yesterday at 9:08 PM
The last one refilling detergent is a parody of The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer; everyone has seen it on textbooks and it has become a meme template on Japanese Twitter in recent years.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Milkmaid_(Vermeer)
today at 1:05 AM
I heartily recommend "Tim's Vermeer": https://youtube.com/watch?v=94pCNUu6qFY
today at 12:43 AM
Thank you, I was confused by what simply appeared to be a picture of someone doing laundry.
today at 1:08 AM
I mean, that's a tough idea. That's literally just a picture of someone pouring detergent, not an actual costume. Would have to say this one is pretty lame...
Just have to ask, how do you know this???
yesterday at 8:58 PM
Some of these are very humorous because of the cultural disconnect (as an American, I have never experienced somebody asking to put their seat back).
"An expert on a very niche subject" made me laugh out loud the hardest, because it's the one that's most "just a guy", and yet it's also exactly how it's described.
today at 3:40 AM
More about the expression, but the glasses are pulling their weight here too. Modern masterpiece.
yesterday at 10:16 PM
These are masterpieces in my opinion. It’s difficult to get the vibe exactly right when you’re working with so little.
Yes, a thousand times yes you can put your seat back you gentle soul.
today at 1:27 AM
> Yes, a thousand times yes you can put your seat back you gentle soul.
Overjoyed that I understand this, allow me to explain it to those who don't.
Seats on the Shinkansen [0] are bolt-upright by default. You basically have to recline them a little bit to be even vaguely comfortable.
Every person, every time, asks the person in the seat behind them whether it's okay to recline their seat by 5°.
The seat pitch on the Shinkansen is approximately 1 metre. There's a lot of room.
[0]: My line, anyway – the E5 series cars that run the Hayabausa service.
yesterday at 11:19 PM
The Japanese seem particularly adept at the concept of "vibe".
yesterday at 9:36 PM
They are more like "situational haikus", or the transposition to practical humor of the concept of haiku.
today at 3:25 AM
Glad to see that the world has finally discovered Daily Portal Z.
today at 1:24 AM
Mine would be "dude who vibed a to-do app with Claude and thought he'd be rich then realised 20,000 other dudes had done exactly the same thing".
Source: these dudes email me at a rate of about 5/week asking me to spruik their app to my audience.
today at 4:52 AM
As someone who gets these also - it's not the author emailing you.
yesterday at 9:17 PM
Maybe this is a different type of mundane costume, but I like costumes that just look like guys. When the anime initial D was popular, I would wear a white T, blue jeans, part my hair down the middle and say I'm cosplaying as Takumi Fujiwara...
yesterday at 11:06 PM
What you're doing wrong is not ordering a premade suit from amazon, then chucking it in the bin or a charity shop at the end of the day. /s
today at 2:35 AM
well of course, because what you're actually supposed to do is return it for free and cut into the trillion dollar corpo's profit margins
no, i'm not responsible for global warming. please don't even try to shift the blame from corporations to me for doing this.
today at 2:33 AM
This year I went as "person who forgot it was halloween".
today at 3:00 AM
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yesterday at 9:23 PM
Love how long each consume caption is. It could just be called Halloween costumes that take many words to explain.
yesterday at 8:56 PM
These are great. First 3 are brilliant. The second one is golden, I wish I had thought of that.
yesterday at 9:23 PM
I saw video of a costume contest this year where one participant was wearing an Amazon delivery driver vest, flung a cardboard box across the stage and then took a picture of it (all to wild applause).
yesterday at 11:51 PM
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yesterday at 9:14 PM
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yesterday at 11:11 PM
It's San Francisco, there's a lot of immigration, cultural influence, etc. whereas say Australia has outsize Vietnamese, Indonesian influence; or India in the UK.
yesterday at 10:53 PM
Japanese culture has been fascinating to westerners since I dunno … the discovery of Japan
yesterday at 9:19 PM
If I may gingerly throw a stone within my glass house, your username checks out.
yesterday at 10:04 PM
Yup.
You don’t see this kind of post rise for any other culture.