Botsuraku Yotei Nanode, Kajishokunin wo Mezasu - Vol. 1 Ch. 5

[MangaDex]

 

[Runia]

?just wtf

 

[Temenigru]

page 5

Spoiler

ui? ?

 

[Weasalopes]

Heh.

It's a dating sim.

He's now a main character.

Since it's a dating sim for men... and the main characters are candidates for their affection...

The male candidates are circling him. As someone to date. And he hasn't caught on yet.

I really shouldn't laugh. I still remember the first time a guy hit on me and I was totally oblivious, and only when a co-worker pointed it out to me afterwards did I catch on, but still, it is funny to see, I must admit. That level of non-comprehension, that just not catching on, is very humorous when viewed by someone not involved. It doesn't matter what genders are involved, but it's much more likely to occur when the person expressing interest isn't of your prefered gender, provided they are using any subtlety at all.

I would maintain that the giant isn't being all that subtle. His actions positively scream his interest to the skies above.

Rein has some subtlety. But...

 

[SunSun]

@Weasalopes

I figured out i was being hit on cause 2 dudes sandwiched me and started grinding on me to the music.

Im a guy.

No im not gay.

No i wasnt in a gay club, it was the night party for an anime convention.

It didnt help that right after some girls thought i was Korean and kept calling me Oppa

 

[Weasalopes]

@SunSun

Well, when you are a librarian working with a long counter between you and the other person, being oblivious is much more possible.
I just thought he was friendly and outgoing... with as many people as there are waiting for assistance at the main reference desk at the Chicago Public Library's main branch, he had to exercise a certain level of restraint in expressing his interest.
Your situation, yeah, no subtlety there, and a much less pleasant experience.

Being 1/4 English, 1/4 Swedish, and the rest multi-generation American Melting Pot Northern European going back to before 1830, no one is going to mistake me for Asian, of any variety; my profile pic is really me.

I don't have the voice for it, but otherwise I could do a killer Gandalf Cosplay if I set out to sew the proper clothes.

 

[SunSun]

@Weasalopes very nice!

Im Chinese but have a bit of Northern Asian mix, my maternal grandfather was half Russian, with paternal side mid to Northern Chinese.

So my skin is very light when I haven't been exposed to sunlight, but my face apparently resembles olden Mongolians; think Genghis Khan era.

 

[Weasalopes]

@SunSun

Genghis Khan has gotten a lot of bad press in European sources over the centuries; then again, if he hadn't died when he did, his hordes (the Golden Horde in particular, if my memory doesn't deceive me) were in the process of rolling through Eastern Europe, with no sign of stopping until they reached the Atlantic Ocean.
They did stop and go home for his funeral, and then didn't come back; the Mongol expansion to the west ended with his death.

But from what I've read, he didn't initially plan on setting out to conquer the world, he just wanted to survive and rebuild his clan after their being betrayed and nearly destroyed by their "allies".
Once he developed a military force capable of subjugating the other Mongols, things kinda steamrolled from there.
He had very short shrift for those who broke faith with him.
But his legal code was very progressive, and provided you didn't attempt to revolt, treated subject peoples very well.
If you did attempt to revolt... tales are told of cities that no longer had one stone atop another afterwards.

He wasn't a monster, nor a saint, but rather a complex individual who succeeded in assembling arguably the most effective fighting force in human history, and who was an able administrator who was a good judge of others abilities such that he was able to establish a governing body that successfully managed all the countries his forces brought under his control.
I don't believe anyone else has ever had as large a portion of the Earth under his authority.
And while his empire was divided amongst his heirs after his death, there were Mongol descended dynasties in charge of those areas for a great many generations.
His impact on human history is hard to rival.

 

[Mpwilson123]

Ranked 6th Thomas engine, crazy world.
Ch.5

Also what is this comment section about.

 

[Dragorage]

Ui...

 

[kwendy]

Holy f...riend, his magic is terrifying.

 

[lenteraneko]

WTF... What an abomination he has unleash!

 

[AlmondMagnum]

Wow, he's an asshole to his summons.

 

[sunsetchaos]

Ui!!!

 

[valconius]

Whole grains can be leached in ascorbic acid to reduce the amount of oxalate and phytic acid, thereby vastly increasing the bioavailability of minerals in any and all whole grains.

c.f.:

Spoiler

- https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/vegetarianism-and-plant-foods/living-with-phytic-acid/ for scientific links that are more up-to-date.
- Read stuff by Mellanby, who was the British version of Price.
- https://biomeonboardawareness.com/how-why-properly-prepare-soak-quinoa/ for fancy pictures.
- http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library/price/pricetoc.html for the granddady of this stuff; skip to chapter 20, only takes ten minutes to read do it do it naow.
- http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2009/03/reversing-tooth-decay.html Whole wheat and oatmeal with nuts is not necessarily good for you, unless you are a Mexican, in which case your diet probably removes most anti-nutrients for you anyway gosh now I know why my grandma does all those weird things in her cooking....
- https://thekishicut.com/2012/01/16/gnashers/ Even if you eat well, the epigenetic consequences of eating McRonalds punish you for a few generations, unless you are Japanese. Fucking manga, all this shit I learn from this place, how does it work?
- From moi, some recent info: 97% of all major-crop (maize etc.) farms in the U.S. require heavy fertilization to be even minimally productive, and the quantity of fertilizers minimally required per unit area has increased threefold in the past generation (since 1998).
- tl;dr become a dentist if you want permanent job security.
- No you don't need orange juice, just eat fruits and tomatos

Spoiler

From a review of Price's book by some rando calling himself Richard Reese:

My mother, who was born in 1916, had a “sweet tooth.” When I was born, she had dentures, no teeth. White flour and sugar were common ingredients in many meals I consumed between childhood and into my 40s. She got diabetes, and I did too. My first dentist said I had teeth like a horse. They are crowded and crooked. All four of my wisdom teeth were surgically removed, because they were growing sideways, toward the molar next door. I brushed my teeth, but still got cavities.

Back in the sixteenth century, Queen Elizabeth also had a sweet tooth. Sidney Mintz told an amusing story about her meeting with a German gentleman, who was deeply impressed when her smile revealed a mouthful of black teeth. The peasants looked much healthier than the royalty, because they couldn’t afford sugar, which was an expensive luxury in those days.

In 1893, Weston Price became a dentist in Cleveland, Ohio. As the years passed, Price became aware of a highly unusual trend — the amount of tooth decay that he observed was growing sharply. Something strange was happening. He was watching a serious health crisis emerge right before his eyes, and he didn’t understand the cause. Price suspected that the problem was related to dietary changes.

His curiosity grew. Finally, he decided to do some travelling, in search of healthy people, to see how they lived differently. He spent much of the 1930s visiting many lands, examining the teeth of the residents, taking photographs of them, and studying their diets. He went to remote places where people continued to live in their traditional manner, in regions including Switzerland, Ireland, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, the Arctic, and Peru. He found many people with beautiful perfect teeth, and he found many with serious dental problems, like his patients in Cleveland. Importantly, he discovered a clear difference in the diets of the two groups.

The people with happy teeth ate the traditional diet of their region, never used a toothbrush, and never saw a dentist. The people with crappy teeth ate a “modernized” diet, including white flour, refined sugar, canned vegetables, jams, and marmalades. Those who lived in remote villages in the hills were fine, but those who lived by the shore, and ate imported modern foods, suffered for it. If one brother stayed in the hills, and the other brother moved to the city by the sea, the difference in their dental health was often striking. Among those eating the modernized diet, the incidence of problems varied from place to place. In some locations, only 25 percent of them had problems, but in other locations up to 75 percent were affected.

The children of those who ate modernized diets had even worse problems. In addition to tooth decay, their dental arches were deformed, so their teeth were crowded and crooked (like mine). Their nostrils were narrower, forcing some to be mouth breathers. Their skulls formed in unusual shapes and sizes, often narrower than normal. Their hips and pelvic bones formed abnormally, making childbirth more difficult. They suffered from far higher rates of chronic and degenerative disease, including cancer, heart disease, and tuberculosis. Their overall health was often weak or sickly. Some were mentally deficient.

Price finally went home and wrote a book to document his findings. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration was published in 1939. The book is loaded with stunning photos. Readers will never forget the powerful pictures. Most of the book’s contents, including the pictures, are available HERE. Click through the pages. His writing includes some racist language that was common in that era.

For the first 200 pages, the chapters proceed, region by region, comparing the health of the people, based on their diet. His descriptions get repetitive, because wherever he goes, he reports the same findings — people who ate their traditional diet had healthy teeth, and people who ate the modern diet more often had lousy teeth and other problems.

All of those enjoying good health included some animal-based foods in their diet. He noted, “It is significant that I have as yet found no group that was building and maintaining good bodies exclusively on plant foods. A number of groups are endeavoring to do so with marked evidence of failure.”

I did some research to see if white flour and sugar were newer foods for the working class and poor. Yes, they were. By the late nineteenth century, both products had become widely available and inexpensive. The primary reason for this was new technology, steam-powered steel roller mills, which appeared around 1890. Melissa Smith and Steven Gundry wrote about the unintended consequences of roller mills.

Previously, grain had been milled between stones, which ground together all parts of the wheat berry, resulting in whole wheat flour. White flour had been made by bolting — sieving whole wheat flour through fine cloth. This was a time-consuming process, so white flour was expensive. White bread was a luxury that only the rich could afford. The waste byproduct of the bolting process was the super-nutritious bran and germ, which was usually fed to livestock.

The new roller mills crushed the grain, rather than finely pulverizing it. This made it much easier to separate the bran and germ from the powdered endosperm (white flour). Because of this, white flour could now be cheaply mass produced. Since people perceived white flour to be a desirable luxury food, they eagerly consumed it.

Gundry noted that the new process eliminated both the fiber-rich bran, and the germ, which was rich in oil and vitamins. White flour was little more than highly refined carbs, which rapidly enter the bloodstream — empty calories. White flour had a much longer shelf life than whole wheat, because it had no oil which would go rancid over time. White flour could be shipped to the ends of the Earth, and stored indefinitely.

By the 1920s, folks realized that white flour was crap. New regulations required that white flour be “enriched” with nutrients, including thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, and iron. Despite enrichment, white flour remains nutritionally inferior to whole wheat.

With regard to sugar, the steel roller mill was a big improvement. It could extract up to 85 percent of the juice from the cane. The previous technology could extract only 20 percent. So, each ton of cane could produce much more sugar, which lowered the price, and enabled mass production.

Sugar became a major component of the working class diet. By 1900, 20 percent of the calories in the English diet were provided by sugar. Many factory workers started their day with a slice of white bread spread with sugar-packed jam, marmalade, or treacle — many calories, few nutrients. According to U.S. Department of Agriculture statistics, the average annual consumption of caloric sweeteners per person in the U.S. peaked in 1999 at 151.6 pounds (68.7 kg). In 2016, it was down to a mere 128.1 pounds (58 kg).

Sugar consumption nearly doubled in the U.S. between 1890 and the early 1920s — an era of rapid growth in the candy and soft drink industries. In some U.S. cities, diabetes deaths quadrupled between 1900 and 1920. By the 1930s, the cancer rates in the U.S. were clearly on the rise. Diabetes and cancer are far less common in societies that do not eat a Western diet.

Smith discussed Dr. Thomas Cleave’s “Rule of 20 Years.” The old doctor noted a spooky pattern. In numerous locations, 20 years after the arrival of white flour and white sugar, primitive people started to suffer from heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, gallbladder disease, and colitis.

You are what you eat!

Mintz, Sidney W., Sweetness and Power — The Place of Sugar in Modern History, Penguin Books, New York, 1985.

Gundry, Steven R., Dr. Gundry’s Diet Evolution, Crown Publishers, New York, 2008.

Smith, Melissa Diane, Going Against the Grain, Contemporary Books, Chicago, 2002.

Weston Price Foundation — info on nutrition and health.

 

[Reshfan]

@valconius dude copy+paste or manual labor o~O

 

[Huapollon]

The true definition of ascorbic acid is = acid that prevents scorbutus aka. scurvy, hence a-scorbic acid

 

[Silwith]

He is a pretty big dumbass for being oh so smart...

 

[Runisuni]

Press f for daikon man

 

[Joonhas]

I really felt it when daikon-sama died..

RIP daikon-sama

P.S. First it was sheep-chan, and now daiko-sama..
Truly terrifying to think what other murders we'll get to witness in this manga