Japanese etiquette

finite automaton

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My girlfriend is in Japan on a class trip and she told me her teacher told her that talking on their cell phone in public (while walking?) is frowned upon, and they are not allowed to do it. Is this a load of BS that she is being fed to dissuade her from talking on the phone during the day?
 

finite automaton

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Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
What are the Japanese people doing?
Pics of gf?

She said she saw one person on the phone, but after thinking about it I've decided i'm not going to worry too much about it, since when they're in public doing their thing I'm sleeping and don't want to be bothered anyway!
 

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Pic of girlfriend and teacher...

Don't forget both yours and the gf's mom.
 

finite automaton

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Originally posted by: Newbian
Pic of girlfriend and teacher...

Don't forget both yours and the gf's mom.

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What do you think? I know she looks a little crooked, caught this pic while she was dancing...
 

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Originally posted by: finite automaton
Originally posted by: Newbian
Pic of girlfriend and teacher...

Don't forget both yours and the gf's mom.

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What do you think? I know she looks a little crooked, caught this pic while she was dancing...

Do you call her stumpy?
 

finite automaton

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Originally posted by: Newbian
Originally posted by: finite automaton
Originally posted by: Newbian
Pic of girlfriend and teacher...

Don't forget both yours and the gf's mom.

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What do you think? I know she looks a little crooked, caught this pic while she was dancing...

Do you call her stumpy?

LOL for some reason I had to throw two back slashes in there
 

MichaelD

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From what I've heard, it's bad etiquette for foreign women to wear pants; only short, school-girl type skirts are acceptable. And she must wear white panties. And bend over a lot. I hear that makes the Japanese men very happy.
 

finite automaton

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Originally posted by: MichaelD
From what I've heard, it's bad etiquette for foreign women to wear pants; only short, school-girl type skirts are acceptable. And she must wear white panties. And bend over a lot. I hear that makes the Japanese men very happy.

So that's why she packed all those skirts.... :|
 

finite automaton

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Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
a little paranoid?

About what? I think you got the wrong idea; I'm trying to figure out if the teacher was telling the truth, I don't question whether or not the teacher said it.
 

MichaelD

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Aren't the Japanese the most tech-crazy, cellphone-toting, thumb-textingest people on the face of the earth? :confused: I've never been to Japan but I'd imagine that you're issued a cell phone when you're 4 years old and it's forever glued to your hand after that...
 

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Originally posted by: MichaelD
Aren't the Japanese the most tech-crazy, cellphone-toting, thumb-textingest people on the face of the earth? :confused: I've never been to Japan but I'd imagine that you're issued a cell phone when you're 4 years old and it's forever glued to your hand after that...

Texting is not in question either, apparently it is all the rage there and people text like we talk.