Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!nntp.gol.com!203.216.70.8.MISMATCH!not-for-mail From: Ron Hitler Barrassi Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Shannon's Thematic Rut Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 09:57:14 +0900 Organization: FusionGOL - Global Online Japan Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <41DE1C47.7060308@hotmail.com> <41DE2BA4.1090106@hotmail.com> <41DE599B.2000000@hotmail.com> <41E3A151.2020300@hotmail.com> <41E4C4F9.6030303@hotmail.com> <41E4FAF7.1030404@hotmail.com> <41E5FE5A.5050707@hotmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 203-216-000-090.engineering.gol.ad.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: nnrp.gol.com 1105664234 18369 203.216.0.90 (14 Jan 2005 00:57:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@gol.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 00:57:14 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041007 Debian/1.7.3-5 X-Accept-Language: en In-Reply-To: Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:24494 Michael Cash wrote: > > A cute young hottie (or maybe she was a hot young cutie...I get > confused) today informed me that my nihongo is jouzu and I am nihonjin > yori umai. > > All that because I indicated that I didn't mind having hot and cold > items placed in the same bag at the convenience store. > > Now I know what Rush meant a couple of days ago when he said something > about the "soft bigotry of low expectations". > I may have mentioned this before. At my local 7-11 there is occasionally an older man who I think is the owner. He has a very kind face and seems a genuinely nice person. However, he has never said a single word to me. Each time we go through a patomine of "do you want chopsticks?", "shall I heat this?", "this is the price here". I don't even get arigato. I know he can speak Japanese, he speaks to the other customers.