Mardi gras is behind us and lent is upon us. I don't do religion, but I grew up with it. Lent is a time of spiritual reflection and abstinence. Does anyone observe this as a soul strengthening period of time? I'm not.... But I thought it would be nice to ask. February is also Black History Month. There's a ton of factoids and famous black Americans featured on a couple digital signs here at the Seattle airport. I was going to find some hot black ladies to post in the thread, but it seemed racist. Whatever. Here is Beyonce. Happy Friday!
I dunno, it just seems fetish-y to have black history month and then just focus on the hot babes. I'm probably over thinking it. I'm excited to be home and resume normal shits. My mouth is full of sores and I had diarrhea every single day I was in Bama.
There was a period where I spent a lot of time trying to figure out if it was more racist to date black women because they reminded me of my ex who I wasn't over, or to not date them for the same reason. In the end I decided that fetishizing asian women like everyone else in my industry was probably the safer option.
Oof. That hits me where I live. It's pretty otherworldly to see and talk to people who want a Japanese girlfriend. How do I date a Japanese woman?
Sorry, I meant to say Revengeofthewildered, but I had long day cleaning up after the wife puking up her guts due to a stomach bug, the dog trying to eat wife's puke who then also throws up...on the couch, as well as dealing with a constipated baby and a 3yr old being a 3yr old because a 3yr old always improves situations like this... Oh and my nutsack still hurts from the vasectomy I had on my birthday. Anyway, I'm about to head out for a pack of smokes...maybe hop a tramp freighter for parts unknown
There are a couple guys at work who are into anime. I don't know anything about it, but I'm friendly with one of the guys and he talks about it sometimes. Both are incredibly socially awkward He and this other guy started taking Japanese lessons, I assumed mostly because they like anime so much. They practice and talk in the break room, so I hear them whenever I get coffee or whatever. After a few weeks I started to understand - the guy I don't know as well wants to visit Japan, and snag a tiny Asian wife. He's absolutely convinced that he's going to step off the plan, apparently the only single white man in a sea of Japanese beauties, and they are just going to throw themselves at him. Because... I'm not sure. Maybe he thinks that Japanese women fetishize white men the way he fetishizes them? He'll thinks he'll spend his 2 week vacation there, fall in love with a demure local girl who wants to cook and clean and wear cat ears for him, and she'll fly back to the US and be his wife. He clearly thinks that something about a mediocre, awkward, out-of-shape white man with a middling job and no interests outside of anime, is going to be incredibly attractive in Japan despite his total inability to get a date in the US. I suspect sex tourism in poor parts of Southeast Asia is in this guy's future.
Anime was a mistake. The common parlance for that is "sexpat". Happens all of the time. It's super gross, and you see some tech dweebs dumpster their careers to take some English teaching job so they can get a visa quickly. It's funny when they talk about how they want to do immersion, so they don't want to live where foreigners are. Next thing you know, they're in Tokyo, going to a Japanese language school, where they're surrounded by other foreigners all day. Also, if you thought making friends was hard as an adult, take it to another country where you don't know the culture (anime is not the culture, it's shit for kids and chumps), don't really know the language, and you're already a social shithead. They'll probably find some lady who wants halfer babies, they'll have kids, and the next thing you know: surprise the first hanako who let you in to her bed isn't going to be your Asian fantasy girl. Japan doesn't have anything other than full custody. The misunderstandings stop being "cute" pretty quick, and now you're just a loser who can't even see his kids. Women aren't excluded from the stupid, but we're talking 90/10 split here. Mediocre white guy sells here to a certain demographic. In the words of one of my more liberal Japanese mates "They scrape up what most Japanese men would never pick up". Aside that, you get a lot of weird manifestations of white supremacy and colonialism. These guys think they can fix Asia. They're gonna treat the women right! Not like those other men, and especially not the ones from the same country. They're the real losers.
Guys, go get yourself a colonoscopy if you haven’t already. I scoffed when they lowered the age, and there I was, semi-stoned out of my mind watching the doc cut one of two large polyps out of me. Probably okay, and sent off for testing. But if I’d waited a few more years, well, who knows. Now I have to have another in three years. I was also advised to encourage our sons to get one in their 30’s as well as advise my brothers to get one now. All four were thrilled with that news. Other than the fasting, it wasn’t a big deal. The drugs were good, and I think I uttered “Oh wow.” when the first one hit. I remember seeing the screen and thinking I’d been awake the whole time but no, I was only awake ( or can remember ) about 5 of the 45 minutes I was in there. I was out of there a short time later, half stoned and devouring a huge fucking breakfast. Go get your asshole checked.
I don’t understand anime, not even the “Airbender” shit my sons like to watch. All I can think of is, Disney had amazing animation 75+ years ago, and people are watching this shit. Out of curiosity I’ve looked at the anime porn, and can’t imagine being remotely turned on by it.
There are two types of men: those who hit puberty and begin to put away the comics, cartoons and role-playing games around the time they turn 15-17 because their brain tells them start liking other things…. …. and there are the other kinds of men, those who just keep liking kid/teenager things for the rest of their lives. I get that some are born with a bum rap. If you have something like Kleinfelter’s syndrome then you’ll always be a zero and that’s not your fault. But many of them simply choose an immature, socially awkward lifestyle.
Real talk about anime: Some it's fine. There are good stories, bad stories, whatever. Obsessing over it is worse than just enjoying a franchise. It's like...being weird and rabid about an entire class of shows merely because of their inclusion in that class. Making it a huge part of your identity make it just as weird as someone who obsesses over Star Wars. Now just replace that with underage school girls and whatever passes for "high school drama". Moving to a place because you've watched some of their popular culture products thinking they'll "understand you" unlike people of your own culture, is mental illness.
Yeah grew up non religious so not much in the way of reflecting. This must be a Japanese thing. A richer country. When I lived in China there was no end to the girls moving in from the country to score the first businessman they ran into. ESL teachers and backpackers with any game cleaned up too. Most expats that went the chinese wife route stayed there because the cost of living was so fucking cheap. Nice apartment and a live in nanny for the cost of a 2 bedroom apartment in any mid tier American city.
Hope it's nothing Walt. The wifey gets checked in a few weeks and I had to reschedule mine because of the job shake up but just received my new insurance info and will be calling Mon to schedule. And agreed, if my buddy had been checked at 45 instead of 50, he'd probably have more than ~6 months to live. I also feel that we could do a better job showing the horrors of cancer. If your knowledge of cancer was Hollywood, you'd think the worst side effect of treatment is your hair falling out and not that it turns a pretty healthy person into a shell of their former physical self. Or the Doc says you have apprx a year and you travel the world in perfect health and then peacefully pass at home and not losing so much blood that you pass out, fall off the toilet and lay there for 30 mins until your wife finds you. As Walt so eloquently put it "Go get your asshole checked"
I don’t entirely blame that guy. He’s autistic. He also no doubt has some SERIOUS personality disorders from a shitty upbringing. He was a very soft target during the absolute height of the “Wild West Internet” era where— a) you could basically say whatever you want to anybody b) about 50% of the people online did not know how to handle their own shit when put on the spot. Do you remember when idiots used to flat-out put their phone numbers on their MySpace and YouTube pages to bookend their horrific/creepy content? Do you remember how FUN it was to call those numbers when you were high up and fuck with those people?