Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.heimat.gr.jp!taurus!newsfeed2.dti.ad.jp!newsfeed1.dti.ad.jp!giga-nspixp2!news-gw1.ocn.ad.jp!news-gw2.ocn.ad.jp!nd-tk001.ocn.ad.jp!cobalt01.janis.or.jp!not-for-mail From: Edward Mills Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Is it just me... Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:22:22 +0900 Organization: JANIS Net Lines: 30 Message-ID: <1akvevp8xbb5f.1omm07glbn1v0$.dlg@40tude.net> References: <3784l9F565ae3U2@individual.net> <420F47BC.ABBE8D93@yahoo.co.jp> <1rc9b4yw1ymyz$.l5fs7xp1d5xl.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 172.21.26.81 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: cobalt01.janis.or.jp 1108445005 11585 172.21.26.81 (15 Feb 2005 05:23:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@cobalt01.janis.or.jp NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Feb 2005 05:23:25 GMT User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 X-Forwarded: by - (DeleGate/5.9.3) Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:25136 On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 05:25:42 GMT, necoandjeff wrote: > Danny Wilde wrote: >> "Edward Mills" 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.