On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 05:25:42 GMT, necoandjeff wrote:

> Danny Wilde wrote:
>> "Edward Mills" <spam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:1rc9b4yw1ymyz$.l5fs7xp1d5xl.dlg@40tude.net...
>>> On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 21:27:40 +0900, Eric Takabayashi wrote:
>>>
>>>> Back in 1987, it was TV and videos which first taught me
>>>> conversational Japanese.
>>>
>>> You mean like the old guy that does the voiceovers for those TBS
>>> retardathons? You know the guy who talks like a mix between an old
>>> woman having a massive orgasm and a high school girl trying to sound
>>> like a five year old girl?
>>
>> I don't know why people here want to insult Japanese TV so much and
>> say how stupid the people on Japanese TV are.
> 
> It's a fairly typical phenomenon among the not-so-deep thinkers among us,
> actually. When in your own country, things are just stupid and taken for
> granted, but when you are in Japan and you see something stupid, rather than
> recall the fact that there are quite likely things that are just as stupid
> back in your home country, it becomes "that stupid Japanese [thing]," which
> is somehow unique to the Japanese.

I would strongly urge you to consider the logic you used to arrive at this
conclusion, because it is highly flawed. 

hint: Just because Martians are stupid doesn't mean that Earthlings aren't
stupid.