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[Captain Onigiri]

mmm.... if you are making some sort of top ten list to send in to David Letterman then I probably can't help you. My most embarressing moment involves a metal detector at the Kansas City Federal Building, not Japanese people.
If you are collecting embarressing moments so you'll learn through empathy then I might suggest this website

http://www.how-to-bow.com/

[may be going]

i'm not going to question paul's wisdom as he has been in japan far longer than me, but i do think some things are blown out of proportion. for example, the blowing your nose thing.

i read before i got to japan how that was a big no-no. thus i was quite surprised that from almost my first day here i constantly saw people of all ages blowing their noses. on subways, on the streets, at bars. granted they usually threw the tissue away but i don't think it's as big a faux-pas as is made out. it's done quietly and not of the bugle blowing variety, but certainly exists.

and one question. when you say no soy sauce on rice is that plain rice? because when i go for chirashi sushi with friends they all mix the soy sauce and wasabi and pour it over the fish and rice....(japanese friends by the way)

[canuck]

[Synne]

[womblingfree]

Let's see in my three years I...

forgot to take off the toilet slippers when returning to the restaurant,

wrestled a piece of meat between mine and a friends chopsticks to cut it,

shouted 'yipee' when my high school classes were cancelled,

put the ginger grabber back in the green tea bag pot,

sat on the duvet???,

didn't buy omiyage,

left gommi out on the wrong day,

put a couple of cute female, anime santa figures in my classroom at Christmas,

and about one hundred others that only my girlfriend seemed to take offence to.

[Sweetsee]

Made sounds when attempting to slip into scalding hot water at the public bath.

[Bozo Yoroshiku]

[sallycat]

a friend of mine asked for "mo oppai kudasai" rather than "mo ippai kudasai" at a bar. it was a genuine mistake.

[Keith_Alan_W]

11 Things that can get you in trouble.

1) Not being very happy.

2) Not praising people for no reason.

3) Being a loner.

4) Doing things your way.

5) Not kissing ass.

6) Not smiling.

7) Arguing.

8 ) Using logic.

9) Not excitingly greeting students you've never seen before at your school.

10) Not excitingly saying goodbye to students at your school whom you've not seen before.

11) Thinking that teaching experience matters.

[kdynamic]

Keith! You're back! Ahhh we missed you so much! I knew you wouldn't be able to stay away. Please please please start some new threads but this time don't abondon them just as they are getting really entertaining, ok?

[fion]

My faux pas: trying to get into a police car, believing it to be a taxi. I wasnt completely sober at the time.

[earache]

Womblingfree said:

[Khyron]

[canuck]