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      This is a classic western misinterpretation of East Asia. If you actually read Japanese history you would know that the Japanese have a vibrant and deep history of assassinating their Leaders.

      Whether they are a leftist sympathizer, union leader, or simply not fascist enough, there are plenty of traditional and culturally appropriate ways to assassinate the leaders of Japan.

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        It’s amazing. By utilizing the time honored technique of “korosu”, this skill has been passed down from generation to generation. People don’t seem to have enough respect for tradition.

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      In Africa, it doesn’t matter if you’re gay or straight, because at the end of the day, it’s night. – Gustavo

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        What about millions of years in the future if africa shifts towards the north/south pole?

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          Won’t change when the night arrives. Might change the LENGTH of days, but at the end of them it’ll still be night

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        • just stop counting small time! 5000x365 of yellow sky orb passings, yet still no real-world use found
        • want to know if its time to work? we had a tool for it, its called sunrise
        • «hello, i now want 200 microseconds of your time but only to compare your face with the one already stored in my brain» — sounds mentally deranged
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        Unless we invent extreme life extension and make it available to everyone and they all want it, yeah, that’s guaranteed, current path or no

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      In Germany, it is tradition to end the day with the closing of one’s eyes, and start the next with opening them.

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    Oh really? In Lithuania, murder is also illegal. It traces back from the spoken tradition of the ancestors. Some recent analysis has found traces of this social ban in 800 years old folk tale, Spruce the Queen of Serpents, in which, as a punishment for murder, the killers were turned into trees. It is weird how Lithuanian culture shares similarities with the Japanese! There must have been cultural connections at some point in time…

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      The languages also both have a word for “three”. Proto-world confirmed?

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      I think it has something to do with the westward movement of the Mongolian tribes

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      now we’re gonna need someone to install twitter and tell us what the rest is as quick as possible

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    I really want to know what the other four things are. Not enough to go look, but enough to complain here.

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    I know you yanks like to go around shooting each other, but if you absolutely must challenge someone to a duel - do be so kind as to use your sword instead.

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    If I can’t do any of my favorite murders then what’s the point of traveling? Stupid woke Japanese ruin everything.

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    The rest of us are so used to murdering people every day. I never would have thought about it!

    I guess I can stop murdering for a little bit while in Japan. If you insist.

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      “Illegal somewhere” Mad Lib:

      "The rest of us are so used to *__ every day. I never would have thought about it!

      I guess I can stop * for a little bit while in (place)__. If you insist.”

      • Chewing Gum ( ) Singapore
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    Now I am worried I might have committed a faux pas unknowingly. I mean, they are so polite they won’t point it out. So now I am sitting here, years later, wondering if I might have, you know, murdered someone in Japan.