Found this ad poster in the local camping/fishing/outdoors store near where my parents live.

Yup. “One of the worst” if you are calculating this by, like, making a list of all things throughout history that ever happened to Germany, ranking them by worse-ness ...

As far as I understand, that’s because the Census is intended to count United States RESIDENTS — not simply citizens. And yes, if you are maintaining residency while living abroad there’s an argument to be made there, but I think the consensus is that the number of people affected by this is so small as to be…

That’s the reason that many Americans are freaked out by the heated toilets seats — the association with “warm = somebody was just sitting here” can be... uncomfortable. And I’ll admit it freaked me out at first too.

That is GOLD

It doesn’t really have anything to do with the number of officers tho. The idea is that, say you have an area marked as 1 hour parking but it’s just a sign, no meter that you have to feed. The officer doing their rounds needs a way to track how long a car has been parked in the spot.

As a fellow gaijin Japan-resident .... dunno how good your Japanese is, but I would just call them on it, “this must be an honest mistake” style.

Yup.

YES PLEASE.

Daddy’s gotta go to work!

It’s a valid problem, certainly. But what’s not valid is trying to use that as an excuse for why the law should be stopped -- because the solution to the problem should be, as you say, fixing the delays. Not blocking the law itself.

I think the biggest difference is that in the book it’s all from his POV so you’re in his head the entire time. Even if the characterization in the show is the same, by virtue of it being a TV series you automatically have a bit more distance from that, you spend time in other characters’ POVs, etc.

That’s definitely true. And yet... if you asked, I definitely wouldn’t say I consider yakisoba to be a “stir fry.” I know it’s completely arbitrary but.... I guess it’s the same kind of idea as talking about if a hot dog is a sandwich ;)

Just curious, what are you considering to be “Japanese stir fry”?

Yeah, possibly #unpopularOpinion but I’ve never liked pimento cheese.

I mean, the Japanese name of the product is “nomu” onigiri, and nomu is the verb “to drink.”

Yeah redloki is right.

On the other hand, we had a beach house when I was in middle/HS then my parents sold it and it LITERALLY paid for my college tuition. So.... there’s that haha.

Truth. I watched Beyond the Lights sooooooo many times because of her!

I mean, yes this looks absolute crap but I feel I have to step in and defend the honor of fanfiction because that’s really really not all it is!!