Also the flashing stripy BB gun used by the bartender in Lost In Translation, legit or no?
[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:
Also the flashing stripy BB gun used by the bartender in Lost In Translation, legit or no?[/quote]
Far as I could tell, that was just an airsoft H&K MP5.
[quote]Chushin wrote:
[quote]Gambit_Lost wrote:
[quote]LoRez wrote:
With Japan, there’s a part of me that’s afraid I’d just get sucked in and just generally lose touch with American culture. But at the same time not really fit in with Japan… and then basically feel out of place everywhere.
Of course I somewhat feel this way already.
Is that a legitimate concern?[/quote]
Yes. That said, with Skype and better communications in general, things are getting better all the time.
After my first stint over there, coming back was quite the shock. I recall landing in Detroit for a layover and finding the first “American style diner” to grab something to eat. My waitress was a 250+ pound, rude, black woman who sat on my table as she took my order.
I was home!!![/quote]
You should have felt the culture shock going back after living here when then were no: fax machines / cell phones / bilingual broadcasts / computers / Skype services.
That’s back when Japan was a foreign country.
(Cue Cortes joke about how old I am.)
But seriously, you kids have no idea just how different it used to be here as compared to the West.[/quote]
I think the problem is now that they actually still have fax machines.
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:
Also the flashing stripy BB gun used by the bartender in Lost In Translation, legit or no?[/quote]
Far as I could tell, that was just an airsoft H&K MP5.[/quote]
Airsoft, that’s the one. For some reason my brain finds it way too easy to confuse those balls with metal ball bearings, which is probably a bad habit for it to get itself into.
But seriously, what is the go-to defence for wild drunken patrons and such?
[quote]Chushin wrote:
[quote]orion wrote:
[quote]Chushin wrote:
[quote]Gambit_Lost wrote:
[quote]LoRez wrote:
With Japan, there’s a part of me that’s afraid I’d just get sucked in and just generally lose touch with American culture. But at the same time not really fit in with Japan… and then basically feel out of place everywhere.
Of course I somewhat feel this way already.
Is that a legitimate concern?[/quote]
Yes. That said, with Skype and better communications in general, things are getting better all the time.
After my first stint over there, coming back was quite the shock. I recall landing in Detroit for a layover and finding the first “American style diner” to grab something to eat. My waitress was a 250+ pound, rude, black woman who sat on my table as she took my order.
I was home!!![/quote]
You should have felt the culture shock going back after living here when then were no: fax machines / cell phones / bilingual broadcasts / computers / Skype services.
That’s back when Japan was a foreign country.
(Cue Cortes joke about how old I am.)
But seriously, you kids have no idea just how different it used to be here as compared to the West.[/quote]
I think the problem is now that they actually still have fax machines. [/quote]
One in every home![/quote]
Scanners, PDFs, no dice?
[quote]Chushin wrote:
[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:
[quote]Chushin wrote:
[quote]therajraj wrote:
[quote]Gambit_Lost wrote:
[quote]farmerson12 wrote:
What are some laws in Japan that would make Americans or any Westerners for that matter, say “wtf”?[/quote]
You can pretty much drink anywhere: in the park, on the train, walking home from the train station. And people do.
The laws regarding multi-national marriage child abduction are WTF type stuff (like when a Japanese woman marries a Canadian and then “steals” the kids and moves back to Japan)
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All pubic hair must be blurred in pornography.[/quote]
Wrong.
Or at least it depends on what you call “pornography.”[/quote]
Somehow, I’m actually intrigued enough about the borderline that constitutes censorship and legal passes, please expand.[/quote]
I often do when watchng the porn. (Yuk, yuk, yuk)
Nothing illegal any more about pubic hair – it shown aplenty. But showing genitalia is still a no-no. In practice, that means photos can be untouched, but video needs to be blurred so organs can be seen.[/quote]
Sophisticated humour he says!
Does that mean that non-censored full-shot hardcore genital porn (as opposed to non-genital hardcore porn, of course) is normally violating some basic legal subtext, or are there exceptions dependent on other factors?
[quote]Chushin wrote:
You should have felt the culture shock going back after living here when then were no: fax machines / cell phones / bilingual broadcasts / computers / Skype services.
That’s back when Japan was a foreign country.
(Cue Cortes joke about how old I am.)
But seriously, you kids have no idea just how different it used to be here as compared to the West.[/quote]
I first went to Japan in 1989. I remember.
At the time the university thought it was going to have trouble finding a host family for me, because I had long hair, and many Japanese were somewhat conservative about such things. I ended up staying with a family in Onomachi, a little suburb of Ichikawa in Chiba prefecture.
My first real “foreign country” moment was when I was running up a flight of steps from the Main Street to the residential area, and I happened upon a large group of junior high school students. Whatever they were noisily discussing at the time was instantly engulfed in a shocked silence, and they all just stared at me as I passed. I heard one girl utter in awe, as if she could scarcely believe it herself, “me ga aoi!” (his eyes are blue!). Over the next two decades I found that the blueness of my eyes had a similar effect on adult women as well, but that’s another story.
[quote]conservativedog wrote:
There has been an educational emphasis showering girls and minorities here in the states with opportunities to further their development. As a result women have become superior in academics and especially at the next level are taking many more well paying jobs. Something has to give.
Withdrawing and setting goals a little lower seems to be the path a lot of young white anglo males are choosing. I believe there are some studies looking into this. It seems to have started with girls and minorities being elevated in social stature in the last thirty years.
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This has everything to do with one simple fact–this modern technocratic world is boring as hell for most guys. Guys like adventure, excitement, exploration. Guys like to conquer nature and explore its outer limits.
Sitting in a cubical 40+ hours a week does not meet this need. When this is all a kid has to look forward to, it’s no wonder they lose interest in the educational system. Nesting in classrooms and cubes isn’t an activity for boys, men, or anyone, for that matter.
See also: GMOs and other chemicals have poisoned our food supply, raping testosterone levels (Search “gmo infertility” for a wealth of studies/articles on this point). Heavy metals in the food (search “heavy metal contamination in food”), vaccines (“heavy metals in vaccines”), and environment (youtube “dane wigington geoengineering”) also contribute heavily to antisocial behavior, producing neurologically crippled human beings whose bodies force theme to become withdrawn introverts as their immune systems try to fight off a relentlessly toxic assault from the environment.
(Note: a combo of chlorella and cilantro is good for mobilizing and removing stored heavy metals from the body)
When you destroy the testosterone level of a man and poison his body with metals, you don’t get an obedient fembot with a dick–you get a completely miserable, completely distraught human being.
So in conclusion–this issue is societal, this issue is environmental, and I doubt it’ll ever change. There’s something about rugged individualist males that this socialist society hates, so I’m not expecting to see much sympathy or support from our so-called “leaders.”
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]Gambit_Lost wrote:
[quote]farmerson12 wrote:
What are some laws in Japan that would make Americans or any Westerners for that matter, say “wtf”?[/quote]
You can pretty much drink anywhere: in the park, on the train, walking home from the train station. And people do.
The laws regarding multi-national marriage child abduction are WTF type stuff (like when a Japanese woman marries a Canadian and then “steals” the kids and moves back to Japan)
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I remember hearing about that. I’ve also seen stories where parents just flat out abandon the kids. I saw a movie based on that. It was really good. I wish I could remember what it’s called.[/quote]
It’s called Dare Mo Shiranai, or Nobody Knows. I hate that movie with every iota of my being. The only movie I possibly hate more than that one is Event Horizon, and it’s a tough call.
Is it technically good? Yeah.
But watching such a disgusting story with absolutely no redemptive elements, that just leaves the viewer with nothing but sadness and despair and pointlessness and emptiness, is just beyond my ability.
[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]Gambit_Lost wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]Gambit_Lost wrote:
[quote]farmerson12 wrote:
What are some laws in Japan that would make Americans or any Westerners for that matter, say “wtf”?[/quote]
You can pretty much drink anywhere: in the park, on the train, walking home from the train station. And people do.
The laws regarding multi-national marriage child abduction are WTF type stuff (like when a Japanese woman marries a Canadian and then “steals” the kids and moves back to Japan)
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I remember hearing about that. I’ve also seen stories where parents just flat out abandon the kids. I saw a movie based on that. It was really good. I wish I could remember what it’s called.[/quote]
Dare mo shiranai
Nobody knows
it was a good flick[/quote]
Thank you. Srs.[/quote]
Wouldrecommend/10
I really enjoy Nobody Knows. Japanese family dramas always get to me, not sure why.[/quote]
I think it’s just because they address issues in a very happenstance manner. The support systems for the characters are substantially less than those of their Western counterparts. It makes the plight for stressful to measure.[/quote]
Yeah, could be the importance of family relations too, and the repercussions of a thing held so closely to suddenly start to fall apart. Tokyo Story makes me cry.[/quote]
There’s something deeply wrong and broken inside of you if Tokyo Story does not make you cry. Now there’s a movie addressing nearly the same issue that did it RIGHT.
[quote]Chushin wrote:
The fax machines have “scanners” attached.[/quote]
Which is pretty mind-blowing.
[quote]Chushin wrote:
[quote]LoRez wrote:
But a big part of the job is really just people skills; trying to figure out what people really want, and what the real requirements are, instead of what they think they are. The process of going from idea to implementation is really a lot of dialogue, and the real trick is being able to read people when they say things like “that’s not really what I had in mind, but I kind of like this, although I don’t really like that”.
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Oh, man. Good luck trying to figure out exactly what people are thinking and what they want here. “Read people?” I am tempted to LOL. But perhaps it’s not so bad in the business world…
[quote]LoRez wrote:
How is the visa situation in Japan? Do you have to stay with the same company during your entire stay?[/quote]
No reaaly. You just need to have a company sponsoring you.[/quote]
If you speak English and North Korea doesn’t drop a nuke on a major city, you’ll always have a job and never have a problem achieving legal residency status.
[quote]Cortes wrote:
[quote]Chushin wrote:
[quote]LoRez wrote:
But a big part of the job is really just people skills; trying to figure out what people really want, and what the real requirements are, instead of what they think they are. The process of going from idea to implementation is really a lot of dialogue, and the real trick is being able to read people when they say things like “that’s not really what I had in mind, but I kind of like this, although I don’t really like that”.
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Oh, man. Good luck trying to figure out exactly what people are thinking and what they want here. “Read people?” I am tempted to LOL. But perhaps it’s not so bad in the business world…
[quote]LoRez wrote:
How is the visa situation in Japan? Do you have to stay with the same company during your entire stay?[/quote]
No reaaly. You just need to have a company sponsoring you.[/quote]
If you speak English and North Korea doesn’t drop a nuke on a major city, you’ll always have a job and never have a problem achieving legal residency status. [/quote]
Well, thats my new plan E then.
So far it was, fuck it, I will drive a cab.
Thats plan F now.