BillTheBinMan 0 Posted October 13, 2005 Share Posted October 13, 2005 How about this? Some list I found. Apparently "figures out of 100, based on a brief conversation" ) 92 Moving house 90 Breaking up (15-20, 38-70) 89 Death in family 88 Children 82 Exams 81 Dreaming about exams 79 Injury/illness 78 Public speaking 76 Impotence 74 People talking to you when you're on the phone to someone else 72 Balloon rides (?!??) 72 Job interview 69 Box junctions 68 Christmas 67 Getting caught masturbating 67 Changing job 66 Breaking up (ages 21-37, 71+) 62 Cooking for others 59 Urinating in public 54 Waiting to laugh at a punchline you already know. I like that last one. But over half people say that?! Link to post Share on other sites
yamayamayama 2 Posted October 13, 2005 Share Posted October 13, 2005 Moving house. Very stressful indeed. Not sure about "cooking for others", or "box junctions". What are box junctions? Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 My research team - the best there is - found this: There should be "ningen kankei" on that list. Link to post Share on other sites
sava 0 Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 59 Urinating in public I would have thought that would lead to relief! Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 > My research team - the best there is Your research team needs to go back and do further research on that point. Link to post Share on other sites
echineko 1 Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 Yes I think you ask many Japanese and they will say 人間関係 its such wide meaning. Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 moving is quite stressful - even more so in a foreign country along with changing jobs...and looking for jobs...that adds to the grey hair production factor I think. Link to post Share on other sites
advantyper 0 Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 Moving totally got to be on the top of my list! Link to post Share on other sites
me jane 0 Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 Mine too. I've just moved...still stressed! Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 I like moving house. I don't find it particularly stressful. Exams, dreaming about exams, Christmas, and many of those other things are much worse. Not knowing why your carrots won't grow can be a real nail-biter too. Link to post Share on other sites
Curt 1 Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 Whats with the balloon rides!? Link to post Share on other sites
sakebomb 0 Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 Christmas stresses me out!! I also like moving, done it so many times. The inability to buy/grow fresh herbs also doesn't help!! Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 Quote: Originally posted by Ocean11: Not knowing why your carrots won't grow can be a real nail-biter too. Its probably cuz your mixing them with other vegetables!! Link to post Share on other sites
miteyak 0 Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 Can't say I've ever known the carrots not to grow... But if me organic 'erbs don't sprout soon, I'll probably be chewing down on the ol' green fingernails meself. As for stressful things, my move to Oz has been a weird mix of the most stressful and the most relaxing experiences of life to date. Link to post Share on other sites
misorano 1 Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 100 Childbirth (esp the first time) Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted October 15, 2005 Share Posted October 15, 2005 I think the most stressful thing in my life has been last years earthquake/aftershocks. Link to post Share on other sites
I'm Sexy 0 Posted October 15, 2005 Share Posted October 15, 2005 Work. But not so much. And I must do it for enjoying winter. Link to post Share on other sites
gamera 0 Posted October 15, 2005 Share Posted October 15, 2005 74 People talking to you when you're on the phone to someone else I don't like that. Can not understand both. Link to post Share on other sites
Amos in Utsunomia 0 Posted October 15, 2005 Share Posted October 15, 2005 Women. Link to post Share on other sites
Amos in Utsunomia 0 Posted October 15, 2005 Share Posted October 15, 2005 (sometimes....) Link to post Share on other sites
Davo 1 Posted October 16, 2005 Share Posted October 16, 2005 Getting up early when you just want to sleep a little more...and then having to rush to work... only to pretend that you're not as knackered as your students freely admit to being . Isn't it winter soon? Link to post Share on other sites
JellyBelly 1 Posted October 16, 2005 Share Posted October 16, 2005 67 said Getting caught masturbating I could never be caught. Link to post Share on other sites
JellyBelly 1 Posted October 16, 2005 Share Posted October 16, 2005 Just looked up kettle of fish, interesting [Q] From Heather Rechtman; Geoff Genford: “What is the origin of the expression that’s a different kettle of fish? Is it British or American?” [A] It’s originally British. There are actually two common idioms based around the phrase a kettle of fish. One is yours, which means “This is a different matter from the one previously mentioned”. The other is more of an exclamation: either as a pretty kettle of fish! or a fine kettle of fish!, meaning that some awkward state of affairs has arisen. The latter is much older, dating from the eighteenth century, while yours is twentieth-century and seems to be derived from it. Nobody is really sure where the expression comes from, but we do know that the phrase a kettle of fish was originally a literal term. These days, especially in Britain and Commonwealth countries, we think of a kettle as a small enclosed container with a handle and spout for boiling water to make our tea. (I believe that Americans are less familiar with this essential item of kitchenware.) In the eighteenth century, though, a kettle was any large vessel used to boil stuff in. There was, it seems, a custom by which the gentry on the Scottish border with England would hold a picnic (though that term was not then known) by a river. The custom was described by Thomas Newte in his Tour of England and Scotland in 1785: “It is customary for the gentlemen who live near the Tweed to entertain their neighbours and friends with a Fete Champetre, which they call giving ‘a kettle of fish’. Tents or marquees are pitched near the flowery banks of the river ... a fire is kindled, and live salmon thrown into boiling kettles”. What puzzles scholars is how this literal reference became an idiom—assuming, of course, that the phrase comes from the custom, which is far from certain. There is a clue in early examples, in which the term was used in the sense of a mess, muddle or confusion caused by one’s own misguided actions. For example, in Captain Francis Grose’s Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue of 1811, it’s explained like this: “When a person has perplexed his affairs in general, or any particular business, he is said to have made a fine kettle of fish of it”. And a little later, Thomas Chandler Haliburton of Nova Scotia used it the same way in his Clockmaker: “There’s an end to the Clock trade now, and a pretty kettle of fish I’ve made of it, haven’t I? I shall never hear the last on it”. Could it be that the contents of the kettles of fish looked messy after the fish had broken up under the influence of the boiling water? It would make sense of the early examples. But that’s just a guess. Subscriber Henk Rietveld wrote to say that he had heard, while working in Newfoundland, that kettle of fish was a corruption of quintal of fish, a measure either of 100 pounds or a hundredweight. This is possible, since quintal was also known in the forms kintal and kentle in Newfoundland and New England, the last of which could easily have been misheard as kettle. It can’t be ruled out as a possibility, since the quintal was the usual way of measuring fish catches. Against it is the important point that the idiom kettle of fish seems to have been known first in Britain but that kentle is an American form. Link to post Share on other sites
Hokkaidough 4 Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 Most stressful thing for me was living in a big big concrete jungle city and all that came with that. No thank you. Link to post Share on other sites
misorano 1 Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 33 Trying to pee at a JR station while the obasan is cleaning the next urinal. Which remids me. Why is that the women staff at onsen freely walk into the mens bathhouse, but a guy can't do the same in the womens? Link to post Share on other sites
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