J-TV is bad for us...

11 Nov 2003, 21:33 #1

My husband and I decided that Japanese TV was bad for us, too much about food and onsen, so we ended up just unplugging it.

...so says a foreigner living in japan. The link is here, just scroll all the way to the bottom. Wow, what a waste of resource, able to watch anything JPN shows, but chooses not to.

11 Nov 2003, 21:42 #2

YEah man what a waste she must be crazy! :crazy:

11 Nov 2003, 23:50 #3

I think she is crazy...what a waste! Ever thinking of switching place with me? I'd like to live there for a while and watch J-TV program (variety shows and J-drama) :mrgreen:

12 Nov 2003, 00:02 #4

What's so bad about food and onsen!?? :crazy:

12 Nov 2003, 00:16 #5

to think of all the good dramas they are missing.. :shakehead: and i would love to step into an onsen..

12 Nov 2003, 00:20 #6

gosh
they should have swap place with me...
:shakehead:

12 Nov 2003, 00:57 #7

what is onsen?

12 Nov 2003, 01:15 #8

When I was in Japan, it's kind of hard if you are a J!-ENT fan because there are many things good on TV well early afternoon and evening (mornings are news/variety shows and drama replays) but that was when I found it a good time to go shopping in Shibuya, Harajuku or Shinjuku.

Anyone on here try to visit many areas in Japan that they see from Japanese dramas?

kndy

12 Nov 2003, 01:21 #9

Michi wrote:what is onsen?

Hot springs. It's awesome.

12 Nov 2003, 01:33 #10

oohh
u've tried before?

12 Nov 2003, 01:44 #11

Michi wrote:oohh. u've tried before?

Yep. in okinawa, it's too hot, so it's not ok to do it. but we went to a bunch of places in the mainland during several winters and it's the BEAST! There are several levels of bathhouses. The local mom+pop bathhouses, which all the neighborhood people frequent, and then the exotic locales, in all parts of JPN. This one usually is taken with a bunch of tourist, on a bus to whereever (we were in wakayama for one winter), and usually comes with a HUGE japanese feast afterwards. Highly recommend it if/when anyone visits mainland JPN.

12 Nov 2003, 01:50 #12

cool~ ^^
i wanna try that too ^^

12 Nov 2003, 02:56 #13

Hehe! It was only an individual couple's statement. Just ignore it. Besides they are foreigners in Japan. I don't think they have settled down, a home sick has struck on them, perhaps? I wouldn't mind watchin food and onsen programmes on tv since we have crappy programme selections over here :sweat: too much the same!

12 Nov 2003, 07:35 #14

for me i cannot imagine spending even one day without the television.. horrible right? :sweat:

12 Nov 2003, 13:57 #15

arashinokoto wrote:for me i cannot imagine spending even one day without the television.. horrible right? :sweat:

lol.. actually me too... sometimes i switch it on just to 'hear'... i don't even see what's on the screen :sweat: ...

12 Nov 2003, 15:29 #16

kook05 wrote:
lol.. actually me too... sometimes i switch it on just to 'hear'... i don't even see what's on the screen :sweat: ...

Same here. I got the habbit of just turning it on without even watching it. Turning on television it's like a ritual nowadays...I'm so worst. :P

12 Nov 2003, 15:42 #17

arashinokoto wrote:for me i cannot imagine spending even one day without the television.. horrible right? :sweat:

yeah.. you're rite.. kook05 too... life without tv???? :shakehead: it's gonna be very dull life.

12 Nov 2003, 17:55 #18

kook05 wrote:
lol.. actually me too... sometimes i switch it on just to 'hear'... i don't even see what's on the screen :sweat: ...

lolz!!!
same here~
hahaha
i always on the tv while using the computer
:hehe:
wasting electricity

13 Nov 2003, 01:53 #19

I rarely watch tv, only sports (tennis&football) and the news.

13 Nov 2003, 08:31 #20

I like to watch tv, but the show on the tv sucks.
kdrama, thai drama, latin drama.......no jdrama. :mad:
That's why i seldom watch tv, no money to install cable tv. :sweat:

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