>>954 Thanks for talking to me. I forgot whether I declared that I'd take a bath last time I posted, but I didn't take a bath in the end. So I haven't taken a bath for 5 days. Or six. I don't even know now how many days I haven't taken a bath. One thing I know is my face is kind of like itchy and when I wipe my face with the rim of my blue T-shirt I'm wearing now, something white powder is left on my T-shirt. It's scurf.
Plus, I really stink. I'll take a bath today. I mean it. I can't stand my body odor anymore. Thank you for the offer, but I have nice liquid body soap and shampoo so no need to send me bath salts. I don't know what bath salt is. Is it a liquid soap including salts?
Japanese people in gneral are famous for their cleaness and Japanese makers sell all sorts of soaps and shampoos that serve for Japanese trend of cleaness. I know I'm an exeption. Japanese people are senstive to their cleaness. You'd be surprised how many products are sold in Japan to be clean. Sheets of paper that are supposed to place between armpits and your clothes are sold, too to prevent your shirt is wet with your sweat. This product is popular with women.
This product is just one of the examples. Japanese people have creativity when it comes to cleaness product.
Russians, on working out that you're foreign, don't really react much differently - though the first time I was asked for directions (and so tried to give them), the guy stood back with his hands up slightly, like you would do if you were trying to show someone you were not being threatening.
These senteces are hard to understand? Can somebody elaborate on this?
>>904 If you are like shizuchan from nankaicandies, no thank you. If you are like angelina jolie, advantage is bigger than disadvantage. I want to flaunt you walking with me.
I'm not a fan of Angelina though. Just picked up a good example everbody can think of.
Today, gook is more popular thanks to the korean waves.
Distinguishing koreans from japanese is not impossible with careful watching. Cos Koreans are more handsome and sturdy. I'm glad to be carelessly included in gook category instead of Jap.
I stopped the procrastination and took a bath now. I rubbed my body really hard with a towel like when you wash an elephant. I shampooed three times to get rid of oil and scurf stuck to my head skin and hair.
I rubbed my face so hard that my face is red and sores. I shaved my face and now I look like a Hollywood movie star. My skin is as silky clean as a newborn baby and a skin care product company would offer me a CM.
Now anybody can jump into my arms. Don't forget to put off a clothes peg off your nose. You can put it on again when I hug you three or more days later.
Fish-san well done! now we need to change your name to Movie Star-san. Congragulations on your bath. Here, I give you a hug. without the nose clip. I know what you mean about cleanliness in Japan. there are three nations in the world who are obsessed with taking baths: Finns, Turks and Japanese. One day if I can visit Japan, I will head straight to a foreigner friendly onsen. I should not become a yakuza and get tattoos before I visit the onsens. I heard they don't allow he yakuza memebers in onsens. anyway, women cannot be yakuzas, right? I am curious about the Hokkaido onsens. I would love to try Japanese soaps and bath cosmetics, unfortunately they are hardly available here.
From american bbs:People are just mad becuz a black man is president of this rasist ass counry . if it wasn't for slavery you dumb nigger ! you would be living in Africa right now , dieing of Aids or walking 10 miles a day for water . so be happy that white people brought blacks on ships from Africa . when will black people evolve to looking like a human ? Why are blacks' hair always so grease?
>>960 No, I don't. If it's a hot day, my room is like a sauna. I just use an electric fan when temperature gets too high with windows open and meshed window closed so that wind comes in. AC is too luxurious.
Today's energy saving technology of AC is phenomenal. It doesn't cost money as much as you think. Think about this choice. I bought AC for smallest room, just for 5-6 tatamis. AC cost about 50,000yen at that time. That was the chepest kind among new models sold in appiliance store.
Don't your body itch either? Heat and sweats must make yourbody uncomfortable.
>>961 Thanks. Nobody congratulates on just taking a bath, though. :p Don't throw away the nose clip. You'll need it in three or more days if I start to make a personal record of not taking a bath.
Yeah, although getting tatooed has become a fashion statement for some people in Japan like the rest of the world, tatoo resembles outlaws, meaning yakuza in Japan and if you have a tattoo you can't bathe in onsen, can't go to swimming pool and public bath. Some people get rid of tattoo when they have a kid because they can't go to swiming pool with their kids. Tattoo is still a taboo in a way.(pun intended)
Women cannot be yakuza but wives of yakuza get tatooed. The designs of Yakuza's tatoos are different from those of young people for fashion statement. Japan's young people's tattoo is westernized and the design is in many cases, geometric and gin women's cases, butterflies and such. And they are relatively small while yakuza's tatoo is very big and sometimes almost the whole body except neck, face, hands and feet.
Don't you feel shy about taking a bath naked with other people in onsen? I heard western people are confused with the notion of taking a bath with strangers.
>>966 Even if AC itself is getting inexpensive, there's still electricity bill to pay, right? Once you turn on AC, you never can't turn off because you get accustomed to the comfort it gives you and that leads to much electricity bill.
I try not to use an electric fan because once you turn it on, you can't turn off and I'd end up keeping it turned on all day. I wonder which electricity bills is cheap, electric fan or AC. If it's almost the same, I think I'd better think about buying an AC.
Yeah, I know that just using dehumification function makes you comfortable.
Body itches, too but somehow it stops itching after three or more days. Instead, face starts to itching after three or more days. I wonder why.
No. I can't do that. cos familuy member start to critisize my odor. I take a bath almost everyday but a family member reluctantly notifies me of my odor of sweats from my t-shirts.
By the way, Do you change your clothes? I sleep with my daily clothes on. I won't change into pajama. I sleep with t-shrits and underpants. I sometimes use t-shrits for two days in winter time when thigs are bothering. Sometimes it reveals though..
If you keep on wearing the same clotes for a few days, you are king.
>>972 No, I don't change clothes. I don't change to pajamas either when I sleep, meaning I keep wearing the same clothes until I take a bath the next time. My hair gets sticky after three or so days so I lay out a towel on my pillow so that the pillow won't get sticky.
My parents are accustomed to me not taking a bath for days so they don't tell me anything now. I think as far as you keep distance 1 meter from me, I don't smell that bad. If you step into 1m range, you'd feel dizzy and if you're hugged by me, you'd faint. Sometimes my mom tells me to shave my face but she doesn't tell me to take a bath anymore.
Now that I've just taken a bath, I smell like a soap. I know this won't last many days though.
>>975 That's a pun? Nice try but "Tatoo is still a taboo" is a better pun if you ask me.
So there are two Fish-sans here, Fish-san and Fish-to-be-san.
But Fish-san has transformed into a Movie-star-san, albeit temporarily. Fish-to-be-san will be his disciple. "Sensei! please teach me the language of body aroma,...onegaishimas.." he bows. Sensei throws a mean look in Fish-to-b-san's direction... "that is my trade secret... it will cost you"...
How will the story unfold?
>>968. People taking baths and making an effort for grooming should be congragulated. Because it is a speacial event for them. Don't you agree? I can imagine, maybe if your room is already hot like asauna, your bathroom w might be unbearably humid, naturally you wouldn't want to be in that enclosure. What you need is lots of space and a calm, cool atmosphere with warm water. Anything other than that requires effort and should be congragulated.
I do not like tattoos, but in case I decide to become a yakuza, I guess I need a tattoo. What is the point if I cannot be a Yakuza and act really tough that is so unfair...being a Yakuza wife must be boring...no adventure
well I have been to a public SPAs when I was a child, yes I never thought about being naked in the same bath as an adult, but if other people act natural and don't mind me being there I would be fine ( I hope :-D)
No no not nordic, (phew glad I am not, they age rapidly)
It's likely that the homeless folk around here are have better hygiene than you... you disgusting pig. But your stories are entertaining at least. I'll contribute one. I often piss in the bathtub because I'm too lazy to lift the toilet seat.
The AC for my house costs around $400-500 per month. I use fans too, but they hardly help. I don't really mind paying for it though because otherwise I'd be living in misery.
Second, I'd guess your face itches because bacteria and microscopic organisms have accumulated on your face (and those organisms shit, which leave allergens on your face).
>>978 A library sounds good because they keep AC on all day.
>>979 Piss in the bathtub must be sootihng. It feels good whenever you break conventional rules. I often pee when I take a bath, but not in the bathtub but the area where you wash your body. Japanese Bathroom is different from that of Americans so we don't wash our body in the bathtub. Some kids pee in swimming pool at school.
>>987 Natto can last long so you don't have to worry too much. You don't store huge amount of natto, do you? If you are too worried, just eat today. 988 might be right.
fish-san today i got caught in the rain on the way home, then on the way to and from a tango lesson.the dancing was for two hours and the rain also soaked me too. i thought of you. maybe i cannot compete with your fish-ness but i did feel..wet as a fish. a good shower and a cup of tea made me recover. that i what showers and baths are for, i thought.
I happened to see again the Uzbek boy in a certain chatroom. He talked to me so we chatted for an hour or so. I told him to sell some of his eroge on a Uzbek auction site so you gotta check it out, アメリカ人. You should ask for a sick leave and find the site and bid on them and play all day.