Ugly Americans

[Jack]

I just read this book Ugly Americans
http://www.amazon.com/Ugly-Americans-Cowboys-Markets-Millions/dp/0060575018/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211460992&sr=8-1

Any of you read this? It was a good quick read about Tokyo financial types. Sounded pretty accurate to me except the part about spending $8,000 at Gas Panic in Roppongi.

[kusai Jijii]

[Iraira]

Sounded pretty accurate to me except the part about spending $8,000 at Gas Panic in Roppongi.

That's a nice tip

[IkemenTommy]

Sounded pretty accurate to me except the part about spending $8,000 at Gas Panic in Roppongi.

It's possible. I am sure I have supported the GP franchise with that much cash within my lifetime.

[Neo-Rio]

$8000 is what you're likely to end up spending in one of those heavily touted strip clubs in Roppongi - once they get you drunk enough on the overly expensive champagne and get you to pay on credit card.

I probably know too much about this.

[Jack]

$8000 is what you're likely to end up spending in one of those heavily touted strip clubs in Roppongi - once they get you drunk enough on the overly expensive champagne and get you to pay on credit card.

I probably know too much about this.

Okay but the scene in the book I am talking about is happening at Gas Panic. Anyway, not to nitpick, I get the author's point. He wanted to convey the fact that you can easily blow eight grand in a nightclub in Tokyo, something that is unheard of in western countries.

[Charles]

Okay but the scene in the book I am talking about is happening at Gas Panic. Anyway, not to nitpick, I get the author's point. He wanted to convey the fact that you can easily blow eight grand in a nightclub in Tokyo, something that is unheard of in western countries.

I read those sorts of stories fairly regularly, I suppose you'd have to read FARK or some place like that, for such seedy news. There are plenty of sketchy strip clubs in the US (and everywhere else) that will load your credit card. I think I recall hearing of one customer who got hit for $100k on a high-limit card.

[Visitor K]

He wanted to convey the fact that you can easily blow eight grand in a nightclub in Tokyo, something that is unheard of in western countries.

unless youre rick james.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Spending eight grand in Gas Panic in one night would be tought unless you're buying for everyone again and again.

BTW, was anyone at eGeronimos (or was it Magumbos?) last month when that guy rolled in who kept buying EVERYONE rounds all night. He dropped $25K in a month at one of them. Even my friends in banking were surprised by the excess.

[omae mona]

I read those sorts of stories fairly regularly, I suppose you'd have to read FARK or some place like that, for such seedy news. There are plenty of sketchy strip clubs in the US (and everywhere else) that will load your credit card. I think I recall hearing of one customer who got hit for $100k on a high-limit card.

The CEO of Savvis Communications managed to hit $241k for a night in 2003.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1021051scores1.html

OCTOBER 21--A Missouri businessman who claims that a $241,000 bill for a night of lap dance luxuriating at Manhattan's leading strip club is a fraud is being sued by American Express for refusing to pay the debt. According to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in New York State Supreme Court (a copy of which you'll find below), Amex contends that Robert McCormick, 40, and three guests ran up the tab during a visit to the Scores nightclub in October 2003. McCormick, the chairman and chief executive of Savvis Communications, a publicly held technology firm, has refused to pay the strip club tab, which was placed on his corporate credit card. McCormick and his firm have claimed that only about $20,000 of the charges are legitimate.

But back on topic, aren't beers about 300 yen at Gaspanic? How do you ring up a US $8000 bill without buying about 2500 beers? Or do they sell something else there?

[Greji]

THow do you ring up a US $8000 bill without buying about 2500 beers?

Order a round for the house when they have 2500 customers?
Sounds like another book written for the gentry and not meant to be read by anyone whose been in Japan

[Jack]

I have spent more than $8,000 on one tab more than once. But the issue here is doing it at Gas Panic. I am as a big a spender as the next guy but I don't know how to do it at Gaspanic unless I am buying for everyone. If I am spending that kind of money there better be a pussy or pussies somewhere near the end of the line.

[Greji]

I have spent more than $8,000 on one tab more than once. But the issue here is doing it at Gas Panic. I am as a big a spender as the next guy but I don't know how to do it at Gaspanic unless I am buying for everyone. If I am spending that kind of money there better be a pussy or pussies somewhere near the end of the line.

I once spent 80man to watch a monkey fuck a football, does that count?

[Iraira]

I once spent 80man to watch a monkey fuck a football, does that count?

You need a better investment counselor. I only paid $4,000 to watch two nuns jack-off a giraffe. And, unlike Jack, I have the receipts to prove it.

[nottu]

[Iraira]

Yeah, but did you get inside your avatar - thats like a whole universe.

If I had gotten into what's in my avatar, you think that I would have made so many posts? I'm gonna go cry now.

[Jack]

I once spent 80man to watch a monkey fuck a football, does that count?

I'd like to know what's the average IQ of most posters in here. Greji, let's start with you.

[Jack]

You need a better investment counselor. I only paid $4,000 to watch two nuns jack-off a giraffe. And, unlike Jack, I have the receipts to prove it.

You're next. C'mon be honest. Don't tell me your IQ is higher than the crows in in Hibiya Park.

[Samurai_Jerk]

I'd like to know what's the average IQ of most posters in here. Greji, let's start with you.

Yeah, Greji. What's your average IQ?

[kusai Jijii]

I'd like to know what's the average IQ of most posters in here. .

Oh, I admit it. I'm a dumb cunt. No two ways about it. I'm way out of your league Jack. Come to think of it, your in a totaly different sport.

I marvel at your posts. Pure genius. You have this uncany ability to both inform AND entertain at the same time. Take for example your post about how you have 'done' that exhibitionist chick who was busted down in Geekville Akihabara. Or that gem of a contribution about the guy you sat next to on the plane who explained the economic mystery behind the laws of supply and demand. Keep 'em coming Sensei!
I bow before thee:bowdown:

[Iraira]

You're next. C'mon be honest. Don't tell me your IQ is higher than the crows in in Hibiya Park.

Yeah my "average IQ" varies depending on the time of day, and the IQ of the person that I'm talking to. Are you trying to compile data for "The Bell Curve II"....like you need further discrediting.
In any event, my "IQ" is probably pretty low. They give PhDs in Evol. Genetics to just about anyone these days.

By the way IQ really means nothing....only Jack could pick such a useless statistic to try to annoy people with.

[GomiGirl]

I am as a big a spender as the next guy...

And yet you can't put your hand in pocket to donate a couple of bucks to FG? Nah - you come across as the typical cheap arse. All talk and no trousers.

[CrankyBastard]

I'd like to know what's the average IQ of most posters in here. Greji, let's start with you.

Honing your trolling skills, Jack?

[Greji]

I'd like to know what's the average IQ of most posters in here. Greji, let's start with you.

Jackson, you have to be able to spell IQ before you can ask for it....

[IkemenTommy]

You're next. C'mon be honest. Don't tell me your IQ is higher than the crows in in Hibiya Park.

Some of those crows do have higher IQ than most typical Japanese you find on the streets.