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!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!feed1.news.rcn.net!rcn!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "ifignow" Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan References: <3FF68655.5000405@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Places in Tokyo for the moral traveller? Lines: 34 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 09:15:11 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 165.76.211.246 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1073121311 165.76.211.246 (Sat, 03 Jan 2004 09:15:11 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 09:15:11 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:9463 "Declan Murphy" wrote in message news:3FF68655.5000405@hotmail.com... > > Naturally, I was skeptical of any advice coming from him. > You may think it was natural, but it was a foolish decision. Hmmm, should I trust the other people who insist on this hato bus business? Their attitudes suggest I shouldn't. > Projection 1. > Projection 2. > Projection 3. Who, you or me? > > I am already around plenty of foreigners back in the USA. I do not have to > > bend over backwards for them any more than I already do back home. > Then why are you gracing us with your presence? I am not here by choice. > You are the one asking > for help? No? You may equate "manners" with bending over backwards, and > indeed some other people in the world may too, but if you aren't willing > to display a clue, you shouldn't be expecting much in the way of help. People have a knee-jerk reflex of accusing others of "ignorance", though do you know for a fact that I know nothing about Japan? What if I have spent years living here in the past?