The Off Topic Topic

[Zanza]

I don't get the Kublai Khan one.

[CountDeMoney]

For all you ACWtards, nifty little graph system on ACW battles and casualties, lifted off BGG...

http://www.elibrosen.com/civilwar/

[Ed Anger]

That is some good stuff.

[Sheilbh]

I don't know what's up with Djokovic, but today is one of the days when you just have to love Federer.  What a player

[Malthus]

I don't get the Kublai Khan one.

That's probably good old Genghis, and it refers to the fact that he allegedly had hundreds of concubines, so much so that his genes were spread far and wide.

[Syt]

Starting today, the subway line U1 part from where I live to the Inner City will be down for 7 weeks. It's the oldest part of the subway system at 34 years and is due for repairs.

It's going to suck, because it's one of the main commuting thoroughfairs and people will have to take trams/surface trains instead (they added two short interval tram lines). Me, I will need 15-20 minutes longer to and from work. At least it's summer break at schools, so the school kids won't be clogging the system.

[Admiral Yi]

Overheard at the boozer: a young girl describing how she kept her tongue piercing open while she was in jail.

[Eddie Teach]

Overheard at the boozer: a young girl describing how she kept her tongue piercing open while she was in jail.

Details plz.

[Admiral Yi]

Details plz.

I didn't catch the actual technique.  I thought the overall theme would be good enough for you ungrateful shits.

[Josquius]

Everyone has hooks on my time, which I want to spend doing nothing. I think the evidence is clear I need to go out and eat something, but it is so easy to go all day without having eaten anything in this country where all the food has the disadvantage of being Japanese.

You fail at being a Nihonophile.
Whats wrong with Japanese food? Gyudon is the best fast junk ever.

You're in Fukuoka right? Should be tonnes of western food places about. McDonalds at least are ten a penny in Japan.

Make the most of your time there and get out, wish I had more opportunities for it and wasn't just limited to weekends. Half of life is showing up. Stay at home and its the same crap you could have had back in America only with worse stuff on TV. Go out though and anything could happen.

[Ideologue]

Holy cow, the thing sez that Delirium and Solmyr are on.  Hey dudes!

[The Brain]

You don't hang with the virgin queens much?

[Ideologue]

I guess not.

[sbr]

Tim's pants are a dairy factory in 3...2..1...

[Lettow77]

You fail at being a Nihonophile.
Whats wrong with Japanese food? Gyudon is the best fast junk ever.

I am in Fukuoka, yes, but Japanese tend to eat things that shouldn't be eaten. Gyudon is okay. There are things I like, but the cuisine is overinflated by weeaboos who do not realize that the South's cuisine cannot be eclipsed.

In any event, I am indeed making the most of my time out here; I am out walking every day, and not a few days can go by without some larger social gathering I am drawn into. I regret to say I have found myself absolutely infatuated with a mainland chinese girl; it is a bad idea for numerous reasons, but she is too gentle and sensitive in her nature. I accidentally took long midnight walks on the beach with some chinese girl with the soul of a poet, and was deeply moved. Whoops! 

She is too good for her terrible country, and I told her so. She must escape, but her love for her parents keeps her. Dutiful maiden!

I am constantly kept in the thrall of a schedule; that is what I dislike the most here. In two hours I must go shopping at Tenjin with some associates- the following morning I am to cook a meal with a consortium of koreans and hong kong chinese. That afternoon I must meet still another detatchment of japanese people.

But The hospitality here is really great. Sitting at a yatai stall, hearing that I was from Tennessee, complete strangers send me drinks and uh..cows tongue on a stick.  Another time, a man missed his train to ensure I got to the right station when I was a little lost, and he was kept walking with me some twenty minutes.  Ara Ara'ing women invite me to stay at their home after the school program finishes at the end of the month.  It is all very wonderful, and I would be foolish not to pursue some kind of future here.