Originally Posted by Nyororin (Post 775084)

Please don`t forget you`re not the first foreigner to head to Japan and you aren`t the first person we`ve seen who has dropped into a spiral of nit picking and complaints/whining about parts of Japanese culture.

It`s fine to wonder about things - but your threads sound *negative* in doing so - I mean, just look at the titles:

Originally Posted by Aniki (Post 775099)

So the Japanese have a different way in advertising beer, big deal.

I'm more interested to know how strong is japanese beer. Can anyone who's been to Japan, please, tell me how much alcohol does the strongest japanese beer have?

Originally Posted by Mortry (Post 775110)

I was looking on youtube for an example of Japanese beer commercials,
when I found this hilarious one xD:

YouTube - Arnold Japanese Beer Commercial 2

I wonder if it's really Arnold :P

Originally Posted by GTJ (Post 775063)

Jeez, I'm seeing a god complex developing among the mods. Were you guys this aggressive when Jerry Seinfeld pointed out the weird things in daily life? Just because I still wonder about some things and want to see what other people think about it... so NONE of you are guilty of this? Wait, don't answer that.

:D

Originally Posted by masaegu (Post 775072)

@GTJ

You've been a huge topic among us Japanese members here and a couple of more active ones have already put you in their Ignore Bins.

Originally Posted by GTJ (Post 774967)

Haha, yeah, I think we were talking about that in another thread and everyone agreed on the topic ;)



UMAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIII!!!

Yeah I hate that too. :D

Then again it doesn't help that the Japanese only have like three words for something that tastes good. Although recently the people on TV have been making more of an effort to actively describe flavors and such, which is a step in the right direction from just shouting "UMAI" with your mouth half-full.

Originally Posted by MMM (Post 774971)

GTJ, you are shifting to "whiny gaijin" mode. This is a part of a slow-burn culture shock. I knew many people it happened to, and it is real common. After 4 to 6 months in Japan they we would meet up but instead of talking about cool new discoveries the conversations became nit-picky complaining sessions about Japan.

Again, it's pretty normal, but I hope you don't start too many more threads like this. I do want you to be able to talk through your life in Japan...that is important...but people that don't live there might read these and be...thrown off. I hope this makes sense and you don't take it the wrong way.