Help with Japanese culture - Page 2

monolith94 · September 22, 2003, 15:05

The waltz is a great dance.

Harry Seldon · September 22, 2003, 16:37

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Wrecked a truck?

Oh yeah. You can't come to the south and not go muddin'. You're not truly muddin' until you cause massive damage to your vehicle.

Imran Siddiqui · September 22, 2003, 16:42

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Wrecked a truck?

She is an Asian woman

*runs*

Arrian · September 22, 2003, 16:48

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Originally posted by Harry Seldon

Oh yeah. You can't come to the south and not go muddin'. You're not truly muddin' until you cause massive damage to your vehicle.

Ah.

/me , being a Yankee, is confused.

DanS · September 22, 2003, 17:49

You guys took her mud running?

This was--I'm certain--a wedding to remember for her.

Drake Tungsten · September 23, 2003, 06:24

God, you guys already turned a sweet Japanese girl into a redneck...

Harry Seldon · September 23, 2003, 09:40

She loved it and was quite the good sport about everything. When we went tubing, my dad flipped her three times at thirty miles an hour. She only let go on the third time because she hit the water so hard. I tried to do it and I got thrown the moment I went upside down and hit the water.

Arrian, do you not understand muddin or the massive damage part? As a transplanted Yankee of sorts, I can give you a quick rundown. Muddin' is taking a vehicle at high speed through mud pits and water holes with the intent of sliding out of control and covering said vehicle in mud. The massive damage comes into play because I can't think of a time that muddin' didn't involve damage to my ride, at least the really good trips.

For example, I used to have the greatest car ever made: the Volvo 740 GLE. I can guarantee that you've never really been muddin' until you've done it in a luxury sedan. After running through a field for about thirty minutes, whipping my friends off the hood and trunk and occasionally dragging them over the muddy turf, I cut a turn really sharp and slid over a sall embankment, which ripped my passenger side front tire off my car and broke both front struts. This was possibly the best muddin experience I ever had. We couldn't even jack the car all the way up to put a spare on because the ground was so soft. Good times were had by all.

Agathon · September 23, 2003, 09:46

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Originally posted by Harry Seldon
My cousing is getting married this weekend to a girl from Japan. I know absolutely nothing about Japanese culture that I didn't learn from stereotypes and anime. I really would like to make her feel welcome to our family; does anyone have any suggestions that will keep me from making a total *** out of myself?

My brother is marrying a girl from Japan. She is very nice.

Here's a sound piece of advice that has served me well.

If you want to know about what to do, just ask her or the Japanese people you are with. People from other cultures aren't so dim-witted that they don't realize that not everyone knows their way of doing things. But if you ask them about it, you receive the double benefit of finding out what to do and of appearing to be mindful of treating that person's culture with respect. For some odd reason, people really seem to like being treated this way.

If you make this small effort, you will find your mistakes are easily and quickly forgiven.

Arrian · September 23, 2003, 10:17

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Originally posted by Harry Seldon
She loved it and was quite the good sport about everything. When we went tubing, my dad flipped her three times at thirty miles an hour. She only let go on the third time because she hit the water so hard. I tried to do it and I got thrown the moment I went upside down and hit the water.

Arrian, do you not understand muddin or the massive damage part? As a transplanted Yankee of sorts, I can give you a quick rundown. Muddin' is taking a vehicle at high speed through mud pits and water holes with the intent of sliding out of control and covering said vehicle in mud. The massive damage comes into play because I can't think of a time that muddin' didn't involve damage to my ride, at least the really good trips.

For example, I used to have the greatest car ever made: the Volvo 740 GLE. I can guarantee that you've never really been muddin' until you've done it in a luxury sedan. After running through a field for about thirty minutes, whipping my friends off the hood and trunk and occasionally dragging them over the muddy turf, I cut a turn really sharp and slid over a sall embankment, which ripped my passenger side front tire off my car and broke both front struts. This was possibly the best muddin experience I ever had. We couldn't even jack the car all the way up to put a spare on because the ground was so soft. Good times were had by all.

I kinda figured it was something like that.

Though I'm sure it's fun and all, how in the world could it be worth the damage to the car? That's just beyond me.

-Arrian