Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!e17g2000prj.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Declan Murphy Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Sheeple? Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 00:15:11 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 45 Message-ID: <2aa0f319-538c-4d1a-b40c-0701407e6645@e17g2000prj.googlegroups.com> References: <322e737e-9201-41df-9879-43048fb5a0cd@z15g2000prn.googlegroups.com> <8cff0836-6ab7-4051-b63d-a9574e59234b@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 123.221.176.51 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1305184512 26822 127.0.0.1 (12 May 2011 07:15:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 07:15:12 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e17g2000prj.googlegroups.com; posting-host=123.221.176.51; posting-account=dFdNnAoAAACo_-792nICp6wBtnsk5ZbZ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1,gzip(gfe) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:169944 On May 12, 3:59=A0pm, CL wrote: > On 05/12/2011 12:24 PM, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > CL =A0wrote: > >> On 05/11/2011 10:24 PM, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote: > >>> JimBreen =A0 wrote: > >>>> On May 11, 11:38?am, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote: > >>>>> Just a followup; he actually printed the response of the Consul Gen= eral > >>>>> in Sapporo to his tale. Some highlights; > > >>>>> "For example, does Mr. Arudou really believe that the U.S. Constitu= tion > >>>>> governs the entrance policy of a private club in a foreign country? > > >>>> Well, an amazing number of Americans think their Constitution > >>>> applies to them anywhere in the world. > > >>> I suspect most of them haven't lived in Japan more than, oh, a day. > > >> Hey, don't forget that most of them learned Japanese so they could rea= d > >> manga and watch anime better. =A0You'd be shocked at the number of und= er > >> 30s I run into who studied Japanese simply for the mind-rotting schloc= k > >> and pulp the "popular press" (sic) vomits out. > > > I actually knew a guy in the 80s who learned Japanese for that very > > reason. > > I bet his parents are proud. =A0No doubt he got a position with the State > Department and is now in charge of negotiations on the relocation of > Futenma. =A0And he dresses up as his favorite character and attends > Comic-cons on weekends. Hey! I know that guy.