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Which Japanese custom would you like to see changed.
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Which would you like to see stopped or changed?
I think changing the rule that junior and senior high school girls have to wear a dress in freezing cold weather is most important to stop.
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I think stopping men from looking at porn on a train is most important to stop.
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Chris12



Joined: 25 May 2004
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bat Girl wrote:
You people are all full of gumi! Men looking at porn on the train is just plan discusting unless it is gay porn!




That is not called for! At least I am trying to get everyone's opinion! No reason for name calling! That is what's the matter with this world. No one wants to consider a different perspective! I just noticed your closing statement. Why in the world would one kind of porn be disgusting and not another type of porn. Or by the way, you misspelled disgusting!!!!! Laughing


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Gordon



Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Chris12 wrote:
Bat Girl wrote:
You people are all full of gumi! Men looking at porn on the train is just plan discusting unless it is gay porn!




That is not called for! At least I am trying to get everyone's opinion! No reason for name calling! That is what's the matter with this world. No one wants to consider a different perspective!


Ignore the troll.
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Sweetsee



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Girls like it.

Don't ride trains.
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AndyH



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 10:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

1. Having to take the gomi out in the morning. This sucks if you work late and need those few extra hours of sleep in the morning. (I often cheat, though, and put it out late the night before!),

2. All the smoking!!
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bearcat



Joined: 08 May 2004
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 11:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gordon wrote:
Being able to put the gomi out the night before. They pick up the gomi at 7 or 7:30 am and on my days off I often don't make it in time and have to wait another week or 2 to try it again. Then I sometimes drive it down to another spot in my car. Not a big gripe, but a pain in the @ss. On the few times I have tried to put it out the night before, one of the gomi Nazis yells at me and crosses her arms. Makes me feel like being a kid caught with his hand in the cookie jar.


Drop it off at her house with a note to explain why. You'll see how long she keeps it up from there. Razz
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homersimpson



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 1:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I think neither should be changed! I like looking at porn, and I really like looking at high school girls legs in freezing cold weather!

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I don't really care about girls having to wear a dress in feezing cold weather, because it puts them in their place.


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Ignore the troll.


Which one? Wink
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Gordon



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 2:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Good question. I was referring to bat thing though. So much for his/her ban.
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shmooj



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 2:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Personally I think one of the most irritating customs in Japan that should be changed is that of large numbers of foreigners waxing lyrical on how much easier it would be to live in Japan if x were legislated against, y was phased out and the Japanese would all get a grip and stop doing z.

Rolling Eyes









Cool
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Brooks



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 11:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

or what about people in Seoul who miss Japan and claim they have a better gig.

Rolling Eyes
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Lover



Joined: 14 Feb 2005
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 12:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If there is one thing I could change in Japan, it would be to pay English teachers twice as much twice as often!
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Big John Stud



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 4:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lover wrote:
If there is one thing I could change in Japan, it would be to pay English teachers twice as much twice as often!


That is so corny! Question
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shmooj



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 9:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Brooks wrote:
or what about people in Seoul who miss Japan and claim they have a better gig.

Rolling Eyes

well you're right on one count... bet you guess wrong which though...
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Gordon



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 9:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

shmooj wrote:
Brooks wrote:
or what about people in Seoul who miss Japan and claim they have a better gig.

Rolling Eyes

well you're right on one count... bet you guess wrong which though...


So your job sucks and you miss us? Sorry to hear that buddy.
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space



Joined: 08 Dec 2004
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 10:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

In regard to one porno being 'ok' and another not, I thought of something...

In 1964, Justice Potter Stewart tried to explain "hard-core" pornography, or what is obscene, by saying, "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced . . . [b]ut I know it when I see it . . . "[1]
(An article is here: http://library.lp.findlaw.com/articles/file/00982/008860/title/Subject/topic/Constitutional%20Law_First%20Amendment%20-%20Freedom%20of%20Speech/filename/constitutionallaw_1_86)

Heh, actually on second though it wouldn't be that hard to define, imo. They were just afraid everyone in court would laugh when someone said anus. Wink

Of course... The context of this is Protected freedom of speech, which doesn't necessarily apply the same way in Japan... Very Happy
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shmooj



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gordon wrote:
shmooj wrote:
Brooks wrote:
or what about people in Seoul who miss Japan and claim they have a better gig.

Rolling Eyes

well you're right on one count... bet you guess wrong which though...


So your job sucks and you miss us? Sorry to hear that buddy.

Told you you'd get it wrong... Laughing
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