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My advice is ... Take it easy! Like moadeep I got married young (20) and then divorced in due course (27)... Now I'm almost 40 but after years of zero effort or interest I'm really into a beautiful neighbour of mine... and jeez, i think she might like me too (not gotten too far with the invitation o...

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@arakira - Thanks! The Louise Young book in particular sounds really interesting, I'll have a look and see if there's any affordable copies around. (Fingers x'ed!) @Ethlenn - Yay, Dumas! I've only read his rockin' famous ones like Count of Monte Cristo and the d'Artagnan books, so can you reccommend...

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I take the opposite view to Edohiguma: since not a single one of us 6+ billion is even remotely the same, we are all extraordinary. And, since all 6+ billion of us have to eat, sleep and excrete, we're all ordinary too. However, I think most of us can probably figure out what Tadanga meant, especial...

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Normally I hate doing research, but this time it's fun cause I'm reading two very different histories of Japan. One is The Story of Japan Vol. 1 by Hiraizumi Kiyoshi - a book written in 1970 by an elderly historian who had been deeply committed to Japanese militarism and resigned his post on the day...

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There are some fun action-based shows out there, if he's into "typical macho" stuff... me, I like a bit of romance and comedy too, but I totally love a show with some martial arts... HOLYLAND (ishigaki is a johnny's but he was in Azumi so that's not so bad!) QUARTET (also featuring a prett...

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I enjoyed vol 1 of the manga but somehow i liked the live more... the cast were great, and more individual and unusual than the standard shoujo-manga-faced characters in the manga. Very good manga, but not exactly revolutionary. I loved the purple kimono and the end fight too! Again it was the casti...

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Ah, i totally agree with SSpiegel, the story should be the number one concern! The stars and the sponsors and the network (and even the production values) all fade into insignificance if the story is handled right... And what u said about American shows... yeah, all those never-ending sitcoms and so...

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Sukeban Deka!

It's that or the wire, i'm sorry guys....

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Hey katz i like the fact that you reply thoroughly, it actually gave me some insight and i admit, you have some points going... (Ethlenn also made a good point...) but i really wasn't talking about legality or licensing so much as the aspect of fan fiction i think of as "anime movie syndrome&qu...

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katzenjammin'.... let me ask you something, seriously... If you were to take your story concepts, change the character names (at least) - perhaps shift the location, perhaps tweak the background to fit your concept - would it still work? Because if you write a fanfic, it's destined to be nothing oth...

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OK i'm gonna d/l the first couple eps... you convinced me! Good villains make for a good show. Which is why anything with Mark Murakami rules. And i like what you said about "if you take out the silly weapons & robots".... that's why i love Kiva, cause if you minus all the toku-ness it...

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Agreed about suit actors! Kiva was great for that - even some of the big monster battles had distinct romantic subplot connections! It's true us boys love the Rider Kick, but hey we love romance too! Especially when it features Haga Yuria... When it comes to Decade and W you said the same as me and ...

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We get tokusatsu shows showing up on D-Addicts from time to time (or borderline toku), from Fuuma no Kojiro to Kodai Shoujo Dogu-chan.... so hey, why not have a random toku thread? My favourite tokusatsu shows, in no particular order, would be Cutie Honey THE LIVE, Garo, Sh15uya, Keitai Sousakan 7, ...

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Example why people don't post... I had a post halfway typed, a bunch of thoughtful and intelligent stuff i assure, but my mate turned up for a midnight scrabble showdown... beat me 381 to 344, got 62 points for "wattling"... But seriously, i'm seeing a lot of people on this thread say stuf...

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I discuss the drama i watch with friends, although only a very few who watch J-dramas. Forum discussions are slow and dull and i'd much rather have a short and lively real-world conversation with one or two people than a week-long discussion with a dozen where the other participants may or may not b...

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Surely we love them because we desperately want to dress like them?

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It depends on the people, like everything. Some people change more than others as they get older, and people change in unpredictably different ways. I'm happily divorced, I and honestly get on better now with my ex-wife than I did for the last year or two of our marriage. What killed us off as a cou...

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I watch with my daughter, who's 12 and stays weekends at mine. She likes more j-pop than me overall than me, and we watch anime together too. I only watch a tiny bit of anime, many more j-dramas (and more movies than anything), but me and the offspring have similar tastes in j-drama (Hana Kimi and L...

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I was about to make a serious and thoughtful post on this subject when I was distracted by a whore and an alcoholic slinging abuse at a couple of Kurdish lads right outside my window. WHORE: You want business? KURD: No, no, sorry. WHORE: Well, have you got a fag then? KURD: No, I not smoke. WHORE: (...

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lol.... the OP apologises for accidentally putting a U where he intended an A...

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notp3rfect, this may sound kinda weird but it's a good sign you're worried! It means that you at least think about or notice what's going on in your life, where a lot of people just seem to drift along without ever questioning how they live. Personally I find people very difficult to deal with, and ...

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A mate of mine told me that Cambodian weed was really out there, but "you gotta be careful who you buy it from".... But that aside, my advice is to dress down so you look slightly less like a rich Westerner. Not "so you don't get robbed" so much as so you're more "one of us&...

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graycious, i was having a conversation the other day with a person who didn't know what "Hispanic" was! Not a racist or anything, but it's not a term used so much in the UK. Hispanic people are considered whit over here (just a slightly darker shade). All the slightly varying views which p...

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Nice Trek quote! I will employ that at some point in reference to myself. Ya know, it's I'd probably find a lot of eye-candy in Berkeley, but the problem with hippychicks is that... well, they're hippies! According to all the nice hippyish women I've ever been out with I'm too negative, cynical and ...

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This thread is still as amusing as ever.... except the bits where a person with a dictionary fetish makes long posts of absolute blather... sigh... get over yourself! Anyways, I was just thinking earlier that I love dirty women... no, no, no... not as in "sluts" or whatever, as in "no...

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This thread is funny as hell! I have nothing to contribute (being of uncertain ethnicity), but reading a scattered sampling of the posts got me thinking... Lots of posts remind me of when white people say "I'm not being racist, BUT..." I hear that a lot, I live in the ethnic/poor part of t...

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Oh and if u want something hard and Japanese to listen I reccommend Merzbow - not rock or metal, proper noise! Not to everyone's taste I admit, but I love it...

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If you don't min jidai-geki, there's a gorgeous Kodansha International edition of Eiji Yoshikawa's "Musashi"... it cost me £35, but it was worth it! A great book about the Musahi Miyamoto, taken from Yoshikawa-sensei's newspaper serial from the '30s.

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I'm another one who'd joining the "sick of Horikita Maki" club. She was awesome in Hana Kimi (also the only thing where she looked cute, for some reason... and no I'm not gay... mostly), but everything else I've seen her in she's totally limp. And she looks funny too. Speaking of funny loo...

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So... this thread starts with a girl slagging off a girl for being ugly, then a dude chimes in hating on pretty boys... Hmm.... do I smell an inferiority complex, lingering in the air like a cabbage-laden fart? Seriously, though, I think a lot of J-dramas are very shallow and its a little unfair to ...

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BTW, that was joke!

I'm of uncertain ethnic origin personally (adopted at birth, probably mostly white-ish), so referring to what astermorning said, check the box that says OTHER!

After all, we're all "other" to someone.

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The only problem with all this is that if there's too much genetic mixing then the evil white race will never die out... and we all know the planet will be a nicer place when all the devils are gone!

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@ Rico2001 - O yeh, the graceful curve of a woman's neck is definitely sexy! I like short-haired gals too, not so much I have a thing for it tho... @ core2quadcore - I think women's feet can be mightily cute but most gf's I ever had I wouldn't admit such a submissive trait to! @ Lifo - I don't know ...

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LOL, i agree, i'm a big hairy macho lump but i just can't resist those two!

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how about heterosexual (or metrosexual) men with a liking for Shun-sama?

Viva la revolucion!

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i just got done watching Hana Kimi for the 2nd time, and i watched LIFE twice too... both times i re-watched with my daughter, having originally watched them in the week (weekend dad), but both times it was also just a matter of time! @ minifussy - wow! PGSM was a show i had to be forced into watchi...

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btw, what's your longest romantic relationship? (mine's 8 years, followed by... erm, six months! i'm so bad at reading women, i should go be a homo instead...) i basically agree with your original point, incidentally, but the other way is possible too because some relationships seem to make people v...

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hm, i maybe wasn't very clear... all i mean is that when you say you can cope but others can't, however close to you or however many there are, you shouldn't let that get in the way of you personally rising above it in you own life (even if you have to deal with it in other paople's lives every day)...

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ah but u can't take responsibility for the happiness of other - beyiond helping where u can! i have a friend more depressed then me, we suffer together but what can i do for him beyond be a friend? when i feel happy i feel happy, its not selfish its a fact - there i always someone worse off, don't h...

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aw, i'm disappointed, i didn't get any return commentary from the OP! was i too negative about religion? i just honestly think that ootori-san need to get past this weird iidea that gog did something bad to him personally, even xtian theologians don't think the world works like that... free will, ch...

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william s. burroughs....

i'm too old and ugly for him to wanna f*** me, and we could converse of things other....

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relationships are satisfying when both people are happy with themselves, but i think that's a rare thing (not nowadays, but rare full stop). people want a lasting, strong relationship because for most people (in some part of their heart and mind) it's a comfortable, healthy and somehow correct way t...

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kity kira, i'm scared of your parents! i dropped in this thread to say HI! as a token parent in the discussion.... but jeez, i'm not THAT kind of parent! when i was 12 i used to go out in paris drinking (lotsa facial hair, but we were never once asked for ID anyway!), and sometimes didn't show up un...

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gay...? tut tut, what would the almighty lord god have to say about that, eh?

probably something about ETERNITY IN HELL! i expect...

i wonder... is it more fun to be gay or to be christian?

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my birthday's april 19th, an auspicious day

1974, year of the tiger i do believe

shayla's post made me think....

i'm actually 34, but in terms of grumpiness i'm about 65, in terms of responsibility about 12, and in terms of musical taste approximately 96 (ah... 1930 was a golden year...!)

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i'm surprised so many people like softsubs for drama and anime i prefer hardsubs for convenience and neatness (one file not two = neatness, perhaps i'm odd) i admit for asian (or any non-english) movies i usually prefer softs since in so many cases the hardsub on a movie torrent is nasty vhs-lookin'...

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First ever:

Floella Benjamin (circa 1976!)

First in asian entertainment:

Maria Yi (in "The Big Boss")

... showin' my age ...

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phew, forgiven!

fangirls r scary

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@Salz - beforehand i might have doubted, now i know he definitely can! in fact i'd like to see him in more substantial movie roles now i know he can carry the weight. yamapi likewise, i enjoy his acting styles a lot (like all his mini-looks and characters in kurosagi, excellent stuff!), but because ...

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yamapi playing a doctor should be interesting... i have faith that he can do serious-ish drama, after all oguri shun was in some real movie-type movies (horror, miike etc.) and it only seemed weird for the first couple seconds... watched the 30-second cm with my daughter, who's a yamapi fangirl, and...

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i was married for eight years, and although i get on just fine with my esteemed ex (in fact better, now i only see her twice a week!), having had a long(ish) and utterly uninspiring marriage (then a few carnivorous, slightly evil gf's), i now consider myself cured of falling in love... but i wouldn'...

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yo pn0yb0i, if u wanna see a real D-addict u oughta watch the movie "A Scanner Darkly"... the burnout phase there is well scary! btw i pulled thru my burnout phase and i actually think the "casually obsessed" stage is most fun, where u can look back on the madness and the hangove...

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jeez, for some reason i didn't expect actual reccommends (more like ppl calling me names!) but thanks ackirom.... i'm too scared to try most the ones u mention but i will give both The Devil and Evasive Inquiry Agency a go! Crime and horror are my thing, but honestly, i like romance! There's just go...

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half and half - dramas are cool and i love 'em, but its kind of geeky... or more than kind of, its pretty geek-tastic for some reason people seem to think its weirder than my obsessions with, for example, inappropriate cover versions, religious and racist propaganda, Sun Ra, Wm. Burroughs... see, i ...

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i got one cat, a green-eyed, long-haired white & tabby, neutered tom, been with me about seven or eight years now... i got him from a friend's ex-wife who was superstitious about cats and babies... she was a hectic crazy **** (for a living she used to shoplift to order, electrical items a specia...

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i had to vote on the j-side for this one... somehow i've never warmed to a single k-drama enough to watch more than a couple episodes. and is it me or are all k-dramas about true love...? maybe someone could help me by reccommending a k-drama that's not an all-out slushy romance? japanese crime dram...

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Forgive me but i'm going to voice a serious opinion.... This list, and other like it, is fairly obviously pure BS in most aspects, but it seems to contain a little bit of truth because the idea of "typical men" and "typical women" is so programmed into us by wherever the hell we ...

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and hey, i agree about paris hilton.... would ANYONE think she was hot if she wasn't also ridiculously rich?

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do what now?!

how can anyone rag on flava flav?

unacceptable!

ok so he IS ugly, but he's so god damn COOL!

"Flava Flav is the son, public enemy number one/Got u running from the gun of a brain that weighs a ton!"

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hey... how many guys out there identify with this: one of the reasons i like j-dramas is cause loads of them are so shamelessly romantic... in contrast to real relationships and, it seems, most of the real-life women i know! maybe it's just that my "type" is cool/intellectual/ice maiden, a...

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yay for male drama fans! its interesting how female-oriented some shows seem to be, but even that is an entertaining aspect of j-drama (i've not so far got into any k-dramas).... but in spite of being male i've found that there are some pretty-boy idols i find it hard to resist - like yamapi, he's a...

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Ouch! I cringed to find myself agreeing with some of these.... mainly #1 and #1..... Although it's not always a strict gender divide, since Sunday sport shows are as much a reason why i got rid of my TV as reality shows and the news. Plus in spite of being British i detest football. Tho i am Brit en...

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As my first post on this site, i thought reccommending a book is appropriate (even if the thread's a bit old!), since i'm kind of obsessed.... Almost everybody has reccommended new(ish) and popular(ish) books, so i thought i'd shout out a few all-time faves which are a bit off the beaten track.... &...

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