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  1. Tabanico

    Cigarettes in Japan

    Back when I smoked Mild 7 were fucking amazing. I think they are called Mebius or something now. No idea if they are still delicious but.
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    Gyms in Tokyo

    Rotating handles?
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    Best Burger chain in Japan?

    Duality of Man incoming: Shake Shack is a good call actually. Well overpriced, and always full of people who want to be seen eating at Shake Shack, but the food is good.
  4. Tabanico

    Best Burger chain in Japan?

    Oh man, this is the WORST burger chain in, not just Japan, but the whole world. Have you never eaten a hamburger before?? Mods, can we ban this guy?
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    Best Burger chain in Japan?

    Agreed that burger chains in the US are great. But Japan does have some great non-chain burger places. I mean they have some shit ones too though. Brooklyn Parlor in Shinjuku always seems to get great reviews but their burgers are pure shite. But my tastes veer towards smash burgers (best UK...
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    Best Burger chain in Japan?

    Chain? Freshness burger is well gross but booze. Mos burger is great but fries. McDonald's is McDonald's. Burger king is burger king. Hard rock has alcoholic milkshakes. Ergo hard rock.
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    Gyms in Tokyo

    I'm currently at the gym. At the weekend my wife made meat sauce with the strongest onions in the world - the whole thing just tasted like eating raw onion (at least she told me it was the onions - she could have been trying to poison me I guess). I am currently sweating onion juice out of...
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    Permanently not learning Japanese!

    I try not to judge anyone for anything, especially their Japanese because mine is so bad. (Although that does give my daughter a few unintentional laughs - the other day I called her my little lottery instead of my little treasure...) But I am sometimes blown away by the people who deliberately...
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    Gyms in Tokyo

    Were you caning those jelly in pouche drinks in nogizaka?
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    Gyms in Tokyo

    Back in the gym for the first time in over three weeks today. Felt good and bad. Was a pretty gentle workout, just working up to a couple of sets at the weight I was lifting before christmas but it felt both easy and hard - easy from a strength perspective but I was huffing and puffing like a...
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    Overtourism as of October 2023

    I like moments like this - one of the few times I am actually useful enough to make any sort of contribution to the sum of humanity. Although it does sometimes bite me in the ass. Like the time I ended up retrieving luggage from a random hotel in the early hours of the morning for some random...
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    Gyms in Tokyo

    Half-reps are totally normal in Japan so no need to be ashamed lol.
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    Gyms in Tokyo

    It is easier to be strong when you're fat!
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    Gyms in Tokyo

    100kg bench is good for anyone at any reps. Just because there are a ton of roid monsters in western gyms and online who routinely bench more than that, (and the NFL combine or whatever they call it, lol - like a human chemistry set) in the real world, it's pretty rare, and if you can bench...
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    Gyms in Tokyo

    Yeah, I realise I am being unreasonable about the vibrams IN THEORY. Just, in practice, everyone who wears them at my gym is ALWAYS doing a stupid workout. And yeah, belts and plates under heels are legitimate approaches to exercising - it's just that in my experience the people who tend to...
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    Gyms in Tokyo

    So usually this would be my deload week but since I'm away all next week I figured I'd do some reverse pyramid training to get a few heavier reps in at the top of the pyramid and more reps than usual at the bottom. Went pretty well got a few reps in at 160kg and 175kg on the squat and deadlift...
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    Gyms in Tokyo

    Yeah, I have never seen the point of personal trainers. I'm sure there are some good ones out there, but the only ones i have seen are either on steroids (so what works for them isn't going to work for you), or they've just done some entry-level course that is mostly bro-science (so they are...
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    Gyms in Tokyo

    I don't like gold's gyms at all. The equipment is always shite and it is full of people who like other people to know that they are into FITNESS because they think the brand has some sort of cachet. I think I pay about 6-8000 for joyfit which is no frills but it's open 24hrs, you can use any...
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    Gyms in Tokyo

    The staff here are usually pretty good at sorting this sort of stuff out actually so I might wait a while and see if they fix it before I talk to them. Another reason I fucking love this gym (two squat racks and two smith machines - that I will also never use, lol - are two more reasons...). I...
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    Gyms in Tokyo

    Holy fuck man. I have been coming to this gym for probably nearly ten years and in all that time I have never had to deal with western style douchebaggery where people leave weights lying around or mistaking equipment etc. Now there appears to be a member who is just putting whatever weights...