Japan has changed
What my forebearers always told me is that Japan was this strange little country where everything was small and dammit.. they like it that way .. small, compact, dull, expensive, uncomfortable, uphill both ways and that's the way it is .. like fish and rice!
Well, today I spit in the face of Hirohito, said screw the damn tatami mats, went to Ikea ( recently opened in Yokohama ) and bought me a damn couch. It's big ( for Japan ) it's far off the ground ( what so good about sitting on the ground anyway ) and it's orange. Take that wabi-sabi.
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I think you need to live in Japan for a few years. Maybe you won't sound like such a douche bag when you attempt to spill your anti-Western rhetoric to actual expats. You know, those people who actually live in Japan (and even those who are actually Japanese, with them slanted eyes and everything.)
Maybe. You probably still will sound like a douche bag. It is probably your natural state.
Also, maybe you should do a little research into the country you are about to pollute with your idiocy (you'll do fine there, though, they love your type. You should definitely look up Keiko -- she sounds perfect for you).
Small like the average size of a room in a Japanese house. (of course you wouldn't know anything about that )
Dull Actually I was referring to Japanese interiors ( and not that shit in the magazines ) which you seem to know nothing about
Expensive Even when you're making six figures *cough**cough* a ten buck cup of coffee is still expensive. 円マークを使って格好いいと思ってんのか？てめぇみたいなクソ英会話先生めは何も知らないくせによくべらべら抜かす。黙れバカ！
Uncomfortable yeah .. those girls who are permanently pigeon-toed from sitting on their knees all through their childhood really look comfy to me.
Fish and Rice ooh .. that extra 3.74 years of life expectancy really blows me away. Too bad it's all spent on the damn train. I noticed that Australia is right up there with Japan. Does eating kangaroo help you live longer?
Target hmm .. you're in for a big shock when you get here buddy... no such place my friend. See you at Shimachu trying to find a couch that's not designed for a midget and costs less then 70,000yen
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And the worst offense... Going back to "their roots"?
Were you refering to the lobbying to remove article 9 of their consitution which would allow them to wage open war?
Or perhaps, you were refering to the new regulation from the public education administrative body for Tokyo that bans teachers from speaking during education policy meetings and provides the legal grounds to fire those that do choose to speak out.
I wonder which it was?
Enjoy your life in fantasy land... hope I never meet you in bar.
btw ... bars aren't cheap.
Who said I'm being negative? I'm just expressing my opinions as I have the right to do.
I think you're kind of missing the point on this blog thing.. You see, I write my opinions, and you can comment on then, but if you gloat over someone about how knowledgeable you are and how much better your group/creed/association is, people are going fire back. Instead of wasting your time writing comments that I'm just going to delete on a stale thread, why don't you post sometime of your own? You could even write something about how fantastic Japan is and how much you know about it.. Maybe when you've been here for 8 months you'll actually know more too!!! However, no matter how much you write and how much you comment I can still keep writing about how much Japan sucks and how much I hate it. I could even write about how much I hate ignorant fan-boys like you!
Also, learn how to read comments and understand who posted them. I did not call you a douche-bag, Jackass.
Hmmm .. we sort of agree on one your points though. I thought your type of ignorance and self-righteousness was reserved for the religious bigots of America's bible states.
Can you still find kangaroo,
in Japan, with your head so far up your ass?
Maybe they have some at target!
I'm not a poet but I thought I would give it a shot..
Maybe I should make a book?
love and kisses!
-e
More important than remembering you're the asshole who started this, you need to remember that right now you're simply a little tourist in Japan with big eyes thinking you've found a mecca for your over-indulgent fantasies of what the world could and should be like. How good is your Japanese?
So, tourist, when you get your head out of your ass, and Japan's cock out of your mouth you can come back and tell Sonny he's right. Because he is. You don't know Japan, it's bloody obvious.
It is just a country that has a rich history, but since as long as we've all been alive, and our parents have been alive, Japan has been strongly trying to bring itself as a western power. What the fuck do you think the incursion against Russia was? Japan trying to impress the Western powers to show them that it wasn't just a white-boy club. Starbucks and your precious pubs are the only thing that could follow, that's the price of admission to the white-boy global dominating empire club of the 19th and 20th centuries.
All in all, I suppose the only thing you really need is to simply get your own facts straight. There are beautiful shrines, temples and *gasp* bars (oh, sorry, let me speak using your pedantic and all together absurd vernacular... Pubs!) even in the middle east. I suggest you go there and experience the rich culture. Preferably Tikrit. You'll fit in nicely with your hard-on for hating on America.
Now, get some more time in Japan. Sounds like you just need a few more months there to see the rest of the shrines, ride some more trains, see some more panchiras of 15 year old school girls and cry yourself to sleep after you realize just how shallow and ridiculous your ideas are. Then you won't come off like such a jackass tourist enamored with Japan like half the white guys are.
I just hope you grow out of it, the Japanese superiority complex is made possible by dumbasses like you. And that gets tedious to contend with.
p.s. how do kangaroos taste?
The funny thing is that you don't understand that:
1) You started this thread.
2) You sound like a diluted kool-aid drinking cult follower struggling to breath because your lips are so tightly bound around Japan's asshole.
3) You haven't made one cohesive argument.
We're not full of hate, we're full of bemusement at your incessant desire to try to convince us that Japan is a paradise on earth. In reality, it's another country. It has its perks and it has its problems.
Lets have a recap:
1) Target doesn't have stores in Japan
2) Sonny has lived in Japan long enough to offer well rounded criticism of the cultural traditions.
3) So far you have only posted "Japan is great because I said so and you can make a ton of money!" but you haven't backed it up.
Really. You are losing this thread. We're all laughing at you. a lot.
Silly little anime watching dork.
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um .. target?
Post = What Sonny originally wrote, about getting a couch in Japan.
Comment = What you wrote, telling him he can get better quality goods at Target (which doesn't exist in Japan, but our expectations for you are pretty low)
Thread = A "thread" of discussions, such as what we have here. In that comments reply to other comments, which reply to a top level post.
While Sonny posted something, you started the discussion.
And, you said "you can get better quality at target" -- so, the "you" in this context is Sonny. Who lives in Japan. Who can't get better quality at Target.
So, again, you lose.
You also lose even more because you can't seem to figure out that loving something doesn't mind blind acceptance. That's the misguided "love" a mother gives an only child that will grow up to be a smacktard like yourself, never understanding their own flaws but instead thinking "my mom says I'm ok, so that means everyone must think that." Tough break.
If you love something, you work to make it better. You strive for that. You point out the flaws and work to make them better.
You jumped to defend a country that you obviously have a lacking understanding and are still victimized by 恋の盲目 and obviously can't stand to have people point out such obvious flaws in something you unrealistic claim to love, but without showing any deep love.
You see, the Japanese have some great words.
恋 and 愛
Which are you afflicted with?
(PS., building a Hello World on Rails doesn't make you a developer, and certainly not an engineer.)
Enjoy your tourism in Japan.