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Pro snype there, if I do say so myself.
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Apr 14, 2019 04:07
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They're not going to throw an American tourist in jail for bringing some OTC medicine. If they catch it and have a problem you just say you didn't know and hand it over. As long as you're not a giant loving moron and have 5000 Sudafed up your rear end or something it's not going to be suspicious.
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Apr 14, 2019 04:11
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Grand Fromage posted:As long as you're not a giant loving moron and have 5000 Sudafed up your rear end or something it's not going to be suspicious. That's an extremely specific example, anything you'd like to share with the thread?
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Apr 14, 2019 04:15
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Stringent posted:That's an extremely specific example, anything you'd like to share with the thread? I did not need to use the bunghole, I distracted Chinese customs by having books in my luggage and they were too busy inspecting that to care about my drugs or the two kilo wedge of parmesan.
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Apr 14, 2019 04:18
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zmcnulty posted:Yeah I don't know the details of the case. Was just thinking it may be more complicated than a blanket "bring your meds, period" quote:Julie Hamp — Toyota Motor Corp.'s first senior female executive who was appointed head of public relations just weeks ago — has been arrested in Japan for allegedly importing the prescription painkiller oxycodone in violation of the country's narcotics laws. quote:It’s not clear yet if Hamp, a former General Motors and PepsiCo executive, had gotten such permission, but the way the pills suggests were allegedly packed suggest smuggling. The parcel, labeled “necklaces,” was addressed to Hamp and contained 57 tablets of oxycodone found in packets. There were also pills buried at the bottom of the parcel, underneath toy necklaces and pendants. lol
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Apr 14, 2019 05:03
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Phone posted:lol I've always gotten a kick out of the perfect symmetry of hosed upness wrt to pain killers in the US and Japan, both occupying the opposite sides of the problem.
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Apr 14, 2019 05:13
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I am not dead but I do smell terrible. God I hate planes. Dad got hosed over and is arriving 3 hours later than me. He says to wait for him at the hotel. I told him what to do. vvv  
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Apr 14, 2019 09:14
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Seriously just post everything!
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Apr 14, 2019 09:14
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We will make sure you can’t gently caress up anymore
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Apr 14, 2019 09:15
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Pollyanna posted:Dad got hosed over and is arriving 3 hours later than me. He says to wait for him at the hotel. this is your chance! hop on a shinkansen for hakata and make good your escape
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Apr 14, 2019 09:47
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caberham posted:We will make sure you can’t gently caress up anymore You are too late 
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Apr 14, 2019 09:59
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Pollyanna posted:You are too late Just lost your schedule or live post
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Apr 14, 2019 11:25
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caberham posted:Just lost your schedule or live post No schedule besides Tokyo 5 nights and then Hakone-Kyoto-Osaka. As for current status I am eating Family Mart salad and you guys weren’t kidding about everything being small here.
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Apr 14, 2019 11:48
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You JUST FAT. Ok so each day on Tokyo do you have 1 or 2 major event or activity to do? And as for dinner any particular place? Or just eat whatever you guys find
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Apr 14, 2019 11:56
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Pollyanna posted:No schedule besides Tokyo 5 nights and then Hakone-Kyoto-Osaka. As for current status I am eating Family Mart salad and you guys weren’t kidding about everything being small here. The tuna and egg sandwiches are awesome.
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Apr 14, 2019 12:06
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caberham posted:You JUST FAT. All the reservations n poo poo we made were for Kyoto and Hakone, Tokyo abs Osaka are free. We have our choices of Asakusa, Sky Deck, Shinjuku, Odaiba, and the parks to hit up as we go along. And yeah this trip really highlights the problem with western eating 
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Apr 14, 2019 12:41
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Pollyanna posted:And yeah this trip really highlights the problem with western eating What do you mean?
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Apr 14, 2019 12:45
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Stringent posted:What do you mean? By western eating I mean my eating. I have gotten fat.
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Apr 14, 2019 12:48
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So, American eating, at most 
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Apr 14, 2019 13:40
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Hey now it wasn’t an American that quit her 1 month trip after a few days
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Apr 14, 2019 13:45
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Stringent posted:I've always gotten a kick out of the perfect symmetry of hosed upness wrt to pain killers in the US and Japan, both occupying the opposite sides of the problem. Korea is the same way. Worst story I ever heard was a friend getting leg surgery and they refused to give him painkillers or put him under. He eventually screamed and fought so much during the slicing open of his leg that they used novocaine to numb the area.
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Apr 14, 2019 14:05
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Grand Fromage posted:have 5000 Sudafed up your rear end or something Hey! Have you been going through my medical history? >:[
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Apr 14, 2019 14:22
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Grand Fromage posted:Korea is the same way. Worst story I ever heard was a friend getting leg surgery and they refused to give him painkillers or put him under. He eventually screamed and fought so much during the slicing open of his leg that they used novocaine to numb the area. Doctor all like, they sliced my dick off when I was ten with no painkillers at all, gently caress you.
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Apr 14, 2019 14:27
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Grand Fromage posted:They're not going to throw an American tourist in jail for bringing some OTC medicine. If they catch it and have a problem you just say you didn't know and hand it over. As long as you're not a giant loving moron and have 5000 Sudafed up your rear end or something it's not going to be suspicious. Narita Immigration once arrested an elderly American man for drug smuggling (traveling from SE Asia) and I had to visit him in the airport klink on a holiday. While I was writing down his information, my only pen ran out of ink. I couldn’t get another in a reasonable amount of time, so I just started pressing it into the paper so I could read the indentations once I got out of the jail and back to the car. But you could see the poor dude start to lose hope when he saw that even though it looked like I was writing, nothing was showing up on the form in front of me. Probably thought he would be lost forever in the Japanese penal system.
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Apr 14, 2019 14:28
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Was he?
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Apr 14, 2019 14:47
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Yeah you gotta give us more details than that.
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Apr 14, 2019 14:52
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Was my last contact with him, so maybe! I passed on the information and somebody else followed up on the case, as I was just temporarily covering that type of work.
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Apr 14, 2019 14:58
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Actually genuinely ordered a meal entirely in Japanese for the first time. I forgot how to ask for the check though so I got the poor lady in trouble when the old dude was like “yo” and pointed at us. I will never forget again 
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Apr 14, 2019 15:36
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Pollyanna posted:Actually genuinely ordered a meal entirely in Japanese for the first time. I forgot how to ask for the check though so I got the poor lady in trouble when the old dude was like “yo” and pointed at us. I will never forget again Well, what do you think so far? How's Japan?
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Apr 14, 2019 15:51
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Pollyanna posted:Actually genuinely ordered a meal entirely in Japanese for the first time. I forgot how to ask for the check though so I got the poor lady in trouble when the old dude was like “yo” and pointed at us. I will never forget again This is too painful
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Apr 14, 2019 15:52
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ntan please post some nice pictures of onsens or something
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Apr 14, 2019 15:53
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caberham posted:ntan please post some nice pictures of onsens or something lol, shut up you nub
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Apr 14, 2019 15:56
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Listen, cabe, you know I love you, but this attempt to position yourself as the Japan Whisperer. You're still just another tourist, we live here, ok?
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Apr 14, 2019 15:58
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Well im just glad you love me 
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Grand Fromage posted:Korea is the same way. Worst story I ever heard was a friend getting leg surgery and they refused to give him painkillers or put him under. He eventually screamed and fought so much during the slicing open of his leg that they used novocaine to numb the area. What the gently caress? What kind of surgery was it? Not just removing something from his skin or something but actual full on open muscle and bone work?
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Apr 14, 2019 16:14
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Hey guys I’m really excited to go see the deer in Nar— *surgerychat* 
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Shibawanko posted:What the gently caress? What kind of surgery was it? Not just removing something from his skin or something but actual full on open muscle and bone work? Yeah they had to cut into the leg after an accident. I don't remember if it was all the way to the bone but it was substantial. Everyone I know who has had surgery in Korea has had to basically riot to get anesthetic. And you're not going to get any painkillers afterward no matter what you do.
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Apr 14, 2019 16:45
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Business of Ferrets posted:Was my last contact with him, so maybe! I assume the Japanese authorities eventually notified the US embassy and he got consular access. I wouldn't worry. This isn't China
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