ifignow wrote:
> "Declan Murphy" <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:3FF68655.5000405@hotmail.com...
> 
>>>Naturally, I was skeptical of any advice coming from him.
>>
>>You may think it was natural, but it was a foolish decision.
> 
> Hmmm, should I trust the other people who insist on this hato bus business?
> Their attitudes suggest I shouldn't.

You ask for suggestions, and based on your net persona you got some 
ideas suggested to you. Naturally this means you should bite their heads 
off?

If it was me I would say something along the lines of "thanks", or 
"thanks but having looked at the hato bus schedule etc it doesn't appeal 
to me. What I'm looking for is something more along the lines of..." 
instead of expecting everyone to solve your social leprosy for you 
without assistance.

>>Projection 1.
>>Projection 2.
>>Projection 3.
> 
> Who, you or me?

You. Fabian is a cool gaigin, and I have a hunch that the world would be 
a better place with more Fabians per square inch. Or something like that.

>>Then why are you gracing us with your presence?
> 
> I am not here by choice.

You may not be in Japan by choice, but as far as I can tell no one is 
forcing you to browse or post fjlij or any other newsgroup.

>>You are the one asking
>>for help? No? You may equate "manners" with bending over backwards, and
>>indeed some other people in the world may too, but if you aren't willing
>>to display a clue, you shouldn't be expecting much in the way of help.
> 
> People have a knee-jerk reflex of accusing others of "ignorance", though do
> you know for a fact that I know nothing about Japan?  What if I have spent
> years living here in the past?

All we know so far is what you have told us. That you grew up in rural 
Japan (where? from/until what ages? as the child of Japanese nationals? 
One foreign/two foreign parents? Nikkei?), that you are staying in Tokyo 
with family (immediate? relatives?), that you are at/going to gradschool 
(who doesn't?), that you somehow manage to avoid talking to people for 
days etc.

Its not much to go on if ya know what I mean.

And as for years living here in the past - so what? What you do or don't 
know about Japan etc matters sweet-fuck-all to people in this group - 
and why shouldn't that be?. It doesn't matter how long you are/were 
here, there isn't a pecking order. An anti-social self-righteous asshole 
who spent 30 years in Japan would be treated like an asshole if he 
behaved like one.

If you want some help in Tokyo, just learn how to ask.


-- 
I am not who I think I am
I am not who you think I am
I am who I think you think I am

...or some such shite.