Tokyo Halloween Train
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- TheBlueOne
http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=301…
Apparently a whole slew of halloween garbed gaijin board trains and ride around Tokyo. This year alot of people got pissed off, drunkeness, gaijin hatred, nudity, police, weee!!!
- edd-e0
i was watching that video, and i wish i seen more better costumes like those cosplay kids do...
it didnt look like anything bad, kinda low key and minor...
- Llyod0
they erased the racist comments? wtf I want to hear what japanese racists say
- Peter0
they erased the racist comments? wtf I want to hear what japanese racists say
Llyod
(Oct 28 07, 04:55)Death treats. Knife being the favorable choice.
- Peter0
i was watching that video, and i wish i seen more better costumes like those cosplay kids do...
it didnt look like anything bad, kinda low key and minor...
edd-e
(Oct 28 07, 04:28)Hey dude, how's it going?
Yes, this thing is organized by foreigners - and most of them aint got the time to put something descent togheter, so they'll just go get them at Tokyo Hands or some departmentstore like that.
I didn't go. I somehow knew the train were going to be stopped in one way or the other that day.
I am going to Geisai though. Art Festival. Tamabi is holding its next week. It'll be awesome. I'm holding some small exhibitions, btw.
Heard anything from Risa? I mailed her about some correction/translation work but never heard back from her...
- detritus0
If it's anything like..
..I completely empathise with the Japs. This looks like a bunch of ignorant fuckwits thoughtlessly abusing the hospitality of their host nation.
Is it because Americans aren't significantly exposed to public transport that they think this is acceptable behaviour?
- Peter0
..I completely empathise with the Japs. This looks like a bunch of ignorant fuckwits thoughtlessly...
detritus
(Oct 28 07, 05:53)Naming Japanese that is considered pretty ignorant here...
- Llyod0
most of the english teachers are losers when they're in the US.
- Llyod0
...they have visions of japanese women worshiping their relatively large dicks.
- detritus0
"Naming Japanese"? What does that mean? I meant 'Japs' as a shorthand, like 'Brits' or 'Ozzies'.
How on Earth is that insulting?
Given that I've never been there, I'd be happy to be bow down to your superior, intimate knowledge of the locals, PeterH.
- Peter0
"be bow down"? What does that mean?
You're seriously asking why calling Japanese Japs is insulting?
Not really my fight here so I'll just post Wiki for you:
- Drno0
its sad sad sad
we did a lot worst when i used live in korea and it was more accepted,
i guess japan is continuing on the road to tyranny.
maybe they should bring laws like in switzerland or maybe finally realise they messed up during the war and acknowledge it,
as much as i did love my trip there, these past years they have been closing themselve more and more,
- detritus0
heh, I wasn't intending to highlight your grammar - just trying to ensure I interpreted you correctly.
I was seriously asking, yes.
From your Wiki link..
"Today it is usually used as an ethnic slur, **though English speaking countries differ in the degree they consider the term offensive**. Most people of Japanese descent in these countries consider it offensive."I did not know that at all - as I said, having never been there, and not knowing any Japanese I'll happily admit to being ignorant on the subject. My point being - that if I were there, I'd learn about such subtleties. All the same, from my Ivory Tower here in London, even I know how seriously they take their public transport.
Also, I can appreciate how pissed off I'd be if a bunch of 'foreigners' took it upon themselves to have a drunken party on the Tube, entirely against the social norms found here.
- detritus0
"entirely against the social norms found here."
Actually, that's not entirely true, but then I often feel like a foreigner in my own land, when confronted by drunken imbeciles being leery on the tube.
- detritus0
Out of interest, what IS a non-insulting shorthand for Japanese?
- Llyod0
"jap" isn't as offensive as "paki". personally I think neither are offensive. sort of like tex-mex.