I love these people. Also please do notice, no litter on the floor, no one smoking (that I noticed of),no fat fucks carrying a happy meal with extra fries, almost all cheery in front of the camera. These are sharp people doing away with our western bullshit, and they look gorgeous.
Posted by Lira on Jun-06-2017 02:44:
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Originally posted by Mmanu
no one smoking (that I noticed of)
You didn't notice that? Tobacco consumption in Japan is way higher than in both our countries. I don't know if you need to speak the language to "catch" these things, but the smokers' area in restaurants are quite foggy and smelly precisely because there's quite a sizeable share of walking chimneys
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Originally posted by Mmanu
no fat fucks carrying a happy meal with extra fries, almost all cheery in front of the camera. These are sharp people doing away with our western bullshit, and they look gorgeous.
This is true though. Japan and Korea are the slimmest countries in the OECD, according to the organisation:
I'm often told it's because of their strict diet in school, where you aren't allowed to buy "extra" lunch. I haven't got any numbers to back this claim, and it may well be just a myth.
Posted by _Ocean_Drive_ on Jun-28-2017 13:00:
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Originally posted by Lira
I'm often told it's because of their strict diet in school, where you aren't allowed to buy "extra" lunch. I haven't got any numbers to back this claim, and it may well be just a myth.
Senior High Schools are rammed with drink and bread vending machines. But most kids tend to eat healthy lunch boxes (rice, fish, miso etc).)
Posted by Lira on Jun-28-2017 16:38:
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Originally posted by _Ocean_Drive_
Senior High Schools are rammed with drink and bread vending machines. But most kids tend to eat healthy lunch boxes (rice, fish, miso etc).)
I stand corrected then. My wife said something about "no 'extra' lunch", but she worked with young foreign children, so maybe the rules were different or something...
Posted by on Jun-28-2017 18:25:
Originally posted by Jon_Snow
Second hand knowledge is a bitch Lira
It is a bit, yeah
Well, to be fair, first hand knowledge can be deceiving just as much as second hand knowledge because you may well have experienced the exception rather than about the rule... I guess second hand knowledge just makes you a bit more humble about it Posted by on Jun-29-2017 01:00:
Hearsay is inadmissible in court.
Posted by Lira on Jun-29-2017 18:29:
Or so I heard, but I'm not one to judge.
Posted by Dykes_on_Jay on Jun-29-2017 21:40:
I love Japanese people.
The hatred for them here transcends anything you can imagine.
Posted by on Jun-30-2017 00:28:
Thou shalt hate thy neighbor unless they're Canada.
Posted by Lira on Jun-30-2017 20:26:
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Originally posted by Dykes_on_Jay
I love Japanese people.
The hatred for them here transcends anything you can imagine.
Can you blame them, though?
The Japanese government is like two guys trying to make friends over the world - except one of them has clear anger management issues. So, when the nice one says "Sorry about the evil stuff we did, we were going through a phase, our bad!", the other one fist pumps the air yelling "WE REGRET NOTHING!!!" and the first one is just too polite to say "Shut up, Carl!".
Needless to say, nationalist governments are all too eager to say "See, guys?! Look at Carl!", undermining everything the first guy tried to do. It's all Carl's fault, the bastard
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Originally posted by Jon_Snow
Thou shalt hate thy neighbor unless they're Canada.
Actually, there was an Anti-Canada wave in Brazil in the late 90s-early 00s. It reached critical mass when Canada banned Brazilian beef due to "mad cow disease" (never mind the fact we've never had a case), and protesters actually took a living cow to the Canadian embassy and tried to moo mow down security to get the bovine in Canadian soil.
The ambassador, politely enough, opened the gates and let everybody in, saying something that sounded innocent enough in English ("We're going to accept the cow, and we shall enjoy the cow") but that, in Portuguese, meant the cow could soon make its debut on Pornhub.
So, yeah, Brazilians used to hate Canada (I'm willing to bet we all forgot about it), and to this day I want to know if anyone had the heart to tell him what he said in national television Posted by Swamper on Jul-01-2017 18:12:
I find this so bizarre.....
Silicone Sally: Meet the Japanese men who shun real-life relationships in favour of rubber romance with sex dolls
-An increasing number of Japanese men are turning to rubber romance
-Around 2,000 dolls - with removable heads - are sold in Japan each year
-Some men sleep with their dolls under the same roof as their wives
It freaked me out when I first read it, but then I remembered real dolls and sexless marriages aren't exactly unheard of in the West either... And they probably find it just as puzzling there (reason the teenage daughter in the article found it repulsive at first).
If you do the maths, even if they sell 2 thousand real dolls per year for a decade, that's just 20 thousand real dolls in a country with more than a hundred million people... I guess you can find more people who have paid for a registered copy of WinRar
...
The one thing that freaked me out there though was the otaku-idol relationship. It wasn't unusual to see magazines with nubile idols targeted at middle-aged men with poor social skills. I mean, I'm all for May-December relationships, but even I found it a bit disconcerting.
Posted by on Jul-03-2017 14:30:
How normal can a country be that had two nukes dropped on it and have been repeatedly attacked by hundred foot anti-hero lizard?
Posted by JEO on Jul-03-2017 17:32:
On some scale it's at least more normal than the country that dropped those bombs?
Posted by Lira on Jul-03-2017 18:54:
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Originally posted by JEO
On some scale it's at least more normal than the country that dropped those bombs?
He has a point, Pete. When McArthur imposed a new constitution on the Japanese after WWII, he actually made a lot of stuff about Japan more similar to other Western nations than the US itself (ex.: there's Universal Health Care, or something closer to the NHS than Obamacare and whatever preceded it; it has both a head of government and a head of state, which is common Europe but rare in the Americas...).
Posted by on Jul-04-2017 06:32:
Posted by LoveHate on May-31-2019 14:24:
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Originally posted by Lira
You didn't notice that? Tobacco consumption in Japan is way higher than in both our countries. I don't know if you need to speak the language to "catch" these things, but the smokers' area in restaurants are quite foggy and smelly precisely because there's quite a sizeable share of walking chimneys
This is true though. Japan and Korea are the slimmest countries in the OECD, according to the organisation:
I'm often told it's because of their strict diet in school, where you aren't allowed to buy "extra" lunch. I haven't got any numbers to back this claim, and it may well be just a myth.
i wonder how they stay in shape albeit eating so many carbs, mexicans as well.....and they say soda is more readily available in mexico then water is ..so they are basically forced to drink unhealthy ...bottle water should not cost the same as pop...thats what fucks people up.
Posted by on May-31-2019 14:46:
Speaking of pop check out this popcorn app it�s changed my life!
haha how is that even possible , pretty wild, but in any case i wouldn't trust it, im sure it doesn't have the same texture as regular popcorn made on a stove top...but i guess its alright for convenience ...
i recently started making steak in a hot water bath (sous vide machine) and then i use a blowtorch to sear it..
saves me time , and i don't need to open every window in my house and have to have the smoke detector going off, not to mention it greatly minimizes the smell....i guess you can say its the millennial way of making steak
Japanese people
