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Japanese App Tweets Embarrassing Things If You Oversleep

If it tweets a randomly chosen web address I visited last night, I'll never hit a snooze button.
 
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DESNOS said:
guzhogi said:
In a way, it's sad how people in the USA don't give a **** what others think.

I've heard that some Japanese CEOs who drive their companies into bankruptcy commit suicide due to the shame. Anyone know if that's true? I know this sounds horrible, but in some ways, that sounds a bit better than those American CEOs who get the golden parachutes worth millions of dollars. I'm sure there are some that worked their a**es off to prevent their companies from being even worse, but, IMO, they weren't good enough to deserve millions.
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Not every Japanese CEO will (obviously), but suicide is considered a way to save face in such a shameful situation, so it happens.
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Gosh. Have you ever been to Japan? It's not face saving to commit suicide. It's escape. Those who kill themselves are selfish in the fact their family will be left to handle everything.
 
LeiQQ said:
Gosh. Have you ever been to Japan? It's not face saving to commit suicide. It's escape. Those who kill themselves are selfish in the fact their family will be left to handle everything.
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Agree with you on the escape and selfishness. But this by far not specific to Japan; that will be the same everywhere.

The last part though is really hard in Japan: in case one jump in front of a train the family has to pay quite some money for each minute of outage. That become really expensive.
 
guzhogi said:
In a way, it's sad how people in the USA don't give a **** what others think.

I've heard that some Japanese CEOs who drive their companies into bankruptcy commit suicide due to the shame. Anyone know if that's true?
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Here, the CEOs just drive themselves to the bank. C**ksuckers.
 
"From today on I'm going to head to work via unicycle."

"I want to buy a fast red Ferrari and a horse!"

"Just as I thought, I want to become a stewardess."

Oh how embarrassing, I could just never live with myself if people knew I wanted to use a unicycle or own a Ferrari.

I hope the App tweets things a little worse than that lol
 
LeiQQ said:
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Gosh. Have you ever been to Japan? It's not face saving to commit suicide. It's escape. Those who kill themselves are selfish in the fact their family will be left to handle everything.
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I doesn't sound like you ever have. Or if you have, you don't/haven't comprehended Japanese culture fully. Sure, sometimes it's escape, but it goes a lot further than that.

on many occasions a suicide is seen as a morally responsible action

The samurai way of glory was through death, and ritual suicide was seen as something honorable.

The cultural heritage of suicide as a noble tradition still has some resonance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Japan
 
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Mr. Chewbacca said:
I know I read somewhere that an alarm app had a thing where it sent a small donation on your behalf every time you hit snooze.

Would be awesome if you could pick your charity but the app sent all the money to one I did not know anyting about.
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That is a really cool idea.
 
Mr. Chewbacca said:
I know I read somewhere that an alarm app had a thing where it sent a small donation on your behalf every time you hit snooze.

Would be awesome if you could pick your charity but the app sent all the money to one I did not know anyting about.
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...that charity wasn't c/o the developer, by any chance? :p
 
The same idea might be handy when it's time to wake up the kids to get ready for school.

"Get up now or I'll show your baby photos to your friends."
 
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