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 Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:12 pm
Raioga
-Crowds don't pass over the street at red light, even tough no cars are near. stare
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Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 8:42 pm
condomania in nice! when i wzs dating that guy in tokyo, we used to go there all the time! there are store like that in france too, i dont know about the states.
now that i'm setteling down with another guy in nagoya, i've never seen a condomania store in this city. oh well, condomania hunt!!!
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Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 7:18 pm
Raioga
-The drinking age is at 20!!! eek
-Some Japanese don't find it weird if a European speaks Japanese. Probably they got used to it. neutral
1. i think the driking/voting/legal adult/smoking age is good. actually i think it should be raised higher. i will not say what i think about north america and 18.... 2. it is somewhat odd
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Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:08 pm
18 is smoking age. 21 is drinking age.
I don't think it should be 'weird' that Europeans might speak Japanese in Japan. I mean..it's Japan.
My dad has this little issue with following around tour guides...he doesn't like to be seen as a tourist and would rather blend in. He goes to Mexico frequently, and to blend in more, he learned Spanish. I think this might be true for a lot of people, so they learn Japanese when they go to Japan so they don't have to have other people to guide them around.
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:16 am
che_hyun 18 is smoking age. 21 is drinking age. I don't think it should be 'weird' that Europeans might speak Japanese in Japan. I mean..it's Japan. My dad has this little issue with following around tour guides...he doesn't like to be seen as a tourist and would rather blend in. He goes to Mexico frequently, and to blend in more, he learned Spanish. I think this might be true for a lot of people, so they learn Japanese when they go to Japan so they don't have to have other people to guide them around. What? I heard the smoking age us 20. Like for Morning Musume Kago Aim I heard she got suspended for getting caught smoking 2 days after she turned 18.
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 8:05 am
Raioga
-(If you are European you should bring condoms with you, because those they offer here are too small. Either it will not fit in, or it will hurt.) confused This made me giggle in my head. x3
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 2:13 pm
che_hyun 18 is smoking age. 21 is drinking age. I don't think it should be 'weird' that Europeans might speak Japanese in Japan. I mean..it's Japan. My dad has this little issue with following around tour guides...he doesn't like to be seen as a tourist and would rather blend in. He goes to Mexico frequently, and to blend in more, he learned Spanish. I think this might be true for a lot of people, so they learn Japanese when they go to Japan so they don't have to have other people to guide them around. Here here!! When I went to japan, we had a day that we just spent the whole day in tokyo and had to be back at Oomiya station by a certain time, we didn't have a tour guide, and it didn't bother anyone that we were 4 gaijin wandering Akihabara on a school day... without a tour guide... and we all spoke to some level, myself, the highest... so i was a bit of a go-between...
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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 11:54 pm
I remember Condomania. I remember the toy boobs. gonk
I don't even know the official smoking age in my own country. It's not an issue for me since I can't stand the smell of smoke and so will never do it anyway. sweatdrop But how pathetic for me not to know.
Other weird/cool/strange/awesome things:
- the cute caps the young school kids wear when on an outing so they can be spotted; I found yellow ones on elementary schoolers and pink and blue ones on preschoolers. They look like yarmulkes.
- Japanese gangs look like American gangs (I actually witness a brawl in Tokyo's Takeshita Street, it was scary!)
- Lotteria. Very odd restaurant. I'm still not sure what exactly it was I ate.
- Kyoto tower has the best diner EVER. heart
- The "CLEAN AND GREEN" barf bags doled out on the bus
- The grown men who wanted to practice their English on me rofl Not that I minded, heck I thought it was fun
- Lawson Convenience Store has the most helpful, kind and considerate employees EVER!
- Kyoto is Shinsengumi Paradise
- Gamers, with all the card tournaments. They were fun to watch.
- Taxi cabs are teh luff heart But I keep forgetting that America is stupid and drives on the wrong side of the road, so I accidentally sat in the driver's seat in a taxi in Kyoto. sweatdrop
- Japanese people find foreigners funny. (And well they should! xd ) One lady laughed at me really hard when I couldn't figure out I was supposed to pull the door open, not push it... but it was pretty pathetic (the sign was even in english stare )
- You still see elderly people walking around in kimono
- Bunraku is long, but so cool
- Japanese commercials pwn American commercials
- The weird-shaped boat you can take across Sumida River
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Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 8:45 am
che_hyun 18 is smoking age. 21 is drinking age. I don't think it should be 'weird' that Europeans might speak Japanese in Japan. I mean..it's Japan. My dad has this little issue with following around tour guides...he doesn't like to be seen as a tourist and would rather blend in. He goes to Mexico frequently, and to blend in more, he learned Spanish. I think this might be true for a lot of people, so they learn Japanese when they go to Japan so they don't have to have other people to guide them around. legal smoking drinking and being legal aadult is 20 legal driving is 18. good thing too, otherwise we would be like the streetes of america.
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Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 8:46 am
Akira_Hoshino I remember Condomania. I remember the toy boobs. gonk I don't even know the official smoking age in my own country. It's not an issue for me since I can't stand the smell of smoke and so will never do it anyway. sweatdrop But how pathetic for me not to know. Other weird/cool/strange/awesome things: - the cute caps the young school kids wear when on an outing so they can be spotted; I found yellow ones on elementary schoolers and pink and blue ones on preschoolers. They look like yarmulkes. - Japanese gangs look like American gangs (I actually witness a brawl in Tokyo's Takeshita Street, it was scary!) - Lotteria. Very odd restaurant. I'm still not sure what exactly it was I ate. - Kyoto tower has the best diner EVER. heart - The "CLEAN AND GREEN" barf bags doled out on the bus - The grown men who wanted to practice their English on me rofl Not that I minded, heck I thought it was fun - Lawson Convenience Store has the most helpful, kind and considerate employees EVER! - Kyoto is Shinsengumi Paradise - Gamers, with all the card tournaments. They were fun to watch. - Taxi cabs are teh luff heart But I keep forgetting that America is stupid and drives on the wrong side of the road, so I accidentally sat in the driver's seat in a taxi in Kyoto. sweatdrop - Japanese people find foreigners funny. (And well they should! xd ) One lady laughed at me really hard when I couldn't figure out I was supposed to pull the door open, not push it... but it was pretty pathetic (the sign was even in english stare ) - You still see elderly people walking around in kimono - Bunraku is long, but so cool - Japanese commercials pwn American commercials - The weird-shaped boat you can take across Sumida River doesnt really seem odd to me, but then gaian i live here sweatdrop sweatdrop
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Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:13 pm
If you want to see some really entertaining/odd things you should go to Engrish.com.
They have lots of categories of English being used incorrectly by not only Japanese, but also Chinese and Korean.
It's not like we don't use their languages incorrectly sometimes too, but most of the stuff I've seen with asian languages on them are things that say 'love', 'peace', 'joy', ... virtues and stuff like that. xp
The English they show on engrish.com is sometimes even rather offensive. eek
... they even had a picture of some graffiti on a wall that said "Fak you!" sweatdrop ... but the t-shirts are my favorites. xd
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Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:20 pm
che_hyun 18 is smoking age. 21 is drinking age. I don't think it should be 'weird' that Europeans might speak Japanese in Japan. I mean..it's Japan. My dad has this little issue with following around tour guides...he doesn't like to be seen as a tourist and would rather blend in. He goes to Mexico frequently, and to blend in more, he learned Spanish. I think this might be true for a lot of people, so they learn Japanese when they go to Japan so they don't have to have other people to guide them around. I meant in America. I also saw...oh man, I forgot where it was, but there was this restaurant where the seats were toilets and you were served in a potty-shaped bowl. The novelty of that is astounding as well. T-T I just wish I could visit Japan.
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