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Here's some mysteries about Japan that I think I'll never solve:
- Why Japanese think you'd be mad to wear a short-sleeve T-shirt in early
Spring/Autumn/Winter, but they'll wear tiny skirts throughout the year.
- How izakayas and bars can make a profit on nomihoudai/tabehoudai
- Why Japanese men all seem to like wearing pink right now.
- Why walking into someone's house wearing shoes is unthinkably dirty and
rude, but old men spitting on the street is fine.
- Engrish.
- Why perverted Japanese manga and cartoons are everywhere, but Japanese
girls seem so innocent.
- Why, if Japan's in serious economic recession right now, cities and
individuals seem to be loaded.
- Why Japanese cats are terrified of people.
- Why Japanese never get bored of rice.
- Why Japanese people are obviously intelligent and sensible, but their TV
is complete brain-rot.
- Why Japanese are always so amazed to see foreigners, despite them being
pretty common nowadays (I'm guaranteed to see more than one gaijin every
time I go into town).
- Why Japanese are always amazed that a gaijin, who has lived in Japan for
a considerable length of time and is studying Japanese, is able to speak
more than two words of Japanese and can read (and even write!) kanji.
- Why Japanese hate making eye contact with each other, but will do it all
the time with random foreigners on the street.
- Why Japanese films have been banned in foreign countries for being too
violent (Battle Royale) and the Japanese lifestyle is incredibly
stressful, and yet there is no violence on the streets at all.
- Why Japanese girls think they look cute by walking pigeon-toed and
carrying bags with an outstretched arm (they look silly).
- How the sea is still full of fish, considering how many of them the
Japanese catch and eat.
- Why Western-style Japanese wedding dresses are so hideous.
- Why young Japanese children are so polite and well-behaved.
- How the Japanese can be so patient in such a rushed and noisy lifestyle.
- Kumamoto dialect.
- How there can be no rubbish bins anywhere on the streets, and yet also
no rubbish.
Today's Japanese: ちん毛 - chinge - Male pubic hair (as opposed to まん毛,
mange, female pubic hair)
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