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@michaelbd @LaurenMaeve

She’s young enough to be his wife.

@RaminNasibov Since 1912, only eight countries have never had a violent overthrow of the government or been occupied by a foreign country. 1. United Kingdom 2. Sweden 3. Switzerland 4. Australia 5. New Zealand 6. United States 7. Canada 8. South Africa

@realulmapache @GunloverClub1 That’s a truly badass photo!

I got a story from my folks about a time when they were hog hunting in Germany back in '48. Big ol 200 pound grunter with 4-5 inch tusks charged their hide-out, Mom had the 12 gauge side-by-side. Dad says shoot, shoot, shoot the damn thing!!! Mom pulls both triggers...hog goes down about 6 feet away from them (like the video), next day, Mom was bruised over her entire right side from the recoil of both barrels. She never went hunting again. This is them out by Oberreiffenberg, Mom working security (still SS stragglers about) while Dad stalked a stag.

When a hog decides to charge, you’ve only got one shot to get it right.

Note for less-cultured Europeans: you can only call it Kirkland Cabernet Sauvignon if it comes from the Costco region of the United States.

@MarcherReborn Pretty good movie…

“Yehh, but Breakfast Clubs….”

@RussSpacy @JackPosobiec That movie was way better than I expected.

What is the best Liam Neeson movie if you can't say Taken?

@tanpukunokami Can confirm: I see lots of 551 bags on the trains back to Tokyo from Kobe (via Osaka). Personally, I find the bread a bit sweet.

You think Osaka's signature food is takoyaki. Or okonomiyaki. It's a pork bun. It's called butaman. The shop is 551 Horai. They sell about 170,000 of them a day. They've been doing it for almost 80 years. But here's what's strange: in 80 years, the company has never opened a permanent shop outside the Kansai region. People have asked the company why they don't expand to Tokyo. The answer is always the same. The dough has to ferment within 150 minutes of leaving the factory. Anywhere further away, the buns wouldn't taste right. So they don't sell there. They know the buns sell. They know how to expand. They just don't. The bun itself is bigger than you'd expect. Lots of pork, lots of onion, slightly sweet dough. They call it butaman, not nikuman, because in Kansai dialect, the word for "meat" defaults to beef. So if they called it a "meat bun," people would think it had beef in it. They specified pork in the name. The history is older than you'd guess. The company opened in October 1945, two months after the war ended, in a part of Osaka that had been firebombed to the ground. The founder was a Taiwanese immigrant named Luo Bangqiang. He started with a small restaurant that sold curry rice. The pork bun came later, in 1946, when he adapted a Taiwanese recipe to Osaka tastes. A Taiwanese man invented the most Osakan food there is, in a city that still didn't have homes for everyone. Ride the bullet train out of Osaka today, and you'll see at least one person carrying a red and white paper bag.

@PintsBeauty “Kirin lager beer, kudasai!”

Best of Japan 🇯🇵 Another tough one this, but which one are you choosing? 🤔

@jessethanley It looks like the abandoned onsen hotels above Minakami in Gunma.

I visited an abandoned onsen village and stayed at one of the remaining open hotels. This would have gone so hard on the 90s. Now, most businesses are shut and decrepit.

@GloryDoge Did tonkatsu for the wife and MiL. 😎

Hey Japan friends, what's for dinner? My wife made this Japanese dish 😋

We Japanese are stuck in that dreaded 10-week wait until our next long weekend. Japan has 16 national holidays a year… yet somehow June has zero. Why?! Next holiday is Monday, July 20. 🇯🇵 😭

@ChrisMijares7 @NormSNLJokes MKL died? I didn’t know she was sick…

@NormSNLJokes I made this when MKL died. It didn’t land, to say the least…

And finally... in Burien, Washington, elementary school teacher Mary Kay Letourneau pled guilty this week to having sex with a sixth-grade student, whose child she bore in May. Miss Letourneau has been branded as a sex offender. Or, as the kids refer to her, "the greatest teacher ever!"

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@Glinner Tremendous TV!

Is it just my algorithm or is Mr.Inbetween getting the attention it deserves?

The @Cubs are the first team in MLB history to have 2 separate 10+ game winning streaks and a 15+ game home winning streak all before the end of May.

@CacheThatCheque What finance podcasts do you like? “The Memo by Howard Marks” is great, also getting into “Merryn Talks Money”.

Approaching 40. It was a few years ago that I started to realize: 1. the only thing that actually matters is raising my kids And 2. the only interests and hobbies I have now is drinking coffee, listening to podcasts, watching the stock market and shitposting on this app

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@CBSNews @sfrantzman I can’t be the first one to post this…

A rabid beaver attacked an 8-year-old boy who was fishing with his family at Lake Henry in Mahwah, New Jersey, this weekend. Police say the boy was bitten in the leg after the animal exited the water and charged him on shore.

The @Cubs over their last 20 games: 17 total wins 10 comeback wins 9 wins after allowing the first run 6 one-run wins 4 walkoff wins 4 wins after trailing in 8th or later 3 extra-inning wins No other MLB team in the modern era has done all of that over any 20-game span.

@ninja_padrino Is that “craft absinthe” I see?

May not be tallest door in the world, but definitely in Japan @ Tabishiki