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[stripping]

Is it generally considered strange for the head of a Buddhist temple to be best friends with the head of the local yakuza?

I thought I'd ask, given Father's Day and all.

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[material_guy]

Yer nuts about me, and all kinds of people got it in their heads that I'm some kinda shady crime boss. It ain't weird at all!

[stripping]

I would slap you if it weren't stupid.

[material_guy]

You're a boy. At least throw a punch instead of a slap, if it's just in your fantasies.

[stripping]

I was hoping that a slap wouldn't trigger counterattacks!

[glass_secret]

Not anymore strange than a Catholic priest going over to the house of an Irish or Italian mafia boss's house for dinner.

[stripping]

That doesn't seem odd.

[glass_secret]

So it won't be so odd for a yakuza boss and a Buddhist monk to be friends either.

[stripping]

Has that happened that you know of?

[t_point_man]

if not strange, it's certainly a special sort of friendship.

[stripping]

Special describes them fairly well, particularly my father.

[t_point_man]

How did they met?

[stripping]

I'm not sure. I think it was before my brother and his granddaughter were in class together...

[stripping]

It happens here.

[stripping]

My father is a good man, but odd.

[morethanseeing]

Strange minds think alike sometimes. It sounds unusual but if they enjoy their friendship, then good.

[stripping]

They do enjoy their conversations. This wasn't meant to be a complaint.

[morethanseeing]

That's good. Who are they?

[stripping]

The head of a Buddhist temple is my father, and the head of the yakuza is Fujimura Raiga, grandfather of my English teacher.