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caberham posted:I blame mainlanders ...of course you do lol
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Ned posted:Come to Kyushu! Weather will be great then and it is like a mini-Japan and the cities all have their own different vibe. I can introduce you to lots of single women if you visit here because Fukuoka has the largest imbalance between men and women in all of Japan and there are just too many women to go around! Fukuoka also has the reputation of having beautiful women so it is really a win-win situation if you are looking to enjoy your newly single status. That and we don't have a lot of foreigners in general so you stand out. yo unironically do this, when i went out with Ned just for japanese food and beers we were surrounded by tables of cute girls in like every direction. Fukuoka owns.
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like i love my wife and stuff but if i ever somehow fall through a wormhole and end up in another dimension that is very similar to this one, except that i am now single, the first thing i would do is move to fukuoka
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Mar 2, 2016 11:41
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The Great Autismo! posted:like i love my wife and stuff but if i ever somehow fall through a wormhole and end up in another dimension that is very similar to this one, except that i am now single, the first thing i would do is move to fukuoka Ned posted:What we do have now is a shitload of cruise ships coming from China. uhm, actually, let me rethink my previous statement
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Mar 2, 2016 12:09
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Knuc U Kinte posted:drat dude. I bet if you didn't have a wife you would have done some serious damage. at the very least i would have tried, bro!
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Mar 2, 2016 12:34
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If you're going to Japan for a few months and your biggest concern is what VPN you need so you can continue watching Netflix, you may as well just not go to Japan.
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Mar 16, 2016 00:46
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Tequila Sunrise posted:That makes it sound way worse. lol
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Mar 16, 2016 05:12
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Knuc U Kinte posted:Yes, but expect people to laugh at you or think that you're a weirdo. wgaf do what you want. if someone says "that's touristy and dumb and you paid a ridiculous amount, you idiot!" you can say something like "i know it's touristy but i wanted to try it and enjoy it." if the question was "i really want the most authentic japanese working class experience possible, steer me away from all the tourist traps", then yes, don't go to the robot restaurant. but if you think "wow i'm in japan, that's cool and different, and it's a restaurant that is interesting with robots" and then you went and you had fun, who cares if people laugh at you. its immaterial. i've never been but my old roommate went in 2014 and had a freakin' blast, he loved it. and i'm happy for him, because he was happy. sometimes it really is as simple as that.
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Mar 29, 2016 08:31
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Freaksaus posted:You mentioned this before but, what's wrong with Hakone? I've been there a few years ago and really enjoyed my stay. It was the first I had ever been to an onsen/ryokan so that might have colored my view a bit, but I really enjoyed the roundtrip as well. It sounds like you're a glass is half full kind of guy
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Mar 31, 2016 12:51
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peanut how long did it take you to decide on this thread title? or how many beers deep before you just said "gently caress it" and pounded the keyboard for three seconds
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Mar 31, 2016 13:04
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I guess I'll add some content. Here's my Japanese wedding report. I finally had my wedding ceremony here in Japan last weekend. I wore some cool Japanese haori hakama for part of it and then changed into a white tux. My wife's friends dressed up like cheerleaders halfway through and danced to a song to really drive home the fact we are in Japan. We also mixed the ceremony with my son's okuizome, and we mocked feeding him while everyone screamed KAWAIIIIII. I ended up at some izakaya with my friends from USA and England and some of my wife's friends and we had a mock sumo fight in front of a famous sumo wrestler statue at like 1am.
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Jossos posted:More like okama, thx man! Happy wife, happy life. I just showed up for the most part  though I did have to give a speech in Japanese, wah
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I try to eat as often as possible at the Indian place in the town over but my wife won't let me go more than once a week, if that
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It's a real event when I go though. I walk through the woods and through two communities, listen to two full podcasts, get there, get a draft beer, have a book, unlimited naan and awesome curry, read for an hour or two, then walk back home listening to two more podcasts. If you ever want to experience this authentic goon experience, come meet me north of Fukuoka and bring 450 USD for this rich and cultural experience
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Apr 3, 2016 12:31
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zmcnulty posted:Oh a gaijin who speaks no Japanese yet demands a high salary because he is director-level biz dev/branding/PR/made up bullshit? You're hired! I unironically also would like to apply for this job
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Apr 5, 2016 05:03
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chinese tourists going abroad acting like chinese tourists? some shocking behavior here, let me tell you edit: from the comments there, 
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Apr 9, 2016 03:48
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peanut posted:Surfboard on a shinkansen this sounds like a bad book about some dude from california who spent a year in japan
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Aug 13, 2016 02:20
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it's just not the most space available train in the world. it's not like you get to check baggage or whatever. I think you could take a surfboard on the train, it just probably wouldn't be in the top 50-75 things that people usually take on the train, I'm guessing. at least from my few limited experiences on the shinkansen It would kinda be like a dude being like "I'm coming to Germany I can't wait to rideshare across the country with my harp"
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Aug 13, 2016 23:50
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I would read "surfboard on a Shinkansen" You couldn't pay me to read "5 chihuahuas on a Shinkansen"
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Aug 15, 2016 04:44
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why would you take a surfboard to an onsen
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Aug 15, 2016 16:02
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I will buy you an avatar cert if you post a picture of you and your surfboard in an izakaya when you're visiting Japan
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Aug 16, 2016 02:24
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Knuc U Kinte posted:This would be so easy. that's why I offered him an AV cert and not something like 100 bucks
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Knuc U Kinte posted:There's a surf themed izakaya at my station, can I go and take a picture with a surfboard for an av cert? if you seemed even a twentieth as committed to your surfboard as the other dude I may say yes, poo poo if you need five dollars that badly I may say yes if you actually do it
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Aug 16, 2016 02:47
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what's wrong with your av tho
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Aug 16, 2016 02:47
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Knuc U Kinte posted:Nothing, I just remembered about that izakaya. there's a cool cowboy themed one where my wife grew up, it owns
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Rap Record Hoarder posted:My partner is studying abroad in Japan starting in December, so we're planning on spending a week there around NYE (27 December to 3 January) in Tokyo. Any recommendations on inexpensive hotels, things to see off the beaten path, etc? we stayed in Tokyo Ueno Youth Hostel when we were there in july, and it was awesome. it wasn't like a 5 star hotel, but we had a private room that was really affordable, had a decent bathroom, tons of space in the room, and the location is incredible. we really only cared about location and cost, to be honest i didn't really care about cost but my wife was choosing everything so cost had to be factored in. the people there were super friendly and awesome and we didn't actually see anyone else there at all the entire time we were there until the last day when we met a korean family that was traveling together. if you're looking for a place downtown that is pretty cheap, i'd definitely recommend this place edit: put the wrong place, lol
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Grand Fromage posted:I have no idea where someone could grow up in Ohio and be excited by automatic doors. i mean like if you grew up in ohio and didn't grow up in columbus or the burbs of cleveland or cinci, pretty much anything that isn't utter trash should be rather exciting imo
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Aug 29, 2016 04:02
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are u a buckeye fan
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ohio is literally the third worst state in the united states
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Aug 29, 2016 04:10
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Grand Fromage posted:Worse states: New Jersey, Delaware, both Carolinas, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, both Dakotas, Texas, Michigan, Indiana, West Virginia, Arizona, Alaska, Hawaii (last three get a tourism exemption, I mean to live in), Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, Kentucky. this is just an embarrassing post
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[in chapel hill, north carolina] "hey man how's life?" "ugh, its terrible. do you know what would make it better? moving to ohio" i am the first person to ever write this conversation in the history of humankind, because it is so laughably fictional it could never actually happen
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in tucson, arizona, one of the coolest college towns in america, surrounded by national parks, a young man sits with his laptop at a coffee shop. around him are girls, girls that are so freakin' beautiful that they would be easily the most beautiful girl in any other situation, except they are all here in tucson, so they are all competing with each other to see which is most beautiful. it doesn't matter, really. the tenth most beautiful girl in the coffee shop is absolutely stunning. the boy, with his laptop open, sighs and stares into space, thinking about that wonderful land he's always wanted to move to. he opens google, and types "jobs in ohio"
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[on a beach in hawaii] frank: "bro i heard you and jamie broke up" tom: "yeah...its been so rough. i'm just like, i dunno...i dunno man...im thinking about just, like, leaving it all behind, you know? like just like, i dunno, remember when you were a kid and you just had that dream of like-" [at the same time] frank: "moving to ohio" tom: "moving to ohio" frank: "oh my God...i totally get it"
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Aug 29, 2016 05:42
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Grand Fromage posted:I have not been to Hawaii but literally everyone I have ever met who lived there says it's horrible. Nice to visit but awful to live in. Expensive as hell, lots of crime, super racist if you're not native Hawaiian, etc. I've actually never heard more consistent hatred of any state, even places like Mississippi I've met defenders of. honolulu was ranked the second safest city in the entire united states last year so idk about the lots of crime
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Grand Fromage posted:I thought we were going to have fun with the whole list but anyway as stringent just said a bit ago, "ohio is texas except cold and no mexican food". Ohio has almost zero national parks. it has no hills. it is full of truck drivers driving across the empty void that is ohio. the best city in ohio, cleveland, is so bad their own son left it because it is so terrible. he only came back because of how pathetic it has been for like the past 50 years. take a look at the best parts in each of the states you originally mentioned. new jersey, carolinas, hawaii all have beaches, instantly making it better than ohio. delaware gets a pass for being the first state of the united states arkansas is better but it is a bit smaller to drive across, so it is a bit better than ohio. has the ozarks missouri has the ozarks the dakotas have the black hills and gave us the movie fargo, far better than anything ohio has given us texas is bad but austin is better than anything ohio has to offer michigan is my least favorite state in the US and i still think it is better than ohio, go to like the UP, its gorgeous (and i hate michigan) indiana is bad but it is still a little better than ohio because it has purdue university west virginia is bad but gorgeous, so it gets the nod over ohio arizona has flagstaff, tucson and tempe, as well as cool poo poo like tombstone alaska absolutely owns hawaii is cool i'm guessing, its one of the two states ive never been to idaho actually has some gorgeous places to visit. ohio doesn't iowa gave us field of dreams, better than anything ohio has ever done kansas is v bad but at least there's like one cool basketball university in it oklahoma is bad but a little better than ohio kentucky has all kinds of cool poo poo like the derby and bourbon ohio is just a cold desolate place that if you go there and never leave, it is terrible. theres literally no good places to go, and nothing good to do. ohio is like if you tried to live in a walmart alabama and mississippi are like living in the dollar store, they are v bad
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Tequila Sunrise posted:Kansas is awesome if you live in Kansas City or Lawrence, both of which are right next to each other. Any place other than that is garbage. ya the awesome basketball university i was talking about wasn't in manhattan, lol
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caberham posted:Actually Pay pal me a 100 euros, it's only 50 euros per person and I will write the ultimate trip and try to make reservations for good restaurants
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caberham posted:yeah but i know better sushi restaurants. so for 2 more euros you get a better restaurant selection poo poo
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Air China is horrific and Beijing is literally the most delayed airport in the world as someone who lives near Beijing and bends over backwards and pays a few hundred dollars per trip to sometimes not fly through it, listen to me when i tell you...do NOT fly Air China and do NOT fly through Beijing hope this helps
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Magna Kaser posted:but the major airports are fine for the most part. this is simply not true and i question your sobriety. Shanghai and Beijing are two of the most delayed airports in the entire world. the. entire. world.
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