what makes this even funnier to me is that it’s a Skyline GT-R, a car that was only made for the Japanese market, meaning it’s right hand drive. which means that if you wanted to go through a drive thru that’s made for left hand drive cars, you would have to go in reverse in order to be on the side with the drive thru window
Everyone else talked about outdoor cats, it’s time for me to talk about offleash dogs
Reasons not to have your dog offleash at a public park:
1) roads (this one is self-explanatory)
2) it makes the park inaccessible to like, entire swathes of the population. If you have experience with police dogs or guard dogs in your neighborhood, or you’re a new immigrant from somewhere with a large population of feral dogs, it sucks ass going to the park and having someone’s massive lab bound up to you!
3) If, for example, you are in a protected wetland area plastered with friendly signs asking you to please leash your dog to avoid causing an ecological impact, having your dog offleash might cause an ecological impact! “Oh no, my dog is well-behaved, they would never bother the wildlife” wrong! your dog is in the pond trying to eat the endangered Blandings’ turtles!
4) Non-zero chance of a jokerified park guide (me) just clipping your dog to a leash and stealing them
5) Other people with dogs! It sucks total ass having to constantly watch whether your totally uncontrolled ~furbaby~ is about to Start Shit with my properly leashed pet. It sucks even more ass when they do, which seems to happen about 25% of the time frankly!
6) People with Allergies trying to share a public space and do not want your “friendly” dog getting near them because they do not want to spend the night in hospital thanks!
7) People with mobility aids who don’t want your dog messing with them. Your dog is jumping up on my scooter, I am worried for my scooter. I am worried that I am going to run over your dog if I don’t have stopping distances correct! Your dog has never seen a mobility scooter and is freaking out.
Please. Just leash your fucking dogs, or take them to an actual dog park not a public path.
8) other dogs! My dog has been attacked by off leash dogs like. At least four times. Cannot get babygirl to take walks anymore at all. It’s so sad.
also the ban literally just applies to flags flown on the embassy flagpole, and ANY flag besides the ones on a short list of government-related flags. pride EVENTS are still allowed, as are literally any other displays of the flag at an embassy- light projections, paint, indoor banners, flags on employees’ personal desks…
