Re: Random Japanese Signs

by **Coligny** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 5:36 am

Grumpy Gramps wrote:
Coligny wrote:Have you tried to push the right pedal ?
Hmm, now that you mention it...

Understandabul...

With the Note I also always had to double check I was in gear.
The right pedal was doing so little in the 'D' position that it mostly felt like 'N'

by **matsuki** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 8:12 am

To be fair, I don't go barreling through at 35 when there is someone in front of me. That being said, what is this green light you speak of?

by **Wage Slave** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 9:13 am

matsuki wrote:To be fair, I don't go barreling through at 35 when there is someone in front of me. That being said, what is this green light you speak of?

There are two I think - or did I dream it? The LED on the transmitter unit changes colour from red to green plus the gate itself has a traffic light panel on top of the transmitter gantry before the gate. It also changes from red to green when the unit in the car has successfully been read. Plus the unit beeps and unless I have turned it off a woman's voice tells you it has been read. Fairly comprehensive notification.

Maybe I am old fashioned but it just seems very poor driving to crash into anything that can reasonably be anticipated as an obstacle. Driving at any barrier at any speed with no concern whether it is going to open or not runs counter to my instincts.

by **kurogane** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 9:25 am

Wage Slave wrote:Maybe I am old fashioned but it just seems ...........

You have completely missed the point. What you should be wondering is why there are any obstacles anywhere that hinder or impinge me from doing whatever I want, whenever I want, in any way I want, so long as other people obey the rules so that the I can achieve my goal of Total Freedumb. :rolleyes:

I used to think that setting up a lawn chair at a busy on/off ramp and holding up scorecards for failures and FUps would make a fun Youtube video. Kyoto South was always a personal favourite. Oh, the hijinx they got up to. Maybe I am just old enough to remember causeway toll booths, but it really isn't that F'in difficult, allowing that I assume they somehow managed to balls up the ETC system so that it doesn't run quite as well as it could if they had read the f'in direction manual.

by **matsuki** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 9:53 am

kurogane wrote:
Wage Slave wrote:Maybe I am old fashioned but it just seems ...........

You have completely missed the point. What you should be wondering is why there are any obstacles anywhere that hinder or impinge

traffic on a 80+ km/h expressway...

FTFY

by **kurogane** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 10:02 am

Hold on a second. We're not talking about on and off ramps? There's control gates or whatever on the expressway???? :shock:

Shows how much I drive toll roads. Maybe it's the toll roads I did drive on (Hokuriku, etc.), but that was back before ETC was standard.

by **wagyl** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 10:15 am

Especially around the big three urban conglomerates, there are gates mid expressway, on the swap over between Expressway Organisation W and Expressway Organisation O, and stuff like that.

by **kurogane** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 10:37 am

Feck. I suppose it's necessary for tracking and toll charges, but ...........ffffffffeeeeeeeeeekkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk that must be a circus. Thank god I never had to drive anywhere more urban than Gifu or Kyoto.
Thanks!

by **matsuki** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 11:38 am

kurogane wrote:Hold on a second. We're not talking about on and off ramps? There's control gates or whatever on the expressway???? Shows how much I drive toll roads. Maybe it's the toll roads I did drive on (Hokuriku, etc.), but that was back before ETC was standard.

Think of it like trying to exit Shibuya station on a friday night....only it's not an exit and it's with cars....

Overhead transmitters without the gates would be safer, faster and more "eco"

by **kurogane** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 11:53 am

Yeah, yeah. I was dating myself there thinking it was an old style On/Off ramp issue, like when the Kora! Dokero! brigade in their LH drive cars would get stuck in the non-LH car booth lane and then go full chimpy because the 5 cars behind them didn't know instinctively we would all need to back up into oncoming off ramp traffic. That was like watching an HG Wells novel in real time. I miss those guys. Darwin's Refugees.............now there's a good Youtube idea.

by **Samurai_Jerk** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 1:59 pm

kurogane wrote:Yeah, yeah. I was dating myself there thinking it was an old style On/Off ramp issue, like when the Kora! Dokero! brigade in their LH drive cars would get stuck in the non-LH car booth lane and then go full chimpy because the 5 cars behind them didn't know instinctively we would all need to back up into oncoming off ramp traffic. That was like watching an HG Wells novel in real time. I miss those guys. Darwin's Refugees.............now there's a good Youtube idea.

I'm glad I don't have to drive but I have been on the expressways and those toll gates are fucking dangerous as hell. I remember seeing a compilation video of ETC related crashes on Japanese highways once but I'm too lazy to google it.

by **Coligny** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 3:19 pm

Samurai_Jerk wrote:
kurogane wrote:Yeah, yeah. I was dating myself there thinking it was an old style On/Off ramp issue, like when the Kora! Dokero! brigade in their LH drive cars would get stuck in the non-LH car booth lane and then go full chimpy because the 5 cars behind them didn't know instinctively we would all need to back up into oncoming off ramp traffic. That was like watching an HG Wells novel in real time. I miss those guys. Darwin's Refugees.............now there's a good Youtube idea.

I'm glad I don't have to drive but I have been on the expressways and those toll gates are fucking dangerous as hell. I remember seeing a compilation video of ETC related crashes on Japanese highways once but I'm too lazy to google it.

That's a monthly updated upload wih best of and all... Youtube keyword : DQN

Not as fun as the Russians but way moar st00pidur...

by **matsuki** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 3:50 pm

Headache to even watch....

by **Russell** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 9:30 pm

matsuki wrote:

Headache to even watch....

Kind of boring video.

by **Taro Toporific** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 12:31 am

Now this is my kind of Monday morning...

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via

by **wagyl** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 2:29 pm

As it was your idea of

Starting out the work week right...

three months ago viewtopic.php?f=10&t=29970&start=270#p360155
....sorry Taro....

by **Samurai_Jerk** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 2:50 pm

wagyl wrote:As it was your idea of
Starting out the work week right...
three months ago viewtopic.php?f=10&t=29970&start=270#p360155
....sorry Taro....

I was waiting for someone else to catch that. :lol:

by **Taro Toporific** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 3:08 pm

Samurai_Jerk wrote:
wagyl wrote:As it was your idea of
Starting out the work week right...
three months ago viewtopic.php?f=10&t=29970&start=270#p360155
....sorry Taro....

I was waiting for someone else to catch that.

Hey, at least I am consistent in copying myself copying. :oops:

by **matsuki** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 3:31 pm

I noticed it too but since he made the original post himself, I figured it was just the result of the breakfast. (tell me you chose beer over the chuhai Taro!)

by **matsuki** » Wed Jul 29, 2015 7:20 pm

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Claudia's bouncing (US is part of Korea??) makes MASA OH SUPER HARD!

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by **BigInJapan** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 2:35 pm

I came across this funky slogan on a J website by chance.

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by **Wage Slave** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 2:45 pm

BigInJapan wrote:I came across this funky slogan on a J website by chance.

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That has meaning - Not sure if it was their intention but:

For a good = For a good (thing or possibly product).

For good = Permanently or Forever

Maybe just luck, but I think it's quite good - as these things go.

by **Samurai_Jerk** » Wed Sep 30, 2015 3:34 pm

Interesting play on words.

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by **Wage Slave** » Wed Sep 30, 2015 4:03 pm

I don't get it. :oops:

by **Coligny** » Wed Sep 30, 2015 4:32 pm

It's a gay illuminaty conspiramation...

by **Wage Slave** » Wed Sep 30, 2015 4:38 pm

A better reading than I can manage. Just Jinglish gibberish to me - Can't see the wordplay at all. I take it there a lot of golf courses in Jakarta and they aren't like golf courses in Japan. More coconut trees methinks. And big, bright flowers. And golden balls.

by **Taro Toporific** » Wed Sep 30, 2015 4:41 pm

There's a fungus among us.

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by **Samurai_Jerk** » Wed Sep 30, 2015 4:41 pm

I was thinking in katakana and saw it as a play on "all" (オール) and "hole" (ホール). That might work with some English accents too

Anyway, there's no info in Japanese other than 東京都. Very strange.

by **Wage Slave** » Wed Sep 30, 2015 5:19 pm

Thanks. Quite a complicated word play, Id say. Can't really see it working in any English accent though. No problem with dropping the h of course but the vowel sound will always be different.

by **Samurai_Jerk** » Wed Sep 30, 2015 5:30 pm

Wage Slave wrote:Thanks. Quite a complicated word play, Id say.

Or it really is just gibberish which is probably more likely.

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