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Of course. You live on Mars or what??
Ah, that explains the 4-24 minute delay between posting and shutting down a thread.
Chris on Mars
Of course. You live on Mars or what??
You get a prepaid Sim card that gives you a valid Japan phone number to use?
Japanese funerals. Instead of comforting each other people just hand over some money, do the incense and then bow to the relatives. While I'm not a believer in catholic or christian values in general, I think that a funeral has a much deeper meaning and provides at least some comfort.
Well believe me that's not the worst part. You haven't picked up the ashes and bones remnants with long chopsticks, after cremation. When I saw this happening I thought I was suddenly transported in some kind of 5th dimension or nightmare. A "this is not happening, it can't be real" moment.
I've done this... been there, done that, got the T-shirt. You and a partner have one hashi (chopstick) each and you pick-up the remains after cremation and put it in the urn, which will be eventually transferred to the family grave site after sitting in a relative's home for ~7 days.
I could never do that.
When my beloved GF died, I skipped the funerals.
I don't even want to know where is her cemetary.
I want to remember her alive.
Whatever happened to her after her heart stopped beating, it had nothing to do with her.
This is the key. Once they know you understand Japanese or have a Japanese speaker with you, they will upsell junk.So it was perfectly smooth transaction to me. I was thinking probably the guy didn't wanna ask too much questions knowing we wont understand each other anyway. Just wanted me out ASAP.
As long as I get the usual discount, it's all good
What is that usual discount if I may ask?
I have SoftBank, so I usually get the 10GB plan + the America Unlimited plan (new since iPhone 6) and I pay about ~8,000 yen/month.
I've had the contract with SoftBank since it was Vodafone back in 2005,2006.
They also give a discount if you sign a new deal, which equates to about 2,400 yen.
Also, pay for your phone in cash up front... works wonders.
Edit: Without discounts, the monthly bill for the same plan reaches about 11,000 yen for the 10GB plan or 10,000 yen for 10GB without america unlimited plan.
I've done this... been there, done that, got the T-shirt. You and a partner have one hashi (chopstick) each and you pick-up the remains after cremation and put it in the urn, which will be eventually transferred to the family grave site after sitting in a relative's home for ~7 days.
Not sure if #2 happens often, but as far as I know this process is the same for old and young.
What is that usual discount if I may ask?
I have no idea about my phone plan. I pay a little bit more around 一万 a month, and I get like 7gb of data, if I used them all it get slower. They also charge me per call. But I rarely make calls.
"And then I fantasized about taking that urn, sticking my cock in it, and having one last fuck. Has anyone ever had that feeling? Anywhere else in Tokyo I can do this? I want to cover both ends, from birth to death. Hit up a pregnant woman for a one-nighter first, then finish with the finished. But only if the deceased was Asian. Even in death, no foreign fatties"
That's about what I expect from you.
thanks for sharing this informationI have an unlimited data plan from GTN mobile and pay around 3800¥ a month without the phone as I have a sim free iPhone already.
There are some data issues recently but nothing too bad. Not sure if that's overpriced or not but it was still cheaper and less of a hassle than going to SoftBank, AU or Docomo directly.
1) The funeral worker was giving a play-by-play anatomy lesson as the family members all placed the bones in the urn - like "oh that's the clavicle there... and here's the femur. You can see the ends are very hard but the middle part is hollow so it tends to break during cremation." It was interesting but seemed kind of strange as I thought this was supposed to be a real transitional time where you went from thinking of the individual as a person to thinking of them as someone who has already passed. Maybe that kind of commentary helps distance people from the reality of what they're actually doing? Dunno
Well believe me that's not the worst part. You haven't picked up the ashes and bones remnants with long chopsticks, after cremation. When I saw this happening I thought I was suddenly transported in some kind of 5th dimension or nightmare. A "this is not happening, it can't be real" moment.
The problem here is if you're in Rome, after awhile you'll be accepted. Here you'll never be accepted so I play the foreigner card to it's highest.Just in Rome do as the Romans do, so in Japan I speak japanese.
I LOVE it when they have to use English to me. How many years did they learn it in school? Put it to some good use!Same!
I hate it when shopstaff keeps using English to me.
Why do you wanna fit in? (You'll never fit in here.) Why do you care what others think?Because i wanna fit in and don't wanna be reminded i'm a foreigner. (Unless i see myself in a mirror or i'm reminded by the people around me i usually don't feel different from the other people here.)
I just wanna be able to use my bit of Japanese that i have already worked so hard on to master without the conversation flow being awkward because i'm going at it in japanese and they keep speaking English even though this is Japan.
And it makes me insecure indeed. Is my Japanese so hard to understand?