“So you’re a career man? Well, let’s see if we can find a way to give you a little raise…”

“I’M GETTING A PROMOTION?!”

I read this and immediately thought “well, that’s completely wrong”.

I’m British, so to me “Asian” usually means from the Indian Subcontinent. Some of those guys can be very beardy!

Anyway, the answer to your question is a phenomenon called Neoteny.

Basically, it’s the retention of juvenile characteristics into adulthood. It occurs almost exclusively through sexual selection.

In East Asia populations, there is a mutation in the EDAR gene which is associated with the specific differences you’ve mentioned (along with thicker head hair, less prominent chins, smaller boobs, etc).

It’s essentially the plot of a generic porn film, without the actual porn.

He said “you want it pasteurised, 'cos pasteurised is best.”

She said “Ernie, I’ll be happy if it comes up to me chest”.

Benny Hill - Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)

Please don’t be alarmed, but I am finding out where you live and coming round for my tea.

No problem :)

I’ve used Lens for grabbing English text from images before - I wasn’t 100% sure it’d work with Chinese characters.

Is this correct?

兑换码:千里共婵娟

兑换码:但愿人长久

I used Google Lens to grab the text from the image.

Hope it helps!

Go on, I’ll fight for big boob girls. Big boobs are great (but also so are small boobs).

“What a surprise. Another Harry Kim.”

“What do you mean… another?”

“Most of the crew are Harry Kims.”

This is the correct answer.

BBC Radio 6 Music listener here. No ads, and interesting music chosen by its presenters, many of whom used to work in the music industry themselves.

As an organisation, the BBC has its faults, but its Radio output is possibly the best in the world.

I think the first part of this is great advice. Find a related online community and post the listing on their boards.

Not only are you speaking directly to people who might be interested, but you can also have more of a back and forth before the sale to ensure that there are no misunderstandings.

SuperTed was Welsh.

Ah, an oldie but goodie!

I was born two weeks before my due date. The running joke in my family is that it was the only time I was ever early for anything.

I have no idea what the problem is - I meet deadlines at work, I’m pretty great at time management in general, I just seem to be spectacularly bad at moving my body from one location to another.

UK 🙂

Heck, that would have been tons easier! I remember the dread of seeing the seller say they don’t accept cheques, and having to hoof down to the Post Office to pick up those stupid Postal Orders.

The main reason we didn’t have scalpers was that there was no way to sell these games on.

There were no online auctions until the tail end of the 90s, and even then virtually nobody trusted them. There was no digital payment - you had to send cash, cheque or postal order in an envelope. There was no Facebook. Essentially there was no way to sell to a large audience.

The Playstation changed the demographic, but it was towards an older audience.

Sony’s marketing team realised that while kids only got given consoles and games on special occasions, adults can just buy them whenever.

It’s the classic disruption technique - in a saturated market, find an underserved audience and lean into it hard.

I can see how something like that would make a big impact.

I’m autistic.

I’m trying to explain things so I’m not misunderstood.