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Daily life
Cigarettes, neighbours, trains, cats. The smaller the subject, the less guarded the replies. These are the frictions that never became news.
- It was never about smoking. It's about what leaks. A TV personality said smokers' rights are being violated. 417 comments answered — and they did not split smokers against non-smokers. Smokers wrote the harshest replies. The line runs between people who contain it and people who let it out.
- He broke up the cat fight. The court found the human guilty. A Japanese cat owner stepped in to stop a fight — and got the accusing stare from both cats. Three comments in the thread, and everyday Japan is right there in them. First of the everyday notes.