- ALFbrot
- Apr 17, 2002
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HOw well does Google Translate work for english -> japanese these days? Can I enter a simple phrase and get something that is not gibberish back?
"Can I enter a simple phrase and get a sensible result?" translates to " 簡単なフレーズを入力して賢明な結果を得ることはできますか？ ", which translates back to "Can you input a simple phrase and get a wise result?"
So, yes and no. I've found in my dealings with Japanese customers that my best results come from radically simplifying sentences, putting them into Translate, and then putting them back to English to see if they still make sense. You might need to massage the input a little.
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- ALFbrot
- Apr 17, 2002
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Alright, thanks. So if I get something that makes sense when I translate back it -should- makes sense in Japanese as well.
I don't know for certain, but my experience is that there was a lot less miscommunication between offices when I would do that, vs when my coworkers would just cut and paste whatever it spat out.
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Nov 8, 2017 21:40
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- ALFbrot
- Apr 17, 2002
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Hopefully this will be the straw that gets them to ban those stupid go-karts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dle0zFKFSTw
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May 1, 2018 20:37
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- ALFbrot
- Apr 17, 2002
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i'm wearing one of those chinese baby onesies that's just split at the butt so the poop can flow freely
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May 14, 2018 19:53
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- ALFbrot
- Apr 17, 2002
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Crossing the station was a pain.
I stayed in keio plaza hotel and it had been a while since I went to tokyo and I kept on getting lost.
I think it was after that time I just settled for Tokyo station and Ginza. Like other hordes of tour groups, I grew up staying in shinjuku for our family vacation. It was cheaper, grimier, and closer to ikkebukuro. So you get a lot more cheap airport buses.
Then I met stringent and picked up running so now I’m around Kanda, kyobashi and run around the moat during the mornings
go to Tokyo Square Garden (plaza connected to kyobashi by the escalators) and get some abura soba at Yamatoten for me
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Jun 14, 2018 15:11
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- ALFbrot
- Apr 17, 2002
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I've made a couple of dinner reservations that require semi formal dress, so that's an unfortunate burden on the luggage. Am I putting too much faith in the 'hands free travel' I keep reading about?
I definitely outsource the packing to her. I'm impressed at how organized our bags can get. She still insists on the carry on + checked bag each.
You said 4 suitcases, not 2 suitcases and 2 carry-ons. Unless you mean the little rolly carry-ons that barely fit in the overhead and make everyone else on the plane hate you
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Jul 5, 2018 19:25
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- ALFbrot
- Apr 17, 2002
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good fellows, i intend to visit exotic foreign lands. i have chartered a private steamer to ferry myself and my spouse, along with all of our valuables. a coterie of stewards shall spirit away our countless bags, to be sure, but forsooth! i know not how much money to give them
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Jul 5, 2018 22:43
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- ALFbrot
- Apr 17, 2002
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nixon goes to china japan
you know nixon never tipped a porter
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Jul 6, 2018 14:42
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- ALFbrot
- Apr 17, 2002
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If I understand correctly, most of the "geishas" you see on the streets of Kyoto are just tourists who paid to dress up like maiko (apprentice geisha). There's a lot of subtle differences between authentic Kyoto geiko and maiko and dressed-up tourists, but the easiest way to tell is if the "geisha" is stopping for pictures. Real geisha are on their way to and from appointments and won't have time for a photo op. If you chase them down and make them take pictures with you or touch their hair or clothes, you're officially an rear end in a top hat.
Strolling around Ponto-cho, my wife and I saw two being whisked by serious-looking men into waiting cars, and it was like catching a glimpse of a ghost or a celebrity or a celebrity ghost. It was awesome and lmao if anyone thinks "hey I should bother this person because My Instagram"
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Sep 11, 2018 22:02
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- ALFbrot
- Apr 17, 2002
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it cant be pinku (thats japanese for pink) or any girl color. It has to be of 2 or more kotoba (thats japanese for 2 compartments) and has be be chibi (small) sized. And has to be really kawaii (cute).
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Sep 12, 2018 19:38
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- ALFbrot
- Apr 17, 2002
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Depending on what time the flight is. It's not a "full day" forward.
edit: You will most likely depart on 4/23 Japan time and also arrive on 4/23 USA time. It will be a very long day.
edit 2:
Edit - Going by this does that mean I will get back home on Tuesday April 23rd at 12:27pm?
Yes
edit 3: Holy hot diggity piss, you booked yourself 32 hours of travel to get to Narita from Portland, Oregon. How is that even possible.
edit 4: Oh, You're spending several days in Cambodia first
edit 5 lol: You're asking how to get around Japan and if there are cool things to do in this thread, and yet you haven't posted at all in the SE Asia thread asking about notably-less-easy-for-travel Cambodia. Are you possibly bad enough at reading flight times that you do not realize that you will be in Cambodia for several days?
ALFbrot fucked around with this message at 20:27 on Sep 12, 2018
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Sep 12, 2018 20:19
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- ALFbrot
- Apr 17, 2002
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Okay, ticket purchased. I'm officially a Japangoon.
I lived there for four months for work, and I'm not a Japangoon
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Sep 12, 2018 22:29
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- ALFbrot
- Apr 17, 2002
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The first rule of Japan Club is: No waifu no laifu.
ALFbrot chose waifu. He is always welcome to join us when he visits.
You seem unfairly exempted from this rule
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Sep 13, 2018 02:43
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- ALFbrot
- Apr 17, 2002
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I miss having "IRRASHAIMASEEEEE" shouted at me indiscriminately when shopping
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Oct 2, 2018 14:17
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- ALFbrot
- Apr 17, 2002
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I miss the manic Tokyu Store jingle, which is probably less than a minute long and plays on a loud loop all day to keep the staff motivated
The best is the Yamada Denki song in LABI stores:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3aR-DnEcM8
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Oct 3, 2018 16:25
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- ALFbrot
- Apr 17, 2002
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That place looks rad, but yeah it's pretty far and sadly booked the days I'll be out there.
Related, I found this place, called Hatcho no Yu, while looking and holy crap, it looks beautiful. It's likewise out in the middle of nowhere (like 2.5 hours by bus from Nikko station) but I'm seriously considering just going out there and being really zen for a couple of days in the snow and mountains.
https://www.8tyo-no-yu.co.jp/index.php/topic/home_en
drat, how much is this place?
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Oct 22, 2018 15:11
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- ALFbrot
- Apr 17, 2002
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They also said they were going for less than three months.
My job literally sent me to work in an office in Japan for three months and nobody cared that I was just on a tourist visa.
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Oct 26, 2018 14:02
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- ALFbrot
- Apr 17, 2002
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i was going to go to kabukicho but then i saw this terrifying video and then i definitely knew to stay away!!
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Nov 8, 2018 14:44
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- ALFbrot
- Apr 17, 2002
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Limburg: do you remember where we went for shabu-shabu? I remember it was a very high floor in Shibuya.
I understand if you don't have total recall of November 2014 at this point
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Jun 13, 2019 16:11
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- ALFbrot
- Apr 17, 2002
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Hell yeah, that's it. Thanks cabe
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Jun 13, 2019 18:10
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- ALFbrot
- Apr 17, 2002
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The place where you only tipped 20%? I'm still red in the face about it
Huh
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Jun 13, 2019 20:18
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- ALFbrot
- Apr 17, 2002
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There’s no way it was that far back?!
But yeah it’s nabezo. It’s a chain and there’s other similar chains btw so don’t feel restricted to just that
I wouldn't, were I back. I'd also be ringing you up to see if you wanted to hang. I just have a friend who asked me for shabu-shabu recommendations and that was the only real one I had (outside of a ryokan my wife and I did)
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Jun 14, 2019 18:59
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- ALFbrot
- Apr 17, 2002
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So I'm a huge dork amd really want to do conveyor belt sushi shaped like Shinkansen. Everywhere that pops up on Google will have photos of trains but when you go there or see videos from the place it's just the saucer shaped delivery "trains". I want an actual train shaped train. Anyone know which places actually have them? I went to one last time I was there in Shibuya and same thing: said they had trains, it was saucers. I just want my stupid dorky Shinkansen sushi.
Find a location of the Kappa Sushi chain. The one I went to in Nagoya definitely had trains.
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- ALFbrot
- Apr 17, 2002
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So for context my wife is Japanese, we met when I was in the Navy. We've been together for 15 years, married 11. We have a 7yr old daughter.
I worked a demanding and stressful job, typically between 50-70hrs per week for 7yrs, the first 5yrs I was the sole breadwinner. My work went through a major restructure at one point which resulted in a pay cut, this put a major strain on the relationship as I accumulated credit card debt in order to cover the bills, and my wife accused me being financially irresponsible for having it.. even though 100% of my income was going towards bills and essential expenses. She would also complain I didn't take her out enough. It didn't matter that these were conflicting goals, I was somehow supposed to do both. Eventually I got a promotion that alleviated the debt, but it would be a recurring theme in arguments we had over the next five years, saying i'm financially irresponsible (even though it's paid off and my credit score is north of 800)
With the changes made at work (financial services sales) they changed the way sales compensation was structured. It meant that I had approx. 3yrs before my income would start dropping again (they changed it so recurring revenue doesn't count towards your bonus, but if you lose any recurring revenue your bonus decreases).
Things weren't going well at work, I tried finding another job outside of the industry, but was unsuccessful. I started smoking weed to help with the anxiety and stress. Ironically enough it helped me at work where I became a "top performer", and that helped the finances out a lot. But I knew it was temporary, so I kept trying to find a new position in another industry. When that didn't work I tried to start a business and even quit smoking while working on it, but my wife shot that down citing my "financial irresponsibility". Feeling trapped and depressed I started smoking weed again, my wife eventually found out and got super pissed. That I understand, but it was hard to quit because it was the only part of my day that I looked forward too. I knew my job was an eventual dead end and I hated coming home because she would find small things to argue about (grocery receipt left on the counter, wrong dish in the dishwasher, my laptop being left on the coffee table, etc.)
About a year after that she started working again full time, but only would only cover about 10% of the monthly bills. Because it's the husband's responsibility to handle finances.
At work things got progressively worse. It got to a point where 90% of the clients on my calendar I didn't get any credit for speaking with. This made it impossible to hit the transactional goals, and within two years of being a top performer I was terminated for missing quotas. This was November a year ago.
Being unemployed was a new level of stress, feeling ashamed and embarrassed. Finding a job that wasn't minimum wage proved difficult, especially as another month goes by and that gap on resume grows. My wife was at first understanding, but as she had to pick up more of the household expenses at this point (paying 50% of expenses now) she would get frustrated and call me a loser, and belittle me, demand that I take a minimum wage job. It didn't matter that I applied to several hundred opening, attended 8 job fairs, had my resume reviewed several times, worked with recruiters, worked with vocational rehab folks at VA, worked with a placement specialist at VA to get a job that paid more than minimum wage.
My wife and I got into a big argument in March, she threw her wedding ring into the trash. I fished it out later. We got into another fight towards the end of April. She cornered me in the bedroom and barricaded herself in front of door. We were both yelling at each other, I tried to leave but she wouldn't let me pass. So I grabbed her and I moved her. Eventually I made it past and went outside to sit on the steps outside to cool down. She locked me out while I was just in my socks with my wallet still in the house. I slept in my car that night and it still cold in April where I live. She ended up destroying my laptop (and all the copies of my resumes, cover letters, the spreadsheet I was using to track what positions I applied for, etc.) She told me she was divorcing me and taking our daughter away. The next day I tied a noose and tied it up in the garage. I eventually called a suicide hotline because I didn't want my daughter to grow up without a father. I made an appt with a VA counselor, which helped some. I quit weed for good at that point.
Things were always still rocky with the wife, would still provoke petty arguments. She started working later into the evening. She started to have more ladies nights with her friends (about two nights a week on average). She would go upstairs in her office saying she was doing work stuff on her computer. She started taking birth control, said because her doctor recommended it and because it helps make her skin better... this despite the fact we might have sex once every 1 to 3 months and the birth control makes her feel nauseous. One evening she came home from then gym 45min after they closed (we live 5min away), and got angry that I asked her about it.
Then last month she took a six hour road trip with her friends to Chicago. When she got back we had another fight about money, and how she's sick of having to pay all these bills (i'm still paying 50% of household expenses from savings even after unemployment ran out). Then she took a flight to LA, alone, to visit one of her friends that moved there.
But I did accept a position (at a financial services company), but it's not ideal- 1099 so no salary or benefits, and no income yet.
I had never invaded her privacy until the LA trip, I had trusted her completely but way too many red flags now. She had a suitcase in her upstairs office that was locked. I found torn up receipts for about $300 worth of lingerie in her trash. She spent $1600 on a Louis vitton bag. About $2k on at a skin rejuvenation clinic. I found out she has enough sexy underwear to wear something different every day of the year.
When she got back from LA she had another locked suitcase upstairs (usually we keep our luggage in downstairs storage). I picked the locks. More lingerie in the LA suitcase. In the other suitcase safety deposit keys. Passports for her and my daughter. A few thousand in dollars worth of yen and I discovered she's hiding about $126k in japanese bank accounts. This is from an inheritance 5 years ago, which she said was only 20k that she used on a car. I found out she recently started process to take out a 12mo lease on an apartment near her work. I then backed up the hard drive of her computer to an external hard drive.
I found she had secretly recorded me three times, she would goad me into an argument and then record it. I found pictures she took of my gmail account, showing passwords to other accounts I have. I found pictures she took while going through my belongings.
I found pictures of other dudes. I founds +600 selfies she had been taking (starting in early March of this year), these were all in the icloud downloads folder. I founds short sexy videos she made. Looking at image names she didn't download all of them. Most were with clothes on, but some were in her panties in sexy poses, one was topless but she covered her beasts with hearts. This summer she dipped out of a family trip a day early to take a bunch of photos. I found photos she took at a male strip club. I found photos she took the same night of our anniversary dinner. I found a screenshot where she had conversations going with a bunch of guys.
I followed her to the gym one night. She did go, but never made it out of the parking lot. Sat on her phone the entire time in the parking lot for over an hour.
I confront her 10/29, she flat out denies everything. And we go in circles for several hours. I don't reveal what I know.
The next morning she shows me the paperclip pick I used to get into her suitcases (she went through my desk again). She says I was violating her trust and I'm acting paranoid.
I tell her about the receipts I found for the lingerie before her solo trips. She says I'm being paranoid and a stalker and she doesn't like it, says she just collects lingerie (she's never worn it lingerie in front of me since we've been together). She says she doesn't talk to any guys, doesn't have any guy friends. Eventually I show her a picture of one of the guys and ask who he is. She says she was on a language exchange app "HelloTalk", because I get mad when she asks me for help with english (this is false, I've spent hours working on her resume and other docs so she could get her current job). She says guys send her pictures and she ignores them. I show other pictures and videos they sent her (none were super dirty, but it was them playing music for her, or flexing in work out videos, etc.) so I ask to see her conversations with them or her icloud account for the time she was in LA and she refuses to show me, saying there is nothing to show. I show her the topless photo and ask who she sent that too. She denies she sent it to anyone (i point out that she spent a lot of time editing it just to not send it). She denies again. I show her the short sexy videos she made. I get her to admit she talks to some of them on snapchat, whatsapp, and line. So far she hasn't admitted anything until I show her direct evidence. She denies it was anything more messaging over the internet, and none of these guys live anywhere near us. Well I created an account on "HelloTalk", one guy lives in Chicago, two live in Japan, and two live in LA.
Eventually she apologizes. Say she can understand why I would feel this way. Still denies doing anything more than talking and sending fully clothed photos. She says she realized she wouldn't be able to make it on her own, and how much our daughter needs me. That she still loves me, that she will stop it, and that it didn't mean anything she just liked the attention. She said it was like a drug.
I feel completely destroyed. Physically sick. Totally betrayed.. her behavior suddenly makes so much more sense. We talk more.
We decide to give it another chance and do marriage counseling. For a moment I was relieved. I delete the photos (but still have the backup on the external hard drive). Paranoia stopped. I was able to be somewhat productive at my new position. I sent a bunch of options for marriage counselors, but found out none accepted by our insurance. We have an okay weekend, she's treating me nicer, but her actions over the next 9 days haven't really changed, and she's taken no initiative of her own to try and improve the relationship since our long talk.
Fridays we have designated family time, she skipped out on one so she could spend 1k on the iphone 11 pro. She cut the other one short bc she made our daughter do extra homework. Doesn't want to spend time alone with me. Spending a lot of time alone upstairs. Going to they gym and sitting in her car in the parking lot still. She took her locked suitcase with the cash and passports and locked them in the trunk of her car. So I called her out on her behavior last saturday. She responds by disappearing for most of the weekend with our daughter, came home at 11:30pm on Saturday, 8pm on Sunday, but otherwise gone the whole day and completely avoiding me and ignoring my texts. I do more paranoid searching of her computer (after many failed attempts at guessing password), find out she electronically signed the lease agreement a few days after we 'made up' but before I called her out on her behavior.
She says via text that she feels threatened by me and says I've made threats against her in the past (not true). I've never hit, kicked, or thrown anything at her - but she has done all of those things to me.
Monday I pick my daughter up, have her do her homework and after we go out and play some pokemon GO. My wife called me once that night but i didn't answer it bc I was driving. When I get back i see my wife took some of her clothes and her computer. She left me a note that she contacted the police and to call her when I get home. I do, but no answer.
Today as my daughter and I are eating dinner there is a knock on the door. It's the police. They say my ex-wife is here to pick up my daughter. They ask about custody arrangement, i tell them we haven't divorced yet, told them I just found out she was cheating on me. Luckily they seemed okay. They ask if there is any threat of flight, from either me or her - I told them about the go bag in my wife's trunk with the money and passports, but told them I don't think she's got any tickets to go fly back to Japan in the next week. My daughter leaves with my soon to be ex-wife. She's not responding to my text when i ask when I'll see my daughter again.
So that's where I am right now. Cheating soon to be ex-wife, no daughter. About to be divorced with no income atm, and currently a wreck.
So how hosed am I?
TL:DR
Job and wife throw me into depression, leading to unemployment. Wife ends up cheating. Try to reconcile, didn't work. About to be divorced with a custody fight i'm likely to loose.
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