Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: anotherfool@hotmail.com (another fool) Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: How does one express Date: 21 Dec 2003 23:39:17 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 28 Message-ID: <44845040.0312212339.6a4c4145@posting.google.com> References: <44845040.0312211844.10eedbb4@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 219.163.154.185 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1072078757 14733 127.0.0.1 (22 Dec 2003 07:39:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 07:39:17 +0000 (UTC) Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:9142 "Ryan Ginstrom" wrote in message news:... > > bakayarou should suffice, but depending on your accent it might have the > opposite of the intended effect (intimidation I guess?) > > I always just smile and say sumimasen, myself. Although to be honest, when > people bump into me they tend to kind of bounce off. No idea what size you > are, but if I were smaller and more frequently in large crowds, I might get > upset at all the jostling. I actually asked her for what a Yak would say. Basically something so rude and insulting that the guy would either want to hit me or know he was about to get hit. Either way would be appropriate. Noone is going to bump into me and make a dent short of a sumo - I`m a big guy and a good bit past hefty to boot. My problem was people trying to run over my stroller and 4 month old - the guy who got pushed almost got his ass kicked when he almost knocked the stroller over then proceeded to give the wheel a kick as he was going past. If my wife had been nearby to hand the stroller to so I wouldn`t have had to leave it unattended I probably wouldn`t have started anything anyway but expressing my opinion of his jackassian manners in a language he understood would have been nice. Anyone who thinks the Japanese are polite and orderly has never been between a herd of them and the free food at a supermarket on Sunday afternoons - the second that free sample is put down you had better not be between them and the food...