Damn, I've been here a long time!

[CrankyBastard]

I was just checking through some old personal records.
I first set foot ashore in Japan (Moji) in September 1958.
Actually, that was on a tramp ship, I didn't start living here permanently until 1966.
Some things sure have changed.

But from the Black Ships era to today, YBF is as ageless as time itself.

[james]

man, you've been here a good deal longer than i've even been alive. puts my meagre 10 years here into perspective.

[American Oyaji]

man, you've been here a good deal longer than i've even been alive. puts my meagre 10 years here into perspective.

Ditto. Just change the 10 to an 8. Would have been 16 if I had stuck around.

[AssKissinger]

cranky

i'd love to meet up for a few beers some time

that's a long time bro

props on life

[CrankyBastard]

Yeah, it may seem like a long time, but it passed like it was only a few weeks.
I still get the urge when I see an attractive woman, to skip the light fandango.
I also still feel pangs to skip the light fantastic on seeing the fine lines of a deep sea cargo vessel.
But I console myself with a cup of hot cocoa before bed and a bowl of 'okayu' for breakfast.
Enjoy it all when you can young fellas, I did, and don't regret anything.

[james]

i first came in 1995 or 6.. don't quite remember. by then i'd been wanting to come for awhile as i'd been studying the language and learning all about particles.

the following year i came on a whv and worked in my now father-in-law's fish store during the day and studying on my own at night. i came to stay in march of 1999, directly to these same boonies and never looked back. even though recently i've been considering my options, i think i may be a lifer.

[Greji]

Yeah, it may seem like a long time, but it passed like it was only a few weeks.

Cranky, I didn't realize you wuza snipe on the arc with Noah! You got me on the first port call but I think I got ya on the visa and I ain't slowed up since! (fraid to do that, I'd end up drinking cocoa or something:p

[Jack]

I was just checking through some old personal records.
I first set foot ashore in Japan (Moji) in September 1958.
Actually, that was on a tramp ship, I didn't start living here permanently until 1966.
Some things sure have changed.

But from the Black Ships era to today, YBF is as ageless as time itself.

Cranky, what's the deal with that picture? She is awesome.

[American Oyaji]

Cranky, what's the deal with that picture? She is awesome.

She's ok.

[CrankyBastard]

Cranky, I didn't realize you wuza snipe on the arc with Noah! You got me on the first port call but I think I got ya on the visa and I ain't slowed up since! (fraid to do that, I'd end up drinking cocoa or something:p

Greji, Whoa! Noah was way before my time.
I seem to remember the skipper on my first trip here was guy called Will something....... Yea, I remember now, William Adams.
That woulda been about the time you got a desk job working for that foreign outfit headed by Frankie Xavier, right?

[CrankyBastard]

Cranky, what's the deal with that picture? She is awesome.

Forget it Jack, AO's right. She was just ok.

[Greji]

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I heard of that tub before. That was old Anjin at his best. It was tougher working for Frankie and Johnnie, his partner.

But, if pictures are to judge, you did much better than me. You know how it is with old salts, youse can get too weak on ink.....

[Greji]

Forget it Jack, AO's right. She was just ok.

If all he saw in the post was the picture, he might want to check my post, cause there ain't no sense in trying to explain it....

[CrankyBastard]

A fine looking gal there, Grej.
But the shoes clash with the outfit a bit.

[Greji]

A fine looking gal there, Grej.
But the shoes clash with the outfit a bit.

You right on time with that Cranky. I always thought she would look better in a set of them new PF Flyers....

[Mock Cockpit]

Fucken hell, you'd get less time for murder.

[Greji]

Fucken hell, you'd get less time for murder.

TIJ. Cranky and I have seen murders go to jail, do their time and get released over here during our watch.....

[dimwit]

TIJ. Cranky and I have seen murders go to jail, do their time and get released over here during our watch.....

.... and go on to found the LDP and go to jail again 30 years later for bribery.

[Greji]

.... and go on to found the LDP and go to jail again 30 years later for bribery.

Dimmer, no one gets sent to jail for 30 years for practicing the national pastime....

Besides, Judges would be afraid to attach such a long sentence as someone might get mad and produce a list of "contributions" the Judge has received...

[dimwit]

Dimmer, no one gets sent to jail for 30 years for practicing the national pastime....

30 years later sonny, and of course I know that they get suspended sentences unless of course they reveal the names of their contributors and then they are merely suspended.

[Greji]

30 years later sonny, and of course I know that they get suspended sentences unless of course they reveal the names of their contributors and then they are merely suspended.

They mention the right name and the whole case goes away beyond any record:p

[CrankyBastard]

Yes, never mind that.
What I want to know is where did all this fuckin asphalt come from.

It used to be like this


Then this happened


Now all I see is this


So, where the fuck did all this asphalt come from