[quote]Cortes wrote:
ID, did your avatar see something it liked?
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DebD’s avatar,… and yours.
lol
Seriously, Cortes… you look spectacular. Good job, man!
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
Mighty Stu likes the booty too?[/quote]
?? Why is that surprising??
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Its like bumping into a teacher at a bar. IDK
[quote]print wrote:
<------------------------- If I change mine, how will you know it’s me?[/quote]
I’ll know.
<3
burn in hell
[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
Mighty Stu likes the booty too?[/quote]
?? Why is that surprising??
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Its like bumping into a teacher at a bar. IDK
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Lol, well, my students are much more likely to spot me in the gym, or at the bookstore 
S
[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
[quote]Cortes wrote:
However, I cannot even count the number of times anymore that I have just been stopped, basically stopped on the street, by a hot girl who just started talking to me and then very boldly starts feeling my muscles and rubbing her hands all over me. Yeah, for all my complaints about this place, big wonder I’m still here after 8 years, I guess.
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Wow,… sounds pretty unbearable… how do you manage? -lol
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Cortes - I always heard that when a Japanese girl opens her legs, a gong goes off.
Is that true?
[quote]Cortes wrote:
Stories were requested, I’ll give one. Didn’t actually happen to me, but my best friend when he and another buddy when they came down for my wedding.
There are these places called “hostess bars” here. The basic idea is that a girl dressed in semi-formal evening wear (like soap opera characters wear to fancy dinner parties) pour you drinks and talk with you. There is no nudity, and ostensibly no touching or anything beyond “companionship.” Very weird, I know, but these things are BIG here among the sararymen.
Well, my buddies didn’t know what they were doing and entered one of these places. They didn’t speak ANY Japanese, and the girls there didn’t speak ANY English. The one girl sits them down and they order Vodka and the way it works here is you finish your drink and the girl just pours more every time you finish, and you pay for every one (or sometimes for the bottle) and she also pours herself a drink and you are paying for this one, too.
Yes, you are buying her drinks. And no, you are not taking her home. There is also a rather significant sitdown charge as well as an hourly rate. Long story short, these places are freaking money pits.
The girl who is serving them and one other lady (perhaps the “Madame,” as there is always one) appear to be the only ones there. Well, “the way it is done in Japan” is a very important thing, and the way it is done in these cases is the girl pretty much matches her client drink for drink. Thing is, I don’t think she counted on my buddies, who are like Charles Bukowski and Malcolm Lowry on a bad day.
About midway through they realize that she is in bad shape, and basically gets so drunk that she can’t get out of her seat. The Madame has disappeared at this point, and the girl isn’t pouring them any more drinks, so they actually go behind the bar and start making their own drinks. At one point, the Madame comes out, glances at the girl who has now completely passed out at their booth, says something to them, and hands them a bill. They take a look at the bill and are more than a little surprised to see that they owe over $500!
So, they pull out their wallets and see what they have, and note that it is less than $100 between them. They leave most of this on the table, keeping enough for cab fare, and semi-nonchalantly walk out the door.
I was busy with wedding planning and working at the time, so I couldn’t go out, and I was a little worried about them going out on their own, as it’s so hard to communicate or know what’s going on here, and the first thing I here from my best friend when he gets back and I ask him how their night was, is, “There were no police that came by looking for us, were there?”
Fun stuff.
Other fun facts, any Western guy, from a dude that looks like Brad Pitt to one that looks like Barney Fife, can get laid by a hot Japanese chick, and most Japanese girls under 40 are hot. Almost no fat chicks here at all (sorry if any of yall are into that). The only drawback is that many of these girls, even really, really beautiful ones, will break into a smile of the most wretched, rotting, snaggled teeth you’ve ever seen.
The karaoke places here (the land of its origin) are nothing like the stupid joints in America. Here, you get your own private room that just you and your friends get to use, and there is a telephone and you can call and get an entire menu’s worth of food and drinks delivered, and it’s pretty cheap overall. Very fun.
The current style for Japanese men is to look like women. Skinny as shit, frilly, girly clothes, skinny jeans, effeminate postures, a hair style that looks like it belongs on a 50 year old woman that they constantly toy with and tease. And ostensibly the girls are supposed to like this.
However, I cannot even count the number of times anymore that I have just been stopped, basically stopped on the street, by a hot girl who just started talking to me and then very boldly starts feeling my muscles and rubbing her hands all over me. Yeah, for all my complaints about this place, big wonder I’m still here after 8 years, I guess.
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This is basically the way it is here in Taiwan too.
[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
Mighty Stu likes the booty too?[/quote]
?? Why is that surprising??
[/quote]
Its like bumping into a teacher at a bar. IDK
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Lol, well, my students are much more likely to spot me in the gym, or at the bookstore
S[/quote]
Quit fueling my rage, Stuart. Tou’ve witnessed what I conjoured up for Professor X, right? Don’t be next.
[quote]Cortes wrote:
Stories were requested, I’ll give one. Didn’t actually happen to me, but my best friend when he and another buddy when they came down for my wedding.
There are these places called “hostess bars” here. The basic idea is that a girl dressed in semi-formal evening wear (like soap opera characters wear to fancy dinner parties) pour you drinks and talk with you. There is no nudity, and ostensibly no touching or anything beyond “companionship.” Very weird, I know, but these things are BIG here among the sararymen.
Well, my buddies didn’t know what they were doing and entered one of these places. They didn’t speak ANY Japanese, and the girls there didn’t speak ANY English. The one girl sits them down and they order Vodka and the way it works here is you finish your drink and the girl just pours more every time you finish, and you pay for every one (or sometimes for the bottle) and she also pours herself a drink and you are paying for this one, too.
Yes, you are buying her drinks. And no, you are not taking her home. There is also a rather significant sitdown charge as well as an hourly rate. Long story short, these places are freaking money pits.
The girl who is serving them and one other lady (perhaps the “Madame,” as there is always one) appear to be the only ones there. Well, “the way it is done in Japan” is a very important thing, and the way it is done in these cases is the girl pretty much matches her client drink for drink. Thing is, I don’t think she counted on my buddies, who are like Charles Bukowski and Malcolm Lowry on a bad day.
About midway through they realize that she is in bad shape, and basically gets so drunk that she can’t get out of her seat. The Madame has disappeared at this point, and the girl isn’t pouring them any more drinks, so they actually go behind the bar and start making their own drinks. At one point, the Madame comes out, glances at the girl who has now completely passed out at their booth, says something to them, and hands them a bill. They take a look at the bill and are more than a little surprised to see that they owe over $500!
So, they pull out their wallets and see what they have, and note that it is less than $100 between them. They leave most of this on the table, keeping enough for cab fare, and semi-nonchalantly walk out the door.
I was busy with wedding planning and working at the time, so I couldn’t go out, and I was a little worried about them going out on their own, as it’s so hard to communicate or know what’s going on here, and the first thing I here from my best friend when he gets back and I ask him how their night was, is, “There were no police that came by looking for us, were there?”
Fun stuff.
Other fun facts, any Western guy, from a dude that looks like Brad Pitt to one that looks like Barney Fife, can get laid by a hot Japanese chick, and most Japanese girls under 40 are hot. Almost no fat chicks here at all (sorry if any of yall are into that). The only drawback is that many of these girls, even really, really beautiful ones, will break into a smile of the most wretched, rotting, snaggled teeth you’ve ever seen.
The karaoke places here (the land of its origin) are nothing like the stupid joints in America. Here, you get your own private room that just you and your friends get to use, and there is a telephone and you can call and get an entire menu’s worth of food and drinks delivered, and it’s pretty cheap overall. Very fun.
The current style for Japanese men is to look like women. Skinny as shit, frilly, girly clothes, skinny jeans, effeminate postures, a hair style that looks like it belongs on a 50 year old woman that they constantly toy with and tease. And ostensibly the girls are supposed to like this.
However, I cannot even count the number of times anymore that I have just been stopped, basically stopped on the street, by a hot girl who just started talking to me and then very boldly starts feeling my muscles and rubbing her hands all over me. Yeah, for all my complaints about this place, big wonder I’m still here after 8 years, I guess.
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That’s awesome, I’ve wanted to visit Japan for years. Did you meet your wife there?
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]Cortes wrote:
ID, did your avatar see something it liked?
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DebD’s avatar,… and yours.
lol
Seriously, Cortes… you look spectacular. Good job, man!
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Heh. Thanks ID.
I still remember and appreciate the posing advice you gave me before my first show.
I still sucked at it, though! ;(
[quote]carlthescorp wrote:
That’s awesome, I’ve wanted to visit Japan for years. Did you meet your wife there?[/quote]
Yup. Japanese girls are awesome. There’s a very good match, I think, culturally, between a western male and a Japanese female. And almost the opposite degree of mismatch, typically, if you were to go the other way (western female, Japanese male).
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
[quote]Cortes wrote:
However, I cannot even count the number of times anymore that I have just been stopped, basically stopped on the street, by a hot girl who just started talking to me and then very boldly starts feeling my muscles and rubbing her hands all over me. Yeah, for all my complaints about this place, big wonder I’m still here after 8 years, I guess.
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Wow,… sounds pretty unbearable… how do you manage? -lol
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Cortes - I always heard that when a Japanese girl opens her legs, a gong goes off.
Is that true?[/quote]
Yes, I believe it is the same sound that recently occurred as ID’s avatar changed.
There is also a soft rain of sakura blossoms in certain cases, but typically this only happens with anime girlfriends.
[quote]therajraj wrote:
How did you end up in Japan Cortes?[/quote]
The short version:
I was 26, graduated, wanted to travel the world and have some adventure. Had always been fascinated by that country, particularly loved Kurosawa movies and sushi, and I found an opportunity by “chance” on the internet. And off I went for one year.
Then that year stretched to another, and then I was pretty involved with my soon to be wife. then married. Then I started a business here and I have a son and now I don’t see myself leaving for a while.
I am very happy with my life here, though, despite the fact that I think it is WAAAAAAAYYY better to live in America.
I’m glad to hear you’re doing well. I do miss your logs, those were some of the best threads I’ve seen on here. And you sent me a very helpful PM during a difficult time. I wonder, are you still competing? Or is family life your priority at the moment?
[quote]Rational Gaze wrote:
I’m glad to hear you’re doing well. I do miss your logs, those were some of the best threads I’ve seen on here. And you sent me a very helpful PM during a difficult time. I wonder, are you still competing? Or is family life your priority at the moment?[/quote]
Thanks very much, and I’m very happy I could have been of help to you.
Business and family life had to take priority this last season. This coming summer, who knows? I haven’t decided yet. I would like to do something to set a new challenge for myself. Maybe a photo shoot.
Actually I feel like I have learned a LOT about show prep as well as a vast amount of information I did not possess before about peptide use, and also how to work diet into both. So, at the same time, I am kind of itching to put some of my recently acquired knowledge to the test and see how lean I could get and how much muscle I could retain for a competition.
Last two comps I actually gained a ton of muscle in the first few weeks of dieting and then my weight stayed almost completely the same through the rest of the prep time as I got leaner and leaner. But last show I did not finally come in as lean as I wanted to.