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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart 12 points 1 day ago (11 children)
[–] 9point6 28 points 1 day ago (6 children)

One is the actual disembowelment one is the ritual IIRC

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart 13 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Yes I guess harakiri is the act of disemboweling yourself and seppuku is the ceremony surrounding it.

[–] kreskin 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I named one of our dumber work projects 'project seppeku' once. Boss was not amused when someone told him what it meant, but it went undiscovered for longer than I would have imagined, which simultaneosly made me happy and hurt my feelings.

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