"Invective?" Try familiarizing yourself with a word before you make yourself look stupid by misusing it, Sparky.rootabega wrote:Try begging for money for Japan without the invective.
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- Mar 14th, '11, 03:33
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: 9.0 Earthquake and Resulting Tsunami hits Northern Japan
- Replies: 155
- Views: 44894
- Mar 14th, '11, 01:57
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: 9.0 Earthquake and Resulting Tsunami hits Northern Japan
- Replies: 155
- Views: 44894
Everyone, the people of Japan need our help. If you can afford to donate anything — any amount , no matter how little — please do so. There are many reputable charities, and they're not hard to find. I'm a poverty-stricken college student, and even I have managed to scrape up $50 to donate (which I ...
- May 15th, '08, 21:45
- Forum: Life & Relationships
- Topic: GUYS : What kind of girl do u like???
- Replies: 166
- Views: 40903
- May 2nd, '08, 08:07
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: CNN insulting Chinese people
- Replies: 30
- Views: 9361
Chinese hackers appear to be readying for an attack on the West scheduled for April 19. It appears the basis of the attack is based on the recent, and very public, pro Tibet coverage in Western media organizations… The Red Alliance have traditionally required very little in terms of direct motivati...
- Apr 29th, '08, 10:23
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: CNN insulting Chinese people
- Replies: 30
- Views: 9361
CNN offered the apology as a courtesy , not because they were obligated to make it. They will not be firing Jack Cafferty, no matter how much noise anyone makes about what he said. Furthermore, please rest assured that the laughably ridiculous $1.3 billion lawsuit filed against CNN will be thrown ou...
- Apr 27th, '08, 09:49
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: CNN insulting Chinese people
- Replies: 30
- Views: 9361
First of all, Cafferty's criticisms about shoddy Chinese manufacturing standards were entirely valid and accurate. Suggesting otherwise is simply delusional. Secondly, his remarks about 'goons and thugs' were very obviously not directed at the Chinese people , but at their tyrannical government — an...
- Oct 22nd, '07, 10:51
- Forum: Japanese Culture & Entertainment
- Topic: Are Japanese people really like that?
- Replies: 137
- Views: 24523
I would like to apologize in advance to all americans for what I'm going to write now. :unsure: I'm Austrian (Europe) and we get a lot of TV shows from the US in Europe of course. And especially these shows running on MTV where incredibly ignorant people show up in incredibly dumb reality shows to ...
- Oct 22nd, '07, 09:28
- Forum: Japanese Culture & Entertainment
- Topic: [Movie Discussion] Boku wa imouto ni koi wo suru
- Replies: 355
- Views: 177812
Just finished watching this, and I've gotta say… good GOD, could it have been any more boring? What were they thinking when they made this two-hour yawner? They had a fabulously taboo subject like incest, yet the best they could come up with was a couple of brief kissing scenes – for a grand total o...
- Dec 8th, '06, 11:38
- Forum: Japanese Culture & Entertainment
- Topic: Japanese Home Shrine / Altar
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1497
- Dec 8th, '06, 10:39
- Forum: Japanese Culture & Entertainment
- Topic: Japanese Home Shrine / Altar
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1497
Japanese Home Shrine / Altar
In TV shows and movies, I have often seen Japanese people praying in front of a small wooden box that contains a photograph of some important ancestor(s) -- usually a parent. Can anyone tell me what the word is for that shrine / altar? Is that the Butsudan? Or is it called something else? I thought ...
- Sep 5th, '06, 09:35
- Forum: Japanese Culture & Entertainment
- Topic: Korean Pop Star Diva Say No Nude Pictures to Japan
- Replies: 29
- Views: 24779
- Sep 4th, '06, 00:29
- Forum: Life & Relationships
- Topic: Would you ever marry someone your parents didn't approve of?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 39196
Depends on WHY my parents didn't approve. If it was over something stupid like race — which my parents would never do anyway, but let's say hypothetically that they did — then I'd tell my parents to suffer and deal with it, because I'm getting married and they're going to have some half-breed grandc...
- Aug 27th, '06, 03:55
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: What's your ethinicity??
- Replies: 737
- Views: 109806
- Aug 27th, '06, 03:46
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: What's your ethinicity??
- Replies: 737
- Views: 109806
- Aug 27th, '06, 03:11
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: What's your ethinicity??
- Replies: 737
- Views: 109806
- Aug 7th, '06, 07:52
- Forum: JDrama Discussions
- Topic: Recommend J-Dramas (Ask for suggestions here)
- Replies: 4521
- Views: 1717220
Only the episodes that have been soft-subbed (1-6) -- but it's really good, so far…Japan Otaku wrote:anyone watch Sora Kara Furu Ichioku no Hoshi?
There are still seeders on it, if you want to grab the whole series in one batch:
A Million Stars Falling From The Sky
And you can get the subtitles HERE.
- Jun 29th, '06, 09:01
- Forum: JDrama Discussions
- Topic: [Discussion] Teru Teru Ashita
- Replies: 41
- Views: 20027
- Jun 7th, '06, 08:13
- Forum: Korean Culture & Entertainment
- Topic: Guys Your Choice!!
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11980
Looooooooooooong. The longer, the better. Ideally, it should reach the small of her back. If she can just barely sit on her own hair, then it's perfect. The only way it could possibly be too long is if she's stepping on it. There are indeed many women who look just fine with relatively short hair — ...
- Jun 7th, '06, 07:36
- Forum: Japanese Actors & Actresses
- Topic: [poll] Vote for the most sexy Japanese actress!
- Replies: 85
- Views: 95223
- May 18th, '06, 20:19
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: For non-asians How have you gotten yourself into asian drama
- Replies: 81
- Views: 22428
- May 4th, '06, 04:16
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: soft subs vs hard subs - which do you prefer
- Replies: 179
- Views: 69071
SOFT , always. The various benefits ascribed to hard subs -- such as pretty fonts, colors, etc. -- are all completely irrelevant. They're eye-candy, nothing more. And they're annoying eye-candy when you can't ever turn them off, and even worse when (as is often the case) they contain spelling or gr...
- Feb 12th, '06, 14:02
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: What you guys do with the dramas?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 21722
I have a dvd player that plays divx files… Will your DVD player also play XviD files? I have been told that anything capable of playing DivX will also play XviD, because the codecs are very similar (or something like that), but I have no idea whether that's true. It doesn't sound likely… but then a...
- Oct 30th, '05, 12:35
- Forum: JDrama Discussions
- Topic: [Discussion] Kiken na Aneki
- Replies: 139
- Views: 45327
- Sep 22nd, '05, 12:51
- Forum: Japanese Culture & Entertainment
- Topic: Will Japanese music ever survive in America?
- Replies: 112
- Views: 22007
The fact that it's not mainstream where I live is one of the reasons that I like so much. Excellent point, and I agree wholeheartedly. The reason I disovered J-Pop in the first place was that I got sick and tired of hearing the 'Top 40' crap that's all over MTV and the radio here in America — so on...
- Sep 22nd, '05, 07:03
- Forum: Japanese Culture & Entertainment
- Topic: Will Japanese music ever survive in America?
- Replies: 112
- Views: 22007
It's not the appearance of the singers or musicians that matter. It's not even the music. It's quite simply the language barrier. Most Americans are not the least bit interested in listening to songs that aren't in English, no matter how good the music may be. I used to work in an office that had a ...
- Aug 31st, '05, 10:44
- Forum: JDrama Discussions
- Topic: Worst J-drama Ever! (*spoilers*)
- Replies: 824
- Views: 237666
- Aug 31st, '05, 10:38
- Forum: JDrama Discussions
- Topic: Worst J-drama Ever! (*spoilers*)
- Replies: 824
- Views: 237666
- Aug 30th, '05, 23:08
- Forum: JDrama Discussions
- Topic: [Discussion] Densha Otoko
- Replies: 1044
- Views: 265206
- Aug 30th, '05, 17:40
- Forum: JDrama Discussions
- Topic: Worst J-drama Ever! (*spoilers*)
- Replies: 824
- Views: 237666
I haven't seen nearly as many J-Dramas as the rest of you, apparently. I only started watching them recently, after discovering (and very much liking) the show Hero, on the JPopSuki site -- which made me want more J-Drama, which eventually led me here. The complete list of everything I've watched so...
- Aug 29th, '05, 03:06
- Forum: JDrama Discussions
- Topic: [Discussion] Densha Otoko
- Replies: 1044
- Views: 265206
- Aug 29th, '05, 02:50
- Forum: JDrama Discussions
- Topic: [Discussion] Densha Otoko
- Replies: 1044
- Views: 265206
- Aug 29th, '05, 00:20
- Forum: JDrama Discussions
- Topic: [Discussion] Densha Otoko
- Replies: 1044
- Views: 265206
Ahhh… so it's the Informal Past Affirmative of 売る…?I should have guessed it was something like that, based on the -ita ending. Now I get it, though. Thanks! And thanks for the explanation of how the expression developed. That's the sort of thing they don't usually put in the books. And I'm not sure...
- Aug 28th, '05, 15:19
- Forum: JDrama Discussions
- Topic: [Discussion] Densha Otoko
- Replies: 1044
- Views: 265206
- Aug 8th, '05, 05:31
- Forum: JDrama Discussions
- Topic: [Discussion] Densha Otoko
- Replies: 1044
- Views: 265206
- Aug 8th, '05, 04:19
- Forum: JDrama Discussions
- Topic: [Discussion] Densha Otoko
- Replies: 1044
- Views: 265206
- Aug 5th, '05, 13:31
- Forum: JDrama Discussions
- Topic: [Discussion] Densha Otoko
- Replies: 1044
- Views: 265206
I'm assuming that our hero will grow less and less wussy as we go along. It's presumably going to be about 10-12 episodes long, yes? So we've still got plenty of time for him to grow a spine. And think how much greater the payoff will be when he finally does something truly brave. Anyway -- for thos...
- May 18th, '05, 18:20
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: For New Members - Introduce Yourselves!
- Replies: 1533
- Views: 423900
Greetings!
I discovered D-Addicts through a link in the forum at JPopSuki . Although that tracker's main theme is music, someone had posted a torrent for the J-Dorama "Hero" (Takuya Kimura, Takako Matsu), which I downloaded out of mere curiosity... and since it was excellent , I decided to try some m...