awesome random quotes

https://twitter.com/ozAntinnippon/status/603724066474729473

Tea Ceremony is ready to go. After matcha effort.

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Oh My God they published my submission to notalwayslearning! :waii:

Here it is: http://notalwayslearning.com/foreign-verbal-diarrhea/37678

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(Our Japanese teacher is a very sweet Japanese lady close to retirement age. On that day, we were being asked to complete some sentences in a way that would make sense.)
Teacher: *to one student* “Please complete this sentence: ‘After eating too much ice-cream, …'”
Student: *jokingly* “How do we say ‘diarrhea’ in Japanese?”
(We start laughing.)
Teacher: “The word is ‘geri;’ let me write the kanji for you on the whiteboard…”
(We look at her, finding it hard to believe that she actually answered seriously.)
Teacher: “Why are you laughing? What if you go to Japan one day and eat something weird? What will you tell the doctor?”
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Mamrie Hart is an extremely funny, talented actress/comedian. She wrote a book recently that tells stories from her life. This part is from her chapter on panic attacks (I have had a few of my own, so I understand completely):

'It's not something to be embarrassed about. In fact, more than likely you already have a friend who experiences the same thing. They might just not have a name for it yet. They could have been calling it "kooky floating maniac time."' lol This is one of the more less eccentric quotes that I can actually share. heh She can be a little raunchy.
 
yuki.n said:
Oh My God they published my submission to notalwayslearning! :waii:

Here it is: http://notalwayslearning.com/foreign-verbal-diarrhea/37678

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(Our Japanese teacher is a very sweet Japanese lady close to retirement age. On that day, we were being asked to complete some sentences in a way that would make sense.)
Teacher:*to one student* “Please complete this sentence: ‘After eating too much ice-cream, …'”
Student:*jokingly* “How do we say ‘diarrhea’ in Japanese?”
(We start laughing.)
Teacher: “The word is ‘geri;’ let me write the kanji for you on the whiteboard…”
(We look at her, finding it hard to believe that she actually answered seriously.)
Teacher: “Why are you laughing? What if you go to Japan one day and eat something weird? What will you tell the doctor?”
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In a parallel universe at Yuki.n's classroom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UDcfOkOeTw
 
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Before Eatnemen Vuelie became an ice-picking song at the beginning of the Disney movie Frozen, it had a variety of guises, including the hymn tune "Fairest Lord Jesus", originally written and published by German Jesuits as "Schönster Herr Jesu" in the Münster Gesangbuch of 1677.

Programme notes of the Adelaide Chamber Singers concert that I just attended.

See information about the arranger here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frode_Fjellheim and also see http://vuelie.com/?p=1401 for when he toured Japan.
 
Terry Pratchet's Hogfather:

“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THELITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THENSHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.”
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I find most of Terry Pratchett's books so quotable, hope he is resting in peace.
 
^Yep. Pratchett was such an amazing writer. The last Discworld book is out in August iirc. Sad that it's the last one, but I'm looking forward to reading it.
 
From someone in the USA:

"My attorney (who, at one point in his career used to maintain the Internet's largest 'lawyer jokes' archive) once told me that 99% of the country's attorneys give the other 1% a bad name.."
 
From Yuki's twitter:

ま〜とりあえず今日のリハやってみてからだけど〜。ど〜。 (Translated as And--and today's rehearsal! And not shifting to empathize with people that live from caching! (* ´∇'*). / (/o-) Han (－o/) Oh Singh!!! / (' O ´) / Deng!)

what are you up to yuki :stars:
 
About staying at a Ryokan:

Omotenashi (hospitality) at a ryokan can mean "you'll eat what we decide, when we decide to serve it."
 
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