Puppet history!!
hi i already answered puppet history here !! but i’ll do another one bc aaaaaa i have a lot of historical tidbits that are funny !!
when manuel l. quezon, the 2nd philippine president, was invited by the prime minister of japan (if i remember correctly) for dinner to discuss alliances, the prime minister was almost finished w his food, so he lifted the bowl up to his lips to finish it off. in japan this was probably normal but in the philippines it was a bit rude to do that in a formal setting bc it means you’re “patay gutom” or dead hungry (its a bit derogatory tbh). and quezon being the funny guy he is, he just said out loud “aba! gutom ka ata!” (”woah! you’re really hungry huh?”) which gained him a few confused stares and his filipino associates had to explain to him that it was a normal thing in japan to do that









