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sunnee-sideup wrote:... the weird part about it was i manage to get hit on by a "straight" man in a gay club (scratch my head).

Or so you like to tell yourself.

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heyyy, me too. When are you going? I'll be there the end of May.

My advice, go to Kyoto.

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That's gold. Invitation on the way. (Even though that's totally 565 not 575 heheh) Oh ****, nevermind. I tried to invite you (clicked on the "invite (2)" link) but it didn't work. I'm either drunk, retarded or blind. it because of you are a user. those who can send invites are member and ...

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That's gold. Invitation on the way.

(Even though that's totally 565 not 575 heheh)

Oh ****, nevermind. I tried to invite you (clicked on the "invite (2)" link) but it didn't work.
I'm either drunk, retarded or blind.

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aiight homeys. I have two invites. First two people to comment with an original haiku below this post gettum.

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Thank you andy_blah for the invite. You're good people.

Coincidentally, the new jpopsuki is really similar to what.cd

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can somebody please invite me to jpopsuki?? Show some love to a former fansubber please! ephesus@gmail.com

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I'm black and I hated Korea, but I had a lot of african american/candanian friends that liked hanging out. I don't know if you're into hip hop, but being dark gives you instant "street cred" in Korea. It's like the positive side of racism. If you're not a huge fan, like myself, it might ca...

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I'm on my 16th or 17th month in Korea (with a one-year break during which I went back home), and while I'm not blind to its faults, I'm still enjoying the experience .... Being fluent in Korean helps a lot. I'm guessing that the year being back home was extremely helpful. Novelty can overcome many ...

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Well, it's Korea so if anybody said anything bad they certainly won't translate those posts for the blog, too. I spent 15 months in Korea, and it was miserable. I recommend Korea only to people who haven't been to many other countries. Before you jump down my throat, I speak Japanese and English, i'...

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I saw Survive Style 5 on a plane, it was awesome.

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Nayuu wrote:
ephesus wrote:How about "私は非モテだ" ?
don't you think it's lame?

I wasn't trying to help.

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How about "私は非モテだ" ?

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I'm dying in Korea listening to the Wonder girls and all this other Pop music every time I go into a store. Are there any good Korean bands that aren't pop? All I see are lots of threads for Japanese recommendations when I search, but nothing for Korean. I'm trying to stay positive about music here,...

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晴れ = Hare = hah-ray = sunny

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So, I went and returned from the São Paulo v. Cruzeiro game yesterday, #1 and #2 in the league. It was at this stadium: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Est%C3%A1dio_do_Morumbi Which holds 80,000 people but I was in a VIP room where you could only really see the game, not the fans. Like this: http://vim...

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I'm in Brazil right now on vacation, and I just saw Brazil trounce Ecuador in Rio de Janeiro during the World Cup Qualifiers. Brazil is retarded for soccer! I'm going to a São Paulo game tomorrow (Oct 21) too which is the team Kaka came from and such. I've never cared at all about soccer, but going ...

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Why is water wet? Seriously though people, it's a hard coded physiological response from millions of years of evolution. Healthy people in general look better than unhealthy people, and you should be thankful that it's hardcoded into us to find healthy partners, or our species might have died out ye...

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Oops, I missed that row. Thanks. 酒力 is read Sakeriki Actually I didn't know the word so I googled for the word, 酒力.:P It means you bring out unnatural power when you have alcohol. Really?? It seems weird that they would mix kunyomi and onyomi, it seems like it would either be syuuriki or sakechikara...

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the yellow/green stickers mean "beginner" they go on people's cars (and other things) when they're still new or training. going right from there the two cigarette things say 喫煙車 "kitsuen sha" which means smoking car (like on a shinkansen). R15指定 means "(movies) for 15+ year ...

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haha, Osca. Well.. "of" isn't going to be in a name. So instead of land of happiness, it's going to say "happiness land" 福地市 fukuchi-shi (happiness land city, which is actually already a city in aomori according to google.) so maybe "new happiness land" 新福地 (shin-fukuch...

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It's going to be really really hard to find a japanese name that has a "cool" meaning in romaji because if you can't see the kanji, you have no idea what the name means. For example if you said something like 復魂福市 fukukonfukushi fuku=rebirth/second, kon=soul, fuku=happiness. but you can't ...

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Ahh yes, you're looking for:

アメリカ = amerika

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Doesn't that train station that she picks up her brother at look more like Shinagawa station in Tokyo than anything in Osaka?? Somebody agree with me. edit: here's a photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/toyohara/54308555/ Their not suppose the be in Osaka... their school is calle dosaka but thats onl...

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Doesn't that train station that she picks up her brother at look more like Shinagawa station in Tokyo than anything in Osaka??
Somebody agree with me.

edit: here's a photo

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This girl is a ****, and her dramas always portray foreigners as assholes or criminals.
She should be shot.
Fin.

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Well, they frown upon it in the USA as well. "official U.S. policy has been to discourage the incidence of dual nationality. The Government accepts but does not recognize or approve of dual nationality. The Government accepts it: "only as the result of separate conflicting laws of other co...

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I had dual citizenship for a long time, but had to give up my Korean citizenship because I didn't want to have to shoot people in the face. Mandatory military service is suckage.

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Print the files out on a laser printer.

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I liked the booing about how illegal immigrants might actually be held accountable by the law in the U.S.A. How in the world do people rationalize illegal immigration, i've yet to figure that out. Anyway, I won't try to hijack the thread. p.s. Ms. Korea was gorgeous, but Ms. Japan sounded like a mor...

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As horrible as the Virginia Tech shooting is, I think it raises a bigger question. America gives people the freedom to take responsibility for their own actions, and some people can't deal with that. That doesn't necessarily mean that you should take away that freedom. On a side note, I really would...

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Do you guys still need invites? I'm a mixi demigod.
I'll invite you as long as you promise to join 英語口語口座とか ;-)

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blueeyedwolf wrote:え？担当って？もしかしてSARSの方？

SARSっすか？残念だね、俺の知ってる限りだと治療がないよね。
御愁傷様です。

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By the way, if you leave before FEB 28 from "CHICAGO, CHAMPAIGN, BLOOMINGTON(IL), MILWAUKEE, MADISON, ST LOUIS, INDIANAPOLIS , etc" (midwest)
round trip tickets to tokyo are $399 plus taxes (so probably around $550-$600 out the door.
I say we have a d-addicts party in Tokyo...

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I suggest not going to Japan at all. Overrated. haha

... but if you do. Stay in Hida Takayama the whole time. It's the hottest hot of hotness.

http://www.hidatakayama.or.jp/

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By the way, the cheapest way to stay in any big city by FAR is a Manga/Internet coffee shop. "漫画喫茶" They give you a little mini room with an internet enabled computer, and a lazy boy (unless you pay more) and then charge you about 240 yen or less an hour, so if you stay from 11pm to 7am th...

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Actually, no. Haha sorry. I just got back from Japan the day before yesterday actually and won't be going back for a couple months probably.

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Actually, J-Idols use this crazy new diet pill called "genes" to supplement their diet of onigiri.

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If you pay more than $800 for a round trip ticket, you're probably paying more than you have to. For example, a quick check of his-usa.com shows tickets for 2 weeks from Dec 28 at $758 round trip Chicago-Tokyo. I'm not sure where you're from of course.. The big secret to saving money in Japan howeve...

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I worked all of 2005 at the Aichi World Expo in Nagoya, and I found this movie on youtube. It's one of my fellow guides Elmer giving an explanation of the Segway to a group of Japanese visitors. Michigan State U, what! haha! Gotta love that MSU Japanese program. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuQv_D...

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I was planning on taking level 1 but ironically i'm going to miss it because i'm going to be flying back from a 2 week vacation in Japan that day.

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You should have no problems. If you were half korean and half BLACK like me, you would have problems. Just stay positive ;-)

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Dude, you need to grow up JUST a little and realize that some people actually want to become more informed about other cultures and practices.... This coming from the 28 year old guy who is asking for advice on how to date a girl (?) Not to mention the fact that if you don't understand her enough t...

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Have you ever seen that thing that people do some times where they pull the bottom of their eyelids down and stick their tongue out? It's supposed to be taunting but it just looks creepy.

And a google search says it's called "akanbei"

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When are you going to be in Japan? I'll show you around ...

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Why do I get the feeling that my carmel skin will cause me issues if i ever visted. Yeah, i'm half Korean and half black and the first time I went to Japan (4 months in 2003) I had a great time because I didn't speak any Japanese and didn't realize people were talking about me all the time. The sec...

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Red.

And there is a link to "my boyfriend is type A" at the bottom, that was a hilarious movie.

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Wouldn't it make more sense to just listen to the American originals as opposed to asian rip offs?

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Man, legality is for suckers. Haha. I wasted about a $1000 last time I was in Japan just on DVDs and I can't even watch them with frontrow on my mac because of the freaking movie industry. I end up watching them on a linux box with libdvdcss (technically illegal) anyway.

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you can always go to the JTV tracker for the entire series..they subbed it but its hosted at their tracker. here's the link http://jtv-tracker.clubbed.org/ these are hardsubs kei. good luck! Big Smile Ahh, thanks I was looking for that. Too bad it's hardsubbed, having text popping up all the time i...

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I vote for Gorie.

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What's a JAV? (that's a serious question) Are you talking about pr0n? haha

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Yeah, they made this little gray box that had a similar effect to crack on 10 year olds world wide.
Man, I could go for some rad racer right now.

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Horizon wrote:Lol, maybe if he was still black...
He'd look pretty strange now with an afro, that's for sure.

He's still black. He's just mangled by plastic surgery, that's all. ;-)

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Mike needs to get his Afro back, and some of those old school Jackson 5 stylings in action, and the entire black world would welcome him back. hahah ;-)

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The most famous thing to come out of Japan isn't Sony?
Or maybe Nintendo. Nintendo was one of the most profitable companies in Japan for several years.

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Apparently Youtube.com stopped all traffic coming from Japanese ISPs because of a flurry of traffic. Now all kinds of Japanese people online are getting pissed as if America is screwing them over or something. Man, Japanese people sure are silly.

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Note that the Mainichi WaiWai section should always be taken with a grain of salt. They translate Japanese "tabloids" into english most of the time.

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Blepharoplasty; enough said.

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"But if they're contributing to the economy, then I don't see a real reason (besides the law >.>) that they should be kicked out. " That's why you're not in any sort of position of power. "LEAVE THE CHEAP LABOR ALONE BUSH!!!!!!!!!" Just because labor and prices are cheap doesn't ...

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Do you know those gold lawyer badges that Japanese bengoshi have on their suits? Where can I buy one, and is it illegal for me to wear it ;)

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What's weirder, going to Wallmart in the first place, circling the parking lot for 30 minutes, or WATCHING somebody circle the parking lot for 30 minutes ;) Btw, i'm all about soft subs. I would hate to have to re-download a half a gig file to get subs that could be saved in 70k. Not to mention, tim...

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That's interesting, i've never heard of that. i'll have to try it next time i'm in Japan.

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None of the japanese movies I own on DVD have japanese subtitles, but I know that the DVDs for "tiger and dragon" have japanese subtitles, so you never know. Probably pretty hit-and-miss. I doubt anybody is going to take the time to subtitle a drama in Japanese text though, it would be a h...

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My vote goes for "faia- furai no ho-pu"

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I'm known to be a bit critical.. but isn't that industrial?
Don't get me wrong, I like it though.

And damn, it's hard to find mp3s of them.

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It depends on what operating system you're using, how to input Japanese.

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If you're interested in open source and liscensing issues, you could try to use kochi-substitute, unless you have a good reason not to. I get headaches if I read other fonts for too long. (like the mika-chan font)

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He didn't say that all bands NOT on Oricon 100 are good, he said all the bands ON Oricon 100 don't count.
Most likely because they're big-name over-produced crap, and to learn about them you certainly wouldn't need a post on a forum since they all have billion-yen publicity budgets.

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Not exactly "hardcore" but pretty close, have you ever heard of "Boris" ? I saw them play in Tokyo and left with a black eye.

http://pitchforkmedia.com/record-review ... -uta.shtml

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In Japanese they call that mindset "shimaguni konjyou" which basically means "hey, we're on an island so it's NOT OUR FAULT that we're unsensitive to other cultures and poor players in the world arena." I think that's what pisses me off more. It's easier to forgive somebody for b...

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Woa, that's weird. Yet cool as hell. Finally somebody with a stranger background than me. I'm half korean, half black, born in Seoul Korea lived there until I was 4, then moved to the US. dont speak korean, barely pass at english, and speak japanese.

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Nagoya represent!

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I have a love hate relationship with Japan, I love a lot of things, like their blatant consumerism and love for fashion and such. I also like the traditional clothing and the fact that people wear yukata, kimono and other really old things to fireworks and seijinshiki and such. On the other hand, I ...

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I used to love ska back in the day..
My name is an old city, my avatar is a picture booth photo with some friends, and i dont have a sig

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