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As those "security guards" are almost always old men (probably a nure ochiba prevention measure), I doubt their response time in case someone does not "obey".
That's not why they're there.

They're insurance buffers. If someone ignores them, walks in the wrong area, and a load of girders falls on them, then when the family tries to sue the construction company can say, "Hey - we had staff on site telling people not to walk there. Your darling uncle willfully ignored them."
 
As those "security guards" are almost always old men (probably a nure ochiba prevention measure), I doubt their response time in case someone does not "obey".

Still way more useful than the タレント.

Which is again a funny reminder how Japanese can use English words to mean exactly the opposite of the original meaning.
 
Foreigners who get uncomfortable around other foreigners in Japan

Foreign residents who take “being Japanese” a bit too seriously & are hating on random foreigners or tourists whereas the average Yamada-san will never accept them as their tribe and will ask them “when are you going back home?” as the third question during their next conversation

Native English speakers who reply back in Japanese when you try to start a conversation in English and refuse to speak English

I don’t get the weebery
 
Foreigners who get uncomfortable around other foreigners in Japan

Back in the late eighties when there were still very few white faces around some fresh out of the boat American was complaining in a board, probably in smoke signals at that time as electricity was not yet invented, that when he sees another white face and happily greets them at the street they never answer anything but just walk away avoiding any and all eye contact.

The answer that got the most turnips send to him by Japan Post (the Like button was not yet invented) was something in the lines "I am a white male who got send here for work. I know I am weird but I still have nothing in common with the around 90% of the white males in Japan who creep me out with their fascination of submissive underage girls and tentacle porn. So I rather avoid all contact than risk all I have to meet that 10% of normal folks". :p

I am pretty sure the numbers still work around the same even if the total number of white folks is way higher. And yeah, I am not in that 90% as I do not like underage; I just like submissive tentacle porn, nothing weird about that. :eek::D
 
Back in the late eighties when there were still very few white faces around some fresh out of the boat American was complaining in a board, probably in smoke signals at that time as electricity was not yet invented, that when he sees another white face and happily greets them at the street they never answer anything but just walk away avoiding any and all eye contact.

The answer that got the most turnips send to him by Japan Post (the Like button was not yet invented) was something in the lines "I am a white male who got send here for work. I know I am weird but I still have nothing in common with the around 90% of the white males in Japan who creep me out with their fascination of submissive underage girls and tentacle porn. So I rather avoid all contact than risk all I have to meet that 10% of normal folks". :p

I am pretty sure the numbers still work around the same even if the total number of white folks is way higher. And yeah, I am not in that 90% as I do not like underage; I just like submissive tentacle porn, nothing weird about that. :eek::D
Waow, that’s interesting to hear.

I mean being alive in late eighties :eek:
 
I mean being alive in late eighties :eek:

That was actually the last time when I was alive. Nowadays I just pretend while trying to hide the smell of death with katorisenko.
 
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Native English speakers who reply back in Japanese when you try to start a conversation in English and refuse to speak English
And have you ever noticed it's the ones with horrible Japanese that do it?
 
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I said horrible. Not "non-existent".

And Simona said "native English speakers". I am sure she didn't mean the pidgin version also known as US English.

I admit using Japanese to people who try to start conversation in English with me too. Though that doesn't count as I do it only for those charity collectors. Answering "sumimasen, eigo ha wakarimasen" usually confuses them long enough for me to walk away from the situation.

And that is as long as they don't collect money for animal welfare. :p
 
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I don't understand this either.

I just give up and walk away, it's not worth my time to engage people who pull that 'weeb' nonsense.

When it does happen; I just forget every lick of Japanese and pretend not to understand and let them feel all smug. :ROFLMAO:
...little do they know. :p
 
I'll answer them in pig latin from time to time. It's hard to do the "EeeeeHhhhhhhhhh though :p
 
Foreigners who get uncomfortable around other foreigners in Japan

Foreign residents who take “being Japanese” a bit too seriously & are hating on random foreigners or tourists whereas the average Yamada-san will never accept them as their tribe and will ask them “when are you going back home?” as the third question during their next conversation

Native English speakers who reply back in Japanese when you try to start a conversation in English and refuse to speak English

I don’t get the weebery
You do get the other end of the spectrum also.
Those who have lived here for years, speak next to no Japanese, and expect Japan to adapt to them.
 
That's not why they're there.

They're insurance buffers. If someone ignores them, walks in the wrong area, and a load of girders falls on them, then when the family tries to sue the construction company can say, "Hey - we had staff on site telling people not to walk there. Your darling uncle willfully ignored them."
Ive learned to ignore them after almost running someone over. I was pulling out of a crowded parking lot and they had one of these old guys ‘directing traffic’ and he waved me out onto the road, so i assumed he had shit under control but there was a cyclist riding along the pavement (hidden to me because of crowds of people, but the old guy shouldve seen him) i pulled out and luckily the cyclist went into the side of my car, a split second earlier and i wouldve tboned the guy taking him off his bike. I apologizised and luckily the cyclist realised that it was the old guy’s fault to an extent. so yeah now i just totally ignore them.
 
Native English speakers who reply back in Japanese when you try to start a conversation in English and refuse to speak English
That is so weird why would anyone do that? ive seen a few weirdo gaijin that desperately want to be japanese but mostly just on twitter never met any of them in real life.
 
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That is so weird why would anyone do that? ive seen a few weirdo gaijin that desperately want to be japanese but mostly just on twitter never met any of them in real life.

At Uni here (loooong time ago) there was a German nerd student doing this. Super annoying. But he had a strong German accent which made his english hard to understand sometimes, so maybe it was better. We both spoke kindergarten’s level of Japanese and could understand each other that way
 
At Uni here (loooong time ago) there was a German nerd student doing this. Super annoying. But he had a strong German accent which made his english hard to understand sometimes, so maybe it was better. We both spoke kindergarten’s level of Japanese and could understand each other that way
Was zat MikeH?
 
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Was zat MikeH?

no the guy was more the type of gaijin spending most of his free time learning kanjis as if his life depended on it . typical German nerd. Zero sense of humor. Not MikeH then, I mean we all know he’s not German :D
 
How often I get stumped by something in katakana only to figure out that it’s some approximation of an English word.
 
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I sincerely believe katakana is the reason Japanese people uniquely struggle so much with English. Many (most?) languages actually use the original English words instead of bastardizing them completely. Not even just the pronunciation but changing the meaning altogether! That must be so hard to unlearn and correct