Older generations definitely do. It got referenced in a Murakami short story set in the 70s (or 80s maybe) where a couple of Japanese guys vacationing in Hawaii who don’t speak English heard a racist guy go off and said they could pick up on that one word without understanding anything else.
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Around the Boston area they call liquor stores “package stores” and shorten it to packie, but at least it’s spelled differently
Oh god, skyrim is 14 years old
I feel like this can go along with Prance
Please tell me you’re a fan of the How Did This Get Made pod
I think they have to change names to something lame when they become pope. The current guy is named Jorge Mario Bergoglio but goes by Francis.
He probably would but the important part is the narrator telling us that the devil “knew” that he lost, meaning the devil himself considered Johnny’s crappy performance to be the superior one for some reason.
This is similar to what happens with Asian giant hornets (those murder hornets that made it to the US a couple years ago)-- when a scout finds a honeybee hive it brings back a troop that goes in and just murders everything in sight, and with European bees there’s nothing they can do. Meanwhile the Asian bees know to lure the scout into the hive and then surround it with a bunch of bees, creating a bee ball. Then they vibrate and heat themselves up, and since the bees can withstand temps a few degrees higher than the hornet, they manage to overheat it to death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_giant_hornet#Native_honey_bees
The devil is declared the loser by the omniscient narrator, so what are the implications there?
Geez, no one talks about SNES MK anymore. Before the blue shell, we remember!
If you have a college degree it’s pretty easy to move to Japan. You just have to enjoy working for peanuts and singing songs to classes of little kids.
Well, university coop cafes are always gonna be comparatively cheap, but yeah, Japan’s prepared food is generally cheap on a different level. Stuff in grocery stores for one thing, but I still can’t quite figure out how sukiya or yoshinoya puts a beef set meal in front of you in 5 mins for less than 1000 yen
Yep, it’s called a clitic, and you can’t put emphasis on it the same way you would if you used the full word
He looks young enough for it to be House but I’m not used to seeing him in a bathrobe. Out of curiosity I just had a look at his post-House shows and he has one called Chance where he plays a forensic neuropsychiatrist. Seems like the show focuses more on one character and her life rather than him solving medical cases though, but I thought I’d stumbled onto House 2 for a second.
Any idea what this is from? I’m always down for some new Hugh Laurie shows.
Yeah there’s a reason “cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war” is a Shakespeare line (from Caesar)
The US used to use that as well but I dunno if younger people would be aware of it these days. There’s an old ee cummings poem that mentions “nipponized” metal.
Nippon still gets used today in names of places or organizations, and the sports chant equivalent of “USA! USA!” is “Nippon cha cha cha!”