On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 09:50:47 GMT, "necoandjeff" <spam@schrepfer.com>
brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:

>B Robson wrote:
>> necoandjeff wrote:
>>
>>> B Robson wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Since when did Korean TV become cool?
>>>
>>>
>>> Where the hell have you been?
>>
>> One of the things I like about Japan is I can generally avoid
>> mainstream "culture" only tapping into the things I am interested in.
>> For instance I don't think I have ever heard a Brittany Spears song.
>> One draw back is I didn't know how big the Chutetsu earthquake was
>> until I sat next to a guy on the train and saw his newspaper.
>
>But at least you've heard *of* Britney Spears.
>
>So you mean you actually live in Japan and haven't picked up on the Korean
>boom that has been going on for at least a year now (and even longer if you
>count back to the jointly hosted World Cup)? And you didn't know how bad the
>earthquake is? Do you live in a cave somewhere? Dude, you need to get out
>and mingle with actual people a little bit more.

Add my name to the list.

If I didn't catch a glimpse of the tv or the newspaper headline in the
break room at work, I would have no idea of the extent of the
earthquake. I couldn't pick Britney Spears out of a police lineup, and
haven't picked up on the Korean boom.

I absolutely thoroughly fucking hate and despise Japanese television
with a totally irrational all-consuming passion, for one thing. And
for another, a couple of years ago I decided that for the most part I
would just tune the news right out of my life. I look at the headlines
on the google news roundup, and that's about the total extent of my
awareness of what's going on in the world.

A couple of weeks ago, my wife started telling me about whatever the
latest gruesome shocking murder in Japan is, and I cut her off. I told
her I intentionally avoid it in the media, and I don't want to discuss
it at home either.

The world's going to spin, whether I watch it doing or not.
>
>>> If you have had any meaningful
>>> contact with Japanese women over the past year or so I can't imagine
>>> you wouldn't know this...
>>>
>>
>> Depends with what you mean by "meaningful".
>
>Well, I'm kind of assuming that you haven't had any contact with Japanese
>women of the "meaningless" variety...

Ahhhh....those were the days.....






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