Hey!!! you NEETs, nerds, YouTube-link spammers, pedophiles, neo-Nazis, Yukorin enthusiasts, Nanako SOS admirers, Part-Time-Preachers, Diplomats' spoiled sons, losers who can't remember Kanji characters, Big-boobs fans, Weeaboos from all over the world, learners of Japanese who are too lazy to update their Japanese blogs very often, and cunning linguists. And Let's pray for the rehabilitation of the Internet-addicted housewife.
I've got no idea why some people can't post here. Perhaps their ISP or college/university network decided to block access for some reason. I can't see why 2ch's host would block access from certain countries.
>>15 It is not by country, it is by proxy. There are many ISPs, that have open proxy problem. Those ISPS are blocked. The ISPs get a notice email from 2ch when that happens. They need to fix their problem, then contact 2ch, and they become unblocked. So if you are having problems posting. Please contact your ISP to fix their Open Proxy problem. Or you can use the 2ch reader.
>>17 Actually it has been a DDOS attack from Korea. It has not been down, just hard to get to. I have no idea why the Koreans would be angry. Has someone said something bad about them lately?
>>16 Hmm... the problem there is getting an ISP in a foreign country to actually do something about it. I'm wondering why an ISP would use an open proxy in the first place. Surely a reputable ISP wouldn't need to use a separate forwarding service to access DNS and http services, and if it did, it shouldn't use a public proxy.
Also, as a foreigner, I've found that I can post to 2ch through the form itself, but have a lot of problems when using JaneStyle.
>>21 You have to register the JaneStyle, then it will work well. Foreigners are not blocked. Just ISPs with open proxy problem. Sometimes Japanese ISPs are blocked as well.
Yes, I used to use the Yahoo internet provider and one time got blocked. I lost the will to live. I died inside. But when it got back on, I ressurected. That's when I decided I would never leave 2ch whatever happens.
>>25 I have no idea what you talking about. I can only speak for myself, but I was able to just download Jane Doe Style and install it, and just start using it.
>>21 Actually, 2ch selectively blocks posting from foreign countries. In fact, I couldn't post to 2ch from campus computer labs when I was a college student in the U.S. Most of these posting-related problems should be resolved with a paid account with 2ch, however, as >>22 and >>25 have already pointed out. You can get an account at the following page:
>>31 Ahh, now I see. Never knew 2ch had a subscription system. $33 really isn't very much, either, considering it's for a year. Thanks for the information.
I hope those who are having problems posting at all are able to read this.
>>36 If a user is suicidal through withdrawal, then it might be okay. Then again, maybe it's better that they be put out of their misery if their life comes to that...
Anyway, you're right. Something Awful's a good example of that.
>>35-36 It is a small amount of money, and it solves the problem because then the system recognizes you as an authorized poster even if you are using an ISP that is blocked because of problems. What happens is bad guys attack the bbs.cgi then post many garbage posts, and ruin everyones conversation. How would you like to read >>26 Hal Turner's inciteful post 100 million times, instead of what you want to read? That is the reason for the blocking. The alternative is to make 2ch a login type system where your identity is known. Is that a good solution? I am safe where I am, but many of the users on 2ch, could be executed for the things they say by their local police and governments. It is better to not have to show yourself. Even though that makes things inconvenient for the users at times.
Last year I replaced all the windows in my house with that expensive double-pane energy efficient kind, and today, I got a call from the contractor who installed them. He was complaining that the work had been completed a whole year ago and I still hadn't paid for them.
Hellloooo ...just because I'm blonde doesn't mean that I am automatically stupid. So, I told him just what his fast talking sales guy had told me last year... that in ONE YEAR these windows would pay for themselves!
Helllooooo? It's been a year! I told him.
There was only silence at the other end of the line, so I finally just hung up.... He never called back. Guess I won that stupid argument.
>>38 The userbase would be much, much smaller, because people either won't think its worth it, or would be just too lazy to sign up. If the userbase is a lot smaller, then would it be worth posting here anymore? Sure, you'd get people who are serious about 2ch, but would miss out on people casually dropping by. It would be nice if everyone could get along and there was no troll or spam posts, but there aren't so many, so it's bearable and they're easy to ignore.
>>39 I'm sure once people give it more thought, they'll understand this joke...
>>43 Do you even realize how big the user base is? Last christmas, the blocking systems were turned off on the bbspink servers by mistake. It was a disaster, and bbspink is only 25% the size of 2ch. Your ability to post now is a result of the blocking systems working effectively.
>>45 I have an idea of how big the userbase is, but no idea how big the paying userbase is. I'm not attacking what you're saying, just trying to understand things.
2ch is a double-bladed sword like that; its anonymous posting system makes it so lively and opinion-based that people can just post their honest opinions without losing any personal credit, but on the other hand, it can be overstepped to the extent that they are full of false information, or worse yet, malicious misinformation. And also, dealing with trolls and kichigai is a part of fun in 2ch. Not everybody is a model citizen after all.
Regarding >>39, I'm sure the puch line is this "that in ONE YEAR these windows would pay for themselves!" and this is one of those blond jokes.
The blond was dumb enough to think the windows would pay the money literally instead of her? That's the point?
As a Japanese English learner, maybe I'm as dumb as her. Does this mean even if it costed a lot for her to install those windows, that pays off just in one year?
Would you explain what "that in ONE YEAR these windows would pay for themselves!" mean?
When something "pays for itself" it means it will benefit you by saving you money. In this case, the cost of getting double glazed windows would save her heating bill so the cost of not having heating on after a year might be the same as having the windows installed.
What does everyone think about Magibon on GYAO? I just saw the video and she looks even worse than she did in her original videos. Do you guys agree? Do you think she will still be popular even though she looks like this in real life?
>>52 Not exactly related, but my biggest disappointment when I first came to 2ch was the lack of ASCII cats, such as Mona and Giko, being posted in a chaotic manner everywhere.
>>56 I'm one of those people who got a little disappointed by real her. Magi in Gyao proves she is not as attarctive as she really is and she shoots heself on youtube videos from the best possible angle to look as attractive as she can be.
But still, she's good and I don't abuse her as some people do. She pursues her beauty and makes efforts to look good. As before she'll try to look attractive with makeup and clothes she wear and that's good thing. Every people in show business try to look good.
In her threads on youtube board in 2ch, some people say they are betrayed but the views of her blog increased drastically after she came to Japan so, she has gotten new fan base and everybody is paying close attentions to her next move.
Even if you are her fan or not, it's like she is making Japanese dream come true, so quite a few people root for her I think. What an Internet! A girl who is nobody living in a small town are making her dream come true.
As a person who has known of her since she was not famous on Youtube and who knows she came here to this English board to anwer our questions, I root for her. I'm not sure she can be a big success like Liah Dizon, but her dream has been gettin out of the small town and her stalemate situation and making something new happen.
Wel, to avoid misunderstanding she didn't start youtube to become famous. It's just that she wanted to know how she looks on youtube on the moniter of her PC. She was just curious abuot that. And someone on youtube board in 2ch found her on youtube and made a thread for her and invited her to the thread as far as I know.
>>61 ∧_∧ ( ´∀`)Thanks very much, they look like a great place to vent. ( /,⌒l | /`(_)∧_0. (__)(゚∀゚; )⊃⌒⊃
>>59 Before 2ch, I used to hang around BARギコっぽい. To me, they're just fun, interesting characters. On my 21st birthday, a friend gave me a set of pin-badges featuring ASCII characters, and they just make me smile.
>>68 Personally, the beauty of ASCII characters is how well and elaborately those characters are made just by using fonts and characters and you can see them on PC monitor.
Once mona or other characters are handwritten or drawn by hand, like you see on T-chirts and a mug, the beauty of them reduced almost to zero, if you know what I mean.
An example of it being used as an adjective would be "That was an eyewatering situation." The general implication is that the situation was a tearjerker, or very sad. Conversely, although not nearly as common, it could mean "eyewatering" in a happier sense, as people sometimes shed tears when overjoyed.
>>70 As you say, ASCII characters are most impressive on-screen. If the ASCII pattern is copied directly onto a t-shirt or mug, I agree that it just looks strange. I find, though, that sometimes their characterisation in other ways can be fun too.
>>93 Na, it was merely a reflex reaction, nothing voluntary. Maybe it's just that you hate to love me but it won't be acceptable anyway, so let's drop it..
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=pz0PJ1CLqcc&eur I didn't know Pantera and his vocalist had racist kind of mentality. I don't know if he is really racist or white patriot. But The media prefers to label 'white pride' and something like that racist as he pointed out. It's unexpected that band including person who openly spoke out for his race was recognized and promoted by the main stream media without problem though. Was pantera an undergrand band? But even me japanese knows the name. I don't have interest in and knowledge about heavy metal either.
I don't know much about heavy metal. So I just lump Pantera in with Metalica, probably most famous slash metal band. Is it strange in USA that non-white(incliding asian like me) eagerly listens to the music like Metalica and tries to shout and move like them? (on the corridor?, shouting and banging on the corridor may be strange regardless of the race) If non white is O.K, Is it possible that I am excluded by white circle and seen strange because most of their fans(impersonators) are white?
And is it possible that Metalica members hide their real racial consciousness because of the media code? I heard vocalist is german or german descent. And I know some americans loath that kind of music, including white. Educated people tend to hate heavy metal.
>>101 Some pantera fans are yelling to his agitation simultaneously. Is it dangerous for japanese alone to go to the concert of bands like Metalica and Pantera?
Most white guys must have the experiece of calling black nigger in white circle, don't they? (must not they???) Will you debunk this secret only in this thread?
http://vnnforum.com/showthread.php?t=70769 Hey, the vocalist of Pantera spoke under the assumption that all or most of the audiences were whites. Think about the situation I japanese are alone among whites who chant with the speech who promots white pride and complains about non-white pride. I must feel very awkward and eyes from others must be very keen for me. At least I can say pantera's fans are mostly white. And I can conclude that the fans of similar bands like Metalica is not different.
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=ik327o6FwgI&NR=1 Some people want to mix up nazism with degeneracy and aberrance. And they think it cool. But true nazism is utterly the reverse thing. It's more pure and ordelry thing. It requires you honesty, modesty, courage, challenge and love. I think Rammstein and their fans would be purged and purified under New Hitler reign.
>>94 No. basically I prefer Japanese men. But if there was a westerner, who has blond hair, lightly macho, blue eyes, good tan, not too friendly but has cute smile, it would be nice. It is not related to fetch things.
Niggers claim that their shitty existence in Africa is whitey's fault. Whitey stole all the natural resources of the land (as if it's possible to 'steal' the earth's ability to grow crops) and split the continent up to cause niggers to fight each other all the time.
Even on their own continent, niggers blame whitey for their failures. But the fact is that no matter what situation niggers are in or what part of the world they are in, niggers consistently fail. This fact has remained true throughout history and is evident by the present-day status quo. No matter where they are or what their present condition, niggers will invariably FAIL. They do not improve or advance at all. In fact, when niggers get together they destroy and denigrate and they do not stop until they have beaten down their existence to the point where they are crawling in the dirt and living in crude straw huts.
Can anyone reading this prove me wrong? Can anyone show me ONE single area in the world or in history where a dominant population of niggers have created a living situation that is better than a toilet bowl? No.
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=-il3PAFUXek&feature=related I took a fancy to this song. German language is pretty fit for oration, which adds their contemporary music very distinctive taste. I doubt any japanese hardrock band has created a music as creative and innovative as this one.
We tend to think of this great invention of the sewing machine as being of use chiefly in the home. It was not this, however, that made the sewing machine of such value to the progress of mankind. -------------------------------------------------------- Native speakers, I have a question. Please read the sentences above which are excerpted from the example sentences in the most famous English text book in Japan. Do you native speakers can understand the meaning and the structure of the sentences on the spot?
From "made the sewing machine of such value to the progress of mankind." 'of such value' seems to be complement and similar to 'so valuabue. Can some native speakers take 'the sewing machine of such value ' as one set of words or one objective and 'to the progress of mankind' as complement?
Even if 'of such value' is a complement comparable to adjective, I don't get the essense of the usage of 'such'. Such is a word which functions as simile. Right? So if the word 'such' exists, there must be an implication of Omitted 'as'. I was going to do no such thing (as.....), for example. But there is no 'as' in an example sentence. 'It was not this, however, that made the sewing machine of such value to the progress of mankind.' In this case, is 'such ' Omitted before 'to the progress of mankind'? Or in this case, 'such' just functions as adjective like 'very', which puts an emphasis on a word.? Or is 'such' pointing at 'to the progress of mankind'? But like before I said, 'such' must be followed by 'as'.
Had we suggested to George Washigton and Ben Franklin that Indians and Africans be called citizens only because they happened to be inside our borders, they would have called you insane.
>>153 I could be wrong, but I think in this context, "such" refers to the actual historical value of the sewing machine. The text assumes the reader to be knowledgeable enough about the historical context to have general idea about the value of the sewing machine to the progress of mankind, thus not referring to an indefinite value, but to a specific ("such") value the reader is already able to estimate.
In case the reader doesn't know about the historical context, "such" at least puts an emphasis on "value", foreshadowing to the uninformed reader that it was of no ordinary but of special, of "such" value.
Doesn't "こんなに" in the Japanese language work similarly?
>>169 Are you a native speker? Are you a white nationalist guy by any chance?
Thank you for your explanation. Aha, Your explanation is excellent and really understandable. I'm relived to know my understanding of 'such' was not wrong. I think writer was a native speaker and japanese author used the sentences. And it was excerpt from book or article, so we don't know what was written before the sentences.
As for "こんなに", yes こんなに workds the same as "such".
>>168 I think "don't look back me in anger" is rather a good song for Oasis. Now I understand why. The song was not sung by their lead vocalist. Liam's raspy and drawling voice is really irritating. I think Oasis should have replaced the lead vocalist, then they would have been much more popular band.
I heard Oasis didn't make a big success in US market while Cold Play made a big splash in US market. Maybe the diference is due to marketing strategy or something.
Brit pop is mainly for british. I don't know why brit pop is acclaimed all over the world. Even Americans(English speaking people) don't turn to most of their music. Japanese should quit admiring brit pop. It has nothing to do with us with a few exception like Beatles. Maybe Beatles' legacy adds magic and illusion to another british bands and make them bigger than their life size. I'm not Beatle fan. But Beatles is now world standard. I have to admit.
UK ruled the seven seas. But it is over. They want to cling to the control us culturally through Jewish and Anglo-Saxon media power. Don't be delusioned by them. UK is now just one of English speaking countries. Nothing special. Just a tiny island.
I agree. Japan should re-assert itself as an independent state. The negro rapist on Okinawa and the negro marine killers elsewhere made me feel very ashamed as an American.
These people do not represent we real white Americans. Japan should not take influence from Jewish controlled media about race mixing and other such things, especially in a cultural sphere, Japan is culturally powerful and is more pure racially than the US.
>>181 Umm where did you get your info? I don't think british pop is that big in Japan... You just wanted to blab so you can show off your vocabulary, no?
>>186 You can hear opinions like his everwhere on white nationalists sites. He does sound like one. Are you refering to his English ability? I'm japanese, so I can't distinguish.
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I like shit very much. because shit smell is exciting for me. I like shit more than girl. shit is valuable goods and treasure. I eat shit`s garbage sometimes. shit is delicious and interesting ! Everybody will also eat!!!!!!!!
I am 183, I'm not really sure what caused 189 to think I am not American. My English is fine, it is after all, my native language, I think 183 is a proponent of liberal policy towards race, and therefore it is in his interests to distort the facts like a true liberal would.
The foreigner must not come to the bulletin board of Japan. An inhumane group that treats the black like an American as a slave thinks that it is necessary to be purged we by day books. No, it is necessary to purge it. A lot of Japanese hope the United States for the full-scale war and rupture of diplomatic intercourse. We are not slaves in the United States.
Nothing is really wrong with the English grammatically, but some of his choices are unusual for an American; for instance:
>>The negro rapist on Okinawa and the negro marine killers elsewhere made me feel very ashamed as an American.
If he really was an American white supremacist, he probably would break this sentence down differently and use the racial slur "Nigger" instead of "negro".
>>Japan should not take influence
There's nothing wrong with the above phrase, but I think an American would be more likely to say something like "Japan should not be influenced by",
There's a run-on sentence in there, which implies that he's not very good at grammar and composition and will drop out of school soon, and the contents suggest that there's not much choice left but just to be a lower member of the KKK or something.
>>181 British pop is generally quite terrible, Oasis being no exception. Of course, it's all a matter of taste. If you want to see the real atrocities of European music, you should visit: http://www.eurovision.tv/
Personally, though, my favourite British musician is Mike Oldfield, but I'm not such a big fan of his Tubular Bells series. They go on far too long...
"UK ruled the seven seas. But it is over. They want to cling to the control us culturally through Jewish and Anglo-Saxon media power. Don't be delusioned by them. UK is now just one of English speaking countries."
>>200 Ahahaha, Bill White and Hal Turner for instance are usually using the word 'Negro' like 'Savage negro beast!' and 'Negroes are mentally unstable'.
>>216 she is a nigger mixed with white. That's the reason which makes her more beautiful and unlike typical nigger. I previously thought she was half white. But it seems not to be true. She has french blood in her but percentage is not known.
>>216 She is popular here, I guess, at least among people who like Hiphop and R&B. Even if a person hasn't heard of her name, they might have heard of "Destiny's Child." She is African American but her face and skin doesn't look like typical African American maybe because her portion of bloods of white American is high.
It's sad that she got married with J-Z, the gorilla. I know he earns a lot and has a talent as a performer and producer, but look at his looks. He is fat and ugly. Personally, I wanted her to get married with a man who earns a lot and famouse and looks good. Maybe NFL's star African American might have been good. J-Z isn't an athlete type and just a fat guy. IF you ask me, Black without talent in sports is just garbage.
Hey! You guys heard of the polygamist cult that got busted by the authority in the U.S.? In that cult, men can marry tons of 13 or 14 year old girls and inpregnate them. Isn't that heaven? I think heaven is real and got busted.
Do you guys know this youtube guy who defends Britney saying " Leave Britney alone!"? I found out about him a few days ago, and don't find him to be funny or witty or .. anything. Why is he so popular?
Hey ! You guys heard about the news about the Pope's adress to the U.N? He said human rights should be based on God. Isn't that craziest thing you can possibly say about human rights?
Do you guys know why food prices are high lately? I went to a local supermarket and try to buy Umakattyan, and found out that 5 packs costs 399 yen. I couldn't possibly buy it. This has got to stop!
>>237 >>235 is probably woman who feels pity for Britney. Maybe Britney is like daughter to her. She is vulnerable because of mental illness. She also admires Chris because she wants to marry American man. Even though Chris is uho and typical loud American.
[Genuinely discriminating readers have decided , generation after generation, those books are worthy of perservation.]
If you make "those generation' an antecedent, sentence will be like this? [ The building up of a taste for those books(←antecedent) which genuinely discriminating readers have decided, generation after generation, [that] are worthy of perservation, is gradual] This is an excerpt from an English text book.I rarely met this kind of sentence on the net. Is this sentence rather complicated even for native speakers? [that] is ommited in an original English text book.
Does that sentence function as objective pronoun as well as as nominative(subjective?) pronoun?
My assumption is that [those books which genuinely discriminating readers have decicded] is a form of objective pronoun and [those books that are worthy of persevetion] is a form of nominative(subjective?) pronoun. Is my assumption correct?
I know this kind of transformation below. [S called books worthy of perservaiton. Books which S called worthy of perservation.] But transformation of the example sentence was new or unfamiliar to me.
"He decides that religious tolerance is important for his country " This kind of sentence is permissible but "He decides that religious tolerance important for his country" seems not to be permissible. OK? so "religious tolerance he decides is important for his country"is permissible while "religious tolerance he dicides important for his country" is not permissible. OK? 'which' is needed between antecedent 'tolerance' and ensuing words?
I am a white nationalist, and I don't see what is so wrong with such a position.
As for my education, I have college level qualification up to a Masters level (MSc in Econ.)
I think that >>196 is mentally challenged. He is only critical of my opinion of the negro because he does not have to deal with any significant negro population in Japan. However, if the US bases are anything to go by, then a black presence in Japan is not a positive thing. This is hardly an 'inhumane' position. If whites are so inhumane, why was South Africa and Zimbabwe having better living standards under white rule?
>why was South Africa and Zimbabwe having better living standards under white rule? This is exactly what Bill White thinks. Blacks can do better under the white rule.
If I was given money covering all the expenses like ticket fee, airplane fare, accomodation fee and so on, I won't go to World Cup 2012. lol
>>287 Most important: I don't have a webcam. Second most important: Nor do I have my digital camera (which is in my dorm room at school, and I'm at home right now), so I couldn't make a video and up it even if I wanted to. Third: I'm not a camwhore. Fourth: I can't think of anything amusing to do in a video which would make the effort worthwhile for both me and you. Fifth: I didn't take a shower this morning and my hair is somewhat messy.
>>288 Female youtubers aren't camwhores so the third reason is not persuading. Just taking a shower every day delete the fifth reason. When you go back to your dorm, you have a digital camera so there are no technical problems. Regarding the Fourth reason, you can give you English lesson on your channel or just ask viewers what they want to se you doing in a video.
That boils down that you have no reasons not to do vloging.
>>290 Female youtubers aren't *necessarily* camwhores. But most of them are, in my opinion. I'm lying around relaxing at home today, why should I take a shower if I don't need to? I'll take one tomorrow. Yes, when I go back to my dorm I *could* take a video, but that leads to my fourth reason. Why would I give English lessons? I'm not a teacher. If someone wants to learn English, they have plenty of options open to them already. In fact, English is probably the language with the most material available. The last thing the Internet needs is another self-important dipshit taping himself giving "lessons" on anything.
>just ask viewers what they want to se you doing in a video They don't want to see me doing anything. Hell, *I* don't want to see me doing anything. I'm a regular person. Nobody's interested in watching videos of regular people, they see them every day already. Unless you have some kind of special talent, are making some kind of artistic or otherwise cool video, or have some kind of message to get out there, making videos of yourself is just attention whoring as far as I'm concerned. Nobody gives a shit.
Actually I take it back, guys like watching videos of cute girls even if they're not doing anything at all.
>>292 Nope. In fact it's a big joke at my school. We have a T-shirt that says something like, "Caltech football team, undefeated since 1993!" 1993 is when we discontinued the team. XD
Yes, football is generally pretty popular at most schools. But I go to an engineering/tech school, so we're not big on sports.
President Bush on Saturday said, "We've had great visits. And this is an important visit for me to get to know you. I heard about your background -- I admire your strength of character, and this is an important visit to strengthen the relationship between our two countries and I believe we have done so. ...A good relationship is based upon common values, and our countries share common values -- values of the rights of each individual to live in a free society.
>>292 Funny thing about that one, yes our university does have a football team and as my mom works there and is friends with many of the professors, i've learned that our quarterback is illiterate. He cannot read or write at all. A total idiot. He has to get tutoring and special attention just to keep a high enough GPA to stay in school. The only reason he's in uni is because he is a really good player.
President and Mrs. Bush welcomed His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI to the White House on April 16, during his first visit to the United States as Pope. The President and the Holy Father continued discussions, which they began during the President's visit to the Vatican in June 2007, on their common commitment to the importance of faith and reason in reaching shared goals. These goals include advancing peace throughout the Middle East and other troubled regions, promoting inter-faith understanding, and strengthening human rights and freedom, especially religious liberty, around the world.
>>294 Footballers are admitted to their universities just for their football skills, right? Is it true that they are actually as bright as junior high school kids since all they did in school days are almost football alone and nobody expect them to be a good student academically?
>>303 I don't know anyone personally, but I've heard that some students get into schools purely because of athletic ability. >>298 just gave an example of this. There's apparently really nice athletic scholarships you can get if you're good, too. I don't think it's ever a good idea to stereotype or generalize. Some of these guys are probably dumb as a brick. They only did sports in high school and didn't give a shit about studying. But I'm just as sure that some of them are very intelligent people who also happen to like doing sports.
No, there is a 'jock' and 'nerd' dichotonomy. It's not as pronounced as it is in the movies but it still exists somewhere under the surface.
Generally footballers are given a lot of undue praise, they have no academic talent and in 99% of cases they will not make it big in sports either. Yet the praise from their various coaches, teachers and so on inflates their ego to such an extent that they feel invulnerable. In some cases this has led to rape and other such events (most recently of a 14 year old girl who was a genius and managed to get into college at a young age, so they abused her naivitie and raped her. Basically they feel invincible, as if they can get away with anything.
Plus their intelligence is quite low so they don't allow themselves to see the consequences of their actions. But I have heard of individual cases whereby certain 'sporty' types can be quite intelligent too, though these are exceptions to the rule and not the general trend.
Also, a lot of the more scientific department staff don't like sports teams because they feel they suck up a lot of the budget for things like stadiums and so on, and that it's not really worth it.
>>294 You may not be a camwhore but you mentioned often you go to calitech when nobody asks the name of your uni. Girls with looks do nothing on their video and still they get enough viewers. You mention the name of your university and some people are impressed. Don't you think that what you call camwhore and you have similoar mentality in that you try getting attention by touching on the name of university?
If Internet conveyed smell, I would find out that you might somewhat stink.
>>298 But chances are he can land a good job in a big company?
Have you ever felt envious toward footballers? After all, they are always the center of attention in almost all school events right? Always surrounded by gorgeos girls?
What do you tink the cases of footballers of Stanford or Harvard or other IV league? I guess they are at least literate.
>>307 >Also, a lot of the more scientific department staff don't like sports teams because they feel they suck up a lot of the budget for things like stadiums and so on, and that it's not really worth it. Haha, yeah this is very true. Eh, I agree with them mostly. Basic athletic facilities are important, kids need to exercise and shit. But otherwise, the money can be used for far better things IMO.
I try not to discriminate against sports minded 'students' but it's hard sometimes. So many fit the stereotype perfectly. Their bravado will be short lived though, such people provide an endless source of disposable labour for the likes of Burger King and McDonalds.
>>313 I'm >>294. Meh, to each his own. Maybe that guy is having the time of his life playing football or basketball or whatever it is. Maybe he's the happiest he'll ever be when he's out on the field or the court. Good for him. You only live once. I say do what you love doing, and fuck what anyone else says. Honestly I wish I were more athletic. I really love exercising and playing games with my friends and stuff, I love that feeling you get when you're out there. But for various reasons I don't have the opportunity to do it very often. Or at all, these days.
What is the most embarrasing thing you've experienced in your life?
In my case, It was when I pooed during a class when I was a third grader. I was too shy to ask my teacher to go to men's room during a class. I tried to stop the poo from coming out but that was in vain. after that the smell of poos spread in my classrom and some clasmates started to whisper it smells something like poo.
>>310 But chances are he can land a good job in a big company?
Nope. There are a lot of people of that type that end up in labor or worse bagging groceries for the rest of their lives. The guy is too much of an idiot to make good use of a college degree.
Have you ever felt envious toward footballers? After all, they are always the center of attention in almost all school events right? Always surrounded by gorgeos girls?
Not really. Actually i've always felt there was an air of sadness too it all. If they don't go pro after they get out of college the fact that they were more important for those 4 years of life than they ever will be again has to hit them hard.
What do you tink the cases of footballers of Stanford or Harvard or other IV league? I guess they are at least literate.
It is important to do what you love to do, but entertaining pipe dreams of stardom are damaging for your future. You know as well as what I do that to honestly buy into a myth that you are going to become some kind of 'star' is absurd. Yes, obviously you should pursue your dreams but realism is neccessary too. And you are quite right to say that sports are fun, but when they consume your life to the point that you are a semi-literate 20 year old as some of these people are, then you have lost all sense of the phrase 'everything in moderation'.
I just dislike arrogance I guess. I know plenty of people who love sports but are hard work. The problem is, i know far more that don't.
Here is the link to the story about that football team by the way:
What do you think of the future of yahoo? Is it better for them to go hand in hand with AOL or Google?
There was a person called merkin in this thread long time ago. He said he works for yahoo. I wonder how he's doing now. Maybe he get axed. He offered to send New Years Greeting card to everybody in this thread but no body responded to him. lol
Hmm, right you are Randugulf. So you're a fa/tg/uy then? One of my best friends, who incidentally is very fitness minded and obsessed with working out, is also a huge warhammer fan. What traditional games do you like?
>>317 >It is important to do what you love to do, but entertaining pipe dreams of stardom are damaging for your future. It's part of growing up, I think. And it's certainly not restricted to athletes. There're plenty of aspiring singers, actors, etc., dreaming of making it big. And for most of them, there's going to be a pretty tough time when they sit down and admit they're just not going to make it. They'll get over it, and move on with their lives. Some of them will cling to that dream a little too hard, and they might get a little fucked up. But well, there's not a whole lot you can do for those people... But like you say, it's always important to be realistic and honest with yourself.
>when they consume your life to the point that you are a semi-literate 20 year old as some of these people are Eh, I think this is a little off. He said he lives in the ghetto, so I'm assuming that kid was illiterate because public education in those areas tends to be underfunded and very poor. At the age when kids are still learning to read, they're too young to be preoccupied with sports or anything else. Once you get into high school/college, it's your choice to stop studying and focus on sports. And honestly, what you or I or anyone else thinks about that decision doesn't really matter. Besides, if we're going to talk about people who go overboard for one reason or another, there are far more dangerous people we could be talking about.
>I just dislike arrogance I guess. Oh, definitely. And intellectuals just like athletes have their own brand of arrogance. Arrogance in all of its shapes is a sad thing.
>>324 I read that article. Seems like the biggest problem was that girl didn't know what the fuck was going on. She was still a child, on top of that her parents sheltered her like there was no tomorrow. Then they throw her into a big city school and expect... what? What the fuck did they think was going to happen to their precious snowflake when she grew up not knowing what the hell the world was like? It just makes me fucking angry... You can't raise a kid like that. You *can't*. This isn't the America you see in 50's TV shows. It's *not* a nice place, it's *not* a safe little haven. You have to be not be completely fucking stupid, and teach your kids, gradually, how to take care of themselves and deal with the shit that they're eventually going to have to deal with.
>Brittany's social life revolved around a church youth group, its skate parties and Bible classes. Her folks were strict about what she could do. This girl could not POSSIBLY have went to an American university without shit hitting the fan. Especially not at fucking 15.
>>322 14 year old girl goes to college as she is, for all intents and purposes, a genius. Starts out working hard but is a bit lonely, has an older student assigned to her to look after her and so on. College football team get her drunk, one fucks her, then another does the same thing, they get her addicted to all kinds of drugs and cigarettes and then all fuck her. Her GPA collapses as she stops turning up for class. She goes from bad to worse and nobody bother to do anything about it at the college - nobody contacts parents and so on - one of the players even offers to pimp her out. Now she is at home.
Is this the way a civilized group of people behaves? with her parents
Some people grow up, others do not. Others entertain these pipedreams for their ENTIRE LIVES. Intelligent people usually grow out of them at the age of 13.
>They'll get over it, and move on with their lives.
To what end? To realising they wasted so much time and energy on something that was never going to happen? We encourage these pipe dreams, and we end up with unproductive members of society because film and TV constantly says all your dreams will come true. No. They will not, that's a fact of life.
>I'm assuming that kid was illiterate because public education in those areas tends to be underfunded and very poor.
I disagree, I think it's genetic.
>there are far more dangerous people we could be talking about.
Hmmm, like whom?
>And intellectuals just like athletes have their own brand of arrogance.
Really? I don't think Einstein, Szilard, Hawking etc... were 'arrogant' in the slightest. Read these people and their philosophy of life, they are about the most down-to-earth people you could meet, to the point of false modesty even. I do not sympathize with people who have NPD I am afraid. I consider them a bane on society.
You can't posture and say that "that's life", because it isn't, I go to college and that is not normal behaviour, not even from the resident football team. All this talk about 'going out into the real world', your real world is what you make it. If you choose to hang out with scum then your real world and worldview is going to be one of scum. If you choose to mix with educated people, then the reverse is true.
I honestly have never heard of anything like that at my college, not even close.
>>319 Honestly I just code, I don't know a whole lot about the industry. Once I start working in September, I'll probably start getting a feel for what condition all the big-name companies are in... Yahoo! gave me their little spiel about how amazing they're doing when I was interviewing with them, but we all know how reliable a source of information *that* is. According to them, though, they've got a lot going on and they're in good shape.
>>323 Can't really tell if she's actually wapanese just from that vid.
I think special school counseller or something had to be assigned to her when she got into university. It must have been tough for 14 year old living alone away from their parents.
Just because your looks can't meet the demands in the camwhore market doesn't mean you cannot do vlogging and show your face. Do vlogging and show your face.
>>331 >Intelligent people usually grow out of them at the age of 13. >To realising they wasted so much time and energy on something that was never going to happen? Hey, how the hell do you know? All those big-name celebrities and rappers and rock stars, they all started somewhere. Some of them used to wait tables, mop floors, wipe toilets before they made it. Why not give it a try? Why *not* go out there and see what happens? Maybe you'll make it and maybe you won't, but it's the journey not the destination anyway. Even if you end up where you started, you met some new people and you learned some things. And that's worth a lot, in my opinion. Well, maybe we just disagree but I give them massive props. It's good to be realistic, but not to be cowardly under the guise of realism. People that have a dream and go for it, they've got balls. And I think that's awesome, personally, no matter what comes of it. There's plenty of schmucks like me, going to college and getting a job, just doing their usual thing. And we help the world go round, sure. But it's people that take a real chance that really make the big things happen.
>Hmmm, like whom? Well, let's start with President George Bush and go from there.
>Really? I don't think Einstein, Szilard, Hawking etc... were 'arrogant' in the slightest. Nor are they the entirety of the group of people known as "intellectuals." There are plenty of modest people, and there are plenty of people who are convinced they're the greatest thing since sliced bread. Believe me, I know a lot of them.
>Hey, how the hell do you know? All those big-name celebrities and rappers and rock stars, they all started somewhere. >Some of them used to wait tables, mop floors, wipe toilets before they made it.
This is the trap you fall into, just because some people did it, the chances are still slim to none. Entertaining the idiocy of pipe dreams is a sure fire way to damage society. What have rap stars ever done that is beneficial to society? What do they encourage but the most corrosive influences?
>Why not give it a try?
Because my life is pretty good as it is. It's not perfect, and I probably won't be rich but I attend a very good college/university and I do a course I really like. I will probably take that course beyond a bachelor's level too. Maybe even to a phd level. That is my 'journey'.
>but it's the journey not the destination anyway.
Excuse me, this is sheer lunacy, if the journey involves taking drugs and messing yourself up, what is the point?
>And that's worth a lot, in my opinion.
I learned how not to be an idiot from a much younger age, I don't need to entertain delusions and fail to learn it again.
>People that have a dream and go for it, they've got balls.
Or maybe they were just lucky?
>But it's people that take a real chance that really make the big things happen.
Really, are they pushing the boundaries of what we understand about the universe? Or inventing new life saving medical technology? Please.... They are pantomine actors, nothing more.
>Nor are they the entirety of the group of people known as "intellectuals."
Nor are your anecdotal experiences. At least they are arrogant with commensurate achievements.
>>332 >All this talk about 'going out into the real world', your real world is what you make it. No... no, it's really not, I disagree with you. The real world is what smacks you in the face when you step out your front door every morning. You can't get away from it, and you can't always shut out the elements you consider "undesirable." What happened to that girl, in one form or another, happens at campuses across the country, and probably the world. That article was an extreme, and sad, case. But women come to college and get caught up in alcohol and sex, it just happens. It's not even necessarily a bad thing. If that's how they have fun and enjoy their college years, go for it. The problem is when, as with that 15-year-old girl, they're not mature or socially intelligent enough to make that decision for themselves. She *couldn't* choose to hang out with a certain crowd, she wasn't even capable of discerning what "crowd" a person belonged to. You aren't able to make your way in the world until you've been in it for a while; you have to know the ropes before you can even begin to decide where you want your place to be.
That's why I think middle and high school are so important. Fuck home schooling. It's when kids have a chance to figure out, on a smaller and more sheltered scale, how they want to interact with society, and what kind of person they want to be, while still being young enough for their parents to give them a little guidance (when the kids bother to listen to it). Take that training ground away, and you end up with cases like that girl in the article.
>>340-341 We're not going to get anywhere, and any further responses from me would just be an explanation of my worldview, which really doesn't matter and which isn't going to convince you of anything. So, good luck with your life, and I'll see what I can do with mine.
No, the world is what you make it. That may happen at campuses throughout the country, but that is an individual's choice in whom they want to mix with (given they are of a mature enough age). I chose to mix with intelligent people, ergo it's not my problem how fuckups behave. Similarly, my parents worked hard and we live in a wealthy area with little to no crime, they MADE that world for themselves and that it what I plan to do. If I want to shut myself off from it then that is my perogative, nobody can force me to accept responsibility for the lunacy and idiocy of people.
I refuse to accept any responsibility, through taxation or other means. It irritates me greatly that people give off that idea, people expect me to accept not the existence but the underlying 'society' bullshit about how me and millions of others like me need to accept that is the world and cough up the bill for it.
On /v/ it is people who like JRPGs like Final Fantasy and so on. On /b/ it is anyone who likes anime or manga. On /a/ it is people who do not 'conceal their power level' (people who talk about anime and manga all the time, wear Naruto headbands and so on).
>>347 I see. I guess different borads have different definitions.
A school kid from USA might visit my house this summer. The reason he'll come to Japan is he loves Japanese anime. I think he might be wapanese. I wonder what reaction he would give me if I asked him "Are you wapanese?"
>>346 >I chose to mix with intelligent people, ergo it's not my problem how fuckups behave. Sure, sure. My main point in my previous post was about the girl, people who can't make that choice because they don't know how. If you're one of the minority with the money and means to do so, then yes, you can control who you regularly associate with, the area you live in, etc. And unless you're very unlucky you won't be the target of some crazy guy with a gun the next time you go to the mall. But then again, you never know.
>I refuse to accept any responsibility, through taxation or other means. Wow. Well, whatever makes you happy.
>>356 Maybe he conceals his power level though. If he likes rubbish such as Naruto and Bleach then probably he is wapanese though, I agree. If he is a fan of Akagi, he is probably less likely to be so.
The only truly 'public good' is the military and police anyway, and police work in gated communities in being privatized to some level.
I think you are quite wrong about life in general. You need to re-examine your worldview. You said that rappers were people worthy of respect, how is 50 cent worthy of respect?
>>360 Er, sorry, I think I misread your post. I misunderstood and thought you meant taxes in general are bad. I agree that the "welfare state" has gone too far, and reforms are necessary. If/When that will ever happen is anybody's guess...
>The only truly 'public good' is the military and police anyway Schools, anybody? They're a fuckton better than the military in my opinion.
>You said that rappers were people worthy of respect, No, I didn't.
>>357 Think about how the average person uses the word. Whos more wapanese, they guy watching the stuff the bad ones go annoying everyone with? Or the guy into the hardcore cult stuff only 30 people have heard of. With anime the more you win the more you fail.
Also i hope the guy keeps quiet about it. Otherwise hes in for a nasty surprise.
If 4ch was not an image board, what change would you expect? You 4 channelrs can't communicate well without images? Without images 4ch would be desereted place?
There was a good case made in a political journal recently, similtaenously published in an economics journal about a case for privatizing the education system.
>>369 She doesn't know him in person. It was a long time ago when my siter went to USA to study. A teacher of the school she went to asked her if it's OK he can stay her house during summer vacation.
>>372 I like to see them dancing to the song. They all look happy when dancing and seeing them dance with happy smiles makes me feel happy. And I want to share the happiness with you.
"Intellectuals" are often what one would call philosophers, they are explicitly unscientific, mostly auto-didactic (self-taught), and what is certainly common among them is that they display a misplaced sense of self-importance, Tolstoy even went so far as to call himself "God's elder brother", and, based on his correspondence, and literature, he seemed to genuinely believe that. This patter repeats itself over and over again among the intellectuals, Rousseau was characterised as remarkably callous towards his family, Ibsen a raving drunken lunatic, remaining friendless until his death. I could go on, if you want.
>>381 It's a fuzzy line. I don't think anyone would say Einstein or Hawking wasn't/isn't an intellectual. There are the intellectuals you're talking about, and the more general definition of "a person of superior intellect."
>>385 I don't think we Japanese make fun of him. We just feel similarity and mental distance between him and Japanese will be shorter.
But yes, if he thinks every Japanese are into animes and knows a lot about them, he'll find out that's wrong. If he dwelld on anime and manga in conversation, he might be annoyed by that.
Hey, 387, you sound like a reasonable, mellow person. But what if he started hitting on your sister? Would you be forced to use violence to pacify him?
>>386 >>387 I've read a few stories that say otherwise. While most Japanese will probably at least tolerate it there is always going to be some asshole that will make fun of em.
May not seem like much but when you're new to a country it can really get to a person.
>>391 It's not that there are people who make fun of someone unproportionately in Japan. Some do, some don't. Not many people know Japanese anime and manga has a fan base overseas, so if we Japanese hear he/she is Japanese anime fan, we get interested in them rather than making fun of them.
You are asking if she is a mother whom you are turned on? If so I don't know. If woman have two kids, her boobs sags and in case of asian, nipples turns to darker. lol
She'll be 48 this year. She is considered to be a role model of aging beautifully among beauty conscious middle aged women. Unfortunately, some women don't care about how they are looked by men and become less beauty conscious.
The female actor above is on the top of the list of "ideal female boss." The survey conducted by a life insurance company or something.
>>408 Unfortunately for their husband first. Then, maybe for all men. Nobody wants to see women throw away their identities as women. I can't blame them though. When they are hectic with raising kids or jugling work and housework, they have no room to be beauty conscious.
>>409 >Nobody wants to see women throw away their identities as women. Uh, I hate to break it to you, but most women don't consider their "identities as women" to mean they have to look pretty for men. Or maybe they do in Japan, who knows.
>>411 I don't think that's a bad thing. Young people can be obsessed with looks and attraction and all that bullshit. There should come a point in your life where it just doesn't matter to you anymore. When you can relax and forget about your fucking appearance for once.
オバタリアン is a word for middle aged women who forget they are women and act following their selfishness can be a nuisence. It was a buzz word long time ago.
>>419 I see. She meets some requirements to be called wapanese. She's cute. I don't know the group was designed for Otaku. I know Tokito Ami is an idol for Otaku, though.
I think we stinkin' Japs should all commit suicide now. We are useless. We can't even pronounce Ls and Rs correctly. It's stupid. It's hopeless. I rike Engrish. I rike baadz. I want to fry rike a baad. It's fuckin pathetic.
There is a myth in japan that Tiger Woods is good at academics as well as at athletics in Stanford University. But from the information gathered from this thread, Woods seems to be just another muscle bound. Woods dropped out of the university. It's one of the evidences.
I'm thinking about starting up a male-idol group named 'morning woods' that is comprised of a bunch of neo-nazi freaks, to countervail the dominant all-girl group in the industry, 'morning musume'. Do you have any ideas to make this break without being banned in Europe?
>>442 It's pathetic for an ugly aged woman to belive that she is cute and behave like that. Nobody can point out because she is so powerful in the showbiz.
She is nothing special. Yuki Amami or Risa Junna is better.
>>447 Of course those two are better because they are younger than her. I don't think she is ugly.
>>448 Hideaki? I haven't herad of him either. I don't know if he is a loser or not. He works part-time in Geos or Berlitz (I forgot) language school but his goal is to make a major debut. He is a singer of his band. He graduated from UC Barkly so he is not a moron. Maybe he is to think that he'll be a professional singer. Anyway, He'll be on HEYHEYHEY tonight. For more details, check his website out.
Sorry, nobeatsu,,, I converted the word in my brain.
UK Barkley. So what?
Don't expect him too much with just a bachelor's degree. It's a myth that American university and american university students are better. Some are exceedingly brilliant. But most of them are jews and immigrants from asia and foreigners.
>>441 Anime conventions are full of hardcore wapanese people. Therefore some of these are bound to be 4channers. So they're trying to "Rickroll" the convention.
>>453 Don't understand Rickroll thing. Tell me more. There used to be mentioning about his music here before and I didn't understand you were talking about.
I see people are talking about the blocking issue right now. Chat in English (英語で雑談) Part 112
Is anyone else here in Sweden, and have you been able to post there lately? It would be nice to know if it's the whole .se top domain that is blocked, or not. (So far I've tried three different ISPs, and my university, with no luck.)
>>454 "Rickroll" is where someone posts a link to someone else but it doesn't go where the user who received it expected it to go to, but instead ends up at the video to Rick Astley's song.
I wonder if there is a reason why a link has to go to Rick Astrey's link. Why not Beatles or other artists? Is it because the first person happened to put a link to Rick Astrey and other people follow him? And did that start at 4ch and get popular?
>>459 It started out in 4chan as a trick-link to a video of a duck on wheels, known as a 'Duckroll', but people got bored of it (maybe because there wasn't any sound and very little animation) and someone linked to that music video instead. I guess it helps that it's a catchy song, as well as a kind of strange singer. Nobody really expects a skinny ginger guy to have a strong voice.
>>455 Sweden is not banned from posting. Only open inside Sweden are blocked. Perhaps you tried to access the internet with various ISPs through their open proxys. .se is not blocked. Or maybe just you are blocked......;)
>>460 Thank you for the real links. So, now that it has become a big Internet phenomina now, I guess the majority of people don't even know it started in 4chan anymore.
Maybe 4channelers are proud that they are the origin of the Rickroll. I don't know about 4chan much but 2ch is worse. I have tricked by a malicious decieving links several times. They were what's called browser crushers. And once you click the link, new windows pop up endlessly until you have to turn off your PC with an ubnormal percedure, which is to push POWER botton.
Another deceivng link was that if you click it, your ISP is shown up in a list. That's not a big deal itself but I felt kind of scary.
>>471 I didn't know about you so I went to the thread mentioned in >>469 and skimmed through the posts there.
So you are a person in charge to run BBS Pink smoothly, in other words, administrator? You said in >>461 that Sweden is not banned, but aren't you talking about BBS Pink, 2ch's sibling or cousin so to speak? Aren't posters from Sweden banned in 2ch itself either?
Sorry if I misunderstand facts about the relation between 2ch an BBS Pink or other stuff, but what I want to confirm is whether ".se is not blocked" from 2channel or not.
>>460 Talking about Rickroll, did you know what he talked about British music scene when he came to Japan on his first world tour? Full of humor and to the point.
Is it true that the name Rachel is conceived typical jewess name in America? Why? A brave woman, Rachel, who blocked an israeli bulldozzer and were run over twice, must have been not jewish.
http://mattunntravelling.blog.ocn.ne.jp/syoukai/images/RACHAEL_LEIGH_COOK.JPG But She is not jewish, is she? She was quite popular in Japan. She looks rather Asian or childish face for a white person. I think she looks like Akane Oda or Rio Hirai a bit. And Oda and Hirai have clear-cut face for japanese. They must be looking totally asian to foreigners though. Interesting. And Rachel Lee kind of looks like Islaeli Natalie Portman.
>>500 Problem solved? I only wrote "472" in my name field without >>. Do you mean if you use Jane Doe Style, you see ">>472" in my name field? Maybe that's one of the advantages of Jane Doe Style that provide you easy use of 2ch.
2channelers tried to make him win the first spot and balloted on the Internet. This was the year when he was arrested because of shooting a video in which a woman's panty can be seen at the train station without being noticed by the woman, and a few months? later he peeped another woman taking a bath in her house. That deserved him the pserson of the year.
I have been hanging around on 2ch for quite a while, but I wasn't aware of this usage of "tashiro"... I thought "tashiro" is more like an interjection or something.
On, you, brothers, seizes the weapons and closes the Reihn raises comrades! Up, on now to the bloody, holy fight. Defeat the enemies, you worker people. On the barricades, on the barricades, conquer the world, you worker people
>>502 You misunderstood. Reuters is a jew media. That's why. And Jew York post is also jew media. But their task is to degenerate american culture. They promote prostitution, pornography, violence, sex, divorce, etc etc. So the article just fits in their taste.
later he peeped another woman taking a bath in her house. That deserved him the pserson of the year.
Story is slightly different. The decisive reason which makes tashiro God is as follows. Tashiro wanted to shoot a young woman. But It was a man who was taking a bath... He dashed out of the bath room and chased tashiro with towel warpped around his underpart. Tashiro run to escape. He finally arrested him.
A woman reporter asked why tashiro shoot a skirt from low angle. Tashiro explained lengthily with a perplexed look on his face. Tashiro told that his hobby was making joke videos at that time and he wanted to use miniskrit footage for his hobby. In japan there is a proverb tha says 'mimi ni tako' 'mimi耳' means ear and 'tako胼胝' means 'foot corn'. "foot conr in the ear". It says that we are sick of being told again and again even to the level of creating foot corn in the ear. And there is a homophone word which respond to tako胼胝. That is 蛸tako, octopus. And mimi is one word different from mini. So from tashiro's words, tashiro aimed to use 蛸tako, octopus and mini (skirt) together for his fun video! The reporter's reaction was very funny. She stayed polite on the surface but her behavior included derision and arrogance like huh? And tashiro's blushed face and mumbling, faultering voice. LOL
I once thought uekusa could be possibly greater than tashiro. I was fool. uekusa has the competency to do next great job? Let's wait and see what he is gonna do!
Do you know some people who can be a foster mother during my job in Kanagawa. I ask for taking care of my child to native speaker of English. So, I hope my child will be able to speak Engilsh and Japanese both. If you have some information please answer me here.
Tibet and uyghr was independent countries or real autonomous regions before communist aggresive war. America was fool. America once supported Kuomintang party and changed their strategy. Chiang Kaishek guranteed independence of tibet. Chiang Kaishek was a dictator, but better dictator than mao, who never bathed and brushed his theeth in his life.
>>533 For me, English is one of the most efficient ways to communicate with foreign people. Though I stopped studying the language once when I was a teenager, I later realised that it would be useful to broaden not just my knowledge, but my persepective.
My main reason to study English is to take Cambridge ESOL Exams. I'm taking CAE(Certificate in Advanced English) class at the moment, whereas the class is much more difficult than FCE(First Certificate in English)
To be honest, I want to take CPE(Certificate of Proficiency in English) exam one day, but I'm not sure how long it takes to get the certification because my English is a bit rubbish.
Nagano City in Japan was occupied by Chinese. The torch relay of Beijing Olympics came to Nagano City. To tell the truth, a sacred flame was a flame of the misfortune. The police in Japan assisted the Chinese's Nagano occupation putting the restriction on the person who had the Tibet flag or flags other than the flag of China.
>>572 No, a BBS life is one with plenty of friends, and always something to do. Without a BBS life, then it is so lonely. Living in your tiny apartment and being quiet so that the neighbor next door who is lonely too, does not hear you. It is better to be free online, then alone without a BBS.
"Lonely people" reminds me of "Eleanor Rigby" by Paul McCartney and "Message in a bottle" by Police. I think sting and Paul are mentally stable and mature. They must have not known real loneliness. They wrote the songs for money or they are mature enough to care for lonely people other than themselves.
The 80s and early 90s were the absolute best era don't you agree? Everything was so sweet and brilliant. We will be the last generation in the human history who knows what a life without the Internet is like. Kinda sad.
And the music... We have many awesomely nostalgic songs from the 80s-90s, like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXPq2lox-OE (I can smell the air of the early 90s watching this)
But what songs will the next generation people listen to to remember the good old days? All they got is stupid soulless cheap ass crap like Hamasaki, or some hip-hop/R&B wannabe shit.
komuro music left nothing. It scarcely overlapped the internet era. At that time internet was still for otakus. Most komuro listners were using pocket bell, I think. The late 90's can be called the internet era but komuro music was running on the last leg.
>>581 I agree. the quality of music around that time is much better than today's music. Also actors/actoresses are no longer attractive after year 2000.
What songs make you most nostalgic? I'm not talking about your favourite songs, but songs that have sheer nostalgic value to your generation. Like that song in 582, it's not the best song but certainly makes anyone of that generation super nostalgic for the old days. I especially want to hear from foreigners.
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=narRGOHDe_I I think hip hop? music at this time is much better than today's trend of gangstar rap or dokyun rap. I don't remember precisely. But some japanese company used Bobby and his music for its commercial film. What was it? JR railroad company? Bobby is much more talented than eminem, snoopdog? and other craps.
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=d4z2fVPG92M they said they succeeded in apolo theatre. But actually they got booed out of the stage. lol years later they changed the name from the bubblegum brothers to da bubblegum brothers to make them more 'yo! nigger'. I think rats and stars, which legendary tashiro was a member of, was much better. rats and stars are conscious of their gimic. And do you know bublegum was standupcomedian before?
>>595 Where is UK? I am from the United States. The youtube site seems to think I am uk though because it forwards me to uk servers everytime I go to the front of youtube.com
I don't like his eminem's nasal, obnoxious singing style! I can't understand most of what he is singing about. lol But i can conjecture what he sings about
I like 'Is this love' by White Snake. That tune is absolutely awesome and makes me nostalgic about the good old days. Sorry I must run, so cannot paste a link.
Finally, somewhere that I can actually talk to people. I've been looking for 'treasure' here on 2ch to bring back to /b/. Just curious, how many people here are wapanese?
Untill recently I didn't know white snake is a british band... I only know their 1987's album and songs and they were american to me. And David Coverdale's sex partner in the videos looked american too. She was very nasty and vulgar. I saw their proomtion video of 'here goes again' just before and ending scene was impressive. She was thrown into an ambulance and door was shut. and word, SEX was written on the door.... What was it? Probably message of their song. >>611 Cover Dale just confuses love with Sex. He is just obsessed with young girls like playmate.
Sorry correctly 'here i go again' and the video I was not this one. 'still of the night' was the one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqb5EcU65IQ tight pants looks corny today?
>>612 treasure? what do you mean? there are hardly any wapanese in this thread. non-japanese people around here seem to have no interest in wapanese stuff at all. they are usually talking about some deep stuff or racial superiority, or just answering to questions from japanese.
gas station was so crowded now. I came back just now but I had to wait more than 30 minutes for self-fueling. From tomorrow the price of gasoline will skyrocket. oh no〜
>>600 Actually I don't know much about recent music in Japan. Or anywhere else. Around 2000 Japanese music was like flooded by rappers, cookiecutter R&B singers, a whole bunch of bandwagon folk duos etc etc. Most of them were devoid of spirit and originality and I sort of stopped listening to music altogether.
>>621 Are you asking if I posted 404? If so, no. I'm new here. And I'm now interested in why you made such a wild guess. Is there any particular reason for you to try identifying me as 404? lol
>>632 Right now I'm working on an assignment for a class called Books. It sounded a lot more interesting than it really is. We don't actually talk about books or the history of books at all, the prof just blabs about old philosophers. For this week we had to read 150 pages of Pierre Bayle's Critical and Historical Dictionary. I only read half, I couldn't take any more. Now I have to write one page (double spaced) answering a question she asked about the reading. After that I've got a long list of other work I need to do. Sigh.
>>633 thats sooo tough!! last week was really tough one for me. i had three papers dur, one exa, and one quiz. i coped with them but the grades were ok...haha
oh i'm glad to see this thread is somewhat thriving up untill couople of days ago there was absolutely no activities in this thread and I was devasttated by that.
>>622 says theres no wapanese in here, but is it true? My guess is that there are a few closet wapanese hanging around in here but they are scared of the anti-wapanese police.
Wapanese are everywhere you look. Watch and learn...
Rozen Maiden is awesome, Tenchi Muyo sucks! Harem is decent, but only when it's in the sense of Ichigo 100%. To hell with the rest. Also, Naruto and Bleach are a disgrace. You want good anime? Get into Tales of Eternia.
Life is far too busy at the moment. Despite having received a rejection letter a week after my interview with that company I mentioned, they phoned a week after that and offered me the position anyway.
The people there are generally alright, except for the guy who runs the whole thing. He had the nerve to criticise my spelling and grammar to my manager, when there wasn't anything wrong with it at all. The previous design manager left a week after she interviewed me, and the current one is already looking for other jobs.
To Master Chief actual, Thank you for your response. You have a very intersting background. If the e-mail address you presented in this thread is still active and if you don't mind, maybe I should e-mail you instead of putting my questions here and there. What do you say? Over and out.
>>655 It's entirely up to you. I have no problem answering your questions here. If you'd rather email me, you can do that, too. If you want to email me, send 'em to... [email protected] (it's an old email address >_>)
Harem is decent, but only when it's in the sense of Ichigo 100%.
lol. I serched Harem and learned what it meant. Harem reminds me of kimagure orange road, in which a protagonist boy was surrouded by different types of girls, one is aggresive and sexy and the othe one is like cute sister and all went convient for him. I think evangelion is another harem anime in a broader sense.
Harem is more blatantly obvious stuff like the whole series of faggotry created by the fag of all fags, Ken Akamatsu or whatever that fag's called.
Isn't >>650 just an anime nerd with strong crotch odor? Do they call normal anime otakus wapanese? I thought wapanese were hardcore people who try to act like they grew up in Japan or something.
>>590 Wow, Goody Goody I heard that song countless times at a local clothing store when I was a kid. And after all these years I still can't make out what she's saying. Goody goody, goody goody duuuuhven(?) do you wanna piss on Ma
>>664 haha. You don't understand at all. I said 'in a broader sense'. A fragile, unattractive boy happened to live with a tight skirt older gal and be training with different types of cute girls at the work place. I think ayamami corresponds to ayukawa in kimagure orange road. They are brusque and mature looking.
The essence of the story must be different but the side of the story is alike.
>>669 >>666 just isn't very good at hearing lyrics. I understood it immediately. She's saying, "Do you want a piece of my goody goody, goody goody lovin'."
>>654 So you land a 9-5 job? Sounds good except having to handle the mean guy. Hope you get accustomed to your new envirnment soon. Maybe you are thinking about quitting the job like other employees there. I guess it's a tough decision.
>>678 9-5:30, yeah. The mean guy isn't really that mean, he just has no idea what we're doing. His background is purely sales, so he doesn't really know much about code and design. However, his mindset about what websites should look like is still stuck in the late 1990s. Since all we do has to be approved by him first, as long as we make it look cheap and outdated, he'll probably be okay with it. I think that's why everyone's leaving though... it's embarrassing having to make them look that way.
>>684 Seems like it's against your company's benefits to put a guy like him in the post in charge of final decisions.
Maybe this is off the point of what you are trying to say, but I think "Simple is best" when it comes to a website. Flashy Flash is irritating because of both taking a lot of time to download a page and not easy on my eyes.
If a visitor get to know easily what the webiste is for, and if the site provides easy navigation to all of its pages, then I would call it a good website. Up-to-the-minuite technologies for websites are impressive and I guess web designers want to use them to make websites look good, but that tends to satisfy web creaters egos, not vistitor friendliness.
Maybe what you are talking about is deffirent from what I'm writing now, but I just wrote what I think about websites. Too colorful, too new web technology oriented website is nothing but annoying. Even I have fiber optic Internet connection, it took lots of time to download too flashy sites.
I'm starting a secret elite club called THE I'LL FUCKING SODOMIZE KEN AKAMATSU CLUB. Anybody can join this club. You don't even need to ask. The only rule we have is you must not tell anyone that you are a member of THE I'LL FUCKING SODOMIZE KEN AKAMATSU CLUB. What members do is slip I'll fucking sodomize Ken Akamatsu in between any sentences you feel like slipping it in.
Can some native speaker please give me some serious explanation about the difference between "will" and "going to"? People say "keep using engrish and you'll just sorta learn it" but I've been using Engrish for some time now and still havent got a clue.
going to = EVIDENT PREDICTION will = NON-EVIDENT PREDICTION Evident or non-evident? Is this about the speaker's opinion?
going to = PRE-DECIDED PLAN OR IDEA will = DECISION TAKEN AT THE MOMENT OF SPEAKING This is easier to understand... but "What are you gonna do now?" Is this asking if you are prepared for the situation? Not about what you decide to do at the moment? Is the question different from "What will you do now?"
>>690 I see. I am Japanese but my understanding was will = with some decision, intention going to = it is already set and is kind of the situation that passed around on a conveyor belt
>>690 Native English speaker here. Will = spontaneous decisions Going to = intended decisions "What are you gonna do?" is asking if the person is prepared for the situation. "What will you do?" is asking what the person is deciding to do at that moment.
You're right, some of the simpler sites do tend to look pretty good. A lot of more complex sites are just way too cluttered up. However, we've found that he doesn't really like 'clean' sites, and insists on having every space used, even just with recycled stock images. Unless the user actually specifies not to, we have to also embed a Google Map on the Contact page.
And you mentioned Flash. I really like using Flash, because it can produce some interesting and good looking results. It just happens that the day after I joined the company (myself and this other new guy), they put up a special offer on their site selling sites with Flash headers. The example they gave is truly a horrific site, using quickly put-together graphics and totally overboard on special effects. It's like adding ten Photoshop lensflares to an image, thinking it makes it actually look good. Using technology is good when used right, but can be disastrous when not.
Anyway, this is just for an income until I set up by myself.
>>712 it is a pun....;) Sorry. Also you can use going to when you plan to procrastinate. I am going to wash the dishes. (someday) I will wash the dishes. (now)
Just dragging a conversation here that started in another thread.
>ところで、アメ人が日本語の語感をつかむより、日本人が英語の語感をつかむほうがムズいの??俺は逆だと思ってた。日本語のほうがムズイと思ってた。 You know, it's probably just the bias of being a native speaker. I know how complicated English can be, but I don't yet fully understand all the complexities of Japanese. The opposite is true for you. I'm still kind of leaning towards English being more difficult. Part of it's yeah, the flexibility of Japanese that you mentioned, and other things. We've got specific tenses, and you've got to be careful not to mess up there or you'll sound very weird. This isn't really true of Japanese. Of course, Japanese is difficult/complicated in other ways... I guess I just feel like the subtleties of English are harder to master. Where you place a certain word in a sentence, where you choose to put the emphasis, it can change the whole meaning.
>>127 Well, I offered a shitty explanation above. It's not very articulate but it's hard to really put a finger on what it is, it's just a feeling I get from the language.
>I think you can say weird things just as easily in any language if it's not your native language. I agree with you on that, I said as much in the Japanese part of that post. But I do think that, in general and given the same relative amounts of experience, it might be easier for a non-native Japanese speaker to string together a decent sentence than it is for a non-native English speaker. Like I said above though, this is probably just my native bias. And these kinds of things are entirely subjective anyway.
I've got no experience with German, but I studied French for a few years, which is pretty crazy too. At the risk of sounding like a giant language nerd... grammar is fascinating. It really is.
I can say this, English is definitely a lot harder than Japanese to speak without sounding GAY. I said GAY because it really is GAY. Not just weird and stuff, GAY is what it is. You know what I mean. I could explain why it's that way but dont have time now.
>>715 Do you realize that the more flexibility a language provides, the more varieties and subtleties of it are allowed accordingly and each conveys its own nuance in meaning?
Yeah, really hard. Somebody said something like this to me and I raed it many times and still don't understand the idea.
>there is no real "core" to people, unless you cite the irreconcilable conflicts and paradoxes which are both universal and form. The seed of our identities. xxxx the "deeper" you get to your "core" the less of you they are accurately is
>>717 Yes. But in my opinion, getting a handle on those isn't *as* difficult as acquiring the ability to (in English) eliminate the 48048293042 possible sentences that sound strange/awkward/wrong or have the wrong meaning, and choose the proper one from a relatively small pool of possible candidates. Obviously it comes quite naturally to me, but from listening to and reading things written by ESL people, I can see how hard it is for others. I'm not saying Japanese isn't intricate or complicated; it is, any language is. I just personally think English might in general be harder to get the hang of...
>>718 He's basically saying there's no inherent "core" (base, central part of your personality/heart/soul/etc.) in people. The only thing you could call a "core" are these conflicts and paradoxes that exist in everybody. There's a strange period in there but I think he's saying these universal conflicts/paradoxes form the "seed" of our identities. The last sentence is fucked up but I think he means, the deeper you try to get to your "core" (which doesn't actually exist), the less accurate of a reflection it is of who you really are. Like, supposedly your "core" should be the deepest, most central, most basic part of you. It should be all those basic things that make you who you are. But according to him, the more you try to wrap your hands around that core, the less you actually know about yourself.
>Narcissism to me has superficial connotations - when an artist admits to being narcissistic, they're simply vain and unable to probe deeper. Perhaps it's my belief that there is no real 'core' to people, unless you cite the irreconcilable conflicts and paradoxes which are both universal and form the seed of our identities. In that way, I can agree with xxx - the 'deeper' you get to your ' core,' the less of you there actually is: which to me makes for more sincere art.
sorry the above was the original writing. I misspelled. I always like what he says so this time too, I think his philoosphy is great. Thanks your explanation means a lot!!!
>>715 Thanks. Very interesting. I think it's not really a bias thing. It's rather where you look at in a laguage. Japanese is flexible so you can say, for example, 私、きのう、公園行ったよ、or きのう、公園行ったよ、私 or whatever the order or you can even omit the subject, 私. This flexibility gives kind of easiness specially to non-native lerners, perhaps. But if you get into a certain stage, Japanese becomes very difficult. Politeness things(like 謙譲語, 丁寧語) for example, or how to call yourself or other people, わたし、俺、オレ、僕、ボク、ぼく、拙者、我輩、あなた、君、おまえ, and so on. English is more strict in grammar; word order, things like articles(the, a, my, your, etc), tense, and you make one mistake and you can destoy your sentence. Well, I guess every language has its easiness and difficulty. By the way, I leraned (only tried to learn) French for a few months and I gave up! It just drove me crazy. French grammar never fascinated me. Haha...
>>719 I see what you mean; I also see lots of non-Japanese speakers mess up 'aspects' in Japanese, which isn't very familiar to non-native speakers I suppose. For me, it's easier to follow strict rules than figuring out unset rules, but it wouldn't be fair to draw a conclusion anyway, unless I achieve spotless fluency in the language.
To everybody who's trying to determine the difference between "will" and "going to," there may be a subtle difference, but it is hardly ever acknowledged. 99% of the native English speakers don't even know the difference. If you say "I will go to the park" or "I am going to the park" to an English speaker, they'll get the same idea. Don't worry about it.
>>724 native speakers are probably not conscious about the difference between will and going to, but I'm sure they unconciously command them slightly different.
>>721 Yeah, I agree. I guess it's like, Japanese seems deceptively easy. It's not too hard to get a semi-firm grasp on it. But moving from intermediate to advanced is where the real pain is, whereas in English I think the pain is getting from beginner to intermediate. I don't blame you on the French. XD It's like the more French you learn, the more you realize that there's still a lot more to learn. XDDD I'm more interested in Japanese, though, so I kind of gave it up once I graduated high school. And my French accent is terrible. orz
>>722 That's one of the things I really love about language, figuring out those strict and unset rules. It's kind of like a puzzle, except the more pieces you get the bigger the puzzle gets. XD
Nowadays seems like even "native" speakers don't speak English all that well, though, so who knows...
Uh, seems like I'm always writing here for other threads...
Mm, okay, long story short: I had made my travel plans in early July, so it turned out that I headed to Niigata shortly after the earthquake there last summer. orz Of course some of the trains weren't running, so there were huge delays and part of the trip had to be by a special bus. I ended up getting to Niigata way later than I had expected, and I had already missed the last ferry to Sado Island. I had no place to stay that night (I had made a reservation at the youth hostel on the island, thinking I would make it there). There was some kind of festival going on, too, so it looked like most of the hotels were full. I have a friend who lives in Niigata, so I felt like a complete asshole but I had no choice. I called him and asked if I could crash (stay the night) at his place. I apologized like ten billion times. Luckily he said it was okay. He later told me he'd been planning on going to see fireworks that night with his friends, but he'd cancelled at the last minute. If he'd gone, I would have been fucked. T_T So I stayed at his place that night, made it to Sado Island the next day.
The first day I'm there, I decided to just walk around. It was really, really, really fucking hot. I walked for a really, really, really long time. XD I didn't realize what exactly I was getting into, and by the time I was an hour away from the hostel I said, "Fuck it, the scenery is pretty, I'll just keep going." Now on the way I passed a foreign guy going in the other direction on the other side of the street. I waved to him and he waved back.
>>735 That afternoon I make it back to the hostel, and the foreign guy is there! Turns out he was a German guy traveling in Japan. He had the same Lonely Planet guidebook that I had (which is how we found out about this particular hostel, it was in the guidebook). He had nowhere to stay, so he was visiting all the hostels in the book, looking for one with room. XD Luckily ours had an open room, so he ended up staying there. We kinda got to be friends, so the next day we decided to go out biking to 二ツ亀. I don't think I really realized just how far it was... We left in the morning, picked up some lunch to eat later, and started biking. I hadn't ridden a bicycle in *years*. We ended up biking a total of around 70 km that day. My ass hurt like a bitch at the end. I had so much fun though. He was such a cool guy. We ended up not even learning each other's names until the middle of the second day, we'd always just talked like we were friends and forgot to ask each other. XD At one point some construction workers on the side of the road waved to me and yelled, "Hello!" in English, so I yelled こんにちは back and really surprised them. It was just a really, really fun day. We ended up getting back after the sun had set, and it was raining. So biking in the dark, in the rain, on a road with a lot of cars, was kind of scary for me. I'm glad he was there. >_> I just followed the light on the back of his bike and prayed I'd make it back alive.
Er, I tried to leave out most of the details... yeah. That ended up being really long. There's my Sado Island story.
What made you write such a boring story in the first place, I wonder? I don't expect your answer. Cause I know it's boring again. Plus, it's just a rhetorical question.
>>735 Hi. (I'm >>721. Thanks for your reply) What a trip. But sounds very exciting! I saw some of your posts in J->E thread. You're planning to come to Japan again, huh?
>>741 Eh, I guess it's one of those things that's really awesome for the person who's doing it, but isn't very interesting to hear about. XD Ah well. Yeah I'd really, REALLY like to. Especially since this is my last summer before getting a job. But if my friend can't come with me, I don't think I'll go alone. So... I'll find out next week if he can make it or not. Shit, shit, shit. I hope this doesn't fall through. >_<
>>742 Hey, things never are as bad as they seem. Dream, hop, wish, and pray, (gee, I know you don't pray....) You will be in Japan with your best friend.
>>742 Oh, you are a college student or something, huh. I hope you can make this trip. BTW, if you come to Tokyo, maybe I'll teach you how to enjoy Tokyo, haha. (I was born and raised in Tokyo)
>>743 Thanks man. I hope you're right. Gotta hope for the best and all that.
>>744 Yeah, I'm a senior. Graduating in June. Hehe, I dunno it'd be cool to have someone show me around, but then again I don't want to be ちょー迷惑 for the other person. I mean most people probably don't want to guide some random foreigner around for a whole day or something... Maybe it helps a little that I can speak some Japanese, I dunno. I'm just afraid of getting on people's nerves without realizing it.
Does this woman's English have British accent? I don't think her accent is American but I'm not sure if it's British accent. Where do you native speakers think she is from?
The more I listen to her the more I started to think she is from sounthern part of America. If I'm not wrong, she has southern drawel. Maybe I'm wrong.
>>730 HAHA damn that's my type of comedy!! I could only make out about 20% of what's being said but thanks to the comments there I got the funniest part.
Really. a sand nigger purpoting to be a white aryan! But many persian in the north america are mixed with white, like agazzi and wwe diva leyla milani? I heard persian in america are pricks, saying they are decendants of persian empire and white aryan and stuff like that! Just a sand nigger!!!!
>>771 So what? And sand nigger has a connotation of ridiculing non-white middle asians trying to be or regarded as white? But almost all 'real' asians don't think themselves white. Some idiots are trying to be like nigger. In this sense word, rice nigger really works. But they don't think they are really black while sand niggers think they are really white.
>>787-788 Yes but pac man sounds like pack man to Americans and they probably think it has something to do with carrying many things. Americans are not good at nuance. They are generally country bumpkins.
It's hard to explain. Pac is an imitation sound of human putting some food in one mouthful. I don't know the nuance of mouthful. You don't have to open your mouth open. just open mouth and throw some food in your mouth at one time and close mouth. That's paku. When you do it consecutively, for example, twice, it's paku,paku.
The situaiton of fish biting bait is very ideal situation for paku!パクッ!, I think.
How about Mighty Morphin White Power Rangers. The protagonists are all niggers. The leader was Red, who was hispanic, but Black capped his ass and took over the position. Black is a real gangsta nigga, Blue is a water-loving sand nigger, Green is a nature-loving prairie nigger, Yellow is a curry nigger. Rice niggers work in labs for whites. But they are spies and saboteurs. The rangers morph into white and fight the evil, and whites praise the White Power. Then the rangers reveal themselves thinking whites will accept them. But after all niggers are still niggers and whites are like, sorry niggers you'll never be one of us and niggers quit saving the world and the evil dudes kill all whites and niggers and move to the next planet searching for prey. Green rests in peace knowing earth has been cured of cancer that is human.
Paku is when you move your mouth like that. Doesn't necessarily mean putting something in your mouth. It's about the motion. (e.g. kuchi-paku, lipsync)
>>798 That's probably because your a america-lovin rice nigga, or just plain stupid.
Anyway, I want to ask you if you have a feeling of this. Recently I feel some changes in Internet world. The age range from 15 to 20 these days are so lack of tenderness. They just talk what they want and then they never care about others or even won't reply to others. 2ch is famous for their rudeness but even any other sites where I visit, I feel the same. I mean mature people are ok but the youngsters' attitude is horrible. about 3 years ago, people were more caring to eachothers.
Almost nobody says "nigger" or "niggiers" but what percent of white people think in their mind "They are niggers. Niggers are niggers." or "Some can be called black people but some are just niggers."?
>>803 yeah, but it's like shi*ting everywhere unless it's your neighbors. We are supposed to be kind to everybody even on the internet, aren't we? they're just so strong and grab whatever they want and run. well not THEY but I just met some people very unpolite on internet recently.
>>799 You are right. I think the way of fish opening and closing their mouth embodies paku very well. http://youtube.com/watch?v=Jg_9oGt6AAQ Look at this video around 24-30 seconds. We say 金魚が口をバクパク(pakupaku)させている。(a golden fish is doing pakupaku of its mouth). >>798 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man#History As I said, pac-man's pac came from paku(パク) in japanese.
Ah... that says, "The original title was pronounced pakku-man (パックマン) and was inspired by the Japanese onomatopoeic phrase paku-paku taberu (パクパク食べる), where paku-paku describes (the SOUND of) the mouth movement when widely opened and then closed in succession.
It's NOT a sound. It's a motion. Sombody, correct that.
>>813 That's wrong. But I thought over what paku-paku really represens, and I think it's a cambination of, say, 40% of sound and 60% of motion of the mouth movement.
>>815 Your conjecture is nonsense. There is no sound without movement.
repeat opening and closing of your mouth rapidly. You must hear the sound of "paku paku paku paku paku.." Oh, that's the easiest and the most effective explanation.
>>817 Sorry for my poor English. I'll put it this way, then. If you asked a Japanese to do and show the 'paku-paku' motion, he would show you a motion and a sound. Not a motion or a sound alone and you would get a feeling that this expression consists of 60% of motion and 40% of sound. Something like that.
The conservative party won a land slide victory in the UK. But イギリス人 must have been itching to know the outcome of the vote of BNP, British National Party. Did BNP leap as イギリス人 expected?
http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4454 Congrats! イギリス人さん! BNP increased their seats to 100 in the local election! イギリス人 must have been so happy and drunk that he can't post in 2ch!
Japanese media is ignoring BNP victory. nikkei newspaper didn't mention the voting rate and seats of BNP at all on sunday. nikkei newspaper seemed to ascribe the labor's defeat to minor problems like economy and leadership. British white workers' hostility toward immigrants has been increasing. That's the prominent reason that the conservative party won. And hostility is a rational reaction to barbarism, intimidation, violence, etc. nikkei seems to be unable to see the fact or turn its face away from the fact even though it boasts itself as quality news paper...
>>826-827 I'm just happy that Labour are failing. My local area, however, had no elections, but if they did, I'd have voted for Liberal Democrats. I'm also happy that Boris Johnson was voted as the new Mayor of London.
>>828 Increasing dissatisfaction with Gordon Brown's government is the main reason people are voting elsewhere. It's just been error after error, with the latest being the abolition of the 10p range of income tax (before, people who earned less than around £15,000 only had to pay 10% income tax - now they're in the 20% range). This made a lot of people unhappy, despite getting increased tax credit, especially after he spent so long defending the choice, only to admit error in the end. We didn't even vote him in. He assumed office as Prime Minister only after Blair stepped down.
British publications aren't really paying much attention to the BNP.
>>832 Yes, some people do. One of my mothers' friends often says it, anyway. Some say the origin of this is from a book called 'The Vermilion Box', by E.V. Lucas, which mentions "Donkey's Ears", as a sort of rhyming slang for 'years and years'.
>>833, >>849 For a moment, I thought you really were British...
>>850 Then what's your opinion about BNP's leap? You must be dissatisfied with tactical concillatory change toward the jews, which is intended to make BNP more respectable to the common people. BNP tries to distance itself from Nazi and anti-semetism, true conservatism and patriotism.
I heard local assembly members included a half-negro, who claim she was white and a jew.
Anyway, Nick Girffin looks like Kyle Maclachlan. He is handsome.
Nick Girffin seems to be concentrating on muslim immigrants. When he disposes of these people, He would trun back on the jewish supporters and jewish comrades and try to expel all the jews from the UK? ah, including mongrel people. If so, very smart tactics like Adolf Hitler! First seemingly legitimate, then go all out with the majority's enthusiastic support .
I don't know about Boris Johnson. I knew about the former London mayor a little. He was very courageous and assertive guy. He opposed against zionist tyranny in the middle east. He compares its atrocity to so-called nazi atrocity. He is not afraid of jewish propaganda and really loves democracy and peace.
I thought you were typical of politically liberal person. But you seems not necessarily . When one japanese guy called for consent to his liberal opinions about politics, You got along with him or just accepted him? was that スコットランド人?
>>856 Na, not yet. My friend said he'd probably know the answer by Tuesday, so if I don't hear from him by tomorrow night I'll call him and ask what's up. I'm not sure I want to know. (;_;)
>>862 Take turns asking each other questions, whatever we want. But you gotta answer as long as doing so doesn't reveal personal information or something.
>>865 You threw me a tough question from the beginning. Here's my answer to your question. Well, this is not exactly something I have done. But what I regret most is the fact that I do exist on this planet right now.