就冲这狗狗的演技，也要给五毛啊。。。

All I want for Christmas is ANSWERS.

While watching Love Actually for the 4,928th time, I picked up on something that I'd never noticed before.

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It's established pretty early on that Liam Neeson and Emma Thompson are good friends, right?

Here they are sticking their hands in some Frosted Flakes, as good friends do.

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And then the entire movie happens, blah blah blah, and then Liam Neeson meets Claudia Schiffer's character, Carol.

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Here's her name again: "Carol."

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Check out one Japanese Twitter user’s adorable vision of what her home would be like if Eevee actually existed in real life!

Twitter user @alice771 recently shared her rendition of what a warm and welcoming home with her favorite pokémon, the adorable Normal-type Eevee, would be like in the real world…and we have to say that such a life looks positively blissful. Since her post has been retweeted over 23,000 times in the past two weeks, it appears that a majority of Japanese Twitter users would agree.

In her tweet, the artist overlays illustrations of the fan-favorite pokémon over real-world snapshots of her room and house. She imagines her faithful companion pawing at the door, snuggling in her bed, and wandering in and out of doorways, not unlike how a real feline or canine pet would behave in real life.

Check out her heart-melting illustrations below:

▼ “If Eevee were real this is how I imagine it would be!”

イーブイが現実にいたらこんな感じなのかなっていう妄想！ https://t.co/v2zdZtVq3j

—
アリス＠カイリキーカフェ (@alice771) November 18, 2015

Here are the pictures in full detail:

Well if that isn’t one of the cutest things you’ve ever seen we’ll go eat Mr. Sato’s hat.

What other Pokémon companions would you personally like to see lounging about your house? Let us know in the comments section below!

Source/featured image: Twitter/@alice771

Origin: Artist shares a glimpse of a world where the Pokémon Eevee is real
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Back when China enforced its one-child policy, slogans were publicly displayed to deter citizens from having too many children. Many of them were not so much educational, however, as disturbing…

The Chinese government rolled out its controversial one-child policy in 1980 as a method of keeping its rapidly increasing population under control. Every married couple was allowed to have only only one baby, with exemptions for those belonging to certain ethnic minorities and in special situations such as remarriage, which allowed some couples to have up to two children.

It’s common to spread word of a government policy through use of slogans to raise awareness among citizens, but looking back at some of the messages written in public places during the earlier years of administration has sent a chill down our spines.

In rural areas of China, instead of promoting the supposed positive outcomes of the policy, what can only be described as threats were written in big, bold characters in order to make the message abundantly clear to the less educated.

We’re happy to say that these are now relics of the past, but can you imagine seeing messages like these written across a wall in your home town?

▼ “Blood can form a river, but more than one child cannot be allowed!”

▼ “Use a coil after the first, ligation after the second; face abortion and sterilization if you conceive too many, face sterilization and penalty if you deliver too many.”

▼ “Abort if you have to, or your house and cattle will be taken away.”

▼ “Hit it! Abort it! Let it flow! Anything but let it be born!”

As seen in some of the photos above, locals had vandalized some of the writings as an act of protest. It was inevitable that the people felt highly intimidated and pressured by these extreme slogans, and that resulted in distress and even conflicts. In 2007, the Chinese government moved to scrub out messages of this kind, and in 2011 ordering a thorough cleanup. The authorities subsequently took on a more positive approach to campaigning the policy by incorporating concepts of building warm, harmonious families and respecting the elders at home.

Of course, not all the slogans found in rural villages were threats of sterilization or punishment. Among the many slogans that were banished from the walls, there were also messages that attempted to educate and promote an image of positivity:

▼ “Have fewer children and plant more trees, have fewer children and rear more pigs.”

▼ “Have a correct understanding of the normal physiological phenomenon—spermatorrhea. It’s nothing unusual if it happens once or twice a month, don’t play with yourself too much.”

China’s one-child policy was abolished in October this year, and couples are now allowed to have two children.

Source/images: ETToday

Origin: Shocking slogans promoting China’s one-child policy threaten to kill, sterilize, take away riches
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You constantly live in fear of being separated because, frankly, you’re terrible influences on each other.

Your work BFF is the only person whose weekend you actually care about on a Monday morning.

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And your lunchtimes are never lonely because you'll always have a lunch buddy to accompany you.

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You get irritated by the same people.

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You're the first people to tell each other when you've done a good job.

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Hand-drawn art may be on the ropes, but it’s not quite dead yet.

For years, when anime and manga artists in Japan have needed a colored pencil, many of them reached for one made by Mitsubishi Pencil. There’s probably a bit of home-country favoritism in that choice, but thousands of satisfied customers can’t be totally wrong, and some studios have even made them the designated pencils that must be used in tasks such as checking and correcting animation sequences.

However, as the art production process, both professional and amateur, becomes an increasingly digital affair, there’s less and less money to be made producing and selling consumable art supplies, and so Mitsubishi recently announced that it will be almost entirely discontinuing its line of hard colored pencils, with red being the sole survivor in the spectrum. With so much brand loyalty built up, though, the news has come as a shock to those artists who have grown accustomed to, and are still using, Mitsubishi’s products. So strong is their preference for Mitsubishi’s hard colored pencils that trade group JaniCA, the Japan Animation Creators Association, is looking to make an appeal, on the behalf of anime and manga artists, that Mitsubishi continue their production.

First, though, JaniCA is trying to get a better picture of the market, and is currently carrying out a three-pronged survey asking for artists’ opinions. First, the organization is looking to see how many hard colored pencils artists use each month, and how many they’ll need to buy to make it through the end of March (which corresponds with the end of the business year in Japan).

The above fields, from top to bottom, translate as:
● Company name (if applicable).
● Division/title (if applicable)
● Respondent’s name
● Hard colored pencils used each month (in units of 100-pencil boxes)
● Hard colored pencils used each month (in units of 12-packs)
● Hard colored pencils used each month (in units of single pencils)
● Predicted shortage of colored hard pencils through the end of March 2016 (in units of 100-pencil boxes)
● Predicted shortage of colored hard pencils through the end of March 2016 (in units of 12-packs)
● Predicted shortage of colored hard pencils through the end of March 2016 (in units of single pencils)
● Current stock of hard colored pencils, planned purchases of colored hard pencils

The survey’s second portions asks for:
● Company name (if applicable).
● Division/title (if applicable)
● Respondent’s name
● What difficulties or problems, specifically, do you expect from Mitsubishi halting production of its hard colored pencils, and what has been your reason for using the company’s products until now?

And finally:
● Company name (if applicable).
● Division/title (if applicable)
● Respondent’s name
● What other company’s pencils have you been considering as a replacements? What other products have you herd make suitable substitutes?

If the survey response is strong enough, JaniCA is ostensibly going to try to work with Mitsubishi to see that the pencils’ production continues, so if you’re a Mitsubishi-loving artist, go ahead and fill out the survey’s three parts, which can be found here, here, and here.

Source: JaniCA via Jin
Top image: Forestway
Insert images: JaniCA (1, 2, 3)

Origin: Want to help save the anime world’s favorite colored pencils? Then take this survey
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