So that's what Gaijin think of Japan.

[Steve Bildermann]

This essay describes our adventures in exotic Japan in May 2001. It focuses on the fascinating cultural aspects of Japan, sometimes at the expense of routine descriptions of this attraction or that. Frequent sidebars delve into various things Japanes;subjects as diverse as currency, language, clothing, the geisha subculture, and proper names. (The sidebars on the Japanese language are hyperlinked together so that you can navigate through them;ignoring the rest of the material;if you're particularly interested.) Selected photographs from our set of 700 or so appear throughout the site. We learned not only that standard preconceived notions are untrue, but also that authoritative "corrections" of those notions are often equally untrue!

Warning lots and lots of rambling prose ahead

http://www.nsli.com/.../japan/

[GomiGirl]

Lots and lots of prose... OMG it puts the Iliad to shame!!

Can somebody please offer to edit this!!!

[Taro Toporific]

Lots and lots of prose... OMG it puts the Iliad to shame!!
Can somebody please offer to edit this!!!

Closing thoughts
...As techno-sardines, the Japanese live masterfully orchestrated lives. They could probably live out all their days in the same five square blocks: as soon as they die, having overdosed on mediocre-quality sushi procured from the convenience mart around the corner, they will be interred in that tiny cemetery right next door to their 20-story condominium tower, only blocks from the clatter and din of the shinkansen...

http://www.nsli.com/.../japan/index4.htm#closing

[GomiGirl]

Oh I didn't get that far... what an old windbag without a clue!!!

All of these insights were gleaned from the inside of an airconditioned tourist bus!!

Well Taro - lots of Random FG shots to steal from that site!!

[Taro Toporific]

Well Taro - lots of Random FG shots to steal from that site!!

http://www.nsli.com/.../japan/images/meiji.jpg

http://www.nsli.com/.../japan/images/shoesoff.jpg

[Big Booger]

Cheryl's got quite a rack on her:



I am sorry, but how long did he work on that expose of Japan? I wonder if he will have a sequel?



NIHON WARS: THE GAIJIN STRIKE BACK

[omae mona]

[kamome]

Perhaps the worst patronizing drivel I've ever laid my eyes on.

"Those Japanese are such funny little people. And now we're such experts from our one week in Japan! Plus we're really smart, imaginative people too!" Puke.

[GomiGirl]

I wonder if anyone should tell them that they are copping a right royal sledging from the FG's?

Was that too much slang in one sentence?

[Taro Toporific]

Perhaps the worst patronizing drivel I've ever laid my eyes on.Puke.

literally, "horse deer field son"

Sheeeeeee-it. I think this is my 2nd cousin in-law!
If so, he's literally, "horse's ass ex-field son".
He's a savant ---- a "train spotter" and knows every single train time on the East Coast "dia" (common katakana contraction for "diagram schedule" used by trainyard switchmen).

Ohhhhh... my brain hurts just thinking of the family jokes told about him.

Then again, I think Steve B. is having his fun with us and made the whole thing up.

[Taro Toporific]

...copping a right royal sledging from the FG's?

Hey at least he's "trying" ...


A kimono-clad gaijin lady sits upon an oriental bench surrounded by items depicting the strong influences felt all over the world by oriental technology, styles and superstition.
The large blazing circle--the sun, as Japan is known as "the Land of the Rising Sun". Lotus blossoms float in the whirlwind created by the industrialization of the Far East. The city skylines represent the new gleaming cities of the orient from which the yellow road representing prosperity flows through the painting]http://www.kathrynblake.com/gaijin.htm[/url]

[tiger tanaka]

Bruce says: "I find it astonishing that such a modern culture can flourish using a pictographic system so utterly primitive;"milk" , for example, being composed of a mother's hand clutching her infant to her breast;that it seems scarcely more advanced than the cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux!)"
What a tosser. I will make sure I contact this clown next time I have a kanji question.

And people who post photos of toilets with tedious and badly written travellogues need help.

I can't wait for his Thailand trip. "The Thais are such a nice, cute people, however Bangkok is a horrible place of traffic and dirty bars and the food is so spicey that Cheryl cried and sweated alot! However, I am an expert in Sanskrit, so I can read the menues. Blahbidy blah blah.."

It would be too easy to keep ripping into this guy.. so I will stop.

[ramchop]

[Richi]

hey, I'm new, sorry if this is going to be a sad first post. But?? those are two verry ugly israel people.>_<
ewwww, no wonder he studied so hard, and was able to get a lot of degrees.He was sure one ugly mofu, I guess not being able to go out.Gave him a lot of time, on his hands. Huh. I'm not gay, but surely we can notice that he is one ugly looking guy.>_<

Ricardo

nice to mee all of you!^_^

[AssKissinger]

he is one ugly looking guy

Good point.

[ramchop]

hey, I'm new, sorry if this is going to be a sad first post. But?? those are two verry ugly israel people.>_<

No, they're two ugly America people. :P

[Richi]

one question!

Is he as smart, as he is claiming to be?O_o

I mean, I tried to read his Japanese essay.But, the misspelling lots of easy words, and making grammatical mistakes:that only college students make. Really got to me, I'm even beginning to wonder if he is as smart as he is claiming to be.O_O

So, in the end...I just stoped reading his essay. I liked the pictures a lot better, than the whole essay.

I mean, he does have a lot of degrees. If he has so many degrees.Why on earth wasn't he able to spell "helpless" correctlyt??O_o

No, they're two ugly America people.

yeah, bot they did say something about going to israel.To look at their roots.^_^

Thanks for pointing that out.LOL

[omae mona]

[tidbits]

[AssKissinger]

This guy Bruce is such a dickhead. How the fuck can anybody have that much to say about a place after only a week? He doesn't know shit about Japan. He calls his week a 'marathon tour'. I try not to flame but Jesus, what an ass! He's not even a gaijin at all. He's just a tourist. He's not even a good tourist. Bruce, you need a beatdown!

These people are so dorky, as we will find out later on. What they think is cool either was cool thirty years ago at home or was never cool to begin with.

Did you see this guy's pic? And he's calling the Japanese 'dorky'.

Hey, after everybody finishes ripping this loser I'm gonna e-mail it all to him! Ha ha ha.

[tidbits]

[Steve Bildermann]

[Taro Toporific]

Hey, after everybody finishes ripping this loser I'm gonna e-mail it all to him! Ha ha ha.

Since he is in the OpSec biz and does firewall consulting, Internet security consulting, NSA consulting," he OUGHT TO have noticed his "referer logs" of his server by now, he, he. Maybe if I try farquing with his server, he might notice these logs that show where people came to his site from.

Check out his Mom's travels....
http://www.worldisround.com/home/seagoingjl/index.html

[omae mona]

Since he is in the OpSec biz and does firewall consulting, Internet security consulting, NSA consulting," he OUGHT TO have noticed his "referer logs" of his server by now, he, he. Maybe if I try farquing with his server, he might notice these logs that show where people came to his site from.

OTOH, considering these technical skills are listed on his resume right before "Japanese (reading)", I'm not so sure he's even heard of referer logs. I think the only thing he's going to notice is the inside of his rear end, where his head is firmly implanted.

[tidbits]

[Steve Bildermann]

Most of the kanji hold the same meaning in Japanese as in Chinese

<sound of hand slapping forehead>

Well wadda know, you learn something new everyday

[vvx]

Born in 1963, that makes him 40ish.. Or 38 in his pictures. He might not be a real looker, but he looks pretty young for his age.

I'll bet he hasn't had to do a day of work heavy in labor in his life. Lucky guy really..

[Jamie]

"We wake up at 3:30AM for our first flight. Thanks for the convenient scheduling, sweetheart. Our taxi driver (apparently yet another fucking Sierra Leonean) does a steady 86 mph down the George Washington Parkway."

Anyone here from Sierra Leone? Apparently he doesn't like them very much......

http://www.nsli.com/.../israel/index.htm#07

[GargoyleTS]

If only i could get a cabby who would speed without prompting!! Little bitch doesn't know how lucky he is!

And we have a term for guys like this who went to college and got all sorts of cert and crap: Paper MCSE's. He went to classes, read study guides covering the exact topics of the test and then took said tests. Thus, a cert with no experience. But, that is my opinion, not hard fact. I myself have been through said classes. Haven't taken any tests cause I don't really KNOW this stuff yet. (setting up test lab in 2 weeks though to study more)

This guy is a blowhard and a braggart. He put up this site solely for his own personal gratification and ego boost. If he is really in such a business (and took it seriously) he would never put such a thing up where possible business associates could see and be offended by it. Imbecile. Fool. BAKA!

[cstaylor]

The two most valuable things I learned in school:
[1] For most programmers that you will meet, 1X10=1 (one year of experience used over 10 years = 1 year of experience)
[2] All programs can be simplied to: read data in, process data, write data out.

All other problems can be massaged down to either rule 1 or rule 2.