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I work with a number of Japanese companies. I frequently find it quite difficult to figure out what they really mean. There is so much hidden away in the veneer of politeness, that decoding the underlying message they are trying to impart can be difficult. Heaven knows what they think of us - I suspect we come across as extremely rude.
Having said that, I've worked with a Japanese sales engineer for our company for probably about 15 years, and he's just a really likeable guy, very friendly, with a great sense of humour.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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@Mik said in Mildly interesting:
Weird places to visit
Cool list. I have been to the rock in Mahalbalipurim, India. My pic of the place.
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“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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@Copper said in Mildly interesting:
Accounts of the Enron scandal have frequently portrayed him as a mysterious figure
He has a wiki with no picture, that is mysterious.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Lou+Pai&t=osx&iax=images&ia=images
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DON’T let them eat cake.
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@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
That explains a whole hell of a lot…
I was watching an Anime with Luke, once and commented that I believe that Hiroshima and Nagasaki really fucked up the Japanese on some deep instinctual level.
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The Penrose Triangle, an IMPOSSIBLE figure created by Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvärd in 1934 and rediscovered in the 1950s by physicist Roger Penrose, is known as "impossibility in its purest form." Popularized by Penrose and highlighted in the works of M.C. Escher, this triangle appears to be a solid object composed of three straight sections of square sections joined together at straight angles.
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A tale of two densities.
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dead on the street near my door. I love seeing Scorpio in the summer night sky with the lovely Antares.
Hate these little fuckers
They look malevolent.
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Speaking of scorpions, they’re worse than you think.
They are scorpions for a reason.
Scorpion Mother Carrying Babies on Her Back
A scorpion can have up to 100 babies in a single brood. They are born alive, unlike other insects that hatch from eggs. At birth, the baby scorpion's exoskeleton, or outer shell, is extremely soft. They climb onto their mother's back for 10 to 20 days until their exoskeleton hardens. The offspring of a female scorpion ride on her back until they consume her entirely, hollowing her out in the process. Upon birth, the babies immediately attach themselves to their mother's back, feeding on her flesh until she is depleted and perishes.
Afterward, they crawl away to start their independent lives.
Credit: Reddit|PythiaPhemonoe
