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The story
In a thread titled “(´;ω;`) I’m drinking from morning till night” on 5ch’s Newsspeed VIP board, an anonymous poster live-blogged their day, starting the morning with sake and avocado as a snack. Despite having declared a month-long break from pachinko, they reversed course just four days later, announcing “starting today, I’m back at it” — drawing plenty of ribbing from other posters. Photos of meals kept coming, including hamburger steak, pork tonteki, and seared bonito, along with a celebratory toast after work. The down-to-earth, blow-by-blow narration mixed lingering pachinko cravings with back-and-forth over how much the poster was drinking, and the thread’s readers ended up reacting most to the poster’s quirky character.
What people said
(´;ω;`) I'm definitely not going today
(´;ω;`) If I did that, it wouldn't stop at just pounding on the wall… (a common way to complain about noisy neighbors)
(´・ω・`) Then let's hit the pachinko parlor — Silver Week's over, so places should start paying out again (Silver Week: a cluster of holidays in late September)
(´;ω;`) I lost yesterday, though
(´;ω;`) It's just starting again today, that's all
(´・ω・`) Today's a sure thing — the Friday right after Silver Week is always strong every year
(´;ω;`) Nah, no good
(´・ω・`) So you're the type who won't pick up money lying on the ground?
(´;ω;`) With pachinko, that money's lying right at the edge of a pitfall
(´;ω;`) Disc Up?
(´;ω;`) Not quite that bad — my hands just shake right when I start drinking
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(´;ω;`) I put a thick brown sauce on it
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(´;ω;`) Seared bonito's the best — cheap and delicious! Grab some nipu too
Are you putting mayo on it?
(´;ω;`) kp~ (short for kanpai, i.e. cheers)
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Background and Discussion Points
This kind of live-blog thread is a VIP board staple, with the poster adopting an emotive kaomoji as their persona and narrating their day in real time. What stands out here is that the poster’s declared “one-month break from pachinko” got walked back after just four days — the universal theme of how long a vow of abstinence actually lasts is what makes it land as comedy. The remark about hands shaking at the start of a drinking session should also be read as part of the running narration rather than a serious confession; this isn’t a thread about a genuine addiction crisis, so it shouldn’t be mistaken for one. The thread also featured plenty of back-and-forth teasing about sexual orientation, but this is the kind of formulaic joking common to the VIP board rather than genuine discriminatory remarks, so those exchanges have been left out of this article. Readers should keep in mind that the actual thread is considerably coarser and cruder than what’s presented here.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Newsspeed VIP) thread “(´;ω;`) I’m drinking from morning till night.”
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