The Off Topic Topic

[Lettow77]

 Touring Europe is a great advertisement for both Japan and the South.

[Liep]

Touring Europe is a great advertisement for both Japan and the South.

What is not to your liking?

[Lettow77]

 Disorder and filth is disagreeable; tardiness and disrepair are more forgivable but also present. The women's attire and bearing is most uncouth, as is a hairstyle that enjoys bewildering popularity with the men of several countries that resembles nothing so much as a rooster's comb.

Non-European elements are in great evidence as mendicants, confidence men, pickpockets, peddlers of dubious wares in public thoroughfares, and general burdens upon the population.

In Tennessee there are no crowds to speak of; in Japan they exist in clean, unimpeachable orderly fashion. In Europe the press of humanity assails you with malodorous tumult that serves to mask hands that furtively reach out to claim at the belongings of their betters.

Great wonders bedeck Europe, but it seems as though nothing heartening has reached this continent in some hundred years.

[Liep]

Yes, that haircut is terrible.

[Josquius]

Yep. It was quite a shock to me to see it suddenly in fashion.

Where in Europe do you speak of? France?

[Admiral Yi]

Bruce Jenner is going to be a chick.

[Josquius]

Jenner Bruce?

[Martinus]

It's very pretty indeed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6NCD4KF6js

[The Larch]

Women from the Balkans are unbeliveably hottttttt

I don't have much experience with the Balkans overall, but this is definitely true of Romanians.

You might not be so much into them, if there's a department where they lack a certain umph is at the chest. Body wise they're more of the leggy svelte kind of girl.

[The Larch]

So, all these pages discussing the hotness of the Slavic race, and not a single pic to illustrate the issue? I'm disappointed.

You have personal experience to draw from.

[MadImmortalMan]

Disorder and filth is disagreeable; tardiness and disrepair are more forgivable but also present. The women's attire and bearing is most uncouth, as is a hairstyle that enjoys bewildering popularity with the men of several countries that resembles nothing so much as a rooster's comb.

Non-European elements are in great evidence as mendicants, confidence men, pickpockets, peddlers of dubious wares in public thoroughfares, and general burdens upon the population.

In Tennessee there are no crowds to speak of; in Japan they exist in clean, unimpeachable orderly fashion. In Europe the press of humanity assails you with malodorous tumult that serves to mask hands that furtively reach out to claim at the belongings of their betters.

Great wonders bedeck Europe, but it seems as though nothing heartening has reached this continent in some hundred years.

You should read Mark Twin's experience there. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innocents_Abroad

[The Brain]

Touring Europe is a great advertisement for both Japan and the South.

Coming back to Stockholm from Japan is just nasty. It's painfully obvious that you've landed in a third world shithole. Disrepair, filth, graffiti, beggars everywhere... Japan's is a superior civilization.

[MadImmortalMan]

I have learned that the area just inside your door is considered public space in Japan. So the mailman or whoever can just come in. As long as he doesn't enter the rest of the house it's cool.

Between that and the taking your shoes off thing, I think I'd end up killing someone if I lived there. 

[garbon]

Touring Europe is a great advertisement for both Japan and the South.

Coming back to Stockholm from Japan is just nasty. It's painfully obvious that you've landed in a third world shithole. Disrepair, filth, graffiti, beggars everywhere... Japan's is a superior civilization.

[Josquius]

Coming back to Stockholm from Japan is just nasty. It's painfully obvious that you've landed in a third world shithole. Disrepair, filth, graffiti, beggars everywhere... Japan's is a superior civilization.

Yep.
That's one of the big things that are hard to deal with in Switzerland. Graffiti is absolutely everywhere. And lots of beggars.
Though one doesn't see anywhere near so many abandoned and dilapidated buildings here as you do in Japan. Paradoxically despite the graffiti everything seems in much better repair.

I have learned that the area just inside your door is considered public space in Japan. So the mailman or whoever can just come in. As long as he doesn't enter the rest of the house it's cool.

Yeah. Its alright for people with houses, they usually have a separate little entry room. But when you have a one room apartment...just have to be sure to lock your door.

Between that and the taking your shoes off thing, I think I'd end up killing someone if I lived there. 

You don't do that over there?
The Japanese are a bit too religious about it but its pretty normal in most places I've lived.