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Cole
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Japanese man to a western man:
Size matters... |
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flyer
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 7:51 am Post subject: |
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| Cole wrote: |
Japanese man to a western man:
Size matters... |
LOL |
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steki47
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 1:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Japanese woman: "To be honest, doing laundry is fairly easy. I should stop complaining so much and enjoy my wide open schedule and leisurely lifestyle that my husband pays for." |
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seklarwia
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 2:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Japanese woman: "To be honest, doing laundry is fairly easy. I should stop complaining so much and enjoy my wide open schedule and leisurely lifestyle that my husband pays for." |
This one actually made me cringe. |
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Cool Teacher
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Location: Here, There and Everywhere! :D
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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"What do you mean, 'What's my dream?'"  |
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rxk22
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"Say, ALT-san, you had ONE class today - in first period - and you clearly have no lesson preparation to do. Why don't you go home on the 4pm bus instead of waiting until the next but at 5pm? SURE your contract says until 4.10pm, but you might as well leave early".... wait, just me?
"Perhaps we should talk more quietly, the foreigner that we're talking about might be able to understand Japanese..." |
I think it's silly that we as in all honesty PT workers are expected to just hang around the school all day, no matter if we have actually zero classes that day.
Mine would be "Oh the ALT is talking to me, I won't panic if he has trouble saying a word in katakana" |
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Apsara
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 11:45 pm Post subject: |
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You've been here seven years and read hiragana? I'm rather unimpressed.
You don't look like any Causasian celebrity I know of. |
These are good ones  |
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Apsara
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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I wish Japanese adverts were more intelligent
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flyer have you watched many ads back in NZ lately? Or worse still, Australia? A really high proportion of ads these days look like they were made by the marketing assistant on power point, and seem consist of bright colours, exploding sounds, and a guy shouting about how looooow the prices are now at the carpet/shoe/tyre warehouse or whatever I was watching a movie with my family in Australia one year when I went to visit and the ads just about drove me nuts, nothing but that kind of thing, and repeated every ten minutes.
While Japanese ads may not always be clever, at least they usually have a decent budget and they tend not to interrupt movies too often. |
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Sweetsee
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| Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 12:53 am Post subject: |
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Server's reply when asked mid-toss: "Everyone knows the score, so why should I say it?"
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flyer
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| Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 1:01 am Post subject: |
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| Apsara wrote: |
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I wish Japanese adverts were more intelligent
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flyer have you watched many ads back in NZ lately? |
must admit, no I haven't. Have they gotten that bad? |
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steki47
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| Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 1:56 am Post subject: |
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| seklarwia wrote: |
| steki47 wrote: |
| Japanese woman: "To be honest, doing laundry is fairly easy. I should stop complaining so much and enjoy my wide open schedule and leisurely lifestyle that my husband pays for." |
This one actually made me cringe. |
Sorry, did I touch a nerve?
That came out of some first-hand experience and a whole lot of second-hand as well. There seems to be a perceived under-appreciation and also a bloated perceived value to their efforts. My ex would fold laundry for 2-3 hours every day (!) and then acted she just climbed Mt. Fuji and found a cure for cancer. |
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Apsara
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| Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 2:21 am Post subject: |
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| flyer wrote: |
| Apsara wrote: |
| flyer wrote: |
I wish Japanese adverts were more intelligent
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flyer have you watched many ads back in NZ lately? |
must admit, no I haven't. Have they gotten that bad? |
The recession appears to have done a number on a lot of NZ companies' advertising budgets unfortunately... Since Australia claims not to have been affected by the recession, not sure what their excuse is, but their ads are dire  |
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seklarwia
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| Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 2:46 am Post subject: |
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| steki47 wrote: |
| seklarwia wrote: |
| steki47 wrote: |
| Japanese woman: "To be honest, doing laundry is fairly easy. I should stop complaining so much and enjoy my wide open schedule and leisurely lifestyle that my husband pays for." |
This one actually made me cringe. |
Sorry, did I touch a nerve?
That came out of some first-hand experience and a whole lot of second-hand as well. There seems to be a perceived under-appreciation and also a bloated perceived value to their efforts. My ex would fold laundry for 2-3 hours every day (!) and then acted she just climbed Mt. Fuji and found a cure for cancer. |
It is just a crazy over-generalisation the likes of which seems to often to come from males with a certain mind set.
I know quite a few house wives here as well. Most of them spend most of their day cooking, cleaning, doing laundry then ironing their husband's clothes so that he can look good for work, shopping, etc. Some of them also have to visit and help out parents and inlaws. They actually have little free time to enjoy themselves and certainly don't have a leisurely lifestyle.
And the ones that have young children... enough said. |
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Apsara
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| Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 7:41 am Post subject: |
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To be fair, I don't think steki was referring to women who have a very full plate with the responsibilities of childcare or looking after aging parents as well as housework, just those who quit work as soon as they are married and then think that some light housework is a huge undertaking, and I have come across people like that as well.
Actually as of this month I am also in the situation of only having to do a bit of grocery shopping and housework most days as we're expecting a new addition to the family in early April, and I feel quite guilty sending my husband off to work 5 days a week while I do not very much, although I'm glad to be able to say that I worked up until third trimester. Once Junior arrives though I will consider myself to have a new full-time job, and not feel guilty at all that he is working all day since I will be too! 
Anyway, way OT now, lets get back to the things people would never say  |
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may be going
Joined: 18 May 2004
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riding my bicycle in the dark without my light on really might be quite dangerous for anyone riding towards me......
the guy at the next cubicle usually stamps that piece of paper but he's out at lunch right now. let me stamp it for you instead |
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