The only bright side I am even remotely capable of seeing here is that recycling may increase because metals here will be worth more.

Heck, the bidet is an outright improvement in hygiene when you realize that toilet paper cannot match an actual stream of water.

I know enough Japanese to communicate on a very basic level, and I attribute it all to anime. Give it a try, and use some anime to help immerse yourself in it. (I haven’t attempted to learn how to write it, tho)

Coincidentally, I decided last weekend that I was going to learn French, and thus far, I am finding it amazingly easy. The funny thing is that I figured it was easy because I could make some of the sounds because the military had me learn Arabic when I was in college, because the Latin I learned in high school was…

We can’t do this in my workplace, so we just steadily ingest more and more caffeine and candy.

I learned awhile ago that to say someone “is/is not worth his/her salt,” is based on the fact that salt used to be the commodity used to purchase slaves in the ancient world—so the phrase was quite literal as to whether the slave was worth the purchase price.

Optimistically, when they liken it to a Blue Apron box, I think of good fruits/veggies and other fresh food items that may take additional time to prepare, but are better for you.

I would like to see people embrace the Japanese habit of wearing face masks. The last time I thought I had a bug, I wore a mask to an appointment and apologized to a technician upfront because I did not want to risk contaminating anything. She was initially taken aback, but very thankful for the courtesy.

In my experience, the coworker that says, “it’s just a cold,” is still an inconsiderate snot who does not care about what they are bringing into the workplace. No one wants the flu, but we certainly don’t want “just a cold” either.

*squeals, coos, and makes grabby hands*

Likely not. I had a guy try to give me that ultimatum a decade ago—and I sent him out the door without any room to recover.

A long time ago, I briefly dated a guy that had the gall to demand that it was my corgi or him—seriously, he dropped it as an ultimatum.

If our overly materialistic US economy is driven by people going into to debt to buy crap that will be useless almost immediately, then it is not as stable as you think. Also, the manufacture/disposal of all this unnecessary crap is ruining the environment.

...that is because y’all have terrible bacon.

I thought constantly about the fry-up, and thought that it would be glorious. Unfortunately, upon consuming the real thing at my nice hotel in London, I spent the better part of the day eating antacids and regretting my life’s poor choices.

I can’t help but feel that binge-reading does not permit the proper absorption of material. However, I say that because I like reading books that make most people wail in agony. Moby Dick was a pleasant month-long jaunt. I am currently working on The History of Civilization: The Age of Faith..it is a massive book that…

I tend to carry cash because I find it relatively more secure than risking my card information everywhere I go. I also find it better for tipping, donating, and general usefulness...and I think I have broken $20s for my coworkers at least 10 times because someone fretted over having no smaller bills.

I get a crazy amount of email offers from Starbucks, whether they be Star Dashes, special offers, and so on. I have all but stopped going to Starbucks because all of those danged offers involve those obnoxiously sweet calorie bomb frappucinos or are timed during the worst parts of my week because they don’t seem to…

I think that Trump’s asshattery is simply the result of being born rich, never working for anything, never being told no, and never developing any real character or people skills. “Asshole” is simply the only thing he knows.

I have the largest stomach capacity, so I don’t really “win,” so much as I am tasked to get rid of everything that is not substantial enough to put away.