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Cat butler consoling Da Juanr (full name "Hua Juan" - a type of steamed and twisted bun)

English added by me :)

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WIBTA for taking advantage of my boss’ possible manic episode?

I know this already sounds bad but hear me out.

So I (30M) am the sole employee of this guy (62M) who’s honestly just a miserable boss and an even more miserable person. It sucks so bad working for him—the pay is horrendous, he’s verbally abusive, and the working conditions are awful (in the winter I literally have to stay bundled up the whole work day because he refuses to put the heat on in the office). He wouldn’t even give me holidays off if it wasn’t for the fact that there’s basically nothing to do those days because everywhere else is closed. I’m almost positive he unironically thinks poor people should die if they can’t work. His nephew (aka his only living relative and just the nicest guy) came by yesterday to invite him to Christmas dinner and he told him he’d see him in hell.

I cannot stress this enough—it’s BAD. I’d quit, but it’s been hard finding a better job and I’ve got four kids at home, including one with special needs.

Anyway, so here’s where I’m wondering if I’d be the asshole. Today was Christmas Day and he showed up at my house out of nowhere (huge red flag, I know). At first I thought he’d forgotten I had the day off and he was here to chew me out, which was worrying enough, but then his whole demeanor changed and he was super happy and excited and talking about how he was going to raise my salary. He even mentioned possibly making me a partner in the firm.

Now if that was it, I’d feel a little weird about the suddenness of it but it’d be fine. I’m not going to complain about having more money to feed my family. But then he started talking about how he wanted to pay our mortgage off. He talked about wanting to pay for our son to get the very expensive medical care that’s probably going to save his life. He mentioned at one point that he was going to be donating a huge amount of money to charity too—I knew he was rich but it staggered me. All this from a guy who doesn’t (didn’t?) even want to turn on the heat or the lights because it costs too much money.

It was such a sudden and drastic change that happened very literally overnight and now I’m kind of concerned he’s having a manic episode or something. I really, really want to accept his sudden generosity (I probably will; my wife is all for it and thinks he owes it to us), and I would love to believe that he’s truly had a sudden change of heart (an actual Christmas miracle lol) but I’m just worried about the possible consequences of accepting huge financial gifts like this from someone who I believe might be experiencing some kind of break from reality. Even if there’s nothing legally wrong with it, I’m worried about the ethics of it.

TLDR, my asshole boss might be in the middle of a mental breakdown. WIBTA if I accepted his offer to pay off my mortgage and my son’s medical expenses?

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Are you trying to kill your mother? Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

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FOUNDERS OF YURI 💜🩷

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On one hand I understand not teaching cursive in school anymore, because it actually is slower than regular handwriting and almost everything is typed on a keyboard now anyways.

On the other hand, so much of our (even recent!) history was written in cursive, and having a whole generation of kids who can't read letters written by their grandparents, momentos saved by their great-grandparents, or even photo albums from theur immediate family seems like a dangerously quick way to detach us from previous generations.

And on the third, related but slightly malformed hand, I feel bad that yet another form of small, everyday art that brings joy in the middle of mundane tasks, which celebrates personality and individual style and self-expression, is about to fade into obscurity because it wasn't efficient enough for today's world to put up with.

Like... if we continue to whittle away the small arts out of every day life, what's going to be left except stark, ruthless pragmatism?

Maybe writing a grocery list is less mundane when you get to feel elegant for a moment. Maybe you're a little more proud of what you write when you see it flow together like a painting

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As a dentist whose schedule is currently at 146% capacity, it does awful things to my psyche e.g. “God I hope these people get in some car accidents so I don’t have to see them.”

boggled by the idea that having having hospitals at 100% capacity would be a GOOD thing. that's a system we want plenty of buffer in! if there's an emergency where a bunch of people need to be hospitalized at once, you don't want it to break things. similarly you dips in capacity to be easily absorbed, you don't want everything to come crashing down because one person quit/stayed home sick/took a vacation.

every time a doctor blinks they're wasting time they could have spent seeing patients

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SKOP TO LOAFER SEASON 2 CONFIRMED 🥳

can't believe we're really getting season 2 of the anime 😭 I'm going to cry!!!

and just a reminder: we're getting an anime fan book as well!!! don't forget to support sensei by buying it here!!

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Listen, I'm having fun playing with the ultra patriotic voice, but after a couple years in blue-collar landscaping jobs, you really do need to phrase things like that.

"I'm pretty sure that fella ain't here legally."

"Well, that ain't your business Chip, it's his."

They hate being preached to. If you pull out words like 'gender wage gap' they'll tell you you're brainwashed by the far left media.

"He's one of them transgenders."

"He got freedoms too, Jimmy."

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I want for us to take a look at the HONPO-JI temple, the place where the climax of Akane Banashi's Arakawa School Foundation Arc takes place, and the place which Master Kiroku took his students Kisoba and Rokuen.

Because, more than anything this place (Hanashizuka) is a tomb and as Kiroku phrases it “a graveyard for stories”.

Disclaimer: This is just an informative post, none of the content is mine, the source is: JAPAN’S HONPO-JI TEMPLE AND ITS TOMB DEDICATED TO RAKUGO Part 1 & Part 2 『Kristine’s Eye on Japan: Introduction to Japanese Culture』 by Kristine Ohkubo. And the Wikipedia page.

Let’s start from the beginning….  

Honpo-ji is a Buddhist temple situated near the Tawara-machi subway station on the Tokyo Metro Ginza line between Ueno and Asakusa. It was once located in the Hatcho-bori area but the compound was completely burned down during the 1657 known as the Great Fire of Meireki, the fire destroyed 60-70% of Edo (modern-day Tokyo), and claimed the lives of more than 100,000 people. Thus, the temple was subsequently rebuilt in Asakusa.

As Japan inched closer toward ultra-nationalism during the war years, countless institutions —including rakugo — were affected. The playful wit and unpretentious humor that typically characterized the art gave way to stories which glorified the feats of the Imperial Japanese forces. These tales, which were collectively called kokusaku rakugo (national policy rakugo). 

This was also the time when rakugo performers in Tokyo were forced to refrain from performing 53 classical stories which had been labeled as kin-en rakugo (prohibited rakugo). Wartime censors shared a belief that rakugo stories about pleasure quarters, alcohol, and mistresses, all of which were deemed demoralizing and degenerate, would weaken the fighting spirit of the people.

Although ken-etsu (censorship) had existed in Japan since the Edo period (1603-1867), censors exercised a particularly heavy hand during the war years from the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931 to the end of World War II in 1945. Naturally, anything deemed detrimental to the war effort was banned and the ban was extended to include rakugo.  The censorship of these stories deeply impacted the storytellers who enjoyed telling them and relied on them as a means for earning a living.

Then, a famous rakugo critic named Nomura Mumeian made an off-the-cuff suggestion that they erect a tomb for the banned stories on the grounds of Honpo-ji, a temple in Tokyo’s Asakusa district.  The hanashika (storytellers) jumped at the suggestion, and in 1941 they erected a stone monument called Hanashizuka at Honpo-ji Temple.

They inscribed the words “Mourning the buried masterpieces” on it and buried the texts of the forbidden stories beneath it. Every year thereafter, the storytellers gathered at the tomb to offer their prayers to the “dead stories.”

The hanashika gathered together once again and proposed to rebuild the temple. They each contributed a stone block to build a fence around it. They managed to erect a fence measuring approximately seven feet high and almost thirty feet long. Each stone block bears the name of the contributor. Visitors to the temple today can read the names of all of the prominent storytellers in Japan at the time.

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#op you're definitely up to something#but what does he think of akane then

Based on the ending of the Karaku cup, he’s thrilled that Akane wants revenge on him. I bet he’ll discourage the parts of her that remind him of Shiguma because the memories are too painful because he doesn’t think she’s good enough and instead focus strength training for the fiery parts of her nin.

I further predict he’s going to direct her vengeance to the traditionalists of the Rakugo Federation (“I wouldn’t have had to expel your dad if not for them!”) It would relate to whatever big incident happened between Taizen’s promotion and Shinta’s expulsion, and it allows us to see more of the Kashiwaya, Tsubakiya, and Kenputei schools.

I’ve suspected that Issho’s Problem with Shinta was that despite his skill, Shinta didn’t put rakugo on as high of a pedestal as Issho and chapter 139 strengthened my belief.

Issho: This is how I will atone for the rest of my life.

Kaichi: This is a product worth betting my life on.

Kaisei: I don’t have to be weak anymore because I have rakugo.

Shinta: It’s just rakugo.

Issho: …

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I’ve suspected that Issho’s Problem with Shinta was that despite his skill, Shinta didn’t put rakugo on as high of a pedestal as Issho and chapter 139 strengthened my belief.

Issho: This is how I will atone for the rest of my life.

Kaichi: This is a product worth betting my life on.

Kaisei: I don’t have to be weak anymore because I have rakugo.

Shinta: It’s just rakugo.

Issho: …

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PAOLO SEBASTIAN AUTUMN / WINTER COUTURE

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Something overlooked due to cultural differences is that the portrayal of orphans in the RGG series is daring for Japan. If you’re an orphan in Japan, there’s a stigma that you did something to deserve it; either you were bad enough that your parents abandoned you, or your parents left because they were bad people or they were unlucky (and either one is considered hereditary). Many orphans in Japan have at least one living parent.

RGG portrays orphans not as discards but as people who have pain, worth, and dignity.

you know, on the subject of games getting woke, the funniest thing in the world is gamers who hate the ichiban era of yakuza for being woke. because like. its yakuza. its been gayer than gay sex for nearly 20 years

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i had a thought

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