kamome wrote:It's a loincloth. Big f'in deal.

Just in time for cold cheeks season...
How to tie Rokushaku Fundoshi

Does anyone have any advice about how I could possibly put up a resistance against such an unscrupulous realtor? Is there any legal recourse? Regards ... Nat Welcome to Japan , Nat. Japanese realtors have been ripping off Japanese since Day One. As sagely mentioned before by Steve Bildermann, your ...

Has anyone ever seen the guy standing outside Shibuya station holding a sign saying `ask me about UFOs`? I looked closely at it once and real the url for the Raelians web site. I've talked to them loooong ago in the early 90s in Tokyo. Back then they used a UFO Swastika inside a Star of David for t...

Here's a strange twist on the real FG, Lucie Blackman, reported in the Evening Standard of London... Blackman family 'in blackmail plot' "A man has been arrested on suspicion of blackmailing the family of Lucie Blackman, the former British Airways hostess murdered in Japan more than two years a...

'Free sex for all applicants' So who wants to go? This Raelian marching in the alien clone parade in Tokyo today (Jan 19) "wants to go." http://mediaservice.photoisland.com/auction/Jan/20031194542382540060886.jpg Note from this photo that the Japanese Raelians prefer FG babies. See also t...

FORMER VIKINGS LINEMAN BOB SAPP A BIG HIT IN JAPAN From Boxing.com 01.18.2003 02:06 AM ... HOOST PULLS OUT OF MATCH, SAPP IS ALL TALK "Ernesto Hoost refused to work a pro wrestling match against Bob Sapp, who beat him twice in MMA fights, for this Sunday's WRESTLE-1 show at the Tokyo Dome. Hoo...

CrazyCamel wrote:but is the room this available?

Moshi moshi? Context? Say what?
This sort of sounds like the middle of a handout for an EFL class.

My favorite FG and performing "talent" taranto monkey, David Spector, was rated LAST --- the least favorite commentor on the TBS (ch6) "Sunday Japon." At 10:45 this morning (Jan 19) on this popular week-in-review program most of the jokes were that none of the other Japanese comm...

silent shinkansen.... I miss those days with them funky train conductors with them funky voices on the Ginza line..... Eh, tsugi wa Geenzaahh, Geeeeenzaahhh.... those were the classic announcements... :D Heh?:confused: "Classic" is not the first word that comes to my head upon hearing tha...

but from what I have heard second hand, I guess he's a little out of touch with the reality in J-land.... My favorite Gibson gaff was he decription of a "Shinkansen silently gliding out of Tokyo station." HA! Just think of the 120db bells and the yowling PA announcements of any train leav...

GuyJean wrote:That raccoon has huge balls!! (I've always wanted to say that)
Too cute!
GJ

But the rabbits titties were bigger....

These women seem "qualified".

Would 240000 yen's worth of 2000 yen bills and the rest in 500 yen coins be alright, instead? :toothy: By the way, about those 500 yen coins....old ones or new ones? :winka: How about taking all my 500 won coins? You know, the ones with drill marks on them. Wait, wait... I've got a color laser prin...

cstaylor wrote:Whatever happened to Kamome?

I hope that the Mix Master hit the big time, but I suspect his visa "issues" caught up with him.

kamome
Mix Master
Last Posted: Jan 13 2002

I haven't seen any in a while, however in the last 24 hours I have been witness to two sukebe incidents... :evil: Check out the aikido wrist lock on this chikan . :P http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:HK3O8i20nWQC:www.trekjapan.com/japan/images/photos/adam/chikan.jpg Or these anti- chikan poster...

Look up, Mr Kim: Japan's spy in the sky Japan is shooting spy satellites into orbit to get ready to keep a high-tech eye on axis of evil member North Korea. ... UPDATE OP-ED: Japan's spy in the sky --by Axel Berkofsky "Japanese satellites are believed to be inferior even to Cold War-era U.S. s...

...I have a stash of my home-made ume-shu which is sweet, sticky and extremely potent. That is always consumed "Roku" (On sa rokusu). I bring this out for special occasions and visitors. Are you fattening up those "visitors" for something special like the following Moo UME . Yik...

Via the "iceduck" site... here's a Japanese CM that featuresLittle Red Riding Hood on Acid Meets Terry Gilliam's "Brazil".

Click here to view the Quicktime:
http://www.iceduck.com/vielspass/japanese/japaneseadvert.mov

gomichild wrote:ah the postings of an alter-ego...

Ahhhhh, Sode no furi-awase mo tasho no en.*

Good guess.... but nope, this is the ONLY venue where I contribute for free.


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*Sutra 87: Even the touching of sleeves in passing is caused by some relation in a former life.

Desperate Japanese paying to disappear '' Running away from your problems is hardly unusual. Paying a professional to handle the details arguably is. In Japan, " yonigeya ," or "fly-by-night arrangers," help the desperate and besieged slide past loan sharks, elude stalkers and m...

More specifically, I think it would be advantageous for everyone to post the "choice Japanese phrases [that they have] in [their] ammo belt[s]" in this thread. To start, check out these cho -happy Japanese slanguage websites: http://www.intercom.net/user/logan1/jap.htm http://www.geocitie...

gomichild wrote:This was all over fark.com yesterday...

There a few fun pix of this topic there at Fark.com too!

"for the massive inside" is a phrase that has its roots in the junglist movement and drum'n'bass music. no one knows exactly where the usage of "inside" while MCing over drum'n'bass originated (probably with the first Jamaican DNB DJs in the late 80s/early 90s), but it's pretty ...

http://www.kids-japan.com/photos/sportsb2.jpg

bluepxl wrote:... it's a mystery...

It's a mystery like this group shot ...
See the above in its full 2Mbit size.

Now here's a grrreat idea...

Japan Watch: Consumption Tax Hike A Long Shot Proposal
"Two painful headaches for Japan - a gaping budget deficit and sluggish consumer spending - might have one, simple cure: a tax hike!
Or so says Japan's top business leader, Hiroshi Okuda. "

I was refused an apartment a few years ago. I have met up with screaming fudosan , trashcan-flinging fudosan , and non-speaking fudosan . However, the most common of the fudosan-zoku is the "smiling" fudosan who just tacks on 30% extra for gaijin ...and shows only the worst properties to ...

Perhaps there are other forces at work. "Other forces" for sure! Another factor to tanshin funin is that salarymen are not wanted at home . The Japanese proverb is: A good husband is healthy and absent. (" teishu wa jobu de rusu ga ii ") And of course the slang term for a retire...