Japan is so very similar to Western society
Here's the best example I can think of at this very moment... coming to me... right... ... now!
Not being a very good cook--though I (and Matthew) once got paid to teach a cooking class--we're professional cooks!--I have spent a lot of my life nearly killing myself with my own cooking, or have let someone else do it for me in the form of fast-food cooking.
As a Coke addict--that's Coca-Cola, my friends--I always have one when at a fast food joint like Kentucky Fried Chicken, McDonald's or the ever mysterious Mosburger (which was always delicious, and I miss - despite the following kvetch).
When I place my food order, I always ask for a large Coke--and I do it in Japanese: "Oki-sai Ko-ra, kudasai." (Large size Coke, please).
Why do the greasy clerks working there always (and I mean every, single time) ask me this: "L-sizu, desu ka?", which translates into: "L-size, is it?"
It seems that fast-food restaurants the world over have some level incompetence working for them.
What's even more bizarre is that there is NO letter "L" in the Japanese alphabets!
Somewhere having an L-sized Root Beer,
Andrew "I said I wanted a Coke" Joseph
Today's title version is by Devo - YELLOWJUMPSUIT
PS - Today is also the birthday of my Japanese girlfriend Nobuko. We were engaged. Got your attention, eh?
PPS - I will introduce her very soon - perhaps this week.
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A Horse With No Name
Japan is so very different from Western society.
Here's the best example I can think of at this very moment... coming to me... right... ... now!
Japanese boys when talking to me have this boy habit of pointing to their own crotch and saying for all the world to hear it (including the girls): "Small-small!"
No way does that ever happen in Canada or the U.S., where everybody swears they are part Thoroughbred horse.
Somewhere, neigh, in the Kentucky Derby,
Andrew Joseph
Today's short episode is brought to you by a long song by America.
HERE
Here's the best example I can think of at this very moment... coming to me... right... ... now!
Japanese boys when talking to me have this boy habit of pointing to their own crotch and saying for all the world to hear it (including the girls): "Small-small!"
No way does that ever happen in Canada or the U.S., where everybody swears they are part Thoroughbred horse.
Somewhere, neigh, in the Kentucky Derby,
Andrew Joseph
Today's short episode is brought to you by a long song by America.
HERE
White Rabbit
I am getting shorter. My driver's license (that I filled out) notes that I am 183 centimetres tall--but after measuring myself at the local Ohtawara hospital (don't ask why I was there, just know that I got frequent Air Miles from flying off my bicycle), I discovered that I was now only 178 centimetres.
I lost five centimetres! Thank goodness it was only in height!
Could the Japanese metric system be different from the rest of the world?
Somewhere wondering what I won't do to fit in,
Andrew Joseph
The title is sung by the Jefferson Airplane... though when the truth is found out to be lies, it was lead singer Grace Slick's original band The Great Society that wrote it. SMALL
I lost five centimetres! Thank goodness it was only in height!
Could the Japanese metric system be different from the rest of the world?
Somewhere wondering what I won't do to fit in,
Andrew Joseph
The title is sung by the Jefferson Airplane... though when the truth is found out to be lies, it was lead singer Grace Slick's original band The Great Society that wrote it. SMALL
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