Michael Cash wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 05:25:42 GMT, "necoandjeff" <spam@schrepfer.com>
> brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
>
>> 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.
>
> I have no access to American television programming. Nor do I want it.
> If I did have it, I would probably have about the same overall opinion
> of it that I do Japanese programming.
>
> I never feel a need to balance my criticisms of Japanese television by
> blasting American television at the same time. I don't have American
> programming, so it is entirely irrelevant. When something on
> television in my home gets my dander up, I don't tell myself "Well, it
> sucks back home, too".

Nor do you need to. I'm just pointing out the fact that TV sucking at home
is generally referred to as "TV sucks" whereas TV sucking in Japan is
generally referred to (by foreigners) as "Japanese TV sucks" which, intended
or not, implies that Japanese TV sucks more than non-Japanese TV.

Jeff