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This. I'm the "just in case" type as well (although I don't carry around 5 different types of lip balms, but just because my finances don't allow it xD). I bought a lovely large bag at Don Quijote in Japan, and I carry it around with me everywhere I go: receipt folder (because I'm self employed), a small necessity bag with tweezers, lip balm, a small tube of face cream because winter kills me, hand cream of course, my medicated cream, even a small umbrella "just in case", wallet of course. It depends on the day sometimes as well. I've had too many occasions where I needed something only to find out that I hadn't brought it with me and I'm frugal, I don't want to have more than one thing of the same item.

Indeed, there are definitely sauces that call for it and it's good. I think I just got traumatised by the fried chicken we had because there was no sauce involved (apart from the dipping one) but it was the actual batter that was sweet. It didn't really go well with our cold beer

Yeah-- no, they omitted sugar. He put a full tea spoon of sugar in it. I swear Koreans and their obsession with sweetening food that is supposed to be savoury always got the best of me when I was there. I had sweet fried chicken. There was sweet cheese ffs I get adding sugar or glucose to anything that is spicy/has gochujang. The combination is full-on food science worthy. But you will not add sugar to my pasta, meats or pizza. Thank you very much.

The editors had it out for poor Jimin

It's not just NJ, in fact, I think that's the least of their concern, to be honest. The whole fandom is in shambles between Taehyung being cancelled due to his ambassadorships (and I'm convinced that part of his emotional state during Jin's concert was because of that); Jungkook being, once again, the target of vile rumours that are getting more and more out of hand + crazies still trying to break into his house; Bang PD being investigated; a mother of one of the Seventeen members making it pretty clear she's bitter towards BTS; the things Jimin had to go through when they got back from LA. It's all piling up. And people are between fighting back, getting into a vicious circle of never ending bickering, or just reporting to Hybe for the legal team to take care of everything.

I believe that had more to do with showing support for the girls. Crazy came out during the height of the hate train against them because of the evil witch and her fabric minions. Plus that part of the choreo was easy lol

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY'RE IN USHUAIA?!?! WHAT DO YOU MEAN I WILL SEE IMAGES OF THEM IN MY HOMELAND?!:? kbfkbafn ETA: booo, just went to that person's account and they're from Argentina. The way they talk clearly shows that she was trying to be funny. Completely false

Wireless mics are low voltage and don't pose any risks. Plus they're well insulated, kind of like water-safe "toys", if you know what I mean

I'm joining today

Did I mention that we went to his sister's café Farben (which means colours in German)? I loved the decoration, it's like she took a page out of my tastes book and plastered into that space. She was the one taking our order. Spoke really well English as well. It's funny because it was the first day in Seoul that we went to the Forest Park and then started to make our way further inland without much thought. Ended up in a busy shopping street where we were excited to find a Line Friends store, so plenty of BT21 stuff. It was only 2 weeks later, when my sister and I decided we might as well go check out her café and I looked up the address, that I realised we had walked right past it on that first day. If there was a queue, then I hadn't noticed at all. There was one on the day we went though and they were almost out of pastries.

HELP I don't understand what this company is about. Do they organise festivals? Concerts of single artists? Do they sell tickets? I know they're from India ETQA: Pfft, it's just for the Golden Exhibition in India...

Oh Oh, remember during the first encore concert I said I thought having read somewhere that there were no ARMY bombs allowed? Well, looks like the person had completely misunderstood what was going around. There were no ARMY bombs for sale in the merch booths which was strange. Just shows they're actually preparing new ones for 2026, no?

Jin needs to start charging for these!

Side note: I love the romanization feature of the lyrics on Apple Music, makes it so easy to do a sing along (and still terribly suck at it)!

It's been a while since I've taken a step back from following the New Jeans case and MHJ as well, and catching up on this made me see things from a different perspective. MHJ is still a witch and karma will get her, that didn't change. Grooming and manipulation are her speciality. As for the girls: yes, I do believe they should have made smarter choices with the help of the adults (bar MHJ) in their lives, but not even they seem to be close to the average IQ spectrum. That being said, these girls HAVE been groomed, and just like a victim of domestic violence, we can't blame them for their actions, as disingenuous and illogical as they might seem to us. It's easy to comment from the outside, but from the inside I have no doubt that these girls really, really wanted to get away from Ador, justified or not, and they deserve to do so. I get contracts are there to be fulfilled, and that if Ador agreed to dissolve it then other companies would be shaking in their boots because they risk other idols demanding the same things knowing they would have chances of getting away with it, so the only option was to fight for its validity to not lose face and send out a strong message to the industry, that Ador/Hybe was not to be messed with. However, staying in a work place where you're no longer comfortable (again, justified or not) is hell. Imagine being forced to stay where you are, despite hating it, for years to come. You would fall into depression, I guarantee you. I did... and the companies I worked for weren't too shabby when it came to culture, but I couldn't muster the energy to look for something else because of that same depression. My understanding is that they will now appeal, correct? They will have to change their strategy and get medical professionals to actually diagnose them with severe enough mental health issues that would incapacitate them and prevent them from working properly until 2029. I agree with JK's post on Bam's account back in the day when all this started and ARMY was adamant that it had been hacked, that he would never side with anyone that wasn't Hybe. Leave artists out of it. They're always used as tools and there have been too many people fighting their labels for one reason or the other in the past and all of them said the same thing: it's mental damage that it's very hard to get out of.