BB Just imagine what it was like before you could even get even the internet or satellite tv... :wink: amazing to think that was only 5 years ago... The Internet was semi-illegal in Japan for some time, but I've had satellite TV for more than nine years now. The trick to getting sat-TV in the old d...

Japanese inventor loses patent to songbox Back when Daisuke Inoue was a youngster banging drums with a local lounge band, he didn't think his invention for sing-along soundtracks and a portable microphone would amount to much. He certainly had no idea of applying for a patent. Three decades later, ...

What's the deal with Japanese bread? Just what is this evil stuff they call bread here? The grease (toxic waste and No 4. bunker oil) added to supermarket and 7-11 bread here is a great preservative. :roll: Lucky for us FG that in major urban areas the upscale bread shops are more than "just f...

ramchop wrote:

Folding clothes
Folding clothes
Fol Ding Clothes

Sounds grrreat to me!
--charter member of Erik Defense League--

PS: How about some context? Or a url? Or complete lyrics?

Name your favorite FG poison: "The Russian Qualude", "The Irish Car Bomb", "The Flaming Lamborghini", That Time Of The Month", "Red Eyed Widow Maker" "the Vibrator, or ...???? Danger Drinks Ron Rico, Absinthe, Spiritus, Tequila - these are the Hannib...

3: I bought a BS dish and decoder. BBC, CNN, McNeil Hour, Nightline] Here's more good news for all you FG with a satellite dish.... Televiews Daily Yomiuri, Jan 9 ...CNN provided the New Year's first major good news. The network will give birth to CNNj in March, a CNN designed especially for Japan,...

The Lonely Planet website mentions the Niramekko Obisha contest on Jan. 20. Have any of you FG out there been to the event? Is it k-cool for us aliens? In the cute and kooky department, Niramekko Obisha (January 20; Chiba) combines a staring contest with consumption of sake - the one with the straig...

GuyJean wrote:7: I realized I will NEVER be accepted into this society. And I relish in that fact.
GJ

Yes, that's the spirit:
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members."
--Groucho Marx

Japan's shadow economy booms on sex and drugs Deflation may be at the heart of Japan's economic malaise, but for those toiling on the shadier side of the world's number two economy, falling prices mean cheaper thrills for more people. REUTERS [Thurs, Jan 09, 2003 07:26:38 PM] LET THE PRICE WARS BEG...

But I want to fit in. To mesh, and I just cannot do it here....Any of you feel this way about Japan? I wonder if some of you mesh like sugar in a glass of kool-aid... Or if some of you stick out like a boner in a church house. For almost 20 years, I've been a "boner". I LOVE BEING A CULTU...

...try this. Get out your dirtiest clothing, scrub mud all over your face and laydown with a sign (printed in Japanese) saying money for a broke ass Gaijin. DONT MOVE until they give you some money. Better yet... put on your best 'honest' face and ask ex-pat housewives in Hirro for "500yen for...

New law to ban kids from online dating sites A little more on this topic is found in the National Business Review (NZ) http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=4869&cid=5&cname=Asia Child prostitution enabled by internet in Japan "The internet has made tackling the problem much ...

Dang! I thought they were selling VW Beatles for $10,000! :lol: Beetles costing $10,000 each THEY'RE not as popular as Paul, George, Ringo and John, but these little beetles are in huge demand. Asian pet collectors will pay up to $10,000 to own a rare Australian stag-beetle....Two [Japanese] men al...

I've heard of this East Japanese/West Japanese thing. Nagoya-ben dialect seems to be more nasal which really helps when speaking American "standard" English. As far as the "East Japanese/West Japanese thing", it's a rivalry much like the East Coast / West coast thing in the Stat...

Steve Bildermann wrote:It' a one touch power on/off device. My friend would be able to power up his computer / printer / screen etc with minimum effort with one of these.

Dang.
Last March/April I helped shovel out several hundred similar power supply contollers. Oh well. It's the thought that counts.

Japanese escape woes in 'Boogie Wonderland' Japan Tmes / Jan 5, 2003 "Middle-aged disco lovers in Japan boogie to the sounds of a past era, when flares, platform shoes and gold medallions were cool and the economy was on the upswing...." http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:8W_2mLz75bIC:...

I don't see much helpful advice here, so I'll try to help. In fact, buying tickets in japan is usually MORE expensive. . If your travel a lot, buy the Japan Rail Pass ---it will pay for itself in just 5-10 train trips. Cheapo flights under $600 to the Mysterious Orient are at United right now for t...

[quote=""bluepxl" i checked travelocity, cheap tickets, orbitz, all those airline look up things. and pretty much all of them came back with the round trip tickets ranging from about $1200-2500!!! [/quote"] Online tickets are not the best buy. Try "bucket shops" that se...

Here's a thought-piece on the Japan and the gathering storm with NK and China ....."It's deja vu all over again." Anglosphere: Japan's options ''....That one of today's urgent crises is set in Northeast Asia should serve as a reminder of the limits of each option. After all, America fought...

I think Taro posted this in the media forum Yep, I did at "Teletubbies" meets "South Park" . But.... hey look at these other references on Google: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22+Sushi+Seal+Family+%22&btnG=Google+Search I wonder why FG ...

GomiGirl wrote:"shady foreigners"
hhmm I think I resemble that remark.. oopps I mean resent.

I'll assume most Japanese see FGs as "shady."
Actually, ANYPLACE in Tokyo is a "Whiff of luxury amid Tokyo sleaze".

Sorry but doesn't Crown Prince Naruhito take over next??? .. Yes, you're quite correct as the article in this news item explains. Prince Naruhito is next in succcesion but the "whispering" among the Japanese is deafening... NEWS that the Japanese Emperor Akihito has prostate cancer is sen...

Hey folks, ever hear of the "low-life loitering" at this place??? :wink: Whiff of luxury amid Tokyo sleaze Financial Review / AP / 03/01/2003 Hustling beneath garish neon lights, sidewalk touts coax pedestrians to sleazy hostess bars squeezed between massage parlours and striptease joints...

Here's old question: "Should auld acquaintance be forgot/ And never brought to mind?" Welsh hero's bid to commemorate PoWs in Taiwan --- icWales, UK "Jack Edwards was held captive by the Japanese where he toiled in a copper mine with hundreds of other half-starved Allied detainees dur...

Japan angry over Romanian gymnasts' bare-all performance Nude gymnasts to get key to the city Three former Romanian gymnasts who were banned for their nude appearances in a Japanese magazine and adult movie are to be offered the key to the city in Bucharest... Read more here with this amusing nude ...