Japan things that crack you up

[Tubby Beaver 209]

python??!! more like worm!!!

 

Or the women who come into the onsen and bend down to take a sample of the water you're sitting in while your butt naked. Although at the local sento there is a pretty hot young girl there who does this....not an unpleasant experience!!

[RobBright 35]

So tubby gets an erection in a bath full of old men.

 

Classy.

[Tubby Beaver 209]

[thursday 1]

very classy. Though slightly bent.

[RobBright 35]

Have you seen it then?

[thursday 1]

GG told me

[RobBright 35]

That'd make sense.

[pie-eater 207]

Anyway, here is another. It's another driving one.

 

Driving along a country road with clear views in front and behind at least 1km each way. Small roadworks in the middle, about 20m long. 3 guys working full time to direct the 2 or 3 cars that come by every 30 minutes of course. Anyway, you can totally see in front but the dude INSISTS on initially putting out the red flag to stop me. Then as I stop, he gives me the white flag. W.T.F. There is just no reason to do that, other than a great big stick up his bottom.

[Curt 1]

It's for safety you see pie-eater.

If you don't stop, even if it is totally obvious to everyone involved that there are no cars around for miles, it simply is not safe.

[thursday 1]

Always better safe than sorry.

[grungy-gonads 54]

Stuff like that is actually more dangerous. People get fed up and worked up at such silliness. Well, the gaijins anyway. Bad gaijin.

[thursday 1]

Bad gaijins. just do as you're told.

[KlingKlang 1]

Banks just drive me round the bend.

 

I sent some money to an overseas account last week and apparently the account number was not written on the form. Could have sworn it was but anyway I just got a phone call from the bank asking for that number clarification. I told them the number. Then they said, please come in to the bank so that you can write the number on the form. I said, well, no you can write it on there yourself, and anyway a trip to the bank takes time and I'm busy. Oh no, they are insisting that I go to the bank to write 10 numbers on a form.

 

[RobBright 35]

think you should write

 

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[Thundercat 60]

Originally Posted By: KlingKlang

Banks just drive me round the bend.

I sent some money to an overseas account last week and apparently the account number was not written on the form. Could have sworn it was but anyway I just got a phone call from the bank asking for that number clarification. I told them the number. Then they said, please come in to the bank so that you can write the number on the form. I said, well, no you can write it on there yourself, and anyway a trip to the bank takes time and I'm busy. Oh no, they are insisting that I go to the bank to write 10 numbers on a form.

I feel your pain! It once took me 4 hours to transfer money to an overseas account. I wanted to send money to a British bank account using American dollars... well, I think I was the first person in the history of Japanese banking to make such a request because it took forever... I've since stopped using that bank because of several similar frustrating experiences!

[frannyo 2]

Same here.

The local bank is to be avoided at all costs.

It's a last resort.

There is always, without fail, something that drives me nuts when it comes to banks.

[frannyo 2]

Wonder - are they any better in the city? Is it just inaka that has the banks?

[klingon 10]

They can be forgiven though with the fab rates of interest we get on our savings in there hey

[snowbender 3]

 

I got about 24 yen last year

[veronica 2]

I hate going into the bank here, it always ends up annoying me no end.

[RobBright 35]

Saw this. These kind of things always make me laugh:

 

[thursday 1]

you better get down there.

[RobBright 35]

SLight problem - I'm not about to die, nor do I want to be cremated.

[needpowderjm 0]

Whats it for?

[NoFakie 45]

Just stick granny in the cupboard and keep drawing her pension.