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Tim33 said:I havent had a good fart in about 2 years. I had to stop when getting a Japanese girlfriend. The first few months were hell. I would wake up about 4am with really bad stomache pains unable to move and get up to get it out my system. I think my stomache has evolved since then an i no longer have the pain or fart so much.
Its hard to start with though. Do you hold it in and begin to cry. Or do you leave the room every 5 mins in which case everyone seriously starts to worry. Or do you hope that you can pull it off silently and then act discusted with everyone else when a funny smell floats about the air.
mikecash said:No, what you do is come to grips with the fact that she's both heard and smelt farts before, and hearing and smelling them from you won't shatter her world.
But on a more practical note, go ahead and deal one....but pretend that it slipped. First farts cause more awkwardness and apprehension than first kisses ever did. And like kisses, the second and all subsequent ones come much easier.
mikecash said:Speaking of feet...how about the socks made like gloves? The ones with the separate spaces for your toes. I've been wearing them so long it never occur窶壺?册d to me to mention them here. I even took a big supply of them with me the last time I tried living in the U.S.
I remember standing at the fuel counter in a truck stop in Kentucky, wearing my slippers (also brought from Japan) with my 5-toe socks. A lady standing next to me said, "Your socks have toes in them!"
I replied, "Everybody's socks have toes in them."
Tim33 said:On the beer note. How many kinds of beer does a Japanese pub have??? Just Asahi or sapporo beer ?? No stella??
Or is it just random luck you get the one you want?
Tim33 said:But ive been with her 2 years now there is only so many i can make slip without her giving me silent treatment for 4 hours.
duff_o_josh said:anyone have an urge to want to be more fashionable since your life here started?
When I first arrived in Japan, I absolutely swore that i would never get one of those. After several months of carrying a small piggy-bank's worth of coins, a wallet, cigarettes, lighter, mobile phone, hand towel, and keys in my pants I finally broke down on got one. (I still don't know what was worse, the feeling that I had become a pack mule or the incessant jingling of coins and keys) Man! What a difference. I had become so accustomed to carrying one, I brought it back with me to the States and now get teased relentlessly for carrying a man-bag.Pachipro said:-Learning that it's quite ok for a man to usually have a shoulder bag that resembled a purse. Man was that ever handy!
Tim33 said:You mean she has to come to grips with it. I dont mind doing it, its natural it it hurts if you dont. But ive been with her 2 years now there is only so many i can make slip without her giving me silent treatment for 4 hours.
It gets easier as time goes on. Its just another one of those Bad changes that Japan has had on my lifestyle.
Tim33 said:But ive been with her 2 years now there is only so many i can make slip without her giving me silent treatment for 4 hours.
Mars Man said:Mike, my man...there could be a debate over whether Kentucky is really 'south' or not--I grew up in the Heart of Dixie--but I really hear you on that iced tea thing.
mikecash said:You're conflating two different things. 1) My being from the South and 2) my having been to a truck stop in Kentucky. I am from Tennessee, which is a Southern state. Kentucky is not a Southern state. Neither are Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, or Missouri, even though many people labor under the misapprehension that they are.