The new forums will be named Coin Return (based on the most recent vote)! You can check on the status and timeline of the transition to the new forums here.
The Guiding Principles and New Rules document is now in effect.
I haven't seen any really weird vending machines. Mostly they sell soda, coffee and cigarettes. They are everywhere. No crazy porn either, and the schoolgirls are pretty tame... and pretty young. Nothing remotely sexual about em!
But I'm in Sasebo, not Tokyo. It's pretty small and out-of-the-way.
2. This is a kind of dumb one, but obviously, in the UK what we call 'pants' are strictly trousers, due to the fact that your pants are our underwear. Is there a term for what we call "sweatpants"? I've never heard the term "sweat trousers" (and it sounds incredibly stupid - though so does 'sweatpants' to be fair) so is there just a specific name for them....?
Actually, sidenote, is there any particular reason for the term "jumpers" for what we call sweaters? That's another thing I've wondered about ever since I heard it. Not that ours has a particularly academic entymology either, but I wonder if it has a specific origin. (Even if it's an apocryphal one, like "crap" was said to have come from Thomas Crapper's name.)
2. Jogging bottoms, or Joggings.
I dunno why people call jumpers jumpers. A Jump was a short coat, so I guess Jumper came from that, but why short coats were called Jumps I have no idea.
one particularly bad day we went up to the Peak with some of my sister's friends
and the Peak can, on good days, give you an AMAZING view of Hong Kong
what we saw was essentially a bunch of gray-hazed buildings and this thick gray-brown STRIP of pollution just sitting there over the city like a gaseous alien spaceship in a budget scifi flick
I remember going up to Victoria Peak with my girlfriend and being super psyched about it, only to find it was so foggy that we could barely see each other, much less the view of the city.
0
facetiousa wit so dryit shits sandRegistered Userregular
Totally just realised I spelled it "entymology".
The study of talking trees.
"I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
germans have different subcultural divisions, and I don't think I really have all the nuances down. The funniest ones to me are what I think of as the wannabe frat boys. A lot of germans will spend a semester or two in the US, either in high school or university, and often somewhere in the midwest. And being teenagers, they'll play up this 'international mystique' they've acquired, as one does, except ... it's, like, a Kentucky mystique. Hilarious. Anyway when I was looking for a housemate, I had three separate dudes in their early twenties who came in with gelled hair, pink popped collar polo shirts and a huge overestimation of their own english skills. Love it.
Lufthansa's ok. Ghetto is ... well actually I've never done truly ghetto. South China Airlines is about as low as I've gone. My friends have stories about sharing seats with crates of chickens.
you mean berlin's nightlife
I consider the place I'm living in to be pretty much dead, but apparently it's the Big City for a lot of the folk from the surrounding villages.
I shudder to think.
still don't know where I want to live next but the words 'major cultural centre' and 'several million people' keep bubbling up in my brain.
Lufthansa's ok. Ghetto is ... well actually I've never done truly ghetto. South China Airlines is about as low as I've gone. My friends have stories about sharing seats with crates of chickens.
I flew with them to Japan and it was a deeply "basic" experience. I was so happy to fly back with BA. So happy.
I've heard tales of Aeroflot flights that would make me think twice of ever flying with them.
Egyptair was an experience. The man in front of me just would not talking on his mobile. Or smoking. But I got to watch cartoons on my own screen and it was only a little domestic flight.
Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
places stay open all night, great food, all types of different places to go to, you can stay in a restaurant all night if you wanted to, and it seems even on the quietest night you can find a busy spot.. I wanna go back
0
Mojo_JojoWe are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourseRegistered Userregular
Posts
the levels don't end
you just keep going up
forever
Japanese people. All of the Japanese people.
Tall-Paul MIPsDroid
But I'm in Sasebo, not Tokyo. It's pretty small and out-of-the-way.
2. Jogging bottoms, or Joggings.
I dunno why people call jumpers jumpers. A Jump was a short coat, so I guess Jumper came from that, but why short coats were called Jumps I have no idea.
I remember going up to Victoria Peak with my girlfriend and being super psyched about it, only to find it was so foggy that we could barely see each other, much less the view of the city.
The study of talking trees.
Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
Don't trust them.
Ever.
I sometimes use the alias "Entmoot" in videogames.
Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
I know there is a pun in that, but i'm trying to save lives here!
As in "whatever ents say is moot because they're trees and we have axes".
Huge, swinging branches.
New theory: the Whomping Willow is just a mute Ent.
Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
has anybody asked anything about anywhere I know anything about
no
@hullis you mother fucker
im in minnesota
you in the cities?
you play fighting games?
PARKER, YOU'RE FIRED! <-- My comic book podcast! Satan look here!
Are there German chavs?
Germany has an airport. It was fine.
Their national airline is pretty ghetto.
These are two experiences of Germany.
do this if you want a reason to never come to the US again
and then dichotomy booked a bus to detroit for tomorrow
australian chavs are bogans
germans have different subcultural divisions, and I don't think I really have all the nuances down. The funniest ones to me are what I think of as the wannabe frat boys. A lot of germans will spend a semester or two in the US, either in high school or university, and often somewhere in the midwest. And being teenagers, they'll play up this 'international mystique' they've acquired, as one does, except ... it's, like, a Kentucky mystique. Hilarious. Anyway when I was looking for a housemate, I had three separate dudes in their early twenties who came in with gelled hair, pink popped collar polo shirts and a huge overestimation of their own english skills. Love it.
Lufthansa's ok. Ghetto is ... well actually I've never done truly ghetto. South China Airlines is about as low as I've gone. My friends have stories about sharing seats with crates of chickens.
Oh yeah
Trackie bottoms
Those too
Yes, it's a real place. I was as shocked as you all doubtlessly are.
you mean berlin's nightlife
I consider the place I'm living in to be pretty much dead, but apparently it's the Big City for a lot of the folk from the surrounding villages.
I shudder to think.
still don't know where I want to live next but the words 'major cultural centre' and 'several million people' keep bubbling up in my brain.
there were eleven billion mercedes (mercedeses? mercedon'ts?) and nobody spoke english
on the plus side their chocolate was cheap and delicious
I flew with them to Japan and it was a deeply "basic" experience. I was so happy to fly back with BA. So happy.
I've heard tales of Aeroflot flights that would make me think twice of ever flying with them.
Egyptair was an experience. The man in front of me just would not talking on his mobile. Or smoking. But I got to watch cartoons on my own screen and it was only a little domestic flight.
I wonder how many people actually know where this country is.
is it as boring and overpriced as I think it is.
edit: look at me being mean about belgium for no good reason.
yes
places stay open all night, great food, all types of different places to go to, you can stay in a restaurant all night if you wanted to, and it seems even on the quietest night you can find a busy spot.. I wanna go back
Which half?
And speak to me of the waffles there.