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Interesting 🐍 tidbit:

Glad it's "used to", she sounds like a peach ☹️ This. My uncle the former UN worker spent his whole career travelling to all the places you see in the news, plus to all the places you don't see in the news because it's too dangerous for reporters to go, and he likes to say that all you really need for travel is your passport and money. But for the rest of us who don't have diplomatic privileges and a well-staffed regional office ready to come to our aid day or night, it's prudent to bring some other neccessities. Or, like me, you'll find yourself trying in vain to buy a bra in the only shopping mall in Nairobi, only discover they're kept discreetly behind a counter in a tailor's shop that only stocks a cup size you outgrew in your early teens... never forget to pack an extra bra besides the one you're wearing. Just saying. Given the way those two relate, half the stuff in JK's bag, he probably carries on purpose for Jimin to use Me too! Also I wonder how Tae can advertise a casino in a country where the citizens are prohibited by law from gambling anywhere in the world, without suffering some kind of reputational fallout, but he'd know better than me. I agree. Although, if I do forget something, I try to turn it into an opportunity to pick up an unexpected souvenir. Like if I forgot a towel, buy a souvenir towel. Etc.

Okay then: And I saw a rumour that JK is going to be on the cover of Rolling Stone's December issue

The maknae line all have huge Chinese online fandoms, hyung line not so much. It's infuriating

You don't do honey garlic? My favorite kind of wings @Old Cat Lady i've tried Korean fried chicken once here, that I got from the local Asian grocery store. It came with sweet and spicy dipping "sauces" (actually powdery rubs). The sweet was literal cinnamon sugar, made with powdered sugar, no salty or savory to balance it. So like eating chicken that had been passed through a cinnamon sugar donut, really. Interesting but too sweet to go with chicken, IMO. And the spicy one was straight-up gochugaru

I read some more... apparently the buildings were under renovation and surrounded with bamboo scaffolding covered in nets, and that's where the fire started and how it spread so fast

My God... but also, how does a fire spread simultaneously through multiple apartment towers at once like that? They're not touching each other...

Sugar is an important component of most barbecue sauces, or something like a teriyaki glaze, but yeah, generally speaking these things shouldn't taste sugary.

Yoongi crumbs! I swear this is starting to feel like the days when people would stalk Brian Orser's Toronto Cricket Club posts looking for glimpses of Yuzu in the distance

He likes starting his day with ARMY

Apparently JK's live is still going 😅

his hairstyle looks like it was borrowed from the Cortis guys

How much do you wanna bet BTS will find a way to be everywhete South Korea plays anyway

He's really leaning in to the squirrel thing

Kgma are entirely fan-voted

JK was live. Singing, apparently

Isn't that just the Super Tuna choreo? The "paltak paltak" part? 🤣🤣🤣. What a thingbfor people to be pressed over. Anyway, if you drill down into some of these hate trains, you start seeing the same names and the same bot accounts posting similar-sounding posts over and over. So I question if these are really started by fans, or if they're paid, organized, orchestrated hate campaigns designed to damage BTS's brand reputation and therefore their market share. The ARMY clapbacks are therefore important as a way of protecting BTS's brand, but there's a right and wrong way to do it. I was reading the BeLift Labs arguments in their lawsuit against MHJ and this is essentially their case: that MHJ orchestrated a public opinion hate campaign against Illit because, as a new group, they didn't have a fandom to protect their brand reputation yet so they were an easy target. I'm beginning to see that doing business in SK is utterly insane... everything hinges on reputation

I think these plus NJ/MHJ are the real heavies. The rest is just noise... Tae getting canceled hasn't even shown up on my tl. The Jimin thing did, but it seemed like something that has happened before. The JK rumours were so vile I actually braved that blasted hybe.protect portal and sent them a report of it all. But wow, it's by far the most user-unfriendly online form I've ever used. Every time I tried to switch tabs to double check the info I was reporting, it erased all my entries in the form and I had to start from scratch

I was awake for this and asked what he thought of this year's Grammy noms. Sounds like they've realized that chasing Grammys is a mug's game

That's too bad, I would have loved to see them take in Argentina

More tea Can't imagine how the five of them will continue to work peacefully together now

I hope he's joking... apparently the CORTIS fandom name is currently "Cokers" !

They announced it in a way that proves they're fully intent on continuing to cause drama, too... I'm sorry you had to cancel your ticket! Get well soon!

100%. Frankly HYBE should dissolve NewJeans and farm the girls out to 5 different labels

Cripes... what's wrong with people? At this rate, Jungkook is going to have to hire full time security for his front door