Japan!!!@!@!@

MAME

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I'm going.

July 7th - August 1st

Living with my girlfriend.


First class round trip. Ohhhhhhhh yesssssss
 

Nebor

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I'll be your girlfriend.

I lied, I really won't. Hey, see if idiots take Cavaliers & Focuses and put all sorts of crap on them there. But they wouldn't call them ricers, would they? What would they call them? What's a uniquely American food?
 

MAME

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Originally posted by: Nebor
I'll be your girlfriend.

I lied, I really won't. Hey, see if idiots take Cavaliers & Focuses and put all sorts of crap on them there. But they wouldn't call them ricers, would they? What would they call them? What's a uniquely American food?

I'll ask and report back
 

Nebor

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Originally posted by: MAME
Originally posted by: Nebor
I'll be your girlfriend.

I lied, I really won't. Hey, see if idiots take Cavaliers & Focuses and put all sorts of crap on them there. But they wouldn't call them ricers, would they? What would they call them? What's a uniquely American food?

I'll ask and report back

Are you going to post from Japan? I always wondered, in other countries, countries that don't use our english alphabet, what do their keyboards look like? Do they have wacky symbols all over them? Do the people there think they're symbols look funny? Do they have tiny feet?
 

CanOWorms

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You can't truly experience Japan unless you wake up in the morning in bed with a sumo wrestler.
 

Nebor

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Originally posted by: CanOWorms
You can't truly experience Japan unless you wake up in the morning in bed with a sumo wrestler.

So that Sake is good stuff, huh?
 

MAME

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Originally posted by: Nebor
Originally posted by: MAME
Originally posted by: Nebor
I'll be your girlfriend.

I lied, I really won't. Hey, see if idiots take Cavaliers & Focuses and put all sorts of crap on them there. But they wouldn't call them ricers, would they? What would they call them? What's a uniquely American food?

I'll ask and report back

Are you going to post from Japan? I always wondered, in other countries, countries that don't use our english alphabet, what do their keyboards look like? Do they have wacky symbols all over them? Do the people there think they're symbols look funny? Do they have tiny feet?

if I type, say "sayonara" in Japanese, then it is the same as typing it here. After the characters are used, the software detects what word you used and selects the appropriate alphabet (hiragana, katakana or kanji). Now sometimes there's more than 1 option for a word, say "Kami" (hair, god or paper). Each of the kanji characters are presented for the user to select from.

So they type in Romanji (roman characters) and select from the options if need be.

fyi: they have to program in the same language as us! that would be so hard.
 

unclebud

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"Hey, see if idiots take Cavaliers & Focuses and put all sorts of blah on them there. But they wouldn't call them ricers, would they? What would they call them?"
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"I always wondered, in other countries, countries that don't use our english alphabet, what do their keyboards look like? Do they have wacky symbols all over them?"
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" Do the people there think they're symbols look funny?" why would they?
"Do they have tiny feet?" :(
they type with their hands
 

OokiiNeko

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if I type, say "sayonara" in Japanese, then it is the same as typing it here. After the characters are used, the software detects what word you used and selects the appropriate alphabet (hiragana, katakana or kanji).

Almost. You select your alphabet first (almost always hiragana when doing Nihongo) then when the word is spelled out, a little vertical box pops up to display available Kanji (kinda like autocomplete).

The choice between alphabets (including Romanji/English) is selected by mouse with symbol next to time (lower right hand).

Suggest you keep on lookout for place called Gera-gera (with green frog as mascot). All over Tokyo. Internet access (with or without smoking), magazines (yes even those kind), manga (whole rows of bookshelves) beverage bar (kohi, ocha and soft drinks) and open 24/7.

P.S. If you are going to Tokyo area, and do the Akihabara pilgramage, do NOT buy a keyboard that has both Romanji and Japanese (hiragana) on it. It may look neato geeky cool, but it will NOT work with English version Windows.
 

Mookow

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Originally posted by: Nebor
I'll be your girlfriend.

I lied, I really won't. Hey, see if idiots take Cavaliers & Focuses and put all sorts of crap on them there. But they wouldn't call them ricers, would they? What would they call them? What's a uniquely American food?

Burgers?
 

Lithium381

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japan is awesome dude, never been but tha'ts one of only a few options i would travel too have a good time!
 

andylawcc

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omg! MAME IS FAKE TOO COZ HIS HAS A G/F!!!!!
come on man, going to Japan? how far fetch is that!

:eek: :p :)
 

RadioHead84

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Have fun dude. I lived there for 5 years when i was younger and it was quite the experiance. I am sure its deffrent when you are older but ittl be fun. How long are you going to be there and what does your gf do..or what do you do...First Class on a 14 hour flight its very expensive
 

EvilYoda

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damn you...lucky bastage. Congrats. And take pictures of the wild Japanese women for me, I miss having them as friends. :p
 

RadioHead84

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Originally posted by: EvilYoda
damn you...lucky bastage. Congrats. And take pictures of the wild Japanese women for me, I miss having them as friends. :p

You used to live there?
 

MAME

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Originally posted by: andylawcc
omg! MAME IS FAKE TOO COZ HIS HAS A G/F!!!!!
come on man, going to Japan? how far fetch is that!

:eek: :p :)

well, I mean, I *call* her my girlfriend, but she doesn't really know me. I saw her picture in a magazine and I've been following her around for a few months. Turns out she's staying in a hotel for a month so I made reservations for the room next door.

I've planned my schedule to match with her's so I'll bump in to her all the time. Who knows, maybe we'll get married!
 

MAME

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Originally posted by: RadioHead84
Have fun dude. I lived there for 5 years when i was younger and it was quite the experiance. I am sure its deffrent when you are older but ittl be fun. How long are you going to be there and what does your gf do..or what do you do...First Class on a 14 hour flight its very expensive

I'll be there a month. My gf is a translator and data entry person for a large medical company. She works 12 hour days 5-6 days a week.

I'm a cs student.


The tickets are from my stepdad who is joining me (along with my mom) for the first week of my trip. He used to work for a company that sent him around the world just to drop off packages and such. He would fly first class and racked up 09w8350943850934850939oeujfkdfn230j390854908 frequent flyer miles.

Needless to say, we're all flying round trip, first class for free....and he still has miles left over. Now before you say I'm lucky, I practically begged him to give me a coach seat. He and my mom agreed but they ended up getting me a first class seat instead.
 

TheAudit

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Originally posted by: Mookow
Originally posted by: Nebor
I'll be your girlfriend.

I lied, I really won't. Hey, see if idiots take Cavaliers & Focuses and put all sorts of crap on them there. But they wouldn't call them ricers, would they? What would they call them? What's a uniquely American food?

Burgers?

Damn burger cut me off this morning!!
He had one of those friggin? big burger spoilers and a fart can exhaust on his burger Focus!