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yanpa wrote:1. Holding one hand over your mouth while speaking into a mobile phone does not make your conversation magically inaudible, especially if you are speaking loudly.
Coligny wrote:yanpa wrote:1. Holding one hand over your mouth while speaking into a mobile phone does not make your conversation magically inaudible, especially if you are speaking loudly.
Meanwhile it greatly reduce the background noise for the person at the other side ...
chokonen888 wrote:Coligny wrote:yanpa wrote:1. Holding one hand over your mouth while speaking into a mobile phone does not make your conversation magically inaudible, especially if you are speaking loudly.
Meanwhile it greatly reduce the background noise for the person at the other side ...
Coligny's right but along the lines of what Yampa's saying, doing the quick left, right check and then speaking in a loud whisper to someone may look discreet in the movies but we're all still getting an earful of your conversation.
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:I guess it won't be possible to just eliminate mobile phones, eh?
yanpa wrote:2. Those metal thingies with the plastic flaps and beepy bingbong noises that suddenly spread out across the entrance of a station, startling you into immobility - outwit them by having your teikiken at the ready before they leap out at you.
omae mona wrote:I still can't find a compatible, portable power source for my ETC device, so I keep having to pay cash for those damn paper tickets at the train station. Really annoying. Is this so-called "teikiken" the ETC battery pack? Where can I get one?
Russell wrote:omae mona wrote:I still can't find a compatible, portable power source for my ETC device, so I keep having to pay cash for those damn paper tickets at the train station. Really annoying. Is this so-called "teikiken" the ETC battery pack? Where can I get one?
Teikiken is a card that allows you travel along a certain route for a period of 1, 3, or 6 months. If you travel a route almost every working day, it is cheaper than those paper tickets. Old-fashioned technology...
omae mona wrote:I still can't find a compatible, portable power source for my ETC device, so I keep having to pay cash for those damn paper tickets at the train station. Really annoying. Is this so-called "teikiken" the ETC battery pack? Where can I get one?
yanpa wrote:3. Cyclists! The "left" side of the road is generally the one you want to be cycling on, especially if it is a 6-lane road which is mentioned regularly in traffic reports.
yanpa wrote:3. Cyclists! The "left" side of the road is generally the one you want to be cycling on, especially if it is a 6-lane road which is mentioned regularly in traffic reports.
yanpa wrote:+1. Same goes for cycle-lanes as marked out on Yamate-dori etc.
Also 4: Pedestrians - take half-a-second or so to visually scan left and right (especially right) when suddenly stepping out onto the street, as it will save you from near-misses with a bell-ringing gaijin. (Who luckily for you expects at all times to be surprised by pedestrians and other vehicles appearing suddenly).
wagyl wrote:Just like the middle aged man in lycra (because it always is) can remember to change down his gears as he is slowing down to a stop.
yanpa wrote:wagyl wrote:Just like the middle aged man in lycra (because it always is) can remember to change down his gears as he is slowing down to a stop.
Dat is what I mean. Sure, occasionally one ends up stopping without a change to change down, but seems every time I get stuck behind a road cyclist at lights they power away with all the acceleration of an obachan on a mamachari.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:yanpa wrote:wagyl wrote:Just like the middle aged man in lycra (because it always is) can remember to change down his gears as he is slowing down to a stop.
Dat is what I mean. Sure, occasionally one ends up stopping without a change to change down, but seems every time I get stuck behind a road cyclist at lights they power away with all the acceleration of an obachan on a mamachari.
I don't get it either. I always try to gear down for my own sake not because I give a fuck about being in the way of motorists.
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