Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newshosting.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!216.196.98.140.MISMATCH!border1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!border2.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!border1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 18:30:52 -0600 Subject: Re: Getting the Fuck out of Japan Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:30:50 -0800 From: Gerry <222ggg@spam.really.sucks> Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Message-ID: <120120041630503571%222ggg@spam.really.sucks> References: <120120040818573894%222ggg@spam.really.sucks> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Thoth/1.7.1 (Carbon/OS X) Lines: 55 X-Trace: sv3-gIEJ9eshQwBgqYp1bMbyGYdKllnMhjdUBf6A7EY6hqck4DrM9QJhrcB6+JtOiMOYuTBxbzeiWRR4YVz!h7L8yqS5Z2/72fd2NkSFc3Ep8zHKx1kj196TpddJXELhfVnAD+kaIFoejYQ5YPHVTAMwmA== X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:10506 In article , Dick Muhfukkin Bagswing wrote: > > "You know, before Americans are allowed to travel overseas, they > > should first visit Canada. If they do OK here, then maybe let them > > travel to, say, England." -- Stand-up comic at the Just for Laughs > > Festival > > > Y'know,I could give a fuck about the original poster but shit like > the above has been getting on my goddamned nerves lately. Fuckin' shit like that? Goddam! Cultural/national stereo-types irk you? I hope you get all hot and bothered when you see them directed at other nations, then. > If anyone truly believes that we americans have the market cornered > on being bad tourists, travelers or just plain being uncouth in > foreign countries then please haul off and kiss my fucking ass. Well, certainly when the image of your ass appears, it changes the character of the debate rapidly. Not to mention, the fuck, the shit, the goddam and the ever-looming banner of scrotum obsession you march under. But I don't think that's what the gag above said at all: that only Unitedstatesians are swine overseas. Hardly. I live in a high volume tourist area in the US and can say you for sure that tourists as jack-asses come from all nations. Now as I think about it though, I guess it's much easier to encounter more local assholes than I do even arrogant and demanding tourists from everywhere else doubled. But why not have pride in the arroganct fuck-and-shit type Unitedstatesian "spirit" rather than get defensive about it. By fuckin' shit--Unitedstatesians are the biggest nuisances from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli! And we're mighty proud of it! And if you don't like it, etc. etc, testicles. Relative to Canadian assholes, don't be silly; quite clearly there aren't any. English and Aussies have another of the same difficulties Unitedstatesians have; an inability to learn simple phrases in a foreign language. That always makes the approach of an English speaker a looming burden. Again. But how's this: in Alan Booth's Road to Sato, no matter *WHAT* in the hell he does, no matter how often he says he's from England, speaking good Japanese in the process, they nod and continue to ask him questions about life in the US. An English speaker seems to only come from the USA. So maybe all those Brits and Aussies further our bad standing. But again, if you'll be proud of it, it can only help. -- First they gerrymander us into one-party fiefs. Then they tell us they only care about the swing districts. Then they complain about voter apathy. -- Gail Collins