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But that Obliterated Oliver looks so delicious as well!

I think he just walks rather than being shipped.

I disagree, but I’m allergic to grass. However, if you like it, there should be no reason to pretend you don’t.

Mid-40s: it feels fine. It both complicates and un-complicates various things for later in life, but that’s life.

I do like kids, but never wanted my own (at least biologically; I never fully ruled out adoption). We have nieces and nephews we can spoil instead of our own, heh.

Oh, I wasn’t even thinking about places that changed time; I thought it was something just related to winter itself, hence the confusion. Thanks!

“Great, we could sleep one hour more” can you explain this? I have no idea how the season determines how many hours of sleep everyone gets in a day,

I get it, but humanity is really not prepared for WWIII.

1 Can Cream Of Cheddar

I have never heard of this before. Huh.

Maybe they’ve invented the pizza handle?

We’re not even through the first half yet, so it’s pretty impossible to say, I think. BG3 could be in there, but we could also just be blown away by other things unforeseeable from here/now.

Japanese usually just say 時計回り (clockwise) or counter-clockwise

My dude, look at my post history. I actually noticed it and though “eh, I’ll fix it later” since my wife had finished her coffee and we wanted to free up a table for the people waiting at the cafe.

Yep. I’m getting worse at typing on my phone as I get older. Or my phone keyboard/screen protector sucks; one of the two

If japanese has one, I’ve never heard it. Japanese wife hasn’t either. She was surprised it’s a thing. She said maybe tradesmen might, but certainly nothing everyone knows

Depends upon how you’re seeing liquid. If you just mean water, definitely not. If you mean things that behave like liquids behave or are in their liquid phase (is magma liquid here?) then I’m not sure

I wonder how much ship-of-theseus work can be done. I doubt they made things terribly modular but hopefully certain functions and groups of them are replaceable for some improvement. But, yeah, not ideal at all.

• learn the language AND CUSTOMS
• don’t hang out in foreigner/english bubbles
• don’t assume anything works the way it does in the US (from gasoline and driving to medical to government). There are lots of little things that seem like they obviously must be done X way but aren’t in other countries
• be careful with any investments. It’s very easy to end up with PFICs which are punitively taxed (making retirement vehicles here in Japan outside of the national pension prohibitive for me, for instance).
• celebrate
• bring any snacks that you can legally bring but they can’t legally sell (some things with food dyes, etc. if you really like them are banned in some countries to produce/sell but not eat).

Maybe one of their short-lived “adult” arch restaurants (or whatever they were called; I forget at this point)

Squirrel is a fun one depending upon the speaker’s original language.

With zero information on your situation, it’s difficult to say. If you have debt, paying that down/off is generally priority one. If you are debt-free, then you have options. Your age, stability, goals, and other factors would generally dictate what type of action to take. Were it me (early 40s, very low interest rate home loan), I’d put it into an index fund where I’ve already got some investments. In my case, I’m investing for retirement in about 25-30 years (as if I’ll be able to do that, but one can hope).