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Tudor
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| Shimokitazawa wrote: |
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| Glenski didn't seem to have a sense of humor. |
Why did Glenski stop posting here? |
Perhaps he never fully recovered from that sense of humour bypass he'd obviously had. |
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mateacher
Joined: 07 Sep 2013
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| Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2014 8:52 am Post subject: |
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| Shimokitazawa wrote: |
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Its funny how people think they can make it in Japan because they save 1000 dollars a month as they live in a 1R leopalace with all utilities, eat cup noodles and drink a coffee from macdonalds and a mcmuffin for breakfast, while eating free food for lunch at their ALT job.
Drinking 5 chuhais in a row before they go into clubs, to not have to pay for drinks at the bar. That is not the real world and by the time you hit thirty I am sure it would get old quickly.
As soon as I got a job at a university in Japan, I used the green car to get to work and if you use it once, you cannot go back to cattle class again. |
You obviously speak like someone who has slugged it out in Japan as an EFL teacher.
However, there are people here sleeping on the floor and drinking Chu-Hi and eating at Matsuya who have $250,000 ~ $500,000 saved and invested.
These people live light, work 6 or 7 days a week, many are single, and they don't seem to mind the routine of teaching EFL in Tokyo. A lot of them have been doing this for 15 - 20 years. Some are even millionaires in terms of net worth - cash, stocks, land, and rental properties that they own.
Some have spent all their money on smokes, beer and regular runs to Bangkok. However, a lot of people have actually saved and invested wisely and will be just fine. I think most people who have done this could probably just semi-retire in a place like Chang Mai and teach part-time while living off of their passive income from investments, rents they collect, etc. |
Is that supposed to be inspirational? I could have retired at 35 to a place like Chiang Mai, but why would I? There are no people of any social standing whatsoever there. I spent 2 days in Chiang Mai and got bored. I would rather work another 20 years until 65, be able to retire in Florida, drive a few classic cars and retire in a first world country, not some backwater in a third world country. It's funny how much bs is posted on this forum about how to retire and live because its all bs. So these guys who retire in Chiang Mai with 500.000 bucks in the bank are all good you think??
So, what happens when their children want to go to a good university in the states? 4 years and that 500.000 will be nearly all gone. As I said you guys like to talk the talk, but I have been there, seen it and bought the t-shirt. So, go back to your fantasy lives of homeschooling, eating at Matsuya for 20 years straight and retiring in 3rd world cesspits. I will continue slogging it away, as you call it, basically doing what I have been doing for the past year which is teaching extremely low loads and having 5 months of vacation per year, practically semi-retirement and making 15 million yen per year. So when I hit 65 I will be able to enjoy a real retirement, not living like some sex-tourist in Thailand. |
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kzjohn
Joined: 30 Apr 2014
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| Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2014 10:57 am Post subject: |
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| mateacher wrote: |
| ... I would rather work another 20 years until 65, be able to retire in Florida, ... |
An extra 20 yrs for Florida...?!?!? Like there are people with "social standing" there? ROTFLMAO
Another little tidbit for your psycho profile.
Even my father, who will be 96 next month (your generation?), and has been there a few times, wants nothing to do with Florida. |
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mateacher
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| Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2014 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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| as if you would know about social standing. I have been a to Florida a few times, to some garden parties where I drank champagne at 4 in the afternoon and talked about my interests with like minded people. If you weren't wearing Brookes Brother's, Polo, Lacoste loafers and chinos, you wouldn't fit in, so basically, you wouldn't fit in. |
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spiral78
Joined: 05 Apr 2004
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Location: On a Short Leash
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| Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2014 4:21 pm Post subject: |
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| I have been a to Florida a few times, to some garden parties where I drank champagne at 4 in the afternoon and talked about my interests with like minded people. If you weren't wearing Brookes Brother's, Polo, Lacoste loafers and chinos, you wouldn't fit in, so basically, you wouldn't fit in. |
so, they all shop at American outlet malls, eh?
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mateacher
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| I never buy my clothes in outlet malls, I cannot speak for the other people I socialize with, maybe some of them do, but I am sure they would never admit to it. I myself have never been to a mall, a would never wish to go there as I heard dangerous people from low-income families hang around malls. I never let my children go to malls either, just in case they get attacked. We never talk about such things as how much did this and that cost, where is your shirt from. Of course we all know damn well how much each others Rolex or Cartier watches cost, and how secretly check to see if other friends polo shirts are either Ralph Lauren or Lacoste, but these things go unmentioned although noticed. If we do not like the look of someone, due to their accent, mannerism or clothes or the way they use their knife and fork or the kind of drinks they order, they are soon socially outcast and no longer invited to social occasions. I didn't know that I can buy the brands of clothes I like in malls, are they cheaper there? I guess I could save a fair bit of cash if I had the guts to go. |
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Shimokitazawa
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Location: Saigon, Vietnam
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| Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2014 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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I never buy my clothes in outlet malls, I cannot speak for the other people I socialize with, maybe some of them do, but I am sure they would never admit to it.
If we do not like the look of someone, due to their accent, mannerism or clothes or the way they use their knife and fork or the kind of drinks they order, they are soon socially outcast and no longer invited to social occasions.
I didn't know that I can buy the brands of clothes I like in malls, are they cheaper there? I guess I could save a fair bit of cash if I had the guts to go. |
Aha!
You're the gift that keeps on giving.
Pure entertainment. |
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water rat
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| I do not know or care about brands and "in" brand names. I have never noticed what kind of watch anyone is wearing, I'm not sure what 'chinos' are, and I once bought 'Lacoste' shirts in a pedestrian underpass in Seoul. I deliberately tore off the stupid alligator emblems just because they are so damned suburban. I then walked around for years (in Tokyo and then Thailand and Indonesia) wearing these shirts, some of which had a hole where the alligator used to be because I was too impatient removing them. When someone tells me they spent $50 for a shirt, or $500 for a watch, etc. I just laugh behind their backs and think what suckers they are to pay for a label. I value functionality, and if my "friends" were the sort to judge me on whether I was stupid enough to buy shoes for $250 when I can get them for $20 - why would I want such corporate marks as friends anyway? |
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Maitoshi
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Location: 何処でも
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| Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2014 12:19 am Post subject: |
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| I do not know or care about brands and "in" brand names. I have never noticed what kind of watch anyone is wearing, I'm not sure what 'chinos' are, and I once bought 'Lacoste' shirts in a pedestrian underpass in Seoul. I deliberately tore off the stupid alligator emblems just because they are so damned suburban. I then walked around for years (in Tokyo and then Thailand and Indonesia) wearing these shirts, some of which had a hole where the alligator used to be because I was too impatient removing them. When someone tells me they spent $50 for a shirt, or $500 for a watch, etc. I just laugh behind their backs and think what suckers they are to pay for a label. I value functionality, and if my "friends" were the sort to judge me on whether I was stupid enough to buy shoes for $250 when I can get them for $20 - why would I want such corporate marks as friends anyway? |
Obviously you just bought cheap knock-offs and were embarrassed by the fake emblem, so you removed it. Being okay walking around with a hole in your shirt just goes to show what kind of low-class person you are. Even the homeless people in my city dress better than that! Maybe they have more self respect than you?
I bet you're sleeping on the floor in your gaijin house, wishing you could eat something other than instant ramen and wear better clothes than you do. Don't you think it's about time to grow up, get a real job, and begin to develop a sense of self-respect?
(How did I do, mateacher? Is this even close to the response you would have given?) |
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Maitoshi
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| Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2014 12:22 am Post subject: |
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| On a serious note, why ruin a perfectly good shirt just to remove the emblem? Seems like a waste of a perfectly good shirt, unless the emblem was itchy or something. |
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water rat
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| On a serious note, why ruin a perfectly good shirt just to remove the emblem? Seems like a waste of a perfectly good shirt, unless the emblem was itchy or something. |
I said. It was too damned suburban. I bought the shirts for their weight and color, I needed light summerwear. You can tell mateacher my self-respect has to do with my character, not what I wear. |
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Maitoshi
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| water rat wrote: |
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| On a serious note, why ruin a perfectly good shirt just to remove the emblem? Seems like a waste of a perfectly good shirt, unless the emblem was itchy or something. |
I said. It was too damned suburban. I bought the shirts for their weight and color, I needed light summerwear. You can tell mateacher my self-respect has to do with my character, not what I wear. |
This! |
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Maitoshi
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| It was too damned suburban. |
So you wouldn't want the suburbanites misidentifying you as one of their own?
I guess I need to read up on fashion and what all this stuff means. As long as the clothes fit, look okay on me, and are reasonably priced, I don't usually even think of the emblems on them. |
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mateacher
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| I do not know or care about brands and "in" brand names. I have never noticed what kind of watch anyone is wearing, I'm not sure what 'chinos' are, and I once bought 'Lacoste' shirts in a pedestrian underpass in Seoul. I deliberately tore off the stupid alligator emblems just because they are so damned suburban. I then walked around for years (in Tokyo and then Thailand and Indonesia) wearing these shirts, some of which had a hole where the alligator used to be because I was too impatient removing them. When someone tells me they spent $50 for a shirt, or $500 for a watch, etc. I just laugh behind their backs and think what suckers they are to pay for a label. I value functionality, and if my "friends" were the sort to judge me on whether I was stupid enough to buy shoes for $250 when I can get them for $20 - why would I want such corporate marks as friends anyway? |
I am sorry, but if you hung around with my circle in Connecticut and had a hole in your polo, we would be having fits of hysteria behind your back while actually being pretty scared that you may be some kind of junkie or moonshiner. |
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water rat
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| mateacher wrote: |
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| I do not know or care about brands and "in" brand names. I have never noticed what kind of watch anyone is wearing, I'm not sure what 'chinos' are, and I once bought 'Lacoste' shirts in a pedestrian underpass in Seoul. I deliberately tore off the stupid alligator emblems just because they are so damned suburban. I then walked around for years (in Tokyo and then Thailand and Indonesia) wearing these shirts, some of which had a hole where the alligator used to be because I was too impatient removing them. When someone tells me they spent $50 for a shirt, or $500 for a watch, etc. I just laugh behind their backs and think what suckers they are to pay for a label. I value functionality, and if my "friends" were the sort to judge me on whether I was stupid enough to buy shoes for $250 when I can get them for $20 - why would I want such corporate marks as friends anyway? |
I am sorry, but if you hung around with my circle in Connecticut and had a hole in your polo, we would be having fits of hysteria behind your back while actually being pretty scared that you may be some kind of junkie or moonshiner. |
Thanks for proving my point. If your circle were not a circle of fools, they would know better ways to judge character. But what do you mean? They would have thought I tore off the alligator to sell for drugs!? And to whom but idiots like themselves who value little cloth reptiles. How very small-minded they must be! |
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