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Subject: Who has been to Japan?
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I wanna go to Japan so bad!

  • 06.13.2004 7:28 PM PDT
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I might be going next summer with my friend Nancy. Her sister lives over there so it shall all be good.

List of concerts to see when going
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Janne Da Arc
Psycho le Cemu
Pierrot
MUCC
Dir en grey
Plastic Tree

He he!

  • 06.13.2004 7:32 PM PDT
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Are you going to see the Tokyo Game Show over there?

  • 06.13.2004 7:35 PM PDT
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I guess that would depend on when it is.

If given the chance: Yes.

  • 06.13.2004 7:37 PM PDT
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It's like E3 in Japan.

  • 06.13.2004 7:39 PM PDT
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Konnichiwa :)

Heh, I've never been there, but I know how to say good afternoon...heh.

[Edited on 6/13/2004 7:47:27 PM]

  • 06.13.2004 7:40 PM PDT
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Actually Konnichiwa is "Good Afternoon"

Right now you'd need "Konban wa"

  • 06.13.2004 7:42 PM PDT
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Konban wa to everybody.

[Edited on 6/13/2004 7:43:53 PM]

  • 06.13.2004 7:42 PM PDT
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Oops, heh, guess I need to brush up on my foreign language skills. :D

  • 06.13.2004 7:47 PM PDT
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I've heard nothing but bad about Japan. Extremely small food portions, extremely small lodging, overcrowding, everyone and their pet hamster smokes, cost of living is an arm and a leg, gaijin's are frowned upon and scammed, etc. etc.

So no, I haven't been, and I probably wont ever.

  • 06.13.2004 7:47 PM PDT
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hey remember chappele's show

Konnichiwa -blam!-es

  • 06.13.2004 8:00 PM PDT
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Ajenteks thats just rumors japan started, You see its the future over there. They have robots and flying cars all sorts of game that wont come out here for like a bajillion years, probally even halo 2. they just tryin to keep you out.

  • 06.13.2004 8:02 PM PDT
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Posted by: tmone17
Ajenteks thats just rumors japan started, You see its the future over there. They have robots and flying cars all sorts of game that wont come out here for like a bajillion years, probally even halo 2. they just tryin to keep you out.


They don't buy Xboxes over there, and the only robots they have are Asimo units. Asimo is the clown for the new millennium.

  • 06.13.2004 8:11 PM PDT
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Asimo is freaky.

  • 06.13.2004 8:14 PM PDT
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I've been. After having to eat that lobster alive, methinks I shant be boing back...

I'm kidding (about the not going back part). Japan is an amazing place. See lost in translation. It's EXACTLY like that. Man, I really wanna date one of those ganguro chicks! ^_^

[Edited on 6/13/2004 8:57:30 PM]

  • 06.13.2004 8:55 PM PDT
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When I visited Japan for a couple o' weeks last summer, I ate dead lobster and (kinda)live cuttlefish, but not live lobster. I didn't have to eat anything in particular. I liked the food there much better, as having a recognizably organic origin is considered a good thing there. I like to be sure that my food is of organic material that I can digest and get something from.

There is indeed much to be amazed by. I especially liked the gardens. They're full of life, even little animals. I went in late summer, so there were fascinating critters everywhere I looked.
There were these weird hemipteran(?) insects with a short, tree-sucking, very loud adult stage.(I dunno even whether there is an English name.) They were so common in their season that I went collecting about a dozen on my arm to watch them (hardly)interact, and watch in disbelief as one tries to eat me. Does anyone know what critters I'm talking about? They're kinda big compared to the insects where I live, about bite-size not counting the wings.

  • 06.13.2004 10:27 PM PDT
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I'm fairly sure I do. I just couldn't name them. I'll try to find out, though.

  • 06.13.2004 10:33 PM PDT
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I want to go, I think their culture right now is amazing, but I may have been brainwashed by too much anime....

  • 06.13.2004 10:41 PM PDT
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The part of my family that invited me there so we could meet each other called them "mimic" and "semi". I dunno the conventions for spelling Japanese things with our letters, so I'm not sure this makes much sense...
I'm pretty sure the former term's a generic word for "small creature", so I think that the latter is a name for the particular species or perhaps just genus. They're sap suckers in thier last stage whose mating calls are loud enough to hurt my head. I saw some with translucent, iridescent wings with green veins and others with brown, tree bark-camo wings. I dunno if they're both the same species or two closely related ones, since I didn't notice any differences in shape, size, or sound.

Edit: Arr, I hit the same key twice once again.

[Edited on 6/13/2004 11:09:00 PM]

  • 06.13.2004 10:45 PM PDT
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Posted by: Assassin B
I want to go, I think their culture right now is amazing, but I may have been brainwashed by too much anime....
How much anime have you seen? I suppose how much too much is depends on what kind you see. "Anime" is a label applied to just about all animated stuff from Japan. That can include any style or genre or TV show or movie. There's a lot of stuff that I wouldn't watch more of if I could and some stuff I would. Cowboy Bebop is an example of anime that I like. It's got a great variety of music, crazy characters, a goodly twisted plot(from which some episodes diverge), a slightly odd and dark atmosphere, subtle humor, and bizarre humor. I won't give an example of what I don't like 'cause I know it'll inspire flames from fans...

  • 06.13.2004 11:25 PM PDT
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The part of my family that invited me there so we could meet each other called them "mimic" and "semi". I dunno the conventions for spelling Japanese things with our letters, so I'm not sure this makes much sense...
I'm pretty sure the former term's a generic word for "small creature", so I think that the latter is a name for the particular species or perhaps just genus. They're sap suckers in thier last stage whose mating calls are loud enough to hurt my head. I saw some with translucent, iridescent wings with green veins and others with brown, tree bark-camo wings. I dunno if they're both the same species or two closely related ones, since I didn't notice any differences in shape, size, or sound.

Edit: Arr, I hit the same key twice once again.

Are you talking about Cicadas/Locusts?

The main reason I want to go to Japan is because I am IN LOVE with their rock music (not really in love, but i do like it alot)

  • 06.13.2004 11:30 PM PDT
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I'm not quite sure now. I think that Cicadas are elytran, not hemipteran. The critter that tried to suck my arm was not a beetle, unless it shed its outer wings and regrew the inner ones in a different shape, unlikely since the outer wings are an adult-only feature. They could be Cicadas if I'm mistaken about Cicadas being mushi. Where I live, "locust" refers to some grass-munching... uh... grasshopper thing, definitely not what I'm talking about. "Locust" is just a common name, though, so it might refer to something else in other regions.

Common names can be confusing when you're talking to people far away, especially with crazy coincidences like "Crab Spider" and "Spider Crab"!
I know that "Daddy Long Legs" refers to at least three distinct arthropods; one spider, one non-spider arachnid, and one flying insect...

[Edited on 6/13/2004 11:47:58 PM]

  • 06.13.2004 11:46 PM PDT
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minasan wa kuso desuyo. hehehe, PM me if you can understand this
boku wa nihongo wohanashimasu.

BTW I am not Japanese, I'm Irish, Italian, French, and German.

[Edited on 6/13/2004 11:56:55 PM]

  • 06.13.2004 11:56 PM PDT
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watashi no haha wa nihonjin. dakara, ore mo nihongo wo hanashimasu.
been there 3 times, i've got family there. haven't been in awhile. from my memories, there's nothing funnier than japanese commercials. they're a friggin riot. btw, whoever said they liked japanese rock...dude, you've got problems.

  • 06.14.2004 7:23 AM PDT
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Japan was awesome. It was an amazing country. I was there during the world cup in seoul. Their food is really good too. I miss sticky rice :( That stuff is the best. With the world cup going on I would just stay up and watch soccer with the commentary in Japanese. It was awesome

  • 06.14.2004 10:18 AM PDT

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