GitS style yeah!

They are pro athletes, at the very least.

Intriguing trailer, the way it should be!

The Germans simply let women take their top off if they want. Seems fair enough.

Ah sweet summer child…

Seriously. My colleague does the same shit and it made me so mad until I realised he was on his branch. Then I was like, whatever, as long as you do a proper MR.

Salt enhances flavours!

That’s what the picture is meant to do, but in practice it’s not quite as bad, depending on what kind of high-rise city you’re used to. I feel a lot more claustrophobic in Paris or some other French cities, no contest.

Looks more like the inner driveway. Usually for people whose car is parked outside. If it’s like in China, it’s not for driving per se.

Because they weren’t already listening in?

On the plus side, no more mosquitoes!

I’m curious if you’re from the UK, OP, because I think this colours your perception of the The Office very much. For the record I loathe both, but The Office UK is a typical British comedy of taking the absolute piss of the characters, who are irredeemable fools one and all. You re not supposed to find them funny, or like them. You’re supposed to laugh at them. That’s the usual expectation, with British comedy.

Americans seem to have great difficulty with that concept, and can’t seem to handle a protagonist that is made fun of.

Again, not defending the show itself. Just saying you need to be aware of this approach when you watch British comedy in general. The common language should not make you forget the ocean of cultural differences in between.

You re thinking of Doogie Howser, M.D. perhaps?

Beautiful can-do attitude!

One of my favourite cooking knife was a Chinese steel from Tesco whose tip I broke off while playing knife throwing with it. The damn thing kept its edge so well, it was amazing. I actually miss that knife :/

Hmm, sounds like it’s time for the programming djellabah !

I did not know that. But it reeks so much of corpo team building I would not be surprised in the least. Do they do that out on the street, though? My first thought when I saw this was “oh, that must be the hazing for the new recruits! How amusing!”
It was not. It was a daily thing.

I dunno exactly what they sang, but yeah, they would absolutely sing something at the beginning of the day, lined up on the pavement outside their office, with the manager directing like some sort of corpo choral. I guess it’s one of those team building things…

I don’t know exactly what they sing, but yeah, singing together before a shift starts is fairly common over there. Used to see the delivery men do it before taking off for the day. Same with the local estate agent branch down the street where I lived.

I did have actual stand ups once, after coming back from China and all I could think of was “shit I hope they don’t make us sing the corp’s anthem at the end!” like they do over there…