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    Vegetarian

    in General off-topic discussions

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    I've been a vegetarian for 11 years now. Started when I gradumated high school. Before I went to Japan, I had been veg for 9, vegan for 7, but I knew there was no way I could manage once I got there, so I gave in on fish and eggs, and that was fine, really, there is fish, or fish sauce in just about everything, so I figured "might as well enjoy it."

     

    Granted I knew that there was meat bits or meat stock in almost everything as well (karee raisu, raamen), but I chose to play dumb on those items.

     

    All in all, with this laid back chuto hampa veggie attitude, I got along just fine.

    Spitting

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    I hate to admit it, but I am a spitter. . . of the first order.

     

    I agree it's a super nasty and unattractive habit, but I can't seem to stop it.

     

    So if anyone has any good ways of breaking habits lemme know.

     

    That said, when your playing sports, spitting seems pretty natural. You get that nasty film that builds up in your mouth, and you also often get some grease from your lungs and throat that comes from breathing hard. All you non-spitters, what the hell do you do with that phlegm when you are playing sports?

    See death

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    bobby12, There is no law against showing graphic images of mutilated dead bodies. As NoFakie and Ocean wrote, some examples - Udey and Qusey (all major networks), helicopter pilots in Mogadishu (CNN). I've seen plenty of footage of mutilated dead with regards to Vietnam, and Rwanda.

     

    From what I have read about this case, the media received no pressure from the Pentagon, they just decided that the people didn't wan't/need/whatever to see the footage.

    The Opposite of Engrish

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    So I had a great idea, but I didn't know what to call it.

     

    I will be coming to Japan soon as a tourist - hooray! And like many of you, those J-English T-shirts with messed up spellings or meanings always kill me. So I thought about making my own t-shirts, with messed-up Japanese on them, so I could really stick out as a tourist in Japan.

     

    You know stuff like:

    私はカナダ人間といっらしゃいますが。。。

     

    悪魔でゴザイマス \:\) !

    or

    胸を見して頂くわけにはいかないだろうかなあ？

     

    But what should I call this new style of 間違った日本語? Nipongo? Enlandanese Jinglish? What?

     

    Any good T-shirt Ideas ?

    Matrix - the verdict

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    Ahh, go on and watch 'em. They are just movies, really. Anyone who thinks they are any more than just movies, probably shouldn't be watching movies.

     

    Anyways, yeah the first one is by far the best, the second one only has eye candy value, and nothing really happens, as far as the story goes. But I actually enjoyed the third one.

     

    Alot of those reviews that you read about 2 and 3 were probably American reviews. The US critics didn't like 2 and 3, but from what I've read, the rest of the world did, so there yah go.

    Growing up with religion

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    I was raised Catholic, and dragged to church every week. Nowadays, the majority of the time, I side against religious thinkers, but a small part of me can't discount the faith entirely.

     

    I guess on some level I have been brainwashed, but I am cool with it. I think that alot of the Christian symbolism is interesting. But as a scientist, I would never use "Well the Bible says. . ." as support for anything other than anthropological evidence for behavior.

    Bad tempered

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    yer not turning into a grumpy crotechety old codg, are yah? lol.gif

     

    "These damn kids today with their potato chip bags, and their noisy cafeterias. . ."

     

    My suggestion is to try to do things that you liked to do when you were younger, in order to try to get back some of those I-don't-give-a-f#$k feelings. ;\)

    Tofu

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    We have silken tofu in either soft, firm, or extra firm varieties, fried tofu, hard tofu marinated in a variety of sauces (teriyaki ginger, italian, mexican), tofutti (ice cream substitute), tofutti cuties (ice cream sando knockoff), tofu dogs (hot dog substitute), age tofu, tofu milk, and tofu burgers, along with about 5 other products I am forgetting.

     

    All of these are readily available at just about any supermarket. With the diets that incorporate high protein, and/or soy being so popular here in the US right now, tofu is very popular.

     

    My favorite tofu recipe is a tofu smoothie. You take half a chunk of the soft silken tofu, mix with tofu milk, fruit juice, frozen berries, and a banana, and maybe some honey, and you've got something good, kinda like kefir (drinkable yoghurt).

    Hghest Paid Pro Boarder / Skiier?

    in Snow talk, trip reports, Japan avalanche & backcountry

    Posted

    I read Shaun makes a million US a year through his contract with Burton, plus all of his other endorsements, not to mention cash from contests, almost all of which he wins.

     

    Then again, Danny Kass owns Grenade Gloves, which is probably the most popular glove company amongst the park rats here in the States.

     

    Peter Line is loaded. Some of the other Forum guys have some money, houses, cars, but that company is not doing anywhere near as well as it used to be.

     

    But I would imagine that the top skiers make alot more than the top boarders, just because the market for their sponsors is bigger and more established.

    solution to shoulder pain

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    I get that alot db, my whiplash last season would knock itself in and out with each successive nasty crash.

     

    Same thing with the head, if I hit my head only once during a day, it hurts for a while, but if I hit multiple times, no problem.

     

    Same thing happened this year with my knee. Tweaked it out with one nasty fall, but some nasty cliff drops in Montana straightened it right out.

     

    Screw the P.T's

    Is Japanese bigotry pervasive against gaijin?

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    Posted

    You guys, sheesh, this whole racism thing is a complicated situation, with many factors, and you shouldn't pass judgement, since you can't possibly understand all of those factors involved.

     

    I never really got discriminated against in Japan in any big way. People were not overly friendly in Nagano however, and people explained it to me as Nagano is a mountain town, so just as that geographical barrier exists, people put up their own personal barriers moreso than people in other parts of Japan. I suspect you might have heard the same silly explanation in Misawa there, Pluck.

     

    I was however very surprised when I travelled around Japan, how friendly and helpful people treated me. Probably because they saw me as a tourist (baseball hat, backpack, and skateboard). In any case, Plucky, you should remember racism (albeit not institutional) is far more ugly here in the US. Don't believe me? Check out any yahoo news message board whenever a black or mexican person makes the news. Hell you could run a story about Australian Aborigines, and the rednecks would still complain about all of the "problems caused by niggers."

     

    The ignorance just totally blows me away.

    Liberal or Conservative?

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    Ocean, you should check out Skipping Towards Gomorrah by Dan Savage

     

    http://www.skippingtowardsgomorrah.com/

     

    I doubt you'd agree with it, but funny stuff. I definately agree with Savage's point that all these Con's do is whine about the fate of American society, say how it is going down the toilet, using that to qualify their own agenda, but then at the end of their mash, declare American society to be the best in the world's history in a patriotic rant. Want their cake and want to eat it, too.

    Abortion

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    It's a difficult situation, and we can't make any judgements or pretend to know the answers without knowing all of the factors involved.

     

    That's my stock answer to everything from now on.

     

    Anyways,

     

    Late, but I think you should just stop calling yourself pro-choice Osh, since you are opposed to abortion 'cept for self-defense. In some cases, choice just isn't a factor. Just semantics really anyway.

     

    As for the partial-birth abortion issue. Makes me mad. . . not the procedure itself, however nasty, just that people (at least in the US) try to outlaw it across the board. These abortions are, in the United States, currently outlawed except in cases where the foetus presents severe danger to the life of the pregnant woman, I don't know about Japan ? ? ? I see no need to take it any further (a total ban). A friend of my sister was faced with a situation where she would die if she didn't have a PBA, so she went to the hospital to have one, but hospital policy said "no we don't do that" so she had to, in her state, truck across town to a different hospital just to get it done. The first hospital would rather let her die, passively, than treat the situation actively. Sounds like more the work of a bunch of hand-waving bible-thumpers than medical practitioners to me.

     

    As a future medical guy, it all makes me sick.

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