How to get ANY Japanese person to help you:
Say "Sumimasen."
Then 3 words max. Verb LAST.
Say it SLOW. One full second between words.
"Airport... Bus... Where?"
"Subway... Ticket... Buy?"
"Card... Pay... OK?"
My American buddy did exactly this his whole trip. Worked on everyone.
He came back grinning:
"When they understand you, they try SO hard to help."
The absolute worst thing about opening this app is spotting a banger tweet for 0.2 seconds before the feed auto-refreshes and sends it straight into the void.
Gone forever.
Florence Pugh is reportedly the frontrunner to play Valerie (V) in the live-action CYBERPUNK 2077 feature film.
Director Denis Villeneuve is reportedly leaning toward a female-led story, pairing V with Keanu Reeves’ Johnny Silverhand as they navigate Night City.
I bought a used camera lens on eBay from Japan for eight dollars.
Eight bucks.
In Ohio, the cardboard box arrived on my porch.
Inside, there was no printed receipt.
No discount coupon.
Sitting on top of the bubble wrap was a tiny origami crane, folded from floral chiyogami paper.
Tucked under its wing was a note written in shaky pencil:
"Thank you for finding my lens.
Thirty years ago, I used this to take photos of my daughter's wedding.
Now my eyes are failing.
May this glass bring light and joy to your world, as it did to mine."
I paid eight dollars for old glass.
And a stranger across an ocean gave me their family's blessings.
I held that paper crane and wept.
🚨INSANE: Trump goes “off script for a second” and says the taxpayer-funded ballroom costing Americans half a billion dollars is “in honor of President Xi.”
Trump’s love of dictators has NO bounds.
Counter-Strike co-creator Minh Le revealed that Valve boss Gabe Newell got so obsessed with Mongolian throat singing at Valve HQ that staff started closing their office doors to escape the noise. https://t.co/sg6cceAdvM
Shannon Loftis, a nearly 30-year Xbox veteran and former head of World’s Edge, has publicly criticized Asha Sharma following the latest layoffs:
“Super funny that Asha Sharma said “clarity is kindness” to the WSJ last week then did a half layoff today. I guess Damocles’ Sword is a form of clarity, what do I know?”
“Please, Asha, publish more “cool” photos from your Japan Kojima-maxxing trip. That’s the kind of leadership game developers need.”
“Hornerman” is now part of the Oxford English Dictionary!
Other Trini/Caribbean words also.
Had fun helping @danicacoto with this story for @AP
https://t.co/3eGLhFbDMT