This is the bomb!

[Gerbonium]

hey all, noobie here. been in japan for 8 months but am leaving in 2 weeks :/

[Taro Toporific]

... been in japan for 8 months but am leaving in 2 weeks

Hi. Bye.

[alpine_rain]

Hello all!

I'm in the US Navy and will be going to Japan in a few months. As soon as I applied for these orders, I started looking up all that I could about Japan on the web, and as one link-led-to-another... I found FG!

Of all my sites that I visit, this is the best.

I've been to Hong Hong, Singapore, Pusan, but never Japan... and to spend several years there, instead of just a few weeks, is something that I look forward to very much.

The folks that I know, who have been stationed in Japan, say that I'll do very well there, and I think that I might have a "beginner's understanding" of what the Japanese think of our Navy... but what do the FG's in Japan think of us?

As the Zen philosopher Tigger once wrote,
TTFN

[Greji]

Hello all!

Welcome aboard mate! Always got room for another snipe!

[alpine_rain]

I'm an Airdale... proud of it, as all bilge rats should be of their work... takes more than one to run a ship...

Thanks, and I hope you have a great day today!

[kurohinge1]

I'm an Airdale... proud of it, as all bilge rats should be of their work... takes more than one to run a ship...

That's "Airdale", gboothe, not "Airedale"! (gboothe has a ... thing for dogs)

If your first post is anything to go by, alpine_rain, I suspect you'll have a great time in Japan and appreciate the experience.

Best of luck.

[Greji]

[quote="kurohinge1"](gboothe has a ... thing for dogs)]

Kuro, you got your nerved spreading lies like that to newbies! I'll write more on this later, but gotta go tighten up my flea collar!

[Wilhelm Kaleva]

[Taro Toporific]

Is is possible to buy Weihenstephaner, Edelweiss, Ayinger or such beers in Japan?

Hi Freiherr Wilhelm Kaleva!

Since you're a student barron (Freiherr) you can afford Edelweiss at 900yen a bottle. Better yet, submit your your letter of intro to the address below and drink for free at the next party!

HIM The Emperor of Japan
The Imperial Palace
1-1 Chiyoda
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Japan

[Wilhelm Kaleva]

[quote="Taro Toporific"]Hi Freiherr Wilhelm Kaleva!

Since you're a student barron (Freiherr) you can afford Edelweiss at 900yen a bottle. Better yet, submit your your letter of intro to the address below and drink for free at the next party! ]

Haha so thats the address where I'll ask fairly priced accomondation withing reach of everything in Tokyo. Free beer at parties sounds awesome(and vaguely familiar;)) Do they supply you with nice girls there too?

But Holy crap thats expensive beer! 900 en thats like 8 euros or something right? Still Edelweiss might be worth it, being the best beer in the universe!

- Wilhelm von Kaleva

[dimwit]

Oh, yeah onequestion. Is is possible to buy Weihenstephaner, Edelweiss, Ayinger or such beers in Japan?

Not where I live, but Tokyo is a different matter. Wheat beers can be found but are less common. My guess is that there is a good chance you should be able to find them somewhere there. In addition there are a few micro-brewerys that do brew wheat beers so you should be able to find something.

[Wilhelm Kaleva]

Micro-breweries? Making local rice beer? Is there any big Japanese brewery making European style beers?

[Mulboyne]

Is is possible to buy Weihenstephaner, Edelweiss, Ayinger or such beers in Japan?

Try Bernd's Bar in Roppongi. The definitely have Weihenstephaner.

[kurohinge1]

... Is is possible to buy Weihenstephaner, Edelweiss, Ayinger or such beers in Japan?

If you get homesick for some European beers, the internet can introduce you to sites like Michael Jackson's beerhunter.com (no, not that Michael Jackson).



[SIZE="4"]BUT[/SIZE], if you're exploring a new country, why not let your taste buds explore some new beers?

Japan has some great local beers and a good place to start is with the tasting session that follows a tour of one of the breweries.

Enjoy.

[Taro Toporific]

Try Bernd's Bar in Roppongi.

Damn. How did I miss that place? That sounds like the venue for the next FG summer beer garden.

[Greji]

Damn. How did I miss that place? That sounds like the venue for the next FG summer beer garden.

Next summer. Checking my calendar, I see that summer begins today, will 5:30 be to late?

[omae mona]

Try Bernd's Bar in Roppongi. The definitely have Weihenstephaner.

I second that motion. I practically LIVED there for a while in the late 90s (ok, well, at least I paid Bernd a weekly visit on average). I was pleased to notice recently that it's still around, and I've been eagerly plotting my return.

[Yorik]

I am very keen for a meeting at this fine establishment on one of the many spare days that I will have in Tokyo late Aug through early Sep.. Might just have to give the old liver a nudge..

[Gilligan]

I thought that I was going on a 3-hour-tour... have been here for about 10 of the last 14 years.

[Taro Toporific]

[Gilligan]

Thanks for the avatar Taro.

[flotsam]

Thanks for the avatar Taro.

you're more than welcome, buddy.

[Taro Toporific]

[avatar]you're more than welcome, buddy.

Flotsam: I think your name has had anal carnal knowledge Miss Nomer. That is, intentional jetsam (&#25237]Flotsam[/URL] or jetsam, take your pick.

VS

[cerephinna]

Hi

I just joined the site a few days ago.

I'm getting together all the information and opinions I can on conversation schools before I make any applications to them. I'm hoping to join a school in about 9 months time. I've been looking at Aeon, Geos, Nova and ECC. I've checked out the information on the General Union pages too.

Besides that, I like making cakes, doing paintings and designing tattoos. Oh, and going down the rock club too

Please don't be *too* mean to me!

Cerephinna

[dimwit]

Hi

I just joined the site a few days ago.

I'm getting together all the information and opinions I can on conversation schools before I make any applications to them. I'm hoping to join a school in about 9 months time. I've been looking at Aeon, Geos, Nova and ECC. I've checked out the information on the General Union pages too.

Besides that, I like making cakes, doing paintings and designing tattoos. Oh, and going down the rock club too

Please don't be *too* mean to me!

Cerephinna

Welcome. Do ya really think we're that mean!:)

If you're looking at conversation schools as a way to get introduced to the culture and have fun you'll be okay, if look at it as a job you'll probably be in trouble.

Good luck.

[cerephinna]

Nah not seeing it as a career, not in eikaiwas anyway!
I'm just viewing it as an entry-level job, to get a visa and get out of the UK

[GomiGirl]

Hi

I just joined the site a few days ago.

hey girl - welcome aboard!!!

[CrankyBastard]

I'm a cranky bastard who came to Japan when I was working on J/flag ships in the 1960's-70's. Started taking leave here rather than fly back to the UK (the ships usually paid-off at Japanese ports.)
Got married in 197? don't remember.
Applied for and was given Pavement Resident status twenty something years ago.
There're worse places to waste a lifetime.

[kurohinge1]

. . . I was working on J/flag ships in the 1960's-70's . . .

I'm confused, CrankyBastard:

Were you a seaman on a J-Flag ship?

Or on ships flying the J - Flag (three horizontal bars blue, white and blue) meaning, 'I am on fire and have dangerous cargo on board: keep well clear of me'?

[/cheeky ribbing]

Welcome aboad, anyway.

Hope you can relieve (and not relive) some crankiness here.

[CrankyBastard]

[cranky mode on] That's all I need now, some smart ass who believes he can think in googlese. [cranky mode off]:D
Thanks for the welcome,Kurohinge.
I really am crankier than usual tonight, two young guys from NHK called earlier with questions about why I've stopped paying fees, I asked them in for a glass of wine. They refused. I slammed the door shut.
Now the missus is upset.