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| Topic | Japanense and American neighbors overcome Ianguage barriers, become best friends |
| UnfairRepresent 07/29/19 6:43:12 AM #1 | Theresa says that she and her husband had moved to Yokosuka after he had been stationed at the nearby Navy base. Upon moving into their new neighborhood, they set about delivering beer and chocolate to each of their neighborsincluding a man named Hiroshi Yamashita. A few hours later, Yamashita visited the American familys home and presented them with toilet paper, stuffed animals for their daughter, and a note. The note read I cant speak English. Thank you for the present. My name is Hiroshi Yamashita. Im 52 years old. [Im divorced] and I live alone. Though the rest of the letter had some translation letters, Theresa inferred that the man was asking whether her husband was in the Navy and expressing his hope that the family would appreciate the toilet paper and toys. At the end of the note, Yamashita said: Thank you for your friend operation. hough he may have been thanking the family for their gesture of friendship, other internet users assume that he was referring to Operation Friendship, which was the United States response to the 2011 earthquake in Japan. Needless to say, Theresa and her husband were in awe of the heartfelt note. It was adorable! We had brought him a six pack and some chocolate and tried to introduce ourselves to him, wrote Theresa. A couple hours later he brought over this letter with a pack of toilet paper and some stuffed animals for our daughter. Yamashita wrote this note himself with some help from a translate app. His mom dated an American Sailor when Yamashita was a child so he knew a small amount of English. We were so impressed with his handwriting and we were totally not expecting a letter or a gift in return. Our introduction to him was a mix of Japanese words and pointing to Google Translate on our phone all while trying to hand him our gifts. With several thousand Reddit users vying for an update on Theresas new friendship with her neighbor, she later published a photo of her daughter enjoying her new toysall courtesy of Yamashita. [Yamashita] will be getting more presents, she added. We never expected anyone to be so nice back to us. Yamashita was a great neighbor! We did have daily morning chats, she mused. I had four elderly male neighbors who were all so sweet. We all exchanged gifts and food regularly for the four years I lived there. We would go to neighborhood festivals and have dinners together as well. I miss them all and think about them often. In short, Theresa says that they did indeed end up sharing a wonderful friend operation of their own. Full Article: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/family-develops-sweetest-connection-with-japanese-neighbor/  80/80 Reminds me of Michael Collins on the moon landing being left in the ship and forgotten about compared to Buzz and Armstrong --- |
| Topic | Anti-gay GOP state rep resigns amid allegations of Grindr hookups |
| UnfairRepresent 07/29/19 6:40:13 AM #13 | Questionmarktarius posted... I'm not going to even pretend to be surprised. Name the 46 times that you remember --- |
| Topic | Woman who can't walk teams up with man who can't see so they can go hiking. |
| UnfairRepresent 07/29/19 6:35:27 AM #22 | CommonJoe posted... Did anyone else have a stroke trying to read the topic title?  --- |
| Topic | Alpha plays some Resident Evil games [RE series spoilers] |
| UnfairRepresent 07/29/19 6:34:07 AM #150 | Alpha218 posted... Okay Claire comes off as a badass at the end. I almost ran out of ammo because I was already low when I got there. She comes back in CV and REV2 as the user said. But there actually is a reason she doesn't come back much. In universe the plot is people like Leon and Chris become full time special forces agents fighting zombies and shit. Claire gets involved more politically, trying to make governments aware of the zombie/bio weapon problem and forms a nurse task force to help deal with outbreaks Claire doesn't consider herself to be a fighter. --- |
| Topic | People showing up with guns at Emmett Till's memorial |
| UnfairRepresent 07/26/19 12:23:37 PM #31 | TheVipaGTS posted... you don't have to commit a crime to do a shitty thing. you can get suspended for doing things that don't break the law. Exactly. So if you say "You should be suspended for this and lose your job/education because a mob is mad at you!" How do you then justify it when the mob is mad at something else? Besides "Well I don't agree with that mob." I think being angry at the university here is silly. I feel bad for them. Never become comfortable with mob mentality just because you're in the mob. That way madness lies. "Lots of people are angry" doesn't mean anything pragmatically. but anyone with a brain can see that "being gay" and "showing up to protest a racially charged memorial with guns" aren't the same thing... No one said it was. Also humans have two brains. --- |
| Topic | People showing up with guns at Emmett Till's memorial |
| UnfairRepresent 07/26/19 12:08:09 PM #28 | Antifar posted... UnfairRepresent posted...Would you be cool with gay people losing their education or jobs because a bunch of people screamed at them? Not in the slighest and you know that full well. Stop doing insane strawmans because you have no argument. My point was that "We're mad about this" isn't a justification for "consequences." that's mob mentality. Sure it's satisifying when the people you're mad at face them, but that doesn't make it okay. There's nothing hypocritical about wanting consequences for these folks and not for gay people, because the circumstances are context are different. I'm attacking mob mentality, not hypocrisy. TheVipaGTS posted...
Okay so what crime did they commit? Why did you both dodge that question and hastily build inane strawmen instead? --- |
| Topic | People showing up with guns at Emmett Till's memorial |
| UnfairRepresent 07/26/19 12:00:04 PM #24 | TheVipaGTS posted... UnfairRepresent posted...And people are like "OMG JUST RUIN THEIR LIVES ALREADY!" I'm not too big on mob mentality. Don't take that as a defense of their actions. Would you be cool with gay people losing their education or jobs because a bunch of people screamed at them? Don't risk falling into the trap of enjoying the mob because it happens to be on your side right now. E32005 posted... UnfairRepresent posted..."These guys didn't commit crimes They did? What crime did they commit? They're not the ones who shot the sign. --- |
| Topic | People showing up with guns at Emmett Till's memorial |
| UnfairRepresent 07/26/19 11:52:26 AM #19 | I feel really bad for the university they go to on this They have been ruthlessly blasted with PR hit after PR hit and they are like "These guys didn't commit crimes and what they did wasn't on university grounds. So we're not going to boot them out" And people are like "OMG JUST RUIN THEIR LIVES ALREADY!" I mean these guys are assholes but the university is kinda right. --- |
| Topic | Woman could face court after refusing to return balls kicked into her garden. |
| UnfairRepresent 07/26/19 11:21:46 AM #10 | Were_Wyrm posted... Maybe the kickers should practice on the other side of the field, have the linemen practice near her property. You can't really train in way that means you only kick balls in one direction --- |
| Topic | Woman could face court after refusing to return balls kicked into her garden. |
| UnfairRepresent 07/26/19 10:04:56 AM #1 | A woman who has footballs land in her garden "constantly" has lost her patience and donated them to charity. Anny Kilbourne has lived at her home in Exeter for 12 years with a garden backing on to the local playing fields. She had become used to finding amateur footballers intruding on her property to retrieve their lost balls after mistakingly kicking them over the fence. Anny believed youth football team Exeter Panthers were the culprits and she approached team supervisor Chris Leisk for an apology. But she claims she did not receive one, so she decided to confiscate the balls and give them away But things escalated further when the matter was reported to police as theft - and Anny says she has been ordered by officers to pay 26 to replace them. She says she has been told by police she will be interviewed and the matter could end up in court if she does not cough up. Anny said: I'm an old woman who has always had a deep-seated respect for the police and the job they do, but now I find myself being harassed by them, in a situation in which I believe they shouldn't even be involved. For 12 years Ive lived in Bettys Mead and I've constantly had footballs kicked onto my property. They are often followed by trespassing to recover them. The former has caused damage, the latter more, to a total of over 1,000." Anne claims the Exeter Panthers ball struck her in the face and players didn't apologise She recounted how she was in April hit in the face by a ball, the second in the same match. Anny says she refused to hand the footballs back, as she could see the club had others they could use to continue their game. She continued: Naturally, I had no intention of keeping the football so I later donated them to a charity shop. The matter was reported as a theft by the football club to the police and Anny claims that since then she has since been "hounded" by police through personal visits, emails and phone calls. Anny said: Surely the civilised line is to stop trying to get money from me - the victim - and for all parties to sit down and work, with mutual respect, on a way to prevent this situation re-occurring?" This year Exeter City Council erected a sign on the field asking users not to trespass on neighbouring properties to recover balls. Team supervisor Mr Leisk, who is a police officer, said earlier this year a local resident approached the chairman after two balls had gone into her garden. He said: "Our chairman was very apologetic about the situation and offered to provide the resident with all the relevant details of the insurance policies so that she could claim for any damage that had occurred. The resident declined this stating there was no damage and at no point was an injury mentioned. The club is now aware the resident has disposed of them prior to the police speaking to her. The police have asked the club's views on any form of action they may take and the club have confirmed they feel that it is only right for the resident to compensate the club for the 26 for the cost of the balls. A spokesperson for Devon and Cornwall Police said: While officers met with Ms Kilbourne, she raised concerns in relation to previous anti-social behaviour going back years linked to footballs being kicked into her garden and damaging her property; at no time previously had Ms Kilbourne been in touch with the police in relation to these matters. "Ms Kilbourne has since refused to engage with police on this matter, despite numerous attempts to reach out to her and to find a solution.' Full Article: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/football-club-calls-police-after-18773522   The UK is pretty split down the middle on this one, so what do Americans think? --- |
| Topic | Your reaction: You open your front door tomorrow morning and see THIS |
| UnfairRepresent 07/26/19 9:40:57 AM #7 | Superlinkbro posted...
Maybe they do and you just didn't see it because it was small --- |
| Topic | WTF? This is what's considered hot now? |
| UnfairRepresent 07/26/19 9:39:06 AM #12 | Snip-N-Snails posted... JE19426 posted...I don't see how it's any weirder than people thinking feet are hot.  --- |
| Topic | new quote system - I don't want to hide ignored users in quote chains |
| UnfairRepresent 07/26/19 9:14:43 AM #6 | Rika_Furude posted... dont use the ignore "feature" --- |
| Topic | Things a girl can use to simulate oral sex on that is not a sex toy |
| UnfairRepresent 07/26/19 9:08:25 AM #7 | A telescope --- |
| Topic | Suicide jumper flung back onto train platform after jumping, injuring 3 people. |
| UnfairRepresent 07/26/19 8:55:21 AM #21 | Yeah I didn't think you could answer either. --- |
| Topic | Alpha plays some Resident Evil games [RE series spoilers] |
| UnfairRepresent 07/26/19 8:02:41 AM #137 | Alpha218 posted... Another thing, I wonder why theyve given you blue herbs for the entire course of the game when only one enemy has ever poisoned me (the annoying G adults in the sewers). Mixing Pick up and save the blue ones for full heals and guard later --- |
| Topic | Suicide jumper flung back onto train platform after jumping, injuring 3 people. |
| UnfairRepresent 07/26/19 8:00:32 AM #19 | Conflict posted... UnfairRepresent posted...And farting in a crowded elevator on a hot day might be the most effective way to expel gas. You're being crude on a serious subject. If someone wants to die who are you to tell them against their will that they have to live in pain, agony and suffering? Soley because you demand it? I'm for euthanasia. That doesn't mean I think it is okay to be cruel or selfish to others. You're telling me you don't see a difference between someone filling an organ doner card and hanging themselves vs someone going into a classroom and shooting themselves in front of kids? If anything the inconsistent view is "You have no control over your life and have to suffer in agony but I dont care if you truamatize or harras thousands of people." what kind of logic is that? --- |
| Topic | Friends under fire for being a homophobic and transphobic sitcom. |
| UnfairRepresent 07/26/19 6:34:32 AM #69 | 0xDEFECADE posted... UnfairRepresent posted...Rika_Furude posted... Same point Some people enjoying farting in an elevator doesn't make it good --- |
| Topic | Friends under fire for being a homophobic and transphobic sitcom. |
| UnfairRepresent 07/26/19 6:31:50 AM #67 | Rika_Furude posted...
Terrible argument A lot of people enjoyed slavery. John Howard enjoyed the stolen generation. Argument should be that it doesn't matter and we should move on. Not "Well some people liked it!" --- |
| Topic | Scenario: You accidentally break your girlfriend's laptop. |
| UnfairRepresent 07/26/19 6:22:04 AM #1 | Your girlfriend is planning on moving her stuff into her new home and you see her packing her awesome laptop. You go "Hey rather than just shoving that into a box for a few days can I borrow it and bring it over later?" She says "Sure, just be careful with it. It's expensive." Then 2 days later you accidentally slip while getting dressed and send the laptop flying into a wall, causing it to smash to pieces. Her insurance won't cover it since it was done by you outside of her home. You're planning to meet her later that day at her new place.  How would react? What would you say to her? What do you do? --- |
| Topic | WTF? This is what's considered hot now? |
| UnfairRepresent 07/26/19 5:58:43 AM #8 | r25 posted... Body and face checks out. Idgaf what hair and clothes look like. Cosplay exists. Not talking about the girl. I'm talking about the hair and outfit. Reminds me of the models who wear clothes that are designed to look like they don't fit and are tearing  It's just dumb --- |
| Topic | Friends under fire for being a homophobic and transphobic sitcom. |
| UnfairRepresent 07/26/19 5:54:46 AM #51 | PleaseClap posted... Vyrulisse posted... That's a really bad take. It's not saying don't think. It's saying don't dwell and get angry over trival tv shows 25 years ago because someone decided something in it was 'problematic' today --- |
| Topic | WTF? This is what's considered hot now? |
| UnfairRepresent 07/26/19 5:52:06 AM #1 |  She looks like she was wearing a boiler suit and fell into that vat of acid that The Joker did --- |
| Topic | Trump: The Squad is a very Racist group who have said bad things about Israel! |
| UnfairRepresent 07/26/19 5:43:14 AM #47 | Iodine posted... This country's obession with Israel is so weird. Politics and Religion --- |
| Topic | Jeffrey Epstein:14 numbers to Donald Trump in contacts (Madam Ghislaine Maxwell) |
| UnfairRepresent 07/26/19 5:41:53 AM #17 | NeverOffended posted... VTBM posted...Everyone has ties to Epstein. I actually agree. This "trump is a pedophile rapist! Look! He met a pedophile once!" is insane --- |
| Topic | Suicide jumper flung back onto train platform after jumping, injuring 3 people. |
| UnfairRepresent 07/26/19 5:37:01 AM #10 | And farting in a crowded elevator on a hot day might be the most effective way to expel gas. But wait a minute and do it in private --- |
| Topic | Meghan McCain is still out here defending Trump |
| UnfairRepresent 07/26/19 5:11:19 AM #12 | Kastrada posted... MuayThai85 posted...I know this is a strange concept to most leftists but some people actually respect the rule of law. He said some people. Not himself. He doesn't, which is why he defends Trump. --- |
| Topic | Suicide jumper flung back onto train platform after jumping, injuring 3 people. |
| UnfairRepresent 07/26/19 5:07:51 AM #8 | inloveanddeath0 posted... UnfairRepresent posted...MuayThai85 posted...inloveanddeath0 posted...I wish these train suicides would end Ultimately it's up to you if you want to live or not. But there is a difference between killing yourself in a peaceful way that only effects your direct family and potentially doctors/cops and killing yourself in a way that negatively affects thousands of people. --- |
| Topic | When you see the word "Chicken", what do you think of first? |
| UnfairRepresent 07/26/19 5:05:35 AM #16 | I thought of Tekken  --- |
| Topic | Suicide jumper flung back onto train platform after jumping, injuring 3 people. |
| UnfairRepresent 07/26/19 5:03:42 AM #6 | MuayThai85 posted... inloveanddeath0 posted...I wish these train suicides would end The thing is, if you kill yourself via a train you hinder thousands of people and possible traumatize a bunch more It's pretty selfish --- |
| Topic | Man Rodney King's words still seem just as relevant today as they did in 1992 |
| UnfairRepresent 07/26/19 5:02:22 AM #1 | I just want to say you know can we all get along? Can we, can we get along? Can we stop making it horrible for the older people and the kids? And ... I mean we've got enough smog in Los Angeles let alone to deal with setting these fires and things ... It's just not right. It's not right and it's not going to change anything. We'll get our justice. They've won the battle, but they haven't won the war. We'll get our day in court and that's all we want. And, just, uh, I love I'm neutral. I love every I love people of color. I'm not like they're making me out to be. We've got to quit. We've got to quit; I mean after all, I could understand the first upset for the first two hours after the verdict, but to go on, to keep going on like this and to see the security guard shot on the ground it's just not right. It's just not right, because those people will never go home to their families again. And uh, I mean please, we can, we can get along here. We all can get along. We just gotta. We gotta. I mean, we're all stuck here for a while. Let's, you know, let's try to work it out. Let's try to beat it, you know. Let's try to work it out. Well except that part about the security guards which was pretty period specific. But the general message would fit in 2019. --- |
| Topic | i don't want politics in my video games |
| UnfairRepresent 07/26/19 4:42:36 AM #12 | MrPeppers posted... UnfairRepresent posted...What does "politics in video games" even mean? That's kind of my point. --- |
| Topic | Suicide jumper flung back onto train platform after jumping, injuring 3 people. |
| UnfairRepresent 07/26/19 4:41:44 AM #1 | A man was killed after he jumped off a station platform and was hit by an oncoming train on Thursday. The impact flung him back onto the platform where he slammed into two commuters. According to police, the incident occurred just after 4 p.m. at Sobudai-mae Station in Zama on the Odakyu line. Police said station surveillance camera footage showed the man jump off the platform in front of the Romance Car which was traveling at a speed of about 90 kilometers per hour at the time. The collision shattered the glass window of the observation car. The man was sent flying back onto the platform where he hit two men, slightly injuring them. One male passenger on the train sustained a light injury. Police did not release the mans name and said only that he was 25 and unemployed. The train was on its way from Hakone-Yumoto to Shinjuku Station. Odakyu Electric Railway said the incident caused a 75-minute delay in train services that affected about 21,000 people. Full Article: https://japantoday.com/category/national/suicide-jumper-flung-back-onto-train-platform-injuring-2  That must be horrifying to experience. Imagine someone killing themselves due to depression and their corpse being flung at you while you go to work. --- |
| Topic | i don't want politics in my video games |
| UnfairRepresent 07/26/19 4:35:37 AM #8 | What does "politics in video games" even mean? That gay people exist and women cover their boobs? --- |
| Topic | Woman who can't walk teams up with man who can't see so they can go hiking. |
| UnfairRepresent 07/26/19 4:31:17 AM #15 | voldothegr8 posted... I'm glad for them and all, but seems like sooner or later that's a recipe for disaster. Real life isn't a movie dude --- |
| Topic | Men beat up pro-democracy group in China with sticks. Police do nothing(Graphic) |
| UnfairRepresent 07/26/19 4:30:23 AM #5 | HiddenRoar posted... UnfairRepresent posted...It scares me that this could be a glimpse into America's future Exactly. LepartialJury posted... Imagine if they had guns I don't know, if all these protesters had guns the violent ones might have backed off --- |
| Topic | Scenario: Your girlfriend calls to you in a state of complete fear. |
| UnfairRepresent 07/26/19 4:28:20 AM #8 | inloveanddeath0 posted... Monkhood posted...aha What? --- |
| Topic | Good guy with a gun accidentally shoots innocent man while cops easily get crook |
| UnfairRepresent 07/25/19 10:37:22 PM #26 | MasterGakke posted... That motherfucker You're allowed to do that --- |
| Topic | Alpha plays some Resident Evil games [RE series spoilers] |
| UnfairRepresent 07/25/19 10:33:11 PM #134 | There's a lot of cool stuff like that. The Attention to detail in this game is great, both in of itself and as a remake. Another fanservicey change is that in the original you find a letter from Chris in the police station openly talking about taking down Umbrella in Europe. A lot of people made fun of it for the fact Chris knows that Umbrella ultimately runs the RCPD yet he openly leaves these letters lying around So in this version they turned it into a letter about Chris being "On Holiday In Europe" as at least some kind of cover. --- |
| Topic | Inventor attemps to jump the English Channel on a hoverboard. He fails. |
| UnfairRepresent 07/25/19 10:27:12 PM #11 | pikachupwnage posted... Not gonna lie that is cool AF Yes but enough about me, let's talk about this French guy --- |
| Topic | Scenario: Your girlfriend calls to you in a state of complete fear. |
| UnfairRepresent 07/25/19 10:18:25 PM #4 | Hairistotle posted... i dont believe her, since she claims she cant get her phone out but yet she called me Man it's weird to think that this is how kids today are going to think. Everytime I see 3 or 4 year olds with phones and tables tapping away and calling people I cringe a little and then wonder if I am the old man who just can't accept change. --- |
| Topic | Friends under fire for being a homophobic and transphobic sitcom. |
| UnfairRepresent 07/25/19 10:16:58 PM #39 | Why homophobia? I thought people were mad that it had no black people in it. I mean Wayne Brady used to use that as a running gag. --- |
| Topic | Scenario: Your girlfriend calls to you in a state of complete fear. |
| UnfairRepresent 07/25/19 10:14:13 PM #1 | You hear her screech out your name in a panic and you rush over to her. She says "I don't want to alarm you [first name] but there's some really creepy hideous ugly bitch out there who has just be staring at me for the past like... two hours... Just.... staring and staring... not even saying anything. She looks pure evil. I think we should call the cops but every time I go for my phone she reaches into her purse and... and I dunno she might have a gun or a weapon in their or something. It's creeping me out. I'm scared [Firstname]. Do something!" You're confused for a moment and look around for this mysterious stranger only then to discover to your immense confusion that your girlfriend has been gazing into a mirror this entire time.  How do you react? What do you do? --- |
| Topic | $4,000,000 but every time you have sex she looks and feels like Barack Obama |
| UnfairRepresent 07/25/19 9:40:41 PM #6 | Reis posted... what's the downside :/ --- |
| Topic | new Gemini Man trailer (Will Smith vs Will Smith) |
| UnfairRepresent 07/25/19 8:51:11 PM #4 | Looks like a joke parody movie you'd see a brief trailer of in comedy movie. Man Hollywood is in such a state right now --- |
| Topic | $4,000,000 but every time you have sex she looks and feels like Barack Obama |
| UnfairRepresent 07/25/19 8:48:59 PM #1 | Would you take it? - Results (4 votes)
Yes
50% (2 votes)
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No
50% (2 votes)
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There will be no actual change in reality other than your physical and mental perception. To her and everyone else, everything will be normal but to you, suddenly she's Obama.  Would you take it? --- |
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