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Dallas Stars 2021-2022 Season Thread
Sweetnsourpoke replied to Longhorn_Fan68's topic in Other Sports
Did Benn take that skate to the face? Hard to tell on the big screen at the arena but looked like he took a boot to the jaw. Jeesh. -
For the record, age of consent in Japan is 16. Google 'Enjo-kosai'.
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One noticeable error in this series is that it's set in 1999 but there hasn't been one high school girl on the streets of Tokyo wearing buffalo socks with their uniforms. Every girl in T-town had these on. Very disappointed in this technical mistake.
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Agreed. Everyone said Episode 3 was the best episode but it got rather slow. The Yakuza stuff is just standard, Hollywood Yakuza. At least they pronounce the word ‘yakuza’ correctly….something Hollywood routinely screws up. Less of the hostess girl and more of Watanabe.
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I'm two episodes in and totally digging it. I'm surprised though there's no love interest. Any good looking gaijin with blonde hair and that fluent in Nihongo is getting laid. I know several guys that worked with Adelstein at the Yomiuri but they were at the English paper. Looking forward to them watching it to get their takes. One thing about the Yakuza, I always found them to be kind of comical. Definitely not in the same category as the Russian mob. First Japanese girl I ever dated was the daughter of a Yakuza member. We dated for 4 years. Great chick, still keep in touch. Anyway, her dad ran a red-light district somewhere around Asakusa. She didn't care for her father at all. When she was a kid, he fell in love with one of his prostitutes. She recalls going to Ueno Park one day with her dad and some strange woman. He eventually left them for this chick. He was arrested a few years later and she testified in court against her dad at age 11. She only saw him sparingly after getting released. A few months after we started dating, she told me I had to have a sit down dinner with both of her divorced parents at the apartment. It's unusual to meet Japanese parents when you're only casually dating. He definitely wanted to meet this gaijin dating his daughter. Definitely a memorable dinner. He wasn't impressed. I worked briefly at a small English school in Asakusa, pretty heavy Yak area. All of our Japanese staff were women. One day, a couple of Yakuza fellas came in wanting to speak to the manager. They were put in one of the classrooms until the manager finally came in and introduced herself. They repeated their request to speak to the manager but she replied that she was in fact the manager. They told her that they didn't do business with women and that they would return later to speak to a man. A few days later, they came back to find the same manager and - again - said they would return to talk to a man. They never came back. Weird.
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Dallas Stars 2021-2022 Season Thread
Sweetnsourpoke replied to Longhorn_Fan68's topic in Other Sports
Yep. Trust me, spend a winter in Walkerton or Flin Flon and you'll understand why Texas is so appealing. -
Since teaching English in Japan came up in conversation, I'll throw in a funny story. I taught English in Tokyo as a young man. Had no clue how to teach, they just hand you a book and tell you to get with it. I should point out, the three things we were never allowed to discuss in the classroom were sex, drugs and World War II. Rock-n-roll was fine. Just no sex, drugs and war. My highest-level class during my first month of employment was a pack of 8 housewives in their 40's. At that point in my life, I considered them all quite old. However, they spoke at a pretty advanced level and could carry on decent conversations. It was an enjoyable group. One day, we were working on hypothetical questions/second conditionals. The conversation steered towards bad habits such as smoking, chewing fingernails, etc. I asked the group.... '"Ladies, if there was one thing you wish you could stop doing right now, what would it be?" The class thought about it very quietly for a moment. Finally, one lady had an answer. "You know, I really wish......I could stop.....masturbating." Total silence. I didn't know what to say. Without even thinking, I asked "Oh, really? Why?" "Oh, it's just so troublesome. I started when I was in junior high school. Every month, my back hurts. I get cramping.......'. I immediately realized her mistake. "Oh, no. You mean menstruating. You wish you could stop menstruating." "Ah, yes. Menstruating. That's right. I wish I could stop." Now several hands shoot up and one student asks....."Sumimasen, what is 'masturbating'?" Now I'm extremely embarrassed with where this is going. I quickly answer...."Ah, sex....one person." One student then realized the Japanese translation. "Ah, masu o kaku!" and they all broke out in laughter. Another student asked for the spelling. Reluctantly, I spelled it on the board. As I turn around to carry on with class, my British supervisor walks in to check on my lesson. You couldn't have timed it better. To say she had a look of horror on her face would be an understatement. Another student, in front of my supervisor, then asked me to explain menstruation. How do you answer this question to a group of women? Now my boss is mystified. How did a lesson on second conditionals turn into a lecture on masturbation? I simply asked the original student to explain it in Japanese. Again, they got a good laugh mainly due to my discomfort at the situation. I was convinced now that I was getting the boot. Fortunately, that didn't happen and I wasn't deported.
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Have only seen the trailer but, having worked in a Japanese office in Tokyo for a lot of my thirties, the scene of the guy yelling 'gaijin' is ridiculous. Can't see that actually happening. My co-workers treated me extremely well.
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Boomtown is a great read. Yeah, I mainly just go downtown for Thunder basketball and the Bricktown Comedy Club. They pull in pretty solid acts. Margaret Cho, Kevin Nealon, Dave Attell, etc. Great addition to that area.
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Holy crap. I live in Oklahoma City and I haven't done any of that stuff (aside from the park). Let us know how it goes.
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Dallas Stars 2021-2022 Season Thread
Sweetnsourpoke replied to Longhorn_Fan68's topic in Other Sports
Was at the game. I swear there was a ten-minute span in the second period where the Isles were stuck on 8 shots. Could not get one legit shot on goal. Two-minute power play....no shot on net.....gave up a short-hander. Ridiculous. How that team won four games in row is a mystery. -
I check these threads mainly to see if I have family members posting on surlyhorns.
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Has anyone renewed a passport recently?
Sweetnsourpoke replied to lemonlime's topic in Food and Travel
Just renewed the passport. Did NOT pay for expedited service. Just regular service. Mailed paperwork March 8. They started processing March 22. Received new passport April 2. Pretty dang fast. -
Ken Holland should be canned for not improving their goaltending at the deadline.
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45 years since the premiere of the greatest sports movie ever
Sweetnsourpoke replied to Gil Bang's topic in Movies and TV
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I actually saw that MASH episode with the rape statement this evening. Interesting timing. I'm on a Slap Shot group on Facebook. Pretty funny private group which obviously celebrates the greatness of the Paul Newman classic. Most of the posts initiate loads of quotes from the movie. However, directly quoting several lines from the film have actually gotten a few members suspended for 30 days. Clearly some of that script would get edited out in the modern day.
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Interesting take. I thought the ending was pretty much the entire movie in a nutshell. It spoke volumes. Here's my take.... At the end of the film, the daughter is sitting on the porch and says (and I'm paraphrasing) "Man, Oklahoma looks exactly the same as it always did. Nothing has changed'. The camera does a tight shot of Damon and he responds 'No, it looks very different to me'. The movie was really about taking this white guy from Oklahoma out of his comfort zone and then seeing that change he encounters along the way. If you remember the day the daughter got a day pass from prison and spends the day at the flat, the French woman asks why she came to France. The daughter responds by saying she pretty much just wanted to get out of Oklahoma, as far as she could go. That seems logical considering she's young, a lesbian and most likely on the liberal/more adventurous side. She probably is not particularly keen on her conservative hometown and finds it pretty much the same despite being gone 6 + years. Matt Damon, however, is the complete opposite. He's a 100% Oklahoma guy, football fan, construction/oil rig worker, high school dropout with a criminal past. He most likely would have never visited France had his daughter not been there. He was totally out of his element and it forced him to reexamine certain aspects of his life. For example, one thing I noticed is that he was working construction in France. How did he get that job? Remember when the man was looking at photographs and said the French were having the same issues with Africans that the Americans were having with Mexicans? And the French woman refused to continue because he was racist? Damon didn't care because 'I work with guys like that back in Oklahoma'. Now what's interesting is that a few months later, Damon has the labor job. There's no way he had a proper working visa. He didn't have an EU passport, he wasn't married and he had a record. Very little chance he would get legal paperwork for a construction job. So now HE'S the Mexican......doesn't speak the language, is working a low paying gig, and is doing so under the table. This is one way he is forced to reexamine the world around him. I don't know, I thought the film was pretty deep. Matt Damon nailed the role.
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Have you looked around the arena lately? Christ, it's like a Tulsa Oilers home game in there. The Golden State crowd was great (lots of kids cheering for Curry) but the following game against Toronto was abysmal. You'd think there was 4 feet of snow outside. You should really visit with some regular folks in Oklahoma City. It's like a cult when it comes to conservative political allegiance. I know at least a dozen families that have cancelled season tickets due to politics. Bizarro world.
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You're probably right. I've just never seen a pro sports market quite like this.
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I've hit about 9 Thunder home games this season and the attendance has been horrendous. I'm not exaggerating when I say there are nights where we only have 6 or 7,000 in the seats. You can pay $10 for a ticket on stubhub and sit pretty much anywhere. I've noticed the three things that have impacted the attendance: rebuild, organization's support of BLM, and the earlier requirement to have vaccines and masks at games. The vast number of politically conservative people in this community that openly want this organization to fail and/or relocate and leave Oklahoma City is pretty astounding. I hear it quite a bit from the 'Go Woke/Go Broke' crowd. They actually want the NBA to leave town. Do you think behind closed doors that the NBA is regretting putting a team in Oklahoma City? I don't think you'd be seeing these politically related issues in Seattle.
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Dallas Stars 2021-2022 Season Thread
Sweetnsourpoke replied to Longhorn_Fan68's topic in Other Sports
Fun game in person. It occurred to me that the Stars haven't been handing out game programs this year. When did they kill this tradition? -
You're touching on a very interesting topic that hits close to home unfortunately. I lived in Asia for 18 years and repatriated about 7 years ago in my mid-forties. From a professional standpoint, moving back to the States (when I did) was one of the biggest mistakes I've ever made. I worked for a software company and law firm during that time abroad and never found anything close to that after returning to the States. I'm actually in the process of exploring job opportunities overseas as we speak. Would have moved earlier had it not been for Covid. One thing I highly recommend, make sure you have a solid plan and good leads before assuming you'll hit the ground running upon your return. I know this is a no-brainer but it's really true after a certain age. I think the longer you're overseas, the more you'll miss the ex-pat life after you return. The American Midwest gets pretty boring fast especially if you're starting over and meeting new people. A very different pace of life here.
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45 years since the premiere of the greatest sports movie ever
Sweetnsourpoke replied to Gil Bang's topic in Movies and TV
Looks like I spoke too soon. It was announced today they are postponing the 45th reunion due to current events around the world. They moved the dog one block away from Central Park just around the corner. By the way, the business in the background was the location of Gilda's Cut 'n Curl where Francine Dunlop worked as a hairdresser. If you visit Johnstown, there's Slap Shot history all over the place.
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