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Japan Topics • Re: Lifes little gripes II

2013-05-22T23:27:15+10:00

My wife happily drives my car but always forgets to put the seat back to where it was before. AND lets not forget the one thing that all women seem to do well...driving the car until it is out of fuel and not bother to put any in. I got one of those speedpass things from Mobil. It should make things easier but NOOO!

Statistics: Posted by allblacks — Wed May 22, 2013 11:27 pm

Japan Topics • Re: The little observations...

2013-05-22T22:44:26+10:00

Bmore,

I see where you're coming from, but if everything boils down to “don’t throw rocks if you live in a glass house,” then nobody has the right to criticize others. Yes, Japan is a free country and people should be allowed to express themselves, but people like Hashimoto are not entitled to their own facts, and that is why the US, Korea, and China are critical. Technically speaking, the comfort women issue was settled ages ago, but the nationalists just can't help themselves. If you're China or Korea, Hashimoto's idiotic statement are a slow pitch right down the center of the plate, too juicy to pass up. Why waste a good opportunity to grind an axe?

Statistics: Posted by Shawn — Wed May 22, 2013 10:44 pm

Japan Topics • Re: Lifes little gripes II

2013-05-22T20:12:38+10:00

Tall Tall Tree wrote:
On the subject of wives and clean dishes, mine will wash clean dishes before using them. Even if she knows I just washed the dishes (my chore) an hour or so before. After all, a bug may have landed on or crawled across the plate or bowl in the interim, you know.

I hear you ... I'm married to a Japanese wife. (I presume you are too ... ?)

She doesn't really do that with dishes, but she'll do that to the table that we usually eat at. Even though she cleaned it after the previous meal and it had gone unused since then.

But that's OK. I knew she was like that before I married her. Plus, she's an absolute sweetheart in so many ways and I can't imagine life without her.

-- The Lion

Statistics: Posted by LuckyLion — Wed May 22, 2013 8:12 pm

Japan Topics • Re: Lifes little gripes II

2013-05-22T18:31:52+10:00

AsahiSupaSpy wrote:
Typical conversation with student:
Me: Hi, Student. How are you?
Student: I amu, very, sleepy.
Me: Oh that's no good. Why?
Student: Becauseu, e...to. Ge-mu, ge-mu.

What students are learning in their other English classes.
(Re-organise the sentence)
Some people claim that if children depend on computers too much, (as/cannot/improve/reading and writing/such/their basic intellectual skills/they).

It's little wonder they struggle, when 95% of their English education is meaningless.

My gripe is that almost every JTE in the whole country seems to start every English class with "What day is it today?" and "How's the weather today?"

Way too mechanical and robotic.

- The Lion

Statistics: Posted by LuckyLion — Wed May 22, 2013 6:31 pm

Japan Topics • Re: Lifes little gripes II

2013-05-22T11:58:48+10:00

Yep my wife is the same. No matter how many times I tell her not to touch my shit she does. And most of the time she denies touching it! So how the fark did it end up there? And no way in hell I would ever put that there! Of course there is the chance that I've forgotten moving it but in general I know how my mind works and where she put my shit is not where I would put it if I were to move it...Luckily I have my own room/office now and while it doubles up as a spare room for guests, if I don't want her to touch something I'll put it in my office and she won't touch it.

Statistics: Posted by MacGyver — Wed May 22, 2013 11:58 am

Japan Topics • Re: The little observations...

2013-05-22T11:40:48+10:00

steki47 wrote:
MacGyver wrote: It's been almost 70 years since the end of the war and Japan has not once offered a genuine and sincere apology.

Sure about that? Here's a long list of apologies made by various PMs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wa ... d_by_Japan

Yes I am sure as my point is "genuine and sincere" apology. In my opinion Japan has never meant what it has said in regards to an apology. There is still debate in Japan as to whether the rape of Nanking took place, visits to Yasukuni, which the pollies know are controversial, Japanese textbooks gloss over much of the war and certainly Japan's responsibilities and atrocities committed, and Japan always, or perhaps on most occasions, seem to portray Hiroshima and Nagasaki as victims. While the reasons for the bombings are complicated and certainly arguable America is not free of blame (assuming you argue they shouldn't have taken place) it seems to me that the Japanese forget the reason why the bombs were dropped in the first place and that if they had not been aggressors perhaps it would never have happened. But I digress. My point is that it seems to me while Japan has officially apologised, and as you point out several times over many years, it's actions have not lived up to its word. And to me, even though Hashimoto is not a federal politician, it seems to me that this is the sort of thing that shows they aren't "genuinely and sincerely" sorry. Again, you could argue that the federal govt. isn't responsible for everything two-bit nationalistic jerk-offs like Hashimoto say, but I believe that had more efforts been made in things like education and cultural relationships, which is action to say "yes we are sorry and we are going to do these things to improve relationships to prove it" then maybe there wouldn't be as many Japanese figures saying outrageous statements such as these.

Statistics: Posted by MacGyver — Wed May 22, 2013 11:40 am

Japan Topics • Re: Lifes little gripes II

2013-05-22T08:04:32+10:00

Cadence wrote:
MonkeyMagic wrote:
Junken Master wrote:I told me wife the other day to leave them where they were.

I'm fortunate in that my wife and I have a tacit understanding that each other's rooms/stuff are not to be messed with. We've both learned the hard way not to put away, tidy, etc. what belongs to the other. Took a few years mind.

That is a good way to be. Anybody touching my stuff = you're fired.

Which leads me onto a gripe;

Why are the old cunts in this country all of the opinion that it is fine to touch my super expensive road bike? They all trot out the same platitudes, about the tyres being thin, then proceed to put their nicotine stained hands all over it. Get the fuck off, and away from me.

Also, when training, old cunts often come up to me, with a cigarette on the go, speaking to me. Fucking die you old cunt! How in your mind is it OK to smoke near someone who is clearly in the middle of hard exercise?

Just wait until you have kids!

Statistics: Posted by JD9 — Wed May 22, 2013 8:04 am

Japan Topics • Re: Lifes little gripes II

2013-05-22T05:51:53+10:00

MonkeyMagic wrote:
Junken Master wrote:I told me wife the other day to leave them where they were.

I'm fortunate in that my wife and I have a tacit understanding that each other's rooms/stuff are not to be messed with. We've both learned the hard way not to put away, tidy, etc. what belongs to the other. Took a few years mind.

That is a good way to be. Anybody touching my stuff = you're fired.

Which leads me onto a gripe;

Why are the old cunts in this country all of the opinion that it is fine to touch my super expensive road bike? They all trot out the same platitudes, about the tyres being thin, then proceed to put their nicotine stained hands all over it. Get the fuck off, and away from me.

Also, when training, old cunts often come up to me, with a cigarette on the go, speaking to me. Fucking die you old cunt! How in your mind is it OK to smoke near someone who is clearly in the middle of hard exercise?

Statistics: Posted by Cadence — Wed May 22, 2013 5:51 am

Japan Topics • Re: The little observations...

2013-05-22T01:21:01+10:00

Langslave wrote:
Should we even broach the topic of cannibalism of P.O.W.s?

I have no doubt Bmore simply wishes that they had been like most Jews in Europe - instead of fighting back against Nazis, they simply did what they were told. No moral qualms such as "they were shooting at me" or "they bombed my country first" to mess things up.

Statistics: Posted by inflames — Wed May 22, 2013 1:21 am

Japan Topics • Re: Lifes little gripes II

2013-05-22T00:53:07+10:00

Junken Master wrote:
I told me wife the other day to leave them where they were.

I'm fortunate in that my wife and I have a tacit understanding that each other's rooms/stuff are not to be messed with. We've both learned the hard way not to put away, tidy, etc. what belongs to the other. Took a few years mind.

Statistics: Posted by MonkeyMagic — Wed May 22, 2013 12:53 am