Chat in English (英語で雑談) Part 85

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Previous thread:
Chat in English (英語で雑談) Part 84
http://academy6.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/english/1179848763/

>>2
I will be happy!

>>1
You are too late!
You should have created this thread beforehand! Stupid fucker!!

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>>993 of last thread
I'm sorry that we confused you! You are correct, a haggis is just a dish
made from the ingredients you mentioned. We were just messing around and
saying it was an animal because it's fun. We usually do that to trick
Americans, who are very easy to convince.
Haha, I actually feel a little bit bad for doing that.

Is McDonald's a popular place amoung native Japanese people? I noticed they have them around Akiba but it's probably to attract all the tourists.

of course it is
how did you come up with that stupid idea of mcdonalds being just a tourist attraction?
there are thousands of mcdonalds in japan; just for tourists, you say?
i hate stupid people

if it was just for tourists, they wouldn't have awesome specials OR ebi-chan. Mmmmmm. seasonal special.

Well, I'm leaving for Japan Tommarow~~~!!
Good bye everyone! I expect that by the time I'm back, this thread will be almost completely full. xD
Ciao. <3
n___n~~~<3

You are lucky.
The weather has been pretty nice in Tokyo and Yen isn't that strong at the moment.
Have fun.

Hello everyone, I live in America.
I am from a Mexican family but was born here in the US.
it would be great to talk to you guys.

I live in Japan.

>>11
Hola, what do you want to talk about?
Where do you live in the US?
Do you go to school?

>>11
Puedes hablar Espanol?

>>11
I love Tacos and Doritos!
Please send my best regards and thanx to your family and ancestors for
inventing such delicious foods!

>>9
Have a GREAT time in Tokyo!!
I guarantee you that you'll enjoy your stay regardless of the weather!!

>>13
I am willing to talk about anything really.
I live in Colorado and I just ended a year of high school recently.

>>14
sí, yo puedo hablar Español. Pero no puedo escribir muy bien.

>>15
hehe, doritos aren't Mexican as far as I know, but I too love tacos.

>>17
We have 'Taco on rice' in Japan (most commonly eaten in the southern most island, Okinawa).
Do you have that in the US?
If you haven't try it, you should, 'cause it's really good.
All you have to do is put the Taco-seasoned meat on rice and
sprinkle diced tomatos and shreddered letus and cheese.
btw, does Tacos mean anything in Spanish?

>>18
I think people call that a 'Taco salad' here in the US.
There are many types of tacos, I generally have grilled beef
or beef tongue tacos.
I think there are other uses for the work "taco" but I generally only
use it to reffer to the food, and it doesn't have any special meaning
like other foods (flautas, huaraches, ropa vieja, etc.).

Stupid question:
Do you call the White House where President Bush resides, Casa Blanca?

>>18
Beef tongue tacos?!?! Do you eat beef tongue in the US? I'm surprised. I used to live there but
never saw one. Sounds tasty.

>>20
I am not at all fond of politics so I don't talk about the government
in any way very much, especially not in Spanish.
But I think I have called it that a couple of times when talking to
my father.

>>21
Most people here in the US find it disgusting, but I think that
they are very good. I know my old Japanese teacher (who's native
Japanese) also likes beef tongue, I think he mentioned it's a
popular dish in Korean barbecue. Once I gave some to a friend and
he didn't bother to ask me what it was until the day after, when
I told him he instantly felt sick.

Are there many places in Japan to eat Mexican food? I'm just
wondering since I didn't happen to see any when I went to Japan
last year.

i can see this is the most popular "english-only" board
because it says "part 85".

Which is the one second popular? Can anyone tell?

>>22
Yes, your teacher is right. It is very popular in Japan. It's called 'gyutan' in here.
I definitely want to try tacos with beef tongue... yummy..... Is it ground or grilled?

There are tons of Mexican restraunts in Tokyo. I guess your finding none in Japan
is like me not seeing any beef tongue in the US. We just know how or where to get
them because we do. maybe. We don't have Taco Bells' in Japan (though not
sure if you consider their food as mexican) except in the US army bases. I sometimes
ask my friend, who is a veteran and living in Tokyo, to get some tacos from there.
Sometimes I even ask him to escort me in. I like the taste of all the peppers. Cayenne,
jalapeno, chili....

So, what part of Japan did you visit?

>>23
Do you mean "English-only" board on 2ch.net, or in ENGLISH category?

Billy from Billy's Boot Camp (Tae Bo) and his girls have just arrived in Japan!!!
He sold 200,000 DVDs in one month last month and all of a sudden started to get a lot of attention.
I wonder if he and his exercise are also popular in UK and Australia?

btw, did you know that he is the 5th child of the 14 children in his
family? Sounds more African than American.

I mean "English-only" board on 2ch.net.

why having many siblings sounds African?
Is it a racist comment, making fun of Africa?

Did you know the word "boycott" came from the name of an Irish land
manager, Captain Charles Boycott who was ousted by tenant farmers?
I didn't.

I think this is the most popular English only thread on 2ch, which isn't saying much, though.
Anyway, our idol, Yukorin is in trouble.
It seems Hamaguche is in pursurt of Miki Fujimoto of Morning Musume.
I thought they were in love with each otther, but clearly that's not the case.
Check this out.
ttp://imepita.jp/img/trial/20070620/439350.jpg
(FYI, Miki Fujimoto is right now regarded as the whorest woman in Japan.)

>>30
Do you mean Hamaguchi, Shoji and Fujimoto are trapped in a triangle
relationship?
I just can't image how she could be that popular.
She seems really non-entity and has no character, because how many times
I see her face, I cannot recognize her.

>>26
It's been a long time since I last heard about him! His routines were popular
for maybe just a summer in the early 1990's though, and it never really caught
on. This is in the UK, by the way.

>>30, >>31
I thought she only liked girls up until recently.

hmm cant post

oh cool

i'm swedish.

mandane
it's so mandane
i just want to get away

Billy's going to show up on next week's Sanma's TV show.
Komoto said his exercise is tough and it really worked.. lol

Billy's DVD is... i don't know how to say in English, but,
u know, it's funny.

In the UK or US, is his exercise DVD supposed to be funny?

Can i ask a stupid question?

I just wonder how did non-Japanese people in this thread found 2ch?

it's just weird for me to see foreigners writings into 2ch.
This website is full of offensive and mean words...

ys ys that's exactly what i was wondering i want to hear it too.
you mouth to god's ear or something like that. thank you.

What is the meaning of living?


Please let me hear the impression.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdguWMF1abU

Hello, how are you guys doing?
I have a question.
This is a lyrics of a comic song.

Oh, the Irish shouldn't be allowed to breed
We already have more drunkards than we need
They're all just lazy slobs
Who wanna take away our jobs
And when they cut their fingers whiskey's all they bleed, whiskety-woo

What I want to know is the last part "whiskety-woo".
It is supposed to be funny. How so? I don't understand it.
Is it because it sounds funny?

year, i thin it's for only funny.

hi thread, i'm posting from Florida in the south-east of the US
>>38
i found 2ch through english versions of this site, such as 4-ch and 4chan. shameful, i know...

>>41
you're right, "whiskety-woo" is just a nonsense-word used to rhyme
with earlier parts of the song

>>5
I didn't know what haggis is at all so I googled and found out that it's
the name of a dish. So I at the beginning understood you were
joking. But then you guys really sounded like you were talking about a
creature not a dish, so I googled again. This time I found a website about
haggis which is not the name of the dish but a creature.
ttp://haggishunt.scotsman.com/

So I began not to be sure if you were joking or not. ^^;
Is the point of the joke that haggis can mean both the creature and the name
of the dish and American (or other people outside of UK or Scotland)
get the wrong idea that Scotish eat haggis=creature eat it?

Acoording to the website I linked above, they seem to hunt haggis.
If that's not for eating, what's that for? To use its fur or something?

>>45
it's a joke.

a Scot, if asked by a tourist, might say that a Haggis is a wild furry
animal with limbs longer on one side than the other. the "haggis hunt" is
just an organized practical joke on tourists, similar to a "snipe hunt"
or a "wild goose chase"

>>38
I've known about this board for a few years, but never really posted anything
until quite recently. If I remember correctly, there were restrictions on outsiders
being able to post, back then. But we could still read things.

>>37
It's one of those things that is "so bad, it's funny", I guess. But there's only
really so much of it you can take before it becomes repetitive. I don't think it's
supposed to be funny.

As for Sanma, I know he's supposed to be really popular, but I just find him really
arrogant and annoying. Just how popular is he?

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>>24
I do no consider Taco Bell Mexican food.
Taco bell is American food, but I still like to eat there.
However, if I want real Mexican food all I have to do is go home and
my mother makes very good food.
I visited Tokyo and the surrounding area (Chiba) and then went to
Himeji for one day and stayed in Kyoto for two days.
The whole trip was about a week.
I will be going back soon and I will stay two days in Tokyo and ten in a
city in Nagano.

>>45
Poster >>46 explained it well. The Australian in the last thread also mentioned
'dropbears' as well, which is an Australian equivalent of that tourist joke, as
they describe a dropbear as some sort of especially fierce koala which attacks
people from trees (or so I understand).

We were just playing along with each others' stories, which made us sound more
serious than we actually were.

And just a bit of useless information about part of >>46's explanation:
A snipe is a type of bird which is extremely evasive and difficult to shoot, which
is why someone very skilled or accurate at shooting is known as a sniper.

>>38
I found out about this site when I did a Google search on something in Japanese
and this site was one of the results. I don't remember what I was searching for.

>>50
Wow! very interesting to discover the use of "evasive" in this context.
it's almost impossible to come up with the word from japanese text.
thanks! looks like only a single adjective goes a long way!
can i say "she is so evasive that i cannot catch her, no matter what?"
can i say "hey baby, i wish i could be a sniper" in this context?

gonna swipe your ass

Be my guest, lol

>>52
You could say that. I mean, no one's gonna stop you... However, most people would just get confused if you said that.

Taco Bell is straight up Tex Mex.

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Is Taco Bell very popular resturant in U.S. or Canada?
Equivalent to Royal Host in Japan?
I was just wondering .. ^^

>58
So?

Sup 2ch? Just another American here.

>>59
Taco Bell is pretty popular here, even if it is fake mexican food.

>>38
I found this place through 4-ch. It's not that bad compared to some of the english sites I frequent.

>>42
>>44
thank you.
great help.

Hello all you sexy people! I have a stupid but extremley important question. Do you prefer squat toilets or western style flush toilets?

>>62
I have used both before (I'm American) and I still prefer western style
toilets over traditional Japanese toilets

of course everybody who experienced both prefers western style.
crouching on the toilet requires a lot of flexbility on your part
but the israeli army prefers the crouching style ones because terrorists can hide bombs under the seat, so i heard

>>60 Really? then that must be a popular resturant then!^^

>>58 I just want to add some more. 英語が上手いかかどうかかは
たいしたことではないわけ。。。何を言ってるかが問題なわけ。。
どんなへたくそでも、ここに何かを英語で書くことが
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>>62 I love western style toilet althought the Japanese style make
train your muscle. I esp love washlet. Do you know? The washlet is one of the
best invention in Japan? (^^)

*make train×
train ○

love to squat on the western toilet.
sexy huh?

I want to suck a dick.

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>>67
That was what I never imagined doing.
You are genious. I'll give you the most creative person award 2007
for the way of pooing division.

>>67
btw, are you talking about "reverse cowgirl?"

>>65
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よくそんなに反応できるね。感心するよ。あんたはエライ！

>>47
I'm not >>37 but I am totally agree with you. I've never thought
Sanma is funny and I don't understand why he's made appearance on
lots of TV program for such a long time. To me, he's just noisy and
not funny at all. What I don't like about him is, besides looking
arrogant and being annoying and all that, is that he cuts in so often
when another person is talking. I change channels when I saw him on TV.

Above is my personal opinion. But against my opinion, he sure makes
appearnce on many variety shows where he plays a role of MC (I don't
know if MC is the right word.) That means he is a commedian who can
achieve good rating so he seems to have a fan base, maybe manily in
their late thirties and older.

He sure looks arrogant but maybe that's just on TV. Many young commedians
seem to respect him. I can understand that because he's been a front
runner in Japanese show business, which I don't want to admit though
because I don't like him. He belongs to a big agency (I don't know if
agency is the right word.) called Yoshimoto kogyo which is famous for
its management of commedians. Maybe he is a nice man off camera,
treating young commedians dinner frequently, which is often the case
in show business.

>>68 try yoga

>>46 >>50
Thanks for your detailed explanation.
That reminds me of samurai around Narita airport who attack foreign tourists,
which is the story I made.

I wonder if keira is OK.

>>75
I hope you are not a stalker.

>>65
The washlet started life in France, known as a 'bidet', around 300 years ago
now. However, it was Japan who first had the paperless toilet, with a built
in bidet and dryer, I believe, in 1980. The bidet in Western countries (though
not everywhere has one) is usually a separate unit, and people who see them for
the first time often have difficulty knowing what it is or how to use it. At
first glance it might seem like a lowerful sink, or even a drinking fountain.
However, I'm not really a toilet expert, so feel free to look it up.

>>73
Agency is the right word, yes. The entertainment business in Japan seems to very
agency-oriented, which is something quite different to over here.
As for MC, this is also a difference in modern culture, I guess. In the west, an
MC is just generally someone who gets things moving at a public or stage event,
saying a few words to the audience and announcing whoever the main performers are.
However it seems that over there, an MC can be someone who presents a show, which
we would just call a television presenter.

I agree that he looks arrogant when he's on TV, but also on radio appearances he
seems arrogant by, as you say, butting in all the time and also sometimes constantly
talking about all these women who (so he says) are interested in him, and then making
egocentric jokes.
Perhaps he treats young comedians to dinner just to try and gain influence and popularity
with them...

>>62
Must admit that I also prefer western style toilets over squat ones.

>>73
I agree. I hate Sanma for the same reasons as you mentioned.
I don't believe he is popular among Japanese in realistic sense.
Those popular votes by CM companies where he is always ranked top 1-3,
are fake or extensively manipulated.

Sanma owed huge debt from his divorce.
That's why his agency booked him like nuts and he's been all over the place.
He is definitely past prime but is not going to retire anytime soon
since he is still paying for his kid's college tution. Bad news.

The fact is you see him on TV almost everyday. The reason is that
his programs have pretty good ratings. If people don't watch his
shows, their sponcers complain and shows will be made to finish but that doesn't
happen. On the contrary, some of his shows has been around so many
years and even his new program is aired. That makes me lead to a
conclusion that he is popular.

Personally, I don't like him and don't watch his TV.

of course he is quite popular in Japan.
He is one of the most popular comedians in Japan, period.
i mean .. are you kidding? what college tuition?? do you have any idea how much he makes??
he payed back the debt he incured in the aftermath of the bursting of the bubble economy, ages ago.

oh I thought his kid still goes to Keio univ. and he haven't paid yet
all the child support expenses that he signed.

I like Sanma. I think it is hard to understand Kanasi way of
humour for all the ppl esp those who live in northern or Kanto are.

It looks arrogant but it is a way of showing his adoration and sympathy
in a shy way. He calls ppl "omae" (you in a rough way)even to ones he just met.
It may seems like a behaviro of no respect for some ppl
but IMO, to judge the truth from the behavior whether he is truly a good guy or
a bad is not so simple. But it is just a matter of "NARE"(become familiar with).
Even someone with very rough behavior, if you would know him well and you know
that is his style coz he is shy, you no longer pay attention to the rough side
but we can just see the core thing that he has. (whether he truly has
love and makes ppl feel good or just being selfish).

But I know, we all have like and dislike. I think he is ok. I am not
a big fan of his though. I just wanted to say "Ikken kanji ga warukutemo
kokorono yoihito wa iru...kotoni tsuite hanashimashita."^^;

It's not the matter of Kansai. I love Downtown, which is a pair of
comedians from Kansai and belongs to Yoshimoto kogyo, too.
One of Downtown, Hama-chan(Hamada) often hits someone on the head but I don't
I don't feel bad because it's real funny and someone who is hit on his head
even feel pround of being hit by him cause he understand his style.

Matsumoto, the partner of hama-chan often say something rude to someone
but that's real funny, too. When it is too rude, Hama-chan hit Matsumoto
on his head. That leads audiences to laughing. That's their style as
a comedian and I love it.

As for Sanma, no matter what he does and try to make people laugh,
that's just noises to me and no funny at all, really annoying.

uh, I don't really care if he is a good guy or not.
Bad mouth is a pretty much universal way for joking, but he has no style.
He just sounds like an ordinary guy making fun of people.
>>84 is right about other comedians from Yoshimoto.
Simply enough, he is not funny.

I don't like to see anyone being hit on his head or any other part of his body.
I don't find it funny at all. I wonder why one can be so numbed to actually hit
some one else and make him or her look like a dumb, and still acts like he's
done something amiable and preferable. It's disgusting. And it's a shame.

seems like big debate on Sanma is going on...

I personaly find him funny and he does have his own style.
lots and lots of TV producers want to use him in their shows but he
actually chooses the ones he really wants to be on, and rejects
most of the offers. As he limits the number of shows, guarantee
(i wonder if this word is used in english too... means payment)
goes up higher and higher.
He is paid more than any other comedians (including downtown)
in Japan.

I think he's much better than other young comedians who just yell and scream,
to get attention out of other comedians..

But, yeah, i admit there are many people who don't like the way he jokes.

>>43>>47>>51>>60
Thanx 4 the answers! Very interesting!
4ch気になるw

Not to mention, we need a great sensitivity to make fun of others
without hurting them, including the TV audience in this case.
To me, Sanma does not seem to have enough sensitivity or intelligence
to justify his rude behavier. He just laughing his own nasty remarks
that are not funny at all.

Talking about sensitivity, Shinsuke (Shimada) is remarkable. Shinsuke
also make fun of guest speakers; however, he is so sensitive to everybody
and impressively sophisticated that we can really enjoy his shows.

Unlike Sanma, Shinsuke does listen to what people are saying and
capable of shooting funny jokes and remarks about them like a machine gun
without hurting anybody. Oh, I can tell he is extremely well-trained (by himself)
and has a great talent.

Sanma? He is just a stinky, rotten fish to say the least.

>>88
I thought you were joking but you seem to be serious.
Shinsuke is as rude as Sanma in my opinion.

Hey, another American here with a lot of free time.
>>38 I found this site as it was referenced in Densha Otoko
and figured I would check the site out. I

>>88
On top of that, his sense of humor is pretty dull. There is nothing creative involved
in his jokes. Basically he makes mediocre jokes that anybody can relate to, which
is probably why he gets his popularity from the masses because he is kind of 'safe'
to the viewers and even to the producers who feature him. Take takeshi or matsumoto
for example. They make even worse and nastier remarks. So ｔhese guys are even dangerous
because you never know what theyre going to say or do next moment. They take risks
to make themselves look and sound crazy enough to stay on the edge and that's what makes
them hilarious and totally different from others. Sanma definitely lacks that type of twist
that people don't expect to see. He doesn't go beyond. He just goes by with his same old style.
He stands as a guy within common sense. I get the same crap from Tamori too.

>>90
hello
What is your religion?

>>92 I'm Roman Catholic but I haven't practicing religion recently.

>>90

Another person who's heard of that story huh? Eh, I think the entire thing was exaggerated or something, but it made spawned some decent entertainment.

Hey seems like lots of people overseas got to know 2ch after watching the drama,
"train man" right?
But I guess you've never read orignal posts posted in 2ch's threads by train man and
people involved, right? I was surprised to see that translated version of their
original posts here in 2ch back then is published as a paperback
and sold in a bookstore. Maybe drama version is exaggerated as 94 says
(I haven't watched the drama.) but I think you are able to see how
things were going back then between trainman and other posters by
reading the paperback. If you are interested, maybe you can buy it
on amazon or other online bookstores.

>>95
there's also an internet archive of the posts.
I've read through some of the posts, but not all of them.
there's both an original Japanese archive and a translated archive.

If you want to skim through the book in Japan, I think you can do it
in a big bookstore such as Kinokuniya where they have books overseas in
their shelves.

>>96
Oh yeah? Thank you for your comment. I've skimmed through the original(=Japanese version) but
never knew there is translated version. Shame on me. Then people
overseas in this thread have read the English version.

Another American here. I heard about 2ch from an article on Wired about a guy who wanted to commit suicide but did not have the courage to do it alone.

Yeah, there's a translated version of the posts, but it took alot of liberties with the translation to say the least. I knew about 2ch for a while, but Trainman showed me some stuff I didn't know much about, like AA.

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>>100
Yeah, 2ch sure contributes to development of AA culture.
AAs first made in 2ch spreads to other BBSs online.

Gotta go to bed.

>>101
Hey, if you paste AA, choose good one and don't paste tasteless one! lol

Roger Clemens is pitching right now!!!
FUck!! GO MATSUI!!!

MATSUI　just hit a two run bomb!! YATTA-!!

What is "Trainman?" Its really frustrating that I have no idea what
these guys were talking about. What Is Trainman?

kthxbai

Shinsuke is by far the worst TV presenter (former comedian) I've ever
seen.
All he does is dominate the show by showing off his knowledge, which
is actually common sense that everyone knows.
I change the channel when ever I see him.

>>105
I don't know it exactly because I only joined 2channel from last year
...But...that was one of the most famous
episodes ever happaned on 2channel several years ago?...And this true
story was published and became a best-seller. And there are
also some dramas and a movie. I think I remember one of my Australian
Otaku friends told me how fun it was and (at that time I've already
read the book but have not seen the movie yet) so I went to see the
movie. It was a fun and romantic (in a way) movie. I thought. ^^

>>108
Hi, I am 105. Thanks for your info.
So, Trainman is a book and a movie based on a real story related to 2channel.
I am Japanese, but I have never heard of the book. Shame on me!
I will try and find the book and the movie. Sounds interesting. Thanks a lot!

You are Japanese but never heard of Densha-otoko?
Have you been hibernating or something?

http://www.rinji.tv/densha/

for the english translations of the original densha-otoko posts.

wow I just read that whole thing and I think I'm going to cry. Which is better, the TV series or the movie?

>>112
I haven't seen the movie, but I watched the whole drama.
From watching the drama and seeing previews for the movie I think
the drama should be tons better.

I want to be good at Englsh.
I tried to write a diary.But i was worry about my english.
Maybe, noo one of my friends teach me about correctivity of my english
now, i try to join here.
so, if i write incorrect engish, please teach me right one.

yoroshiku.

>>111
wow, i admire good translation, e.g. [めしどこかたのむ」 transelated to [dinnerwhere help].

>>114
I'll help.

>I tried to write a diary.But i was worry about my english.
You should combine these two sentences into a compound sentence by changing the period after "diary" into a comma, and decapitalizing "but".
You should also change "worry" to "worried".

>Maybe, noo one of my friends teach me about correctivity of my english
This should be "None of my friends will tell me how correct my English is."

>now, i try to join here.
You should change "I try" to "I'm trying".

>please teach me right one.
You should say "please teach me the right way to say it".

nitpicker

>>110
No, I was in prison for having killed a SOB like you.

haha...

Yesterday, ヒル国務次官補、Hill Assistant Secretary of State went to North Korea.
He showed a strong interest in visiting NK and their relationship
somehow seems a little suspicious. How do you guys think
about it? There are some secret things behind?

"How" do I think?

I think with my eyes closed.

I think, I think with a hard on.
So I must have a hard on now.

Is a nitpickers convention being held right now?

>>121
What do you think about it?
or
How do you feel about it?

yes, in your ass

>>122
You're gay.

u r a dyke then lol

I am a carpenter.

Then, I'll be a police man!

dyke=daiku=carpenter

>>128
funny, odds are pretty good that a female carpenter would be a dyke

anybody here use Skype?

I use it all the time.
I live in Skype.

Oh, you must be my neighbour then.
I live in Skype 2-chome.

lame

I know it by name. Is it fun?

It's delicious!

>>118
I was very disappointed by the fact that the US did not take any military action to
prevent DPRK from developing nuclear bombs. The US attacked Iraq for
suspicion of their WMD production. On the contrary, DPRK actually
declared their possession of nuclear bombs. Why didn't the US take
any action? I cannot tolerate US double standard in light of the
Japan-US security treaty,
I don't expect much from Hill's visit to North Korea after US made
some disastrous concessions by releasing DPRK assets that had been frozen
at Banco Delta Asia in Macao.
I am very disappointed about the six-party talks and US appeasement
to Pyongyang. What can we expect from Hill's visit? Making another concession?
Oh, come on!

>>107
Same here.
I feel like vomiting whenever I see him on TV.

>>108

Yeah I also think there's something behind Hill-North Korea
govenment relationship. It's so strange that US is being unbelievably
patient, compared to their attitudes toward other countries of what
they call 'axis of evil'.

Bush has been so obsessed with his 'presidensy' recently, hasn't he?

>>138
that's because the US is already horrible overextended
with what they're already doing. Bush could possibly get enough support
for a war with Iran, but he could never pull off a war with NK. Can't SK
handle it?

Besides, muslims are far more crazy than any communists ever were.

But communism is a party.

>>141
a group is a group.

Does anyone know why US doesn't attack North-korea?

>>143
NK isn't even in the news over here. Any politician suggesting that we
start another war in another corner of the globe while we're still in
the mess we started in the Middle East would be destroying his career.

If we carpet-bombed Africa, we'd reduce poverty in the world significantly.
It's not like the situation is going to improve anytime soon, so why not put
them out of their misery? hahaha, boom!

>>145
because somebody's always got to be at the bottom.

Bob?Are you Bob?

>>144
"his career?" You mean Bush? Who cares about his bloody career any more after
thousands of USF servicemen have been killed in Iraq?

The point is that IF the US is really serious about world peace, human rights,
democracy, war against terrorism and “world free from WMD”, the US should
take military action against North Korea.

OK, it is understandable that the US cannot afford to break into another war
against a tiny tyrant country in the FAR-east that has no natural resources
for "the interest of the US.” But, that cannot justify US appeasement to
North Korea if the US is really serious about “peace and security in this region” for
which Japan-US and ROK-US military alliance have been maintained.

Can I ask you one question? Why are your 100,000 US Air Force, US Army,
US Marines, and US Navy, including USN 7th Fleet, stationed and kept deployed
here in the FAR-east for what you call a "regional security?"

As long as DPRK missiles cannot reach US mainland, "we don't care about
DPRK nuclear bombs." Right?

obviously they are here to promote "billy's boot camp", which will eventually bring about
a regional security and world peace. no doubt about it.

>>149
I love you!!!

Circle! Circle!

Thanks >>136 138 139 144 148
Your opinions are great help for me to think over the issue.
So...it is kida furtile to rely on U.S.A since we would be no longer able to rely
on them or they are just not interested in the matters
far east...^^;

Seems that pretty much everyone here loves to see the US bomb NK, w/o thinking of its impact on
the stock market or the consequences like a possible flood of Korean refugees coming to Japan.
You should really excercise Billy's Boot Camp to reduce your stress level.

>>153
>>149 is funny, but you obviously lack the talent!

>>142

You didn't get the joke... nevermind.

don't never mind me!!
Explain please!!

I wonder how Keira is doing.

she became a pop singer.

Hello all you sexy people! Why is there such a separation between Japanese people and foreigners on the internet? I know there is the language barrier but once you've studied hard and worked around that, you still encounter some barriers.

Sites like mixi and even this website require you to be Japanese to be a part of them. and now I hear that nicovideo will be Japanese only in the near future. Is this because foreigners are considered to be disruptive?

who cares

LOL~~

just die.

>>159
I don't know much about nicovideo. (for people who have no clues about
nicovideo, it's a video sharing website like youtube but it has its
specific original features.)

But as for mixi, it's not restricted to Japanese. There are lots of
foreginers there. Some understand Japanese very well, some not quite
well.

>>159
Good question. You arrogant dude.
You can take part in a large number of discussion sites in Japan.
We welcome and appreciate foreigners opinions and viewpoints.
All you need to do is to send in your opinions in Japanese, not in
English.
What? You cannot write Japanese? That is your problem, not ours.

You'd better read your own comment: "I know there is the language barrier
but once you've studied hard and worked around that...."
良いこと言うじゃん。頑張って日本語勉強しろよ。話はそれからだ。

>>159
I partly agree with >>164 (though wouldn't go so far as to call you "arrogant").
I think part of the reason you feel that way is because Japanese language is
not amongst the latin languages. That is, almost all the Japanese forums are
filled with non-latin alphabets, and the list of unfamiliar characters, which
everybody else seems to understand except you, may make you feel detached.
Maybe you don't feel so separated once you learn how to read a couple of
Japanese characters. We are not trying to detach ourselves from the rest of
the world, but just conversing in our own native language and that's all.

Besides, if there were forums on your favorite topic both in English and in Spanish ,
which one would you choose to go?

>>159
So far, the only barrier I have found is language, but it is not such a difficul task
to overcome. Once you know even a little bit of the language, a lot of options open up
and it's easier to navigate around.
I haven't found many sites which require you to be Japanese to sign up; I'm a foreigner
but also have a mixi account. The only two problems I have run into were:

1. Once, long ago, I played Bomberman Online for a while. Then they restricted all players
to Japanese IP addresses. However, I blame the Brazilians, as they have a tendency to have
obnoxious and annoying players in any game they choose to play.

2. Some online shops. It seems some places are very strict on not being able to ship their
products or items internationally. One place in particular is Yahoo! Auctions, where it seems
the majority of users specifically select 'will not ship internationally'. However, many online
shops have become more open internationally and where they did not export before, now they do.

To a large degree, I also agree with >>164 (though not in such harsh words) and >>165. Just
because 99% of the users do not communicate in your most familiar language may make it seem
like there is a barrier. But once you're past that, the world is yours for the taking! Or
something like that, anyway.

>>166
If I'm not wrong, you have no problem reading Japanese to think that
you tried to buy something on Yahoo auction?

I haven't joined any auction website, including yahoo auction.(From what
I heard, you have to pay about 300 yen a month in a current system to
join Yahoo auction .)

If you have a problem on yahoo auction regarding international shipping,
then try ttp://www.bidders.co.jp/ This is said to be the No.2 auction
site in Japan. Plus, you don't have to pay monthly fees there. As I said,
I haven't joined auction, so I don't know if the participants of Bidders auction handle
international shipment or not, though.

And abuot mixi. I'm a member of a mixi, too. But I didn't have anyone who
invites me there. You know, unlike Myspace you need to have someone
who is already a member of mixi and sends you invitation e-mail
to be a member of Mixi.

Strictly, speaking this is against the Mixi's rule, but in 2ch,(not in English
board) there are lots of threads where anonymous invites anonymous
to Mixi. All you have to do is show your e-mail addy there, and
a member of Mixi sends you invitation e-mail to you.
That's how I joined Mixi.

* In a current rule, just showing your e-mai addy is not enough.
You need to show your cell phone's e-mail addy, too.

This change of Mixi's rule happened because lots of so called 2 channelers
joined mixi just to do bad things in Mixi.

Look at this clip ! The Nanking massacre was a lie !
According to lawmaker's investigations, the massacre by Japanese didn't take place.
Instead, Chinese i.e. the nationalist party had done it actually before the Japanese army
attacked Nanking..
ttp://www.j-cia.com/file/29/2820/2.wmv

I MUZT POOPUH...mggggowaaAAAAnNNNGG!!!

Hello again, everyone. I'm back once more; wasn't around for quite
a while due to having been quite busy recently. A lot of things going
on in my life, but I figured I'd drop in and check things out once
more. How's everybody doing? Where are all the regulars??

>>170
Awhuh?

...In any case, until next time...

>>171
Read from >>1 and you can get glimps of how things are going here,
these days at least in this thread.
Not so difficult for an English speaker, eh?

I hope you mangaed to find a good programming job. Oh you know of keira.
She is in Japan now. She and her mom scheduled to come to Japan for a trip.
It's rainiy season here but they are lucky. It is not expected to rain.
Maybe you might want to come to Japan.

sorry i don't remember you

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Hello guys I hav a question i wanna ask you
i like translating Enlish songs into Japanese, and now
im translating a song called "Hands Held High" from Linkin Park
and there is a few lines i don quite understand so id be happy if you could help.
The song is pretty much an Anti-War song
↓this is the part of the lyrics
Take back what's yours
Say something that you know
they might attack you for
cause I'm sick of being treated
like I have before.
Like it;s stupid standing for
what I'm standing for.
Like this war is really just
a different brand of war.
Like it doesn't cater to the rich
and an abandoned the poor.
Like they understand you
in the back of the jet,
When you can't put gas in your tank.

I have difficulty in understanding this line: "Like they understand you in the back of the jet,...put gas in your tank."
I understood it like 戦車のエンジンがかからない時にジェット機に乗ってる奴らに理解されるような
im really unclear about this and i don see the image of this. what is the situation like ?
do "they" referred here means enemies?
Where is "Back Of the Jet"? is it in the jet plane
and is it like"Enemies" understand "you" "in the back of the jet"
or "you" are "in the back of the jet"??

thx

>>175
"in the back of *their* jet"

does that help at all?

>>174
I don't knoow either...
But just a guess....
Means neither side misunderstands eachother? esp the rich
side do nothing and show a shallow smile as if they understand
the pooor? and
he doesn't want to fight for the garbages? ^^;

>>176
thx, it does a bit
so "they" are the enemy in their jet plane and
the enemy "understands" you when you are stuck in your tank without gas?
is this correct ish?
i don quite understand wht he means by "understands"though
does this mean like the enemy is sympathized about tank that cant move?
or the enemy finds out the tank is facing the problem so thery are ready to attack ??

This line comes to connection(link) with the Treatment which he is sick of right?
i mean these lines starting with "Like" are somethin like examples of the treatment he is sick of.
i don really see the link between the treatment and this particular line. about the tank and the jet...

can you help?

Nah...I don't think that does mean the ppl in aircraft (rich)
is ready to attack the tank (poor). The Aircraft is doing nothing
so the guy is irritated? or something and he doesn't wanna make
an action unless there would be some kind of flame or something...^^;

>>177
thx to you too!
i guess you got the point of the song.
the song sings about the gap between rich and poor too
I kinda got confuesed and mixed up! now, with your help ,
i know "they" refer to rich!!

>>179
ok i quite like your metaphor
the aircraft could be representing rich and the tank representing the poor!
this is very helpfull!! I think iv got it yeah. what you said in >>177 ie "as if they(rich) understand
the pooor"seems like the key here and the answer to one of my questions!
although im not 100% sure this interpretation is right, but i feel this is right or close to right lol
Now i hav the image of wht these lines are sayin.
thx very much! enjoy your sleep!!

>>178
Sorry I don't really undersatnd the lyric, to tell the truth
so the above I said are most likely wrong. You might also
misunderstand what I said by my poor English. Sorry
for the confusion. I go to bed now good night! ^^;

>>180
Oh it seems like we posted at the same time...
but it's funny that u kind of said part of my writings got the
point? while I had a second thought that I was wrong...haha
Anywayz good night! frind! ^^

>>167
Thanks very much for this information, I'll check out bidders.co.jp! I was very
unfamiliar with the monthly charge, but 300 yen sounds like a very little amount,
so I'm guessing it's just in place to deter bogus or prank auctions and bidders.

Normally I use such sites to search for things which are normally quite hard to
find, such as nice but fairly inexpensive hats or music.

>>168
I had no idea about the new cellphone email address policy. Are these commonplace
over there? In the UK, being able to send email or browse the Internet via a
cellphone still hasn't really caught on, and data charges are still very high.
Only one provider offers 'unlimited data access' at around (equivalent of) 10,000
yen per month.

>>182
your idea gave me n inspiration!
thx again

Oh, Ether was here........and he's gone again as usual, lol~~

>>172
Yeah, I suppose I can get the general gist of things. Also, yes,
I would take a trip if I could... unfortunately I don't have the
time or money to do that right now. I plan to within the next two
years, however...


>>185
I'm still here. :)
I'm just checking back in a count of hours, rather than minutes. :P

Talkin' about Ether, I wonder how Magibon is doing.
Last I heard was that she was making a contact with an agency in Japan
to seek for a debut in Japan, but have never heard anything since then.
I really hope the agency is a decent one, because I truly belive if
Leah Dizon could make it, Magi can easily make it here!

>>186
Do you have an animal called "Haggis" in the US?
(NB: not a dish but an animal)
As far as I know, they only exist in English speaking countries,
such as UK, Australia, etc. so obviously not in Japan.
Have you seen one over there?

>>188
I think i remember my irish teacher was sayin that too.
it was long time ago so i don remember what it was and its details and stuff.
he was using "Haggis" like a joke though, and class was laughin each time he mentioned it.

>>186
yeah, Ether is like the wind.......

>>189
What does 篠田様神 mean?

yeah, I am also curious. What is 篠田様神?＾＾；

I have a consult here. It seems like many people visit this thread,
So tell me your opinion.

I am a student for one senmon gakkou. My classmates are about 20. At first I was
close to everyone there even though they are not my type of
people. From the beginning, there was a conflictions in terms of idea,
atmospher. So actually, there is no close friend actually. There is one girl I like very much. But she started to
get close to one guy and talk to her everyday. I didn't doubt them
because I felt they are just friends. But after that, she started
to ignore me, so I felt something wrong there. I think they
treat me as a zombi or monster (I am not ugly but maybe a little bit
weird or I am a very original person, also I am a kikokushijo). I felt so left out
and one day I overreacted over a small thing I yelled at them.
Class started to lable myself crazy. Since then people see me as a
bam and nobody talks to me. I feel so uncomfortable but I don't really
care much. Because as I said I was kind of alone all the time. But I think the girl
I like stands at the center of this
circle. So whatever she does makes a trend. As long as she
treats me bad, all the other students would follow.
What is the good way to solve this? Even I said it is ok this way, I don't really
like to be treated this way forever. I just stay quiet and ignore though.

One annoying thing is
there are two guys who like her very much actually do nasty things. I've been
ignoring them. When I go to school, I just stay alone and do my stuff. Almost
no communication at all these days. I want to be treated good or normal by the girl
that I like. But it seems difficult.

>>193

Ouch. Sounds like a rather delicate (and anxiety-inducing) situation.
I'm not too familiar with how things are over there; does being a
kikokushijo have any specific impact as to the way others view
you?

In any case, all I can say is either let it blow over, or try to speak
with her privately and be direct about the situation. Then again, I
suppose you'd have to take her personality into account beforehand.
Is she a rather straight-forward person? Is she making rude remarks
or ignoring you in a purposeful manner? All I can do right now is
propose figurative and stereotypical responses, and my advice may
not be reliable due to the cultural barrier...

Hope some of this was of help, though. Feel free to respond
and I'll reciprocate! Good luck with that!

>>Ether.

Well, Kikokushijo is concerned as one of gaijin (foreigners) here
through my experience. I am more individualistic whereas they are more
group people. One thing I find is they often tell me this way,
"kuuki wo yome" - read the atmospher. But I want to be myself always.
Maybe they think I am "selfish" because I do and think things by my own.

I think she is a fun-loving girl. She is pretty and attractive.
Yes, she is straight-forward. So probably once she understands
me, she would no longer ignore me. But I have no courage to talk to her
direct. Myabe I just let it blow. If I had a chance, I'd try not
to hurt her feeling and talk.

Thanks. I didn't give you detailed information beforehand. That's why
you can't be precise in response, but it helps me.

Thanks for saying you'll reciprocate!

>>195
I see, I see. Well, while it may seem easier to just let it blow
over, you should seriously consider talking to her about it. Maybe
she'll appreciate your honesty and forthcoming manner about the
subject?

I'm not saying to make some sudden confession or anything, but
maybe ask her in some way why it seems she and the others in your
class are alienating you? Surely, if she is is not mean spirited,
she'll take what you say seriously and make some effort or another
to mend the situation (whether by speaking to you about it to make
things clear, or by some more or less direct means).

In short, all I can say is, that if I were you, I'd analyze the
situation once more and consider approaching her about it. But, I'm
not you, so that may or may not be an option for you. I suppose you'll
just have to follow your own instincts and do the best you can.

Good luck!

>>Ether
Well...yes. If I would talk and ask a question to her as you advised, I think
she'd be honest with me. But I kind of knowing in advance
how she sees me. It is hard to understand the real personality by
just talking few words. I think it would take awhile until things is cleared.
But now is the situation that they labeled me so it is
hard to rip down that label from me. She is a key person. I am not a type of the
person to convince someone. I am not good at it. So....
I will let it blow for awhile, and if I'd find a chance, I will talk to her.
Thanks Ether. You are very kind.

>>197
It's not worth even considering how to deal with those people.
Senmon-gakkou is not a place to make friends in the first place, is it?
So as you mentioned, do whatever is necessary to improve your skills,
in that way, you'll have great opportunities to get a job
you want to be engaged in.
If you want to make friends, go find a part time job or participated in
a sport circle or something.
Point is, don't adhere too much to one specific world.
There are tons of people out there beyond the school you go to.
IMO

Pretty steep conversation going on here and really I don't have much
advice for you sense I personally am a really awkward person. But
I guess what I can say is that you yourself are acting quite
interestingly to this situation taking an initiative toward a girl that
you did not make much progress with in the first place. Now I'm not
saying you're acting to out of place in a out of place feeling
environment but by the sound of it you acted out quite rashly which put
you in your current situation.

Really what I can say as another generally weird person is to take a
step back and let things be for a moment then move in with a calmed
non-anxious mind. Be who you are, not what you are.

Best of luck!

Sorry if this was intrusive.

>>193
What makes you ask us in English? So that the girl wouldn't track you down?
I wonder.

Anyways, as I see you're stuck and struggling, I'll tell you something. You
say you're a original person. But you act like you really do care about what
people think of you. On one hand you say you really don't care what they
do, and on the other, you're like please don't ignore me. Maybe you've got
some atittudes and that's what they don't like. Being original has nothing to
do with being stuck up. I mean, don't you think you're contradicting yourself?

If you don't really care, act like it. If you like the girl, show it to her. Don't
wait till others come up and talk to you. That's what you should have done,
but I think it still works.

>>200 Has a point

>>183
Yeah, the main reason they began to charge 300 yen is to prevent online
frauds and things like that from happening. I am not sure if Bidders
will follow suit. Bidders is run by a trustworthy company so you don't
have to worry too much. I heard e-bay once was in Japanese market but
after they decided they can't win Yahoo auction, they retreated from
Japanese market.

I am a cap person rather than a hat person. The reason I wear it is
not for fashion statement but for more practical reason, which is to
make my head warm in winter and to protect my head from sun rays in
summer.

Sending e-mail and browsing website with a cell phone (you call it
rather mobile (phone) in UK, if I'm right.) is very common here in
Japan. There are websites designed to be browsed with a cell phone.
As you might know, Mixi, 2ch and popular blog service providers
design their services for a mobile phone use, too. I mean you can
access to them with your mobile phone.

(cont.)

There are three major mobile phone service carriers in Japan. NTT Docomo,
AU and Softbank are the big three. (By the way, Vodafone used to be in
service here but Softbank bought it.) They provide various charging
systems designed to match users's mobile phone uses habit. Using
e-mail and webrowsing with a mobile phone is about how many packets
you recieve or send if I am not wrong. Visiting websites and recieving
e-mails means receiving packets. They charge you besed on how many packets
you recieved or send.

In AU's case, if you pay 5500 yen or so a month, no matter how many
packets you recieve or send, it's just 5500. If you don't think you
receive or send 5500 yen-worth packets a month, then it's better to
apply for a charging system in which they hcarge purely based on how
many packets you recieve and send a month.
If you want to know more, feel free to ask. Anyway, when it comes
to moblie phone's access to the Internet, it's far less expencive in
Japan than UK.

>>198

Thanks! Your response is pretty reasonable, I find. I agree with you.

>>199

>acting quite
interestingly to this situation taking an initiative toward a girl that
you did not make much progress with in the first place.

What do you mean here?

well...youu are right. I acted quite rashly. That was my mistake. I tend to
be very narrow outlook on something important for me.... When I overreacted, it was a bit
crazy...but I can't explain. I guess I am very quiet person generally but
all of a sudden I exposured my emotion in public, so they started to labled me
that I am crazy.

Calmed and non-anxious mind is the best. I agree with you. Thanks!

Hi, I have been wondering if any of the Americans or Japanese out there
have a good idea of how the American cuisine here is different from
the food in it's country of origin.

>>204: First question --

I don't think I have a good idea of how much you conversed with this
girl.

--Part 2--

No worries, but really you need to take a different more ... "cool?"
approach to this. Don't take my meaning of cool the wrong way, but
rather you need to really just be yourself and keep your mind of being
liked.

>>206
change "mind of being" to "mind off being"

>>197
Hey, however you want to do it is fine - just be wary of
having any regrets in the future. Keep it together, and if
you wish to talk any more, feel free to email me.

>>200
Isn't it theoretically possible to be original but still maintain,
even on such a level, a wanting to be accepted and a care for
what those around you think of you? It doesn't really seem like
he's acting stuck up in this situation, in my honest opinion.
At the same time, though, you do have a point in those last few
statements. Waiting around won't help much - it may blow over in
time though if it's intentional.

>>200
I think your opinion is a little bit too strong. But that's ok.

Let me see...am I contradicting?
Do I want to be a likeable person by them?
Do I like them?
Am I being stuck up?

I don't like them now. So I don't care. I understand why they
don't like me but I don't want to make an effort to be liked.
The reason is I look down on them. haha

Probably you are right. I guess I am being stuck up.
Well but not everybody. There are many classmates I like.
You know if somebody show you a favorable attitude, you start
to like him/her and if not you won't. vice-versa. Things
are all like that. I don't know if I am the one who started first
or they are the ones. I care actually that's why I come here
to consult you. But not a death or alive situation. I can
live without them. Do you know what I mean? I just want the girl
change her attitude. That's my point.

Going AFK for a bit. Be back later.

It's like almost midnight here so I'm heading to bed. Night all

>>183
One more thing.
The reason why Mixi has began to require you to register your mobile
address is as follows. Let's say one person does bad things frequently
and everytime he does bad things his Mixi account is deleted. He doesn't
care at all because all he has to do is take a free e-mail address such
as Yahoo mail and hotmail again and go to a 2ch's thread and ask someone
to send him an invitation mail to the e-mail address he just got.

Mixi was fed up with this type of person so they decided to require
mobile phone e-mail address, too. Your mobile phone's e-mail address
is usually just one so if your account is deleted, there's no way of
signing up for Mixi again. This is Mixi's countermeasure againt this
type of annoying person.

>>200

>If you don't really care, act like it. If you like the girl, show it to her. Don't
wait till others come up and talk to you. That's what you should have done,
but I think it still works.

Yeah, thanks.

I am shy and not good at expressing my real self.
Moreover, I am under the situation of being misunderstood.
So it is hard for me to make her attitude change. She might
think I am a stalker or something. So as I said before,
I will continue to being myself and be nice to her if I'd have
a chance.

guys... if a quiet creep, who thinks he's "original" and shit, suddenly yelled and
went crazy over some smalll thing, of course that guy would get rejected!!!
what else do you expect???

What is AFK?
I only know JFK.......

i would start shooting them all down and announce my victory, if i really didn't care.

>>215
lol AFK is "away from keyboard".

>>213
I thought you were a guy at first but your are a girl?
Well, I'm Japanese and couldn't tell if you are male or female just
by reading your posts. Mybe my lack of proficiency.
I just thought making it clear if you are a boy or a girl would
give you pinpoint advice. It must be just me who can't tell if you
are male or female so just forget my post. ^^

Good luck to you.

>>218
I am a boy. Do I speak feminine? lol

>>214
well...there is a reason why I blew up in anger.
My little bro is a physically challenged.
(abnormal chromosome). When I saw them talking, they were not talking
about my brother but they were
making fun of those people. So I just said to them "isn't it too cruel remark for them?"
But still they were laughing so I kind of got angry. The rest I don't remember.
But I remember one guy even said "Don't make a fuss out of it".
That really hurt my feeling. make a fuss......

>>219
It is reasonable enough for you to blow up in anger. You should
have punched his face. haha sorry...

>>220
True. I should have punched him hard. haha
I guess he didn't wanna admit their bad mouth. haha

>>219
then why do you like the girl? she hangs with the retards who made fun of
physically challenged people right? i mean isn't she like the boss of those
retarded students...? or am i mistaken

>>222 Yeah, good point.
She is also a bitch.
I want to slap her face too.
Just kidding.....well I still believe in her that she truly has a golden heart.
I am still waiting for the day when her true heart turns out to be a greatest one.
I've observing her and find she is a good girl. Actually she used to hang out with
those retard students but not these days.

>>222
I feel the same way, plus, I don't know anymore if he is telling us
the truth or not, because in his first post he wrote;
"I felt so left out and one day I overreacted over a small thing I yelled at them....",
but now he is saying his brother is physically challenged and making fun of those
pelople is not a small thing.

>>224
well...if you believe me or not is your choice.
I said "small thing" because that time I didn't want to
confess what exactly happaned here. For me it is a big thing
of course. But the situation, that they were talking about
Alzheimer people, imitating their body movement, is probably
not a big thing.

>>224 isn't my post, but..
hmmm... Alzheimer is more like a state of brain deterioration, rather than a physical thing...
Do you really know what you are talking about?

>>226
I am sick and tired of replying to each of mindless idiots here...
So this will be my last post. I don't quite remember if they were
doing a imitation of arutsuhaimaaa or parkinson. I don't remember which one
was it. and I don't want to remember it. So that's about it.
I appreciate you won't talk about this matter anymore.

Now i kinda know why you got dissed.
Just keep blaming others.

>>208
> Isn't it theoretically possible to be original but still maintain,
> even on such a level, a wanting to be accepted and a care for
> what those around you think of you?

Yes, it is, and that's kinda what I wanted to say. Maybe I didn't put it right.
Forget about the third and fourth lines of my post. I thought, while >>193
was eager to be accepeted by the class, he pretended on the surface he
didn't give a shit about what people said about him.

> Being original has nothing to do with being stuck up.

This is what I really wanted to tell him. I just read from >>193 that he was
actually proud of being alone in his class, only if the situation were not
how it is now. Maybe thinks something like "I'm not one of them." Well,
he actually goes, "they are not my type of people" It is to say it's okay for
him to stay away from them because he's "original," but it's not okay when
it's their turn to ignore him because they're plain, ordinary crowd. Also, it
seems he believes that the ability to cope by himself qualifies him to be "an
original person," and I wanted to tell him that it did not.

>>209
An original person can be totally himself, and still be warmly accepted.
Do not think of your being original, or a kikokushijo, as the reason for your
alienation. There's something else. This is what I meant to say with >>200.
I really didn't mean to hurt you, though. I just wish both you and the girl
could understand themselves better.

Oh, one more thing. Find someone or somewhere you can spit out all your
emotions. It's not healthy to let them accumulate inside you. It could be
us, of course, but preferably something/one in the real world.

>>228
I can't believe how some of mindless guys like you (or only you?)can make a
shameful remarks to him... you have to apologize him.

>>202
Thanks for your lengthy explanation. Also you're correct, in the UK we more
commonly refer to it as a mobile phone, or just a mobile. Thought that might
have been the case with Vodafone also, as I have a friend whose cellphone
email ends in 'vodafone.ne.jp', yet her provider is Softbank.
I think data services are not used so much here for a few reasons. People are
not generally as busy or on the move as much, and so fewer people require it.
Also, though 'high speed' networks are established here, I think the next
generation connections are being put in place.
It would be very useful to be able to update a blog or website via a cellphone
connection though (I do web development) and would happily try and find a way to
implement it if only the service was more widespread and accessible.
Data transfer costs are around the equivalent of about 750 yen for every 1MB
transferred.

>>212
Guess I got there in time then, else it would not have been at all possible to
join. For the target audience, however, that seems a good and fair precaution.

>>223
Especially at school ages, girls are very sensitive to how other people see them,
and will take large measures to try and be popular. Of course, this doesn't apply
to everyone, but a majority. This makes it easy for them to get dragged into groups
and even if their ideology differs, they'll try to change in order to fit in, for
a feel of acceptance. If she doesn't hang around with them anymore, perhaps she is
maturing and accepting herself for who she is, rather than what other people want
her to be.

>>229
I don't know if he emphasized about being "original" that much?
He just said the crowd are not type of people he likes very much,
but I guess he was ok to study in the school.
I hope you won't take thing too twisted. He was just asking for
our opinions here. Gee...
I guess those who made negartive remarks are all the same person.

>>229


>Probably you are right. I guess I am being stuck up.
Well but not everybody. There are many classmates I like.
You know if somebody show you a favorable attitude, you start
to like him/her and if not you won't. vice-versa. Things
are all like that. I don't know if I am the one who started first
or they are the ones. I care actually that's why I come here
to consult you. But not a death or alive situation. I can
live without them. Do you know what I mean? I just want the girl
change her attitude. That's my point.

I think this is what she wants to say.
She cares only about her.
The rest is not that important and she likes most of the classmates
there except few negative people.

I hope you won't take things too twisted...

opps 相談者 was a boy,

>>191-192
hehe yeah... 篠田様神 means just
I idolize or even worship this guy called 篠田.
篠田 is not my name lol

im thinkin like everybody should hav names here
you know sometimes its hard to see who said what

>>235
who is 篠田？
just wondering.

Hamaguchi is having an affair with Morning Musume.
or he is still with Yukorin?

篠田 inst a guy i know personally..
he is worldwide popular though 篠田 is spelt like Shinoda
i don mean to tease but can you guess??

shouldn't it be 篠田神様 ?

>>232
>I guess those who made negartive remarks are all the same person.

Nope, that's not the case.

>>238
Oda Nobunaga?

mike shinoda?

>>240

Maybe there were one more. But most of the posts
those are offensive were by the same one.

>>239
well i think it should be 篠田様神.
篠田神様 would sound too formalistic to me
You know how a word 神 is used in 2ch
so to me Mr or Sir Sinoda is 神　if you know wht i mean

>>241
nope, i wonder how u got tht idea

>>242
Yeah!! youv got it right!! Mike Shinoda!!

>>243
Couldn't you really tell how incoherent the poster was?
I'm not the one who wrote offensive comments but I don't think
the poster deserves sympathy either.

神 we mean in 2ch would be Legend in english i guess??
at least in UK i think.....

>>245
I doubt you are the one who had been writing the offensive stuff.

>>246
Oh yeah, in that case, that words order is ok.

>>246
Mike Shinoda doesn't look very Japanese......

>>247
whatever.

I'm pretty sure it's Oda Nobunaga. I read a book once and it said it was.

>>251
How about his descendant Oda Nobunari, a famous figure skater?

>>244
ah... got it

no. i doubt it because oda nobunari could rhyme better.

rhyme with what?

>>249
well he has some japanese blood runnin in him though
its not that i like him cuz hes like half-japanese u know
he is verly multi-talented and stuff

>>251
ok im lost lol

>>256
you are American? what time is it there?

i think he's from UK

>>257
i was born in the US but im not im Japanese by blood
my parents are both Japanese
now i live in Europe and its 15:00.
Great sunny day and im off for soccer so ttyl

what about u guys where r u guys from and where u live!
ill be happy to read your replies when im back!!

I will be happy!

>>259
I live in Tokyo, I'm Japanese and my parents are both Japanese, lol
btw, have you ever experienced any racial discrimination because you are
japanese by bood? Or, how you look doesn't really matter as long as
you speak English like the locals?

>>259
have fun!

>>261
Yeah, I want to know about it too. There should be some descriimnation
if he is not a majorities...

>>262
Do you still love Yukorin even though she betrayed you because of her scandal with hamaguchi?

>>263
I'm not fan of hers.
She is happy with Hamaguchi, right?
They are still together? I wonder.
Many Yukorin's fans are faithful. hehe

>>264
I think they broke up long time ago.
Yukorin still loves Hamaguchi though. She's crying everyday.

multiple-personality waes no sin thou shalt be forgiven

No they didn't break up. Yukorin is pretty much in love with Hamaguche.
At least, that's lots of weekly magazines say on this matter.
They just pretend they broke up from the direction of their agencies, so that their
fans don't lose faith in her virginity.

>>267
lol so she's no longer a virgin. But I wonder
why Hamaguchi can go out with another girl.

>>267
Yeah, I've heard that they were walking Yukorin's dog
together. I even saw the pictures of them.

Yeah that's what I was refering to basically, him walking her dog.
But the thing that complicates the stuation is Miki Fujimoto's involvement here.
The same article says that Hamaguche also walks Miki's dog.
So, basically Hamaguche's big cock has been in both Yukorin't vigina and Miki's vigina.
Poor Yukorin... I bet she wants his big cock only in her pussy.

LOL!!
But there is a possibility that Hamaguchi would be a great breeder
that he is good to take care of their doggies!
He might not see them privately but only takes care of doggies!

>>261
First thing is i don liv in english speakin country now and i don speak the local language
so im not sure if my answer would help u. i lived in states from 0-7 so i don remember much there and u know kids dont discriminate on base of race

i never felt discrimination myself
some of my asian freinds says they faced some discrimination though
for example asians hav sharp eyes and some ppl made fun of them and stuff
but never with me. maybe im the lucky one

i come to remember that
there was actually one discrimination i suffered. In Europe there are group of ppl
called "skin heads" and they are racist agains coloured-skin and i was punched
once for nothing by them... but "skin heads" themselves are minorities and their
attitudes and acts are hated by majority of ppl.

And most of my frineds are from international school so thts may be the reason
i don face discrimination much so in general im confotable living in forign countries.
girls here are pretty too!

a few things i keep in mind is
just to be yourself and be proud of who you are and what u are
i don mean to be a snobish guy with full of prides but just be kinda majestic
In japanese:　マイノリティだからとおろおろせずに堂々とする事
and i always try to smile. smile is a key thing in breaking bonds and
being sociable me think.

so let me ask, ppl here are all japanese living in japan?
is there anybody livin somewhereelse?

>>273
I'm English, living in England.

As for what you said in >>272, though, I'll just elaborate on 'Skinheads' a
little, for other readers.

Skinheads first came about in the UK in the 1960's, but with greatly varying
political views; some very left-wing, some very right-wing. They are known
as skinheads simply because of their shaven heads.
However, left-wing groups of skinheads generally faded out, and more and more
became very fascist and nationalistic. Whenever you see 'nationalistic' here,
though, you can assume it means racist. These people are mainly working class,
and blame immigrants for social problems in their country and largely discriminate
based on skin colour and ethnicity. It is said that, because of these racist and
nationalist policies, that they are a type of 'neo-nazi'. 'White power' skinheads
even go so far as to use symbols of racism or extremism, such as the (Nazi) swastika,
SS symbol, Confederacy flag, and even the Ku Klux Klan symbols. Fortunately, they are
not so prevalent in the UK anymore, but larger sects do exist in mainland Europe and
the US.

The movie 'American History X' is well worth watching, and deals with themes such as
racism and prejudice.

>>274
Hi Nice to meet you!
If you are from UK then how did u find this board ?
Do you hav any connection with Japan or you even speak Japanese??

what you said about Skinheads is very interesting. lotta things i didn know
i bet most of japanese people don know about them at all.
i donn wanna interfere into wht other ppl think but they are bad lol

>>275
Nice to meet you too!
I found this board quite a few years ago, but at the time I think there were
restrictions on foreigners being able to post, so quickly lost interest and
went elsewhere. However, I came back a couple months ago and started posting
a bit, and have been here ever since.

As for connections, I speak and read some Japanese (not really anywhere near
an advanced level), have visited before, and knew some families in the Japanese
foreign service when I was younger, and living in other countries.

And you're right, I'd say. Skinheads used to be very varied, but mainly because
of their racism, have brought upon themselves a very negative view. They are
very narrow-minded, and don't think about the full impact of immigrants and
change, and the good it can bring to diversity of culture and also the economy.

>>272
It's good to know you have never suffered discrimination.^^
I see. Skinhead is such a group of people.
We can learn a lot of things from the posters from
overseas like you and igirisu jin. ^^

>>276
yeah i agree i hate restrictions on foreign hosts.
i cant visit some japanese website cuz of this.

so you do speak Japanese!
Now im very interested if you check out other thread in 2ch and post in japanese.
what thread u check out etc. of course if you don mind

actually do u know what kinda board 2ch is?
its seen as sort of underground sort of place with little scent of Otaku lol

>>277
glad tht u liked my experience.

>>272
Thanx very much for sharing your experience with us!
I think being punched for nothing even once is bad enough, but if you are
otherwise safe, it's good to hear.
btw, how was your soccer game?
Did you win?
Also, I'm kind of interested in "girls here are pretty too" part of your post, lol~~

>>278
I think 2CH is sort of like a cyber version of tabloid magazines.
So whatever news break up, people access 2CH to try to get insider
information only the annonymous could give out.
But for accessing 2CH instead of buying tabloid magazines, you need to be
fairly comfortable in using the Internet, so I would say, 2CH is much
more used by the youger generation than those who are familiar with
conventional media.
So even though 2CH started off as a place for Otaku people to talk to
each other, it has grew a lot and has become much more than the place
for limited types of poeple.

I'm not sure but most of people here are male...^^;
I thought there would be many female on the "shoujo manga" (girls manga)
section...but I found many obscene AA's pictures with a lot
of nonsense posts made by otaku guys...Also on the "biyou"(beauty) section,
There were a few female and still a lot of otaku kids....lol

>>279
No prob, anytime

the soccer game. i lost the game but it was no big deal
the game was nothin like formal game ,it was pick-up-game
u know playin with random ppl u meet and stuff
so im glad that i got to play.

i don wanna disappoint u guys but my summer holidays started
so i can really do whateva i want wheneva i can.
i know in Japan college students are still busy in june/july

yeah girls here are pretty. not to say japanese girls are ugly though
i feel like european girls at least when im in europe if you know wht i mean lol
most of the girls are slavic and they are voluptuous.
i guess standards of girl in here is pretty high
i don wanna diss イギリス人 and UK but most of my friends who lived there
says most girls are fugly and fat.. ive never been to UK though

>>274
It's good to know that France has the decency to always reject
Jean-Marie Le Pen!!
But then, the fact that he always shows up in the presidential election
proves that there are a lot of supporters of him in France......
NF is NG!

>>278
This is the board I visit the most, but sometimes I visit Movies/Cinema because
I really enjoy foreign films, and I find watching Japanese language movies helps
me with my learning.

>>282
Don't worry, I don't take any offence. In fact, I agree with you about a lot of
the girls in the UK. It is quite common to see younger girls here (13-17) wearing
very trashy clothing, far too much makeup, and often pushing prams because they
manage to get pregnant at a very early age. This is more of a problem in the North
of England, where poorer families live. I can't say they are attractive, because
they're not.

Saying that, however, there are still plenty of attractive girls. Just not around
where I live... :<

>>283
I think every country has their political parties which appeal to fascist groups
such as skinheads - for example, we have the BNP (British National Party), who
are extremely racist. Unfortunately, they have won a few local by-elections in
some run-down towns.
ttp://www.bnp.org.uk/candidates2005/manifesto/manfint.htm
Notice especially the 'Identity' section of their manifesto for the last elections.

>>284
Question for イギリス人-san,
In the 80's in UK, there were a lot of teen-aged girls who wore very
thick makeup especially around their eyes, I mean, they used pitch black
eye-liners to surround their eyes to the extent that they sometimes looked
like Kabuki actors.
And I believe some of them colored their hair black as well.
My question is, did they represent any belief such as women's liberation,
homosexuality, etc.?
Or were they just a part of the punk-rock movement back then?

Question for イギリス人 san,

I saw a TV program on the other day about the
difference between America jin and Igirisu jin.

One Japanese actor who had lived in England before commented that at the party,
if one happens to spot someone
staying alone, American tend to come closer to him and would talk
to him friendly and make him feel not lonely. It maybe the way to
be nice. But British ppl tend to leave him alone since ppl
find him that he loves the "loneliness" so try not to disturb him. He
might be enjoying being alone.

Do you agree with his opinion?

>>285
Assuming you're talking about female punk-rock of the mid 1980's in the UK, I
shall talk about this a little.

The whole 'Punk' movement was based around the idea of rebellion against the
government, such as anarchy and activism. However, this was rarely a problem
and those who called themselves punks kept largely to themselves.
In wanting to separate themselves from the normal definition of society, they
dressed very differently from non-punks, often styling their hair to excess,
applying various body modifications such as nose-rings, studs, etc. and eye-
makeup, as you mention.

So in answer to your question, it wasn't really so much a female specific thing,
just the way people heavily into that genre of music or ideology dressed.

>>286
Hmm... I'll try and answer this one tomorrow, because I really need to think
about this answer.

>>287
I see. Thank you very much for your answer.
I had seen those people on the street in London and lots of postcards
with them on with really heavy makeup and spiky hair-do, but never
really understood what they were for, but now I've understood.
Thank you for taking time.

>>287
Thanks.
In my case, I think British way of thinking would be better, or
more thoughtful to human's feeling.

If I would be in a somebody's house at a party, and find one girl
sitting alone. even if she seems lonely, I never know if she needs
a company or not, so I just let her stay alone. If I find something
common there, maybe I might talk to her. There are two types of way to let
her being alone. With care or without care. So If I were a host of the
party, maybe I talk to her. but if not, I let her stay alone.

Billy should be rich by now. (billy's boot camp)

What is the medicine man?

As far back as Paleolithic times,
Native Americans and other traditional peoples have believed
the medicine man to be in possession of supernatural healing
powers, such as the ability to inflict pain, promote fertility,
and secure good hunting and fishing. Many Native Americans regarded
illness as resulting from the entry of malignancy into the body;
accordingly, their medicine men try to cast out the illness using
ritual techniques such as bloodletting, the application of herbs,
and

seems like >>291 was terminated by the medicine man before he could mention
the very secret of the medicine man he wasn't supposed to reveal.

lol

>>291
I think medicine man is a person who has knowledge or skill to
compound various kinds of plants and other stuff to creat medicine.
Because of that, the person was considered kind of a sorcerer
in ancient Africa.

sorcerer was not right. maybe shaman would do.

By the way, Billy coming to Japan. Victory! and TAICHO!

>>290, 296
You guys are lame.
Billy is already the thing of the past even in Japan.

Oh. I broke heart too much.
Lovely Billy, why are you...

Holla！
American or anything is here ?
The hand to up if here is.

and then anyone was none...

I'm free.

>>301
I'm free too.

Identical twins....

>>303
it's not. I have a male-stick like sausage.
Suck it if it is good, please.

That's bad.

the time limit was finished. my sausage was withered.
Good-by everyone! Until the day of standing my sausage!

That's not funny.

I buy sausage

Your meat is slack.

>>289
Even after a night of thinking (sleeping, really), it's still hard to answer!
I guess a common perception of the way British people think, is that if someone
wishes to talk, they will talk. However, a lot depends on body language too.
People can look unapproachable, such as if they cross their arms, whereas holding
arms behind their back makes them seem friendlier.

The matter of which is more thoughtful really depends on your own personality though.
Speaking to someone who looks excluded at a party would seem a friendly and considerate
thing, as people generally attend parties in order to socialise.
Then again, sometimes people are dragged there by friends and may wish not to join in.
Someone in this position would also keep out the way.

I am really unable to answer your question, sorry! Personally, I'd be happy just to speak
to someone who is out the way, as I really don't like crowds of people.

>>292
Trephining, I bet.

aw!

>>310
Thanks for your thoughtful reply!

I understand. It really depneds
on the person's own personality. Yes. we can't bracket one
nationality or race in the same category of people.

I just thought
that althuogh British people look less friendly than those of American ppl,
as we get to know them more, they are actually more delicately kind and thoughtful ppl,
and know how to let other ppl stay in their world instaed of cut
in or give an intrusive help (something like to entertain someone who
actually wants to stay alone etc...but The kind person may think
he is supposed to be appreciated...?).

Yes, it really depends on the person, even people from the same
city, same age, etc always differed in personality. ^^;

I want to meet the medicine man...*sigh*

>>313
日本語は難しいあるよ

＞＞３１４
英語なんてサルでもわかる

>>312
Yeah, in my case, I want to be treated as same as others in school.
That's only my humble wish....><

>>313
there's a medicine man waiting in the sky
he'd like to come and meet us
but he thinks he'd blow our minds

>>317
Then it would be hard to meet him...?
if only I knew how not to be blew...(T_T)

( ´д)ﾋｿ(´д｀)ﾋｿ(д｀ )ﾋｿ

>>308

Ugh, I hate that show.

you know, it's cloudy today, so we must all eat sausage.
It's common knowledge that one must eat sausage when it's cloudy.
I will be busy today.

I saw Keira shopping at LaForet Harajyuku!!!

You gotta be kidding!

one crazy lover fish has been waiting for
someone's arrival with its mouth
open big for food.

>>321
Oh! loving my homie was here. Um sit... and does my sausage... ache！
My heart and sausage were heated up by funky in mind.

*wide open for food

Sausage is freedom!

LOL

bah, >>320-san doesn't recognize an awesome show when he sees it.

Are you Yukorin?

>>318
he's told us not to blow it cause he knows it's all worthwhile
he told me:
let the children lose it
let the children use it
let all the children boogie

Sausage is, is it, by the way is, it's the god ! Victory yah!

Suck my sausage!

Why don't you work at Meat Hope, co, ltd instead of keeping Free albaito?
Or if you are 4th grade at a univ, try the company!
It's well known for high quality and safety foods.

>>333
Are you me ?? (as the sweat

If you are teen,
My cock, no.., My sausage is big! Suck it!

皆、面白い英語ありがとう。

Hurry, eat your sausage!
Before the sun comes out of the clouds!

>>331
so "it" is sausage? or the hotdog ban?

Sleeeeeepy. Yet I don't want to sleep yet. My body is tired, yet
my mind is still wide awake. :(

Bweh. Eyes too heavy. Time to go pass out after all...

Night, folks.

Ether is like the wind.....

Bump..

Hew Raymond Griffiths, the leader of a software piracy
group called DrinkOrDie, was extradited to the US from
Australia to face copyright infringement charges. Founded
in 1993, DOD was responsible for pirating and distributing
more than $50 million worth of software, movies, games and
music over the internet.

this was a famous group?

Hamaguchi has been challenging to live in an uninhabited island
for 3 days with zero money.
Yukorin must be worried about him very much.

Nah, she is not that naive to think it's real.
You know what i mean.
What Hamaguche really does is just go there and shoot some clips and go home and makes it look like it's real.
We all know that, so does Yukorin.

>>346
Really? then I must be far more naive than Yukorin...
I thought they've really been having a wild life without
food, futon, house etc...

Well, I haven't seen that show for a long time, so I don't know what's going on right now very much.
But, if I assume he is doing what he was dong, when I caught the show couple of times, I bet they
don't really do what they claim to be doing. Maybe I'm too skeptic.
But one thing is sure, Hamaguche is in no way in danger that warrents Yukorin's concern.
It's a TV show, They don't actually do anything to risk their life, do they?

Besides, Hamaguche's cock is gigantic.
He could face some dangers in the process, but there always is his enormous cock right beside him to save his day.

You guys love Japanese anime?
I found this anime called "Rozen Maiden" at NicoNico Douga.
I found myself attracted to its storyline and characters instantaneously.
If you haven't heard of it, you should check it out.
There are several episodes of dubbed versions in English there, and it seems more is coming.
They're done great.
Subbed versions, especially done by some fans, totally suck.

>>348

Really? so as you said, they are just showing as if they are
truely surviving without any resources but actually it was a fake?
OMG...I had been believing those kind of shows were true until now..

And yeah, haha even we have never seen Hamaguchi's coc* in real life,
we can easily guess it would be big enough from the fact that the
two cute girls were completely reeled in him even his looks is not that
good. So he should be good in other part. lol

Ether seems like a nice man. or she?

might be a tranny

>>352
The best of both worlds...

>>329
The only good part of it is the hypnotic opening dance.

By the way, would the too high popularity of the game be a thing peculiar to Japan ?
How are you thinking ?

"How"am I thinking?

I'm thinking with my eyes closed.

>>355
Sorry... I do not demand the answer..
one more time.

" By the way, would the too high popularity of the game be a thing peculiar to Japan ?
How do you thinking about it ? "

lol
"How do you think about it?"
I guess your English mistake is on purpose.
I know one pretentious girl. She wants to show herself
cute or something and makes a lot of grammatical mistakes even
she can write it perfect. That's the most peculiar thing for me. ^^;

By the way, by the way,

" Would the too high popularity of the game be a thing peculiar to Japan ?
How do you think about it ? "

I wanted to know only it.

lol
shitsukoi...
answer is no.

>>358

I think you are not a Japanese.
coz normally even how bad the one would be,
Japanese rarely mix up with "do" and "ing" things.
we usually don't make the mistakes like do you eating?
or am I eat?
plus the word "peculiar" is the word, English beginners
are not able to use.

>>360
Yes. I'm the Space-Alien.
It's a joke.

>>342
Hehe, don't know whether that is a good thing or a bad thing. :P

>>351
Thanks, I suppose.

>>361
lol
I thought so. ^^;

hello! I'm super neet!!

I like the neet meet supper, yum.

>365
X meet
O meat

It is that the cloudiness color liquid comes out from a certain place. It is peculiar to the man. It is often caused by a sexual excitement. Guess what is it and answer in English.

hey, if there is a fire from your house, when you returned home from work or school,
you just noticed that there is a fire O_O" what would you do?

My friend experienced it recently....he noticed that there he left
some important thing inside his house, he hesitated and people said "don't go inside"
but he wanted to go and get the thing back, he eventually has gone inside
the fire, but he hesitated for a while. He regrets why he had hesitated but
of course we all don't want to be burnt and become like a charred scrap of bacon.

>>366
365 might mean a "neat-meeting" supper.

>>369
No, it's a supper serving neet's meat.

No job , no enlightment ,and saving that keep you going for months
are recipe for making a person neet .

It's been months since I posted here last.
So it's still part 85. Seems like most people have moved to other
places, just as I did. phew.

What did I miss?

lame

We like penis?

>>370
Surely the meat would not be good, as it would be underdeveloped.

>>367
Easy. Lemonade!

Is NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training) an English word
or an expression coined in Japan?
I cannot look it up in English dictionaries.

>>376
YES Japanase made it and I think thera are few
NEET in foreign county , so we think that deeply

>>376
NEET was originally a classification used by the British government. In the UK,
NEET is defined as people aged between 16 and 18 who do not participate in society
and who are not eligible for welfare.

However, I know the Japanese definition is somewhat different, and seems somewhat
extreme.

Somewhat *more* extreme, sorry - I do not mean it is extreme for what it means.

>>375
It is quite different from the correct answer.
Please think about it well again.

>>380
Calpis or cow piss!

lol

when someone has an intention to try something new, but being bewildered,
it's not a good idea to push him or threaten him. He may step back again.
It's not a matter of his mental that is weak or strong. Even you are irritated, he needs
some kind of courage and need to think when to start.

>>382
YOU can do it!!!
Don't hesitate!!!
GO for it!!!

I am a lolicon man. That's all, thanks.

>>383
.......lol
are you from America? or Canada?
we Asian don't just concern having guts as the best thing.
sorry if it sounds negative. but I don't want to fail or being suffered
again and again. I am waiting for the time I truly find myself all free from
the troubles and feel that I am standing all by my feet. But still
I am in some kind of depression. But please have fun life. I have my
own way to get back to the normal state. I have too much pains right now
so not ready to start yet. Don't think I am a coward. Everybody has
his own pace.

>>385
Make or break!!!
It's now or never!!!

>>367
cum

>>372
Oh, you missed the big time!
Do you know Keira?
She is visiting Japan now, and some Chat in English gang got together
and met her in Harajyuku, then went to our sacred destination Akiba.
Sorry to hear that you didn't even know about the event!!

>>386
that's only what you think
you really don't know what condition I am right now.
I appreciate your kindness but please just leave me alone at
least today. don't think you can manipulate somebody's mind.
I am in a terrible depression right now.
Don't say never. I might come back, but not now. ok?

>>389
It's YOU who, out of no where, started it.

>>390
Yeah, LOL~~
Totally!!

>>390 >>391
sorry haha
I was just talking to myself...

>>392
You were too loud, lol~~

>>392
I don't care, man.
But, you need some medication.

Are you a salary man of Meat Hope?

>>394
medication for what? I am in depression but not sick.

>>395
Yes, I am the president of Meat Hope.
Help me!

all right, take it easy then.

>>398
me?

>>398
Yeah, even you think guts is everything, I don't agree.

Do people on 2ch normally meet in real life? Seems it happens quite often, way different from America.

>>385
Don't off yourself...

>>401
America is a huge contry, that's why, lol~~

I met three people on net in real life so far.
They were all what I expected. one girl I met
was with a stunning beauty O_O!!! A Bigggg surprise!

>>401
Thanks. But hope you understand all the human have
ups and downs. The reasons are all varied.
When it really eats into your heart, I guess it's not
a good idea to try new things but to stay calm and block
the contacts from others especially those who want to hurt
you so much.

>>404
Don't whine, drink wine instead, lol

>>403
What do you meet them for?

eh? just met them. Coz we were friends for a long time
on net. your question is nonsense...

>>405
haha you must be brave or just insensitve, huh? LOL

>>402
That, and the fact that meeting people is a big no-no here. We're paranoid of killers and rapists.

>>404 (lulz 404)
I don't blame you.

>>409
What is (lulz 404)?
Yeah, he should stay as it is until he really feels like it.

>>409
In my case, it was not my intention to meet them.
But I wanted to meet someone special in the group and went to
one "off kai"...but the ONE I wanted to meet so much didn't appear
and instead, I met other 3. and one of those 3 was so beautiful!
oh gush....I was so lucky to meet her! but she's never replies me
since then....hahaha poor me...

In America its less of that we are so far apart and more of that we
presume everyone else on the net are killers and/or rapists. Sure we
can socialize but meeting in RL is a big no no in our culture.

For example there are several programs on major TV stations that are
based on what could happen if you trust someone online and try to meet
them.

Yours,
Anonymous American

>>412
In Japan, I dunno but I would say
they are a bit not sociable or introvert people and nerd or some might
be dangerous people but not as much as those in America...
People who want to dig in some certain area as computer, anime, music
instead of meeting people outside.
Many ppl say the girls
who are addicted to net are ugly, but I don't think so. I've heard
there are many cute girls out there...

>>413 Yeah americans are more dangerous i guess :P

As for cute girls online, there are plenty but as you can gather if
there she is a cute girl she most likely isn't single ^_^' which leads
to the issue of you know a cute girl online who is taken. Here in the
US most (not all!) girls are mainly scene/emo and are to a degree social
misfits. Not to say that all girls are or a HUGE portion but the girls
you meet on a message board most of the time in the case of an American
site will most likely be social misfits to a degree.

lol, i'm trying to be polite but from experience of being active online
for the last 8 years or so its just something I have noticed.

>>412
Exactly, pretty much said what I was too lazy to elaborate. All you hear on the news is murder or rape when it comes to offline meetings.

Women on the internets? Not ugly, but like >>414 said most are faggo- I mean emo or punk (which is just as bad). I hate Ameeican teenagers these days.

Scene, emo, faggo.....
English is difficult.

agree...
I know only faggo but dunno emo and scene. lol

How come you don't know emo, it's impossible to use the internet and not know emo

>>418
please tell us what it is if you could.

>>418
then what is emo?

Hamaguchi and two other guys, Taka & Toshi are
surviving in an uninhabited island. It's hilarious!! HAHA

everybody check this out!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGpvM4O5Ml4

i cant hear what the biach says from 52seconds of this video??
can anybody tell ???

>>387
yeah^^ that's right.
Thank you for your answering.

⊂( ^ω^)⊃ Boon,,,

⊂(^ω^ )⊃ Sorry for disturbing.
i can't speak English.

>>422
GOSH, I just wanna slap her face so bad

>>422
i couldnt quite hear why she was so mad
her mom said she wanted the car on the day of the party but
wasnt that the party day? i mean there was a cake and stuff

>>422
I wish somebody ruined my life like that

(　＾ω＾)

>>422

What a spoilt bi+ch. She should go ride a crappy GM.

I think she says, "I don't want my car now, I want it on the day of my party" or something like that.

>>419
>>420

Emo is a term used to describe people who usually wear tight black jeans,
tight zip-up hoodies, have dark hair with long bangs, and wear dark, thick rimmed glasses.
They are often seen wearing studded belts.
They tend to listen to bands like HIM and My Chemical Romance.
They are often laughed at on the internet, especially in America where they are not uncommon.

>>422

P.S. That's Americans for you.

>>430
Oh I see. Thanks for your kind instruction!

>>429
thx can you tell exactly what she says though?　starting at　52seconds
ive tried again and again but cant hear....
at the end she says somethin like
　i thought it was the car u wanted
just wanna study listenin !!

All I can say for sure is what I previously wrote.
The mother says some things after the bi+ch is done wailing...
What she says might be what the girl was saying, except in a way people can understand.

>>433
thx
i could hear every words said in the video but that biatch's part starting from 52 seconds!
she speaks terribly fast!!

She does talk really fast.
Everybody understands she wants her car on the day of the party.
But word by word? My listening comprehension failed me again.

yeah like incredibly fast! maybe ill ask at
"Hey Native speakers! Come and help us! Part 3"
http://academy6.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/english/1172797189/
btw im >>422

Not only is she talking fast, she is wailing and I don't think even native speakers can understand what she was saying.
Don't worry if you didn't understand her. It has nothing to do with your English abilities.
It is just like how it is hard to understand what a little kid is saying when he is crying and throwing a tantrum.

By the way, the longest word in English is supposedly

"Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis"

That's 45 letters.

As for chemical names, there are longer ones.
The one below has just a little under 1200 letters.

acetylseryltyrosylserylisoleucylthreonylserylprolylserylglutaminyl-
phenylalanylvalylphenylalanylleucylserylserylvalyltryptophylalanyl-
aspartylprolylisoleucylglutamylleucylleucylasparaginylvalylcysteinyl-
threonylserylserylleucylglycylasparaginylglutaminylphenylalanyl-
glutaminylthreonylglutaminylglutaminylalanylarginylthreonylthreonyl-
glutaminylvalylglutaminylglutaminylphenylalanylserylglutaminylvalyl-
tryptophyllysylprolylphenylalanylprolylglutaminylserylthreonylvalyl-
arginylphenylalanylprolylglycylaspartylvalyltyrosyllysylvalyltyrosyl-
arginyltyrosylasparaginylalanylvalylleucylaspartylprolylleucylisoleucyl-
threonylalanylleucylleucylglycylthreonylphenylalanylaspartylthreonyl-
arginylasparaginylarginylisoleucylisoleucylglutamylvalylglutamyl-
asparaginylglutaminylglutaminylserylprolylthreonylthreonylalanylglutamyl-
threonylleucylaspartylalanylthreonylarginylarginylvalylaspartylaspartyl-
alanylthreonylvalylalanylisoleucylarginylserylalanylasparaginylisoleucyl-
asparaginylleucylvalylasparaginylglutamylleucylvalylarginylglycyl-
threonylglycylleucyltyrosylasparaginylglutaminylasparaginylthreonyl-
phenylalanylglutamylserylmethionylserylglycylleucylvalyltryptophyl-
threonylserylalanylprolylalanylserine.

The longest chemical name is said to have just a little under 190000 letters.

looks ridiculous how are you supposed to pronounce those

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis shouldn't be too hard to pronounce, as long as you know that pneu, like in the word "pneumonia", is pronounced without the "p".
As for the second one, it isn't standard English, but rather a chemical name.
Kind of like isopropanol and glycerol, but longer. Much, much, much longer.
So there is no need to be able to pronounce it.

Glad that I'm not a Chemist.

I'm sure that chemists use a simplified name, such as calling sucrose "table sugar".
The simpler word for the chemical that has just a little under 190000 letters is "titin".
Funny how 190000 letters can be put into 5 letters.

so basically those words are useless or even meaningless

That's right!

I was short on things to talk about, so I decided to bring it up.

>>444
It's just a name!

On second thoughts, they aren't useless nor meaningless words.
It's just that their importance varies depending on who you are.
A chemist dealing with complex molecules would find them interesting.
On the other hand, they are nothing more than a long and boring word to the layman.

I caught an error.
The fourth line should be
"On the other hand, they are nothing more than long and boring words to the layman."

>>444
Each part of the word is a different component with a different meaning.
This is mostly determined by it's molecular structure, depending on its
pattern of elements and how they are linked together. These compound names,
along with a lot of other scientific notation, is mostly based on Latin
words.

Of course, not all chemical compound names are boring, such as 'Thebacon',
'Penguinone' and 'Uranate' being just a few examples.

TGIF!

I was expelled from school !!! ><

What did you do?

well I smoked few times and
didn't go to school for a while and went to there
yesterday and today and I had a small quarrel with
a teacher. He is very strict and said I am
expelled.

I don't fxxing care about teacher, but
smoking does you only harm but good.

>>454
yes. thank you for your concern.

a medicine man was not the medicine man...

or I was a mess and he couldn't cure my wound anymore.

>>454
In the UK on Sunday, a law will finally be passed making it illegal to smoke
in any public indoor area.

Enforced, sorry, not passed! It was passed already.

I dont mean to be rude, but can you teach me how to speak Japanese?
I learned a little bit of it online,but a teacher would be alot better.arigatou, sensei

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=JAYMANE

この人日本語教えてほしいらしいから
誰かたのむわ
おれ無理

スレちがいすまん

>>459
I think Starbucks did a great job in not allowing smoking inside
the cafe, because until then, cafe and smoking were buddy-buddy with
each other.
Having said that though, Starbucks is too expensive!!! Espcially their sandwiches!
Ripping us off!!
BUT, Caramel Machiato is great.....ummmmm............

Chai Latte rules.
A double shot of red eye with nutmeg and cinnamon in the morning
literally kicks my ass to be functional for the day.

>>461
Is Starbucks a first cafe which shut out somoker?
Oh I didn't know that.

I like starbucks, but the problem is that it is expensive.

instead of cigs we should all smoke Shisha(water pipe)
its lovely!!

>>461
Fortunately for us, smoking will be prohibited from all restaurants, pubs, cafés, etc.

I'm really not a big fan of coffee, but I do enjoy Starbucks. You're right though,
everything is pretty expensive, but it always seems that way in more upmarket cafés
and 'fast' food places, such as Subway.

I do, however, enjoy their Frappuccinos. Traditional Greek iced coffee is really
bitter, and even after five satchets of sugar it's usually still quite foul-tasting.
But Frappuccinos are wonderful.

>>465
Sorry to interrupt you, but can you do me a favor?

I'd like you to read the following and tell me if you think the guy in the sentence heard him.


"But he didn't so much as take his eyes off the book to look at me; you'd have thought he didn't hear me."

He did hear the guy, but he didn't react to it so it SEEMED as though he didn't.

>>467
Ｔｈａｎｋｓ！

I'd appreciate if you could express your opinion in here.↓
http://academy6.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/english/1182276912/

There is an arguement if the line "you'd have thought he didn't hear me" implys that he heard the guy.

>>466
this is like "he didnt even take his eyes off the book to look at me as if he did not hear me"
so i suppose the guy reading the book MUSTVE heard but ignored

I rephrased the sentence.

"He didn't even take his eyes off the book to look at me, so you WOULD HAVE THOUGHT that he didn't hear me."

Same meaning, but it should be easier to understand.

yup so its hard to say if the guy heard the other guy.
although he shouldve heard, the info is not sufficient to say so

I love English!
and you?

>>471

That's not what I said.
The sentence says that you would have thought that he didn't hear the other guy.
If it there was only the first part, then it would mean that he didn't hear the other guy.
But because of the second part, it means that he DID hear the other guy.

Thanks guys!!

So, this line "you'd have thought he didn't hear me" does say he heard the guy,
and it's clear for the native speakers or they would more likely take it
says "the guy head him"
Am I correct?

Can you guys explain that in here just to end the arguement?↓
中高生の宿題・質問に答えるスレ lesson 21
http://academy6.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/english/1182276912/

I appreciate you guys!

I'm sorry, but I see no arguement going on in that thread.

>>473
i know what u mean but this part "you'd have thought he didn't hear me."
is still what the story teller thought so IMO there is a chance that the guy
reading the book was deaf or something but this storyteller reasonably
beleaved that he(the reader) must have heard the storyteller.in this case
the reader did not hear anything at all.

i know this is little farfetched sorry

>>473
but i agree with you, don think im tryin to bring disucussions here

>>474
i don make waves lol
you could just copy and paste

>>475
The arguement was going on last night, and didn't come to conclusion.

May be we might as well let it fade away,
but I think it would be helpful for the English learners who are wondering which is right to show the answer of it.

Damnit Japanese is hard to learn, how the hell is english diffocult if you learned Japanese?

its just because the 2 languages are totally different lol
English>Japanese Japanese>English are both difficult
irrelevant of complications of the langueages themselves

I think English is relatively easy to learn once you know the basic
grammar and stuff. I mean, it doesn't have grammatical gender
like French and other European languages, does have only 26
letters , or 52, unlike Japanese or Chinese who have thousands
of characters, and so on.

I'm not sure but its simplicity might be the result of the refinement
of it through globalization in 18th and 19th centuries, because
Old English is much harder to understand. It used to have gender, right?

It's always hard to learn a second language late in life, especially if that language is completely
different from your own.

Learning your third language, though, is much easier. (~-^)

i need someone that want to teach me japanese through chatting or email.
I am living in US. My email is [email protected]. Thx

Bitches and gentlemen!

>>483
Many people would love to teach you Japanese, and I'm one of them.

Right now, I don't have much time to do that, though.
I'll e-mail you tomorrow, if that's OK with you.^^

>>485 thank you very much

Hmm. It seems I'll be able to take a Japanese class this fall,
supposing everything goes as planned. This should supplement
my private studies of the language.

>>488
sounds good!
hope yeverything goes wll for ya.

BTW are you an undergraduate?
i'm new here so please excuse me if you're already sick of this question.

I just graduated from high-school, so yes. :)

oh, good.

now you're really enjoyng the Summer.
where do you live?

I wish Either spoke Japanese.
So that I could talk to him.
Please, study hard!

I always have to have my pants taken up, so I'm used to the cost and it doesn't really bother me

>>491
Florida, U.S.A. In the Orlando area.

>>492
I already speak some; just not enough. :(

>>494
Orlando!
Which Disney character do you like best?
Or are you sick of them, lol

>>465
Is it still true that English people prefer tea to coffee?
I'm asking this because you sound like one.
Also, do you guys like toast done on one side, as in the Sting's song?

>>496
I think that most English people do prefer tea to coffee, especially the older
generations. Something about rationing of food during the war, I think, because
they often have strange eating habits too. It was hard to get good meat during
those years, so they made do with what they had. A lot of old people like to eat
the gristle and fat because they're still in the habit of not wasting anything.
However, I really can't stand tea or hot drinks in general.

I would love to know how to toast bread on one side! Whenever I make toast, it's
always very lightly toasted on both sides. But yes, I think I'd like one-sided
toast. How do you prefer your toast?

>>497
In Japan, those who experienced the war tend not to like what they
had to eat during that time, e.g. sweet potatos, pumpkins, all sorts of
grains other than rice, etc. etc. because due to lack of food, they were
forced to eat those evey day and totally sick of them.

As for toast, I think Japanese like thicker bread (like 1.5cm to 2cm thick) than
thin ones you eat in England, beause that way, outside is crispy and inside is
still soft. That goes very well with butter!

>>498
Hmm... I must try that with toast, thanks for the suggestion. The bread I
get is usually only about 1cm thick, and it's medium-sized slices. Are you
talking about white or brown bread though? White's the only way to go when
toasted and eaten only with butter.

During the war, each person here was entitled to:
- 113 grams of butter or lard (fat)
- 340 grams of sugar
- 113 grams of raw ham or bacon
- 2 eggs
- 99 grams of cooked bacon or ham
I'm not so sure about milk though. Clothes could also be bought using the
rationing tokens. There were exceptions for pregnant and nurshing mothers,
infants, and children under 5 years of age - things like extra milk or vegetables.
Of course, there was also a black market in food products.

Now this is a story all about how
My life got flipped, turned upside down
And I'd to take a minute, just sit right down
I'll tell you how I became the fresh prince of 2channel

In west Akihabara, born and raised
In the maid cafes is where I spent most of my days
Chilling out, maxin, relaxing all cool
And fapping to galges after my school
When a drunken old man, who was up to no good
Started making trouble in my train's hood
I got in one little fight even though I was scared
And thought I've got to post this on the internet at my home

I waited for the mail and when it came in
The package said Hermes and some teacups were inside
If anything I could say that I was surprised
And I thought I don't get it, yo home to 2ch

I posted my story at 7 or 8
And Nanashi yelled Kitaaaaaaa! Call her later!
I looked at my topic, I was finally there
To sit on my computer as the prince of Otaku

>>500
Ｇｏｏｏｏｄ　ｊｏｂ！！ｌｏｌ

>>499
When referring to the war, we consider those foods 'luxuries.'
Peple were lucky if they got to eat something, anything really, during
WWII.
It is well known that they never encountered sugar back then.

>>500 are you densha otoko??

must be wannabe
pun intended

By the way, what do you mean live free?

>>502
I guess it helps that most of the UK is covered in farmland. Most of Britain used
to be covered in thick forest, but a huge percentage of it was cut down when it was
settled by more 'civilised' people, such as the Romans, for building supplies and to
be able to expand farming communities.
Britain used to have much more in the way of natural beauty, but this was sacrificed
for crops and fields. There are, however, still a few places preserved, such as the
New Forest, and some mountainous regions, which are quite barren anyway. These places
are pretty, though, but because such a small percentage of the country is made up of
these, there are always a lot of people there.

I have no idea what the point of all that was, sorry, just felt like writing.

I dunno what to do....

what's wrong?

you can always jerk off!

well...I want to contact someone but that person block me
and I am even not sure if it is the right thing to contact her
since I don't know she really hates me or he doesn't hate me.

He? or she? and are you kimoi?

I'm soso look. But I am much older than her. SHE.
I want to send her a mail but maybe she will ignore me. or
even she won't ignore it, I don't know if I should send it or not.
Also if she thinks I am annoying I better stop it here.
Also I think she deserves a better boy. I am so old for her.
If I'd chase her too much, she will be sick. BTW, I am 36 and she's 20.
So I better stop now....I am still thinking what to do...
BUT I LIKE HER SO MUCH!!!!

then go for it.

Love is not a crime.
Age is not a barrier.
Stalk her till you drop!

>>514
愛は罪にあらず
年齢は障害にあらず
落とすまで付け回せ!

>>514, >>515
Thank you so much!!!!
OK I'll continue to stalk her!!

but....still thinking...(ujiuji)

I have no courage now but tomorrow I will send her a mail.

whoops i was mistaken i thought it was translation thread i was posting lol

oh you thought this place was the translation thread?
How nice.

>>506
Does it rain a lot at this time of year in UK?
I sometimes watch Wimbledon tennis on TV at this time of year and
matches are often delayed or suspended due to rain. Is it rainy season
in UK? Just curious.

>>521
It does rain quite a lot this time of year, mainly from April through to
June/July. This year, however, has seen the highest amount of rain since
around 60 years ago.

ttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6241480.stm

Benoist! 萌え

I hate rain.
My curly hair all frizzs up and going crazy.
I wish my hair were straight as my penis...

In japan, june through early July is usually a rainy season going.
Do you know that?
Many high school girls get caught in a shower and their bras can be clealy seen through their white ... yummy

The rain varies greatly in the US. Where I live (colorado) we hope for
rain mainly from March to May. The rest of the summer is dry and hot
then it starts to snow from October till early May.

>>524
I love rain. Even though it plasters my hair to my head and makes it strange
and flat. Being outside, though, feels much fresher, and there is the distinct
smell of rain.

I don't think I'll compare it to any parts of my body though.

Can anyone give me some informaion about the song which is used in the show 『The Hills』 on MTV?
It goes like [ 〜I'm over it〜] by female voice.
I have no clue who sings that song.
I want to buy the song If I get to know aho she is!

Who wound want to know anything about that backward stupid place like Colora.... ..??
Is Colorado where Eric Cartman from?
Wow.. I wish my penis is as cool and awesome as Colorado...
Do people who speak like Cartman actually exist? like "suck my ball" or "Fuckin' Jew"?

I love the "Chinpokomon" episode of South Park.
That episode was never aired here in Japan, because it totally makes fun of Emperor Hirohito of all people lol
If you make fun of the Emperor family in any way on TV in Japan, you are done.
I wish they loosened up a little like British people do towards their royal family.

By the way, our penises are really small.
Your vagina probably doesn't register anything.

>>506
As far as I know, YOUR country doesn't have much in
the way of "mountainous regions".

OMG! I'm back from Tokyo and Kyoto!
I had a blast!
How is everybody?

ohoh, quick question, I bought a purse that has "夜露死苦" written on it. I think it may be Chinese, but does anyone know what it means?

Ah, what a fun trip. n___n

>>531
Welcome back Keira!
So good to hear that you had a wonderful time in Japan.

夜露死苦 is a phonetic equivalent of 'Yo-ro-shi-ku', which you must know
what it means.
Gangs, especially motorcycle gangs create a lot of those, and put them
on their banners, uniforms, etc.
Anyway, talk to you later!

>>530
Only really the Lake District. And they're not so much mountains as quite large hills
and valleys. But since you're feeling patriotic, I could too, and claim that MY (other)
country also has part of quite an extensive mountain range.

Also, sorry to hear about YOUR country's airport. No idea why anyone would do that to
Glasgow though. At least nobody was seriously hurt. Aside from the guy in the jeep who
caught fire, I guess.

>>531
Oh Keira is back! what have I missed?
I didn't even know she's gone to Japan? I mean she came to Japan?
OMG...how come I didn't know....*shoot*
So you had a great trip? and that made me laugh!
Where did you manage to buy one of those T-shirts?
Means Yoroshiku as >>532 said and also from the kanji,
you can get the meaning as, night dew gives you pain and you'd die.
hahaha ^^;

>>531
I can think of another one I've seen, that is
愛羅武勇 for 'I love you' (Ai-la-bu-yu).

OH I see bunch of motorcycle gangs here ! lol

夜　can be read "yo", 露　"ro" 死　"shi" 苦　"ku".
おはよう　could be written like ”尾　歯　夜　宇”, though, this, nobody does it like this.

What they do is to find kanji that suits your word or phrase, and put them together.
It's random. But those people tend to use kanji with dark kind of meanings because, for them, it's cooler that way.
Lately a lot of idol otaku does this on their toppuku.

I used to write 四六四九 for 'Yoroshiku' sometimes.

4714 "shinai yo"means "I don't crap."

>>539
Never heard of it.
Did you just make up?

shinaiyo...that's first time to hear.

>>540
No, I did not.
It's a traditional thing among morning musume fans.

893 is famous. Yakuza.

anybody got a iphone yet??
In japan, i phone is not available. how sad...

>533
Oh, which country is that?

Also, I meant no offence or anything,
but I just have to call English people
out when they start claiming that the
Scottish highlands are part of their
country, you know? :P

And yeah, I actually found the entire thing
at Glasgow Airport hilarious. If this really
was a terrorist attack, it has to be the most
half-assed attempt yet.

wow... british people fighting in here?
it's gonna be a great battle. you have to see it through!

>>546
Yeah! exciting to view two British ppl fights lol!

I'm for the スコットランド人.
How about you guys?

>>532
Thanks! wow, I was wondering what the kanji was for. I was a little confused by it, but thanks for the explanation. That's kind of funny. xD

>>534
Hi there! Yes, Japan was fun. I took the subway around Tokyo!
We went to Asakusa, Ginza, Shinjuku, Harajuku, and Shibuya! We saw Mt.Fuji as well! Then We took Shinakansen to Kyoto and went to Gion and saw geisha! The fushimi Inari shrine is so beautiful! And ginkakuji. <3
I bought a beautiful green Yukata with pink and lavender designs on it, with a sakura themed Obi. It's so pretty!

As you can see, I did many things any typical tourist would do. xD
I thought it was funny how popular cell-phone charms are! Even old bussiness men have them! and more than one on each phone!

keira seems to have enjoyed herself a lot in Japan. I'm glad to hear that.
ha- That things hanging from cell phones are called cell phone charms
i leanrned something today.
i have no cell phone charms on my cellphone. i don't see the charm with cellphone charms.
some of my friends have gazillions of them on their cell phones.
sometimes, the cellphone charms themselves are actually bigger than the cellphone they cling to. it's ridiculous
so,, why do they do that?

>>550
Because it's charming, lol

I guess if you put the phone in a pocket or bag, it's easy to grab the phone quickly since the charms are so big and easy to find.

It's so quiet on the streets and stations as well. Because on buses/trains in America, if we are bored, we'll just start talking with strangers. But In Japan people seem to love text-messaging and internet surfing on their phone.
But that's increasing here in America too, I think. A lot of young people just listen to their iPod or text-message. But I think It's more fun to be social and talk with people. :]

keira is back and the battle of British is heating up.
This thread is doing really great. I'm happy.

keira's arrival gives a light to this thead.
and her description about Japan is so true.^^;
I think it is a bit weird all the ppl in the train
do text-mesaging all the time. Keira, I wanna see
your pic in the green and purple designed kimono!
you must be so pretty in that kimono! ^^

yes yes, in Japan, you are not supposed to talk, even among friends, in the bus or train.
so cellphone use, excluding emailing or other fun stuff you can do without talking, is extremely discouraged.
I think it's because everybody is tired in japan, so they want to have some sleep when they can.
Since talking prevents people from sleeping, it is no good in the bus or train.

>>554
Thank you!
I haven't tried it on yet, it might be too long. xD
But I want to do a photoshoot in it! But a yukata might look weird on someone who isn't Japanese, especially since I have blonde hair. >_>;;

Also, how do Japanese people carry around so many coins?!
you have 1's,5's,10's,50's,100's,500's...It was hard carrying around so much change!And Heavy! LOL. But at least it came in handy with the vending machines.(I'm a fan of the "Qoo" sour apple drink).

Japanese people are very shy.
they don't socialize much.
they don't want go outside of their own comfort zone where people you don't know don't exist.
cellphones facilitate that kind of tendency.
cellphones fit extremely well with those charactarics of typical Japanese people
that's why cellphones are extremely popular in Japan. is my theory.

>>555
Hmm, I see. I did see many people trying to rest their eyes. My mom and I talked on the subway a lot... oh no, I hope that wasn't too rude...
It's just...too weird to stand there not saying anything.I want to be friendly. LOL, now I guess I was just a loud American...xD

I'm going to visit Japan, Akihabara pretty much.

I want peropero keira in yukata...

>>560
like peko-chan choco candy?

But you are supposed to turn off the mobile phone on the train,
especially when you are near the special seats for the eldery etc.
Because the radio waves to/from the phone can disturb the pace-maker
for people with heart problems.

>>559
Where are you from?

>>559
Akihabara is a place with lots os electronic stores right?
But Many Japanese electric products don't work outside of Japan, so be careful of what you buy.

But Nintendo DS games work on American DS's. That made me happy. I got the game "押す！闘え！応援団！"

>>564
So you have the 夜露死苦 purse and playing with "押す！闘え！応援団！"
Very wild, lol~~

Glad you enjoyed the trip!  Did you visit any maid cafe?

>>566
lol "押す！闘え！応援団！" sounds fun!

Yeah, I bet she's exciting playing with that game and
continues to play on and on. XD

>>565
Yes! lol.They seem to go together well.haha.

>>566
No, I didn't, is that in akihabara?
But I did see a few EGL (Elegant Gothic Lolita) shops, and I wanted to look around since they're so interesting, but my mom thinks that EGL/EGA and baby-doll/maid dresses are perverted and disgusting. Y__Y
So I didn't get to check it out.

and I bet she's upgraded in power after
this experience ^^

>>569
lol, I get +EXP for going to Japan? xD

>>545
None taken, and I do understand, the northern Welsh are very much the same. Except
you Scots are a lot friendlier. It would sort of be nice if there was anything actually
worth mentioning in England along those lines, though. :<

I don't really know much about or actually care about what happened in London, either. It's
a filthy city, full of litter and pigeons (and Londoners). Two unexploded bombs and a fiery
jeep don't exactly warrant a 'critial' terror alert, in my opinion. Even though I'm all for
tolerance and stuff, though, I think the Gay Pride parade was scarier than either of them.

As for my other comment, I hold dual nationality with Canada.

>>548
Traitor!

>>522
Thanks for the link to BBC. What a flood! We also have torrential rain
in rainy seasons like that. I hope no death hasn't been reported there.

>>570
You mustered up your courage and talked to cosplay girls or take your
photos taken with them in Harajuku? Other than Harajuku, did you have
a chance to talk to locals in Japanese? I definately want to see you in
the yukata. Would you upload your photos in the yukata somewhere cause
the only photo of you we know is this.

ttp://www.catsonmars.com/otaku/cosplay/nov03-02.jpg (^O^)

OMFG!!!! KEIRA IS THE BOMB!!!!

>>572
that picture is HOT!!!

>>573
Yeah, literally. like, about to explode.

>>572
am I being fished?
if that's the way you say it.

>>576
Trolled is the word, I guess. I'm not sure though.
Anyway the photo is what I found on the net. ^^

何言ってるのかまったく分からん

Anything decent to talk about in here?

is it really keira? or somebody else? lol

>>579
As if you were decent...

manman mite chinchin okki!!

Most of the time when you speak Japanese in the third person it is a) you're trying to act like an idiot or b) you're trying to act cute.

>>583
the key word is 「trying」

>>563
The midwest

>>564
DVDs and such run on different region codes too. I'm cheap anyways, all I plan on spending money on is food, a hotel (what hotel I go to might end up being... an experiance of it's own), and such.

>>585
These are some of the less expensive inns you can save your money on.
http://www.khaosan-tokyo.com/
http://www.tctv.ne.jp/members/sawanoya/eigo.html
http://homepage2.nifty.com/bedandbreakfastzen/index.htm

Just FYI.
Hope you'll enjoy your stay!

I'm in a serious depression. I better go to the suicide web site. haha
there is nobody I can talk my true feeling. I know I have to do something
about this, but I am just too tired...

>>572
Lol. Nice picture there.It's sad that bad cosplay pictures are so famous on the internet.
I've actually seen some really fantastic cosplays that deserve more attention.

Anyways!
It was raining, so I couldn't take any pictures, but my brother did. There weren't that many people there, since it was about 7pm, but they looked very interesting!
No, I didn't ask if I could take a picture, because they all looked so fantastic in their outfits that I didn't want to disturb them somehow...(usually I don't get shy, but for some reason I was)
I didn't get to use my Japanese much at all actually. :[
I usually was w/ my family the whole time, so I would order for them in Japanese. The waitresses liked that a little.
I only got to have a conversation once, and that was with my Japanese independant guide (The ones who take you around if you pay for their meals ect.)
He's a student, So I got to ask him about his favorite bands (He like Ajikan too!) and he told me he like karaoke and plays guitar for his band.
But he was very shy and didn't talk to much. He just navigated us through Nikko, and he watched us as we took a ton of pictures. n_n
I got to try Soba there. It's pretty good!

>>587
I'm sorry to hear that. Is it problems at work/school/home? Or are you one of those people who take life for granted? O_o

>>589
what is "life for granted"

I am better now. it goes up and down. problem comes from many places.
work, school, family etc. if you have somewhere I can
pour my true feeling, tell me where it is. I only know 2ch and few
others but I don't feel like I am talking to a real person. I know that's
only my problem. maybe I'll find a way to get away from this black hall.

>>590
" Taking life for granted" is when someone isn't valueing life the way that they want to or should.
life is something that only you can control, so people should try their best to live a happy peaceful life.
Busy students and bussiness men/women seem to forget about living a happy life, and settle for just a 'content' life, which may make them depressed and bored.

I'm sorry that you can't find people to talk to. I'm not very good at advice either. u__u;;
But I think that there are many forums online that offer support for depressed people.
As for outside of the internet, I'm not sure what you can do. In America there are hotlines and number that you can call for help, but I don't know about Japan...

>>591
yeah, thanks. I'll look for it.
or just do something else and try not to be depressed.
but today I don't know, I am too depressed. I know
tomorrow, I become very cheerful. thanks Keira

>>592
がんばって！
I hope you will feel better. Life is truly wonderful, it's hard to see it sometimes.
I can only hope to help all that I can.

I wanna saving of living expenses.
so I would have to start using ADSL that is Net circuit
What do you think?
by the way, now I using HKARI

>>593
yeah. yesterday, I was like a baby and could laugh a lot.
but today no more and all I do is cyring. please don't say
I am weak. sometimes we need to stay this way. life is not
just black and white. thanks keira. I don't ganbaru today though....

>>593
sorry keira. ok instead of going to some suicide or deressing sites,
I go to a Japanese tutorial site and help people who want to learn
Japanese languge. It makes me feel better.

I just take a nap for awhile see you.
hopefully I can get back on my feet from tomorrow...

>>586
Thanks, those are cheap. Maybe I'll have more money to blow off than I had thought.

>>587
Go do something like working out, it helps me. Speaking of learning Japanese, I need to focus because I lose motivation every time I try...

the electronic product with a lot of hightech functions
tend to break easily while simple products don't break often.
which one do you like?
of course, everybody wants the one with advanced technology
and infragible product. I'm trying to be like that.
wait for awhile. need a lot of checkings before that product
is released! ^^;

I like durable products, e.g. a mobile phone that an elephant can step on
and still works!!

>>600
only durable? don't need an advanced technology? umm....I see.
all the simple products can survive long.

why the products break down easily because of the
electric system, so if you don't care about those
functions, simple ones would survive long.
checking is important before it has gotten out
into the world.

has anybody here got iphone? or seen one?

>>603
not yet. how is it like?

what is it like?

I was going to buy an iphone untill I used my freinds for a bit. You can't have custom ringtones. There is no video and you can't save images from the very slow web browser. And there is no file browser at all.

Honestly,What the hell is the point of getting Iphone?

>>588
I think I undersatand how you get shy when you are in a situation in which you speak in a foreign language. Anyway, it's good to hear that you enjoyed Japan.

Did your mom design the whole trip by herself, such as where to go,
what time you would go where and what transportation you would use?
Or did the whole trip in Japan designed by a travel agency?
Was the tour guide in Nikko originally part of your travel plan or
you found out that a tour guide is available on the spot?

You don't make a sound when you eat noodles such as soba but we do.
Didn't you feel annoyed about slurping sound other Japanese made
there?

>>608

in which って使ってるんだから、その後のspeak in のin　は入らないよ。
あと、enjoyed japanより　enjoyed staying in Japanのほうが明確に伝わる。

>>608
Are you a police or something?

>>609
This is an English thread, so you should write those in English.

>>598
What would you like to do in Japan? Shopping electoronic gadgets in
Akihabara is the top priority?

I wonder what foreigners would want to do in Japan when they had a
chance to visit here. Before Japanese anime got popular overseas,
I think Kyoto was the most popular turist destination. But maybe
things have changed and Akihabara become the must-see for them.

>>610
I'm just curious to know if her mom designed the whole tour on her own.
Sorry if sounded like an FBI.

>>611

Aight dude.I apologize about it.

So... hmm.. It is so much better to use the phrase " enjoyed staying in japan"
to make it clear what you want to say instaed of just using "enjoyed japan".
The grammer you used at the beginning of the sentence which is "in which you speak in a foreign language" did not make any sence.
The correct grammer is "in which you speak a foreign language".

Well,it is not a big deal but the native speakers would notice that you are an ESL student or something.

>>614
I've already noticed that YOU are an ESL student.

One of my friends from US told me about
how they can notice whether if she or he is a good enlish speak or not.
When they hear the grammer mistake such as using "a" or"the" in the wrong place such as
"oh, look at the John!", they can just consider she or he as a non native speaker right away.

>>615
cool. prove it

*english speaker

>>614
Don't make me laugh.
Do you think your English=614 doen't look like ESL's English?
It sure looks like one.

The point of this thread is to chat in English without being afraid
of making mistakes. A Nitpicker like you is nothing but a nuisance.

>>619
great observation.

a person like you who aint really care about using wrong grammer
makes the japanese english skill lower. cant u notice? huh?

＞＞６１９
>>Do you think your English=614 doen't look like ESL's English?
ちょｗ注意するならちゃんとした文法使えよｗ　look like an ESL ENGLISHだおｗ

>>621
Can't you write English?
Just so you know, this is an English thread.

>>620
btw, it's 'grammar' not 'grammer.'

>>622

I doesnt speaks english very much.

>>614
X appologize about
O appologize for

X using "enjoyed japan".
* using doesn't sound natural.

X The grammer you used at the beginning of the sentence which is
"in which you speak in a foreign
* The flow of the sentense doesn't sound natural at all.

X did not make any sence.
* "does" not make any sense is far better than "did" not make any
sense. Plus, actually, it does make sense. Saying "not make sense"
is going overboard.

>>620
Your English is full of mistakes and unatural expressions. As I said,
just nitpicking mistakes is easy. You need to be more humble and
all you have to do is just improving your English instead of
correcting someone's English and feeling you are better.

Xmakes the japanese english skill lower.
*I know what you are trying to say but "skill" doesn't sound natural here.

By the way, I know my English is far from perfect, but I reocognize it
and that's what makes me different from >>614=>>620. ^^

>>626
I second!
You have a point.

All your Japanese is pretty decent. 620 > lulz

>>614 ran away with his tail between his legs?

>>608
Even though eating noodles quietly and not letting them dangle, but wrapping
then around a fork so it can be put into the mouth, is considered the 'proper'
and polite way to eat noodles in the West, it is still an archaic practice left
over from dining etiquette a couple centuries back. It is much easier (and far
more fun) to be able to just slurp them.

>>590
"Taking <something> for granted" is an expression which means not appreciating
the value of something from everyday life. For example, most of us take running
water and electricity for granted, when there are still many people in the world
who do not have it, and some even dying because they lack it.

So what's being said is that your quality of life is probably much better than that
of many other people in the world, and that it would be a better idea to find
something to distract yourself, or to make yourself happier, than to end your life
and never have the opportunity to feel happy or make others feel happy again.

My friend told me that Japanese people don't fart. Is this true? 萌え

No, we don't.　Do you? 萌え

phase 1.... school english
phase 2.... using the internet and other media you start learning english as a real language
(as opposed to the math formulaish high school english)
phase 3.... you feel superior to phase 1 people, you pick up "cool" words like "dude", "ain't",
"got no pants on", etc which phase 1 people are usually not familiar with, and overuse them
also have this urge to correct other peoples english
phase 4.... after a year or 2 you suddenly realise how "gay" it is to use those informal spoken
words with crappy grammar, and start hating phase 3 people with passion
phase 5.... you are done hating and your soul has become clear once again, you embrace all and
ascend to heaven

According to that, I guess I'm at the phase 3, dude.
It's way too cooler that way, isn't it? dude?

Yo dude im totaly at fase 3 and i own u all
u ppl aint shit comparred 2 me
i spek english better than all of u
u ppl r such noobs i pwn u all

>>634
Ain't that cool, dude.
Sounds like you ain't got no pants on.

I'm fine as long as he isn't wearing a skirt.

lol, I got no pants on.
Do you?

I'm wearing trousers.

I think this discussion has reached an important point where I must explain
the difference between the word "pants" in British English and American English.

In American English, pants is the use they use for trousers.

In British English, pants is the word we use for underwear.

Don't forget chips.

I'd have no pants on if I was in England or America.

I don't bloody hell understand what イギリス人 explained that for, mate.
What does the difference in the meanings between the two have to do with what's going on in this thread? mate?

I HAVE A DREAM

>>640
American people call the ground level floor the first floor, while
British people call it the ground floor. British people's first floor
is American people's second floor. I wonder what would happen to them
when they agreed to meet on the first floor of a building.. I wonder
if they could meet. Are there any big differences that could lead to
a big misunderstanding with American?

That's easy. They'd meet on the ground floor because the American couldn't
fit through the front door.

Rubber.

In American English, "rubber" is a term used to refer to condoms.
In proper English, "rubber" is what Americans call an "eraser".

So, for example, a British man could ask for some rubber in America and get a pack of condoms.
Or, an American man could ask for rubber in Britain and not get the thing he wanted.

Americans think they own the English language, but if you listen
to their euphemisms and swear words, they aren't very creative.
It sounds strange, but when you hear someone in America say "fuck", it
sounds sort of fake. Go to England and the same word sounds better.
At least in their songs it does.

I have to say that Americans are definately more lower class than the British.
For example, in Britain, you have "British Humour" based on wit, while Americans mainly watch slapstick comedy.

Everybody have fun tonight
Everybody wang chung tonight

hey! The U.K is under attack ! LOL
Terrorists bombed a airport!
I think the U.K has got what it deserves.
They killed millions of innocent people in Iraq and still keep killing.
Why do they love killing innocent people? I don't understand that.
Anyway, just one bomb isn't enough for the U.K to change their killing ways, I'm sure.

>>641
Good point... maybe I'll add to the list a bit.

Chips:
-American: ttp://img.alibaba.com/photo/11123391/Cassava_Chips.jpg
-British: ttp://www.grease-trap-software.com/picts/photofries.jpg

Actually, I'm lazy so will just post this article:
ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_words_having_different_meanings_in_British_and_American_English

>>643
To avoid confusion in the phrase from >>633... mate.

>>651
We will not fall for your bait.

I'd just like to mention that this "bombing" was, in fact, 2 people driving
a burning jeep into the entrance. One person hurt their leg a little bit,
and one of the drivers caught fire too.
Your case would be helped if you were able to research facts.

ttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6257194.stm

Change "UK" to "USA" and you have something closer to the truth.

>>652
Thanks for the link.

www.agloco.com/r/BBFP5694
Let's make your *******!!!

The U.K people is as guilty.
I'm sure it's easy for the British people to deny that, and believe the war in Iraq is just or the goverment is doing it.
In reality, the British people just like killing millions of innocent people.
Why else do they still keep killing innocent people?
If the British people wanted, they could easily stop doing that.
You can spin the truth all you want, but the truth remains.

>>657
Have you just broken up with a British girl and have a grudge on UK or
something? I don't see any point of accusing only UK regarding operations in Iraq.

Japan is as much involved in the issue as UK or the US is. Don't
forget that Japan's Self Defence aircraft are still serving in Iraq.

Don't forget that JSDF aircraft don't kill millions of innocent people.
657, if you want someone to blame, blame America for wanting a grip on the oil market in the first place.

seems like we got so many brit wannabes here or is this hong kong??

I wouldn't call them wannabes.

i'm sure you wouldn't. lol

ジョン万次郎 ◆4dTUcb6O0c must be NEET.

no way. he's a great historical figure. i dunno what exactly he did tho lol

NEET is a countable noun.

>>660
Does that make any difference? There isn't any innocent bystander here.

I DIDN'T DO IT!!

ジョン万次郎 ◆4dTUcb6O0c, you speak funny language.

>>669
Who said so?

>>670
What a hell are you talking about?

>>608
The trip that we went on had only morning tours. So we would have the rest of the afternoon to ourselves.(which is when we went to harajuku, shibuya, ginza, roppongi, ect)
The trip to Nikko was offered by the tour, but we thought it would be cheaper to use an independant guide, so we used that instead. haha.
Although, It was our guide's first time ever, so he spoke about as much English as I can speak Japanese. But that was okay, since i think that if he could speak english well, he might be too shy to use it anyways. n_n

When We were eating soba, our guide was slurping rather noisely, and my mom was trying very hard not to laugh. She didn't find it rude, but she did find it funny.I tried slurping, but I can't quite do it as well.lol.
I was afraid I'd slurp it too fast and the soba juice would fly onto my clothes and hair.lol.

>>646
I'm American, but that still made me lol. xD

I think that Americans and the English are much more similar than we would like to believe. xD
I'm not sure why there is a bit of discontentment between the US and UK. The UK undoubtedly has a long lasting and interesting history and culture, but I don't think that Americans are stupid or less sophisticated. O_o
Every nation has smart people and dumb people. Although... i do worry about my generation lately...so media/celebrity obsessed and selfish. =____=;;

>>672
Although, I hear that the UK has problems with Chavs as well. lol
I wonder which is worse: American Gangsters or Chavs?

hi.
i wanna join you.
im a university student.and working for a restaulant at roppongi
because i wanna go to english school,like berlitz.
but i cant afford to.but there are so many oppotunity to talk to foreigner in english.
my english is not good.but i WANT to be a good english speaker.
yoroshiku onegaishimasu.

>>673
I'll still say chavs...

Also, I think the US vs. UK thing is mainly just aggravated and exaggerated through
random people trolling online. When people of either country meet face to face, it's
usually much friendlier, I find.

>>674
Welcome! I hope posting here helps you improve your English.

I love fishing! Does anyone else here enjoy fishing - salt water or freshwater?

>>676
is it fun? then I should try.


>>674
welcome to this board! your English is not bad at all.

>>674
welcome to this board!

I think your English is not bad at all. gambatte!

As Keira said yesterday,
it's silly to be so devestated, I will try to do
new things to change myself slowly. although I can't make myself
vibrant yet, it is important to try to find an exit.
I've been visiting one Japanese tutorial site and
J'nse language learners appreciate me a lot. And not many
J'nse visit there, maybe me and one girl only, so if you
are interested in it, pls let me know. it is important to feel
that you are needed in this world. I go to school from tomorrow.
I have one person that I can talk to. and even I don't talk at all,
it's just a school, so learning is important and I can laugh when somebody says a joke.
better than being too lonely.

>>677
It's nice to hear that you are feeling better now.

>>678
Thanks! ^^

>>679
It's also cool that the Japanese tutorial site helped you gain strength.

I'm interested in that site. Can you tell me which site you've been to?
I should try that myself!

>>672
yes, it's not a matter of nationalities but individual's
qualities. Every nation has smart and dumb people.
But IMO, if you come to Japan, what did you think?
they are different from American, right? so it' the same
thing. When I went to Europe, I felt they are more similar
to Japanese in terms of their natural behavior, take things as it is,
no more or no less, modesty. I feel American value win and lose
or try to be tough. I feel Europeans are more sophiciticated,
because of the history, inheritance from old generations make
people that way. On the other hand, I don't see those sophisitication
in U.S. But so far, I've only met pure and good hearted American
people in my life, so I also like American.

>>680
ok go to this link. But at first you need to be a member.
if you ever need any help, let me know, I'll instruct you.^^

http://www.soompi.com/forums/index.php?s=7438d9812ca671b6bc906fd116eadeca&showtopic=9296&st=2700

>>682
Thanks!

>>683
welcome! did you like it?

>>684
well, I have't registerd or anything, but it looks totally cool.

I browsed throgh a couple of pages and started to wonder if this was a Japanese tutorial site.
Is it really a K-POP site. isn't it?
Since I don't have a Korean friend, it's nice to be a member there and make some friends.
But I'm also wondering if the site has a mixed participants from other nations.
Do you know if there are a lot of people from different contries in the site?

>>685
I'm not sure. but I would say most of them are Asians who live in
various countries, U.S., Europe, Taiwan, Australia. It is mainly
a website for the entertainment, mostly about Asian music or movies and dramas.
But where I showed was a tutorial thread. I used to post on
the drama or music section before. It is a huge site.

>>686
It's true!
it's a huge site with all the cool stuff.
this is a new discovery for me.
I'll probably join the membership. Thanks!

>>687
I'm glad you like it.
try to explore it. there are many interesting threads.

>>681
Yeah, I am not against American or anything but
I think that they take too much value on wining.
Also they probably think fighting spirit can beat every little hazard.
I have never lived in U.S.A, so I can't say they are this
or that. Just an idea gotten from everyday's news, what I
feel from the hollywood movies, how they behave, etc.. Sorry
if I am wrong.

Everytime keira is here, I pop wood., I get a hard-on.
I don't know why. Could someone tell me?

>>690

In other words, you are in love with keira?
or just seeing her as a sex object.

>>681
Thank you, I see your point. It's also how Americans are raised. We're encouraged to voice up and speak out if we have to.
I guess Americans are more...I don't know... Dramatic, maybe?

>>689
Actually, I would agree with you a little bit there.Competiveness is pretty big here... Although i'm more of the "Can't we all just get along?" type.
Yeah, I'm kind of whimpy. haha

>>690
I'm not sure whether I should be flattered or disturbed. O_o;;
lol

>>692
Hi! I can see that. You don't want a dissension and a commotion
in a group, right? ^^;

Ah, ah, ah, I come back to see a lot of anti-American postings again. :(
I'd like to point out that many of you are generalizing too much
and not taking certain factors into consideration. First off, it
really depends on how the specific person is raised. The US is a
melting pot of many, many cultures, and we have one of the highest
if not the highest immigration rate in the world. As such, it is
not fair to say that it's the US itself that is at fault for some
of the people contained within its borders. It's just like anything
else - the sore thumb stands out. I'm sure I've used the analogy
before, but if you're in a beautiful mountain range and stub your
toe, your attention is on the toe and not on the mountains. What's
bad in society tends to stand out and be more apparent. It's human
nature to be pessimistic in this manner. Every culture on the planet
has its bad apples, and the US is not an exception. While to call
the US a culture of its own is a little too abstract (due to it
being largely a mix of subcultures), I think you'll all get my
point.
I've not found any foreigner who has found me to be rude. Nor have
I found one who has openly labeled me as arrogant, or anything of
the sort. I work with a lot of foreigners on a lot of projects
that I work in - people from all around the globe. So to say that
all Americans are rude or that all Americans are fat or any
generalization of the sort is like saying all English people like
tea or all Japanese eat sushi. Stereotypical nonsense.
>>648
Where did you get the ridiculous idea that we think we own
the language? Another senseless generalization that I don't believe
is common enough to even apply in this case.
I could go on, but for the sake of brevity, I'll leave it at that.

*Applause*
I'll second that!
As a matter of fact, I know Americans who are not fat, lol~~

>>695
Indeed. It's just become a fad to dislike the US. It's kind of sad,
really, how people fall right into it. It really shows which types
of people are leaders and can think for themselves, and which are
simply mindless followers.

As you probably already know, that a research result shows that
only 20% of people in any size of society is capable and sensible.
This theory itself may also sound too stereotypical, but I kind of
belive it.
20% thinks, but remaiing 80% are either quite mob or loud mob!!
I try to belong to the 20%.

>>697
Sounds about right to me. I don't know where you get your figures,
but I can see what you mean.

So I came to this conclusion.
Americans are fat.
British are gay.
Am I right?

>>699
Right? No.
You're just a troll. :(

use your brain

>>694
In summary, for those who may not be able to follow:

A person should be judged by their own merit, not by their nationality or race.

rite ratobarita urusu ariaros bar netrel

the words mean to save me
save me revial eternal light

rite ratobarita urusu ariaros bar netrel

Tell me what has happened to Yukorin.
I haven't seen her on TV lately.
Why?

call me captain

I've been up all night. Going to sleep now. Until next time...

OMG....I wanted talk to Ether live...but he's probably gone..
Oyasumi~~
from tonight there will be a drama "Hanazakari no Kimitachi e"
Horikita Maki-chan is soooooo cool. She'll be disguised
as a boy in a boy's school. I bet this drama's producer
knows how to show her true beauty. She would be x10 prettier
in boy's style than just being as a ordinary girl....geez how cute....

I find myself unable to sleep. My mind is too active. :(

I hate when this happens. My body is tired but my mind is still
quite awake. Ah well, I'll probably wear out in another half hour
or so.

>>707
Talk to me? About what, in particular?

Oh there you are! lol
nah...I just found you are a nice guy, so...@_@;;

well good night but I think it must be very late in your place,
or even in the morning? when you can't sleep, I guess it's ok
to awake and watch dvd or something...I often do that. ^^
but if you'd successfully fall in sleep good night! (^^)/~

>>709
Yes, it's morning here. Around 6:50A.M.

I've been awake since yesterday sometime, so I'll go to sleep in a
little while here, I suppose. In any case, my body is tired so I'm
going to go lay down - whether sleep comes soon or not, I won't know
until the time comes. :(

Anyhow, thanks for the compliment. Good night.

>>709
yeah, but you know, he is like the wind,
so no one can catch him!

Will anyone talk with me?

everybody please tell me
in the thread lives コテハン達 who are they?

>>713
??? who are they? why you want to know? even you
have never introduced yourself.^^;

>>714
answar is i just know.
not good?

answar is i just want to know
yes?

イギリス人、スコットランド人、you guys have no time to waste! Hurry up and
contact with her!
ttp://www.maltastar.com/pages/msfullart.asp?an=13241

There seemed to be another case. She seemed to sell her verginity
successfully. Do you know how she's doing now? Is the Bristol University
a prestageous university? One article says her father is a doctor.
I wonder if it still is hard to pay tuition even if your fathrer is a doctor

ttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/3429769.stm
ttp://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/archive/oldnews3/rosie.htm
ttp://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/archive/oldnews/virginsell.htm

The meaning is not understood. What do you want to know?

>>644

MARTIN HAS A DREAM

Let's make a peaceful, free world without blood.

>>717
All I know about the student who sold her virginity in 2004 is that it was
a 44 year old telephone engineer who won the auction.
I feel that anyone who offers themselves for money is still a kind of
prostitute. Personally, I feel that if there is no emotional attachment,
it is not worthwhile at all, and gives away one part of our lives which
we can still count as truly personal.

Bristol University is one of the top 15 universities in the UK, according to
the league table compiled every year by The Guardian newspaper, but is by no
means counted as one of the prestigious universities.
(Source: ttp://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Education/documents/2007/05/24/thisone.xls)

>>721
Thank you for your response and the link. I don't understand the
way she chosed to pay back her debt for tuition. Maybe her good academic
record doesn't necessarily lead to a wise decision.

>>672
I haven't traveled overseas so I don't know what it's like, but seems
like you can design your travel plan to a certain extent. It was good
your mom didn't take slurping as rude.

i have no time to get down on this board
cuz there are many things to do.
making a paper issue in english is my asignments for my class.
that is not so difficult. but dull...lol

can i ask my serious worry.
she is my friend at the parttime job, and so interasting person.
i like her as a FRIEND.
but she call me darling, and send me email everyday for nothing.
i hate her behavior as like we are close.
i wanna say please, please dont sent me email day after day, at least.
but,she is a friend in job.
so i wannt to get some cloud in our relationship.(can you get what i mean?)

what should i do. please tell me some good way.

>>724
Don't reply to her so soon and make it short when you do. She'll know.

>>724

>so i wannt to get some cloud in our relationship

first of all, are you a boy? I thought you were a girl..
anyway, I don't get what you mean by some cloud....

if I were you, I'd just say "I have somebody I seriously in love,
so sorry but pls look for somebody else".
is it too harsh? but being straight forward is better than being too
ambiguous in this case. ^^;

>>725
yeah, i already did the way you think.
like,yes or no mail. but she is taugh,,,even today, i got a mail from her...

>>727
you probably made her believe that you have a feeling towards her?
or you had date with her more than once?
then the situation would be different.

um...if you gave her an expectation that
if she works hard, her wish be granted, of course
she would work hard on it....so you told her that
you like her?

Interesting stuff in the news about defense minister Kyuma. Do you think America should issue a formal appology for the atomic bombings as per Ichiro Ozawa's request?

Yes

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>>730
As a Japanese, yes, I do think the US owes an apology to those who
have suffered from the bombing, especially because the US could
have chosen to hold back the second one instead of dropping two.
Japan was devastated and it was a matter of time for them to surrender.
I thinkg it's clear that the US's intention was not just to end the war
but also to show off some of its technology and military ability, mainly to Russia,
and to experiment the state-of-the-art "genocider."

You can watch where 2ch's servers are and how they are managed.
In part 4, you can watch an interview of president of a company
which takes care of 2ch's servers on the West coast in US.

1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JitcAwajlNA
2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIhuPe4wrCs
3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI5ree9YYqg
4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHWi2-R0uM0

As an American, I think the USA should issue a sincere apology. Not very likely to happen now that we live under the rule of an insane dictator. One who mocks his people daily and causes untold suffering. This is going to be the saddest 4'th of July ever.

As an alien, I'm thinking about invading the earth.

Can I be the first to receive an anal probe?

As an alien, I'm just interested in natural resources on the earth,
so I'm not going to explore your anal. I'm going to explore African
continent though. Wait... Maybe I'll explore your anal searching for
methane.

>>738
Remember to take Jack Thompson back with you.

...Please?

>>739
Hi, Ether!

Would you tell me which one sounds better.↓


1: It would take you 5 munites to tell the stories of your entire school life if you tried to coondense it.

2: You can condense all of your school life events into 5 minutes story.

3: You could tell your stories in 5 minutes of everything you had experienced in your school years if you would make it brief.

4: Your entire school life can be condensed into 5 minutes story.



Let's say, if you told kids in a primary school that there used to be wooden refrigerators which used no electricity, they would not believe you.

1: You would probably be challenged by them saying how you can cool the contents without electricity.
2: They would even challenge you since they probably believe that it is impossible to cool the contents without electricity.
3: That would get you into a situation where they challenge you with the belief that it is impossible to cool the contents without electricity.

Which Jack Thompson, I wonder?

ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson

>>740
Honestly, they're all a little odd sounding. If I were to phrase
it, I would say something along the lines of...

It would take a mere five minutes to tell all the tales of your
school life.

...Or something along those lines. Really, there's a large number
of ways you could put it. If you want it short and to-the-point,
an adaptation of your (4) would be adequate (with a small grammatical
correction: "Your entire school life can be condensed into a five minute
story.").

With English, you can put the same point or meaning in a very large
number of different ways. There isn't a "right" and a "wrong" way,
so as long as it's grammatically correct and carries the meaning
you wish to convey, you're just fine!

>>741
ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_%28attorney%29

>>742
Thanks, Ether!

I just wanted to know how to make them sound more acceptable to a native speaker.
I really appriciate your taking time to answer my questions.
I used to live in Amarica but still I am struggling to put it without any errors.

I'm sorry to bother you, but I'd also like you to read the other line starting with "Let's say"
and tell me how you would put it to mean the following (1)-(3).

>>743
Ahh, I'm sorry, I was busy and didn't notice the rest of the post.

1. They would likely pose a question as to how you could cool the contents of
the refridgerator without electricity.

2. They may even assert that it is impossible to cool the contents of the
refridgerator without electricity.

3. They would question you with the assertion that it is impossible to cool
the contents of the refridgerator without electricity.

...Or something along those lines. As I stated before, English is
very flexible - this is just one of many ways it could be approached.

Ether is nice.

>>721
So you mean, top universities and prestigious universities are different things?
I'd assume Oxford and Cambrige (spelling?) are considerd prestigious?

X refridgerator
O refrigerator

X frige
O fridge

>>744
Thanks again, Ether.

Now I feel bad for what I've done to you.
You are really nice and I really appriciate for that!

>>748
why you feel bad?
you can just appreciate him but don't feel bad lol

>>748
No problem. :)

Feel free to post more if you need further assistance (everyone else
can do the same, as well). I don't mind helping out when I'm around
to read.

>>747
Wow, you got me there. I tend to make that mistake a lot. I also
tend to write blonde instead of blond when referring to a male's
hair as well. I have to catch myself on these errors, as they're
too easy to make! You'll find a lot of native speakers misspelling
refrigerator, I'm willing to bet. It just sounds like there would
be a 'd' sound there, so it's common to place it there.

I'm impressed that you caughtthat. Thanks, too - I might've kept on
with that had you not caught it.

>>745
Thanks.

(Sorry for double post)

caught that*

>>751
go ahead and post two three four in a row. ^^

You're once, twice, three t〜imes a lady..........

>>753
I haven't heard that song in a long, long time. :P

lol 653 knows old songs

I wonder what "three times a lady" means.

>>756
maybe they want to do it 3 times consecutive (shaking hands? ) lol

>>756
Maybe it means you are more than just a lady?

>>756
When they're saying 'a lady', they're referring to the traits of a
'lady' (that being polite, socially respectable, and overall a
reserved and cool-headed woman (it's the female form of 'gentleman'
basically)). Therefore, to be "three times a lady", I suppose, would
mean that they were a lady three times over - or, put differently, that
they were extremely well mannered. It's kind of hard for me to put
into words, so bare with me. It's a song, and meanings behind lyrics
are always hard to explain. :(

>>757, 758, 759
Gee, thanx so much for your answers.
I reckon that "three times a lady" is a great compliment for women.

>>759

three times over....?
she should be extremely faithful to him?
Oh I got it! ^^;

>>760
I suppose it would be, but it would be kind of strange to say to
some woman. First, if they know anything about older music they'd
know it was a lyric, second, it just sounds weird...

Of course someone could try to be charming and sing the song. I've
seen that happen. It's rather funny for the onlookers - and usually
embarrassing for the woman (but endearing nonetheless). More common
in bars, I'd say. xD

>>761

Mmm, I wouldn't say that's quite it. To be a lady is to be a well-
mannered woman. So to be three times a lady would be to be an
extremely well mannered woman, I suppose.

>>763
Yep yep *nods* so he loves her
coz she is so faithful and well mannerd
and kind beautiful understanding smart sexy
etc...gee I need to be a 3 times lady lol
so that my bf won't dump me. lol ^^

>>762
I'm curious if he suceeded in winning her heart, lol, but anyway,
thank you very much for the interesitng explanaiton!

You are three times a jerk.

>>766
Ditto to you, lol

>>764
Haha. Yeah, you seem to understand. Causing trouble for your
boyfriend? :P

>>764
I didn't know that you're a girl.

>>768
yep...and I have a huge regret...U_U
I must be 0 times lady 0 x 2 = 0 0 x 10 = 0

>>769
Gee, I didn't know that you were gay!

>>764
oh sometimes there are girls in this thread lol

>>771
geez I didn't kno you were a trans!!!

>>772
Then at least 2 right now, because I'm one.

>>770
Hehe, it's fine to cause trouble once in a while, I guess. Just not
too much... :P

Just be yourself.

>>774
really? O_O I don't even know how many ppl are here
right now lol me girl yes yes ^^;

>>775
yep yep that's a pretty good advice! ^^
I will! ^^

>>775
What ringing music (tone) do you use for your cell phone?

>>778
I actually don't have a cell-phone. I don't need one yet. I will
need one soon, though, so I'll be getting one within the next
few months probably.

>>779
I see, thanx!

talking about teletabies, they said the purple one is
disgusting....oh well...is he a gay?

How many people here have iPOD? cause I don't have one.

what was the name of the purple dinosaur which was very popular among
kids about a decade ago?

I wonder how a character base on sponge can be that popular in the US!

>>782
I don't either, but I see a lot of them on the train.

>>783
oh there was?
ok so that is an old story, not exist anymore? ^^;

>>783
Barney.

>>782
A lot of people have them here.

>>781
There was a controversy over the weird handle on his head.
Supposedly, it was a symbol recommending homosexuality or
something. I can't remember... it was years ago.

>>785
I have one. it is really good.
I always keep in with me. I never forget
to bring when I go out. If I forget to put it in my purse
I become so sad....T_T

>>787
Barney, yes!
I can sleep tonight, thank you!

>>781
O_O? really then my guess was right! ^^;

I am also a girl!




Since two weeks ago anyway.

>>788
Hehe. I haven't had a reason to get one, really. I have a reason now,
so I'll get one when I can. I don't have a lot of people to call.

>>792
hehehe that's good news

>>791
OMG...lol so you must be the real purple teletaby lol

>>791
Congrats!

>>782
I don't have one but I use my cell-phone to listen to the music.
My favorite right now is rihanna! and gunther. lol

>>781, >>787
On the Teletubby thing, some of the more extreme Christians decided the
triangle on his head was the Gay Pride symbol, his purple colouring was
the Gay Pride colour, and he used to carry a handbag around with him all
the time, which is pretty gay I think.

Sometimes people think I'm gay, oh well...

>>795
Sorry, but I really have to say this...

Ohh, you touch my tra-la-la. My ding-ding dong.

>>796
REALLY? OMG...so is that bad?
my friends called me a purple teletubby on the other day even
I am not a gay....(they are north american ppl
so I'm sure they meant "gay")!!! Prob they thought
I am a gay....!!!

>>796
>Sometimes people think I'm gay, oh well...

Is that because of your hat?

gay is attractive in a way. so no worries. ^^;

>>798 >>796

>>798
oh la la

teeny weeny string bikini!

Is the singer "Prince", or whatever is called, also gay?

>>802
yeah he is totally a purple guy lol

>>798
Do you caryy a handbag?

>>804
yes...but not a girlish one...

A lot of Japanese men might look gay to Americans because of their tight outfits.
Also more men don't hesitate to wear pink in Japan.

>>806
I think American men also like pastel colors.

>>799
Tomorrow maybe I'll show you my hats and you can decide which are gay!

>>801
This is your night
Come and hold me tight
...
oh la la
cha cha cha

>>806
I dunno the gay's world...
but they find the real gays easily, right?
so if 798 is not the realy gay, even how he likes to
wear pink or puple outfits, the real gay can tell he
is not one of the peers immediately! so no worries
the real non-gays will have you in a group one day.....lol ^^;

>>806
yeah, but try not to wear purple so often,
and wear green and black instead! lol or blue!
real men wear those colors! gambatte ^^

Oops, I numberd wrong...

>>801was meant for >>797.....but, anyhow looks just right. lol

>>809
Yeah, that's what gay people say.
They say they can tell if a guy is straight of gay immediately,
but I really wonder how they can do that?

>>811
at least there are two girls on this board right now
and at least 2 gays or allegedly non-gay but looks like gay
are around lol

>>812
well instince. that's all I can say.
we all know which girl want to fu** with you
and which one don't want to...the same thing ^^;

* instince ×　instinct ○
opps sorry

>>814
Do you really know which girl want to fu** with you?
You are a genious!!

>>797
Gunther cracks me up!!
First, I thought he was old, but he looks younger now especially in his recent clip.
I've even started to think he looks like Beckham a little bit. lol

well...instinct.
you feel whetehr this girl is interested in you or not.
just that. I just used the expression that way hehe...

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/kanose/20050207/hosokin

>>819
what's the hell is this?

So I'm leaving for Japan 2 weeks from today and will be staying in
Shinagawa. My questions following this statement I am responsible for
finding ticket and train information for traversing the Yamanote line
but I cant find any good information surrounding the fact that we only
need day tickets. Anyone from the Tokyo area have a good understanding
of what tickets we should get and how much they cost?

Thanks

This doesn't sound very good at all...
ttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19230461/

>>822
I need to keep an eye out for that

>>823
You do that. Mail me and tell me how it tastes. :P

>>824
Can do.

100 yen shop?

>>821
Yamanote line is run by JR East.
Here's their website in English:
http://www.jreast.co.jp/e/index.html

It says 3-day pass costs \10,000 (about $80.00).
I guess this is for the people traveling around Eastern Japan, rather than Tokyo area.
I also found 1-day pass limited to Tokyo area for \2,300, but it's still kind of expensive.
If you're gonna ride just Yamanote line, and not plannig to get on and off
many times, it might be better to get a prepaid card called 'suica.'
You don't get any discount, but you can charge an exact amount you'll be spending.
It's actually pretty fun to use it, all you have to do is slap it against the
gate machine.

>>822
I've seen those those already!

But I didn't dare to try one. I was like, .......who would buy these?
Though I like to try new products on the market.

>>828
Really now? You should buy one next time and report its taste to us. :P

>>829
All right, I will.
BTW, what's :P?

>>830
A textual emoticon. Eyes and a mouth w/tongue sticking out.

There are some reactions to the drink on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzBtSgPpr9U Pretty girls like the drink. 萌え :F

I liked the celery soda pop I found in NY several years ago.
They even had low-calorie version of it.
If you like celery, I highly recommend it!

あの寿司屋は、確かに私たちがおよそ5年前に行った所です。

お願いします

スレ間違えました

...If only I knew more kanji... :<

>>834
If only I knew japanese :P

>>821
Oh!
I stayed in Shinagawa too!
Yes, use the JR/yamanote line. It's very useful. I used it to get to Ginza, Harajuku, and Shibuya!
And it(JR) has signs in english inside the train. If you're just going to one place in a day, just buy a ticket using those little dispensing machines, but use the english option.
If you want to use the subway to get around quite a few places, I'd use the Daypass. SO much easier than buying new tickets over and over.

>>827
Oh! "Suica"?
the first time we ever used the subway, we didn't know that we had to put the ticket into the gate machine so that we could leave the station, so we watched what other people were doing.
Mom saw someone slap their card onto the circular area, but she didn't see the card in his hand! so she walked by, slapping her hand on the machine, and it tried to close on her, but she got through in time. LOL.
We all laughed at her about that for a while. We asked her: "What did you expect? For it to read your palm print? Japan isn't THAT advanced, mom" lol.
I feel a little bad for teasing her, but she laughed about it too.

>>839
LOL~~

>>839
LMAO you mom's so cute!!!!!

And 841 is so ugly!!! I felt like vomiting..

>>834That sushi parlor is a place to which we had certainly gone about five years
ago.

Your English sucks. My kung fu is stronger.

That sushi house is definitely the place we went to about five years ago.

Five to definitely ago place the is sushi went we years house that about.

>>838
a little dispensing machine was enough for you?
lol umm.....for the travellers who want to go around around in Tokyo,
I'd recommend Suica. There are something like suica everywhere in Japan,
so try to buy one of those at first and use train or subway. That's my recommendation.
when I visited S Korea, moving around by subway was the best thing to see
the ordinary citizens in the city, so I really recommend all the toursts to
buy one of those and look around. It should be x10 interesting than touring
by bus or whatever....

use your brain

x10 a lady...

x10 older lady...

>>847
What made me vomit about your post..

lol umm.....

x10

u ru sa i

X x10 interesting than
O ten times more interesting than

lol
100 times more intersting than....

>>834
that sushi restaurant was the one we surely visited about 5 years ago.

>>847
Where can you purchase a Suica card? I have been through the JREast
english website and it really doesn't give me much. Can you purchase
them at the station for a upfront fee then charge it or how would that
work from Narita airport for example.

>>855
why put "surely" in there?

>>856
Hmmm
In my opinion, for the short-term tourists, Suika is not necessary.
You can buy a ticket each time, and it is not too much inconvenient, I guess.

I am Barney, a purple teletaby and moreover suffered
from Osteogenesis Imperfecta (collagen disorder)...
why do I have to deserve all these? (T_T)

>>857
coz someone asked us to translate. and in the Japanese sentence
there was a word, 確かに

>>859
did you do something bad?

>>856
You can get it any JR station, even at Narita I guess, though a card itself costs you \500.
I think it starts from \2000(so \1500 for train fees) and you can charge it up to \20,000 or so.
If you return your card when you're done with it, you'll get the deposit of \500 back,
but you might want to save it for a memento.
You can buy a soda from vending machines or eat in at Soba stands with the Suica logo on, too.

>>861
Nope. I don't know why
and my legs hurt because of this OI...

>>863
I dunno why either...
whatever you do, you get a bad something? but most of the
time you get nice some gift, don't you?
even you take an action or take no action,
you'd become a Barney anyway. maybe do nothing
is the best...I dunno what to say...but take care!

Thanks >>862

>>859
Well, it sounds pretty serious there.
Are you a girl? because wemen have more chance to have that kind of disease than men.
If it's not so much progressed yet, there is something you can do about it.
Try to find a good doctor and you'll be all right I hope.

>>866
Barney is a name of a man, you know.

>>867
He means that? or are you>>859?

Today is American Independance day!
Tonight we are goint to have a BBQ, and see huge fireworks at the park!

The Tanabata is coming up in Japan right? I'm sure there will be a great festival for that as well!
What are everybody's plans?

>>847
Oh! Hmmm, Perhaps suica might have been a good idea...but I didn't mind waiting in line for a ticket like the rest of the Japanese people. Makes me feel more native! (even though people were looking at me a lot. lol)

Densha Otoko is back!

>>870
What do you mean by back?

>>869
Bah, Independence Day...

Okay, we're not really bitter about that anymore! Well... maybe just the dumping
of the tea, but I hate tea anyway so it's okay.
It's quite impressive how 4th July is recognised by a lot of the world (perhaps
because of movies), yet even in England, most people don't really really know
when our own national holiday is (April 23 - St. George's Day).

Anyway, hope you have a nice feast and fireworks!

>>799
As promised, here is a picture showing a small sample of my hat collection.
ttp://img252.imageshack.us/img252/3712/hatswy5.jpg

>>746
The top universities are generally the ones that perform the best overall, which
happens to include Cambridge and Oxford.

The prestigious universities are the ones that usually depend on the family's social
standing and influence in order to become accepted. I have a friend who got 4 A-Levels
(basically a qualification which also goes towards university entry score) at over 90%
each, and she was still rejected from Oxford.

>>869
I heard that you are prohibited to buy fireworks personally.
In Japan they carry firworks even in a convenience store.
Check out some videos if you are interested.
ttp://www.hanabistore.com/douga.htm
ttp://youtube.com/watch?v=Mq3nJxnZKl8

And some images.
ttp://www.hanabistore.com/ranking.htm

Happy American Independence Day!
Tonight will be filled with fire :D

>>872
Veeeerrrrryyyyyyyy COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLL.
Hats shot close up look like high quality hats. I have no doubt that you look like
a gentleman in those hats! Like a Sherlock Holmes!

Wait.. Gas mask made of leather? Or is it for a pilot?
What about black one next to gas mask? If you wear it, it covers your
head and face except eyes and nose?

>>869
Why don't you wear yukata You got in Japan during BBQ?

Hi, I'm in France right now. this is for my job and learning French.
but French is fuckin difficult for me. i guess its more and more
complicated than Eng. here, everyday im speaking Eng, Jap, and French
so my brain is almost broken!

btw, can somebady use three languages including eng and jap?
if yes, did u feel difficulty when you first tried to learn third language?

>>875
Thanks! But... most of the hats came from charity shops, which means they
were probably donated by relatives of dead people. However, this is a good
way to get good items quite cheap. A Sherlock Holmes hat would be nice too!

As for the gas mask, it's made of rubber, and is from Russia sometime in the
1950s. However, it's not very effective. Once, I tried slicing onions while
wearing it, but my eyes still stung and watered. The black thing next to it
is for wearing while skiing and snowboarding, to keep the face warm while
still wearing a hat and goggles over it.

>>877
In the UK, it is compulsory to take another European language at school,
usually either French, German or Spanish. I took French. And yes, you're
right, it does seem more difficult for me to learn Japanese, but maybe
that's because I'm no longer learning a language as a child, when it is
easier to pick up.

I have a friend who is learning French, too, as her third language. Her
main complaint is that having gender-specific items is very confusing.
However, I think that English is more complicated in other ways, and French
is more logical... perhaps you're finding it difficult because you learned
English first.

Happy 4th, everyone. :)

I think I'll take my little sister outside tonight to see
the fireworks. Maybe light some of our own, too.

HAPPY AMERICA INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!!

Ether congrats! (can I say congrats in this case?)

anyway it's holiday today?

>>879
Happy 4th!!

I have a very rudimentary English question:
How young does one have to be to be called a 'little sister or little broher'?
Because in Japanese we have specific words for older brother/sister (兄/姉）
and younger brother/sister (弟/妹）, but don't have the variations, like
'little' sister or 'younger' sister.
Or is it so that no matter how old she gets, she is still 'little' relative to you,
so you can call her a 'litte sister' even when she becomes 60 yrs old?

>>881
In the West, even if we're 80, if our sibling is 76, they're still our little brother or sister.
If they're younger than you, they'll always be your 'little ...'.

Huh, I wrote a reply but it never posted it...

>>881
A little sister (or younger sister) is a sister that is younger than
myself. A big sister (or older sister) is one that is older than myself.
Even if she were 60 and I was older, she'd still be my little sister,
but I'd me more likely to call her my sister than I would be to
attach little to the name. It's mostly used when the sibling is younger.

Oops..

I'd be*

that's interesting!
then your "little" will be staying with
you forever! ^^ your big is also? lol
MacDonald's big mac and coke a little size.

>>885

Haha. Yes, to her, I'm her big brother (or older brother). However,
when she's older, she'll probably just call me her brother.

>>882
Cheers.
I see, English language is weird, because when I hear the word 'little',
at least I get the impression that the object is very small and maybe cuddly, or something,
but my little brother is not!
But I'll start using 'litte' instead 'younger'(which we learn to use at school) from today.

In further analogy, I'm 22 and my sisters still call me 'little brother'.

>>859
poor boy.
hopefully you'll find a good doctor and
cure your legs. About Barney thing,
I dunno what you mean. You used to be popular among people and now
everybody threw away? just don't worry about it.
Be yourself. it's silly to go with the flow. they
just pick up some unique character and say "kawaii!!"
make some noise, and thow it away when they get tired of it.
You just need to have an everlasting value.

"little" sounds like a small and fragile.
but actually you are strong and tough enough.
then little is no longer a "little" thing
maybe it's better to call "ex-" or "previously"
lol

If someone called me their ex-brother, I'd be worried that they were planning to
kill me!

>>887
yeah, we all learn younger sister, older sister.
English education in Japan is always different from
what they actually speak.

>>892
oh...is that so?
is it something like late- ?
yeah, then "little" is for eternity...^^;

BTW, I can't view your hat pics...

>>890
Ex and previously would infer that they were no longer your sibling.
As such, it wouldn't be correct.

>>892
Well, those two are correct. Little sister and big sister are more
informal.

opps now I can view it! sorry
hey!! your leather mask is interesting!
how do you use it? lol

>>894
Though informal, I find them more affectionate too.

you hat collections are so cool!

Looks like Star Wars is popular in Japan!. What words would I use to describe something like "the force" in Japanese?

>>895
Ah, the gas mask! It's fairly tight, but you have to force it over your
head. It's very awkward if you have longer hair though, and it's squashed
against your ears... and if you breathe too heavily, the eye glass fogs up.

There is a filter for the mouth, but because it was made in the 1950s in
Russia, I don't really trust it and so keep it off. I must confess that I
only bought it because it was about £8 from eBay... But it might be useful
in case of a chemical attack!

>>896
yeah, that's I find, too.
While the words Younger and Older only refer to the relative age difference,
Little and Big seem to include one's feelings and affection towards their siblings.

you mean violent action? or group of people?
if violent action = 暴力、腕力 (bouryoku, wanryoku)
group of people = 武力、部隊 (buryoku, butai)

>>899
LOL I see. If I were you, I would have bought it too!
we have experienced gas attack hmmm....about a decade ago,
the sarin gas attack in subway. ^^;

to >>898

^~ thanks. I wouldnt call "the force" a violent action though. It is more of an aggregation of general power that can also be used for good. Things like controlling your little sister's mind and tricking her into a glory hole.

>>900
Well, they do carry that sort of thing. That's one of the reasons
that it's informal. Formal speaking usually doesn't express affection.

>>904
controlling your little sis's mind? and tricking her
into a glory hole? o_O"?? what's that? lol

>>905
yeah, understand.
we also call them ani, ane, imouto, otouto 兄、姉、妹、弟 in formal
and with affection, we call them onii-chan, onee-chan, お兄ちゃん、お姉ちゃん。。hmm...
there are no names to call little sis and bro. we just call
them by their names lol ^^;

>>902
I remember hearing about that attack, very serious and tragic. Are
Aum Shinrikyo still around after that, or were they caught and stopped?

>>905
Ah, of course! Think I misread it... and I blame a busy day, having had
to write a 2500 word report and hand it in 10 minutes before the deadline.
But that's my own fault :<

Anyway, are you feasting today?

>>905
Yeah, I'm aware of that. I'm learning Japanese. :)