/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

> Live in Japan 15 months.
> Teach English at Junior High.
> Level up Japanese ability.
> Enjoy pretty much everything about big city life.
> Visa runs out.
> Moves back to small Australian town.
> Mfw I find myself reapplying for old shitty Insurance job.

[Anonymous No.]

Not your blog.

[Anonymous No.]

Hey thats great but who are you quoting, uh... "mate"

[Anonymous No.]

Whom are you quoting?

[Anonymous No.]

>>10762536
>>10762535
>>10762534
Typical /jp/ autists.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10762534
>being this jealous of someone that lived the dream

[Anonymous No.]

feelio when I can't tell who u r quotin and thus can't relate :(

[Anonymous No.]

that feel when you will never know if I'm posting this ironically or If I'm really from r9k.

[Anonymous No.]

Quit whining, you wanker. Just man up and find a way to go back if you liked it that much.

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>>10762555
FUCK, I was so pissed when that thread got deleted after his second post! I will never know if it actually ended on that or if there was more to it...

[Anonymous No.]

Is this a blog thread? Can I ask what happened to that guy who was feeding his cousin sweets and being fed by het?

[Anonymous No.]

>still trying to go to the shops
>know from experience that you'll get sleepy in two hours when at this point
>the PONR has been passed: now you're so hungry that eating would make you drop like a brick anyway
>hands start stinging
>shiteyposts get harder to type

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>insurance
ugh. That's my hometown's biggest employer, too. Gross depressing industry is gross and depressing.

I mean at least it isn't something hazardous like mining, I guess.

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>>10762580
My city's largest employer is the public schools, after that the hospitals, and then Boeing, and then the city itself.

This city is pretty nice.

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P.S.
OP accidentally brought back some invasive wildlife

Enjoy your new cane toads, ausfailia

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>>10762561
>start wondering why alcoholics even drink
>do they want to ensure that they actually are dysfunctional?
>are they trying to gather pity points or do they just want to make people see from afar what's the name of the game?

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>>10762590
They're physically addicted and can't stop without risk of death.

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>>10762598
>why did they start, though?
>medical professionals know how to sober up a drunk safely
>I think it involves injections of vitamin B?

[Anonymous No.]

Let me tell you something. During Easter a few weeks ago my whole family gathered, like usual. My sisters were here, my cousins were here, like I said, my whole family. It was a pretty normal Easter where the kids searched for eggs and the girls wore cute dresses and all was well. I was sitting in the TV room alone, watching TV as usual at gatherings, when one of my cousins came over to me excitedly and asked me to look at her Easter basket.

The basket was nice, filled with plastic eggs, chocolates, and other bright candies. Definitely something I would have loved if I were her age. She was so excited picking out the candies and showing them to me before putting them back into the basket, picking up another, and repeating. I couldn't help but notice that this girl was truly happy with her basket. There were no worries for her. All that mattered to her at that point in time was her candy.

I asked what was in the eggs, so she opened them and they were filled with jelly beans. I asked if I could have one egg because I like jelly beans, so she got up off the floor, got up on the couch, sat next to me and gave me a shiny purple plastic egg. I opened the egg and was eating the beans very slowly, enjoying the company of this ecstatic little girl sitting next to me, who had also started eating various candies from the basket. When I had emptied the one egg, I asked for another, and she happily placed another into my palm. For what seemed like an eternity we sat there on the couch, mindlessly flipping through the channels on the television, the room slowly filling with the sweet aroma of candies.

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>>10762615
Variety of reasons, maybe stress. Usually just being dumb. Few of them seek help because I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM, MAN.

Alcoholics are dumb.

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After a while I noticed that she was actually leaning against me quite a bit, still happily munching on her candy. She seemed surprisingly fragile as I looked down at her and the basket, noticing that she had first eaten all the chocolate and seemed to be leaving the eggs with the jelly beans alone.

Feeling a bit apprehensive I asked if she liked jelly beans. She groaned and shook her head, her soft light brown hair ruffling against my shoulder, releasing a different sweet scent that had to have been her shampoo. I asked why she didn't like them. She said they were gross. I told her they were not gross. She turned her head toward me, angled her face up toward me, her eyes closed, and made an "ahhh" sound like you do at a doctor. When she did this I couldn't help but notice how amazingly cute she looked, sitting there with her mouth open expectedly. I'm not sure exactly what she wanted, but I put a jelly bean in her mouth anyway. She slowly chewed it while letting out another slight groan while chewing as if questioning the jelly bean. She said they stuck to her teeth and didn't like them very much.

I asked if she could give me a Peep. I opened my mouth just like she did, and she went ahead and put one in there. After I had finished I nudged her a bit and simply said, "open up," and she'd open her mouth and make the same "ahhh" sound. All I had were jelly beans, so that's all I put in her mouth. It felt really nice feeding her candy and then having her feed me. The longer we sat there, the more heavily she leaned against me, and the warmer she began to feel pressed up against me.

I didn't want it to end, but eventually it was time for dinner and we were all called to the table to eat.

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>>10762530
i thought teaching enrish overseas was a great way to get something nice on your CV, and get a better job/ get into a better grad school.

Probably not good enough to teach in Japan, but maybe Taiwan or the Saudi Arabia.

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>>10762598
Thats actually very rare. Most just dont want to give up that feeling buzzed

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>>10762625
>I can't completely agree because I've met two odd persons
>they had both succeeded well in technical universities, the other one even in a relatively demanding line
>both 100% unemployed alcoholics, the older one in his fifties
>he had a blazing career that he often shares details about, and he can still explain what a Taylor series is
>what I don't understand is how such a person could tolerate the feeling of being drunk
>it's cloudy and insanely annoying
>it's as if they went into a flagellatory self-destruction mode after perceived failure
>is it a right-wing thing?
>>fail to live up to your impossible Aryan ideals even at the expense of others; commit suicide that's not really a suicide but "a disease"

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>>10762685
Dude, why are you frogtexting?

And I should clarify, it's more dumb decision making than being generally unintelligent.

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>>10762697
> it's more dumb decision making than being generally unintelligent
I do not understand. I think you're being naive or protective.

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>>10762703
We're at an impasse.

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>>10762707
What's the point of being generally intelligent if you get so knee-deep that you drop the deck, especially when you have promoted harsh values for your entire life?

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>>10762715
Or rather, how is it general intelligence?

[Anonymous No.]

Alcoholism:

Just got home from fourteen-hour workday.

Workday should be only 8 hours, but I'm behind on my job because I'm bad at it.

I came home to sleep and go to work early.

Now I'm home, and I'm drinking so I can let the anxiety knot in my stomach unclench and be in a pleasant fuzz.

I lie about how much I drink.

I drink every day.

I'm about to go to bed; now isn't a good time to be drinking.

I'm drinking anyway, because I'm too tired to care, and I want it.

I'm also on the chans.

I'm doing stupid things, but empirically I'm intelligent.

I just lack willpower to put the little pleasures of booze and dopamine behind me. Since you asked.

And I can quit. It's just very very hard because I love everything about how booze tastes and feels.

Porn's harder to quit.

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>>10762722
alcoholism moe

[Anonymous No.]

Go back then faggot. Aussies are always moaning, try living in ignorant Britain. Most people here have only one wish; to move to Australia. Try thinking about someone else other than yourself for a change.

[Trevor !4Pq7ZkSFpA No.]

Cute Alpha figure dude.

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>>10762722
Is /jp/ going to turn into AA club?

I've been drinking a lot lately too but that is just because I got much free time now. I love drinking, a lot and I go overboard. People are most honest to themselves and to others when they are drunk. I've found some secrets within me that I was never aware of.

I sometimes avoid drinking in public because it gets me temporary Asperger's.

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The only thing I've regularly been drinking is non-alcoholic beer. I don't like being druink, but I love the taste of beer.

I don't understand why I need an ID to buy it. There's less than .5% ABV, which is about the same as Fentiman's Curiosity Cola or any other naturally-carbonated drink.

[Trevor !4Pq7ZkSFpA No.]

>>10762809

>love taste of beer
>non-alcoholic beer

I don't know man.

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>>10762722
>I just lack willpower to put the little pleasures of booze and dopamine behind me.
I'm still in the process of figuring out how much I should really appreciate pleasure, and how frugal I can go without losing focus. I've been eating badly, sleeping badly and denying fun from myself for a year. It's a bit like a second round of the army, this time self-administered and without discipline.

I feel like I've gotten slower. On the other hand, I've never before felt this determined. Is this how ideological zealots are made? It seems to be working even though I don't believe in anything but politeness and 1+1=2.

It's incredible how good people are at lying to themselves about their needs, usually in the name of personal progress. Good people, personal progress has nothing to do with your status in society once you have learned how difficult positions you can handle. Put in those 10 000 hours and you've reached your peak in personal creativity. What's relevant is where you are when you get past that point. You'd better be tied to a respectable job and a family.

Do you know how low you can go without losing yourself? Do you know how much loneliness you can really tolerate? Do you even know what loneliness is? I think I still don't have a clue.

I eat once every two days, sleep randomly (sometimes 6 hours per 24 hours, sometimes 12 hours per 36 hours) and never consume media streams besides calm music. I only read /jp/ and academic or professional texts. The only people I talk to are cashiers once or twice a week. The funny thing is that I've never been happier.

The biggest problem with liberal socialist visions is that they refuse to acknowledge how damn good this state of being actually feels. Now that I've gotten a taste of this, it will be completely impossible to pull me into certain professions. Maybe people are different.

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>>10762833
>it will be completely impossible to pull me into certain professions
I'll name the most relevant ones:
- most of the completely vain service jobs (this is a "bad" one, half of the population is involved in these)
- military
- hazardous industry jobs

Everyone should perfect a skill that they consider important. Keeping people meddling with nonsense is simply inhumane and collectively harmful. What could they be doing instead? A person with an IQ of 100 can handle _any_ decent bachelor's in five years. Even I could grab one with decent grades and I've been a walking joke for my entire life.

I still respect scientists more than anyone else - why isn't the world more involved in science? Researchers are the ones who bring true progress. Everything else is just hedonism, maintenance or malicious selfishness.

The big money needs gears to do the grunt work. Too bad the grunts seal their fate by believing that they could be nothing more. Nothing is more trustworthy than a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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>>10762871
Somebody has to do the maintenance work or everything falls apart. Between advancing society and securing material comforts, many people are perfectly happy with the latter.

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>>10762744

I love how people in 1st countries hate their lifes, makes me proud of not living there.

Live in colombia, sure, it has its problems but people live happier here than other "better" places, from the little I have seen in here and /int/.

Is it bad to enjoy people's anguish?

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>>10762879
Naturally. However, is running a McDonalds maintenance? Is it right that people are offered the ultimatum of flipping burgers or dying?

>Between advancing society and securing material comforts, many people are perfectly happy with the latter
Have you ever wondered why that might be? If you do something you hate for eight hours every day, of course your life will start revolving around avoiding it and putting your creativity into seeking comfort and novelty.

Make a burger flipper observe scientists and craftsmen eight hours a day for a couple of years and see how interested he'll get. Don't demand anything from him. Just keep him in food and tell him to watch and learn.

I'd say that your scientists and craftsmen would suddenly multiply.

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>>10762897
>Is it bad to enjoy people's anguish?
Yes. It's literally one of the worst things you can do. No wonder Columbia is what it is.

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>>10762905
Don't misspell my nation, do you enjoy seeing me in pain?

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>>10762906
I'm sorry, I accidentally mixed it up with a certain non-English spelling.

[Lenfried most ichiban boyfriend !xQm9.FabbA No.]

>>10762910

you were think about COLUMBIA RECORDS Japan....?

[Anonymous No.]

República de Colombia, eh? I'll try to remember it.

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>>10762904
Growing food, transporting food, and preparing food are all part of the maintenance of life. There's no reason it had to be transported to and prepared at the McDonalds, but people apparently like that. I do. In this respect it's a luxury good or a service that people are willing to pay for. At the end of the day, unless you live in a society with a strong welfare state or have access to lots of money to begin with, you need to find something that other people are willing to pay you for.

There are not very many craftsmen these days, just technicians and factory workers. Artisanry has been economically marginalized for years. You might want to read about the "alienation of labor," you might find some of that stuff interesting.

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>>10762917
Just Colombia is fine. Thank you!

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>>10762915
Nope. Kolumbia after Kristoffer Kolumbus. Feel free to 'ave a giggle.

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>>10762925
I hate polish so much.

So fucking much.

[Lenfried most ichiban boyfriend !xQm9.FabbA No.]

>>10762926

AND EVERY OF YOU, AS WELL!!!!!

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>>10762939
I understand that reference!

[Lenfried most ichiban boyfriend !xQm9.FabbA No.]

>>10762943

the memes never end!!!!
here on /jp/ @ yotsuba DOT org~

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>>10762924
>There are not very many craftsmen these days, just technicians and factory workers
I included pen and paper design work into my categorization. If being a craftsman involves designing robots with CAD, it does. The man who implements the CAD software is also a craftsman.

What is crucial is that people want to do it. Pens and papers can be easily arranged. You can draw microchip designs on sand. The unfortunate fact is that barely anyone cares about microchip design: dancing to Gangnam Style seems to be much more interesting. Naturally, the "higher-ups" will notice it too and arrive to conclusions. The conclusions aren't always that civilized because even the higher-ups are products of the surrounding civilization.

>Growing food, transporting food, and preparing food are all part of the maintenance of life.
Automation. My father's neighbor has a combine harvester with a programmable autopilot on it. He doesn't use it because an experienced human can adjust the cutting height better, which wouldn't have to be true. Simple measuring mechanisms have nothing to do with the combinatorial explosion. The machine is expensive (about 100k €) but the autopilot itself is practically free - the cost comes from the nerdlings who code it. A couple of sensors are nothing. I'm a termite on welfare and I could code an open source equivalent for free in a year or two, but the guys at CLAAS, Massey Ferguson, Case and John Deere would only tell me to fuck off because I'm ruining their business. There are hundreds of thousands of people like me in the world, and I even happen to be a relatively unskilled one.