Idiotic FAQ'ed questions from an uber-idiot newbie.

[Thanatos' embalmed botfly]

Hello. How are you today? Fucked? Again? Still? Excellent. As am I.
I am a refugee from LetsJapan. Apart from Mr Asskissinger, are there any other of my leper brethren here?

A couple of minor queries before I flit gaily off down the cheery-tree lined path of abject inanity...

* Can I start pointless, idiotic threads that are not entirely Japan related?

* Don't see any flame wars here. Not that I've looked, mind you. But thats a minor detail. Does much stuff get censored/deleted? Please tell me mods don't reword peoples posts here.

* Its called "fucked gaijin!" So I can be a blithering idiot here? That's my modus fuckin' operandi. Reason I ask is that, no offense, but upon closer inspection, the locals here aren't really that fucked. At least not to the extent that I feel I myself am fucked. Fucked from the get-go, fucked for life. Folks here appear quite normal and reasonable. That's not meant to sound insulting. I'd give anything to be normal... just.. just to see what it's LIKE!

* "Most users ever online was 339 on Tue Feb 03, 2004 5:20 pm"
Um, what the fuck happened?

* Having perused the "total losers online" thingy for a couple of days, there always seems to be 1 or 2 members and 10 guests. Are people afraid? Is this site more of a reading/lurking thing? Or have the mods slickly fashioned 7 omnipresent, fake account, cardboard cut-out cyber-beings to perennially stand silent sentinel?



Thank you for reading all the way to the end of this pointlessness. And no, you cannot have those 30 seconds of your life back.

[Steve Bildermann]

* "Most users ever online was 339 on Tue Feb 03, 2004 5:20 pm Um, what the fuck happened?

Feb 1 US time Superbowl with Janet Jackson
Feb 2-3 Japan time Video released

....Extrapolate

[Taro Toporific]

* Don't see any flame wars here....

* Having perused the "total losers online" thingy for a couple of days, there always seems to be 1 or 2 members and 10 guests. Are people afraid? Is this site more of a reading/lurking thing? Or have the mods slickly fashioned 7 omnipresent, fake account, cardboard cut-out cyber-beings to perennially stand silent sentinel? .

YES! I AM AN omnipresent, cyber-being perennially standing silent sentinel! There's no major flame wars here because we all now know (or plan to know) each other in the Real World. I have no idea but the "reading/lurking thing" is just a Japanesque habit by wannabe FGs. The FG Forum is like a neighborhood bar where you would not be that in-your-face and expect to survive.

Taro-- ONLINE. ALL. THE. TIME.

[tidbits]

Opinion about FG site from a 2 years member: Post (or like me,at least read) FG site everyday (make it your homepage if you don't have your own) (and once a while don't forget to donate if you can afford). By doing this, you can release cultural shock stress, study stress, work stress, jobless stress, financial stress, trafic jam stress, crowded train stress, relaltionship stress, 'no stress' stress, pre-natal and post-natal stress.. in Japan.. or wherever...and you will be (or appeared) reasonable and normal.

[Dhee]

A couple of minor queries before I flit gaily off down the cheery-tree lined path of abject inanity...

Glad you asked! I've been lurking here for the past few days, and, ummm, took the ~r~i~s~k~ <shudder> to step out of the closet and join. The site is just too cooky not to, heh heh.

Hey folks, is there room here for -ahem- a female? I promise to be sufficiently subservient and shall never mind testosterone crazed outbursts. Be easy on me though, I'm quite aged. Umm - I don't live in Japan, does that keep me out of here?

Once I find a cooool Avatar (where the hell does one look?!?) and have an idea just how you clever folks get all these mind-boggling gizmos into your posts, I shal feel a lot better!

Sneaking back into closet to lurk for a little while longer...

[kamome]

Hey folks, is there room here for -ahem- a female?

Of course! GomiGirl is the resident standard bearer for the female posters on FG, so you'll see a lot of her posts floating around. A few other ladies post as well, but women are definitely a tiny minority here.

[Caustic Saint]

Hey folks, is there room here for -ahem- a female? I promise to be sufficiently subservient and shall never mind testosterone crazed outbursts.

Why be subservient? The few female posters here tend to be rather vocal. It seems to be the best way to be heard above the nonsense of all us boys.

[Dhee]

Why be subservient? The few female posters here tend to be rather vocal. It seems to be the best way to be heard above the nonsense of all us boys.

Well then - YEEEHAWWW, folks! Bartender, drinks for all!

Told ye, I have the typical Gaijin's ideas about Japan - tempered though by an ex-Judo-Sensei's education. When not on the mat, he's had me call him "Yoichi-Sama" for quite a while until some kind soul told me what it meant. Grrrrrffff!

Thanks for the welcome, to you too, kamome! Thank GOD I don't feel obliged to say something substantive here in the Ghetto. Yet.

<burp> good beer here!

[sillygirl]

Hey folks, is there room here for -ahem- a female? I promise to be sufficiently subservient and shall never mind testosterone crazed outbursts.

Why be subservient? The few female posters here tend to be rather vocal. It seems to be the best way to be heard above the nonsense of all us boys.

Jolly funny nonsense it is too! Nice to have another girly, but subservient? Nah!

[Thanatos' embalmed botfly]

[Taro Toporific]

Once I find a cooool Avatar (where the hell does one look?!?)

Try Google Image Search with an evocative keyword or two. For example, a GIS for "Dhee" yielded this kick-ass avatar on the first page. :P

[Thanatos' embalmed botfly]

Dhee, meet your new avatar. Yanni, Dhee, Dhee, Yanni.

[Dhee]

[tidbits]

I am always wondering too why women don't post here, it is such an interesting place. I don't post is because of my poor English.

[kotatsuneko]

aww come onh Tina, your english is a hell of a lot better than mine!

and you sure do have an interesting perspective on things.. you always seem to offer great advice and info too,..

lets see some more posts ^^

did you get to see some more countryside btw?

[tidbits]

aww come onh Tina, your english is a hell of a lot better than mine!

He he.. yeah I am sure my ENGRISH is better than yours..

Anyway thanks for the encouraging words, will always try my best. About countryside, no chance for me as I am not in Japan for quite some time, but Hokkaido is sure my target.

[Thanatos' embalmed botfly]

Welcome to the frozen tundra, 31 degrees celsius today but in 10 weeks it will change somewhat alarmingly....

[Dhee]

Laughing with Tina and Kota: English is'n my Native language either! You two seem to be pretty good though, and if we sometimes get the others in FG confused with our syntax, that much the better. Gives them occasion for philosophical discussions, hehehehe.

[Dhee]

Welcome to the frozen tundra, 31 degrees celsius today but in 10 weeks it will change somewhat alarmingly....

cools your noodle soup, Thanatos!

[Tonshu]

TEB,

You sure get around! Looking forward to more of your wacky posts.

TS

[Dhee]

Jolly funny nonsense it is too! Nice to have another girly, but subservient? Nah!

Heheheh -- I'm learning, sister -- I'm learning! Nice to meet you, btw.

[sillygirl]

Cheers dude