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Thread: Quitting smoking in Japan Post: Quitting smoking in Japan Blahah Wrote:This thread really is full of crap. To the OP: just stop being a pussy and quit. I smoked for eleven years, from the age of ten, 20+ a day. I quit aged 21 by just stopping. 'Trying' to q... |
Hologen | General discussion | 30 | 4,716 | 2010-06-28, 2:33 am | ||
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Thread: Quitting smoking in Japan Post: Quitting smoking in Japan Raschaverak Wrote:, Because you can do whatever you want with your life, even throw it away if you want. It's legal. Actually it IS illegal to kill yourself. It's also illegal to die in certain places... |
Hologen | General discussion | 30 | 4,716 | 2010-06-27, 9:34 pm | ||
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Thread: Quitting smoking in Japan Post: Quitting smoking in Japan Raschaverak Wrote:that line is a bit illogical, since who's smoking is aleready killing himself.... Suicide is not murder. It's suicide. I guess I should have said "Go jump off a bridge" to make it l... |
Hologen | General discussion | 30 | 4,716 | 2010-06-27, 8:16 am | ||
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Thread: Quitting smoking in Japan Post: Quitting smoking in Japan I'd love to go to Japan and not be self-conscious about smoking around people. In America it's like "You're a smoker?? You should go kill yourself, you murderer!" |
Hologen | General discussion | 30 | 4,716 | 2010-06-26, 9:31 pm | ||
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Thread: What's the best thing to do with $250,000? Post: What's the best thing to do with $250,000? This thread is officially depressing now. Two years older than me wondering what to do with $250,000. I don't even have TWO thousand dollars... |
Hologen | Off topic | 69 | 19,530 | 2010-06-18, 12:54 am | ||
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Thread: Understanding the Japanese speak English Post: Understanding the Japanese speak English Womacks23 Wrote:Exactly. There is a rather large part of the Japanese population who get very uncomfortable when they see a foreigner speaking Japanese. That is not very comforting to us. I don't wan... |
Hologen | General discussion | 27 | 7,325 | 2010-06-18, 12:45 am | ||
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Thread: is meat causing our diseases? Post: is meat causing our diseases? There is this commercial that makes me laugh, it says "Remember, if you can't pronounce it, chances are it's not natural." Most of the actual names of things are hard to pronounce. All plants have the... |
Hologen | Off topic | 40 | 8,069 | 2010-06-17, 2:43 am | ||
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Thread: Understanding the Japanese speak English Post: Understanding the Japanese speak English When I watch my japanese shows and movies, they occasionally say something in English. 90% of the time I don't catch what they say, and wouldn't have noticed it at all without subtitles. I was just wo... |
Hologen | General discussion | 27 | 7,325 | 2010-06-16, 7:03 pm | ||
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Thread: What's the best thing to do with $250,000? Post: What's the best thing to do with $250,000? Did you play powerball and get the 5 balls but not the powerball? Seeing as how you posted this today, wednesday, and the powerball was drawn last night, and you suddenly are talking about $250,00... |
Hologen | Off topic | 69 | 19,530 | 2010-06-16, 4:39 pm | ||
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Thread: How is suicide different in Japan? Post: How is suicide different in Japan? Have you ever considered suicide over the sheer curiosity of what's next? |
Hologen | General discussion | 59 | 11,963 | 2010-06-15, 10:37 am | ||
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Thread: is meat causing our diseases? Post: is meat causing our diseases? Asriel Wrote:sometimes my bacon gets really dry before it gets done cooking, so it just gets really hard, and it gets really chewy. It does that when it starts to get old. And/or you aren't covering i... |
Hologen | Off topic | 40 | 8,069 | 2010-06-14, 8:33 pm | ||
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Thread: Learning with a Nintendo DSi.. Post: Learning with a Nintendo DSi.. I just wanted to say that I just won an auction for a dark blue japanese DSi with allegedly less than 1hour of total use for $96 including shipping and handling. I think that's a pretty decent buy... |
Hologen | General discussion | 17 | 7,706 | 2010-06-14, 8:09 pm | ||
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Thread: Learning with a Nintendo DSi.. Post: Learning with a Nintendo DSi.. Yeah that is good advice. I haven't really made a list of games I'd like to play (as I haven't even ordered the DS yet) but one that I would like to play for sure is the death note Kira game. I haven'... |
Hologen | General discussion | 17 | 7,706 | 2010-06-14, 2:44 am | ||
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Thread: Learning with a Nintendo DSi.. Post: Learning with a Nintendo DSi.. I'm just wondering how difficult it will be to play the japanese games, even after I understand the interface and everything on the DS itself, that's just the start, and I'm still very much a beginner... |
Hologen | General discussion | 17 | 7,706 | 2010-06-12, 9:17 pm | ||
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Thread: Buying a laptop in Japan!? Post: Buying a laptop in Japan!? What's wrong with a mac? Much sturdier, you rarely ever run into all the weird problems you do with a PC like "this program is not responding". However, I also have a PC laptop and I've been having lo... |
Hologen | General discussion | 121 | 25,292 | 2010-06-11, 2:09 am | ||
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Thread: What am I missing? Post: What am I missing? So I was just wondering, if any of you guys come back to read this. Should I just immediately return to Kanji study after I feel that I have a good grasp of the kana? Or sort of tip toe around it and ... |
Hologen | Remembering the Kanji | 59 | 10,537 | 2010-06-10, 2:37 am | ||
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Thread: What am I missing? Post: What am I missing? I haven't actually started the kana yet. Waiting for my next day off to devote a good chunk of time to it and not feel rushed. I took a peak at Heisig's remember the Kana, read the introduction, was a... |
Hologen | Remembering the Kanji | 59 | 10,537 | 2010-06-09, 8:47 am | ||
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Thread: Learning with a Nintendo DSi.. Post: Learning with a Nintendo DSi.. Great post gyuujuice! I didn't know they were coming out with a new model. It will definitely be worth waiting for that to come out, as you said I'm sure it will cause a price drop in the other models... |
Hologen | General discussion | 17 | 7,706 | 2010-06-08, 7:34 pm | ||
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Thread: Learning with a Nintendo DSi.. Post: Learning with a Nintendo DSi.. I was considering buying a DS lite, but after doing some reading people say that all of the advanced functions on the DSi provide great tools for learning a language. I was just wondering if anyone ha... |
Hologen | General discussion | 17 | 7,706 | 2010-06-08, 6:05 pm | ||
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Thread: What am I missing? Post: What am I missing? Well, lots of different opinions! I think overall I'm convinced that it definitely wouldn't hurt to pause RTK (it's not like I'm very far into it anyway) and learn the Kana first. Since it doesn't tak... |
Hologen | Remembering the Kanji | 59 | 10,537 | 2010-06-08, 3:58 pm | ||
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Thread: What am I missing? Post: What am I missing? That really helps clarify things for me, Asriel. Ironically though, at first I thought 匹 was 4, I guess it is different because one side is open. It's ironic because it looks almost exactly like 四. In... |
Hologen | Remembering the Kanji | 59 | 10,537 | 2010-06-07, 10:34 am | ||
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Thread: What am I missing? Post: What am I missing? lol, so even with my re-evaluation of ー I was once again wrong! But it did make a bit more sense and I did notice it was different from 一, it's just that it didn't go either way in the movie, it was j... |
Hologen | Remembering the Kanji | 59 | 10,537 | 2010-06-07, 9:36 am | ||
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Thread: What am I missing? Post: What am I missing? Ok well actually, I guess ー is just used as a dash there to space the words "suicide" and "club". This was actually what I originally thought when looking at it. But since in the movie it was just a s... |
Hologen | Remembering the Kanji | 59 | 10,537 | 2010-06-07, 9:04 am | ||
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Thread: What am I missing? Post: What am I missing? Okay..so I'm about to demonstrate the full extent of my noobness. There are several questions that I have (in fact a few extra that I will leave out of this post). Well for starters I don't know if I ... |
Hologen | Remembering the Kanji | 59 | 10,537 | 2010-06-07, 8:58 am | ||
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Thread: Immersion and sleep Post: Immersion and sleep Wow I didn't even think about audio books! lol it's all so obvious now :P. And yeah actually I haven't even had my ipod for very long and I was wondering if I could repeat albums. Thanks a bunch! |
Hologen | General discussion | 5 | 2,458 | 2010-06-05, 7:39 pm | ||
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Thread: Immersion and sleep Post: Immersion and sleep Well it's not that it's just Japanese media distracting me from sleep. It's anything really. I need quiet to fall asleep, but once I AM asleep, noise will not wake me so easily. Unless it's sudden, bu... |
Hologen | General discussion | 5 | 2,458 | 2010-06-05, 7:09 pm | ||
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Thread: Immersion and sleep Post: Immersion and sleep Been slowly setting up a bit of an immersion environment. I know a lot of people don't take much stock in the idea of sleep learning, but I think there is a lot of potential as our subconscious mind i... |
Hologen | General discussion | 5 | 2,458 | 2010-06-05, 6:38 pm | ||