damian 0 Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 Quote: Originally posted by zwelgen: You cant bring your own snacks to work as its rude really? is that universal in japan? i may be a big offender in that case. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 No of course nobody does in Japan! (but lots of people do, but according to some gorgons, nobody does.) ...if you see what I mean. It would be unhygienic and ants would come. Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 is that why i got such a cold response when i bought my rice cooker to work and plugged it in under my desk? Link to post Share on other sites
zwelgen 0 Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 The snack thing, Im used to munching on an apple or muesli bar if Im hungry, something to fill me up when I want it. But here were I work (city office)its the big DAME, you SHARE here, even if it means putting in a kitty and buying shitty chocolate and rice crackers that dont make a dent in your hunger. Maybe eikaiwa and more gaijin friendly places are different. It really pisses me off as it means I eat a big lunch and get sooo sleeeeepy in the afternoons. Liked the rice cooker joke(?) Link to post Share on other sites
Lama 0 Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 is it any wonder the country is in finnancial difficulty if they dont want to sell you anything!! Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted December 2, 2002 Share Posted December 2, 2002 The thing that riles me the most is the way a lot of the English teaching materials used in Japan seem to have been made with some prescriptive agenda and not the students' needs in mind. Anyone who has seen a JHS or SHS text will have seen passages about Mother Theresa, MLK, the ozone hole, indiginous cultures etc. etc. that sail way over the heads of the students in terms of vocabulary and sentence structure. While these are perfectly acceptable topics for discussion or study in themselves, why are they thrust upon beginners in a foreign language class? Social sciences are one thing, learning a language is another. I haven't taught English for several years, but I'm still interested in the topic since my wife is a learner. She's been doing those Japanese Eiken tests, but even the level 2 (intermediate) study books have articles about UN peacekeeping and Bhutros-Ghali's definition of "the acceptable deployment of a UN presence". When you see things like that, it's hardly surprising that Japanese people have problems building up any confidence in English. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted December 5, 2002 Share Posted December 5, 2002 OK, here's one to p!ss everybody off - the rear entry permit! You have a passport. You have a valid visa, for which you paid good money. Can you then travel freely in and out of Japan? No. For travel on business or pleasure, you have to take some time off work, trek half way across the prefecture and pay a BRIBE, a MUTHAF*ING FINE ON BEING FOREIGN, to be able to leave this GODDAMN MORASS!! If it was NIGERIA or BHUTAN you might understand it, but this is supposed to be one of the G7 democracies with an economy that isn't built on fleecing people. Let the kiddies study the intricacies of the UN for all I care, just let me get back to my home (in Japan) without having to damn well pay for the privilege. Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted December 6, 2002 Author Share Posted December 6, 2002 thats why my kid will use 2 passports Japanese to leave here and re enter and auzzie on to do the same elsewhere until they turn 21 and get an aussie one... but the way Jonnie howard is going an aussie passport might be as bad as an american one soon... Link to post Share on other sites
nagoid 4 Posted December 8, 2002 Share Posted December 8, 2002 Eating slurping noises. No matter how hard I try, I just can't help it. I hate it. Nothing worse than 'hearing' a babe eating noodles, oh I just hate that. Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted December 14, 2002 Share Posted December 14, 2002 when I attempt to split my disposable hashi and it they dont split straight. that really annoys me. The symmetry is all stuffed up. How many of these disposable hashi must this country go though in a day? 130 mio people, 30% eat out once per day = 39mio pairs or 78mio individual sticks which gives 28.5bn little sticks. Adds up rather fast. Poor trees. Link to post Share on other sites
tetleyman 0 Posted March 26, 2003 Share Posted March 26, 2003 There seems to be so much secrecy about private lives here. Like if you ask someone where they went on their holiday or something like that it becomes a big mysterious conversation where they try to get out of it. Wierd. Is that normal or just my experiences ? Link to post Share on other sites
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