Ha! I get this now. There's a scene in a kaiten sushi place in the K-On! movie. (A kaiten sushi place in London, weirdly enough.)

Oh hey, I should probably fix all the annotation posts I broke when I rejiggered OOTR/DS. ... Sigh.

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Actually, London having a restaurant of that kind is really not that weird. Yo! Sushi is a kaiten-style restaurant chain (made homogenous and bland for reasons that will become obvious) that's spattered all over this sceptred isle like pigeon crap on a war memorial. It was built from the ground up by an English businessman in 1997 to provide a conveyor-belt sushi experience for stockbrokers, investment bankers, hedgies, and sundry other stains of dubious and unsanitary provenance on the hotel bed linen of life, because those grasping self-important fuckbats didn't have the time or inclination for proper, decent Japanese food.

I think there are some in the US now. We know how much you like chains.

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FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

Off medication, off reservation, on warpath. This must be how Janeway feels all the damn time.

Heh, I should clarify. I don't think it's weird that there's a kaiten sushi place in London. I just think it's a bit funny that we saw the main characters of a Japanese TV show set in Japan visit one... when they went to London on a trip, and not in Japan, where they live. :)

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This really happens.

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"She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory

FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

I get the concept of eating at a mcdonalds while on a vacation<1> in a far flung place with strange foods, seeking a little bit of comfort of the familiar, especially if you have children. But in the UK? Really? I watch a lot of cooking shows, several of them british. The food is basically the same except where the US has a burrito the UK has kebab.

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"Don't change the subject"
"Too slow, already did."

The British also display a certain tragic tendency to consider internal organs edible. :)

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Kidney pie? Seriously?! That's like eating a wastewater treatment plant.
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Steak and kidney pie, liver and onions, haggis... mmmm. <licks lips>

Not too keen on trying tripe, though. It's gone out of fashion here in the UK since WW2, nowadays it's more a pet food than anything else.

(Besides, it looks IMHO like someone already tried to eat it.)

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*insert d3+1 instances of profanity where best applicable.

"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

Hmm. There's really no Vietnamese analog on Diqiu, so nobody's serving pho there.

It's the only time I've ever eaten tripe. Not bad, but I prefer the meatballs.

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My version of "grandmother's chicken soup"<1> is menudo. Which contains tripe, so....

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"Don't change the subject"
"Too slow, already did."

... There's a joke there, but it's just... too easy.

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I'm going to assume that you're dissing the boy band and not nana's menduo because I don't feel like driving three thousand miles to beat someone up.

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-Rage-.

Of course I'm not dissing your grandmother's menudo. Manufactured pop group. Contains tripe. Work with it. Banter not the same, etc. :)

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You're right, banter's not the same when you explain it. :)

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"Don't change the subject"
"Too slow, already did."

Meh, organ meat is the best meat. Deep fried chicken livers, diced kidneys and hot peppers...damnit, now I'm hungry.

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"Don't change the subject"
"Too slow, already did."

I've actually eaten at a kaiten sushi place at Heathrow. It wasn't bad.

I was having a discussion with a couple friends of mine just the other day about that concept, in the context of 'phone'. I was saying that a hand-held device that you talk into to talk to someone else far away will always be called a 'phone' because any new device that's invented (radiophone, cordless phone, cellular phone, VOIP phone) that uses the same general form inevitably gets shortened to 'phone' upon use. There are some regions where cellular telephones are called 'cells', sure, but by and large the overarching term when using it for real-time voice communications, at least in my experience, is 'phone'.

(And the verb associated with the use of a phone will always and forever be "call" ;-P )

In some places the going shorthand for a mobile telephone uses the part that isn't "telephone", but it's still there in the expansion of the phrase. In German, for instance, a mobile phone is ein Handy, but it's short for Handtelefon. (Similarly, in the UK the usual shorthand is "mobile".)

>(And the verb associated with the use of a phone will always and
>forever be "call" ;-P )

Except in Britain, where it's "ring" - even though most telephones haven't had actual bells on them for years!

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I've heard both over here, but maybe just as common is "phone". English as she is spoke. ;)

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I expect in North American English, we will be "hanging up" our phones for a long time into the future. I've also heard "close" used for that action...but flip phones are becoming less common as well.

"They copied all they could follow, but they couldn't copy my mind,
And I left 'em sweating and stealing a year and a half behind."

It isn't a job title. It probably is a street handle, not the name his parents gave him, but one should keep in mind that 25th-century Diqiu gangbangers are not likely to be familiar with the military history of 20th-century Japan, and as such, he probably did not name himself after a World War II suicide torpedo. That is, it's a meta-reference, not one that has significance inside the story.

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It wouldn't surprise me if it were the name of a Fire Nation weapon during the war, though.

nope. but he sure managed to turn himself into one.