Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!news.moat.net!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!nntp.gol.com!203.216.70.8.MISMATCH!not-for-mail From: B <none@nowhere.com> Newsgroups: rec.travel.asia,fj.life.in-japan,soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.thai Subject: Re: Japan Sucked, but not the people. Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:31:38 +0900 Organization: FusionGOL - Global Online Japan Lines: 15 Message-ID: <e2kc7q$mcd$1@nnrp.gol.com> References: <1145689700.617218.150140@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com> <e2hbvf$s6k$1@nnrp.gol.com> <1heapru.kyk4bg1pcs2yoN%trap_for_junk_mail@yahoo.com> <1145939584.155118.16380@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.216.0.150 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: nnrp.gol.com 1145943098 22925 203.216.0.150 (25 Apr 2006 05:31:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@gol.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 05:31:38 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20051002) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <1145939584.155118.16380@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:162571 flyaway840@hotmail.com wrote: > > The shops with the resistors etc had nothing, no batteries, no > English keyboard or Fujitsu hard drive (which is all this stupid IBM > Think Pad R52 A12 will take, all others it says it does not support). There are dozens of shops that have laptop parts. You are pretty stupid if you think you can arrive in a country you don't know and don't speak the language but expect to go straight to a shop that has exactly what you want. You fucked up and you should accept that.