NYE used to be my favorite holiday - we spend it with friends doing a sort of small-dish cook-off, there is a lot of drinking, we go outside at midnight and druknenly sing - and it’s a beautiful way to ring in the new year. Someone always goes too wild, but whatever we’re among friends!

Last year was “sloppy” though -…

Hm. I don’t think it’s solely about ‘disliking sex’ but traditional culture meets modern day workforce. The pressure is fierce to be married (in particular for women) by their mid to late 20s and having children out of wedlock is still a no-no. But the work culture, particularly for corporate workers, is not really…

Article fails to mention that there are no laws in place that punish discrimination against pregnant workers. I’m so fucking sick of global demographic mysteries that have answers screaming in your face. White men shoot up schools and churches because they’re violently bigoted. Mystery solved. There aren’t enough…

Eh, you can just say “xenophobic.” We all know it.

Gee. It’s almost as if enforcing a cultural norm of zero work-life balance makes it both harder and less appealing for people to start families.

That’s what makes this interesting to watch unfold, something is going to have to change in Japan, whether or not they want or like it. Either the business culture needs to change to allow women to work and have children, because from articles I’ve read over the years the choice is either never have a family to have a…

The key stat is that 921,000 Japanese were born this year, but 1,370,000 died.

96, tipsy, and in my sleep? Damn straight that’s how I wanna die.

Seeing as I have absolutely no desire or plans to stop drinking or being chubby, this is good news.

Douse that bread pudding in rum for full health benefit. 

Obese alcoholics the world over are printing this out right now.

Time to ride the exercise bike, than have leftover pear/chocolate bread pudding for breakfast.

My great-grandfather had a business in Manhattan; every day he’d close the shop at 12:30 and go home to the Bronx; he’d have lunch, then smoke a cigar, have a glass of cognac and have a nap. He’d then go back and reopen the shop at 3pm.

I’ll drink to that!

I beg to differ. This kind of wonkiness has been happening since always.

“SQUIRTED MIXTURE OF BLEACH AND WATER INTO RECTUM WANTING TO PREVENT AIDS”

I judge my year based on whether or not I appear on this list. I do not, so my year was good.

““SNEEZED AND A COMPUTER KEYBOARD KEY CAME OUT RT. NOSTRIL, SNEEZED AGAIN & ANOTHER ONE ALMOST CAME OUT””

• RIDING HIS HORSE WHEN HE FELL OFF AND WAS STEPPED ON BY HORSE ON PENIS

This is a rough day at school.