The Off Topic Topic

[FunkMonk]

No idea what good the Chinese Army is in a fight, but their marching order makes the Soviet May Day Parades look like drunk high school marching bands.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?src_vid=OHZIUdHm6b4&annotation_id=annotation_363669&v=5Xuqa1xKxOs&feature=iv

(starting at 0:45; Seedy may want to jump in at 5:30)

I just finished watching this and the Chinese put the NVA to shame.

[Scipio]

Just got into a pissing match on Facebook where a friend of mine who is in charge of communications for Planned Parenthood for the SE region of the US and her husband are detailing how they're buying a house in the most dangerous part of Jackson, MS.  I jokingly called that are of JackTown 'Murder Row' and the guy was like, "Do you actually know anyone who's been murdered there?'  I should have stuck with 'not any more', but as a good little attorney I presented chapter and verse, and the guy was like, "oh yeah, where do you live?"

Really?  People are JackTown proud?  Since fucking when?

[The Brain]

Today's pedophile alert comes from: The dumbass who sits two rows in front of me in my afternoon class


There's this girl in my class who, to any rational and non-pedo observer, obviously looks underage. Siegy would like her a lot. Dumbass dude walks in, sits down next to her, and starts the mack attack. I wasn't sure what he was so sure on, but he seemed like the classic smooth talkin' ladies' man, i.e. an idiot.

Class ends and people start shuffling out of the auditorium. I'm walking behind them and I overhear this:

Dumbass: So what are you doing this weekend?
Little girl: Uh, not much. What about you?
Dumbass: I have work but not much else. By the way, what's your major?
Little girl: Oh, I don't have one. I'm just talking classes here. I'm 14.
Dumbass: ....................................................... oh
Random black dude who overheard them: DAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMM
Me: 

[Josquius]

I increasingly wonder how Japan must seem to an American.
So much of the stuff I find weird here is actually very American. I wonder if an American in Japan feels as at home as a Brit in say Austria- slightly out of place but overall, meh.

[jimmy olsen]

I increasingly wonder how Japan must seem to an American.
So much of the stuff I find weird here is actually very American. I wonder if an American in Japan feels as at home as a Brit in say Austria- slightly out of place but overall, meh.

Please provide some examples so we can mock your provincialism.

[Ideologue]

Today's pedophile alert comes from: The dumbass who sits two rows in front of me in my afternoon class


There's this girl in my class who, to any rational and non-pedo observer, obviously looks underage. Siegy would like her a lot. Dumbass dude walks in, sits down next to her, and starts the mack attack. I wasn't sure what he was so sure on, but he seemed like the classic smooth talkin' ladies' man, i.e. an idiot.

Class ends and people start shuffling out of the auditorium. I'm walking behind them and I overhear this:

Dumbass: So what are you doing this weekend?
Little girl: Uh, not much. What about you?
Dumbass: I have work but not much else. By the way, what's your major?
Little girl: Oh, I don't have one. I'm just talking classes here. I'm 14.
Dumbass: ....................................................... oh
Random black dude who overheard them: DAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMM
Me: 

The real question is why were you hanging out in a 9th grade classroom.

[Ideologue]

But, seriously, seems like a completely normal faux pas to me.

SOME OF US LIKE SMALL WOMEN. IT'S NOT A CRIME, TURKEY.

[Josquius]

Hahah, that amuses me.
Though I did once have a similar incident....though there the girl was 17 so still perfectly legal (many years ago, not since I started working in a high school, though again....there have been.....'oh shit' moments....).
Though in my defence the girls always look mature.

I increasingly wonder how Japan must seem to an American.
So much of the stuff I find weird here is actually very American. I wonder if an American in Japan feels as at home as a Brit in say Austria- slightly out of place but overall, meh.

Please provide some examples so we can mock your provincialism.

Super local TV, urban sprawl, family restaurants, schizophrenic building, lots of goods and shops and restaurants, weak electrics, tiny cities and annexations and mergers and that sort of thing, etc...

[MadImmortalMan]

But, seriously, seems like a completely normal faux pas to me.

SOME OF US LIKE SMALL WOMEN. IT'S NOT A CRIME, TURKEY.

You can flip them around, throw them in the air during sex...

[Ideologue]

I can't sleep again.

Me either.

[Ideologue]

But, seriously, seems like a completely normal faux pas to me.

SOME OF US LIKE SMALL WOMEN. IT'S NOT A CRIME, TURKEY.

You can flip them around, throw them in the air during sex...

Indeed.

[MadImmortalMan]

It's twenty after three. I'm reading bananafish again . Thank you CdM. Salinger is good, though short-lived. This was an airplane book at one point. Now it's just available for whatever. Man, I wish I could sleep. Wife is out of town. I wonder if that is a cause.

[MadImmortalMan]

Thinking about blowing off work tomorrow for the first time since...I'm not sure. I think it was when I visited Brazen in..2006? I don't know. I'm a bit burnt out. 

I want a euro contract so I can take six weeks of vacation every year to annoy Greeks and Italians with my loud English.

[jimmy olsen]

Hahah, that amuses me.
Though I did once have a similar incident....though there the girl was 17 so still perfectly legal (many years ago, not since I started working in a high school, though again....there have been.....'oh shit' moments....).
Though in my defence the girls always look mature.

I increasingly wonder how Japan must seem to an American.
So much of the stuff I find weird here is actually very American. I wonder if an American in Japan feels as at home as a Brit in say Austria- slightly out of place but overall, meh.

Please provide some examples so we can mock your provincialism.

Super local TV, urban sprawl, family restaurants, schizophrenic building, lots of goods and shops and restaurants, weak electrics, tiny cities and annexations and mergers and that sort of thing, etc...

Elaborate

[Josquius]

ehh...
Family Restaurants- they're everywhere. They're pretty much a normal place people seem to meet to get stuff done. Dennys and the like. We just don't have such a proliferation of them in the UK. Just one or two chains which have their restaurants in pretty sensible locations.
Urban sprawl- a lot of cities in Japan were seemingly designed by retards. Its a result of the Japanese government shitting all over planning restriction laws around 2000 or so. Rather than having all the shops and bars and everything in nice central city centre locations or a few out of town shopping spots, you instead have them scattered along the main roads, entire cities are designed around the idea that you drive absolutely everywhere.
In Europe we tend to have more visible city centres.
Schizophrenic building- In Japan you don't buy a house. You buy a bit of land then build a random house. As a result the cities are a mess, varied buildings all scattered around, rice fields in the middle of nowhere, shops hidden in what seemed to be a residential areas. Again, planning laws seem to be non-existant, though this is much older than the 2000s abolitions, in fact they hurt this style of growth.
lots of goods and shops and restaurants- dennys, donut chains, sbarro (didn't realise that one was American even), gatorade, mountain dew, Hooters, 7-11, etc..... so many American companies in Japan that are not in the UK.

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I was planning on going to the pub to study again tonight. Can't get up the energy. I fail.