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    How Did You End Up In Japan?

    Came to improve my J-language after uni and have cycled through a number of other reasons to be here since. Now asking "Whyyyyyy?" THE CIRCLE OF LIFE.
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    Poll: What Company Do You Work For?

    'T&B' - never heard it put that way but you learn something everyday (or should).
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    Poll: What Company Do You Work For?

    What is 'tea & buscuits'?
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    Japanese Curry, Yay Or Nay?

    Japanese curry and Indian curry - you have to separate them. Like norimaki in Japan and norimaki in Melbourne... Not even in the same food group!
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    I Discovered Another Form Of Micro Aggression?

    Tokyo Joe Blow no kintama wa, （TJBの金玉は） Riyu mo nai no ni,　（理由もないのに） Bura bura　（ブラブラ） Good advice from Paul Kelly, TBJ.
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    Where Are You From?

    I still call Straya home!
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    I Discovered Another Form Of Micro Aggression?

    PC is the refuge of the emotionally and mentally insecure. That being said, people say shit they shouldn't and have to realise that.
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    New Bali An Location - Opening January 2016

    I practically own a room at Bali Island so looking forward to new scenery.
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    I Discovered Another Form Of Micro Aggression?

    I was keeping it simple, Expired. Yeah, No. 2 is saving face. Absolutely happens all the time. Best answer is understand that, say nothing and the guy will perhaps say nothing - saving everyone's face - or sheepishly apologise and say the answer was no. Easy.
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    I Discovered Another Form Of Micro Aggression?

    Possible reasons, none of which have anything to do with aggression from his side: 1. Context - he said okay just to polite, because you as a teacher should not be using him to find a friend of yours a job. 2. Embarrassment - he said okay sincerely and did ask, but he got bawled out (see 1) and...
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    Some Cowardly And Xenophobic Japanese Guys

    Cultures can be compared using various situation-specific dichotomies. A simple one is Other/Them-Me/Us dichotomy. Some, not all, people from closer to the Me/Us end tend to bring thicker cultural bubbles with them and continue life as if they never left home. They can be really bad neighbours...
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    Some Cowardly And Xenophobic Japanese Guys

    Sounds like dog eat dog out there!!
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    Recognizing Japanese Who Are Passive-aggressive Or Racist

    This 'tit-for-tat' to perceived cultural or 'racial' slights is a bit childish isn't it, guys? You are just not in Kansas anymore. But I do like your last sentence, Solong.
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    Recognizing Japanese Who Are Passive-aggressive Or Racist

    It's all in the intonation.
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    Recognizing Japanese Who Are Passive-aggressive Or Racist

    Would that be a work of fiction or non-fiction, John Chavers? Either way an eyeball drier. I do not doubt that Solong has experienced the behaviours he has described. I have myself in the long time I have been here. Call me an apologist but pigeonholing them as p-a or racist is going a bit far...
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    Recognizing Japanese Who Are Passive-aggressive Or Racist

    This caused my eyeballs to dry up. Is that No. 8?
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    Life In Japan - The Low Points

    There have been a number Weirdo Walter Mittys on this site. Gymnasts or Asada Mao wanna-bes apparently. The mind boggles.
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    Masturbation Gesture

    They gesture rubbing their crotches!!!!!????? I've never noticed.
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    Sapporo - Worth It?

    Inuyama just outside Nagoya. Nice castle (only one still privately owned I think) and nice Japanese garden nearby by. Would bd nice now. There is a shrine devoted to dicks not far away on the train and one to 'clams', which is harder to get to, less frequented and not as interesting.
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    Rant - Sexual Harassment

    We need to face it that for all the sexual (and other) harassment laws put in place here, Japan the society is still 40 years behind upholding the intent of those laws. The nail that sticks up still gets hammered down and despite some successful harassment cases, that is the norm. Most don't...