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!hammer.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!pln-w!spln!dex!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!drn From: Brett Robson Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Quckdraw McGraw Date: 28 Oct 2003 19:09:28 -0800 Organization: Newsguy News Service [http://newsguy.com] Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <6l8spvgm8fgpos4r2ims89dge7hmhso7uq@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: p-902.newsdawg.com X-Newsreader: Direct Read News 4.20 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:7006 On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 11:41:11 +0900, Scott Reynolds ... > >On 10/28/2003 11:30 PM, Michael Cash wrote: > >> On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:04:14 +0900, Chris Kern >> belched the alphabet and kept on going with: >> >>>That reminds me of setting up a bank account -- one of the people >>>there was showing me how to use the ATM. I put in my cash card, and >>>then typed in my PIN and started entering the amount of money I wanted >>>to withdraw. I was about to hit the confirm button when the person >>>said "no, no, you're doing it wrong!" and then reached over and hit >>>the cancel button so my card popped out. "First you press this," he >>>said, pointing to the "ENGLISH" button. >> >> As I have always said, the greatest injustice in Japan is that while >> foreigners are treated like idiots, idiots are not treated like >> foreigners. > >What about foreign idiots? > They get to go on TV. . ---- "No country hides itself behind the paper screen of cultural elitism like Japan, which, considering they've bought their entire civilisation from other people's hand-me-downs, is a bit of a liberty."