No Nampa Nippon

[IparryU]

Time to move to Austria. Can I get a student visa for that school?

quite sure that you might wanna get PR after studying there for a few years... Hell... I may go for my Ph.D!

[McTojo]

I guess the women are pussies too.

Yes. They are. The irony is killing me.

[matsuki]

A school that encourages you to bang your hot (just assuming...) teacher and classmates? Nice!

[Greji]

Yes. They are. The irony is killing me.

Irony? Irony on getting laid?

[Mike Oxlong]

“Fasting guys” not interested in women – at all

For the last few years, the Japanese media have been dishing out label after label in an attempt to describe the modern Japanese male. The latest tag they’ve pinned on these much-analyzed specimens is the term zesshoku-kei danshi. Literally, “fasting guys,” these are guys so uninterested in women that they don’t even – gasp – have a favorite female TV talent or idol.

The moniker is a play on sōshoku-kei danshi, a phrase coined by the media a few years ago. These so-called “herbivore guys” preferred, like the fabled brontosaurus, to graze peacefully. Which is to say, they showed little ambition in romance, or likely their careers, either. The term proved to be a big hit, resulting in a whole glossary of hilarious spin-off words (see below). But the fasting guys make the herbivores look downright ambitious. In fact, some women have taken a liking to the gentle herbivores and the term has become a lot more neutral than its original critical tone.

Fasting guys exploded on the internet around the end of last year, following a survey of single men released by marriage match-making company O-net. The results were published on sites like Nico News and were subsequently tweeted like mad.

According to the survey, 12.1% of those aged 25-29 and 16.1% of those aged 30-34 – or about 14% total – identified with the “fasting” group. That’s roughly the same percentage as those who self-identified as nikushoku-kei danshi, red-blooded “meat-eating” types.

Of the fasting guys, half reported that they’d never had a girlfriend. Some 70% said it had never once occurred to them to get married.

Tough luck for all the women pining for Sagawa-danshi – the guys who work for the delivery company Sagawa Express and who have been fashioned by the media into pin-ups of the strong, dependable type.

However, not everyone is buying into this new development...

http://blog.japantimes.co.jp/japan-puls ... en-at-all/

[Taro Toporific]

From Google to Lady Gaga and social mobility: how the Observer saw 2013
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theguardian.com | Sunday 29 December 2013
...(Japan's new 'grass-eating men')...Japan's media, which has a name for every social kink, refers to men like Kishino as "herbivores" or soshoku danshi (literally, "grass-eating men"). Kishino says he doesn't mind the label because it's become so commonplace. He defines it as "a heterosexual man for whom relationships and sex are unimportant".
This was 2013's most read Observer article on theguardian.com.
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[Coligny]

Back in mah days... Going out grassing meant the exact not the same as it does now...

[gaijinpunch]

Time to move to Austria. Can I get a student visa for that school?

quite sure that you might wanna get PR after studying there for a few years... Hell... I may go for my Ph.D!

Totarry off topic, but I just now realized your name means what I thought it was, from reading your sig pointing to SRK. I devoted half of my soul to the shooting games side so can discuss the necessity of ripping apart any controller to put in a Sanwa stick... but I always sucked at 2d fighters.

Okay, back to railing on Japan.

[Coligny]

Care to explain for the retard French...

[yanpa]

Don't worry, I fail to understand it either.

[gaijinpunch]

Parry: Block an attack
SRK: Shoryuken, is an English speaking (mainly 2D) fighting game forum. Been around for quite some time. It and one other gaming sub-genre are a bit OCD about getting arcade perfect controllers, which a lot of times means building your own (or having someone do it). I've done both.

[Coligny]

So, I guess you are not too excited by the iphone version of Street Fighter...

[gaijinpunch]

So, I guess you are not too excited by the iphone version of Street Fighter...

I'm excited b/c it justifies me basically leaving the hobby behind. Micro transactions can suck my balls. I'm pretty busy these days, so seeing shit like that just makes me glad I can pick up one of my old games for an hour, enjoy it, and move on to something else.