Japanese Motorbike licence

[indosnm 0]

Anyone here done the J bike licence test? (up to 250cc)

Did you go thru school or just do the test.

Keen to get mine, so any 'fo would help!

 

cheers

[Yuki's Passion 1]

License? That thang really necessary? I just used the Int when I had my motorcycle

[indosnm 0]

CB, mate you have to look at the bigger picture!

I used to ride my RMX250 around for 2 years with no lic..

I have wife and 2 kids. If I crash and kill or farg myself up, not only do I void any insurance but I leave 3 others in the shit as life ins would no doubt not pay up in that situation too.

So I'm trying to be a good Daddy and Husband and do it the proper way..

[Yuki's Passion 1]

I know I know, hence the

 

Supposedly its really easy to get. My mate just did the test. Failed once but got it the next time he said.

[yoroshiku onegai shimasu 2]

With driving here are you allowed to just do the test without going through some sort of course?

[indosnm 0]

yes but they fail you a few times b4 giving you the lic.

[yoroshiku onegai shimasu 2]

Is that a fact or just it seems like one?

[bushpig 0]

My friend was told that they wouldn't pass him on the drivers test unless he had gone to the driving center and done the course to get the slip of paper. They are all in eachothers pockets.

[cal 6]

What a surprise.

 

I'd be interested to know of anyone getting passed without taking the course.

[indosnm 0]

I've known people that haven't gone to any course, agaion, you'll never get it the first time though.

[bushpig 0]

Yeah, they like you to have the slip of paper saying you have completed x hours of practice. Regardless of how many years you have been driving already...

[TheOrange 0]

Japanese roads are different. (And there are 4 seasons).

[bushpig 0]

Indeed they are! Longer intestines or something right?

[grungy-gonads 54]

Roads have longer intestines?

 

 

(I heard about the seasons bit though...)

[bushpig 0]

One of the old Nihonjinron lines is that the Japanese have longer intestines than all other races of people. Further proving that they are in fact unique from all the other members of homo-sapiens. Was even backed up by bogus "scientific" proof from prominent Japan scientists...

[scouser 4]

Is there some good book that goes through all this nihonjinron stuff that you can recommend?

[bushpig 0]

If you really are interested, then there is a very interesting discussion of this topic going on on the Japan Forum list right now. To subscribe, visit http://www.nbr.org/foraui/list.aspx?LID=5

 

I don't have any particular recommendations, but there are many, many books out there on the topic.

[scouser 4]

Interesting. I like this title "Nihonjin-ron: The Japanese Brain"

[bushpig 0]

Yep, some very interesting discussion going on in there. Did you subscribe?

[veronica 2]

I have - interesting stuff. I never knew the Japanese brain was different.

[bushpig 0]

It isn't...

[scouser 4]

Are you sure? (Sounds racist to me that).

[bushpig 0]

Did you see this post on NBR? (sorry, thread hijack in progress)

 

"I was the one who brought this topic up originally. I brought it up

not to laugh, but because I agree with Mr. Clark we should not reject

a claim merely because it is unusual. However, my current working

theory is that "Japanese don't have longer intestines."

 

I spent a lot of time trying to look into this, so I hope I might be

able to share.

 

I reject the claim for the following reasons:

 

1. There is no *single* claim but many, many different claims. There

is no consistency between claims regarding length. One claim might be

a meter or two, another might say Japanese have double the length of

intestines.

 

2. Nearly all claims are between Japanese and *oubeijin* (Americans/

Europeans). This strikes me as odd. The group of Americans/Europeans

is certainly too large to really be lopped together like this.

 

3. I could never trace the claim to any one study. It was always

explained like this. Herbivores have longer intestines, carnivores

shorter. Japanese ate lots of rice and fish, and American/Europeans

lots of meat. So Japanese have shorter intestines. (There is no

discernible source for this claim. It's always taken as common wisdom.)

 

4. The introduction of lots of meat into the diet is a fairly new

phenomena even in Europe, I think. For example, during ancient and

medieval times, Europeans mostly subsisted on grains, right? Perhaps

even up until modern times.

 

5. The claim is always made in the context of diet. That is, the

claim is made, then it is stated that Japanese should not each too

much meat and must eat more rice. (The claim appears in lots of

faddish health books in Japan.)

 

6. The claim is reminiscent of some claims that were circulating in

Germany prior to WWII. For example, it was often said that Germans

were agriculturalists, while Jews were meat eaters. Various physical

and psychological traits were then often derived from this. (For this

see _Myth of Japanese Uniqueness_ by Peter Dale)

 

7. I could find nothing of it in medical journals that I searched. In

particular, I paid attention to transit time (the time it take

medicine to be ingested) and found that medicine manufactures made no

special allowance for the Japanese. Dosages are roughly similar for

Japanese if not the same. If there were serious differences in

intestinal length, dosages would have to be adjusted, right? Can

someone refute this?

 

8. Karl Van Wolferen in _The Enigma of Japanese Power_, citing an

article in the Japan Times as his source, bluntly states the claim is

WWII propaganda. The reason was to help people cope with poor food

availability during WWII.

 

9. Chron's disease (short bowel syndrome) seems to be treated the

same in Japan as in the US.

 

10. If one sticks mostly to standard reference books no special note

is made of long Japanese intestines. Reference books in English and

Japanese generally stick to the same claim, that the small intestine

is about six meters give or take some.

 

Anyway, these are just some approaches.

 

By the way, I don't think a colonoscopy would work because it doesn't

traverse the entire length of the small intestine, but perhaps just

the lower parts. I did attempt to look at medical suppliers and the

length of tubes used and so on. However, I don't recall finding

anything remarkable here."

[ShinyDiscoBall 2]

A very good honest serious post.

 

Does this intestine thing possibly have anything to do with the "smelly body or not" I wonder?

[bushpig 0]

No, it is guff! The smell differences are there.