jwb@csse.monash.edu.au wrote:
> Marvel <marvel@wigout.com> dixit:
> >Actually I was not  impressed with the Japanese service, rather surprised at
> >the way they did things.
> >Like to get your car inspected they rob you blind. Unlike back home a state
> >inspection runs thirty bucks. Or  if any little thing goes wrong with your
> >car as in my sister in laws case I think she needed a radiator and they
> >suggested she sell it and buy a new car. I was glad to see the Autobacs
> >store open.
>
> I think it's really shocking the way Japan does things its own way. I mean,
> who do they think they are? After all there is a set of world class
> standard practices for them to copy and they cussedly ignore them.

Bloody Toyota. Take a perfectly good MRP and come up with some
jusutointaimu BS instead.

> I'm reminded of a case discussed on soc.culture.france where a couple
> of tourists from Wherever created a stink and wanted their money back
> when what they were served as "filet mignon" wasn't the same as they
> were used to back home. The bloody Frogs are as bad as the Japanese.

hehe. No need to head to soc.culture.france either.... "I've already
been to kabuki shows here.  Kabuki shows in Japan are a lot worse than
kabuki shows in the U.S. -- in the U.S., they use all-star casts that
are never seen in Japan"