Salty

I was somehow able to upgrade my non-upgradeable economy flight to business with my airmiles and so now I’m in the lounge about to eat a chicken Katsu curry at 10 am just because I can

Idk what I’m gonna miss most about Japan but the hot drinks from vending machines is way up there

We did not happen to the Sanrio shop the Sanrio shop happened to us

Japan is truly in the future - we are on a Shinkansen and this train not only is just SO FAST but also the train toilet has a seat warmer and bidet function and is clean enough you’d trust it to use it.

On the other hand there is never any hand soap anywhere

This is my favorite New York Times cooking recipe to date I make it all the time - tho with far far less butter so I’m sure if I actually followed the recipe properly it’d be even better

Total and utter chaos 😅

Everything is Japan is so thought through and sensible and ordered with one major exception: the bicycles! People cycle at breakneck speed down footpaths even when there is a bike lane on the street and they will never ring their bell to tell you they are behind you, instead they just swerve

Do they sell new pairs of feet somewhere in Japan asking for a friend 😭

We literally just walked past a Tag and have put it on the map to go to tomorrow 🤣

First full day in Kyoto - we saw 4 temples and 1 shrine, got rained on and blinded by sun, saw many a leaf, had a hojicha latte, a matcha ice cream, and my feet are about to fall off - truly great day

There is just absolutely no excuse for the nightmare security scanner situation at Zurich airport

Why are the Swiss so bad at airports? All other transport we somehow can manage but airports? Nightmare

This is the Way. 😄

i am honestly in awe of the stick to it it had to take to do all that unsubscribing !

Celebrity Traitors UK is the greatest television show of history

Wowwwww

Getting word that Uncle Sam isn’t America’s real uncle

Absolutely absurdly blatant dog whistling like HONESTLY 🙄🙄🙄🙄

We must stop Auntifa

If not aunt, why aunt shaped

Cannot get over how unbelievably dumb this is, like they are actively and SO obviously trying to stoke racist ire but this is just how human relationships work. E.g., I, a white 35+ European, am auntie to 1 actual nephew, 1 godchild and about 20 other children to whom I have no blood relation

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register. Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

All I can see is Nazgûl

I have been laughing all day at the out fit that Queen Camilla Parker Bowles opted to wear to pray with the Pope

Jesus famously was quite good at handing out fish

fuck me, it'd be worth earning less just to not have to do this ever again

so then you have to pay with a credit card and !! you get charged a mark up !! by the sodding IRS !! for the privilege

let me tell you the IRS make it basically impossible for people living & working abroad to file and pay taxes, what an absolute nightmare, obviously if i live and work abroad i might not have a US account to pay from ????? ? god this is so infuriating

satire: a spirit halloween costume that’s a “violent antifa terrorist” and includes: - inflatable frog suit - cape - pepper spray filter - a thirst for the blood of the innocent - air pump batteries and Molotov cocktails not included

whoever did this little bit of magnificence, take a bow

The Swiss just keep on innovating 🤩🤣