, I haven’t heard it since the 90s. Do you pronounce it with an s or z? We said s, even though the normal verb form (eg “the governor housed 10000 homeless people with the latest bill”) is said with a z for me.
Don’t hear “house” meaning to destroy something anymore.
Ima house you.
I’m about to house this burrito.
“Bread and butter”, said to your partner when they’re about to split a pole while you’re walking.
What? I understood close to zero of the meaning of anything in this sentence.
Already a song about god’s dick
Before or after the French took over in 1066?
35·1 month agoSome countries have laws that are harsh for seeding (distribution) but not for leeching
Cue Chris Farley translating “el niño”
2·1 month agoPeople made up getting upset at vocal fry so they could complain about women
Can you give an example? People have different idiolects but slight changes in intonation aren’t usually enough to make an accent of one type distinct from others in that type. Like not everyone with the General American accent sounds exactly the same but you can still say this group is GenAm, this other one is Appalachian, etc.
3·2 months agoWhen the AI bubble collapses there’s gonna be a big market for companies that can extract data that hasn’t been polluted by AI
Oh weird, so strange and not usual at all that the ones not calling for his resignation invoke Christian values and Jeebus (and literally comparing him to the pedo in chief). Unfortunately with world events being what they are I’m sure this’ll be forgotten within a day or two. Apparently we can only wait for this guy’s name to pop up in the paper in a few years for having raped a bunch of pre teens.