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Grand Fromage posted:Also start braking a lot earlier than you usually would and do it gradually. Do not slam on the brakes. Accelerate slowly. Basically drive like you're high as gently caress and everything around you is a cop. This.
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Chains are dumb but do check the tread, if the tires are too worn that's much worse in snow. When you skid (you will skid) remain calm, keep in control. Pump the brakes until you get traction again. Don't jerk the wheel hard and make it worse. If you're not in danger of hitting anything/being hit, ride it out to a stop, take a deep breath, and continue.
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Grand Fromage posted:Chains are dumb but do check the tread, if the tires are too worn that's much worse in snow. Do they not have ABS in Japan? If you have ABS, don't pump the brakes.
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Guy Axlerod posted:Do they not have ABS in Japan? If you have ABS, don't pump the brakes. I don't know what ABS is but I never had a car built after the 80s.
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They do have ABS. In any case, I checked the rules and winter tires should be enough to get past chain control. The rest is mostly straight forward 
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Question about flights, if anyone has experience with this: My girlfriend and I are planning on doing a ten day trip sometime in February. We haven't booked anything yet, but our choices seem to be taking a direct flight from NYC to Narita or Haneda for around 1000 a person, or doing an hour stopover in Beijing for ~$600. Neither one of us have international flight experience, so we'd like to know if the transfer in PEK is simple enough, or should we eat the extra cost and not deal with transfers at all?
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It's fine. Chinese airports are notorious but as long as it's the same itinerary you will get to Japan. Just buy travel insurance and you get 800 dollars in your pocket. It's probably a lovely airline but who the gently caress cares because you guys won't travel enough to know the difference
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Take any flight that doesn't have a layover at O'Hare. There was a 2 hour clusterfuck TSA line last time I was there. Also I have never seen a clean bathroom at that airport. Edit: the long TSA line layover was a flight I took returning to the US hot sauce fucked around with this message at 19:43 on Nov 19, 2016 |
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Lost Rivell posted:Question about flights, if anyone has experience with this: My girlfriend and I are planning on doing a ten day trip sometime in February. It's air china right? They suck but you get there, transfer isn't the end of the world. Worth it for 400 imo.
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Chinese flights are often delayed, as Caberham said, only if all your flights are on the same airline so they'll take responsibility for gently caress-ups. I would just make sure you have enough time to make your transfer (and I think the on-arrival transit visa applies here.)
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Ned posted:I was going to blame the situation on the goon who came to town on Monday. *put hands up* A bit late on my part it sure made for an even more interesting time in Fukuoka. Yeah I went dark and was only usin the wi-fi for getting around the past 2 weeks otherwise I'd have joined in with the FUKed talk. Pretty funny to wake up to repeated footage of traffic lights disappearing down a hole in the morning tv to be folowed by noise of choppers outside before having the lightbulb moment out of my morning foggy haze of recognising the 7-11 store I walked past just yesterday slowly being swollowed up by the sinkhole.
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I'm thinking of going to Sapporo for 4 days first week December. Are there any non obvious must-do's and must-eat's you guys recommend? Will probably stick to a typical tourist course, but I like good food/drink and willing to consider an easy hike if I can fit it in.
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Stumbling Block posted:*put hands up* A bit late on my part it sure made for an even more interesting time in Fukuoka. Yeah I went dark and was only usin the wi-fi for getting around the past 2 weeks otherwise I'd have joined in with the FUKed talk. Did you hit up any of the places I told you to go to? Hopefully you enjoyed your time in town.
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Absolutely. I didn't end up going to the castle ruins area as it was already getting late into the day by that time but it was great fun, so there's something for next time I'm in town lined up. And Mami-chan is a treat. Holy crap did they pile in the food and was sharing it all round when we were there.
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Is there any way to transition from being a dirty English teacher to being a "real" (certified, accredited, whatever) teacher in Japan? I've spent the last five and a half years teaching English to kids and adults in Taiwan and now I'm seriously considering moving to Japan, but while I like teaching I'd prefer not to just be stuck teaching English forever.
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so uhhhh what do you want to teach instead
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History, government, I guess what would be considered general social studies; that sort of thing. I'll be honest I've only done some basic research into how to actually become a teacher; in the U.S. every state has different requirements but I do know you need to take a general teaching course and then take different tests to be certified to teach a subject. I'm just curious if there's any possible way to go down that path without having to return to the U.S., since I refuse to step one foot in Trump's America.
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Those sorts of jobs exist in the PRC for the moment, though I expect them to vanish. I'm teaching history at an international high school currently.
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Grand Fromage posted:Those sorts of jobs exist in the PRC for the moment, though I expect them to vanish. I'm teaching history at an international high school currently. And are you a certified history teacher, or just a loser with a useless liberal arts degree like myself? EDIT: I guess I might be making some assumptions that things that are true in Taiwan are also true in Japan. Here you see lots of job listings for your typical cram schools/business training places, but then others for international/private schools that state you need to be a certified teacher. Those jobs tend to have a lot higher pay and benefits. Is this not the case in Japan? Moon Slayer fucked around with this message at 14:26 on Nov 21, 2016 |
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I have a history degree and teaching experience, so they hired me to teach the histories (and also science during the time when history was banned). Actual certification opens up the highest paying jobs at official international high schools.
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Lost Rivell posted:Question about flights, if anyone has experience with this: My girlfriend and I are planning on doing a ten day trip sometime in February. Absolutely make sure that your layover is long enough. I can't speak to Beijing, but my wife had a two-hour layover at Shanghai Pudong. Two hours is absolutely a sensible amount of time for any transfer to happen at any sensible airport in any sensible country in the world, so naturally she missed the flight. Her plane landed, then taxied to the furthest spot on the tarmac and waited for a bus to collect all the passengers, which took more than one trip. It took forever for the baggage to get loaded, all the other passengers were wildly shoving to get on the first bus, and then she had to go through customs and collect all her baggage. By the time she arrived in the terminal proper, an hour had passed. The woman at the United desk told her, curtly, that they stop check-ins for flights 60 minutes before takeoff, so she wouldn't be allowed to the gate, and then she turned and walked away, leaving my wife helpless. It took hours before other United staffers actually started their shift and helped her find another way home, which ended up being the same flight the next day. She spent 24 hours in the terminal, with all her luggage, sleeping on benches. Is there any itinerary you can make that gets you cheap flights and longer than an hour to make the transfer?
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You spend a couple years, in the US, getting certified, and then a couple more years getting experience so you can apply for the international schools in Japan. And by then it's Kanye's America.
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ALFbrot posted:Absolutely make sure that your layover is long enough. I can't speak to Beijing, but my wife had a two-hour layover at Shanghai Pudong. Two hours is absolutely a sensible amount of time for any transfer to happen at any sensible airport in any sensible country in the world, so naturally she missed the flight. Her plane landed, then taxied to the furthest spot on the tarmac and waited for a bus to collect all the passengers, which took more than one trip. It took forever for the baggage to get loaded, all the other passengers were wildly shoving to get on the first bus, and then she had to go through customs and collect all her baggage. By the time she arrived in the terminal proper, an hour had passed. The woman at the United desk told her, curtly, that they stop check-ins for flights 60 minutes before takeoff, so she wouldn't be allowed to the gate, and then she turned and walked away, leaving my wife helpless. It took hours before other United staffers actually started their shift and helped her find another way home, which ended up being the same flight the next day. She spent 24 hours in the terminal, with all her luggage, sleeping on benches. Yeahhhh, I didn't miss my flight or anything in Pudong; however, I wasn't impressed and wanted to get the fuckkkk out of China as soon as possible. All of the cheap flights route through Peking or Shanghai, and it's well worth a $100 premium to avoid Chinese immigration.
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Grand Fromage posted:Those sorts of jobs exist in the PRC for the moment, though I expect them to vanish. I'm teaching history at an international high school currently. they will still be around but you won't want them in a few years
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I forget if I asked this but if a restaurant says "hotel concierge reservations only" is that basically code for Japanese speaking callers only? You think I could just get a Japanese speaker to call and pretend to be from a hotel? The place I'm staying says they won't make reservations for you until after you check in and that's way too late.
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Maybe it's possible to have the hotel make the reservation for you now and then confirm the reservation when you check-in?
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Yeah I'm still trying to talk them into it, just checking other options.
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I assume it's a little Michelin starred place? They don't want people reserving from abroad and then not showing up and blowing their revenue for the night. A legit luxury hotel will take care of it for you. Failing that you need a local contact.
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ALFbrot posted:Is there any itinerary you can make that gets you cheap flights and longer than an hour to make the transfer? Strangely enough, no. Not without 9-15 hour layovers in various Chinese airports. I mean, this trip is somewhere in the Nebulous Future this year, so we could manage to snag miracle direct flight tickets, or I could coach my stress-prone girlfriend through the apparent hellscape that is Chinese immigration. Thank you all for your feedback and advice, it's a lot to consider.
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Lost Rivell posted:Strangely enough, no. Not without 9-15 hour layovers in various Chinese airports. I mean, this trip is somewhere in the Nebulous Future this year, so we could manage to snag miracle direct flight tickets, or I could coach my stress-prone girlfriend through the apparent hellscape that is Chinese immigration. When I flew to Taipei through Shanghai Pudong (On China Eastern if that matters), I didn't even have to clear immigration/customs. As soon as you get off the plane, there is a special hallway for transfers. I had to show them my airplane ticket and they let me through. They even transferred my bag for me. I don't know about Beijing but I imagine its similar? I think my layover ended up being about 3 hours. I was mildly concerned as I didn't still have a Chinese visa (yes, there is some special thing where you can visit certain cities for a number of days without a visa, but I didn't want to have to try to deal with it - and thankfully I didn't have to)
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MoofOntario posted:When I flew to Taipei through Shanghai Pudong (On China Eastern if that matters), I didn't even have to clear immigration/customs. As soon as you get off the plane, there is a special hallway for transfers. I had to show them my airplane ticket and they let me through. They even transferred my bag for me. I don't know about Beijing but I imagine its similar? I think my layover ended up being about 3 hours. Beijing made me go through customs and security for a transfer. Shanghai on China Eastern didn't. Beijing was pretty slow and lovely and mainland af and China air sucks balls. But it's also cheap so whatever. LimburgLimbo fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Nov 23, 2016 |
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Grand Fromage posted:Yeah I'm still trying to talk them into it, just checking other options. Hit me up I'll call for you.
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Dokdo is Korea, and also a turd-stained worthless rock.
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But you repeat yourself.
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peepee dokdo it is a bad country
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Stringent posted:Hit me up I'll call for you. Thanks for the offer. They finally agreed to do it since I was nice so I think we're cool, but if they go back on it for some reason I'll PM.
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LimburgLimbo posted:Beijing made me go through customs and security for a transfer. Shanghai on China Eastern didn't. Beijing was pretty slow and lovely and mainland af and China air sucks balls. Yeah, maybe it's a domestic vs. foreign carrier thing. My wife's disaster occurred while trying to connect on a United flight. Maybe if it's a Chinese carrier you don't have to pass back through customs?
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Grand Fromage posted:Thanks for the offer. They finally agreed to do it since I was nice so I think we're cool, but if they go back on it for some reason I'll PM. I am also available for you Japanese language needs and am more young and vivacious than Stringent
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LimburgLimbo posted:I am also available for you Japanese language needs and am more young and vivacious than Stringent Stringent is way more reliable though  Just saying. But thanks for recommending and booking nabezo. Goon meat was fun. When are you back in Tokyo?
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Also if any Tokyo goons want to go to some all you can drink thing on a weekday that would be fun. I'll be there Feb 6-10. I will bring snax from Sichuan (have to check if Tibetan yak jerky is allowed through customs).
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