gaijinzilla wrote:That explains why I used to get headaches sitting inside my dad's new car.....back in 1976

Actually... for years in the car business, dashboard outgassing has been thought of as "normal."

Hey, he-gokimushi, did I just outgass?

We're in the money , We're in the money, come on, my honey, Let's lend it, spend it, send it rolling along! --------------------- Hmmm I can think of about 5 different real estate companies to sue just off the top of my head... *phones lawyer* Sad to say that this a limited, one-time ruling. Unlike...

I could go for some of those deep fried potato pikachu's right about now... Just imagine the shape of a deep-fried potato Pikachu ... http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:K-YcSEroLNsC:www.concentric.net/~Norih/pikachu01.gif http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:uNQCoBTCntIC:lbs.hh.schule.de/lernor...

Sify news [i]A Japanese court has ordered a real estate agency and one of its employees to pay damages for asking an Indian man if his skin colour was "normal" when he phoned the firm to find an apartment. Hmmm...interesting.... What's much interesting are the standard notices posted in e...

equating fashion models with "heroes" (or the lack of.., in this case) is rather silly. Think the term "heros" (sic) is just shorthand to reduce the character count and shorten the title. if I had a son I'd have written "positive Japanese male role-models other than Anpanma...

ramchop wrote:

The Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka have retained their rankings as the most expensive in the world

But... living carless in a concrete slum like Kanto is "repectable" for a FG---by definition a gaijin does not have any face to lose.

Love the smell of a new car? Read this "The distinctive smell inside a new car, often a source of satisfaction to owners, comes from the same form of pollution that causes sick building syndrome, a study in Japan shows. It said the smell in a new car could contain up to 35 times the health lim...

The other thing is that if there were such a thing in the States as the bozo -zoku, they would be peppered with buckshot if they were stupid enough to come by the same place every night on SCHEDULE as they do in Japan. :o er.. well.. actually the states *does* have a small biker problem :D Oh, that...

http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20030115p2a00m0dm031000c.html ...only doctors are allowed to professionally insert an instrument into a person's ... This "service" is a big sh*tting deal in Ginza Tokyo--you get to watch what they pump out as it passes by at eye level in a glass tube. Coffe...

The greater question here is, do Japanese men even have a self-image? Japan men decry lack of home-grown heros "On Japan's leading fashion boulevard, Omotesando, Japanese male role models are almost nonexistent. A recent survey of images from L'Oreal to Benetton to the Gap counted 17 white male...

if NK starts acting up... It's time to share the nightmares." Let's share the warmth, U238 style! :lol: NORTH KOREA: A PRIMER Only the bombs are modern "Call it Oz, call it some bizarro world. North Korea is unlike anything... The first thing you have to know is that North Korea's leaders...

GuyJean wrote:Anyone know why they hate the Communist Party?
GJ

The "Northern Islands" issue for one.... that sure gets the Black Bus guys' fundoshi in a knot.

Ah.... that's the one thing I miss about home... a real police presence and a tendency to swing the baton at anything obnoxious. Consequently, no biker gangs. The other thing is that if there were such a thing in the States as the bozo -zoku, they would be peppered with buckshot if they were stupid...

&quot wrote:

Very noble of you to volunteer to do this test Taro, but you took the wrong sample.

Brown-nosing is the most noble of Japanese traditions that becomes second nature to all good hena gaijin.

DearLeader.com Kim Jong-il's fanboy home page. This site's comments are fun too. :lol: North Korea is a hermit state ruled by a potbellied, 5-foot-3 paranoid Stalinist who likes to watch Daffy Duck cartoons. ...When Donald Rumsfeld pointed out that our military is designed to fight two wars at the ...

Trade 'em, swap 'em. Let's trendy! Japanese divorce rate at all time high The Japanese government, which released its latest figures on New Year's Day, is concerned that the rise in divorce and the decrease in childbirth and marriage are a threat to the country's ailing economy. ---Divorce-Online, ...

tokyojoe wrote:

CD: Your work is heavily international in its scope...

If you wanna hear it from the Source, check out William Gibson's daily blog at:
http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/blog.asp

Pikachu Hors d'oeuvres
"Abstract: A Hasbro (TM) Pokemon (TM) Character Creater (TM) is used to make attractive Hors d'oeuvres out of softer kinds of cheese."

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I got love in my tummy.

Look for this new ROOTS CM soon.. Ewan McGregor...the Scottish Star Wars star spent Hogmanay day....filming an advert for a Japanese energy drink." "...The commercial begins with Ewan sitting alone on the platform sipping from a can of Roots - a Japanese energy drink which, it would seem, ...

If you thought the bosozoku were baka , you were right... Mob rules--noisy bikers just so many puppets dancing to yakuza whims "It seems those hot rodders who thumb their noses at the law and common courtesy by running red lights and revving their engines to skull-splitting roars aren't such fr...

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. ... Also see... Japan plans pilotless spy plane "Japan's Defense Agency is planning to develop a pilotless spy plane to help it track sus...

sweet bean paste the color and taste of diabetic baby poop. I will accept your expert discription and refuse dinner invites. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Yep. For almost 20 years, my coporate masters prefer to keep me in the dark and feed me it, that's for sure. http://www.ny.com/featu...

http://www.craphound.com/nonfic/transcript.html CD:... I've heard that they have for the first time serious drug problems. Duh. Drug problems? Japan? Gee, how about 40% of the factory population was addicted to SHABU in the Japanese government sponsored programs to boost production? Sheesh. Post-WW...

WTF was that? Talk about random... Random is what random does. The two hostesses who tried to immolate the FG sound like they having a bad hair day...I can imagine scenarios such as an unpaid hostess bar tab for 800,000yen wild night, dual proposal of marriage, lesbian/alien love spat... Of course,...

PS: How about some context? Or a url? Or complete lyrics? If anyone tells the FG 2 yr old they'll be next on the hit list. Ha. I'll do ya one better! If you wish, I'll burn "Fol Ding Clothes" on a voice-syth chip and imbed it in a Grover doll so FG 2 yr old can activate a few thousand tim...

bottom line is, regardless of where you are, there's always going to be highs and lows. Here's a banal version of those "ups and downs" of a expat woman posted today on the Daily Telegraph entiled, "Big trouble in the valley of the dolls" . I am the only gaijun [sic] - Westerner...

NEW! Steel sludge favored sturgeon caviar for cheap! "Sunrock, a Japanese fishery company affiliated with the local government in Kamaishi, Iwate prefecture in northern Japan, has bred 500 sturgeon in a tank at a disused steelworks and hopes the fish will produce some 300 kilograms (660 pounds...

GomiGirl wrote:reality_bites.. reality has set in?

The Japanese have a better Way to deal with the delight of living in Japan...
Check out their translated thoughts at...