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Reminds me how it took me a pretty long time to understand that there are things people know to be true, but kind of wink-nudge pretend is otherwise. For examp
by bemmu 6y ago
Reminds me how it took me a pretty long time to understand that there are things people know to be true, but kind of wink-nudge pretend is otherwise.
For example gambling is illegal here in Japan. Yet there are pachinko games, where you get prizes, which you can later exchange for money. Everyone knows this is gambling, yet everyone pretends that it is not.
Now I wonder what else everyone knows to be true that I still haven't realized.
- mmsimanga 6y agoHa,this! I have a running joke with my friends about the ironies we see in the world. Pro poor politicians living in posh areas sending their kids to private school. In my culture no one talks about sex yet we have a healthy birth rate in and out of wedlock. Older generation don't like booze so many of us drink like fish at our own homes then are teetotalers when visiting parents. It does get tiring I must say. Luckily with age I don't really like to drink so much anymore.
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