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[–] [email protected] 63 points 5 months ago (3 children)

This only works if you are extremely attractive btw

[–] [email protected] 117 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe but Japanese people are super friendly.

I got lost in a random Tokyo neighborhood and a random guy came out, tapped my dude shoulders and showed my ugly ass where my Airbnb was. This was after the Uber driver walked me 1.5 blocks (leaving his car engine on with the keys inside) to show me where he thought it was. I went to a bar and the bartender snuck a umbrella in my arm when it rained, and told me if I got lost, to call him. And a random person, realizing I was born stupid, help me use a washing machine.

Amazing amazing humans in Japan.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's true. Once, when I was visiting Kyoto, I actually forgot how to eat, and a kind elderly man held me and tenderly bottle-fed me. I didn't even ask him to.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This only works if you are extremely attractive btw

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Was out of potato baby phase, can confirm.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

...would it work if you were a worm? Asking for a friend.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It feels like everyone has a story like this. I visited Osaka this one time and I was couldn't open the package that my lunch was in. This very ordinary looking salaryman approached me and without saying a word took, the package from me, ate it whole, then vomited it directly down my throat as an easily-digestible slurry fortified with immunity-boosting enzymes and developmentally-critical animo acids. He literally wouldn't stop.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

This only works if you are extremely attractive btw.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

How do you know? Did you go to Okinawa and try it?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

As an unattractive person I find this terminology comfortable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You caught me, I guess it really depends on context

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

No one caught you. You need to throw out some words like halo effect and then a research paper about how attractive people get ahead in life more easily. Plus you don't need to be in Okinawa because you are making a general statement about how societies function. Don't give up! <3