what to show to a new fucked nihonjin friend in the states

[devicenull]

I have a new friend from on campus, he is here for a year and is pretty .. likes to talk about WW2, international relations, helping me with Japanese.. all around cool kid.

meh, give me ideas what i can show off in the milwaukee/chicago area.. i have lived here too long, i dont know what is considered cool here anymore :P

already showed him the malls, walmart, saw a movie, went biking downtown.. and taught him the great american concept of hanging out and literally doing nothing for 3 hours.

[AssKissinger]

Show him Jeffrey Dahmer's old apartment.

[Taro Toporific]

meh, give me ideas what i can show off in the milwaukee/chicago area...

Chicago?

Do the 5-15km beach trail run/bike/skate and then hit the Bahai Temple in Wilmette.

Webcam live shot

--Taro, ya sometimes Northside homeboy

[GuyJean]

give me ideas what i can show off in the milwaukee/chicago area.

I saw a segment on PBS about an old, glass building - I think it was a botanical garden of some sorts - near the projects area. They were trying to fix it up to bring in more people/culture/money in.. I don't recall the name.. Sorry.

If nothing else, I'm sure he'd be interested in the projects. I've heard the newly built public housing places are actually pretty nice.

How about where ER is filmed?

I enjoyed the Indiana State Dunes park when I was there: .. (warning: extreme mullet action)

GJ

[devicenull]

well, i might drag him to chicago some weekend... but right now we are in milwaukee :P

i feel this need to prove that there is SOMETHING to do in milwaukee

[bejiita]

How about the brewery that Laverne and Shirley were supposed to be working at on their TV show. Jeez, I'm dating myself.

[devicenull]

How about the brewery that Laverne and Shirley were supposed to be working at on their TV show. Jeez, I'm dating myself.

it's apartments now... my old school was across the street from it :P

[Big Booger]

Take him down to the Southside of Chicago.. show him the ghettos, the real Americana..

Take him to one of those African barbecue restaurants down on the southside near state street..

You could also show him Michael Jordan's restaurant.. take him to get a Chicago Deep Dish 3 pound as big as the table pizzas..

Take him to the Sears Tower, Navy Pier, Blues Museum (near Navy Pier), Chicago Museum of Art, Wrigley Field, etc... basically cruise down Lake Shore Drive and stop off at every place along the way..

You could spend weeks in Chicago doing this and that.. one place I wanted to go while there was Al Capone's Museum.. just didn't have enough time.

[kamome]

This won't help you in Milwaukee (unless you have some serious cash to spend), but I took some fucked nihonjin friends of mine on a Cessna airplane and flew them around the Los Angeles basin. They got to see the downtown area, Dodgers stadium, Staples Center, Santa Monica, etc. My buddy is an airplane pilot, so it was easy to arrange. I then drove them all the way to Las Vegas and the three of us stayed at the Luxor. We then drove all the way back from Vegas and caught a Dodgers game. Hell, we even went to Rodeo Drive and saw Schwarzenegger himself window shopping on the street there. No one can claim they had a better tour of LA.

[Andocrates]

Isn't the Harley Davidson plant there? I happen to be in Milwaukee at the moment (till Tuesday) So far it's an odd city there seem to be no stores only warehouses and factories.

But take him to Chicago, ride the subways around take him to a ghetto (in the daylight) he'll be in sensory overload by the end of the day.

[devicenull]

hmm, harley plant could be interesting to show off to him. being a student and having a negative net value, cheap (ie not cessna) is good :P

I will definitely haul him to chicago though. probably winter breakish.. he is planning to go off to see new york and all that, and he has to go down to chicago anyway.

[Jack]

well, i might drag him to chicago some weekend... but right now we are in milwaukee :P

i feel this need to prove that there is SOMETHING to do in milwaukee

Forget it. Take him to Chicago and tell him this is the best you can do in the Mid-west.

[Alcazar]

Being a student and having a negative net value, cheap (ie not cessna) is good.

I can relate to that, damn your post made me realise that technically I also have a negative net value.

I know this is unrelated, but being a young man today sucks in many ways. In our parents generation, people in their early twenties already had regular jobs for several years, could buy a house cheaply and be married, all without spending years in higher education. Today because of the pressures to continue education due to a more competitive labour market and the price of housing, young people often only achieve the 'outwards signs' of 'adulthood' in their mid-twenties, compared to decades past. Young people are also staying at home longer while they first work while they save for their own housing costs. At least that is how it is here, and places like England and Spain from what I have heard.

(Well at least we aren't being conscripted or something like some poor bastards of decades past who never even got to live to see their mid 20s).
Maybe using the baby boomers as a benchmark is unrealistic-they got a damn sweet deal (and are still getting it), unparalled in history.

Got to be patient, got to be patient......the rewards will come one day......

Sorry for diverting this thread, I just got thinking about something that interests me....

[devicenull]

Being a student and having a negative net value, cheap (ie not cessna) is good.

I can relate to that, damn your post made me realise that technically I also have a negative net value.

I know this is unrelated, but being a young man today sucks in many ways. In our parents generation, people in their early twenties already had regular jobs for several years, could buy a house cheaply and be married, all without spending years in higher education. Today because of the pressures to continue education due to a more competitive labour market and the price of housing, young people often only achieve the 'outwards signs' of 'adulthood' in their mid-twenties, compared to decades past. Young people are also staying at home longer while they first work while they save for their own housing costs. At least that is how it is here, and places like England and Spain from what I have heard.

(Well at least we aren't being conscripted or something like some poor bastards of decades past who never even got to live to see their mid 20s).
Maybe using the baby boomers as a benchmark is unrealistic-they got a damn sweet deal (and are still getting it), unparalled in history.

Got to be patient, got to be patient......the rewards will come one day......

Sorry for diverting this thread, I just got thinking about something that interests me....

he who dies with the most debt wins
all of my student loans are going through non-multinational banks too...oh the possibilities when it comes time to jump ship from the US. :P

[Taro Toporific]

all of my student loans are going through non-multinational banks too...oh the possibilities when it comes time to jump ship from the US. :P

I used to hang out at a gaijin bar (now closed) frequented by 20 or 30 regulars who were REALLY FGs. All of them were Hard-cases: street venders, AWOL sailors, drunk English teachers, washed-up stock traders, et al. Nearly everyone one of them had unpaid credit cards, defaulted student loans, or running from multiple ex-wives and child support....As far as I can tell, IT'S THE MAIN REASON TO LIVE IN THIS CONCRETE BUTT-PLUG!

[Big Booger]

Their should be commericals sponsored by the Japanese Bureau of Tourism:

Broke? Divorced? Child support and alimony? Credit Card Debt? Loan Sharks?

Escape them all and come to our concrete island paradise. Live the life of a Fucked Gaijin all the while enjoying your escape from certain doom.

LOL I could just see these plastered all over the TV informercial scene.. in the back of the yellow pages, in magazine and newspaper ads etc.. LOL

[Taro Toporific]

There should be commericals sponsored by the Japanese Bureau of Tourism:

Broke? Divorced? Child support and alimony? Credit Card Debt? Loan Sharks?

Escape them all and come to our concrete island paradise. Live the life of a Fucked Gaijin all the while enjoying your escape from certain doom.

Come to our concrete island paradise(tm)
THAT SOUNDS GrrrrEAT! Sign me up for that Package Tour.

Finally, Japanese Bureau of Tourism will have valid pitch, 'cause come see the cherry trees and charming geisha is not working.

[Caustic Saint]

Come to our concrete island paradise(tm)
THAT SOUNDS GrrrrEAT! Sign me up for that Package Tour.

Wasn't this pitch tried once before?



From this thread.

[ramchop]

All of them were Hard-cases

First time I've ever seen an American use that term. Interesting variants of the English language.

Australia:
Hardcase: someone with closed mind, but they might not think so or a tough guy

New Zealand:
Hardcase: Joker]Hardcase:[/url] adverse circumstances, loser, poor man....

[devicenull]

I used to hang out at a gaijin bar (now closed) frequented by 20 or 30 regulars who were REALLY FGs. All of them were Hard-cases: street venders, AWOL sailors, drunk English teachers, washed-up stock traders, et al. Nearly everyone one of them had unpaid credit cards, defaulted student loans, or running from multiple ex-wives and child support....As far as I can tell, IT'S THE MAIN REASON TO LIVE IN THIS CONCRETE BUTT-PLUG![/quote]

meh, i intend on paying back my loans in full eventually. my credit rating is golden..nice to keep it that way, but i like to expand all viable options for myself. not sure exactly what i want to do in japanaland yet. english tutoring is always a fall back. but with the amount of japanese language courses i will have gone through by the time i graduate, i should be able to land an IT job, or start something of my own if i want. :P

[Taro Toporific]

All of them were Hard-cases

First time I've ever seen an American use that term. Interesting variants of the English language.
Australia:
Hardcase: someone with closed mind, but they might not think so or a tough guy
New Zealand:
Hardcase: Joker]Hardcase:[/url] adverse circumstances, loser, poor man....

ALL OF THE ABOVE sounds about right to me. Originally when my Mom was ghost writing Gardner 's hardboiled novels in Poodle Springs in the 50s, "a tough guy cum wannabe" was a 'hardcase'. Later social workers, police, EMTs, medical folks used it a euphisim for down-and-out, pain-in-butt, "cases" often scammers and possibly violent.

[ramchop]

ALL OF THE ABOVE sounds about right to me. Originally when my Mom was ghost writing Gardner 's hardboiled novels in Poodle Springs in the 50s, "a tough guy cum wannabe" was a 'hardcase'. Later social workers, police, EMTs, medical folks used it a euphisim for down-and-out, pain-in-butt, "cases" often scammers and possibly violent.

Well I've received some confused looks when I talk about a "hardcase". In NZ there's no tough-guy or down-and-out connotation. It's more a "eccentric, funny, wild, good-time guy"-characterisation. Probably more similar to "nutcase" but without the seriously insane aspect.

[kamome]

All of them were Hard-cases

First time I've ever seen an American use that term. Interesting variants of the English language.

Australia:
Hardcase: someone with closed mind, but they might not think so or a tough guy

New Zealand:
Hardcase: Joker]Hardcase:[/url] adverse circumstances, loser, poor man....

How do the Brits use the term?

[morty]

Going to Chicago and if you have the time, head to the Science and Technology museum there. It's down by the waterfront somewhere (was only there once and don't know the city that well). It has the captured German U-boat you can walk through and a load of other things to check out.

And now, back to the Concrete Island Ghetto and defaulted student loan discussion

[Steve Bildermann]

Hardcase??

How do the Brits use the term?

Gazzer, An old friend and sparring partner from England.

http://www.geocities.com/fightingartsf/garyspiers.html

[bejiita]

Now if you're going to Chicago, nothing beats the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices.

[jingai]

The Miller Brewing Factory in Milwaukee gives free tours and is pretty interesting. My Japanese friend wanted to go. Free beer.

[devicenull]

The Miller Brewing Factory in Milwaukee gives free tours and is pretty interesting. My Japanese friend wanted to go. Free beer.

of all the times to be only 20

damn parents and their laziness... if they had fucked more i could be getting drunk at hte miller brewery with a friend right now