Hi everyone! This is my first post here. ^_^)/ I may now take a hot bath! ^_^)/ squish squish. Erik!? We are honored! Welcome back the Zombie World where Dead Fukuzawas and cunning linguists of all kind can live again! "I never wanted to do this in the first place! I... I wanted to be... [b]A ...
SANYO reveals new and improved "Banryu" home-robot The robot is aimed to be used for several purposes including home-security defined loosely. K-COOL! I WANT ONE TO TORMENT MY CAT FROM WORK! "Its speed has been increased from 3meters/min. to 15meters/min., a velocity more than fast e...
So let's ignore Kyoto (Kinkakuji), Kamakura (Dai-butsu) and of course Kabukicho, Tokyo. "Let's ignore!" ... that sounds like a good Engrish T-shirt to me and a concrete expression ofJapanese aesthetics. http://appl005.lsu.edu/BRS_STORED_OBJECTS/br000249.jpg BTW wasn't Uluru on Star Trek? ...
Dave Spector (sp?) seems like a good candidate..... I will say his japanese is great, but he just comes across as a know it all... Yeah, "SPECTOR," is correct although 'Dave Expectorate' might be more fitting. I've met that fellow wiseass from Chicago a couple of times. Ya gotta remember....
about 10 old beer bottles --most of them cracked --... Imperial Japanese Army manufactured toxic gas. Dang! That ain't mustard gas. That's just Suntory's Super Magnum Dry" happoshu low malt, beer-like swill! That happoshu swill at 139yen a can is almost as good as "Bullfrog Beer--- pride ...
Search rivals duel for Japanese Yahoo Tokyo-based Yahoo Japan is the dominant Internet presence in the country-- But not for long! Ol' Son-san of SoftBank is bailling out of Yahoo . . . Yahoo! Falling on Downgrade, Softbank Sale 11/07/2002 08:29 AM EST Yahoo! was selling off in the premarket sessio...
There is a large underground group ... behind the marketing and observations of individuals and groups who purchase nonsense jangrish and engrish clothing and misc. ... jangrish and engrish clothing and misc. advertised nonsense in the hopes that eventually, when the internet becomes obsolete, they...
There is a large underground group that is studying behavioral science that is behind the research. They are behind the marketing and observations of individuals and groups who purchase nonsense jangrish and engrish clothing and misc. advertised nonsense Deep in the fetid bowels of the Shibuya dist...
Kneel and bow down to the only true Mecca, GOOD DAY BOOKS. Owner Taeko Kobayashi is the goddess of new and used books! Yours truly, Tom Torrorific, dumps all my old Ann Rice there while I steal Taeko's cookies. Good Day Books Ebisu 1-11-2-3F, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0013 Directions to the store: http...
I do think the appeal of lame unknown Gaijins on TV can only truly be appreciated by the more refined Fucked Gaijin among us. "REFINED" you want? Here you go. Check out all these high-class Japanese CM photos shot here in Yokohama, Shinjuku, etc as to appear to be in an "exotic"...
Might be a way for N.K. to still get some cash out of Japan :lol: The NK nutcases may wanna collect but . . . The Japanese always claim that San Francisco Treaty of Peace of 1951 treaty eliminates any possibility of war reparations. The Japanese have had several recent court cases for reparations i...
"a fake degree...?" It's been done before. Japanese Immigration have accepted fake degrees for a Work Visa if: 1.) the employer is 100% supportive of the employee's "bona fides", and 2.) the visa candidate looks the part---that is, a clean-cut Westerner in a quality suit. For exa...
I have my fave . . . Some years ago on Harajuku's Takeshita Dori, everyday on the way to work I saw for sale a pink and maroon letterman's jacket that said it all.
Across its back in huge letters it proclaimed: "H I G H _ I N C O M E"
_JUST SAY NO!_ Yes, as weird as it sounds, in Japan you always have the right to just say "no" to any job changes, wage change or attempted firing. There are many cases of employees who have staged a Sit-In strike for *years* and GOT PAID for doing nothing. To quote sage advice from Sony's...
KANJI TATTOOS overseas, of course, are the inverse of EngRish. KARURI (light) is the favorite Kanji tattoo I've seen on a blond bimbo's ankle. She told me it's meant 'lightness/freedom'. I told her it meant 'slut'. She giggled. I giggled. We wiggled. Nuf' said ;-) Tom/Taro Toporific --- It's toporif...
Are Robo-benjo,'Closer to Toilet Nirvana'? Sure! 'Domo arigoto Mr. Roboto.' Leave it to the New York Times to get it all wrong about Japan. Their snide article fails to grasp is we Japanese really, really NEED these fancy talking toilets because: 1) DAMN, WINTER' COMIN'! That warmed seat is going to...