There is a golf course that is near here that's owned bya Japanese company. They market golfing holidays to the Japanese. The Japanese salaryman can fly to Australia, play golf all day for a week, and fly home again for much less than it costs for yearly membership to one of the golf courses in Japan. Most of them never see anything other than the airport and the golf course :)
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Started by lifunk · 15 Nov 2005 · 1,423 replies
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Anime Dad wrote:There is a golf course that is near here that's owned bya Japanese company. They market golfing holidays to the Japanese. The Japanese salaryman can fly to Australia, play golf all day for a week, and fly home again for much less than it costs for yearly membership to one of the golf courses in Japan. Most of them never see anything other than the airport and the golf course :)
tell them to bring food for you next time.....
Anime Dad wrote:Most of them never see anything other than the airport and the golf course :)
When they hit Australia?! SERIOUSLY?? :shakehead:
I've only ever played golf on Xbox. :hehe: Wait, does mini-putting count?
Seriously. Those crazy Japanese golf nuts :)
I have played golf before - it spoils a good walk.
I have played golf before - it spoils a good walk.
Wynter wrote:Did you also know that Kidney stones range in colour?
Oooh, time to start collecting....!! :beaten:
Wynter wrote:
O! And is this true: The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
I think that applies only to official stamps. I thought there is a way now for people to send pictures to have custom-made stamps.
bmwracer wrote:
Oooh, time to start collecting....!! :beaten:
LOL! Another one of those instances where I actually laughed out loud reading a post.
Incidently, did you know that the average person laughs 13 times a day. At least, I remember it being 13... :headscratch:
Doc wrote:
I think that applies only to official stamps. I thought there is a way now for people to send pictures to have custom-made stamp.
Yea, I think I read that someplace, but I thought it was Canadian news.
a land of refinement and modesty.
In Japan, upskirt photography, called panchira in Japanese, is a criminal offense. A famous case was Kazuhide Uekusa, who attempted to peep under a high school girl's skirt with a hand mirror at the escalator of JR Shinagawa Station. Additionally, in Japan it is now required that all cameras, including digital, must make an audible noise when taking a picture. This law was made with clandestine panchira photos in mind, so that a woman would notice if someone was taking a picture without her consent, even if the perpetrator is using a camera phone.
"Visual Only Upskirters" attempt to see a woman's underwear when she is wearing a short skirt; while some women accept this type of behaviour as an inevitable, others find it offensive and degrading. Many perverts become obsesssed by looking up skirts and spend all their free time trying to catch a glimpse; often perverts wait under stairs, ride buses or the subway. Many perverts will go to extreme lengths to see up a woman's skirt: if a pervert fails to see up a girl's skirt on, say, a bus, sometimes he will follow her, walk in front and pretend to tie his shoe laces, as the girl walks past he then throws himself on his front in order to see her underwear. Because of the risk of exposure, most women wear conservative underwear with short skirts.
In Japan, upskirt photography, called panchira in Japanese, is a criminal offense. A famous case was Kazuhide Uekusa, who attempted to peep under a high school girl's skirt with a hand mirror at the escalator of JR Shinagawa Station. Additionally, in Japan it is now required that all cameras, including digital, must make an audible noise when taking a picture. This law was made with clandestine panchira photos in mind, so that a woman would notice if someone was taking a picture without her consent, even if the perpetrator is using a camera phone.
"Visual Only Upskirters" attempt to see a woman's underwear when she is wearing a short skirt; while some women accept this type of behaviour as an inevitable, others find it offensive and degrading. Many perverts become obsesssed by looking up skirts and spend all their free time trying to catch a glimpse; often perverts wait under stairs, ride buses or the subway. Many perverts will go to extreme lengths to see up a woman's skirt: if a pervert fails to see up a girl's skirt on, say, a bus, sometimes he will follow her, walk in front and pretend to tie his shoe laces, as the girl walks past he then throws himself on his front in order to see her underwear. Because of the risk of exposure, most women wear conservative underwear with short skirts.
Tu_triky wrote:a land of refinement and modesty.
And shoe-mounted digicams. :hehe:
Natalie Portman can speak Japanese :bonk:
Saito_Hajime wrote:Natalie Portman can speak Japanese :bonk:
Fluently?
Another reason to like that pixie. :victory:
bmwracer wrote:
And shoe-mounted digicams. :hehe:
:hehe: :hehe: :hehe:
with infrared capability for night shots.
bmwracer wrote:
Fluently?
Another reason to like that pixie. :victory:
:say_yes:
I remember reading an article about her stunning a group of Japanese tourists in LA by returning their insults in their native language. She overheard the rude tourists making comments about her in Japanese, and she answered back in Nihon-go.
Saito_Hajime wrote:
:say_yes:
I remember reading an article about her stunning a group of Japanese tourists in LA by returning their insults in their native language. She overheard the rude tourists making comments about her in Japanese, and she answered back in Nihon-go.
what????? that's hilarious! i wish that was on tape....priceless!
Saito_Hajime wrote:I remember reading an article about her stunning a group of Japanese tourists in LA by returning their insults in their native language. She overheard the rude tourists making comments about her in Japanese, and she answered back in Nihon-go.
Cool. :victory:
That is so rude for people to insult others in another language... :grumble:
(That's why I don't particularly like the Pinoy and Malaysian threads, since some people are bad-mouthing others... :shakehead: )
Tu_triky wrote:
what????? that's hilarious! i wish that was on tape....priceless!
Yeah, I also want to see the scene myself, though it is close to impossible unless some people who are in the scene took a video of it and upload it in gootube, err, I mean yoogle.....ah whatever. :beaten:
bmwracer wrote:
Cool. :victory:
That is so rude for people to insult others in another language... :grumble:
(That's why I don't particularly like the Pinoy and Malaysian threads, since some people are bad-mouthing others... :shakehead: )
True. Hehe good thing you have a handful of guys here to translate the things that goes around in the Pinoy thread. :hehe:
Saito_Hajime wrote:True. Hehe good thing you have a handful of guys here to translate the things that goes around in the Pinoy thread. :hehe:
Well it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out when your name suddenly appears for no reason in either of those threads... Followed by a buncha words and exclamation points... :beaten:
bmwracer wrote:
Well it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out when your name suddenly appears for no reason in either of those threads... Followed by a buncha words and exclamation points... :beaten:
:lol:
Add up some undesirable emoticons beside your name and you'll surely get the things they are talking about. :beaten: :hehe:
Saito_Hajime wrote:Natalie Portman can speak Japanese :bonk:
From Wiki:
In addition to Hebrew and English, Portman has studied and/or can speak (to some degree) French, Japanese, and German. She has recently been learning to speak Arabic.
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