The Off Topic Topic

[FunkMonk]

Live from Lincoln Center on PBS... Itzhak Perlman playing the theme from Schindler's List is goddamn devastating.

[Ed Anger]

Jap men: whipped.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19674306

never give the female control.EVAR!!

[CountDeMoney]

No wonder they're so big into bondage over there.  It's a fucking outlet.

[Ed Anger]

That story angried up my blood.

[garbon]

I got a gift of some glasses from Pier 1. I just looked at the have a label that says they were designed in Poland.

[CountDeMoney]

I got a gift of some glasses from Pier 1. I just looked at the have a label that says they were designed in Poland.

So the bottom of the glass is on top?

[garbon]

They are slanted.

[jimmy olsen]

Jap men: whipped.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19674306

never give the female control.EVAR!!

Old news, it's been like that for decades. 

[Josquius]

Isn't that normal? My mam generally controls the money and my dad has his pocket money- though its not a tightly controlled thing.
In Japan especially as in traditional pre-socialist Europe it makes big sense the man works non-stop, leaves home 6am in the morning and gets home 10pm at night, doesn't really get much time to spend anything or pay attention to household finances.

But in many places 500 yen would barely be enough for a bowl of noodles or a McDonald's burger.

err....what?
What ridiculous journalism just trying to paint a picture of grim Blade Runneresque summer expensive Tokyo.
A McDonalds hamburger costs 100 yen in every McDonalds in the country.

The expensiveness of Tokyo is overrated. Trains are cheap as hell and food and drink is pretty much the same as elsewhere in Japan. Maybe slightly less at times due to all the competition. The only places where prices are higher- rent, parking, etc.... will be sorted by the household budget so shouldnt affect the guy.

On average, they only spend 2,860 yen on a night of drinking which is almost half of what they used to spend just three years ago.

I havent been around that long but from what I gather this does seem true. I missed the party

[Jaron]

I'm going to BOULDER CITY, Nevada this weekend! It should be a lot of fun.

[Eddie Teach]

Is the town perched on a giant boulder?

[Ideologue]

Isn't that normal? My mam generally controls the money and my dad has his pocket money- though its not a tightly controlled thing.
In Japan especially as in traditional pre-socialist Europe it makes big sense the man works non-stop, leaves home 6am in the morning and gets home 10pm at night, doesn't really get much time to spend anything or pay attention to household finances.

But in many places 500 yen would barely be enough for a bowl of noodles or a McDonald's burger.

err....what?
What ridiculous journalism just trying to paint a picture of grim Blade Runneresque summer expensive Tokyo.
A McDonalds hamburger costs 100 yen in every McDonalds in the country.

The expensiveness of Tokyo is overrated. Trains are cheap as hell and food and drink is pretty much the same as elsewhere in Japan. Maybe slightly less at times due to all the competition. The only places where prices are higher- rent, parking, etc.... will be sorted by the household budget so shouldnt affect the guy.

On average, they only spend 2,860 yen on a night of drinking which is almost half of what they used to spend just three years ago.

I havent been around that long but from what I gather this does seem true. I missed the party

They may just be getting older.  I mean, seriously, Japan is like Britain in Children of Men, right?  Who the fuck's gonna be in my porn in 2040?  Robots?  Well OK.

[Grey Fox]

It sounds like a couple Japanese male need to order their wife to go work!

[MadImmortalMan]

I'm going to BOULDER CITY, Nevada this weekend! It should be a lot of fun.

The only place in NV where gambling is illegal. 

[Malthus]

Just finished The man who was Thursday, what a nightmare!

Heh, I love that book.