Wednesday February 15, 2012

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    jonnyboy

    The Asian Massage girls can stay, but the Nigerians can rack off!

    nice double standard, there...

    Posted in: Cleanup

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    jonnyboy

    Point being there are serious artists in Japan, and most TV is geared towards very young people in Japan. The age demographic target is older in the US.

    odd, that considering the lack of young people in japan... could it be that tv is deliberated sanitised and intellectually insulting?

    Posted in: Idiocy versus intelligence on Japanese quiz shows

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    jonnyboy

    I'm inclined to beleive they feel their existing political status quo will die out if children of mixed race become a large segment of the population. In order to preserve their political status quo they deny children of a mixed race access to their foreign parent and culture.

    i any debate similar to this, you can replace the words "japanese culture" with the words "existing political status quo". "japanese culture" is a misnomer, the truth is that any change to the existing, perceived to be "homogeneous" thread of society would diminish the power of the existing political structure: people will elect officials that they feel represent themselves. but by using a nice, fluffy and intangible concept such as culture you can inspire anger at some perceived threat from outside. furthermore, cultural relativism has quite a strong foothold in other nations so it is also an effective way of scaring off would-be criticisers

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    jonnyboy

    Since 'tarento' is a bastardized version of the English 'talent,' Japanese have a free pass to bastardize the meaning, which they have done incredibly well.

    nail applied to head. the agencies own the entertainment biz

    a lot on this thread has been said before, but i'd like to add that the presence of no-one but tarento on tv shows is good evidence that rumours of the demise of japan's caste system were greatly exaggerated. it would be great if normal people did appear on tv, but i think Gaijinocchio's points are a little too familiar.

    Posted in: Idiocy versus intelligence on Japanese quiz shows

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    jonnyboy

    I have a nice kendo sword waiting just for this kind of event.The police will eventually get called.

    nice way for you to also end up in the clink

    Posted in: Man breaks into elementary school pupil's home in Himeji

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    jonnyboy

    kim isn't an idiot. he took one look at what happened in iraq and realised he needed to cover his a*s. that's all that's happening here. why on earth would he want to attack any of his neighbours when it would surely end with his head on a stick? this is all just political chess. anyone attempting to make it into more than this has ulterior motives themselves

    Posted in: How much of a military threat is North Korea to Japan?

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    jonnyboy

    it wouldn't be a problem if they could take no for an answer the first time...

    Posted in: Cleanup

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    jonnyboy

    having a google, there are some much better pictures of her although there is something a little odd about her face. mind you, that might not be a bad thing for her modelling career.

    this photo is very unflattering.

    Posted in: Ken Watanabe’s daughter spotted dating actor Yukiyoshi Ozawa

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    jonnyboy

    i think the thing that is odd about the maid scene, not that i can claim to be an expert, is the "safe" borderline sexuality, not to mention paying to have the company of women (hostesses? geishas?). after all, are we not seeing a slump in fertility in japan? is all this asexuality, or sanitised sexual attention a cause or effect of the slump in fertility?

    basically, sexuality is a fact of life. either do it (healthily and legally) or don't do it at all and dedicate your life to science or something. treading a weird middle-ground of wanting women, but not having the gall to act up it healthily and instead being reduced to paying to safe titillation is not a good for society in my humble opinion

    Posted in: Maid in Akihabara

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    jonnyboy

    She came to Japan to grow up but she pretends to be a 17 year old maid for perverted men!? I don't see the logic there.

    you beat me to this particularly jarring example of irony

    Posted in: Maid in Akihabara

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    jonnyboy

    What is up with Japanese actresses/models marrying and dating men 10+ years older than them these days...

    starts with 'm' and rhymes with funny

    Posted in: Ken Watanabe’s daughter spotted dating actor Yukiyoshi Ozawa

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    jonnyboy

    get a hair-cut, hippy!

    Posted in: Ken Watanabe’s daughter spotted dating actor Yukiyoshi Ozawa

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    jonnyboy

    The U.S., which spends the highest amount of money per person on health care—$6,719, also still lags on child mortality compared to other advanced nations. If this is not an argument for public health care, what is?

    i think this statistic is rather distorted by a profiteering private health insurance system. yes, i also hope the obama administration will be able to return healthcare in the US back to the sane state it was before Tricky Dicky ruined it

    Posted in: WHO: Japan, San Marino top life-expectancy list

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    jonnyboy

    illsayit - Why African people can not have long life? I think because there are not good and not enough water there. Most drink dirty water everyday make them sick and there are not enough medicine for patients and not enough water for agriculture. Without water no one can live longer. I say water is everything to survive. African people would have longer life if they can have clean good enough water.

    not to mention war and lack of access to modern medical care

    i would also like to see statistics of life expectancy of japan excluding okinawa. using okinawa as an example to reflect the lifestyles of mainland japanese is rather misleading, especially when you consider consider that it only recently became part of the country

    Posted in: WHO: Japan, San Marino top life-expectancy list

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    jonnyboy

    it also makes sense to me that the tough circumstances the japanese lived through during the war years had a beneficial effect in the long-run for the generation that survived. easy lifestyles don't make you resilient

    Posted in: WHO: Japan, San Marino top life-expectancy list

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    jonnyboy

    i can't help thinking that japan's much-trumpeted life expectancy has already peaked... watched an interesting documentary about okinawa's life expectancy and the basic point was that okinawans had evolved to suit a particularly strict and minimal diet of vegetables, but abundance had seriously jeopardised that in recent times

    Posted in: WHO: Japan, San Marino top life-expectancy list

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    jonnyboy

    Is there some rule where pretty idols and TV personalities have to marry comedians?

    perhaps it helps to have a sense of humour

    Posted in: Downtown's Matsumoto announces shotgun marriage to ex-weathergirl

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    jonnyboy

    not japanese enough. she should be trust up in a cotton kimono and stooping and bowing in some medieval peasant village

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    jonnyboy

    with regards to hygienic inconsistency, "the wearing of the masks" (and i suppose the hand cleaning as well) are just the socially proscribed ways of showing attention to ones obligations with regards to this matter. in fact, people are just serving the usual social expectations placed upon them, having little or no actual relation to the matter at hand (the spread of the H1N1 virus).

    as such, just business as usual...

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    jonnyboy

    press turn up for the tarento. movie promoter hopes the movie poster will slip into a few of the shots. like that star trek promotion last week. the journalists get back to the office and notice there are a bunch of gaijins in the background of their shot

    Posted in: 'Most beautiful' politician fed up with all the attention

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