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Stringent posted:yeah it's a lot more difficult than it looks i think the main problem was that the 100 yen knife just wasn't sharp enough, the slime that covers the inside of the octopus' skin was too tough to cut with that and i imagine it's the same with a lot of other fish parts, i ended up just cutting off an entire layer of the skin itself just to get rid of the slime layer, there were also some weird hard parts that i wasn't expecting. at least i didn't have to deal with the eyes and guts. the abalone actually went alright, but it was still freaky, we thought it'd be at least dead in the packaging but the thing was alive and it looks like a giant quivering pussy
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Shibawanko posted:i think the main problem was that the 100 yen knife just wasn't sharp enough, the slime that covers the inside of the octopus' skin was too tough to cut with that and i imagine it's the same with a lot of other fish parts, i ended up just cutting off an entire layer of the skin itself just to get rid of the slime layer, there were also some weird hard parts that i wasn't expecting. at least i didn't have to deal with the eyes and guts. the abalone actually went alright, but it was still freaky, we thought it'd be at least dead in the packaging but the thing was alive and it looks like a giant quivering pussy i never noticed the likeness to pussy, but yeah they're pretty gross. even with a decent knife it takes a fair amount of practice. it's harder than it looks.
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Shibawanko posted:my wife thought we could save money and get better quality sashimi by buying raw fish from the local market and cut it ourselves with a knife and cutting board from daiso, she thought if it was advertised as "meant for sashimi" it would be a matter of making a few cuts and serving it up I don't envy the cleaner who takes care of your room tomorrow. I at least hope you have an apartment hotel? Good christ. Try not to send yourself to the emergency room while shanking an abalone (if it's as hard as oysters anyway). I think you meant "shucking" too, but I like the mental image of someone shanking a shellfish.
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You can ask them to cut it for you at the store.
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Saladman posted:I don't envy the cleaner who takes care of your room tomorrow. I at least hope you have an apartment hotel? Good christ. Abalone are much, MUCH later than oysters, and in addition to being shucked have to also be cut into pieces (usually by slicing, sort of like a cold cut).
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Saladman posted:I don't envy the cleaner who takes care of your room tomorrow. I at least hope you have an apartment hotel? Good christ. it was a dormy inn, but i cleaned up the mess
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Lmao my dude great story but next time ask the old lady/dude to cut it for you. Also the shops near me sell sashimi-用tuna and salmon that’s basically a boneless fillet and would be pretty easy to cut. Good experience though. Next try pan searing some salmon with the steam iron.
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Shibawanko posted:also visited the statue of dr clarke (the "boys be ambitious" guy), turns out he was a psychopath who'd respond to students complaining about the cold by taking them outside and shoving their heads in the snow and sitting on them. i don't really recommend going up there since it's just his statue, a memorial hall eulogizing him and an open field that's probably very spectacular to a japanese domestic tourist who's never seen a grassy field before but not to anyone else Dr. Clarke was apparently only in Japan like 9 months, but man he sure left a hell of an impression.
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Pegnose Pete posted:Lmao my dude great story but next time ask the old lady/dude to cut it for you. Also the shops near me sell sashimi-用tuna and salmon that’s basically a boneless fillet and would be pretty easy to cut. im normally in charge of cutting sashimi out of blocks of tuna at new years and i figured itd be easy like that, i guess we couldve asked them to cut it the next day we went to a marching penguins thing at otaru aquarium (great place) and i swear one of the penguins came to me and nibbled my hand because they probably still smelled faintly like octopus
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This was inevitable. I guarantee we've had undetected community transmission going on for at least a couple weeks now. In spite of the borders being closed specifically to contain Omicron. I'm sure they'll reopen to my marooned students any day now, lol.
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Lyndon LaRouche posted:This was inevitable. I guarantee we've had undetected community transmission going on for at least a couple weeks now. In spite of the borders being closed specifically to contain Omicron. could you speak to the state of your "marooned" students? i'm curious what all this entails since i've been hearing so much about it.
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Stringent posted:could you speak to the state of your "marooned" students? i'm curious what all this entails since i've been hearing so much about it. They can't enter Japan because Japan isn't issuing any student visas. I have at least one class per semester with entirely international students, and the poor freshmen who started their study in April have been stuck taking my class on Zoom with no idea as to when they'll be able to get in. There was a sliver of hope back in November, but that's totally dashed. I don't give any fucks if tourists can't get in, but the government really needs to get its head out of its rear end and find some way to get international students in to the country, because a lot of them are just flat out giving up on Japan.
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Yeah tourists are whatever, but the govt is dumb as poo poo to not find a way to get uni and above students in. They're relatively small in number, could be managed relatively easily, and govt has good leverage over them because they could say one quarantine fuckup and you'll never study here again. But nope. Gotta keep on fuckin up that soft power and wrecking your next gen of multilingual workers.
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Lyndon LaRouche posted:They can't enter Japan because Japan isn't issuing any student visas. I have at least one class per semester with entirely international students, and the poor freshmen who started their study in April have been stuck taking my class on Zoom with no idea as to when they'll be able to get in. There was a sliver of hope back in November, but that's totally dashed. I don't give any fucks if tourists can't get in, but the government really needs to get its head out of its rear end and find some way to get international students in to the country, because a lot of them are just flat out giving up on Japan. so what are your thoughts on why the japanese government might be adopting this position? i'm not just "asking questions" i'm trying my best to not be an rear end in a top hat about this since i already have pretty strong feelings in favor of the travel ban, and maybe you can change my mind.
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Stringent posted:so what are your thoughts on why the japanese government might be adopting this position? i'm not just "asking questions" i'm trying my best to not be an rear end in a top hat about this since i already have pretty strong feelings in favor of the travel ban, and maybe you can change my mind. I think the government has broad popular support for continuing the border restrictions, especially as having fewer foreigners around doesn't really have much of an immediate affect on the economy. Sure, tourism from abroad is utterly tanked, but I don't think it was such a significant part of the economy that the LDP would suffer at all for it. Indeed, they won a clear victory a couple months back, so the Japanese government is maintaining this hard line with the border because it hasn't cost them electorally nor economically. Somehow or another the Japanese economy is limping along much as it has for the past 30 years, and the inflation that's plaguing the West hasn't materialized here. I'm sure there will be some bills coming due for Japan's corona policies, but if the can is able to be kicked down the road, it absolutely will. Now I personally I disagree with such strict entry bans from a pedagogical standpoint (I'd much prefer to teach all of my students in person, and for them to have full access to the physical campus and international study experience they're paying full tuition for. I also happen to think they're of dubious public health benefit, especially given the goal of mass vaccination against corona has been largely achieved, the development of treatment protocols for those who do fall ill with it, and the fact that numerous public health officials around the world are blatantly telling us that the infectiousness of Omicron means everyone in the world will be exposed to it. You may feel free to disagree with me on all of that. I'm not really trying to change your mind on how to feel about the travel bans. I think Omicron is going to catch fire here much as it has in the UK and the USA, and in a few weeks we'll be discussing something very different depending on how it all shakes out.
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Student visas are tricky because it covers everything from Waseda to fakeass language schools. (My opinion is that) They need to recategorize and prioritize full-time university students. But that involves classifying schools and students into tiers (discrimination) and it will cause just as much uproar as a blanket ban.
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Yeah, that. For every white kid that wants to come to Japan and study at some big-name university, there are probably twenty kids from other places in Asia that want to come here even if the conditions are lovely and they have to work at 711 for minimum wage to support themselves. My guess is the government considers student visas to be a privilege, not a right. And certainly not some key to a brighter economic future for the country.
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Even at big-name universities the white kids are rare. They should just prioritize people going for full-time undergrad programs at the very least; that's an easy win and pretty uncontroversial.
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some woman on twitter went viral for making a thread related to this. she was american I think gave up on a fellowship she'd received in like 2020 to do some anthropological research. she never managed to get in due to covid stuff. apparently she had to be physically in japan to get the money and university support for the fellowship, even if (due to covid) she'd basically be in her apartment doing all her research/interviews remotely anyway. felt bad for her but there was a real feel of entitlement in tweets so idk.
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Stringent posted:i'd say if they're gonna allow students in it should be from countries with covid infection rates as low or lower than Japan's I can only chuckle that I was allowed in back in late August. Even given as bad Japan's situation was at that moment, America's infection rate was far, far worse.
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Stringent posted:so what are your thoughts on why the japanese government might be adopting this position? i'm not just "asking questions" i'm trying my best to not be an rear end in a top hat about this since i already have pretty strong feelings in favor of the travel ban, and maybe you can change my mind. Are you actually surprised? Their attitudes toward foreign students and workers sucked before covid. You can get multiple tests and quarantine and, believe it or not, the covid situation of your home country won't spontaneously change the results of multiple negative tests to positive.
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In a perfect world they would have enough resources to do a true enforced quarantine for everyone coming in that was eligible, but the current situation is they know not everyone coming in is taking it seriously and they don't have enough government-run hotels even with limited flights. Since they can't stop Japanese citizens from coming back in, blocking new residents is their only real option.
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It seems that some companies are pressuring employees to ignore quarantine on return. I guess it's not surprising it would come to that.
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Gabriel Grub posted:It seems that some companies are pressuring employees to ignore quarantine on return. I guess it's not surprising it would come to that. That sounds like a way for those companies to eventually get in real trouble. FWIW, mine put out a strong warning against international travel. I’m glad we didn’t brave it this winter, because the US Embassy dropped this today: https://twitter.com/acstokyo/status/1473814629663096836 Wonder why Hawaii is there 
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Kinda like a discount spa vacay
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I'm sending a friend in Japan a New Year's gift and googling is showing multiple ways to say Happy New Year depending on whether it's before or after Jan 1st etc. What's the best way to say it if it's accompanying a gift that will be received before Jan 1st? Looking for the casual way to say it to a close friend- thanks!
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あけましておめでとうございます should be fine whatever the specifics
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Stringent posted:あけましておめでとうございます Cool, thanks Stringent.
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Do u aisatsu bro?????! In December よい おとし を In January あけまして おめでとう ございます
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sorry i missed the part about it getting there before the first, peanut is right
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Right on, Cheers peanut.
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I haven't been on the shinkansen since covid started. Is it still cool to eat while riding now?
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