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[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Looks like the camera got drunk as well.

[–] aeronmelon 56 points 1 week ago (3 children)

one year ago

It looks like it was taken by a Minolta in 1997.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Obviously, this means that this was tweeted in 1998, simple

[–] jj4211 4 points 1 week ago

I'm thinking it has that polaroid vibe.

[–] ClockworkOtter 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

How can you tell what make?

[–] Lumisal 7 points 1 week ago

Minoltas were always drunk

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] ClockworkOtter 4 points 1 week ago

Now I'm even more confused!

[–] aeronmelon 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can't. It's a joke.

It looks like all the print photos I remember from the 1990s. Back then, my grandfather always walked around with a pocket Minolta 35mm camera. I loved playing with the sliding shutter guard.

[–] ClockworkOtter 2 points 1 week ago

I bet that was a good camera then! Might it have been the lens protector rather than shutter guard?

[–] Thteven 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's what pictures from the past look like.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I was in the past (almost one year ago). This is how the world looked back then.

[–] thesporkeffect 63 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This only works if you are extremely attractive btw

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 117 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Maybe but Japanese people are super friendly.

I got lost in a random Tokyo neighborhood and a random guy came out, tapped my dude shoulders and showed my ugly ass where my Airbnb was. This was after the Uber driver walked me 1.5 blocks (leaving his car engine on with the keys inside) to show me where he thought it was. I went to a bar and the bartender snuck a umbrella in my arm when it rained, and told me if I got lost, to call him. And a random person, realizing I was born stupid, help me use a washing machine.

Amazing amazing humans in Japan.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's true. Once, when I was visiting Kyoto, I actually forgot how to eat, and a kind elderly man held me and tenderly bottle-fed me. I didn't even ask him to.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This only works if you are extremely attractive btw

[–] blanketswithsmallpox 4 points 1 week ago

Was out of potato baby phase, can confirm.

[–] tjsauce 3 points 1 week ago

...would it work if you were a worm? Asking for a friend.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It feels like everyone has a story like this. I visited Osaka this one time and I was couldn't open the package that my lunch was in. This very ordinary looking salaryman approached me and without saying a word took, the package from me, ate it whole, then vomited it directly down my throat as an easily-digestible slurry fortified with immunity-boosting enzymes and developmentally-critical animo acids. He literally wouldn't stop.

[–] n0clue 20 points 1 week ago

This only works if you are extremely attractive btw.

[–] Bunnylux 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How do you know? Did you go to Okinawa and try it?

[–] tfw_no_toiletpaper 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He is the control group lmao

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

As an unattractive person I find this terminology comfortable.

[–] thesporkeffect 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You caught me, I guess it really depends on context

[–] aoidenpa 15 points 1 week ago

No one caught you. You need to throw out some words like halo effect and then a research paper about how attractive people get ahead in life more easily. Plus you don't need to be in Okinawa because you are making a general statement about how societies function. Don't give up! <3

[–] videogamesandbeer 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I thought that was Marge Simpson.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Morticia Simpson.
Marge Adams?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

Ok, but this has got to be a core cherished memory forever.

Nice, wholesome, like a life lived.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] hydrospanner 29 points 1 week ago

Oh now don't start that again!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A light shade of Payne's gray, I think.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I see French grey (kidding)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Looks a little more silkwort grey imo

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Now I'm interested. I see blue

[–] menemen 18 points 1 week ago

He looks undecided if he should be happy or pissed off.