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Mr. Nice! posted:Japan > world.
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Feb 5, 2020 17:44
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Grand Fromage posted:Nobody washes their hands (when I would on rare occasions see someone wash their hands it was shocking), there is almost never soap or hot water available in any public place. Newly built mall bathrooms are the big exception, they're usually about the same as the west. Still nobody washing, but you could. Japan has soap in like 95% of bathrooms outside of countryside train stations. Also I'm pretty happy to see here in Taiwan for all the government offices and hospitals I've seen they have people stationed at the entrance giving you an alcohol spray on the hands, requiring you to use a mask, and many have guys with temperature guns checking everyone. It owns and is good.
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Feb 5, 2020 17:47
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Japan had electronic bidets in gas station/convenience store toilets when i lived there 13 years ago.
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Feb 5, 2020 18:13
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Convenience stores have the reliable good public bathrooms, yeah.
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Feb 5, 2020 18:19
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I mean I saw a ~3 year old poo poo in a bucket his mom was carrying around in the bread aisle of whatever that big french supermarket chain is in Shanghai 2008.
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Feb 5, 2020 18:30
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all you need for a complete bathroom experience in China is a hole in the ground and a bottle of water as liquid TP
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Feb 5, 2020 18:38
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D-Pad posted:I mean I saw a ~3 year old poo poo in a bucket his mom was carrying around in the bread aisle of whatever that big french supermarket chain is in Shanghai 2008. That's a pretty handy approach, if you're faced with ultra disgusting bathrooms and toddler bowel movements
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Feb 5, 2020 18:38
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D-Pad posted:I mean I saw a ~3 year old poo poo in a bucket his mom was carrying around in the bread aisle of whatever that big french supermarket chain is in Shanghai 2008. I saw a child poo poo on s piece of paper right outside s Haagen dasz in an upscale mall in Shanghai in 2015
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Feb 5, 2020 20:14
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Japan should be pretty good at shutting its borders. I would feel safe in japan.
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Feb 5, 2020 20:32
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Japanese bathrooms mostly have soap, but they never ever have paper towels, you gotta pack a little cloth. My first time there my host mom was religious about wash your drat hands when you come in the house, cause you've been on the train and it's nasty. Train station bathrooms in japan are pretty much the same level of gross as public transit bathrooms in America. Convenience store bathrooms were usually spotless. The space toilets rule...totally game changing if you're out in the world all day, got brutal ramen/beer shits, and don't want a dirty butt.
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Feb 5, 2020 21:15
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LifeSunDeath posted:Japanese bathrooms mostly have soap, but they never ever have paper towels, you gotta pack a little cloth. Not at all true. Many public bathrooms like in train stations will just have air driers, but there's also lots of places you're going to go with paper towels. LifeSunDeath posted:Train station bathrooms in japan are pretty much the same level of gross as public transit bathrooms in America. Also objectively untrue. The public bathrooms in some of the major stations that see huge, huge numbers of people (Shinjuku, Shibuya, Shinbashi, etc.) will get fairly nasty sometimes, but relatively to traffic are really quite amazing. Basically anywhere else will very clean the vast majority of times (no telling if someone went to a squatter and missed a drop or something and you get there before it's cleaned), if old for some countryside stations. Consistently much cleaner than the public stuff in the US, though there's much more variability in the US as it's huge and there's major variety. TL;DR the US is dirty and Americans are dirty fucks who get off on trashing the environments live and exist in.
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Feb 5, 2020 21:44
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Journey to the West transformer concepts
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Feb 5, 2020 21:50
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Mr. Apollo posted:Journey to the West transformer concepts So it takes place in America?
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Feb 5, 2020 21:51
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I always thought of Zhu Bajie as more of a PT Cruiser
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Feb 5, 2020 22:10
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Mr. Apollo posted:Journey to the West transformer concepts Oh, wow, someone is finally adapting that, huh?
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Feb 5, 2020 22:14
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LimburgLimbo posted:Not at all true. Many public bathrooms like in train stations will just have air driers, but there's also lots of places you're going to go with paper towels. You're one of those brutal weebs that I refused to engage with in Japan, yet here we both are, being insufferable.
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Feb 5, 2020 22:22
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Don't see how having lived in Japan and takin' a bunch of shits all over makes me a weeb but if that's the best you got then okay Edit: also if you live in Japan and consistently encounter weebs you should consider why that is LimburgLimbo fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Feb 5, 2020 |
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Feb 5, 2020 22:29
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How do you say weeb in japanese? Weebu?
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Feb 5, 2020 22:37
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*hair covers eyes* "Not bad, you made me use 10% of my soap"
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Feb 5, 2020 22:48
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Mr. Nice! posted:Japan > world. haha hahahahahaha. hah
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Feb 5, 2020 22:53
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Blistex posted:This is correct. First night staying in a hotel I received three calls from hotel employees of increasingly better English skills. loving lmao reviving this poo poo for a new page because I cannot stop laughing at it.
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Feb 6, 2020 00:12
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Oh, wow, someone is finally adapting that, huh?
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Feb 6, 2020 01:09
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Shaocaholica posted:How do you say weeb in japanese? Weebu? ウェーブ
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Feb 6, 2020 01:20
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LifeSunDeath posted:You're one of those brutal weebs that I refused to engage with in Japan, yet here we both are, being insufferable. Americans do not wash their buttholes and do not know of bidets, and i am unsettlingly cognizant of the warm unwashed steamy rear end scents everyone carries with them on their regular business
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Feb 6, 2020 02:39
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Grand Fromage posted:Nobody washes their hands (when I would on rare occasions see someone wash their hands it was shocking), there is almost never soap or hot water available in any public place. Newly built mall bathrooms are the big exception, they're usually about the same as the west. Still nobody washing, but you could. I might have just gotten lucky somehow but every public bathroom I've been in in Hong Kong has had soap, running water, and some way to dry your hands. Even random public ones on trails that I thought for sure would be disgusting were not. So coming from the mainland, it was a real relief. I had all the good public toilets in Wuhan memorized and it was not an extensive list.
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Feb 6, 2020 02:44
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bones 4 beginners posted:I might have just gotten lucky somehow but every public bathroom I've been in in Hong Kong has had soap, running water, and some way to dry your hands. Even random public ones on trails that I thought for sure would be disgusting were not. So coming from the mainland, it was a real relief. I had all the good public toilets in Wuhan memorized and it was not an extensive list. Yeah, Hong Kong changed a lot after SARS, toilets used to be super gross, unless you could use your white privilege to go poop in the bathrooms of a hotel lobby, they were awesome and a little old guy in a starched white Mao jacket who lived in there would hand you a folded cloth towel to dry your hands with. <sigh>
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Feb 6, 2020 03:03
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D-Pad posted:I mean I saw a ~3 year old poo poo in a bucket his mom was carrying around in the bread aisle of whatever that big french supermarket chain is in Shanghai 2008. If we're gonna do kids making GBS threads on the floor stories this thread is gonna get real long real fast pretty sure the kids making GBS threads on the mall floor then the mom covering it up with a little pamphlet stuff I talked about in the last thread Just last fall my reading spot in the park (it's a little forest park thing, a valley that's full of trees and paths, as secluded as I could get 5 minutes from my apartment) got invaded by public shitters. I guess secluded and around trees is actually an alright place to poo poo, but they'd poo poo and then there'd be a single square or two of toilet paper just casually placed on top of the poo poo, not like they're wiping with it but covering it. There was a fresh poo poo or two every time I went out there, enough that I eventually found a new reading spot. But why cover the shits? Why not bury them? Why not use the real bathrooms that are a 5 minute walk away cuz this is a park not some way out there hiking trail?
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Feb 6, 2020 03:05
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BrainDance posted:But why cover the shits? Why not bury them? Why not use the real bathrooms that are a 5 minute walk away cuz this is a park not some way out there hiking trail? No why.
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Feb 6, 2020 03:15
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I mean I had people encouraging their kids to piss and poo poo in the lobby and elevators of my apartment building. You know, the building that they themselves live in, and have a bathroom in. And this was not like a cheapo dump building, it was on the nicer end of the scale. There is, truly, no why.
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Feb 6, 2020 03:16
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yaffle posted:unless you could use your white privilege to go poop in the bathrooms of a hotel lobby lol you don't need to be white to use public bathrooms in HK
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Feb 6, 2020 03:16
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yaffle posted:Yeah, Hong Kong changed a lot after SARS, toilets used to be super gross, unless you could use your white privilege to go poop in the bathrooms of a hotel lobby, they were awesome and a little old guy in a starched white Mao jacket who lived in there would hand you a folded cloth towel to dry your hands with. <sigh> Could a non white person do that if they were wearing the right clothes or spoke the right English?
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Feb 6, 2020 03:26
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Shaocaholica posted:Could a non white person do that if they were wearing the right clothes or spoke the right English? huh  I grew up in Hong Kong in the company of white people and many times there was this weird colonial arrogance simmering beneath the surface, but nothing like outright discrimination and segregation. At least, not that I personally experienced, but I wasn't a local. Small Gay Planet fucked around with this message at 03:44 on Feb 6, 2020 |
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Feb 6, 2020 03:38
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Went with some coworkers to our favorite Sichuan food place, and when we got there the waitstaff were all wearing masks and insisted on checking us with a forehead thermometer before allowing us to sit down This is in so cal
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Feb 6, 2020 03:44
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The last time my wife went back to China (4 years ago) she stopped off at a mall to pick up some stuff and had to use the bathroom. When she went inside there was a granny emptying the liquid hand soap dispenser into an empty Sprite bottle.
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Feb 6, 2020 03:45
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Yeah, all the staff and most of the customers at the Asian grocery I went to this weekend were wearing masks. In Ohio.
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Feb 6, 2020 03:46
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Shaocaholica posted:How do you say weeb in japanese? Weebu? Bip Roberts posted:ウェーブ The pronunciation would ウィーブ (Bip Roberts' is close but would have an "eh" sound where an "ee" sound should be; would be closer to "wave" in English). There's no term with the same nuance in Japanese though, and the above is just a phonetic pronunciation. The closest they get in meaning is 日本かぶれ (nihon kabure), which is someone who adopts the attitude and actions of Japan; basically acts if they're Japanese/want to be Japanese despite not being.
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Feb 6, 2020 03:46
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As an aside I love this note in the applicable Japanese wikipedia page (added trans are mine): 英語における「おたく」の類似語 "Similar terms in English for "Otaku"" 英語（米語）では、日本でのオタクに近い意味を表すためにはNerd（ナード）という言葉で表現され、パソコンオタクや電子工作オタクを指す場では geek（ギーク）が用られる。また（wizard）ウィザードの略語である（wiz）ウィズを単語の後に付けコンピューターウィズなどと使う表現もある。しかしこれは魔法使いと言う意味も含むため宗教的問題から、近年は余り用いられることはない。また、日本のアダルトゲーム（エロゲ）を由来として、オタクのことを（日本語の意味を知らずに）"hentai"と呼ぶアメリカ人もいる。 アメリカのナードに付いて歌われた曲White & Nerdy参照。 "For more information on American nerds, refer to the song "White & Nerdy" geek 「ギーク」も参照 nerd 「ナード」も参照 dork, dweeb, goon, および doofus など いずれも「間抜け」「弱虫」「無能」といった否定的な意味合い。スクールカースト下位者に対する蔑称。 Anorak 主としてイギリスの鉄道マニアに対する蔑称。アノラックを着る者が多いことから。 Weeaboo, Wapanese, Weeb 三つとも欧米人に対して欧米人が使用する、「日本かぶれ」という意味の単語。
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Feb 6, 2020 03:50
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LimburgLimbo posted:There's no term with the same nuance in Japanese though, and the above is just a phonetic pronunciation. The closest they get in meaning is 日本かぶれ (nihon kabure), which is someone who adopts the attitude and actions of Japan; basically acts if they're Japanese/want to be Japanese despite not being. It's weird to me that they don't have a common slang term more synonymous with weeb. I imagine most Japanese are very aware of the nerdy white people who are obsessed with their country, since a lot of them end up traveling there and bothering people.
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Feb 6, 2020 03:52
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If your clientele is made up of people who may have recently come from China wouldn't it be sensible for them to wear masks outside of China to prevent potentially infecting other people?
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Feb 6, 2020 03:53
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I am able to speak fluent American English and also wuhan dialect so I should be able to punk some people in the greater Los Angeles area. Although I'm not sure if people here could even recognize a wuhan/hubei accent.
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Feb 6, 2020 03:55
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