this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2024
204 points (99.0% liked)

Offbeat

1314 readers
33 users here now

Post your funny, weird, strange, or quirky news stories here!

Community Rules

Similar Communities

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Archive/mirror: https://archive.ph/gSEjU

I guess their documents are in the cloud now...

all 14 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But they were recovered when a beautiful girl helped him pick them all up, starting a life-long love affair.

[–] ZoopZeZoop 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

She didn't speak his language, but that cannot stop love.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

But the fact she was a foreigner did.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Recording everything using paper. How very Japanese.

[–] AnUnusualRelic 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How else were they going to get everything stamped?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

This is the most Japanese problem I've seen today and I live in Japan.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Bureaucracy. Bureaucracy never changes.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

That's how all of Kansas lost theirs, or so I'm told by this Dorothy girl over here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I love the photo used in this article (also the thumbnail here)

[–] quaddo 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I’m surprised spreadsheets and fax machines weren’t somehow involved.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That's what could be the 'new' digital process.