The Cheesecake Bakery
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happy i'm not the only one confused by that statement
What's confusing about it?
all of those ladies look like they'd be in the 20-30 group.
Ohhh, right. For me, I can see that they look older, especially in the official videos (which my girlfriend won't allow me to upload/link to). However, they do look a bit younger than some other women of the same age, I suppose?
For example, Norika Fujiwara is 52 (two years older than my girlfriend) :
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norika_Fujiwara
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Dealing with me for all these years certainly didn't help.
Let's give them a moment, shall we?
A long time back, I found myself on a web bulletin board devoted to issues of interest to Asian-American communities. There was a person on said board who said they were researching a hypothesis that Japanese women who emigrate to North America and marry locals suffer from health issues that the non-migratory population does not.
I was, at the time, rather keen to see what data had been gathered. Did any of this have to do with differences in average diet? Are women's health issues less noticed than men's? (Apparently yes, when it comes to cardiovascular health.) Would a 4th-generation Nikkei, whether they outmarry or not, be more or less healthy than someone who came to the US or Canada as an adult and had a spousal visa for 10-15 years?
These were all questions to which I was (at the time) curious to know if they might have possible answers. Sadly, aside from some unverifiable blanket claims that American husbands were unlikely to notice any chronic health issues in their spouses, nothing seems to ever have come of it.
(And who said this thread would just be eye candy? Not I....)
see this is why the lizard in Spider-man is a villain... he has the technology to gene-splice on a global level, but instead of giving all of us asian lady don't age dna... he wants to do lizard people...
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You're thinking of Sauron.
My family history's rather complex and would take us wildly off topic, but my mom is quite healthy. She's smol and could pass for way younger if she dyed her hair and wore makeup. She still looks good for her age. Diet is a big part of it. Wouldn't be surprised if she outlives me.
As for me, I'd rather enjoy life than be a health nut and want to stretch out my life as long as possible while it slowly breaks down.
Also, there's the horrible healthcare system in the US. We tend to avoid dr visits b/c it's so damn expensive.
mmm, more amazing spider-man with Garfield, but yes it's come up before lol
My missus just stopped going to the gym but regularly goes to kickboxing gym, jogs and practises for beauty pageants occasionally. She also eats fairly healthily and uses lots of makeup, has eyelash extensions, cosmetic eyebrows and has her hair dyed and styled. That's fairly average for many Japanese women (except the gym stuff), I think.
Well, considering that this thread has gone far beyond what tec envisioned for it -- indeed, he's only posted twice in the past three pages so far -- I'm not sure that's as much of a worry as it might once have been.
But, that said, everyone's got a right to only share what they want to, of course. Especially when it comes to genetics.
(As an aside, I am not sure if I can top last year's Halloween bakery special, but I do have an image that I'm saving up. I hope it's not too dark....)
I won't deny that it felt very strange, in autumn 2021, being the youngest person in my cardiac rehabilitation classroom component. And most of my class had had arterial bypasses (a very common procedure these days, though I wouldn't exactly call it routine) while I had corrective surgery for a congenital condition that no-one seems able to determine just how I got.
But since I effectively have a brand new system (and a lot of the time feel somewhat younger than I look), I have been trying to keep that system well-maintained. And honestly? For a lot of the prior time, I didn't think I'd even make it this far. (One of the reasons I even started investing c. 2000 was that I felt I needed things for which to keep on going and see the future.) But that's material for another thread I have an idea for.
Sadly, despite it being around the time there were a lot of conversations on that topic, I don't think that it even factored into the original poster's assertions -- which makes me wonder just how much they cared to find out what may be going on.
(....we haven't scared tec off, have we? I do still have the Hallowe'en post for that....
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And now for something almost but not quite completely different....
Lightening things up a little with a riff on a Japanese ad that went viral:
Lightening things up a little with a riff on a Japanese ad that went viral:
Thanks for the link. I hadn't heard of this video until you mentioned it. However, I don't get it. All the memes or pictures were confusingly mashed together and weren't up on the screen for enough time to understand.
Even after reading the explanation at the link here, I'm still confused about the joke?
I also didn't know some people were not happy with this ad? I still don't understand why.
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Vannamelon has done a series of "(Character) does a Google search on themself" videos -- Power from Chainsaw Man, Monika from Doki Doki Literature Club! (originally, though she's now got her own Vanna-channel shtick), even Isabelle from Animal Crossing.
I suspect she picked the "McMommy" character because the ad in question has been up on Xitter less than 2 months and already Rule 34 of the Internet has struck. Also, she didn't have to do any dialogue. (Though one can hear a couple of muttered "WTF"s....)
Aside from some people wondering why the mother appeared to have had a clone-daughter, the manufactroversy appears to be a case of Xitter eating itself (again) and Paid Blue Checks countering arguments that weren't actually made.
But here's Saberspark with some perspective:
I wasn't really much of a McDonald's person post-childhood, and even now I'm more likely to go for muffins and coffee -- but I could see myself doing as the commercial in an alternate timeline....
If it's October, this thread needs....
Just in time for the spoopy season. You didn't think she'd forget, did you, Player?
Just in time for the spoopy season. You didn't think she'd forget, did you, Player?