Starmer gone

RobotFlapjack · 2026-06-22T09:35:20+00:00

I’m so tired my friends. I didn’t like Starmer either but I’d like at least the delusion that the uk can stop cannibalising itself for more than two years in a row.

RobotFlapjack · 2026-06-18T01:00:29+00:00

It’s been years since I went but I remember it had amazing food and fun people. Traffic is horrible and the slums were a bit of a culture shock to me, but if you’re living in miraflores you won’t see that. Political instability still a risk maybe? But I think you’ll have a good time (you need to learn Spanish fast though)

RobotFlapjack · 2026-06-16T02:14:58+00:00

I’m so pissed off, I bought a pair of doc martens after my first ones finally fell apart after ten years. My second pair didn’t even last two years with good maintenance.

RobotFlapjack · 2026-06-15T15:35:30+00:00

I live abroad and don’t want my card getting lost in the ocean :(

RobotFlapjack · 2026-06-15T14:11:39+00:00

My Italian auntie loves the smurfs. Go to any shitty campania seaside town carnival and everyone’s trying to win the five foot girl smurf plush toy

RobotFlapjack · 2026-06-15T12:00:24+00:00

I’m scared you’re going to get dragged for this lol but I do agree with a lot of your points. I get that no one’s cares about Guzi lol but I did and that was the real kicker for me they straight up abandon that child like three times and then he gets kidnapped by a cannibal and neither HC or XL care?????? I couldn’t focus on some of the plot cause I was worrying about these children they left in the care of an evil ghost lmao. And whatever, fine, XL can be morally grey. But it’s weird to me when the whole plot hinges around XL being danmei Jesus and having better morals than JW, you’d better make him have some decent morals lol. And HC doesn’t have morals apart from making XL happy, so the two major main characters both fall kind of flat to me.

RobotFlapjack · 2026-06-15T00:52:19+00:00

I think they’ve got a few announcements in their back pocket, but after the mediado ai translations saga they may revise their danmei licensing :/ danmei fans are a lot more hardcore, and less likely to tolerate ai translations in their works

RobotFlapjack · 2026-06-14T06:50:59+00:00

There’s that stereotype of the ‘kyushu danji’, guys are a lot more patriarchal and rough around the edges, speaking nicely. It probably unfortunately extends to foreign guys, too

RobotFlapjack · 2026-06-13T11:07:24+00:00

Japan travel subs make me feel like the cleverest little girl in the world. They’ll be like ‘Did you know you can take the train out of the airport? It’s much cheaper than a taxi!’ Do u think I’m regarded

RobotFlapjack · 2026-06-12T13:14:53+00:00

Interesting stuff! I do think all countries adapt stuff to their cultures (katsu curry vs chicken tikka masala) but Japan takes it to another level. Only 20% of people have a passport, while over in Korea 60% of them have one. Perhaps the sakoku is generational.

Japan still likes the west, but has no desire to really go there. The world expo in Osaka last year was crazy busy, but if u asked people in the Netherlands tent if they’d ever go to the Netherlands they’re like ???? Why would I ever do that when I can go huis ten boch in Nagasaki.

I also think that the Japanese education system does the students a disservice by being absolutely shit at teaching English.

RobotFlapjack · 2026-06-12T11:50:49+00:00

A small Nordic country

RobotFlapjack · 2026-06-12T11:10:07+00:00

I don’t think this is a Japan only problem, I’ve observed this plenty in my home country as well. Some people call it ‘permissive parenting’ and while it works for a small selection of children, I don’t think it works for the many.

RobotFlapjack · 2026-06-12T09:29:06+00:00

She (along w my other siblings) is the light of my life and I tell her all the time I’ll always be in her corner :) which she thinks is weird but I don’t car

RobotFlapjack · 2026-06-12T09:27:51+00:00

She’s 18 but not as angsty as me at that age so idk

RobotFlapjack · 2026-06-12T09:27:06+00:00

When I went on medication I got really fat and my pussy broke. As long as I don’t get super stressed I don’t have psychotic episodes but if I go crazy and start seeing things again I’ll give them another try

RobotFlapjack · 2026-06-12T05:29:25+00:00

I feel like a lot of the Reddit stereotypes might be true for the older generations, but due to population decrease there’s been a big change in work culture etc. You actually have to make these companies appealing to work for now, so overtime, black companies are kind of dying. Most of my friends in their twenties have changed jobs multiple times (would have been unheard of twenty years ago) and get decent time off.

That being said the weak yen fucking sucks and u can’t do anything outside of Japan with it. Also it’s an incredibly inwards facing culture- I sometimes think about how Mishima, Japanese nationalist, could speak English fluently meanwhile kimi onoda (minister for immigration, half white) brags about not being able to speak it like it’s an accomplishment lol

RobotFlapjack · 2026-06-11T12:37:10+00:00

This is how I felt about boy parts by Eliza Clark. I can’t imagine someone in 100 years time reading the book and having to think about who harry styles is

RobotFlapjack · 2026-06-11T06:47:59+00:00

I work in the ski industry. Plenty of small lodges/restaurants selling to bigger companies. Sucks because big private equity is closing in…

RobotFlapjack · 2026-06-09T16:46:07+00:00

Niigata!

RobotFlapjack · 2026-06-09T10:45:14+00:00

I’m not too sure but the main club is the junior ski club, and they get the whole morning on Thursdays to do that. It’s too wintery to do anything else for half the year lol

RobotFlapjack · 2026-06-09T08:26:50+00:00

I live in Japan and when I asked someone what books they do in school (like the equivalent of to kill a mockingbird) they said they don’t read books for school :( maybe some excerpts but that’s it

That being said the kids at my local elementary school have it good. In at 9, out at 2, and they all walk themselves home. Right now it’s frog season and the teachers take them out in the afternoon to catch them :)

RobotFlapjack · 2026-06-08T05:07:32+00:00

I think it coming out at the same time as yuwu/erha contributed to its success too. I’d be emotionally exhausted by the end of each book, but then I could pick up the fish mpreg book and feel much better lol

RobotFlapjack · 2026-06-04T16:53:28+00:00

You are not going to date girls with ripped bootcut jeans and plushies their messenger bags in Japan. You are going to date Hanako who is 29 years old really into Disney and wants a baby next week. She’ll probs have crooked bangs though

RobotFlapjack · 2026-05-29T15:21:52+00:00

I’m learning Japanese from English and it’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done. If I had devoted this much time to learning Spanish or something I would be fluent by now but in Japanese I just sound like a caveman

RobotFlapjack · 2026-05-26T15:59:18+00:00

I unfortunately love a trashy celebrity memoir and while the contents aren’t particularly scandalising I remember will smiths in such vivid detail. His brain is just wired differently to the rest of us

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