I know this isn’t Bojack related, but recently instead of turning men down by saying “no, thank you”, I experimented with saying “I’m engaged” and flashing a ring instead.
Needless to say, I am not engaged. It still worked better than just saying “no”, but then came questions like “so where is your fiancé?” and “he let you go out by yourself looking like that?” or just remaining persistent in asking for my number.
So I went into my closet, and pulled out a fiancé.
Now when I turn men down and they need further proof, they can know that I would rather lug around a 5 foot tall plastic skeleton to Steak n Shake and fake a proposal than give them my number.
His name is Braunschweiger Last-Name and I think I’m going to take his last name.
In Japan, land of quirky customs, quirky inventions and even quirkier homes,
some warm up in winter using what looks like a cross between a low
table, futon, reclining couch and a comforter. It’s called a kotatsu, and there’s a special heater built in underneath the table that warms the extremities of all who gather ‘round it. Or even sleep under it, as this writer recounts during her first winter in Japan.
And apparently, it can lower heating bills too, as Martin Frid explains on these pages some years ago:
Sitting by the kotatsu
heating table, under a thick blanket, is still the way for entire
families to keep warm on winter evenings. Rather than heating up the
entire house, the cosy kotatsu is a comfortable way to spend a couple of
hours together, with a much lower energy bill by the end of the month.
I’ve seen so much anime that a kotatsu just seems like a normal, everyday thing… even if I’ve never seen one IRL. Kinda made me confused to see it referred to as “a wacky invention.”
yeah it took me a really long time to process that a kotatsu wouldn’t be common knowledge in the west until i remembered that not everyone was a fucking weeaboo in middle school like i was
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