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Ryst Helmut
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Bulsajo
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Man o man!
Sure it's funny, I guess, but you have to wonder how the *beep* Japanese shows can get away with this sort of stuff- Can you imagine the reaction in the US if a candid camera show tried to put hidden cameras in toilets and then exposed users to the public?
If a culture can be judged by its tv programming, then Japanese are the wierdest people on the planet... |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Bulsajo wrote: |
Man o man!
Sure it's funny, I guess, but you have to wonder how the *beep* Japanese shows can get away with this sort of stuff- Can you imagine the reaction in the US if a candid camera show tried to put hidden cameras in toilets and then exposed users to the public?
If a culture can be judged by its tv programming, then Japanese are the wierdest people on the planet... |
Oh trust me, you don't have to go just by TV to know Japan is the weirdest country on Earth  |
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mindmetoo
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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| laogaiguk wrote: |
| Bulsajo wrote: |
Man o man!
Sure it's funny, I guess, but you have to wonder how the *beep* Japanese shows can get away with this sort of stuff- Can you imagine the reaction in the US if a candid camera show tried to put hidden cameras in toilets and then exposed users to the public?
If a culture can be judged by its tv programming, then Japanese are the wierdest people on the planet... |
Oh trust me, you don't have to go just by TV to know Japan is the weirdest country on Earth |
I kind of thought that too but when I visited Japan, especially after my Korea experience, I was struck how normal Japanese seemed. It's a bit like judging America based on Jerry Springer. Sure maybe there's a strange under current, but weird Japan rarely shows on the surface. Or at least what a tourist gets to see on a two week visit. |
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Bulsajo
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| I kind of thought that too but when I visited Japan, especially after my Korea experience, I was struck how normal Japanese seemed. It's a bit like judging America based on Jerry Springer. |
Yeah, I visited Japan a few times and always got the face-in-the-crowd-salaryman-clone vibe, not the wackiest-people-on-the-planet vibe. And that's why I said if a culture can be judged by its tv programming...
So now that you've mentioned it, is this any more bizarre than Jerry Springer? I suppose it's all a matter of perspective.
But in I think in North America and I suspect most of Western Europe tv producers even discussing such a concept would create an instant legal feeding frenzy, like blood in the water... |
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Ryst Helmut
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Bulsajo wrote: |
| ... I suspect most of Western Europe tv producers even discussing such a concept would create an instant legal feeding frenzy, like blood in the water... |
I admit, I was pissing myself watching this until the last scene(s). I can only imagine if my wife, one who can not swim, grabbed a hold of the bars and went into the water.
Heads, literally, would roll.....
RH
But, since nobody was hurt, it's a site to be hold. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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| I lived there for two years and had pretty good Japanese and mostly Japanese friends. I barely scratched the surface (2 years is not enough to really know any culture) but they are weird. Not so much a bad weird, but weird (and of course wierd in itself is subjective). |
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Wishmaster
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| Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 1:11 am Post subject: |
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| Yes, and Koreans are NOT weird. Yeah....sure...it's only the Japs...yeah... |
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laogaiguk
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| Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 3:28 am Post subject: |
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| Wishmaster wrote: |
| Yes, and Koreans are NOT weird. Yeah....sure...it's only the Japs...yeah... |
Koreans have nothing on the Japanese. Koreans are different, not weird. Have you been to Japan for any length of time?
1) Shut in teenagers, 20 somethings. They literally don't leave their apartment for years.
2) Girl bars that cost 100's of dollars just to talk to the cute girls. Absolutely nothing else without extra money.
3) I won't even go over all the things I saw them do on a train.
4) Manga and more specifically, hentai
5) Used school girl panty theft is a major problem
6) roughly 40% of high school teenage girls sleep with businessmen for money, it's the only way to afford the Gucci bag (and only 5% of them use condoms)
7) all the fetish businesses they have, like the new "French Maid" restaurant that opened in Tokyo
Those are just the things that immediately come to mind. Don't get me wrong, I loved Japan (and still do). I would like to go back someday, and don't think bad of it at all. But it is weird, and not just different. |
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Endesu
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| Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 4:50 am Post subject: |
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6) roughly 40% of high school teenage girls sleep with businessmen for money, it's the only way to afford the Gucci bag (and only 5% of them use condoms)
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Please tell me where u got this info, as this is something I HAVE to discuss with the 9 or so Japanese girls I study Korean with. If this is true, Im gonna go to school tomorrow dressed as a businessman with my wallet full of fake yen notes  |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 4:56 am Post subject: |
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| laogaiguk wrote: |
6) roughly 40% of high school teenage girls sleep with businessmen for money, it's the only way to afford the Gucci bag (and only 5% of them use condoms)
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Please tell me where u got this info, as this is something I HAVE to discuss with the 9 or so Japanese girls I study Korean with. If this is true, Im gonna go to school tomorrow dressed as a businessman with my wallet full of fake yen notes |
After reading it, I made a mistake. This is only for Tokyo (sorry, my mistake), but I saw it in the newspaper while I was there. This is obviously a new trend.
Actually, they recently had to make a law making it illegal for touts to bring underage girls into the girlie bars. The problem is, a tout gets between 20000 and 30000 YEN (I said won, edit) for each girl they bring in if they do well. The fine is only about 10000 yen. Obviously, you can see just how well it is working
If you know Japan, you will understand the touts (guys who go around in business suits and funny hair trying to get girls to go to a bar, and when they get there, they suddenly have a massive debt for entrance and the one beer. They pay it off in certain ways). I honestly did not make this number up!
BTW, where do you study Korean?
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Endesu
Joined: 24 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 3:18 pm Post subject: |
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| These days Im studying at 가나다 학원. Used to study a bit in the UK too, but that was pretty much a waste.... |
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numazawa
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And let's not forget no-pan shabu-shabu. For my money, any time you mix sex and food it's a non-starter. Like comedy and horror, some things are, if not always mutually exclusive, still fundamentally at odds with one another; indulging one appetite short-circuits the other.
Don't get me wrong, I love sashimi, it's just that each kind has its own place in the proper scheme of things.  |
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