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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
i read this. (nice! thanks!) and found it a fun read for many reasons
- shows you that getting old doesn't necessarily mean growing soft or stupid or stale
- it's okay to be weird (we know this, but some kids are still trying to be normal)
- the japanese are taller because they now eat meat! (yay meat! ha!)
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- and there was me thinking that stupidity - like other things I am not going to bother listing because we know you are an intelligent human being - was one of the things we'd love to be ageist about but unfortunately can't.
- I don't understand this comment. It seems to contradict your first one.
- Most Japanese people I have met are short. Some are tall. I have asked a Japanese friend recently if it's true that Japanese men and women dye their hair black because having gray hair is taboo in Japan. He seemed, rightly, offended by this and asked me where I've heard about it. I said to him it was the internet and he smiled.