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Mu Zeta posted:Just eat rice. Lasts forever. But it's from Holland!
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Keystoned posted:Counterpoint: I am saving money on groceries now because I buy only exactly is what on my list based on meal planning for the week, eliminating all of the impusle shoppjng that really fucks your budget. I go with my Grandparents (on both sides) philosophy. When you're cash rich, stock up on preservable food. Can or freeze when you have extra, keep a larder with lots of food. If you run into a tight spot, you won't go hungry. One set of my Grandparents lived through the dust bowl, the other, through the purge of the ethnic Germans in Yugoslavia and lived in a DP camp. Have food. If things go south, at least you won't be hungry.
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I like the Grocery Industry Viral Marketing happening in this thread, it's meta af.
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Turtlicious posted:I like the Grocery Industry Viral Marketing happening in this thread, it's meta af. Marketing doesn't work on me until it works on me.
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I know sure as poo poo Marketing works on me because I keep buying steam games I don't even want.
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Marketing would work better on me if I had more money to spend. That's the key flaw of marketing; they act under the assumption that everybody has infinite money.
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Or that people are very willing to go into debt.
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Moon Slayer posted:Or that people are very willing to go into debt. Lol if you don't just get Enrique to go into debt for you.
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Mu Zeta posted:People solved the stale bread problem thousands of years ago just turn it into bread crumbs or bread pudding stale bread is your friend. Or just eating it stale. I am such a man.
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BioEnchanted posted:My main issue grocery shopping is that I live alone so I need to pay attention to use by dates (yes, I can taste the difference when past the date) JnnyThndrs posted:I just keep regular bread in the fridge, it lasts long enough for me to eat it that way. I usually toast it anyway, so it's not like I really notice.
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Tiggum posted:If you're just going to toast it anyway, why not put it in the freezer? I used to do that when I was single and didn't eat at home much, but switched to the fridge when my GF got one of those new-style toasters with the giant thick slots - the heating elements are so far from the bread that it takes -forever- to toast normal-thickness frozen bread. My old toaster was from the Sixties and was great for bread but useless for bagels and such. Jesus, bread derail is like the boringest derail and I'm partially to blame 
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Marketing would work better on me if I had more money to spend.
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mandatory lesbian posted:if you become a parent you're supposed to do the same and look how well that goes Absolutely, but you'd think if someone goes out of their way to become a foster carer rather than accidentally knock up/be knocked up and deal with it they'd be doing it for the child's benefit. Unless the children are being marketed as an easy source of governmental income?
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Meanwhile, in Japan:Onean posted:Holy poo poo. Ah yes, the Mooninite approach to advertising.
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In case anyone was wondering, I looked on wikipedia and one of the eponymous monster girls is a ghost whose head comes off. I also found out it's just about high school girls that are draculas and ghosts, and not some What we do in the Shadows style mockumentary, which is a bit disappointing.
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It's supposed to be an allegory for people with disabilities or some poo poo, but still, it's a loving decapitated head that they're putting in random places. This is the country where stations had to cancel shows and replace them with 30 minutes of stock footage of a boat due to horrific murders.
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Double Punctuation posted:This is the country where stations had to cancel shows and replace them with 30 minutes of stock footage of a boat due to horrific murders. Say what now?
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it's just an anime head. it's not like that videogame company that send a female torso as an ad for their zombie game.Zaphod42 posted:Say what now? http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/nice-boat
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^ ^ ^ ^ ^ e: Or that, yeah. Zaphod42 posted:Say what now? School Days "On September 17, 2007, the day before the twelfth and final episode of the televised anime was to air on TV Kanagawa, a sixteen-year-old girl murdered her forty-five-year-old father in their Kyoto home with an axe. TV Kanagawa promptly cancelled the Tuesday airing of the finale for its similarly violent content, replacing it instead with a thirty-minute video compilation of scenery footage from Norway, played to August Wilhelmj's "Air on the G String".
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Okay, going off of some knowledge I haven't thought about since I stopped watching anime in high school. So starting from complete scratch, there was this one anime that was based off a visual novel, one featuring the typical trappings of high school kid who needs to win over one of a number of female classmates in the name of love. Typically, these types of stories get adapted into anime, selecting one of several endings where the kid wins one/all of the girls, I imagine based off of whatever the creator's/director's favorite is. However, this one specific visual novel adapted was somewhat notorious for it's Bad Endings. Where in other visual novels it would just be 'lol everyone hates you and you're all alone', but in this one they were more along the lines of 'One of your suitors is legitimately insane and tries to kill you/your girlfriend/herself' in fairly graphic manner. So, comes the animated adaptation and for the most part, it's pretty typical anime fluff. Guy notices girl a, while girl b notices guy, and girl c gets roped into it, etc. However, as series went along, the protagonist was making some increasingly more dick moves, and one of the girls, the insane one in the original story, was coming more off the rails. For the audience, it was becoming increasingly clear that the anime was taking an unexpected left turn and going for one of these 'Bad Ends', which is untraditional for the genre. Unexpectedly, there was the unfortunate incident where a 16-year-old girl killed her father with an axe. Now, as far as I know, Japan isn't a culture of violent crimes. Where in North America we have increasingly become desensitized to gun violence and juvenile crime, it is still quite shocking and scandalous back in Japan. Especially an incident where someone so young would act on such a heinous impulse. To reiterate, this incident ended up as national news. And it had to happen just before the finale was about to broadcast, across the nation, featuring one of it's central characters, a teenage girl, attempting murder someone, likely with an axe like object (as gun laws are a lot more strict there). Which is kinda like releasing a Godzilla style, mass destruction Disaster film just after 9/11. So, not wanting to seem insensitive, the broadcasters decided to cancel the final episode last minute, and replace it with footage of Norway set to classical music. Why footage of Norway? I can only guess, either as they had no other programming to replace it with, or because they have a policy not to misinform audiences about their scheduled programing, or as a pure PR move as to say 'We are completely against this type of violence and content, that we are going out of our way to instead broadcast the exact opposite of it in every way'. The legacy of this broadcast is a number of memes came from a live chat during the broadcast, namely of dorks being outraged they couldn't watch their anime, but notably took a brief break to compliment to footage of a ferry on a river, to which one member said, 'Nice Boat'. Thus, Nice Boat became a hilarious in joke that was beaten to death in the anime communities of 2008. SomeJazzyRat has a new favorite as of 21:18 on Feb 20, 2017 |
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Japan is actually seriously violent, they just mainly focus it inward. Japan's suicide rate is higher than the US's suicide rate and homicide rate added together. It's the leading cause of death in men 20-44.
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It's also the source of the most brutal murderers for some reason.
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Phanatic posted:Japan is actually seriously violent, they just mainly focus it inward. Japan's suicide rate is higher than the US's suicide rate and homicide rate added together. It's the leading cause of death in men 20-44. Yeah, I just meant that it was quite scandalous for someone to attack someone else in such a manner, especially being so young, distypical of a violent attacker, and relatively 'unprovoked'. On the other hand, everything I know about Japan comes from misinformation from back when I watched Anime in middle school.
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Phanatic posted:Japan is actually seriously violent, they just mainly focus it inward. Japan's suicide rate is higher than the US's suicide rate and homicide rate added together. It's the leading cause of death in men 20-44. Japan is really weird when it comes to violence and sex. It's like a strange culture-wide repression where everyone in polite company just pretends it doesn't happen and the people who are open about it are really weird and take it too far.
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chitoryu12 posted:Japan is really weird when it comes to violence and sex. It's like a strange culture-wide repression where everyone in polite company just pretends it doesn't happen and the people who are open about it are really weird and take it too far. Like Victorian England.
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chitoryu12 posted:Japan is really weird when it comes to violence and sex. It's like a strange culture-wide repression where everyone in polite company just pretends it doesn't happen and the people who are open about it are really weird and take it too far. This is why anime is so creepy. "Geeks" in Japan were pushed so far to the fringe they became an unchecked cancerous growth.
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I was translating an episode of an anime that featured one character threatening another with a knife. It was supposed to air (in Japan) the same week that ISIS released videos showing members threatening a Japanese hostage with a knife; they ended up delaying the episode by a week, skipping that week entirely. There was another delayed week because of the Kumamoto earthquake, but that had nothing to do with objectionable content and more to do with news programming, I'm guessing. We do the same thing in the States, though, like after the Challenger explosion or 9/11. I know I remember some scheduled shows/movies not airing (and not because they were preempted by news). Here are a few examples.
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SomeJazzyRat posted:...the anime communities of 2008. And people think the current problem is Trump
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Sappo569 posted:And people think the current problem is Trump I'd say Trump is more voltage than current. Things only receive the amount of amps they request, while voltage is crammed ceaselessly into a thing regardless of whether they want it or not.
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Hirayuki posted:I was translating an episode of an anime that featured one character threatening another with a knife. It was supposed to air (in Japan) the same week that ISIS released videos showing members threatening a Japanese hostage with a knife; they ended up delaying the episode by a week, skipping that week entirely. There was another delayed week because of the Kumamoto earthquake, but that had nothing to do with objectionable content and more to do with news programming, I'm guessing. Don't forget how we took the towers out of everything in the early 2000s or the supposed list of songs banned by clear channel
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Double Punctuation posted:It's supposed to be an allegory for people with disabilities or some poo poo, but still, it's a loving decapitated head that they're putting in random places. This is the country where stations had to cancel shows and replace them with 30 minutes of stock footage of a boat due to horrific murders. Japanese society isn't great toward people with disabilities so it's sad but also unsurprising that an allegory is necessary for discussing the topic in 2017, instead of just making an anime about disabled folks.
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SomeJazzyRat posted:Why footage of Norway? I can only guess, either as they had no other programming to replace it with, or because they have a policy not to misinform audiences about their scheduled programing, or as a pure PR move as to say 'We are completely against this type of violence and content, that we are going out of our way to instead broadcast the exact opposite of it in every way'. Lots of TV stations have "play this in case of emergency" content. It's chosen specifically to be as inoffensive as possible so it could be used for just about any problem at the last minute, from "poo poo the system with our digital content crashed" to "there was a heinous axe murder irl for the love of god don't let that episode air." At the last station I worked at, our emergency tape was about an hour of stationary camera footage in the woods set to soft acoustic guitar. I'm imagining a freaked out higher-up calling the station, screaming "DON'T PLAY THAT EPISODE THAT'S ABOUT TO AIR" and the underpaid operator shrugging and popping in the Nice Boat tape.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:I'm imagining a freaked out higher-up calling the station, screaming "DON'T PLAY THAT EPISODE THAT'S ABOUT TO AIR" and the underpaid operator shrugging and popping in the Nice Boat tape. I always wondered who was buying these  it's actually profoundly lonely people
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Lots of TV stations have "play this in case of emergency" content. It's chosen specifically to be as inoffensive as possible so it could be used for just about any problem at the last minute, from "poo poo the system with our digital content crashed" to "there was a heinous axe murder irl for the love of god don't let that episode air." At the last station I worked at, our emergency tape was about an hour of stationary camera footage in the woods set to soft acoustic guitar.
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Pastry of the Year posted:I always wondered who was buying these Nice train.
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Double Punctuation posted:It's supposed to be an allegory for people with disabilities or some poo poo, but still, it's a loving decapitated head that they're putting in random places. This is the country where stations had to cancel shows and replace them with 30 minutes of stock footage of a boat due to horrific murders. Does the succubus teacher represent the disability of being hot? I mean the vampire can represent someone who can't get in the sun or needs regular blood transfusions, the dullahan can represent someone who has a physical disability since she's essentially down a hand when walking around because she needs to hold her hear, the the yuki-onna can be someone who's frail when it comes to exercise and temperature, but the succubus is just, y'know. Edit: I got it, she represents a toxic workplace environment for women.
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lmao at the grocery shopping discussion, you people live some sad sheltered lives.
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Alhazred posted:
I had some Sara Lee bread last 6-8 months without mold. I didn't have the nerve to see if it still tasted good, but the ducks didn't mind. I didn't stick around to see if they died or mutated or whatever though.
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Any bread that lasts for two weeks without moulding or going stale is not made by natural ingredients.
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bradzilla posted:lmao at the grocery shopping discussion, you people live some sad sheltered lives. Of all the things to get smug about...goons never cease to impress.
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Joey Freshwater posted:Of all the things to get smug about...goons never cease to impress. Hmm yes it's totally normal to think that grocery shopping is some insurmountable, monolithic task
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