Cherry blossoms are symbolic of a short life, but he was 89, so it doesn't poetically apply here.
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The “you might also like” section is absolutely right about me:
"Japanese man arrested for shouting that he studies English (weird) before grabbing woman's butt (illegal)" was a 10/10 article for sure
Still, I didn’t have it as bad as one 41-year-old woman living in Fukuoka City. Late in the afternoon of Saturday December 2, the woman (whose name has been withheld) contacted the police after the man who lived in the unit above her suddenly smashed through his floor/her ceiling and hurled a large piece of wood into her living space.
Sweet jebus. I've heard that the walls in those apartment are rather thin. Still, this (and the other stories on here) is pretty unhinged.
slightly off topic, but have you noticed how some of the Japanese entertainment that makes its way internationally has a certain element of What The Fuck? It seems to me like a Lack of Inhibition, which in my culture very often tends to be a response to living in overly restrictive environments. In my experience there's a real strong correlation. So is what I see in the entertainment (the general What The Fuck) a yearning for less restriction, less inhibition? Is it a cultural response to previously living under strict authoritarian rule? I don't know. It's just what I see in some art I enjoy, and then we see some FloridaMan type crimes like Dude Emerges From Ceiling And Throws Log and we Really Wonder.
I think I know what you're talking about. Personally, I've always chalked it up to Japanese media as an outlet for people that have to live in a restrictive culture. I think every culture does this to a degree: fantasies are sold for the consumer to live vicariously. Everyone just has different unmet psychological needs, where trends vary culturally. IMO, American media is just as fucked up in completely different ways.
It’s just what I see in some art I enjoy, and then we see some FloridaMan type crimes like Dude Emerges From Ceiling And Throws Log and we Really Wonder.
Sometimes it's mental illness, other times it's when all the manga and video games just aren't enough.
I really expected that to go the other way. A bite from an unkempt mouth on an older person just sounds like a great way to get sepsis.
Never bite your woman in a cherry blossom park in Japan.
In Japan we say the crazies come out in spring. Glad we're still keeping that tradition alive.
This is a good time to remember:
If it bites you and you die; venomous
If you bite it and you die; poisonous
So the woman was poisonous, gottit
And if it bites you, and it dies, you are poisonous.
If it bites you and you both die, rabies
What about pufferfish? If i bit a fugu in half the wrong way, we'd totally both die.
To match the "venomous" and "poisonous" words, you can also say "contagious".
Also, believe it or not, jail.
Yeah, but this is: If it bites you and it dies, you're poisonous?
That is identical to the 2nd case.
We're fucked
Patient Zero
That will teach people about having zero patient.
Who says isekai mangas have to start with truck-kun?
is there an isekai where they get isekaied into being truck-kun yet?
Isekai into the Cars universe?
FYI this was last week, the cherry blossoms are basically gone now, 2 weeks earlier than last year. Here's a pic from 2 weeks ago.
I've got cherry trees in Australia and they only bloom for a few days the last few years.
Climate sure is changing, our blooms in the PNW have been lasting for weeks almost a whole month now. I remember years ago as a kid it would be less than a week.
Fuck yeah, patient zero! I was starting to loose hope that zombie apocalypse could beat out climate change, pollution, wealth inequality, and fascism. But it's back in the race!
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A lot of twist endings over there, huh?
What is in the water in Osaka?
Osaka Man is clearly Florida Man's long lost brother.
plot twist: it's all the same guy
Move over Florida Man, Osaka Man had entered the Arena
The (edit: second) Osaka one is just sad. Grief sucks.
Unless he killed her...
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man didn't tell she was of the poisonous type
Never heard about this toxic femininity before!
I don't think there's much of a mystery he was 89 years old and he was sort of dude to go around biting people
Is she the reincarnation of chuck norris?
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