Tokyo Halloween Train
Out of context: Reply #12
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- 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.