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.

Jeff