I heard that in MGS2, but no I have no idea what harikari means... Is it sushi? Please oh PLEASE tell me it's just something innocuous like that!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
Ah, to tell you the truth I disapprove of suicide most of all. If you live you can do something good for people, but if you die, that's it, you've only done something shameful and vanished. Certainly a far worse thing...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
That's not how they see it in Japan though, especially about 50-100 years ago. If the caused some great embarassement to their family or themselves, they felt the only way to rectify the situation was to take their own life. They felt pretty strongly about it back then.
Besides, does current day Japan really feel that way? If so, their popular entertainment sure seems to fly in the face of that.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
Yeah not anymore. And I agree, I consider suicide to be a terrible thing. But when it comes to foreign cultures you're going to come across a lot of odd things like that. People in other countries think we do a lot of really weird things, too. And they're right.
When you say "too" you suggest that you said they were doing something weird, but no, you said "terrible". Weird does not equal terrible. Katarami Damacy is weird... Well, okay it involves crushing entire cities and all, but they SEEM to be alive... I think...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
Not exactly sure what you were talking about there... Stuff we do that's weird and terrible? Such as? We're Americans, we do no wrong!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
"It's true that American go inside their homes with their shoes still on, right? Then what if the American father steps in dog poo, but doesn't notice and goes inside?"
And um, how are you NOT going to notice that? What, are these people running around on their lawns or something? I stick to concrete thank you very much.
But yes of course there are things we do differently. However, if you want something to compare to this, it would be more like...
Well, it's like whereas the Japanese bow courteously to each other as a show of mutual respect, Americans murder babies and eat them.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
A personal favorite of mine, an anime series called Azumanga Daioh.
Quote:And um, how are you NOT going to notice that? What, are these people running around on their lawns or something? I stick to concrete thank you very much.
The idea is that we, Americans, walk inside with our shoes on, something that is very odd to people from Japan.
Yeah. And the whole guns thing... just about anywhere you go in the world that is not a middle-eastern country (funny, huh?), people are afraid of coming here because they think that everyone has a gun. That's all you ever see about us on the news in other countries, shootings and such in America. We are pretty crazy that way.
In Slovenia you didn't wear shoes in school... there was a room where you put your shoes (then it was locked i think) and you wore these slipper things in school. :)
A Black Falcon Wrote:In Slovenia you didn't wear shoes in school... there was a room where you put your shoes (then it was locked i think) and you wore these slipper things in school. :)
Oh man, don't remind me of that. When we lived there the only damn slippers I could find were these horrible ballet-like slippers, and I walked around school in them all damn day.
Thankfully several other Croatians wore the same slippers.