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Brah:
Sort of. They only like look sorta like men.
So what is more weird - a woman who desperately tries but still does a poor job of looking like a man, and ends up looking like something that is neither, or, a normal looking woman that is a partner with that person - how does one define the attraction?
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JR8:
Well I think that requires one to understand the inner-psychology of homosexuality... so pass...
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JR8 previosly wrote:
Great value and range and quality of sushi etc!
Brah:
Could not disagree more. Sushi is everywhere here, and almost none of it is good, most of it drek, sorry, am probably just spoiled by the real thing, can't eat it here, nor can the better half.
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JR8: This seems to be a point you return to: Being unwilling to eat a cuisine apart from where it is at it's absolute best. The trouble is that were it a workable and common rule no-one would have decent sushi outside of Japan, Haut-cuisine outside of France, lobster vs New England, pasta outside of Italy and fish and chips outside of the north of England, etc *1000. I expect you've enjoyed many cuisines ouside of their home-turfs though, so I am surely misunderstanding you ...
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JR8 previoslly wrote:
Loud obese Americans yelling at each other next to the pool.
Brah:
I guess I dig this one somewhat less.
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JR8:
Please don't get me wrong; I don't like Americans less for it - this is all about observing differences, rather than passing judgement. Americans have a commute-car culture, so walk/excersie less. They tend to work long hours, so do less home-cooked food, and more take-aways. They tend to be more vocal and rumbuctuos too. Add it all up...
Nothing wrong with that, in fact I rather enjoy it, just I have not witnessed it for several years, so it really struck me.
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Brah:
These are my experiences, there may be better ones from others, to me it's kinda like bagels - you can get them almost anywhere but they don't taste right from most places outside NY.
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JR8:
Ah so I was wrong to enjoy bagels in NJ. I should have only eaten and enjoyed them when I crossed the state-line into NY ah?
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ZZM:
I've been to Japan only as a tourist but undoubtedly what I had there was the best sushi ever, before and after and indeed it was like this every place we had it. In Singapore it is random at best and I have the impression it's getting worse. Hard, compacted rice (not fresh enough) is probably the most frequent failure.
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JR8: The hard rice 'loaves' are (at least in the UK, and here, to an extent in Sakae Sushi etc), because the rice is machine pressed, rather thsn hand-pressed.
The other thing to consider is that in JN sushi is usually (IME) made to order... they'll have display boxes of what you can get, but order one and it is freshly made to order. The rice has no chance to re-harden.
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JR8 wrote:
- Family groups in from Brunei. All over scarves with just eye-slits. Heavily made up eyes though! Loud perfume. High pitched squeaky gabbling voices as they proceed in a gaggle fussing over their brood.
ZZM:
How do you know they're from Brunei? Just curious. By the description if I saw that, I'd assume KSA or UAE.
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JR8:
They spoke all Malay which tipped me off. The wife (native) confirmed it...
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JR8 wrote:
- Loud obese Americans yelling at each other next to the pool.
ZZM:
Ok Jeremy Clarkson. We get your point about American stereotypes.
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JR8: See my previous. And do note that I was married to a 'Merican, and worked Wall St for 15 years, so have some insight into the culture and so on. But more importantly these are 2c face-value instantaneous impressions.... not judgements. I'm really quite perplexed why they seem to ruffle feathers... and the willingnes to shoot the mere casual observer.
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JR8 earlier wrote:
- No birds flying in the sky. Almost no birds at all. Just an occasional sparrow hopping for a dropped crumb around the pool-side.
ZZM:Funny, I see so many outside my windows where I live. Come by East Coast Park. I'm a good five stories above the tree line, and I watch the birds a lot. The interesting thing is, it looks to me as an American (who may be loud but isn't obese!) that a local pet store had a fire and all of the pet birds escapes. The birds are all bright yellow, green, red, and various different colors. Sometimes they land on my aircon and make a lot of noise too.
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JR8: I know there are further out, But right now I'm in D9, and this is all that I see. It is far less than I used to in the equally central location of the major world city from where I have just moved [Hence my observation!].
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Brah: *which I'm not, but it's something one has to be exposed to with frequency to fully appreciate the subtleties. Also I would only have it once every 2 months or so and usually only after a late night out (used to be a ritual to hit Bikkuri Sushi for a round of kaiten in Roppoingi around 3am) or after a surf session in a local seaside town, or lunch at a famous place in the Ginza area where the fish is fresh from nearby Tsukiji.
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JR8:
Sushi, in Roppongi at 3am... eeeh, that can't have been very authentic. Surely it's Tokyo's Tsukuji fish market at 5am or nothing, you know, go to the mother-source or abstain altogether?
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JR8 earlier wrote:
- Many young women who look like men.
Sergei:
Those might have been men who resembled women.
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JR8:
It's pretty confusing. There appear to be a great number of homosexuals here... [just a first impression!]...
p.s. hey go easy on me peeps.... this took forever for me to type ok?
