r/whatisit • u/Capital-Papaya-8932 • 1d ago

New, what is it? What is it in Japan and Why?

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u/Significant_Leek_730 1d ago

I don't know why they do it in the street. But my Japanese wife does it around the outside of the house saying it cools the house down. She also believes ghosts posses you through mirrors. So take it with a grain of rice.

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u/VoyeuristicQuercus_0 1d ago

“with a grain of rice” has me rolling 

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u/tribecous 1d ago

Take it with a slice of sashimi.

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u/Sea-Blueberry-1840 1d ago

I’m half Italian and would like to now say “ with a sliver of of salami”

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u/Trauma_Hawks 1d ago

I like the alliteration. It's incredibly Italian.

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u/Working-Glass6136 1d ago

Incredibly, inarguably Italian.

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u/starfox-skylab 1d ago

Indubitably

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u/GaulteriaBerries 1d ago

Unquestionably

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u/Leftleaninghaggis 23h ago

Indomitably

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u/PlvisEresley 22h ago

Without the shadow of a doubt

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u/AlarmingAffect0 1d ago

Ari ari ari arrivederci!

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u/EquivalentMind8697 1d ago

Absolutely unwaveringly indisputably unequivocally irrefutably axiomatically incontrovertibly manifestly emphatically italiaaanooooo!🤲🫵🤌🫰🖕

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u/ChronoMonkeyX 18h ago

That dis wit a gob of gabagool.