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aqu posted:whale is freaking delicious. This is exactly why I don't like whale: it combines the worst aspects of meat and fish. It's like fishy, gamey beef. Raw horse is delicious. Never had dog, but I'd try it.
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politicorific posted:Japan despite having large automakers doesn't appear to have declared war on public transportation like Korea. Public transportation outside of Tokyo sucks for the most part. I dunno, I liked the public transportation system in Korea, especially how cheap it was compared to Japan.
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| # ¿ Feb 3, 2012 03:51 |
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Jeoh posted:Is the rest really that bad? drat. I went on a non-USO tour because my boyfriend doesn't really speak English so we went on a Japanese language tour. It was great, I had no complaints. There was an English language tour run by the same company at the JSA at the same time, and their tour guide's English was kinda lovely, but my tour guide spoke great English as well as Japanese, so it might be hit or miss. It was JoongAng Tour or something like that. The USO tour was cheaper, though, so if it weren't for the language thing I would have done that.
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| # ¿ Mar 1, 2012 00:47 |
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THE LUMMOX posted:Unless you get a tour of the JSA Area including the blue conference room, it is a waste of your time and as far as I know the USO tour is the only one that does that. I went on a non-USO tour and we went to the JSA and the conference room. It's not just the USO that goes there. Totally with you on the rest of the tour being lame though.
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| # ¿ Mar 1, 2012 12:40 |
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Grand Fromage posted:I don't know about Japan. I've seen both in Japan, not really enough to generalize either way. I think people are much more likely to help out or intervene in cases of accident or injury than violence or fighting, but that seems pretty normal.
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| # ¿ Mar 29, 2012 02:23 |
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Gilgamesh_Novem posted:Seems like I am not the only Korean who gets asked Korean-Japan relations,Ask a Korean! wrote an entry as well. It's unfortunate that that book got so much press, because there is actually quite a bit of honest, well-researched material written in Japanese about the comfort women, but not many people have read it, while most people have heard of that book. Many Japanese women were coerced or forced into becoming comfort women by the same methods as the Korean women, and a lot of the testimony about what happened to Korean women comes from them. It also comes up a lot in writings and interviews of former soldiers. One of my coworkers (I work in Japan) who read that book said that one of the author's premises was that eyewitness testimony is unreliable, so he based his research on hard copies of things like propaganda materials and recruitment posters (recruiting women to work in factories or as nurses.) He had to do it this way to get the outcome he wanted because witness testimony does not support him at all. You have to be a special kind of dishonest, degenerate dickhead to completely ignore even the words of your own countrymen about what they saw and experienced in order to better peddle your nationalist bullshit. (Also, as a long-time lurker of this thread, I'm really enjoying your contributions!)
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| # ¿ May 10, 2012 04:08 |
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BrainDance posted:Can someone help me out with some topics for a free talk class? Things I would have enjoyed talking about at that age: -my favorite bands -how much my parents suck -how much my teachers suck That's about it, really, 15 year old girls are surly and boring. I feel like you could get a lot out of talking about bands or teachers they hate.
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| # ¿ May 16, 2012 13:59 |
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The Bible posted:That's got to be some kind of recruiter troll. I couldn't make up a worse contract. Haha, that was great. I followed her blog for a while after that, when she was threatening to sue all these other bloggers who wrote poo poo about her. Then she wrote some kind of self-insert erotic novel and threatened to sue people who gave it bad reviews. You can't make up that kind of crazy!
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| # ¿ May 17, 2012 08:47 |
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I'm not going to link it because she's so into legal threats, but you can find it by googling What Would Eve Do? Recently she's just been talking about her books, but there's a goldmine in there. Although I think she may have deleted some of the more meltdowny posts.
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| # ¿ May 17, 2012 10:15 |
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Cameron posted:Guess she got called fat one too many times. She probably is fat, though. Most likely, I mean everybody gets insensitive comments from time to time, but having your boss demand that you exercise at work probably doesn't happen often to people who are of average weight, as she claims to be. Taken all together it's a glorious parable of asshattery. She spends post after post complaining about how she's better than all other foreigners in Korea, while simultaneously fulfilling every negative stereotype Koreans have of foreign teachers. 
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| # ¿ May 17, 2012 12:29 |
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The best part about that video is the guy in the tie talking like this is some serious academic subject. I can't read what his title says, so I'm just going to assume it's something like "Professor of Vapid Cuntology."
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| # ¿ May 31, 2012 05:49 |
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I never knew my blood type until the first time I donated blood in college. I'm pretty sure that even if you know your blood type, they'll still check before giving you a transfusion because people might misremember or they might be too out of it to remember or something.
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| # ¿ Jun 1, 2012 07:24 |
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Grand Fromage posted:I have been meaning to wander around that place. But that's because I live in the neighboring city. I guess if that's effective in Japan I clearly don't understand Japanese tourists. Shocking revelation. Japanese tourists go to Seoul because it's cheaper to get to than many domestic destinations and because just about everything is cheaper in Korea. Sure there are plenty of places that are cheaper than Korea, but they're not as cheap or easy to get to. I live in southern Japan and it's cheaper for me to fly to Seoul than to Tokyo, because domestic fares are so ridiculously expensive. You can go to Seoul for a weekend, buy poo poo at department stores for half what it costs in Japan, eat some bulgogi and go home. It's not really tourism in the sense of going to another place to see and experience it, just an extended shopping trip. The same thing happens with Guam, apparently; I hear the Kmart there is one of the top destinations for Japanese tourists.
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| # ¿ Jun 5, 2012 02:08 |
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DontAskKant posted:On my flight over I was sitting next to a couple who had just been there for a weekend of shopping. I thought it was crazy then and even after having it explained I still find it unbelievable. It's hard to comprehend how stupidly expensive poo poo is in Japan. If you go to Korea and buy a lot of poo poo you can easily make up the cost of your plane ticket and hotel in the amount of money you'd save. Also much, much cheaper than most domestic travel if you just want to get away for a weekend.
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| # ¿ Jun 5, 2012 04:16 |
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frozenpeas posted:What kind of money do Japanese ESL teachers make? Is it actually possible to live a normal life and save in Japan? Sure, but probably not as easy as it is in Korea. My impression is that pay is about the same, maybe a little more in Japan but not enough to compensate for the cost of living differences. You can have a nice life but it's hard to save much on an average English teacher salary. The JET program is a special case. Of course Japanese people go to Korea to buy clothes and brand name poo poo, imported goods, etc, not the kind of stuff most ESL teachers would buy.
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| # ¿ Jun 5, 2012 06:20 |
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THE LUMMOX posted:http://www.koreabang.com/2012/stori...ad-husband.html Jesus gently caress, the comments on that post. "I (a college-educated young person who has been taught the concept that symbols represent sounds from birth) learned to read Hangul in 20 minutes; why can't this elderly woman with no formal education do the same?"
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| # ¿ Jun 19, 2012 23:40 |
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nullscan posted:And apparently one of the Korean or Chinese tour companies has a little tram that takes people down there, cutting most of the lovely hike out. Looking all smug as they sit there watching the fat military dependapodami lumbering up the 40 degree ramp back to the surface. Haha, I wondered about that. I went on a Japanese language tour with a Korean tour company (my bf doesn't speak much English so we didn't do the USO tour) and we rode this creepy monorail thing down to the tunnel. When we got there I saw the big staircase and wondered why people would walk down instead of riding that thing, because I agree, it definitely wasn't worth it. For me the best part of it was the rickety monorail ride; the tunnel itself sucked.
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| # ¿ Jun 28, 2012 06:17 |
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nullscan posted:
I watched that video they linked with the sound off and it was kinda funny. I guess the "sound off" part is key.
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| # ¿ Jul 10, 2012 00:46 |
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I don't get why Jinro is her secret stash. They sell it cheaply in the grocery store here in Japan and I always assumed it was like the Smirnoff of soju.
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| # ¿ Jul 13, 2012 13:53 |
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GZA Genius posted:My air canada (flying to SFO) flight back home seats only two on the wings. Should be a little more tolerable. Air Canada is the only airline I've ever flown with worse service than American carriers. Their flight attendants are some seriously angry people.
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| # ¿ Aug 8, 2012 12:47 |
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THE LUMMOX posted:Kill them with kindness is what I always say. Please, thank you and a huge smile go a long way because they just get poo poo on all day by grumpy travellers. I managed to get several Heinekens on my last flight after the announcement was made that they only had Molson left I should clarify that they've always been perfectly pleasant to me, but I've seen them go off on people when it was obvious that the person just couldn't understand them. I used to fly Osaka to Vancouver once a year or so and I saw flight attendants fly into a rage at people who clearly had no idea what they were saying. At least Delta and United on the same route usually have a handful of attendants who know enough rudimentary Japanese to take people's drink orders and tell them to sit down. Air Canada is also the only airline where I've ever seen a flight attendant seriously lose their poo poo and start screaming. Usually they just confine themselves to sarcasm.
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The Gay Bean posted:Someone help me gain some perspective here. Looks like parody to me, but the top rated comment is the following: "Japan only has a different history in Asia Jealousy, envy, self-esteem Poor nations It is the Japanese" Is this comment pro- or anti-Japan? Looks like it could go either way. Maybe it's a meta-parody of the comments that are usually posted on Kpop videos.
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| # ¿ Aug 9, 2012 04:17 |
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Grand Fromage posted:The lack of English is just confusing. Tokyo must get more tourists than all of Korea. Why don't you join the Japan goons Line chat? You can post a picture of whatever you're looking at and some goon will help you.
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| # ¿ Aug 21, 2012 09:43 |
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AmbientParadox posted:What about Turkish kebab guys? Do they blanket your bar districts with delicious shawarmas? Can we import these guys to Japan somehow? They only show up in my area at festivals a few times a year.
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| # ¿ Aug 22, 2012 01:35 |
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ReindeerF posted:Here's a question I can't ask without feeling stupid, but I've got to ask it because I can;t make up my mind and I lack the cultural understanding to figure it out. Is that Gangnam Style video supposed to be satirical? I know the Hongdae style one is a parody of it and I get that one to a degree (artsy neighborhood versus ritzy), but the original is still so ridiculous that it would have to be a parody. However, yesterday this guy and I were discussing it and I eventually decided that, "No, man, this is Asia and that's North Asia and you just can't predict whether something that looks completely absurd to a Westerner is actually 100% serious." My brain says parody, but my years in Asia of watching grown women walking around in business suits clutching Doraemon pillows in the office while wearing monster-toed slippers says otherwise. The Atlantic has got you covered. http://m.theatlantic.com/internatio...nsation/261462/
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| # ¿ Aug 24, 2012 05:28 |
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Themata posted:Thank you. Granted I don't know anything about employment in Korea, but why don't you just go anyway? They'll manage for one day, and I'm sure you'll regret missing your grandmother's funeral more than pissing off a job that you plan to quit anyway.
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| # ¿ Sep 3, 2012 10:18 |
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Cameron posted:Holy poo poo in so many African countries there's a 10% chance every year that you will die in a crash if you get into a car. What the gently caress are they going so fast for around there? I think in Africa part of the problem is not enough ambulances and emergency care, so people die when they might have survived if moved to a hospital fast enough. A friend of mine lived in Madagascar for a while, and said that accident victims were just left to die by the roadside sometimes, because there was nowhere to take them for treatment.
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I dunno, I went to Korea with my Japanese boyfriend and we ran into more people who could speak Japanese to him than could speak English to me. Or I'd be talking to someone in English and they'd hear me translate into Japanese for him and switch to that. If you're striking out really badly with English it might be worth a shot, especially if you're in touristy places.
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