Haven't you had any interesting experience recently
or haven't you read anything impressive article in a
newspaper or a book?
Anyhow what's on your mind now?
Talking to yourself is also OK.
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Anonymous2005-02-07 22:20
sorry i meant is there a 'way'
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Anonymous2005-02-08 3:23 (sage)
>>320
>japanese/korean
(゚Д゚ )?
2ch is JAPANESE message board.
It's none of KOREAN's business.
There's a big difference between Japanese and Korean.
not true. The difference between Korean and Japanese is really actually small as far as the cultures of two seperate countries are concerned. Latvia vs. Nigeria. Now thats different even though both end in "ia"
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Anonymous2005-02-09 2:52
>>323
You mean that Hangeul-Board in 2ch?
You would say "KOREA/JAPANESE" if some KOREAN MB has a Japanese topics.
>>327
You think ENGLAND and IRELAND ; SPAIN and FRANCE ; CHINA and TAIWAN, each of 2 countries are almost same.
I do not think so.
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Anonymous2005-02-09 5:17
How much does the price of a new car is usually reduced by?
I got it reduced by 200 thousand dollars. I wonder whether it is a good bargain or a usual one.
I see there's a lot of discussion regarding world4ch's lack of members when compared to 2chan. So here's my two cents on the subject.
It's important to remember that most American and European users that are drawn to world4ch are drawn to it both through its association with 4chan and by an interest in Japanese culture or products, primarily anime. Even though there are plenty of other boards that have nothing to do with these, it's pretty safe to assume the grand majority have some sort of interest in anime or manga. That's part of what has created an interest in a Japanese message board system to begin with.
However, though anime and such have been gaining popularity in the United States, it's still very much a minority subculture. When you further divide the pool of anime fans down into those who are also computer geeks, the number of potential users becomes even smaller.
Furthermore, the atmosphere 4chan creates through /b/'s omnipresent control over its "culture" can be rather hostile. Not many people are willing to help a new user understand the board system, and potentially offensive behavior (such as the frequency the n-word is used) may repel less thick-skinned users that would otherwise have been interested in participating. As previously mentioned, since 4chan and world4ch's user bases overlap, much of that atmosphere is brought over here. This restrains the user pool of world4ch even more.
What's more likely to happen, and more interesting in my opinion, is the eventual spread of the Shiichan message board system. Even those who are uninterested with the subjects here at world4ch may see the virtues of an Anonymous, registration-free forum. And since the program is free to download, the spread of the system would be relatively easy. The recent security flaws exploited in phbb can also be a motivating factor, just as spyware has motivated many IE users to adopt alternative browsers.
It's possible that new sites using Shiichan might also link back to world4ch as an example of the system or the source of the program, which would lead to an influx of new members here. But I'm not holding my breath. The spread of a new technology is a gradual progress.
Basically, just think of world4ch as a western colony in the world of Anonymous BBSes. It probably will never reach the size or prestige of 2chan, but it may help the spread of the technology. Of course, 2channeller interest in the project also helps it grow :)
It'd be interesting to visit 2chan and see more of what users think about world4ch, but I have a learning disability that makes it difficult to learn new languages. I've tried learning Japanese, but it has't been very successful. :( So I applaud the efforts of 2channellers breaking the language barrier and migrating over here.
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Anonymous2005-02-09 16:58
I've still got the mono, and the left side of my face is silly and numb in a failed attempt to medicate my throat/gland pain away... ibuprofen, acetylic salisylic acid, some funny tasting medicine I can't remember... also, I'm feeling anemic so I'm eating minced liver sauce with potatoes. It's good, but I just can't eat much. How do/did you guys deal with mononucleosis? There's no cure but time...
I can't be a salesperson. Selling goods is really difficult and hard.
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Anonymous2005-02-10 10:49
such as the frequency the n-word is used
nullpo?
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Anonymous2005-02-10 11:12
I always feel bad about the art I make until I deliver it to the client and he gets excited by it. Then I feel good for a while.
I feel even better when the final payment for the art arrives :)
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Skyline!mpXsEz/vvo2005-02-10 11:20
Dog hat sparkly MAN JUICE RAISINS TEA BISCUITS HARBL CORNCAKES WITH RICE AND CAULK.
My feet are transcending into the pudding. The hour of MEEP MEEP is the new dawn of shuffled bricks. The square root of a dinosaurus triangle is the exact opposite of buttsecks with Sarah Lee.
MY DREAM WOMAN IS ONE WHO WILL PLAY IKARUGA WITH ME DURING SEX, AND THEN BID ON MY EBAY POTATOES. Why? Because my dog is made of chili. Why don't you ask him yourself? He smells like the rubber end of an old electrical outlet sprinkled with Feta cheese and hydrogenated corn feces.
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Anonymous2005-02-10 11:48
/b/ stuff isn't funny outside of /b/, no matter how hard the people who frequent /b/ try to make it so. It's kind of sad, really.
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Skyline!mpXsEz/vvo2005-02-10 11:50
>>340
That was more like "type the first things that pop into your head". Used to do that a lot in back in school just for the hell of it.
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Anonymous2005-02-10 14:51
I'm debating whether I want to hang around for my next class. We only meet once a week, so I'd miss a lot; but I'm also having a bad day. It's a hard choice.
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Anonymous2005-02-10 16:35
I really loathe those new Suzuki commercials where they cut between about a hundred different people all blathering on about how great their new piece of shit car is. The worst part is that there's always one guy who spreads his arms and shouts "TWO WAY SNEEZE-THROUGH FENDER DENTS" or something like that as if he'd just discovered God.
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Anonymous2005-02-10 22:25
The salesperson reduced the price by 190000 yen. Two salespersons are fighting to get the order. They reduced the price by 215000 yen. I was surpried. It means that many people are forced to buy a car at too much high price.
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Anonymous2005-02-10 22:26
The salesperson reduced the price by 190000 yen. Two salespersons are fighting to get the order. They reduced the price by 215000 yen. I was surpried. It means that many people are forced to buy a car at too much high price.
Anyhow, my coworker is starting to piss me off. We're both working as IT support apprentices, but he has developed some kind of arrogant attitude. When people call to him for help, he says to them, "... But maybe (my name) can do that."
Then, when they've hung up, he continues reading shitty webcomics, and just laughing and laughing.
Many of the jobs he does, is the ones we get by mail, or our supervisors calls to him about.
Some days ago, he was doing one job we got by mail, simple as reinstalling Windows 2000, and the various programs they needed on a computer. Ah, there were some drivers that didn't get installed.
He returned, asked me to download and burn out the drivers, and then I should go back to them (they're placed behind a secure zone that isn't connected to the Internet). So I did.
When I turned on the computer, I saw that he had formatted the harddrive, and nothing was installed at all!! So I spent alot of time waiting for the Windows 2000 installation to be done on a slow machine.
There's even this that he's not so talented with problemsolving as I am, trying everything but the methods I know of. He just sits there and doesn't ask me for help, until I say, "Let me try".
I show him how to do it, but the next time he encounters the same problem, he doesn't do it the way I did it last time.
He receives phone calls on his cellphone, or he calls someone else on his office phone, or just talks on MSN, distracting him from his work. And those phone calls are mostly about D&D sessions he and his friends are planning. I've even noticed that he has an arrogant attitude for that, where he says things like, "Don't let him play this time", "Don't let him use this and that", "If he does that, we won't allow him to play anymore for this session."
God, it's so irritating.
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Anonymous2005-02-11 8:34
There are always some people in our workplace that we can never get along with. In my office, there are no people that I cannot get along with. At this time I may be lucky. But in the past I could not get along with some people, for which I quit the company.
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Skyline!mpXsEz/vvo2005-02-11 9:02
Today I began to wonder about something. I've been in the Foodservice industry for quite a number of years, and have dealt with the general public directly for most of that time. Being in Vegas, the majority of the public are tourists. Today while pretty much reading off the entire list of salad ingredients to someone who didn't know what the fuck a salad was, I asked myself this question.
When people travel, do they leave their IQ at home?
Do they check their brains along with their baggage?
Do they lock up their common sense in their hotel rooms along with their baggage?
I used to work at McCarran International Airport, at Starbucks. Bullshit job, but nice pay. And the people that would stop me and ask questions...I mean it's understandable to not be familiar with your surroundings in an unfamiliar place. But to be so fucking out of it THAT YOUR ABILITY TO DIFFERENCIATE RIGHT FROM LEFT IS GONE, that's a problem.
When I worked there, we had the cups on display at the front, in clear view, so the public could see exactly what size the cups were. And these people would stare at the fucking cups. And then ask me: "Which one is the small?"
I swear, I wanted to smack the bitch. I really did.
The only time that I've ever seen tourists actually ALERT AND AWARE OF THEIR SURROUNDINGS, was in the weeks following 9/11. And when you think about it, that's sad. It took a few thousand lives for people to actually wake the fuck up...and sadly, that hasen't lasted long.
As a sidenote, I'd like to add that the general feeling of having to think for people is one of the main turnoffs to working in the Hospitality industry. And this goes for Back of the House positions as well. It's just a whole bunch of stress, that gradually turns your brain into fucking oatmeal. Unless you have the patience of a Saint, I can hardly reccomend pursing a career in that field.
I'm planning on shifting to IT in the near future, when I move. Hopefully, the feeling of having to hold everyone else's fucking hand because they don't know rat shit from Rice Krispies will be left behind.
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Anonymous2005-02-11 11:20
She is too good-natured. That's why she hurt her feelings even if I said common things to them.
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Anonymous2005-02-11 22:26
I can have three days off. But what should I do? I have to think about it. The amount of money I can use is limited, so what I can do during my days ofo is limited.
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Anonymous2005-02-12 4:14
I like grilled meat. In Japan eating grilled meat is very popular. I don't know how to say it in English. Korean style barbecued meat is OK?
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Anonymous2005-02-12 7:23
I feel non-natives have some limitation in understadning natives' conversation. Listening ability is limited. Maybe if we are over 12, it's impossible to understand foreigners' conversation completely. But how can I improve my listening ability?
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Anonymous2005-02-12 10:03
>>350 You should find a quiet, sunny place and read a good book. It's cheap and tremendously relaxing.
I was hoping to work a lot yesterday but the image wouldn't form in my mind, and I got nothing done.
It's so fun to develop a woman's sexually sensitive area. I've learned this recently. It would be one of the things man can get the most satisfaction from. Both are like a drug-addict.
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Anonymous2005-02-14 5:44
I have to see a chroprator.
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Anonymous2005-02-14 8:19
On Valentine Day I got four chocholates. But I didn't feel good at all, because all the chocolates are just obligatory.
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Anonymous2005-02-14 9:56
>>352
The best way to learn a language is to live among native speakers. Since there's significant grammatical differences in sentence structure and the like between, say, Japanese and English, if you learn them while emerged in an enviornment that doesn't actually speak the language, it'll be considerably more difficult to get it right, since most of the other people who are speaking it will have learned it with minimal contact with actual native speakers. This means they'll likely be trying to fit the language's grammar towards that of their own native language, which just doesn't work. Mistakes are reflected and reinforced that way.
Sort of like how incest increases the quantity of weak genes and creates defects. Except incest usually isn't as funny.
Speaking of which, is there any Japanese equivalent to Engrish? Poorly phrased Japanese that's unintentionally amusing to native speakers, that is.
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Anonymous2005-02-14 11:22
>>360
There has to be. Japanese has so few sounds to work with that all it takes to change little girl (shoujo) into orangutan (shojou) is holding the wrong vowel too long.
Then again, maybe that particular example is proof that Japanese is designed for making little girls cry.