Error404
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Japan things that crack you up
Error404 replied to muikabochi's topic in General off-topic discussions
I was using my computer last night and my friend had the tv on in the background. Can't count the number of times I heard the programs she was watching mention nihon and nihonjin. It's insane. Why are they so obsessed with themsevles. No wonder I suppose when society in general and media etc obsesses over it constantly. No wonder people ask you shit like "Japanese people get stiff shoulders. There's no English for that is there, only Japanese people get stiff shoulders". -
I wonder how much they get paid?
Error404 replied to @tokyo's topic in General off-topic discussions
I'm convinced 5% of the total Japanese workforce spend their days holding and waving red and white flags "directing traffic". -
Originally Posted By: sunrise no infringements so it should be straightforward. I've never been able to figure out the speeding thing. So they do have speed cameras here. And 'stealth' too! Driving on the shutoko no-one is going 60, but I've never seen a cop chasing anyone.... I have seen a fair few police with radar guns. And on the expressways there's a fair few undercover cops doing their thing. Always good to have people going faster than you.
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Haven't those old people spent all their life paying health taxes based on their income though?
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> 0% is too high. I have some friends who got into serious financial trouble the moment their parents died. Apart from the fact that their parents had died in the space of a few weeks, they were in a financial black hold and had to sell their house.
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Terrible, terrible movies that are worth watching
Error404 replied to grungy-gonads's topic in General off-topic discussions
And the filmakers cash in. Kerching! It was a bloody awful film. I wasted 90+ minutes of my life watching it when it was on wowow. -
Halloween. Just leave it alone.
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Originally Posted By: KlingKlang Did you see it on the "news" - those dudes lining up outside the venue and then going nuts in there. Some of them like in their 30s and 40s. Saddos. Hey I'm not a saddo
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For a lot of money. I'll do things for a lot of money too.
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Wonder how good the new PS3 and Xbox movement recognition things will compare.
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Would like to try those for sure.
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Baldness (and silly wispy hair tufts)
Error404 replied to pie-eater's topic in General off-topic discussions
Hairy back too? I'm the opposite. Hair on my head, but none on my bod! -
Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics
Error404 replied to SKI's topic in Snow talk, trip reports, Japan avalanche & backcountry
Whoah! Why could he do that?! -
Good movies you've seen recently
Error404 replied to yamayamayama's topic in General off-topic discussions
Originally Posted By: thursday I have to go for Originally Posted By: BagOfCrisps 3 out of 5 Sure it's not ?? -
Taking showers 'can make you ill'
Error404 replied to @tokyo's topic in General off-topic discussions
I will too. -
More Viz fun -- The greatest length of time a woman has watched a film without asking a stupid plot-related question was achieved on the 28th October 1990, when Mrs. Ethel Brunswick (GB) sat down with her husband to watch 'The Ipcress File'. She watched in silence for a breath-taking 2 mins 40 secs before asking "Is he a goody or a baddie, then, him in the glasses?", revealing a staggering level of ignorance. This broke her own previous record set in 1962 when she sat through 2 mins 38 secs of '633 Squadron' before asking "Is this a war film, is it?" The fewest number of sexual
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Taking showers 'can make you ill'
Error404 replied to @tokyo's topic in General off-topic discussions
Yep.