Path: news.ccsf.jp!norn-news!news.heimat.gr.jp!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.eternal-september.org!motzarella.org!not-for-mail From: CL Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Beard Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:19:42 +0900 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 72 Message-ID: References: <3014a49e-091f-44bc-8da4-006e2b67f8f4@h2g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <3d4d4b28-16b2-410f-95ce-5cb933393ece@p10g2000prf.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX1/222I2LUl3I9H6Qw3f2lpg6hMCyFlL1FK+XWH9z1Lz3M5Iw9rDA3wJBmKb+BN1Y1CvjBZuAPvmyk9J4Zw9PHAxTtQAV0L7wnBfLtgex+vtNlXcMeAlrqobKif1IPu2epY= X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:20:02 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1+RNDjT9OAlENT3md0iGzBa X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 081023-0, 2008-10-23), Outbound message Cancel-Lock: sha1:/F6G2IP/8d+5XiZ+RhSUy9QI354= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:167624 obakesan wrote: > HiYa > > In article , CL > wrote: >> Declan Murphy wrote: >>> On Oct 23, 8:26 pm, CL wrote: >>>> obakesan wrote: >>>>> In article >> , Declan >> Murphy wrote: >>>>>> companies etc during that time. When a Japanese speaking foreign >>>>>> businessman walks into a meeting, the last thing anyone is going to >>>>>> think about is his beard. >>>>> so many things come to mind here >>> Please specify :-) >>> >>>>> its more frustrating at the onsen ;-) >>>> I thought that was tattoos ... ? >>> Get real Charles. If a Japanese speaking foreign businessman was >>> walking into a meeting specifically being held in an onsen, the last >>> thing anyone is going to think about is his tattoos. It would probably >>> be a pre-requisite of the meeting. >> You must go to different onsen than I do. Most of them have signs >> specifically forbidding people with tats from using the facilities. >> And, I wasn't on the same train of thought as you were ... thinking >> about the difficulties of even getting in rather than actually trying to >> meet. Lessee ... business meeting at an onsen? How could you get any > > ok ... you're starting to churn over the idea there ... push it a bit more and > you'll be there. Yeah, I got it the first time. But, it wasn't where I was headed and I must have lost the "business meeting" train. I have had dealings with those folks and have _never_ been invited to an onsen meeting. Not even one of the ones they own around Ibaraki or Sakai on Osaka-fu. Golf, yes. Hostess bar, definitely. A sauna in Shinjuku one time and another time in Shinsaibashi. Hotel rooms / hotel restaurants, for sure. Even got invited to a meeting at Yamaguchi-gumi HQ in Kobe once (okay, so I was already outside the door, the guy I wanted to see had dealt with me before, and said I could be on the approved list for the day ... so I was "invited" in after I got turned upside down and inside out in the check for recording devices). But, onsen? Never. > here's a hint of where Delcan was taking that ... ok you ready > > which kind of "businessman" is most likely to have lots of tattos in Japan? Well, duh ... >> work done with all of the babas crowding around you in the rotenburo >> trying to get a look at your manhood to see of Caucasian ones really are >> not the same? >> > > so yes, it probably *is* a different onsen to the one you (and I) go to > > :-) You wouldn't smile like that after having your hand towel inspected by thirty babas within a fifteen minute period. C'mon admit that it's happened to you, too. Or when you put your towel on top of your head and close your eyes, only to find that, while you were dozing, three or four obatarion have slipped closer and are peering down through the water trying to see your crotch. I had one forty-something at Yufuin sidle over, grab my crotch, turn to her friends and say "Atashi no danna ha daitai onaji, desuyo" -- CL