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[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 55 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Of course Wikipedia has a helpful diagram for those who don't know about Kanchō.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Kancho_2021-08-20.jpg

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In France, we call this an olive.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As a Swiss young adult, kids in our middle school did that all the time.

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Here in the US, I first learned about this from a Japanese exchange student. We quickly told him not to try it. Dude would have gotten his ass kicked by whomever he poked.

Hahhaha yeah.

It’s was very localised to pre-teen middle schoolers in my generation. Once people hit puberty that shit would not fly (no pun intended).