AN ANIME EXPLANATION
Finally! We are home free, or are we?
XXIV. The Complacency Regression
It’s only natural to relax after a long struggle finally comes to a successful conclusion, and our couple gives in to temptation. They are now boyfriend and girlfriend, life is good, but the driving force in their lives has evaporated in a pink cloud of happiness. As the next weeks pass the pair, both entirely inexperienced, sort of drift along. They walk to school together; she makes him an elaborate lunch every day, which they eat together at school. They text late into the night. They hang out with their friends.
The problem emerges from the fact that the boy, filled with love for his girlfriend, and afraid he will be called Hentai or Ecchi if he makes a sexual advance, vows to himself that he will not ‘sexually harass’ his girlfriend. Sexual Harassment is the greatest of sins in Japan! (pay no attention to any inconsistency between this idea and the Maid Cafe) This leads the boy to gradually start avoiding his girlfriend since he is by now in a state of nearly terminal horniness, and every time he sees, hears, smells, touches, or merely thinks about her, he instantly experiences an effect commonly promised to men over 50 by spam emails.
This pure love and avoidance is not viewed as self-sacrificing love by the girlfriend. The fact that the boy has in no way communicated the reason for the increasing distance, leaves her sad and confused. The fact that she is a hormonal adolescent, newly in a relationship with her long time love, and the loser won’t so much as cop a feel, has her getting very close with her shower head.
As days stretch into weeks, and both notice, but are too bashful to comment on the other withdrawing, our couple is in danger of breaking up. Couples decouple when they don’t couple!
The friends must once again step up to save our blighted romance, but will they? By this point this group of people has spent better than a year and a half shepherding a pair of boneheads along the rocky road to romance. They are likely showing symptoms of PTSD from the process; they are halfway through their final year of high school and have their own futures to consider, and frankly after watching the idiocy their friends seem capable of, they are beginning to wonder if the pair breeding might not be a mistake.
XXV. Christmas Party Take Two
Christmas in Japan is for lovers, and now that our couple is in a relationship their friends expect them to go on a romantic date. This is the boy’s responsibility to plan and execute. Unfortunately, even though he knows he should invite her, the growing distance between them, and his by now frantic libido, make that impossible. One of the friends must take him aside and stress how bad it is that he hasn’t asked his girlfriend out for Christmas. Meanwhile said girlfriend will be sobbing out her frustrations to another friend.
The only way forward is for those two friends to get together and decide to plan a second friend group Christmas party. This party should ideally be held somewhere other than a karaoke room, because the goal is for the friends to be able to get the faltering couple into a room together, start the uncomfortable conversation and then slip away.
All goes well! The party happens, both members of our couple attend, and the friends cajole, threaten, or in extreme cases physically assault the faltering lovers until they begin speaking to each other.
XXVI. After the Party, By the River
Our couple walks home from the party together, and hesitantly begin talking about their feelings. They will find themselves in one of three places. Walking along a body of water is best, this can be either the ocean or a river depending on location. Next best is to find themselves walking down a street or alley that has significance from their past. Childhood homes, alleys where they fought demons, the abandoned cemetery where the vampire attacked, you know, the kind of place that triggers a memory montage. If none of those are available a park with swings for the two to sit on while talking can work in a pinch.
The boy will stammer out some kind of confused explanation about his fear of losing control. The girl will blushingly indicate that she might not really mind of he loses control. The boy will then lose control and panicking ask the girl if she is wants to go to a love hotel right then. The girl will lose control and scream at the boy calling him Hentai and Ecchi, punch him hard enough to sever a limb, producing a blood fountain, (while Japanese people get sick if touched by water or temperatures under 60°, they instantly recover from dismemberment in combat) and eventually calm down enough to explain that she meant kissing, maybe a little over the clothes stuff.
Somehow, despite having had this conversation, both will be too bashful to actually kiss at this point, but at least the relationship is back on track! A date will be suggested, but somehow won’t happen until after the New Year.
XXVII. Cram School
Somehow it is now January, and University entrance exams are fast approaching. This keeps pushing the couple’s planned date further and further back as one or both is always either in school, in the library, or attending a cram school to prepare for these all important exams. The date, which was so important to both on Christmas, is almost forgotten as the realization dawns that unless they both get into the same University, their relationship is almost over!
With a brief interruption as our heroine successfully makes our hero chocolate for Valentine’s Day, the couple spends the next three months in a frenzied study montage!
XXVIII. Boy and Girl Once Again Find Themselves Beset By Hordes of Demons
Just before the entrance exams the demons, angry gods, ghosts, vampires, middle school gangbangers, or (shudder) Mean Girls, do their thing again. Just as at the very beginning, special powers are unleashed, mystical secret martial art strikes are struck, talismans placed, and in extreme cases Mean Girl rumors are exposed as false! The struggle interferes with the vital pre-exam weekend study plan, and despite emerging victorious, our couple begin the exams poorly prepared.
XXIX. Exam Results
Somehow, despite arriving for the exams battered, covered in demon guts, and in their 71st consecutive hour of wakefulness both our lovers have been accepted to their chosen University!
Joy reigns, and the all-important second date is finally scheduled! We are now two years into this journey, approaching our second date, which is going to be a big one, at an amusement park even! Will our couple reach first base?
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5. Interlude the Fifth
Again I remind my audience that it is important as we follow this relationship from beginning to baby not to get too involved with our couple. Emotional connection will just leave us unhappy as this process seems interminable to western sensibilities. Accordingly I have broken it up into several parts to allow my audience to digest the material in more manageable lessons. This also allows me to turn one really long submission into multiple shorter ones to help with the lack of content being submitted.
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It’s only natural to relax after a long struggle finally comes to a successful conclusion, and our couple gives in to temptation.
Hubba hubba.
Oh, wait. Never mind.
When do the naughty tentacles come out?
Obligatory
We are now two years into this journey, approaching our second date, which is going to be a big one, at an amusement park even! Will our couple reach first base?
Let’s not rush things.
They need to go to an Italian karaoke restaurant
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Sexual Harassment is the greatest of sins in Japan! (pay no attention to any inconsistency between this idea and the Maid Cafe)
Noncombatant populations are strictly verboten.
I assume the next stage is a demon, or a Mean Girl, traps the boy in a tunnel, chanting “Wanna fud?” until he overcomes his painful bashfulness. Victorious, he keeps even more secrets from the heroine until their relationship is so piled high with lies and deceits that they get married and live unhappily ever after.
I don’t get this generation and their extolling of Elmer as a sexual avatar….
I am wondering what the market is for this device.
https://www.glsciencesinc.com/oralchroma
Over 2,000 sold in 23 years! Buy now, avoid the rush 🙄
I’m not sure what the startup costs were, but that’s $85k a year. Not a bad side hustle.
Better than the Analchroma.
That’s why they don’t want you drinking red or purple gatorade before a colonoscopy.
It’s important when designing your $10k halitosis detector to make sure it comes in both blue and pink.
Meanwhile said girlfriend will be sobbing out her frustrations to another friend.
Hot confidante sex!
That is a different genre.
You mean this isn’t the over-arching ARCHETYPE?
They have rivers in Japan like they have rivers in England….as in they dont.
I saw two rivers in England. Here we call those ‘creeks’.
I’m sorry, Suthen, it’s you who are abnormal.
Most places don’t have a continent draining past their house.
Their loss.
Strong disagree on your assessment.
Yeah….there is that.
Didnt you drive through here once? Did you go over the Mississippi at Baton Rouge?
I have not passed through the state of Louisiana.
I have crossed the Mississippi river proper at the Mississppi-Arkansas border, the Tennessee-Arkansas border, St Louis, the Illinois-Iowa border, the Iowa-Wisconsin border, and in Minnesota.
I’m not sure I even really registered it on most of those bridges.
Yes, islands tend not to have mile wide rivers. I’ll take mountains over swamps personally.
Something confuses me though.
Then coming to a fork in the river How is it decided which is a tributary?
Is it the smaller flow? Channel width? Whim?
Solve it like the Ohio River; it doesn’t branch it just collects the Monongahela and the Allegheny. Or the Kanawha that flows into the Ohio but upstream becomes the Gauley and the New.
Uncivil…try the I-10 at Baton Rouge if you ever get a chance. The height of the bridge and size of the river will give you that same feeling astronauts get looking down on the earth. The sheer scale of it is beyond one’s intuitive grasp. Then drive down to New Orleans and cross it there. Even that short distance makes a big difference.
I was going to link to some photos of those places but looking I see there are a number of bridges over the MSR on a similar scale.
When you are standing on the banks of the MSR it feels more like an inland sea than a river.
On your question about forks we should consult Yogi Berra.
Locally, the Mattaponi River splits into the Matta and Poni rivers which split into the Mat, Ta, Po, and Ni rivers.
But then they turn into creeks that go “Ecky-ecky-ecky- ecky-pikang-zoom-boing” (Ni!) and you end up with nothing but shubberies.
“Most places don’t have a continent draining past their house.”
Ackchually, more like half a continent.
My pastor made a comment about Colorado rivers the other day and I said, “What rivers? I haven’t seen anything other than small creeks.” The Ohio is my standard for an average river, which might be a bit biased.
However, for being an unimpressive small creek, the Big Thompson River carved a hell of a canyon.
I’m used to the snake and Columbia rivers.
Wild south of my house and slackwater behind dams to the coast.
Most rivers look small to
Me in comparison.
My favorite of the western “rivers” is the Powder. To have a geographic region named the powder river country you’d expect something with more water than my driveway after a light rain.
But if it had water, it wouldn’t be the Powder River.
Snow is powdered water.
The Powder River is big enough to have a Little Powder River tributary.
Up here, we treat the Cuyahoga as an average river.
Headwaters of the Mighty Mississippi are small indeed. The river grows rapidly though.
They have trout fishing so alright by me.
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Of course something went wrong. This project had been going so well, but my slide transfers are so old they are disintegrating whenever I try to place one on the model. The only fix that can be done before the deadline is spending $65 on a box I don’t want to get the brand new transfer sheet included in it and have the plastic accumulate in the pile of shame. The chemicals to rejuvinate the old transfers won’t arrive in time.
I wasted my lunch time soaking several to try to get one to not fall to pieces… 😥
This project had been running along with $0 in new outlays.
My photography sucks, and I still need to finish the base, but My first Space Corgi keeps changing between an awful mess full of errors to “not bad, maybe tabletop minimum”.
Here’s a bigger version if you want to see the mistakes in detail.
😭
I forgot to remove mold lines on the pistol.
I noticed the mold lines but wasent going to say anything
Far superior to anything my impatient ass would ever produce.
I HATE painting stuff.
fuck it. I’m paying the $65. I want to make this as correct as I can get it.
https://babylonbee.com/news/top-2-greatest-things-about-sydney-sweeney
Well played, Bee… well played. Hope they’re right (for her sake… she seems to have more of a head on her shoulders than I feared with the “bath water soap” garbage [which made me think she was another vapid money grubber], so I wish her personal happiness now and in her future. Woman should not live with doggos alone…)
Shame on you for clicking!
That is fucking winning right there.
Kabuki giving
Whether the Giving Pledge has been successful depends on whom you ask. The IPS report described the Giving Pledge as “unfulfilled, unfulfillable, and not our ticket to a fairer, better future” and identified only one living couple to have fulfilled the pledge, John and Laura Arnold.
A spokesperson for the Giving Pledge described the IPS report as “misleading,” and said the IPS used incomplete data and excluded “significant forms of charitable giving,” including gifts to foundations.
“For fifteen years, the Giving Pledge has helped create new norms of generosity and grown into a connected and active global learning community,” a spokesperson wrote in a statement to Inside Wealth.
Charity for deserving bluenose foundations staffed by the children of the wealthy for the purpose of benefitting the cultural elite.
See this is why we need a hefty tax on billionaires. We can’t trust rich and powerful people to get large sums of money to the poor people who need it.
Well we sure as hell know government won’t do that, so we might as well take a chance on charities.
I would, quite frankly, rather see them make a pile of all their money and set it on fire. That would at least have the positive effects of not enabling charitable institutions full of useless preening frivolities (apologies to Barry Eisler), reducing the monetary supply a few fractions, and perhaps the heat from the fire could be captured and used for power generation or something?
Pre-cisely. The Giving Pledge was nothing more than a tax shelter for the ultra-rich, tarted up with a thick coat of virtue preening.
not our ticket to a fairer, better future
That’s not just a stolen base – that is stealing the whole, damn stadium.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/netanyahu-to-convene-security-cabinet-to-discuss-plans-to-occupy-gaza-official-says/ar-AA1K57qk?ocid=BingNewsVerp
“Netanyahu said Israel “intends to” take control of all of Gaza, but “we don’t want to keep it or govern it,” he said in an interview Thursday with Fox News.”
This is what they should have done immediately after the October 7th attack. If it was me, I would have invaded Gaza, incorporate it back into Israel and then give the Palestinians a choice: we will respect your rights, and we’ll help rebuild the infrastructure only and if only you renounce terrorism and understand that you’re now under Israel. If you reject it or pull something like October 7th again, you’ll have 30 days to leave or be shipped off to the nearest Arab country.
War is horrible and something we should try to avoid but when you have an enemy like Hamas who is getting support from Iran and Hezbollah from Lebanon, you have to go all out.
I would have given 24 hours to release all hostages, then began a systematic invasion and bombing campaign if there were not returned.
It’s kind of crazy how many on the Left are peeved at Israel’s response when if Canada (hahaha) decided to parachute into New England, kill thousands of our citizens and then kidnap more, we would be calling for blood.
As much as I’m of the mindset that when someone hits you, you hit them back so hard that they lose bowel control if they ever even think about hitting someone ever again, one should also be aware that escalating counter-atrocities are a thing, and a thing to be avoided.
EvilSheldon:
I’m aware that the Ender Wiggins method of conflict resolution is the best tool for all situations. But my patience for the situation ran out the first time Hamas returned a dead hostage.
EvilSheldon: That’s why I’m not even sure if there is a way out of this. If you let it ride, it will embolden them to do more of this stuff, but if you go in all brutal and start to commit war crimes, you’re creating a battle for survival. Which then brings out the worst instincts of human behavior and spiritually and morally degrade yours and your opponent’s humanity.
The US had one solution that seemed to work. Kill every male of fighting age and put the rest in a reservation. Keep them there for a 100 years.
Uh huh. Lincoln: “I’ll call up 75,000 volunteers, they’ll march to Charleston, and this whole rebellion will be over before the barn cat’s kittens are weaned.”
You’re probably right. If our adventure in the Iraq and Afghanistan taught us anything, invading a predominantly Muslim country or territory is never a great idea and would result in a long, drawn-out war.
Any truly cultural conflict is going to end tragically. That’s a helluva contrast to the foibles of princes and kings after a little territory/treasure next door.
Most of the times, when a King wanted the next plot of land, he didn’t want to wipe out the people on it, just tax them too.
It works differently when the people are tied to land like fixtures all property of the Monarch and granted to his favored as rewards. Gaza doesn’t fit this model. It is territory of negative value, with a population that has been bred and trained from birth to hate Jews, Israel, and the West. It’s already a battle for survival for Israel, the only reason that is not obvious is the ineptitude of the rabble in Gaza and the West Bank. The only military solution is to clear the two regions completely, but that is a political disaster in the modern era.
“Let’s go have a picnic and watch the festivities at Bull Run!”
“you’ll have 30 days to leave or be shipped off to the nearest Arab country”
The problem is, nobody will let Palestinians into their country. Getting them out of Gaza would require a final solution.
Who calls a Toaster a ‘clanker’?.
I know that was done jokingly, but there are white liberals in this country just waiting to be offended on behalf of someone or something else.
Fucking gearheads.
That’s a new one.
We are now two years into this journey, approaching our second date, which is going to be a big one, at an amusement park even! Will our couple reach first base?
Goddammit. Kids today. Just toss her over your shoulder, carry her to bed, and have your way with her.
The difference between Japan and Mongolia?
Thirty years later….RAPE!
A different sort of forced labor
Neither the Trump administration nor the Heritage Foundation responded to a request for comment on this story or explained why they seek to reduce access to contraception.
Planned Parenthood’s Ghorbani has a theory.
“It is very clear that they are intent on expanding the population,” says Ghorbani. She points out that the Trump administration has called on Americans to have more babies, and says limits to reproductive care are a means of achieving that goal. “That can be everything from contraception to access to abortion care,” she says.
Somebody has to keep the Ponzi scheme going.
“Now, a group of 15 public health organizations is suing the Trump administration, arguing that the federal government jeopardized access to services including birth control for more than 800,000 people due to illegal withholding of Title X dollars.”
Withholding federal dollars to subsidize birth control isn’t the same as keeping women from using birth control. If you want to have sex without the worries of getting pregnant then you need to either start ponying up your money or come to the conclusion that perhaps you shouldn’t have sex and take the risk of getting knocked up if you can’t afford the pill.
How dare you suggest women take any peronal responsibility for their actions rather than subsidizing the vast Non-profit complex and its overpaid offiers.
Somehow, I managed to make it through my life paying for condoms out of my own pocket, like a chump.
Sure, Neph, but let’s be realistic. 5 condoms isn’t that great of an expense.
They could just go harvest free dildos from WNBA games and forgo actual intercourse….
The Hyde Amendment passed the House & Senate under Democrat control with Democrats voting for it.
If you are too poor to pay for your own contraception, you are too poor to fuck.
There, I said it.
If you are too poor to pay for your own contraception, you are too poor to fuck.
Painting is free.
Mad Scientist:
Not all of us can afford the bulk rates from Amazon!
Ed, have a different kind of sex.
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These are great, Jarflex – thanks!
Freedom fighters
“The Texas Governor has threatened our elected office. The Texas Attorney General has called for us to be ‘hunted down.’ And now, the FBI Director — handpicked by Donald Trump — appears to be doing just that,” said state Rep. John Bucy III (D) in a statement on Thursday.
“Let’s be clear: using federal law enforcement to track down political opposition is the tactic of a collapsing regime,” he continued. “It’s the kind of authoritarian overreach we condemn in other countries. Now, it’s happening here.”
Echoing Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu (D), Bucy dared the FBI to get involved, saying “come and take it.”
They only want to find you so they can push you out of a 12th story window.
“Come at me, bruh!”
Maybe they can get Spartacus to crack some GOP skulls.
LOL! “We’re going to hunt you down and…ensure that you fulfill the statutory requirements of your office!!!”