George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
The things you lean on / are things that don't last
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George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1d ago
It's me but the reconstruction blurred my face grotesquely. Both those dudes were the actors I knew growing up so maybe I was channeling unknowingly. Or something.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1d ago
Well I happen to be a dude from Alabama so my hand warmth advice may be less than compelling. Good to hear you've pushed through some preparatory climbs.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1d ago
You have to get into my head and free associate emoji to image to website.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1d ago
This makes me wonder what will happen when I use the image tab. This is a ChatGPT "rework to look like a modern photo" of me in a 1966 Sunbeam Alpine, circa 1987. What will we see when I post?
Edit: Nothing interesting happened.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1d ago
but women feel colder more easily
I thought this sounded fishy but looked it up and you're right! So I guess all the Japanese high school girls showing far too much leg in 34F temperatures are just slaves for fashion. Or for something.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
2d ago
As far as I know the research suggests that humans, at least, can become very used to cold.
The original L'enfant sauvage Victor of Aveyron (one among several documented feral children) was reported to like the snow, even when wearing very little clothing:
Bonnaterre reported that one morning, after a particularly heavy snow storm, Victor of Aveyron looked out his bedroom window and with a cry of joy, ran half-dressed into the garden, where “giving vent to his delight by the most piercing cries, he ran, rolled in the snow, and gathered it up by the handful, devoured it with incredible eagerness."
Acclimatization to cold weather is probably the first step @SkookumTree should take if he ever does the Hock. From a brief bit of research on the issue, apparently a German Shepherd is more likely to have a problem with heat than with cold.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
3d ago
Well Billy Squier will never be rid of that music video.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
3d ago
I had never seen interstitial used in this way, well done.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6d ago
Not at all.
In all cases, as in the ultimate indulgence of going to a Gion teahouse to liaise with a geiko (or geisha to use the popular term, and yes they still exist) the ability to speak, or, more importantly understand Japanese is at least partially the key to appreciating the interaction. A girl at a girl's bar will be--well, a girl. She will be young and will probably know how to be a listener and ask questions, but any interviewer or, now, LLM, can do that. She probably won't speak much or indeed any English, and her charms will be the usual sublunary, earthy charms such as a plunging neckline or flittery eyelashes. A hostess will be, depending on the quality of the establishment, so skilled in chattily manipulating you that you'll feel you're actually an interesting person. If you understand her.
A geiko will be able to do all of the above easily but will also be skilled at playing shamisen or koto, will know and be able to recite poetry, will be savvy to current events should you wish to have a Mottelike sounding board, will even argue with you if you seem like the arguing type, and will leave you feeling both challenged, entertained, and more intelligent than when you went in. And again, you'll feel interesting. But if you can't speak or understand Japanese or do not have the cultural knowledge to appreciate said sweet nothings, these wiles of course are limited in their charm.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6d ago
No problem.
A hostess club, or スナック (snack bar) in small-scale, consists of you paying a set fee (typically 50-60 bucks USD) to gain entrance to a place where drinks will be served to you for a certain period of time. During this time various females in balldresses or whatever will approach you, you will find yourself suddenly sitting beside them, and you can buy them a drink or ignore them as you would. Typically you buy them a cocktail, which will be added to your bill. If you want a cigarette someone will be sent to fetch you a pack. If you want to sing a song on the karaoke machine this will be immediately arranged, and if you sing you will feel, for at least a few seconds, as if you are really finally hitting the notes. General vibe: Women sitting beside you in sexy dresses, pouring your cocktails and lighting your smokes, and you leave with a big bill.
Girl's bars, which seem now fewer than in the past, may or may not have a table charge but a girl's bar designation simply means only 19-25 or so yr old girls will be behind the bar, primed to chat with you. The drink system (you buying them one) is roughly the same.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6d ago
In my own time here I've seen far more offensive posts than yours, but typically framed as arguments with (what at least passed for) support. You're "boo outgroup"ing here hard. While you can't do that in one direction on Reddit, you're discouraged from doing it in either direction here.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
7d ago
Well username checks out anyway. Your most recent to this post stated:
Trump is a traitor to the USA, and we need to start seriously discussing imprisonment or a bullet to the brain.
But that was almost a year ago, so I suppose "soon" is relative.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
7d ago
I suppose the best answer to that question is "Not yet."
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
7d ago
I went to Australia in 2003 and one night tried to ask the delivery girl for Hamburger pizza. I could hear her suppressing a laugh. Little did I know I should have just asked for a beef pizza. Or something.
A year or so ago on pizza night I decided to make, in addition to my usual pepperoni, spicy chicken, and regular margherita, a cheeseburger pizza. I mentioned this to an acquaintance who bizarrely asked "Why"?
Some people simply have no taste.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
9d ago
great purpose
purposeful
Define your terms.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
12d ago
A superpower I'll try to wield responsibly
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
12d ago
Well I didn't suspect greed (a 6-pack?) as much as wanton irresponsibility. If they just wished to offload the child, adoption agencies or other avenues exist.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
12d ago
Run away, fast, and when your wife complains that you've damaged the friendship, just say "You're welcome."
so it's not like I'm going to run off to play dad.
No? I have my doubts. Extract yourself from this immediately. If you just want the thrill of sex with someone besides wifey, you can do that on your own, outside anyone's knowledge, and avoid the absolute shitshow of this situation.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
12d ago
Not a case of beer, a fucking six-pack. I hope it was at least not Bud Light.
Also quote, from that article you have linked:
Both parents signed, then added a disclaimer.
“After signing this there will be no changing y’all two’s minds to never contact again,” court records showed.
These are not applicants to Mensa.
As for the different sentences, without knowing the circumstances I'll withhold judgment, though each sentence for each individual seems bizarrely light to me for what, again to me, is an unimaginable crime. Simply that the male and female got different treatment does not bother me.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
12d ago
is it true?
I wouldn't want to generalize but I'd suggest it is not a complete myth. Assumptions can be made simply from the number of entertainment districts (in Kitashinchi alone there are probably a hundred or more hostess clubs and Kitashinchi is one small area of Osaka) and call girl services (harder to count but a simple search online for so-called 'delivery health' will find many, many shops, with as many girls employed), to say nothing of the more hidden places such as soaplands (I associate these with the truly depraved), image clubs, girl's bars, deai sites, and all the other categories I am too naive to even know exist.
The trick of course is that the true sin is to open the barn door. It's in a way like 和. Like Fight Club. The ultimate misstep is to talk about it. It's the water trade (水商売), fuzoku (風俗, which actually means public morals but is used for prostitution), what they used to call the floating world (浮世, but this is a very very old term.)
Note that all of these are so-called pay-for-play, with varying degrees of actual intimacy--hostess clubs, for example, might have regulars, and not involve sex (but might.) More traditional affairs where one is cheating with the secretary are I would imagine more rare, if simply because the legal repercussions would be extreme. A wife can sue the mistress into oblivion--notably, even if she does not divorce the husband. The catch is that if it's a business relationship, that (the chance to sue for compensation) all goes out the window because it is not considered an emotional betrayal. Or something .
An effortpost on all of this would be interesting to write, but I don't know if I want to be known as the guy who writes about Japanese prostitution.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
14d ago
Thank you for the detailed answer. I suspected you in particular weren't just sloshing words around without having considered what you were writing. I'm not sure your intention hit with me, but maybe did with others.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
14d ago
I did! Alas, they still gave me a receipt.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
14d ago
That would have been the preferred reaction, yes. There is another story there that may answer you but I'll save that one for some other occasion.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
14d ago
Ha, my wife and I used to watch that every year and I still enjoy it. Pretty messed up from a certain perspective but I find so are many things I enjoy.
Superman: The Movie. Lot of nostalgia there-- the night I went to see it, the era, everything.
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