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Umm... I didn't say pen-spinning was new. I first saw it more than 20 years ago, and I assume it goes back much farther than that. What's new is this competition, and the sophistication of the spinning. This is as different from basic pen-spinning as current competitive skateboarding is from...

Thanks! Can you let us know when it's safe to add attachments again? :bow-pray:

Have you ever seen a Japanese person spin a pen? If you've ever spent time in a Japanese classroom, you've probably seen people spinning pens. They do it while they reading a test question or between writing notes during class. Most of the time, they don't seem conscious that they're doing it...

I've been living in Japan most of my adult life, and I was fingerprinted twice this month when returning to Japan from overseas. Doesn't bother me. I understand concerns about privacy, but frankly I think the U.S. government (at least under the current administration) is more likely to abuse...

Paris! What a city! Even the people who shouldn't be good-looking are good-looking. They're all so stylish. So many beautiful women of so many different races. But I was there to work and I was with my girlfriend, so naturally I was a good boy. :goodboy: But seriously, I was glad to be with...

Being from the Philippines is probably a major disadvantage. The big English-conversation sweatshops schools seem to prefer teachers who "look" American/English/Australian, and you know what that means. :distressed: And I'm guessing that immigration officials are wary about giving visas to...

Nicely put.

See? It's universal. :evillaugh: Seriously, there may be cultural twists involved, but this tricky calculus of devotion and attention is difficult regardless of the backgrounds (or sexes) of the people involved. When it's the man who is too "needy," it can turn into domestic violence. When it's...

Thanks for the kind words, moonypie. Glad to see someone enjoys my ramblings. I'm off on another trip (business--my first visit to France) tomorrow, but just a couple of updates. I canceled my "date" with K-san, for reasons I'll talk about later. Suffice it to say, I have avoided getting...

You're too successful for your own good! :bingo:

Update. I went ahead and made a date with K-san for tomorrow. A dinner date. :defeat:

And here's the second one: ****** Still on the plane. I'm sleepy as hell, but if I sleep now, my jet lag will be a nightmare. I was keeping myself awake playing "Animal Crossing" (the Japanese version) on my Nintendo DS Lite, but the battery died. So I'll take advantage of the electrical...

I'm ba-a-a-ck! :evil: And here's some stuff I wrote on the trip back. G'night all. :cozy: ****** So here I am, killing time in the Honolulu airport, waiting for my flight back to Japan. What a trip. I had a cold for the entire second week. I was a good boy: didn't cheat on my girlfriend...

Yeah, I was living in Japan at the time, and I was one of those 1.5 million people who bought Santa Fe. :evillaugh: (I still treasure that book. :shy: Definitely one of the greatest nude photobooks ever made. It came out in 1991, and was reprinted in a "new edition" in 1999. Both are out of...

Fascinating phenomenon. So it's almost as if your penis becomes--how would you put it?--erect? You might even call such a phenomenon an "erection." Hmm. Maybe this is a crazy idea, but I think such a condition might actually facilitate sexual intercourse. :virtuous: I've found that nosebleeds...

From where? It's easy to take a ferry from Korea (and I suppose China, too), but from the Americas or Europe? I've never heard of it, except of course for luxury cruises, but they cost a fortune, and you would probably only be in Japan for a day or two. I think it would be a good idea to...

Oops. Forgot to answer your question. Yes, Japanese women like tall men. Some Japanese women don't mind short men, but I have never met one who said she doesn't like tall men. :bingo:

Actually, I think your perception may have been influenced by your expectations, because the average height of adult Japanese males today is 172 cm, or a bit less than 5'8". I'm not sure if this refers to the average of all living males, or of males who have just come of age, because the average...

Again, you are over-generalizing. Maybe your girlfriend is like that, but of the ten or so Japanese women I've been involved with, maybe two would fit that description. Japanese women are as diverse as women anywhere.

:lols: I guess it's not only guys who are looking for Japanese girlfriends. The men's shirt is here: http://www.jbox.com/PRODUCT/SHIRT-GF1

Hmm. I took a look at both. The first one is inconsistent in it's Romanization of Japanese. For example, they write "Itu kimasita ka" ("When did [you/he/she/they/it] come?") instead of "Itsu kimashita ka". The site seems poorly organized, and I don't think it was made by professional teachers...

I've lived in Japan for umpteen years, and that's news to me. Where did you hear that? :puzzled: There's a practical reason why Japanese AV and nude models don't shave: Japanese censorship laws forbid showing genitals, and pubic hair conveniently hides genitals. If they shaved (and some do)...

Personally, I can't imagine why shaved would be preferable to natural. But then again, I'd be happy if all but the most hirsute women didn't shave any of their body hair. Japanese women shave their faces and their arms, in addition to their legs and armpits, and some even shave their eyebrows...

BTW, my last girlfriend, the psycho, two weeks after leaving me abruptly without a word of explanation, tried to get back together with me by telling me she had actually become pregnant and had had a miscarriage. I almost fell for it. Turns out she was lying. She made up an elaborate story...

Holy shit, Tekering. And I thought my love life was too exciting. I don't know the details, of course, but it looks to me like you can no longer have your cake and eat it, too. The pregnancy pretty much forces you to make a choice, doesn't it?

No, you're not missing anything. In the strict, dictionary sense, おる and おります have identical meaning. It's just that in practice, you would rarely have a case where you would use おる instead おります (or おった instead of おりました), because dictionary forms ending in る are inherently informal, if you see...

いる is basically neutral. You can use いる with friends and family, or with younger people. You can use います with acquaintances or strangers more or less your own age with whom you have no clear superior/subordinate relationship. おります is a humble way of referring to your own actions/presence or of...

Okay, so K-san is over her cold, but she's busy for the rest of the week. On Saturday I go to the States for two weeks, which means our lunch will have to wait till I come back. However, my girlfriend will be at her mom's house, hundreds of kilometers away, for the first ten days after I get...

Although it's important to learn the basics of using polite language, you don't have to be too worried about getting it perfect all the time. As with writing kanji, a lot of young Japanese these days frequently misuse polite language. I, a foreigner, have actually had to correct the Japanese of...

Although it's important to learn the basics of using polite language, you don't have to be too worried about getting it perfect all the time. As with writing kanji, a lot of young Japanese these days frequently misuse polite language. I, a foreigner, have actually had to correct the Japanese of...

Today's post, part II: I will remember my mantra. :goodboy: Pretty cute, isn't she? She's smart and strong-willed (like most of the woman I fall for), and we enjoy each other's company. The question is whether we're compatible for a really long-term relationship. We have our problems...

Ewww... Glad you escaped without it turning into something more frightening. :exhausted: Hmm. I wonder if a stalker realizes he's a stalker. :puzzled: As far as I know, I've never stalked anyone. :exhausted: Let's see. I can think of two situations where I might have come close. One was with...

How could I have forgotten Shiina Ringo? At one point she was all I was listening to. As for Spitz, I think of them as very competent and reliable pop band, but not very inspiring. But that's just my tastes. Like I wrote elsewhere, I'm an aging punk/new-waver. :dunno: Here are three songs by...

I did a search of the Japanese title (爆乳ベスト2007), but didn't find any torrents. You should post this kind of request to the JAV Request forum.

:innocence: Oh, definitely. As I'm sure Roronoa Zoro will confirm, no guy is ever disappointed to have an attractive woman wink or wave at him, even if she disappears immediately and is never seen again. Just be careful that you do manage to disappear immediately, or you may find yourself...

I used to have some favorite Japanese bands/performers, but I haven't heard much lately that flips my skirt. Older bands/performers I have seriously liked include: Cocco--Depressing, but brilliant. Recently made an impressive comeback. UA--Not so depressing, and in many ways more brilliant...

Back in my day (when we had to walk ten miles through the snow to learn Japanese in a one-room schoolhouse heated with one potbellied stove :evillaugh:), there was pretty much no such thing as software for learning Japanese, so I don't know beans about what's available or what's good, but I...

Actually, I thought the fact that hamsters only hissed, and that that was what their owner was so worried about, was pretty funny. I also thought it was funny that his friend seemed to be doing it just to upset the owner. Just a matter of taste, I suppose.

If I'm not single, can we go out to lunch? :bingo: (Joking!...Kind of!) The grass is not greener, the grass is not greener, the grass is not greener.... :attention: Yes, it does. But in a good way. :perfectplan: That's the kind of thing that makes a guy's day. :prance:

Yep. It's happened to me no fewer than five or six times in the past week. I've had to delete double-posts twice. On one thread, someone's post was triple-posted.

Actually, I do that a lot, too, although I never really thought about it before. :casual:

Don't worry about those kanji variants yet. As you noted, there is usually one main one, and you rarely encounter the others. When you do, it's usually not to hard to find them in a kanji dictionary. And these days, you don't often have a need to read handwritten Japanese. The handwriting that's...

Oh, and the bunnies are cute, too. Something made me forget about the bunnies. :exhausted:

Whoa! Jeezus! Is that really you!? :dizzy: Um, remember what I said about getting together for dinner if you ever happen to come to Japan...? :please: K-san has nothing on you, Astb. I'd better not say the same thing about my girlfriend, though. :exhausted: The butterfly picture, in...

Hmm. Interesting. I guess we males lack imagination. :exhausted: :lols: Now that tops my story easily. Better you than me. :goodboy:

Hmm. For obvious reasons, I don't want to post pictures where you can see either of their faces too clearly, but I'll see what I can do. :evillaugh: I'm for that, but if I were Astb, I'd say no. :goodboy: I'm sure as hell not going to post any pictures of myself here. :exhausted: On the...

Nicely put. :bingo: My current girlfriend (21) "shiks," but says she had never had an orgasm during sex with another person until she started seeing me. :shy: My last girlfriend (40) orgasmed really easily during sex, but says she never shikked, and that she just couldn't get sexually aroused...

At this point, K-san and I are just friends. If she comes on to me at our lunch, I'll do the right thing and tell her about my girlfriend. :hero: No, really. I swear. :exhausted:

Um, and your point is...? :puzzled:

Apparently there is such a t-shirt. I Googled and found a blog by a Japanese woman who was surprised to see a foreign man at a train station wearing a t-shirt reading 日本人の彼女募集中. She wrote, "His looks were above average. He wasn't thin, but he wasn't fat. I'd say he's not a guy who would be...