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[RACETRAITOR]

Incidentally I had an American friend who'd never heard of Red Dwarf. That seemed a little socially retarded to me.

[Observe]

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[ED209]

"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore"

[Gimpokid]

That's not pop culture. Everything you listed is faily obscure and hasn't been popular in at least 2 decades.

I'm America and if you would have said any of that stuff to me I would have pretended not to know what you were talking about. Maybe your friends were trying to keep you from dating and embrassing yourself anymore than you already did.

RACETRAITOR: That's not surprising at all. Red Dwarf was hardly ever aired in the states. I have only watched because a local college station would air a block of British comedies (Red Dwarf, Thin Blue Line, Keeping up Appearances, Black Adder) weekends after bars would close. So yeah I've never even seen an episode sober, but most Americans have never seen an episode period.

[5600]

If you had started singing "Turning Japanese" around me I would have hit you in the balls. However it does get me thinking. The "counter-culture" isn't on display like it is in the states. Meaning, you can kinda look at a person and tell that they are an art-fag, punk, fan-boy, hippie, granola chick or whatever. It's hard to distinguish that here. Maybe that's a good thing. I think I'm going to start a beatnik revolution here. I will go and buy some bongo drums and grow a goatee. I smoke enough so I could pull it off.



Edited for a major spelling error.

[ED209]

[Gimpokid]

If you're not getting lucky you may as well wallow in the deepest depths you can find.

[Tiger Beer]

Certainly the opposite in Japan. Over here, people have seen most acts in concert already, let alone just familiar with the name.

However, after years in Korea, my knowledge of current western music is just about dead.