@matigo I KNOW RIGHT
regarding 1) --- oh my goodness it is SO BAD. with the two recent examples in teh past week that I have, there's a combination of power differential as well as reasonably functional-seeming person paired with creepy or questionable person
regarding 2) --- UGH there is like NOTHING you can do. if you draw attention to it they just think you're pretending not to be into them. and I don't even understand why they think I'm into me anyway?!
@matigo I think fetishisation of 'the other' probably happens with most 'different' cultures- but Japan for some reason (particularly on the internet) seems to have really ended up as the focus of a lot of that 'wooo weird foreigners' shit. Perhaps because it's a gigantic economy with a modern but very much non-Western culture?
I guess SK's PPAP moment was Gangnam Style which I absolutely LOATHE
// @lukasros
@matigo PPAP is only funny to me because it's a random non-sequitur that doesn't invade my every day life. If was everywhere i'd want to shoot myself haha
// @lukasros
Awkward things:
1) really creepy combinations of workmates when hooking up O_o2) when someone thinks you have a (creepy) crush on them but actually you've never seen them in that way EVER
@jussipekonen the people with the loud tinny and invariably shit 'music' on their phones are the worst IMO!
// @matigo
@33mhz hehe cool! i'll probably stumble through and make something (eventually) that's semi usable :O
@jussipekonen also there's stuff in the design of 10c & pnut apis that is modelled on the adn api, so not so hard to transfer the ideas over
// @matigo @33mhz