BEAUFORT, S.C. — Two runaway piglets led officers with the Beaufort Police Department on a foot chase through Beaufort, South Carolina. The piglets, collectively nicknamed “Bacon Bits,” were seen running along streets and sidewalks while uniformed officers attempted to capture them.
Officers Poulin and Barbery were identified by the department as the officers involved in the pursuit. The department identified the piglets as suspects and described their alleged offense as “fleeing and squealing.” Both piglets were eventually captured without injury and returned to their owner. Police confirmed that no harm occurred during the incident.
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🐷🚨 Two officers. Two runaway piglets. One foot chase.
Police in Beaufort, South Carolina, called the suspects “Bacon Bits.” The charge? “Fleeing and squealing.”
If a Japanese English textbook is teaching “on foot,” this is the example I want.
🇺🇸 Americans, what’s the funniest thing your local police department has ever posted?
I am pleased to announce that the Great Dana White, a violent Fighter and Warrior, has been offered the job of Press Secretary of the United States. I have requested that he bring with him assistants, even though some are not from our Country, of Islam Makhachev, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Justin Gaethje, Daniel Cormier, Amanda Nunes, and Kayla Harris. We need these people to defend us against the Lunatic Left. Dana will be a Press Secretary like none other. Dana, please take the job! President DONALD J. TRUMP
( TS: Nov 7 2026, 1:40 PM ET )
Do White House reporters need mouthguards now?
Trump says he offered UFC boss Dana White the press secretary job and asked him to bring six fighters as assistants. Imagine opening an English textbook in Japan and finding this in Lesson 42.
🇺🇸 Americans, what’s your first question from the press seats?
#UFC #WhiteHouse
🇯🇵 Soka Gakkai, Japan’s most beloved “cult”?
A Buddhist movement that helped put a party in government, gave Japan an entire genre of internet remixes, and counted Legolas among its members. How is this only two pages in a Japanese English textbook?
Soka Gakkai started in 1930 as a group of educators. It claims 8.27 million member households in Japan. An older survey put the share of people who identified as followers at roughly 1 in 50.
How did it get political power? At the ballot box. Its longtime ally Komeito joined the LDP-led government in 1999. The parties spent 2009–2012 in opposition, then returned to power together.
Meanwhile, on Niconico, users were chopping up a Soka Gakkai video of comedian Masami Hisamoto. She said her head went “pop” after Daisaku Ikeda praised her comedy. The clip became remix material. Whether any of those views turned into sign-ups is anybody’s guess.
And yes, Orlando Bloom is a longtime member. He and Katy Perry rang in 2025 in Tokyo, and he shared a photo of them together outside a Buddhist temple. He said he’d spent New Year’s with his Buddhist family.
🇯🇵 Japan, which Soka Gakkai clip do you still hear in your head?
🇺🇸 U.S. readers, what’s your closest equivalent to a religious video becoming internet folklore?
Nissin once turned Jamiroquai’s “Virtual Insanity” into a commercial about being hungry enough to eat FIVE cups of ramen.
In 2010, the company behind Cup Noodles took footage from the original 1996 music video for a Japanese TV ad. They kept Jay Kay’s giant hat and that famously sliding room, rewrote the lyrics in Japanese, and used CGI to make his mouth match the new words.
The best part? Japan was already part of the song’s story. Jay Kay says the lyrics came to him on tour in snowy Sendai. The streets looked deserted, and when he asked where everyone was, someone told him they were underground.
Fourteen years after the song came out, it was back in Japan selling instant ramen. The commercial even won bronze at Japan’s ACC CM Festival. And Nissin gave Freddie Mercury and Bon Jovi the Cup Noodle treatment in the same campaign.
This deserves two pages in a Japanese English textbook.
If Nissin brought the campaign to American TV, what ’90s hit would you pick for the next ad?
@AbsolutelyVexed@Fidias0 I totally agree. It’s literally working as a buffer zone for both sides. But this Fidias is too busy to gather the votes for next election. He doesn’t care about ultimate solution after all.
Japan turned the Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It That Way” into a yogurt commercial. Four cows. One bathroom.
How would you teach this in a Japanese English textbook?
🇺🇸 US fans, would you still sing along?
🇯🇵 Japan, what other ad jingle lives rent-free in your head?
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