File this one under “Things that depress me” (cross-referenced under “Reasons I hate my job”)
A young black couple in hip-hop style clothing walked into our store.
My co-worker, a young (19) Armenian girl, turned and whispered to me, “Do you like niggers?”
I stood in stunned silence, not knowing how in the world I’m supposed to respond to that.
Fortunately, she walked away before enough time had passed that social convention would have warranted a response from me.
After the couple left the store, she came back to say to me, “Good, the niggers are gone.”
I walked away from her quickly.
I don’t want to work there anymore.
Stop What You’re Doing And Watch The Hell Out Of This of the Day: Some offensively talented chap synced the classic Ricky Gervais/Patrick Stewart dialog from the overwhelmingly underappreciated sitcom Extras to a collage of scenes from Bambi.
Oh Internet, don’t ever change.
[thedailywhat:via.]
See Also: Ricky Gervais and Sir Ian McKellen in Bambi 2.
Via The Daily What
Carrie Dashow dropped a large dollop of lemon sorbet into a glass of Guinness, stirred, drank and proclaimed that it tasted like a “chocolate shake.”
Nearby, Yuka Yoneda tilted her head back as her boyfriend, Albert Yuen, drizzled Tabasco sauce onto her tongue. She swallowed and considered the flavor: “Doughnut glaze, hot doughnut glaze!”
They were among 40 or so people who were tasting under the influence of a small red berry called miracle fruit at a rooftop party in Long Island City, Queens, last Friday night. The berry rewires the way the palate perceives sour flavors for an hour or so, rendering lemons as sweet as candy.
The host was Franz Aliquo, 32, a lawyer who styles himself Supreme Commander (Supreme for short) when he’s presiding over what he calls “flavor tripping parties.” Mr. Aliquo greeted new arrivals and took their $15 entrance fees. In return, he handed each one a single berry from his jacket pocket.
“You pop it in your mouth and scrape the pulp off the seed, swirl it around and hold it in your mouth for about a minute,” he said. “Then you’re ready to go.” He ushered his guests to a table piled with citrus wedges, cheeses, Brussels sprouts, mustard, vinegars, pickles, dark beers, strawberries and cheap tequila, which Mr. Aliquo promised would now taste like top-shelf Patrón.
The miracle fruit, Synsepalum dulcificum, is native to West Africa and has been known to Westerners since the 18th century. The cause of the reaction is a protein called miraculin, which binds with the taste buds and acts as a sweetness inducer when it comes in contact with acids, according to a scientist who has studied the fruit, Linda Bartoshuk at the University of Florida’s Center for Smell and Taste. Dr. Bartoshuk said she did not know of any dangers associated with eating miracle fruit.
I just got invited to one of these so-called “flavor trippin’ parties”
You can buy the ‘miracle fruit’ here
Billy Bob Thornton loses his mind on QTV. WTF is wrong with him?! Is he trying to pull a Joaquin Phoenix-esque stunt? Or is he just really fucked up on something?
Whisky and M&Ms in a vending machine. I’ll throw this one in the “pro living in japan” column. The ‘pro’ seems to be outweighing the ‘anti’ at this point.
(via justo:frogprincess:grapedrinkseventy:janieblue84:apollosraven:sailors:colporteur)
Awesome Internet Search
1) Go to Amazon.com
2) Search “girl scout cookies” (no quotations)
3) Guess which one makes it go from “wha?” to “bwa-ha-ha!”
-via erockappel, sussybuckets, mattlittle, & Brian Reed
did not expect that!
About Me
My name is Lawrence Denes.After spending 5 years studying Japanese language, culture, literature, and history in St. Louis and Kyoto, I now live in Japan, in a town that most Japanese people have never even heard of, lost amid the rice fields and vending machines.
Please feel free to ask me anything, or send me an email.
