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I gots to put pants on

yoshmysteryoshmyster Member Posts: 22,053 ✭✭✭✭
edited July 2019 in General Discussion
Okay shorts with pockets since I'm going out in public. Get to wade through a sea of 5'8" or shorter Japanese at the Obon Festival. Damn Japo Umpalumpas, you'd think after all these generations they'd grow little taller. I'll run in to shrinking grandmas in 4' range who'll look at me like a freak. Which really should be the other way around since I wonder if they can sit on toilets with their feet touching floor. Maybe that's why they got those squattie toilet foot things? Anyways have couple of bowls of Udon and couple of trays of Tempura for lunch.

I wonder if I'll see non-Japo folks "cultural appropriating" a yukata or in Anime outfits? Good times. Be back in a few.

Comments

  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,240 ******
    edited November -1
    I hear ya brother. That's how I feel amongst a bunch of white folk.
  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,369 ✭✭✭✭
    edited July 2019
    well enjoy your outing
  • buschmasterbuschmaster Member Posts: 14,229 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    last time I went to the Japanese festival here in town, it was a festival put on by the Japanese attended by mostly white people. (now that I think about it I didn't see any blacks or mexicans) maybe because there aren't many Japanese around here, although they do it every year. must be more where you're at.

    it was good. the Japanese know how to have a good time.
  • Smitty500magSmitty500mag Member Posts: 13,623 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I wish it was the Japanese that were the ones climbing the fences to get into this country. Those are the hardest working and smartest people on the planet and they don't complain.

    The ones that were living here before WWII that were citizens had everything they owned taken from them and put in concentration camps when the war broke out. Then they were kept there a couple of years after the war was over. What did they do when they were released? They didn't boo hoo about it nor block the highways in protest or demand reparations, instead they went to work and went to school and now their families are some of the richest people in the country that don't need any free handouts.
  • yoshmysteryoshmyster Member Posts: 22,053 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well prices went up from last year. They might've been "training" folks at the Tempura station since some of the veg was doughy and crunchy. Quality control was as if I was at Burger King. Maybe the regular cook was out on a break, sick or dead? I also saw things on the indoor stage I never seen before. Usually I eat and run. Hour to hour and a half, gone. About 15:00 they had shows and demonstrations on the indoor stage. I thought they used the outdoor stage for those things but okay. Little kids doing a show, teens doing I don't know what and as soon as a lady got up to do Karaoke, time to go :lol:.

    Drove through Salinas and I saw a shop that had sombreros hanging out side. I need something like that for a grilling gig I got coming. Gots to protect the back of my neck from getting RED last year was really bad. Since the shop was on the other side of the road and people there drive like if they're in Mexico (I wasn't about to pull a U-y) I'll go back another day (if I remember).

    So this new to me person (I guess is a relations with friends I sit with) all the topic of conversation from her was how old her people were before they kicked or their mind went or what kind a illness that took them. I suppose Obon is like Day Of The Dead so lets yap about that. Catching up (good times). Ancestry.com but ikky. I guess I'm at that age where we are "supposed" to talk about folks dropping. No more weddings just funerals.

    I guess I better start on my "Funeral Mix" MP3. Say anyone do one of these?
  • buschmasterbuschmaster Member Posts: 14,229 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
  • bambihunterbambihunter Member Posts: 10,792 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I wish it was the Japanese that were the ones climbing the fences to get into this country. Those are the hardest working and smartest people on the planet and they don't complain.

    The ones that were living here before WWII that were
    citizens had everything they owned taken from them and put in concentration camps
    when the war broke out. Then they were kept there a couple of years after the war was over. What did they do when they were released? They didn't boo hoo about it nor block the highways in protest or demand reparations, instead they went to work and went to school and now their families are some of the richest people in the country that don't need any free handouts.

    Though I understand the reasoning behind it, to me that remains a black eye on our US history that rates right up there with not honoring our treaties with the native Americans.
    Fanatic collector of the 10mm auto.
  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    finally let some younger japanese enlist and sent them to the european theatre..some of our best and bravest soldiers
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