Why doesn't God blow up the Odakyuu Line?

[gaijinpunch]

For realz. This line fist fucks me every day. Last two days, 5 trains overlapped to block my passage. Record thus far is 7. Usually I jump the fucking gate and walk my bike across, in pure FG fashion, but both mornings one of the pillars of the neighborhood was there. He also lets me park my bicycle at his building for free, so I don't want any ripples in the water w/ him.

I refuse to invest any time in this b/c I know the end result will be dick, but my guess is they are breaking at least one ordinance by blocking traffic, and even if you called them out of it at the kuyakusho, you'd get a big shouganai. Anyone know for sure?

[matsuki]

The crossing near my place is pretty close to the same situation...even worse when the gates finally open as the hundred or so people waiting on each side try to bumrush each other, on a 20cm wide walkway while two lanes of traffic squeeze by with only mm's to spare. I've seen 2 people get hit by car mirrors so far. Used to be worse when I lived on the other side of the tracks and had to lug my hockey gear to the rink. Eventually, I gave up on the crossing and now I go through the station instead.

SAFETY CUNTRY!!

[waruta]

You talking about crossing the lines while the guard pole thingy is down? If so, then you sir are a true Darwin Award candidate. Plus you fuck up the rest of our commute while they scoop up what remains of your mama-chari and you...

If not, then my bad.

[Yokohammer]

You are clearly suffering symptoms of "FG Rage," which can be cured by slurping soba noisily while commenting favorably on the current season in progress and saying "shoganai" three times without shrugging.*

[SIZE="1"]* You musn't shrug. That's a barbarian body language thing that should be suppressed because it can, at the wrong moment, divulge your innermost feelings to others who will see you as uncultured and lacking in "wa."[/SIZE]

[gaijinpunch]

You talking about crossing the lines while the guard pole thingy is down? If so, then you sir are a true Darwin Award candidate. Plus you fuck up the rest of our commute while they scoop up what remains of your mama-chari and you...

If not, then my bad. ]

No... b/c they give me these things called eyes that can see like... a long ways away. Same w/ all the other Japanese who first inspired me to do it I should add. I'm far more likely to accidentally fly into the train on a stumble + ride home. That, I will admit, is risky.

"FG Rage,"

While I'd like to think that, there are some steaming nihonjins in the vicinity every time.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Because there is no God.

But yeah, the Odakyu is fucked up. My coworkers who use that line are late 2 or 3 times a week because of train delays.

[gaijinpunch]

Because there is no God.

I actually knew that was coming.

[waruta]

No... b/c they give me these things called eyes that can see like... a long ways away. Same w/ all the other Japanese who first inspired me to do it I should add. I'm far more likely to accidentally fly into the train on a stumble + ride home. That, I will admit, is risky.



While I'd like to think that, there are some steaming nihonjins in the vicinity every time.

Ah, was thinking that it was just a 3-5 min wait at the lights, with trains rushing past every 30 seconds or so....

Reminds me of when I was in the States and had to wait for a midnight freight train to pass. Easily 20 mins at the crossing, surprised the hell out of me.

On an unrelated note Trivia: if you carry a car license, driving drunk on a bicycle gets your the same DUI as a car...who'd thunk it?

[matsuki]

Because there is no God.

But yeah, the Odakyu is fucked up. My coworkers who use that line are late 2 or 3 times a week because of train delays.

Seibu lines are the same. I was almost an hour late to a meeting yesterday as the delay caused me to miss one of those once in 30min inaka trains...

[gaijinpunch]

Ah, was thinking that it was just a 3-5 min wait at the lights, with trains rushing past every 30 seconds or so....

There is plenty (too much) space between them, and you can generally go when the arrow stays lit in the same direction after a train passes. They have to stay within a safe distance. Field of view is pretty far, and the trains are really slow.

Reminds me of when I was in the States and had to wait for a midnight freight train to pass. Easily 20 mins at the crossing, surprised the hell out of me.

Yep, but we ain't in the states. Trains here are supposed to be efficient and planned well. And they are... except for the Odakyuu.

On an unrelated note Trivia: if you carry a car license, driving drunk on a bicycle gets your the same DUI as a car...who'd thunk it?

Yeah, that's what I hear, but I have no drivers license. Also stupid since the maximum damage you can do is fractional compared to driving in a fucking car.

[matsuki]

Reminds me of when I was in the States and had to wait for a midnight freight train to pass. Easily 20 mins at the crossing, surprised the hell out of me.

Most of these crossings in LA are being/have been rebuilt so that you drive under or over the train tracks. Probably helps with air pollution as you're not idling forever nor are you forced to stop at the tracks. Less accidents, pretty obvious...wish they'd do more of that here. The whole stop at the tracks + short intervals when you can cross makes for traffic backing up around many crossings and then there are all the accidents...fuuuuuuuu

[Mock Cockpit]

On an unrelated note Trivia: if you carry a car license, driving drunk on a bicycle gets your the same DUI as a car...who'd thunk it?

I think that's pretty much the same everywhere but you'd have to be one unlucky motherfucker to get lumbered with a dui on your bike. Think of the average Saturday night and then think of the number of people you see on bikes......

[Coligny]

For realz. This line fist fucks me every day. Last two days, 5 trains overlapped to block my passage. Record thus far is 7. Usually I jump the fucking gate and walk my bike across, in pure FG fashion, but both mornings one of the pillars of the neighborhood was there. He also lets me park my bicycle at his building for free, so I don't want any ripples in the water w/ him.

I refuse to invest any time in this b/c I know the end result will be dick, but my guess is they are breaking at least one ordinance by blocking traffic, and even if you called them out of it at the kuyakusho, you'd get a big shouganai. Anyone know for sure?

AT LEAST IT'S NOT ONE OF THOSE RETARDED TRAFFIC ASSISTANT BUSYBODY MOTHER BLOCKING THE ROAD DURING THE FULL GREEN LIGHT SO SOME LOOSE PACK OF DARWIN AWARD CANDIDATE CAN CROSS...

This shit will end badly... EVEN THE FUCKING KIDS STOPPED AND TOLD HER TO LET SOME CARS GO BETWEEN THEM...

[matsuki]

AT LEAST IT'S NOT ONE OF THOSE RETARDED TRAFFIC ASSISTANT BUSYBODY MOTHER BLOCKING THE ROAD DURING THE FULL GREEN LIGHT SO SOME LOOSE PACK OF DARWIN AWARD CANDIDATE CAN CROSS...

This shit will end badly... EVEN THE FUCKING KIDS STOPPED AND TOLD HER TO LET SOME CARS GO BETWEEN THEM...

you need something with an exhaust roar to make her run back to the safety of the curb!!:cool:

[Greji]

Because there is no God.

SJ, that is out of line. Just because he doesn't ride the Odakyu line doesn't mean he doesn't exist.

As a matter of fact, I think I saw him the other night leaving Roppongi on the Hibiya line, unless I was mistaken and it was really Colligny in drag.....

[waruta]

[Coligny]

SJ, that is out of line. Just because he doesn't ride the Odakyu line doesn't mean he doesn't exist.

As a matter of fact, I think I saw him the other night leaving Roppongi on the Hibiya line, unless I was mistaken and it was really Colligny in drag.....

Come on, I are not that hard to recognise when I travel to go to see them big city lights...

[Iraira]

My eyes...they bleed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!The horror....the horror...make it stop!
This is NSFW or for viewing while eating Indian food.

[gaijinpunch]

At least I don't have to think of my Halloween costume for next year.

[Iraira]

At least I don't have to think of my Halloween costume for next year.

yeah, we should all just raid Coligny's closet.....probably find Greji lurking around in there.

[Mike Oxlong]

The Japanese Revolution in Paris Fashion

Yuniya Kawamura

Despite recent challenges from New York, London and Milan, Paris is renowned as the greatest fashion capital in the world. Its distinctive categorization of haute couture, demi-couture, and prt--porter reflects a highly structured and tightly controlled system that non-western designers have had difficulty penetrating. Yet a number of the most influential Japanese designers have broken into this scene and made a major impact. How?

Paris couturiers and designers operate a gate-keeping system that is not only exclusive and rigorous but highly demanding. But, Kawamura asks, does the system facilitate or inhibit new forms of creativity? She shows how traditional French fashion has been both disturbed and strengthened by the addition of outside forces such as Kenzo Takada, Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, Rei Kawakubo and Hanae Mori. At the same time she considers many other key questions the contemporary fashion industry should be asking itself. Has it, for example, become primarily preoccupied with the commercial projection of product images rather than with the clothing itself? And what direction will French fashion take without Saint Laurent, Miyake and Kenzo?

This insightful book provides the first in-depth study of the Japanese revolution in Paris fashion and raises provocative questions for the future of the industry.

[Coligny]

The Japanese Revolution in Paris Fashion

And they combine into Voltron during a sweet sweeeeeeet lesbian orgy...

(Filming will start tomorrow...)

[matsuki]

And they combine into Voltron during a sweet sweeeeeeet lesbian orgy...

(Filming will start tomorrow...)

mmm mmm

[gaijinpunch]

And they combine into Voltron during a sweet sweeeeeeet lesbian orgy...