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Someone in my share house kitchen is cutting so many onions that I’m literally tearing up in my room

#i didnt even know that was a thing #idk what it is but it sure smells oniony

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An ojisan at my office has fallen asleep at his desk and is full on LOUD snoring 😂

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Trump literally eigo o-jouzu’d the Japanese emperor omg

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The kind of line break that makes you look twice…

#unfortunate

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My department at work isn’t that big, only 15 people and we all work pretty closely together every day. And I’ve been there 2 years.

Anyway, this one ojisan on the team came over to me today, and called me by the name of the other gaijin in the team. And it wasn’t just that he mixed up our names, he literally started talking to me about her projects....

yeah so like hi I’m Kim tho

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Work is going well today

#trados

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So like I got nanpa’d in Shibuya and usually I just run away from them awkwardly, but this one was actually quite hot so I actually gave him my line. And his line username was his full real name so I was like... great, stalk time! Anyway it turns out he is kind of like the Japanese equivalent of alt-right and constantly tweets abouts the anti-Japanese mass media, China, needing to #make Japan great again, etc.... What

#so like why are you hitting on foreign girls in Shibuya?!?! #he asked me if i wanted to get a matcha latte in starbucks #why... so we can discuss the NHK fake news???

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Omg so like, anyone here do translation at all?

I’m doing this course for my work, and this week’s homework is an excerpt from a novel where this old woman talks to herself in strong Tohoku-ben.

I’ve never been soooo stumped. This is so different to corporate translations I usually do...

I’m like trying to imagine an old lady talking in heavily accented speech so I’m like okay and start writing and then I look over what I’ve written and it’s like, WHY THE FUCK IS THIS JAPANESE GRANDMA TALKING IN A HEAVY MANCUNIAN ACCENT

Honestly I’m so stumped how on earth do you make this into English

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Some girl: “I love the British national anthem! You know, Don’t look back in anger?”

Me: “Haha... the national anthem is god save the queen tho”

Her: “Oh, by the sex pistols right?!”

#she was 100% being serious haha #apparently some drunk gaijin had gone along with her thinking Oasis was the national anthem in the past tho #so like she actually thought it

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Omg lol so I got nanpa’d by a guy who was with his friend, and he was doing the standard “hey, where are you going? do you have time? are you busy now?” thing and then his friend just shouts “SEX”

And I was like haha bye and as I walked away I just heard a very loud shout of “何言ってんのよ！！“

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When you go drinking with foreigners who only got to japan recently and you’re in an izakaya and everyone only orders food for themselves and then when the bill comes they’re like performing financial analysis to only pay for the exact items they ordered

#what #no like no can we just split the bill se all ate similar amounts

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I actually love how airport etiquette is different from every day life tho. Like yeah I’m gonna sit in this expensive restaurant practically in my pyjamas, with unbrushed hair and no makeup

#8 hour layover looks

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Sooo apparently I lost money in the biggest digital theft of all history... one to tick off the bucket list???

www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia-42845505

#NEM #my nem wahhh #coincheck #i was there 2k18

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So like my ojisan coworker got up to leave in the middle of the work day and I asked where he was going and he said to tsukishima to visit a customer. I was jokingly like “well they have an owl cafe in tsukishima DONT MISS IT”

A few hours later he comes back and shows me his phone — complete with a selfie with an owl on his head

#i cant believe he literally went there

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Omg. So like.....

I had been playing badminton at a sports center and I was sitting downstairs waiting for my friends.

And then this oldish guy comes up to me looking really nervous. 

He writes on a piece of paper “are you Kim?”, so obviously I’m like “yes??” and then he writes “My name is XX. I am a vet. Do you know Shibata?” 

I do know someone called Shibata so I said yes, and asked him how he knew my name. He then wrote that Shibata told him. So I was freaked out at this point like has my coworker told some man about me? And how did he know I would be here?! Am I being stalked? My friend also interpreted it as being a stalker so started to get standoffish with the guy.

At this point some woman walked up who seemed to know the man, and was like are you here for the conference? I was like... no I was just playing badminton. The woman was like oh I guess this was all a mistake then. We left, confused. On the way out I took note of the name of the conference.

... it was a conference for deaf people, and some woman called Kim was coming from America to give an inspirational speech on how deaf people can become vets.

AND NOW I FEEL TERRIBLE.

#can I contact the group and ask them if they can apologise to the random man

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Someone unmatched me on tinder because i don't like corn

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When you send your mum a birthday present and she gets charged with customs tax 😬😬

#£23 plus £8 handling fee awkwardddd