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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 31 Aug 2017
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      Off my usual beat but a humorous story from the land of intercultural marriages (my wife, if you don't know us, is Japanese):

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    2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 31 Aug 2017
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      Our daughter has a tooth coming in. Me: "I wonder when she'll lose her first tooth and have the tooth fairy visit." Wife: "Tooth fairy?"

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    3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 31 Aug 2017
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      "When you lose a tooth you put it under your pillow." "That's disgusting." "And then the tooth fairy takes it." "Again, the what?"

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    4. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 31 Aug 2017
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      "The fairy that buys teeth from children." "IT BUYS THEM!?!" "Well yes." "HOW IT CANNOT EXIST." "Well it leaves a quarter under pillow."

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 31 Aug 2017
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      "THIS IS SOME F*^#}ED UP RELIGION." "No no it's not religious more of a folk tale." "YOU SURE." "Pretty sure." "Because you drink blood."

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        2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 31 Aug 2017
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          "I know... that's complicated." "So why does the tooth fairy buy teeth?" "I don't know." "So why would you as a parent do this?" "Tradition"

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        3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 31 Aug 2017
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          "How important of a tradition is unlicensed organ sales to you?" "Not very." "So not like the blood thing." "No very unlike the blood thing"

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        4. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 31 Aug 2017
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          "..." "So what do you do with them [here in Japan]?" "Throw them under your house or on the roof, depending." "On what?" "Opposites."

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        5. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 31 Aug 2017
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          "Opposites?" "Top teeth under house in crawlspace; bottom teeth on the roof." "Got it. For whom?" "There's no fairy of teeth throwing!"

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        6. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 31 Aug 2017
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          "OK. Is there a particular reason why?" "Good luck and it helps the new ones come in straight." "... today I learned." "How'd you not know?"

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        7. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 31 Aug 2017
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          "Well it's not covered in school." "Literally everyone knows that." "Maybe not." "Don't you literally have a degree in Japanese Culture."

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        8. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 31 Aug 2017
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          "I do but that particular fact wasn't in the textbook." "Why don't they put important things like that in the book!?!"

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        9. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 31 Aug 2017
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          There's a more important metacomment here about discourses about The Other, but it's late and kids are teething, so call it "a funny story."

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        1. John M. P. Knox‏ @WindAddict 31 Aug 2017
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          Replying to @patio11

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        1. Colin Percival‏ @cperciva 31 Aug 2017
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          To be fair, for some Christians it's just *metaphorical* blood. (Arguably it's always metaphorical blood, but some believe the metaphor...)

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