I still remember when I first came to Japan, I was staying with the host family. If we were like, eating dinner or doing homework at the table and the little brother (about 11) needed to blow his nose — he would literally get up from the table and go stick his head in the closet that was right off the dining room and…

Except for Kyoto. They do it like Tokyo does, for whatever crazy reason.

Ooh, does he also have a secret plan to fight inflation?!

SO IS JAPAN!

Yeah .. no.

I’m utterly transfixed!

バカは死んでも治らないな

And it looks like THR has fixed the article now .....

Obviously the costumers are using this footage as reference — you know, get a sense of modern day fashion for all walks of life and body types.

Smarties >

Oh they call it that good old Mountain Dew (woohoo!)

accused of paying cheating scheme mastermind Rick Singer $125,000 to help his daughter cheat on her SAT and ACT tests along with his wife.

Yeah, I’d never heard of concentration 64 or most of the others, but we definitely did Down Down Baby, and also Miss Sue and “Miss Suzy had a steamboat” one.

Re: 1)

I work in an animation studio in Japan (CG tho, so we are slightly less “black” than these examples). I’m in production management, and lately we’ve been trying to ramp up our staff so doing a lot of interviews for coordinators.

That’s a contractor, not freelance. They have a contract for the term of the project, and the company chooses to renew it or not.

Right? Like — what the actual hell?

dude, have you been living under a rock for the past year to not already have heard all about that movie a million times?

Or alternatively ... it’s giving me major GCB vibes.

I just mean in the sense that, when you have people crying wolf like that all the time, it makes people take the real allergy sufferers less seriously.