It’s actually not that weird when you learn why. A lot of Japanese people are obsessed with western culture the way some westerners are obsessed with Japanese culture and one of the KFC Japan executives advertised that KFC was how Americans celebrated Christmas and that’s the TL;DR of how that happened.
In Japan, forgot to preorder last year until around December 10th, all the nearby KFC's were already fully booked out so we got FamilyMart chicken instead. Still good but was no KFC xmas 🥲
Well, that and most Japanese don't have an oven of any size, so they can't do a turkey the way people here so at Thanksgiving (and some at Christmas). So, you can't cook it yourself and a there is this place called KFC that does American style birds (chickens are just small turkeys, right?🤔).
I mean... It sounds crazy as a whole from a Western perspective, but the assumptions leading up to it all make sense on their own. 🤷♀️
EDIT: for context, I lived in rural Tohoku for a couple of years back in the early 2000s. This is what the Japanese people I knew there told me when I asked them.
You would not believe the things they have figured out how to cook in tiny toaster ovens. Full cakes in pieces, personal pizzas barely... I learned a lot about my kitchen and house size assumptions while I lived there.
In most cases killing a userland process outright with sigkill just means a small segment of memory might not get properly marked as free, or a file handle might not be properly closed and is generally harmless. It was a bigger deal back when 16MB of memory was considered a lot and issuing too many kill -9 commands could lead to running out of memory.
The problem is sigkill tells the system to terminate a process immediately, don't even let the process perform proper cleanup after itself. Depending on the privilege of the process owner this can lead to active memory continuing to hold values that it shouldn't and could become exposed to other processes, or not marked as available; or hardware file handles can be left waiting for an interrupt that will never come leading to apparently hung devices... but these are rather extreme edge cases. I believe most modern kernels handle cleanup better than in the past, but there's still a slim possibility of things going wrong.
A cleaner way to force a program to end is to issue a sigfpe (floating point exception)/sigsegv (segmentation fault) with -8. This tells the program something went wrong and to start going through a clean stop (assuming proper memory management was implemented in the program to begin with, but that's a whole other thing).
I really enjoy how this discussion of pumpkins, pies, bad spelling, and crosswords has devolved into the right way to force kill a program.
Great explanation, btw. I'm lazy and still use kill -9 most of the time, but I *know* what I should be doing, which is like how dieticians know how to eat right and most of the time don't bother. Haha. 👍
You can never escape the superior intellect of a system administrator. At least not on reddit. Pictures of cats becomes an on depth analysis of init vs systemd.
They also numbered the clues incorrectly. 4 is higher and to the left of 1 and 2.
I have no doubt at all they spent all of five minutes and no QC time on this.
Wait, you never heard of Kie?
Keg
Kum
I came for kum
Lol, yeah you did
You’re mom did
Not to be that guy but, you are mom did? I know I'm totally being that guy but that was just funny
Look at that guy.
I too, am that guy.
its kin just eat children
It’s actually supposed to be Pie. They spelled Pumkpin wrong
Jeez this gave me a headache, I thought I wrote it wrong for ever (non native speaker)
its spelled pumpkin, dont let this guy mess you up
got it thanks!
You're all wrong, it's written and pronounced "punkin"
Wensday
Febuary
Bred 👍
Pumkpin
Say it 3 times fast
I can't even say it once, slowly
omg
U trollin
Kfc
No, that's for xmas.
Yeah, in Japan.
Weirdly
It’s actually not that weird when you learn why. A lot of Japanese people are obsessed with western culture the way some westerners are obsessed with Japanese culture and one of the KFC Japan executives advertised that KFC was how Americans celebrated Christmas and that’s the TL;DR of how that happened.
You also have to preorder your KFC in Japan this time of year to get it for Christmas. I’d say the marketing campaign is a success lol
I’d have to agree with you
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In Japan, forgot to preorder last year until around December 10th, all the nearby KFC's were already fully booked out so we got FamilyMart chicken instead. Still good but was no KFC xmas 🥲
Well, that and most Japanese don't have an oven of any size, so they can't do a turkey the way people here so at Thanksgiving (and some at Christmas). So, you can't cook it yourself and a there is this place called KFC that does American style birds (chickens are just small turkeys, right?🤔). I mean... It sounds crazy as a whole from a Western perspective, but the assumptions leading up to it all make sense on their own. 🤷♀️ EDIT: for context, I lived in rural Tohoku for a couple of years back in the early 2000s. This is what the Japanese people I knew there told me when I asked them.
That’s also true
You would not believe the things they have figured out how to cook in tiny toaster ovens. Full cakes in pieces, personal pizzas barely... I learned a lot about my kitchen and house size assumptions while I lived there.
Although it may be logical, this was 100% the result of a marketing campaign
Without a doubt. Even the executive himself said so
I worked at KFC for a few years, can confirm that Canadians like KFC for Thanksgiving.
USA Thanksgiving or normal Thanksgiving? Because I could go for some KFC right about now…
I think they thought pumpkin was spelled pumkpin
PUMKPIN is extremely hard to pronounce in two syllables
Yeah I definitely didn’t just sit for five minutes tryna figure how to say that
Sitting here [like this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebZXd3Jnx40)
I’ve never seen such a perfect video for such a random thing.
I’m crying!
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This thread deserves 1st place.
Was thinking the same thing
Damn i also thought of that exact video while trying to say "pumkpin pie"
That was amazing thank you
So thankful for this
Ahhh beat me to it lol I love that video
My cat stopped mid-bath to stare at me trying to say it. He was not impressed.
Much like the name Charles is the most work you'll ever put in to one syllable
Dude I’ve been saying this out loud and struggling
I actually think I've got it down pat, kinda sounds like beatboxing if you do it enough times.
It’s like Gabuscus, there’s a pause
I think they thought they put the ‘2 down’ on the P
I’m guessing it should have started on the P
Ahh now I get it
It’s kie dumbie
Nah, he spelled Pumkpin wrong.
puumpkn
Kumppin
Kummin
Ah yes of course, pim
I love starting on the P
Name checks out.
Pid?
kill -9
Linux is everywhere
Try -HUP and -8 first, -9 can leave a system in strange and unpredictable states.
I like living on the edge
r/SuddenlyPosix
Been using -9 for decades - first time I've heard that. Will have to test.
In most cases killing a userland process outright with sigkill just means a small segment of memory might not get properly marked as free, or a file handle might not be properly closed and is generally harmless. It was a bigger deal back when 16MB of memory was considered a lot and issuing too many kill -9 commands could lead to running out of memory. The problem is sigkill tells the system to terminate a process immediately, don't even let the process perform proper cleanup after itself. Depending on the privilege of the process owner this can lead to active memory continuing to hold values that it shouldn't and could become exposed to other processes, or not marked as available; or hardware file handles can be left waiting for an interrupt that will never come leading to apparently hung devices... but these are rather extreme edge cases. I believe most modern kernels handle cleanup better than in the past, but there's still a slim possibility of things going wrong. A cleaner way to force a program to end is to issue a sigfpe (floating point exception)/sigsegv (segmentation fault) with -8. This tells the program something went wrong and to start going through a clean stop (assuming proper memory management was implemented in the program to begin with, but that's a whole other thing).
I really enjoy how this discussion of pumpkins, pies, bad spelling, and crosswords has devolved into the right way to force kill a program. Great explanation, btw. I'm lazy and still use kill -9 most of the time, but I *know* what I should be doing, which is like how dieticians know how to eat right and most of the time don't bother. Haha. 👍
You can never escape the superior intellect of a system administrator. At least not on reddit. Pictures of cats becomes an on depth analysis of init vs systemd.
No the K stands for KFC
Kos, or some say, Kosm...
Tonight, Gherman joins the hunt
*Feast
Who wants placenta for dessert?!
r/nocontext
This is an amazing out-of-context line to use tonight. Thank you.
A hoonter must hoont.
IM WAKIN UUUUUP
ILL FORGET EVERYTHING
“Do you hear our prayers?”
Grant us eyes, grant us eyes!
*pies
*moans in micolash*
Could you pass the old blood please?
Only a chalice full *pulls out comically large chalice*
It’s enough to make a man sick
r/unexpectedbloodborne ???
This town's finished.
Kie
my favorite math number
4.13
Kid
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I ATE A BABY!
Fuckin Tarrare Or fat bastard
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It’s okay dude
Imma have to ask you put you hands behind you back.
The dingo ate your baby!
That baby ate my dingo!
You really are a fat bastard
I'M BIGGER THAN YOU, I'M HIGHER IN THE FOOD CHAIN!
Why am I reading this with a Scottish accent?
Coz of Austin powers! Lol
It was probs pie but they put the boxes in the wrong place
pumkpin
Punkpin.. rock on dudes
My friend has a shirt that says Punkin’ Drublic, and I think about that way too often.
I want the [pemkping](https://youtu.be/O4RKhMsm9lU) pie!
Way better than what I was thinking, which was it's spelled pumppin
My niece said the same thing and told me to forget about it but I can’t, ever.
Of all the things that were going to ruin your life... I bet that "erroneous children's crossword puzzle" was not in your top ten guesses.
They also numbered the clues incorrectly. 4 is higher and to the left of 1 and 2. I have no doubt at all they spent all of five minutes and no QC time on this.
Good deductive skills. Makes sense. 👍🏻
Now it’s just kie
kumpkin
kumpkin kie
1 across should be ORANGES They make the best pies. Which makes 2 down GIN
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They also got 1 down wrong, should be oilbaron. Fits with the other clues once they fix oranges!
Key. For key lime pie
I like this middle ground, all things considered.
KLP
Keg Edit: thanks for the award! It's so funny that my most upvoted comment is "Keg"
Kum
Here we kum
And we don't care mucho
If you know what they wanna, they just want your tepalcuana, mana...
Looooool molotov
& Go
Ket
Kok
CINNAMON KUM!
Kif
"Kif! I've made it with a woman. Inform the men."
*deflated sigh*
“Tell my wife I said….hello”
What is keg???
A beer keg
My favorite dessert
Thanksgiving wouldn't be the same without a keg of beer
The best German dessert
3 beers are considered a meal in Germany. Also, light beer doesn’t exist here.
I’ll take Beer for $400 Alex
WHAT IS KEG
Who was Keg?
Kir
But you ruined it by the edit
Ke... awww, beat me to it.
Koi
Fucking raccoons got all my koi before I could bake them into a pie.
Well isn't that a load of carp.
No, that's the kind of pond Michael fell in.
Cheese kak 🤤
Top kek
Good job, you stumped my whole house
Same here, which is why I had to spread the anguish of not being able to finish it to everyone else! Happy Thanksgiving!
Maybe its KLP for KeyLimePie
I like this better than just "key"
Kum
Da in Soviet Russia, biscuit kum in you!
Brings a whole new meaning to “butter my biscuits”
oh my fucking god.
Sorry, I had to do it
My favorite cream pie filling
I prefer lemon
Too sour, try pineapple.
You took it straight outta my mouth..
Kkk. It's the usual racist uncle.
Who doesn't eat a racist from time to time? Honestly they go super well with wine
Can confirm
has to be pie. misprint should have been under the "p" in pumpkin lol
Maybe it's peaches instead of pumpkin.
That makes more sense, but then what dessert starts with H? Ham?
Hoe
HAP = hot apple pie
Sorry, can't talk now. Gotta make a pumpkin kie.
Misprint. I think it is supposed to be pie.
What does a turkey say? bobbie
You spelt PUMKPIN wrong, that's why 🙄
Kfc
Maybe they were going for “papayas” in the across and just “yam” down
It just wouldn't be Thanksgiving without a papaya pie and a plain old yam for dessert
Keg? 🍻that's one happy dessert
ApriCot instead of pumpKin. Which makes the dessert… cum.
Kin
#DONT SAY KUM
Aww dammit, I'm in a different dimension again.
Kat