Whenever I’m out and I see a white man with a Japanese girlfriend, more often than not, he’ll start staring at me and sizing me up. This happens so frequent. Like whats up?
Do you think I’m interested in your girlfriend and will try to take her from you?
Lady working at the conbini near work loves to say:
“Irasshaimaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee”
in a bizzare manner where the end of the word is lengthened to an absurd degree and the pitch raises dramatically to nazgul levels.
Saw all the Skibidi Toilet videos on a row. Now the song has been playing on repeat inside my head for about a week. I think I got cursed.
Gyomu super and Costco keep changing their inventory. It’s really irritating. Gyomu used to have 2 liter bottles of iced coffee and big bags of hash browns. Nope. Not anymore. My local Costco keeps moving around where the English muffins are. It’s frustrating having to hunt for things every time I go there.
Spent over a million yen on taking me and my 2 kids to the states and then caught COVID my 3rd day and spent almost the entire time either isolating in my room on the cruise my mom booked everyone on and now back on land to not risk getting her sick. Wanted my kids to spend time with their cousins and aunts and uncles and instead just in a fucking room. What a waste.
熱中症 ain’t a joke y’all. I legit thought I was going to end up in the hospital yesterday.
Number 1: There is this super rude Japanese clerk at the 7/11 of my building. When he checks your items out of the basket, he slams them on the counter no matter what they are. He picks up a spoon or chopsticks and throw them at you lol
He got scars on his forearms and looks slightly **developmentally disabled** . I looked at the google reviews of this 7/11 and everybody complains about him.
Last time I went into a shouting contest with him when he could not understand that I wanted a Large size coffee. “M size what what what??”, “NO I SAID L SIZE! are you deaf??”, ” M AHHHH!! M size DESU NE!!”, ” FFS, LARGE!” I grabbed the M cup and I throw it and pointed at the L cups.
Believe it or not, the bastard was laughing, he loves this shit, he is pure evil.
Number 2:
I got Covid Last week.
Leetcode.
They call the fast food clown Donald McDonald.
Got another. I miss smiling shop staff. Customer services here sometimes feels like the staff is dead inside. Even with a mask, it’s easy to show a smile.
It’s just awkward for me when getting my food at a restaurant or at the cashier when they just stare at your blankly like something ate their soul.
I work at a popular tourist spot and the amount of entitled tourists is starting to get really, really damn annoying.
Yes, I know some rules are stupid but it shouldn’t mean you’re entitled to break or ignore them. Doesn’t matter if you call them out in English. They’ll still find sneaky ways. I’ve seen all kinds of bad manners from tourists from different regions.
But you know what I hate more? When people here hesitate to actually enforce the rules or kick these rule breakers out. Like, come on man. This guy is clearly not following the rules and being an nuisance yet all we’re going to do is to tell him to “not do it again”? FFS.
Pretty sure the AC in my office is broken because the temperature climbs to 29C every day in my corner of the office. Others have now noticed and we have huge fans everywhere but it’s still so hot. I get headaches every day and am really tired from the heat. Thankfully I live close enough to work to go home for lunch and sit under the AC for 40min, which helps a lot, but spending 7 hours of my day in a hot room isn’t great. It sounds like they called someone to fix it but who knows when that is happening.
I just completed my THIRD interview
Now there’s a test
If I manage to pass that I have to go on a FOURTH interview. The third interview I must have said “i mentioned this in the previous two interviews” at least 7 times… so exhausting
Japanese banks. Fun times…
Sukiya replaced the 390 chicken and rice bowl I liked to eat with the same thing plus dashi (which detracts from the chicken taste), also increasing the price to 480yen. Guess I’ll be ordering double kiddie chicken and rice bowls from now on.
Over the years here the products at my local Gyomu have been getting worse and worse. The peanut butter used to be nice and reminded me of Jif, now it tastes almost waxy. The 200g Belgium chocolate now tastes like advent calendar chocolate. And finally recently I bought frozen takoyaki that used to be delicious and full of ingredients inside, now are the blandest that I have ever eaten. I would just stop shopping there, but it’s the nearest supermarket to my home, and in summer I’m limited to going there. A lot of the products I want to eat I order online now, but it’s a bit annoying to have to do that for just a jar of peanut butter or some nice chocolates.
I asked work for an external monitor, since it’s hard to do translations on a tiny laptop screen, so they obliged, but the monitor is 1080p, which works terribly on macOS.
I’ve spent the entire morning playing with HiDPI settings, but it’s not great. The brightness is also awful… I checked and this is the cheapest 24 inch monitor on Amazon haha.
Have to spend obon with my in-laws in Kagoshima. Note that my wife isn’t from Kagoshima, but her parents are.
Wife insists on taking the shinkansen there and I agree because in terms of time it’s not that different when considering time to and from the airport.
Of course, after I get the tickets (with wife there), then come the requests. Can we change it to a later time on the way back? Then my in-laws decided to change the hotel to one in Kagoshima city, so now I need to rebook the tickets again as the stop is different. Then my wife discovers that booking the hotel on Yahoo Travel is like 10% cheaper so I get nagged about that and make the reservation with my card.
Oh, and Yahoo Travel was rejecting the prepaid reservation with my name (as in, using the alphabet, which is what their form says to do) but it went through the second I changed it to katakana.
A local library has four desks with outlets, free Wi-Fi, and a strong air conditioning system. Monday and Wednesday, my son and I went there, he to do 自由研究 and I to work. Both days, the same three old men go directly to the outlet-equipped desk with me. All three promptly go to sleep, leaving everyone else balancing laptops on their knees near outlets or using battery power at other desks.
J-drivers don’t know how to turn right. They ALWAYS have to cut the center line.
1 – need to buy a car but I don’t want to buy a car.
2 – it’s quite tiring to get up super early to go to the garden before the mega heat arrives. If my kid would go to bed at a normal time, it might make things easier.
3 – the terrible twos.
Guy at work got covid, others are getting flu like symptoms on and off… Still having to go to work physically though.
I miss the time when the whole office was sent home to work remotely for a week just because one guy “came in contact” with a covid infected person.
1) slept on my back funny on Sunday and it feels like weeks worth of physio exercises just undid itself
2) my BACK. Fuck. It’s so weird and shifty I feel like I have to be so careful with everything. It feels like Russian roulette every time I want to start a set of deadlifts or squats. Literally feels like I could do all all cues right- hips back, core braced, body upright like a wall is in front of me, “pull the slack out of the bar” etc etc- and it could still start shifting mid lift and all that.
3) I don’t think Anki/spaced repetition is working for me
4) I am so failing biochemistry
One more from me because I just learned something at work today that’s doing my head in.
What an absolute waste of people’s existence it is to stick salaried employees at their desks with nothing to do for weeks and weeks on end. It is meaningless. The only way I can tolerate it is by knowing that one day I will escape this purgatory, but my colleagues will not. I don’t know how they do it.
I have a coworker who may miss his entire family trip abroad, that he’s been planning for years, because the boss has asked him to record a council meeting, which will finish AN HOUR before his family’s international flight… This coworker literally just has to push the record button twice; when the meeting begins, and when it ends.
Good god. The absolute spectacle that is made out of “work” always being of the most importance is tough to watch some days.
I’m so sick of these Taro assholes who wait until late afternoon to burn their trash. It’s the perfect time to open up your windows but they want my house to smell like a Canadian wildfire.
Sprained my ankle yesterday evening. At 5pm, the hospital tells me it’s 夜間 so it will be 2万円 plus doctor’s fees. This after three of the four places from #7119 had rejected me. Spent so much extra time walking around on it just to see a doctor this morning.
Also, the same thing happened in 2016 but back then it was 1万, most of which was returned as a deposit. And that was actually late at night too. What gives? Has it really gotten that much more expensive?
there is a washoku place in my town and I NEVER know when they’re open. Their business hours are all over the place, and whatever’s on tabelog or Google Maps is only a suggestion. They don’t have a noren and never put out an 営業中 or 商い中 sign. The only times I’ve ever been there are when I check their insta and they say when they’re open for the day.
Damn, I want to get to a point in my life where I run an entire freaking business as a hobby lmao.
PSA: Wash your kids’ goddamn water bottles and thermoses. Yes, everyday! They make special brushes and everything!
Tired of going to add tea to the students’ thermoses and witnessing a stomach turning petridish of slime, caked on grime, algae, fuzzy mold and three month old backwash. The worst offender honestly looked like a half set aspic was in here.
🤢🤮🤮🤮😞
for some reason my brain keeps trying to gaslight me into thinking it’s friday. then i remember. oh… 
Traveling anywhere outside a city is a pain in the fucking ass. 80% of restaurants are closed on weekdays and the ones that are open close at fuckin 4 or 5. Lack of conbinis, ATMs, everything cash only, dumbfuck ojisan shop owners talking to Japanese people in shitty English just because foreigners are in the group, refusing to speak Japanese with foreigners who speak it just fucking fine, and buses running once a goddamn hour and it’s like what’s the fucking point of even traveling?
Should have stayed the fuck home.
Every time we ask our employer to provide us some documentation for the requirements of our countries new system of overseas workers, the fucking little shit employer thinks we are doing something illegal even though she doesn`t understand/not up to date knowledge on how things work now is pissing us off. We just wanted to comply to the new system so we won`t have a problem and also you won`t have a problem in the future because we already proactively registered. fuck you useless piece of shit human.
I’m usually a lurker here, but I am so angry. Someone please tell me, WTF is an “American name” and what does an American look like? Oh, and it’s one’s citizenship that determines their mother tongue, not where that person was raised and attended school and lived most of their lives, right?
Is naming and shaming allowed here?
I’m so fucking sick of racist, ignorant, condescending, patronizing assholes.
I was told “wow you’re so cute! Like a Japanese!” Or “you look like a Japanese!” Wtf?? Do they think this is a compliment?? I honestly didn’t know how to react
Did three interviews for a part time job at the fruity tech company and they’ve ghosted me. Taking that as a no, but considering I’ve spent 3 hours interviewing with three different levels of management they could at least send me a rejection email.
We have to hear that stupid Oshi no Ko theme song everywhere now. Please make it stop I just want to buy groceries not listen to zoomer anime rap.
I don’t get onsen. Yeah the atmosphere is great, but I don’t want to be naked with a bunch of other naked dudes, nor do I want to talk to random naked dudes, and after 10 minutes of doing nothing my mind grows restless. “But it’s so relaxing!” No, honey, relaxing is making a fine pour over and sipping it while listening to some jams and reading some scintillating text with useful information I can apply to my life.
I wish there weren’t so many weirdo adult Disney fans here.
Took my daughter to see little mermaid this morning and the place was packed with families. Most kids sat there quietly but some were laughing at cheering at certain parts. These two spinsters sitting in front of us kept glaring around and loudly telling the kids to be quiet if they made the slightest sound.
After the movie I saw them yelling at the theater staff about the noise. You can’t go see a KIDS movie at 11am and then cry kids are enjoying it
my cramps are really really really bad like can’t move, can’t work etc bad and they’ve been that way most of my life. i’ve mostly just accepted that my body just hates me but recently my therapist suggested i go to a gynecologist to help me figure out what to do about the pain. so now i need to go through the hassle of finding a gynecologist that isn’t a man, and won’t downplay the pain i experience like what happened in the states. just…sigh. someone scoop my uterus out.
I was excited to go to a lake that is famous for water sports, nature and swimming. We arrive after a 2 hour drive with a baby and find out “you are allowed to swim, but not really and not over here, but sometimes we see people swim here, but it’s dangerous cause of boats, but horizontally it’s fine?!” Which is it? I was exhausted by the time we had lunch and just I don’t get these rules! I should’ve just fucking jumped into the water from a pier until some ojisan would start yelling at us!!
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Whenever I’m out and I see a white man with a Japanese girlfriend, more often than not, he’ll start staring at me and sizing me up. This happens so frequent. Like whats up?
Do you think I’m interested in your girlfriend and will try to take her from you?
Lady working at the conbini near work loves to say:
“Irasshaimaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee”
in a bizzare manner where the end of the word is lengthened to an absurd degree and the pitch raises dramatically to nazgul levels.
Saw all the Skibidi Toilet videos on a row. Now the song has been playing on repeat inside my head for about a week. I think I got cursed.
Gyomu super and Costco keep changing their inventory. It’s really irritating. Gyomu used to have 2 liter bottles of iced coffee and big bags of hash browns. Nope. Not anymore. My local Costco keeps moving around where the English muffins are. It’s frustrating having to hunt for things every time I go there.
Spent over a million yen on taking me and my 2 kids to the states and then caught COVID my 3rd day and spent almost the entire time either isolating in my room on the cruise my mom booked everyone on and now back on land to not risk getting her sick. Wanted my kids to spend time with their cousins and aunts and uncles and instead just in a fucking room. What a waste.
熱中症 ain’t a joke y’all. I legit thought I was going to end up in the hospital yesterday.
Number 1: There is this super rude Japanese clerk at the 7/11 of my building. When he checks your items out of the basket, he slams them on the counter no matter what they are. He picks up a spoon or chopsticks and throw them at you lol
He got scars on his forearms and looks slightly **developmentally disabled** . I looked at the google reviews of this 7/11 and everybody complains about him.
Last time I went into a shouting contest with him when he could not understand that I wanted a Large size coffee. “M size what what what??”, “NO I SAID L SIZE! are you deaf??”, ” M AHHHH!! M size DESU NE!!”, ” FFS, LARGE!” I grabbed the M cup and I throw it and pointed at the L cups.
Believe it or not, the bastard was laughing, he loves this shit, he is pure evil.
Number 2:
I got Covid Last week.
Leetcode.
They call the fast food clown Donald McDonald.
Got another. I miss smiling shop staff. Customer services here sometimes feels like the staff is dead inside. Even with a mask, it’s easy to show a smile.
It’s just awkward for me when getting my food at a restaurant or at the cashier when they just stare at your blankly like something ate their soul.
I work at a popular tourist spot and the amount of entitled tourists is starting to get really, really damn annoying.
Yes, I know some rules are stupid but it shouldn’t mean you’re entitled to break or ignore them. Doesn’t matter if you call them out in English. They’ll still find sneaky ways. I’ve seen all kinds of bad manners from tourists from different regions.
But you know what I hate more? When people here hesitate to actually enforce the rules or kick these rule breakers out. Like, come on man. This guy is clearly not following the rules and being an nuisance yet all we’re going to do is to tell him to “not do it again”? FFS.
Pretty sure the AC in my office is broken because the temperature climbs to 29C every day in my corner of the office. Others have now noticed and we have huge fans everywhere but it’s still so hot. I get headaches every day and am really tired from the heat. Thankfully I live close enough to work to go home for lunch and sit under the AC for 40min, which helps a lot, but spending 7 hours of my day in a hot room isn’t great. It sounds like they called someone to fix it but who knows when that is happening.
I just completed my THIRD interview
Now there’s a test
If I manage to pass that I have to go on a FOURTH interview. The third interview I must have said “i mentioned this in the previous two interviews” at least 7 times… so exhausting
Japanese banks. Fun times…
Sukiya replaced the 390 chicken and rice bowl I liked to eat with the same thing plus dashi (which detracts from the chicken taste), also increasing the price to 480yen. Guess I’ll be ordering double kiddie chicken and rice bowls from now on.
Over the years here the products at my local Gyomu have been getting worse and worse.
The peanut butter used to be nice and reminded me of Jif, now it tastes almost waxy.
The 200g Belgium chocolate now tastes like advent calendar chocolate.
And finally recently I bought frozen takoyaki that used to be delicious and full of ingredients inside, now are the blandest that I have ever eaten.
I would just stop shopping there, but it’s the nearest supermarket to my home, and in summer I’m limited to going there. A lot of the products I want to eat I order online now, but it’s a bit annoying to have to do that for just a jar of peanut butter or some nice chocolates.
I asked work for an external monitor, since it’s hard to do translations on a tiny laptop screen, so they obliged, but the monitor is 1080p, which works terribly on macOS.
I’ve spent the entire morning playing with HiDPI settings, but it’s not great. The brightness is also awful… I checked and this is the cheapest 24 inch monitor on Amazon haha.
Have to spend obon with my in-laws in Kagoshima. Note that my wife isn’t from Kagoshima, but her parents are.
Wife insists on taking the shinkansen there and I agree because in terms of time it’s not that different when considering time to and from the airport.
Of course, after I get the tickets (with wife there), then come the requests. Can we change it to a later time on the way back? Then my in-laws decided to change the hotel to one in Kagoshima city, so now I need to rebook the tickets again as the stop is different. Then my wife discovers that booking the hotel on Yahoo Travel is like 10% cheaper so I get nagged about that and make the reservation with my card.
Oh, and Yahoo Travel was rejecting the prepaid reservation with my name (as in, using the alphabet, which is what their form says to do) but it went through the second I changed it to katakana.
A local library has four desks with outlets, free Wi-Fi, and a strong air conditioning system. Monday and Wednesday, my son and I went there, he to do 自由研究 and I to work. Both days, the same three old men go directly to the outlet-equipped desk with me. All three promptly go to sleep, leaving everyone else balancing laptops on their knees near outlets or using battery power at other desks.
J-drivers don’t know how to turn right. They ALWAYS have to cut the center line.
1 – need to buy a car but I don’t want to buy a car.
2 – it’s quite tiring to get up super early to go to the garden before the mega heat arrives. If my kid would go to bed at a normal time, it might make things easier.
3 – the terrible twos.
Guy at work got covid, others are getting flu like symptoms on and off… Still having to go to work physically though.
I miss the time when the whole office was sent home to work remotely for a week just because one guy “came in contact” with a covid infected person.
1) slept on my back funny on Sunday and it feels like weeks worth of physio exercises just undid itself
2) my BACK. Fuck. It’s so weird and shifty I feel like I have to be so careful with everything. It feels like Russian roulette every time I want to start a set of deadlifts or squats. Literally feels like I could do all all cues right- hips back, core braced, body upright like a wall is in front of me, “pull the slack out of the bar” etc etc- and it could still start shifting mid lift and all that.
3) I don’t think Anki/spaced repetition is working for me
4) I am so failing biochemistry
One more from me because I just learned something at work today that’s doing my head in.
What an absolute waste of people’s existence it is to stick salaried employees at their desks with nothing to do for weeks and weeks on end. It is meaningless. The only way I can tolerate it is by knowing that one day I will escape this purgatory, but my colleagues will not. I don’t know how they do it.
I have a coworker who may miss his entire family trip abroad, that he’s been planning for years, because the boss has asked him to record a council meeting, which will finish AN HOUR before his family’s international flight… This coworker literally just has to push the record button twice; when the meeting begins, and when it ends.
Good god. The absolute spectacle that is made out of “work” always being of the most importance is tough to watch some days.
I’m so sick of these Taro assholes who wait until late afternoon to burn their trash. It’s the perfect time to open up your windows but they want my house to smell like a Canadian wildfire.
Sprained my ankle yesterday evening. At 5pm, the hospital tells me it’s 夜間 so it will be 2万円 plus doctor’s fees. This after three of the four places from #7119 had rejected me. Spent so much extra time walking around on it just to see a doctor this morning.
Also, the same thing happened in 2016 but back then it was 1万, most of which was returned as a deposit. And that was actually late at night too. What gives? Has it really gotten that much more expensive?
there is a washoku place in my town and I NEVER know when they’re open. Their business hours are all over the place, and whatever’s on tabelog or Google Maps is only a suggestion. They don’t have a noren and never put out an 営業中 or 商い中 sign. The only times I’ve ever been there are when I check their insta and they say when they’re open for the day.
Damn, I want to get to a point in my life where I run an entire freaking business as a hobby lmao.
PSA: Wash your kids’ goddamn water bottles and thermoses. Yes, everyday! They make special brushes and everything!
Tired of going to add tea to the students’ thermoses and witnessing a stomach turning petridish of slime, caked on grime, algae, fuzzy mold and three month old backwash. The worst offender honestly looked like a half set aspic was in here.
🤢🤮🤮🤮😞
for some reason my brain keeps trying to gaslight me into thinking it’s friday. then i remember. oh… 
Traveling anywhere outside a city is a pain in the fucking ass. 80% of restaurants are closed on weekdays and the ones that are open close at fuckin 4 or 5. Lack of conbinis, ATMs, everything cash only, dumbfuck ojisan shop owners talking to Japanese people in shitty English just because foreigners are in the group, refusing to speak Japanese with foreigners who speak it just fucking fine, and buses running once a goddamn hour and it’s like what’s the fucking point of even traveling?
Should have stayed the fuck home.
Every time we ask our employer to provide us some documentation for the requirements of our countries new system of overseas workers, the fucking little shit employer thinks we are doing something illegal even though she doesn`t understand/not up to date knowledge on how things work now is pissing us off. We just wanted to comply to the new system so we won`t have a problem and also you won`t have a problem in the future because we already proactively registered. fuck you useless piece of shit human.
I’m usually a lurker here, but I am so angry. Someone please tell me, WTF is an “American name” and what does an American look like? Oh, and it’s one’s citizenship that determines their mother tongue, not where that person was raised and attended school and lived most of their lives, right?
Is naming and shaming allowed here?
I’m so fucking sick of racist, ignorant, condescending, patronizing assholes.
I was told “wow you’re so cute! Like a Japanese!” Or “you look like a Japanese!” Wtf?? Do they think this is a compliment?? I honestly didn’t know how to react
Did three interviews for a part time job at the fruity tech company and they’ve ghosted me. Taking that as a no, but considering I’ve spent 3 hours interviewing with three different levels of management they could at least send me a rejection email.
We have to hear that stupid Oshi no Ko theme song everywhere now. Please make it stop I just want to buy groceries not listen to zoomer anime rap.
I don’t get onsen. Yeah the atmosphere is great, but I don’t want to be naked with a bunch of other naked dudes, nor do I want to talk to random naked dudes, and after 10 minutes of doing nothing my mind grows restless. “But it’s so relaxing!” No, honey, relaxing is making a fine pour over and sipping it while listening to some jams and reading some scintillating text with useful information I can apply to my life.
I wish there weren’t so many weirdo adult Disney fans here.
Took my daughter to see little mermaid this morning and the place was packed with families. Most kids sat there quietly but some were laughing at cheering at certain parts. These two spinsters sitting in front of us kept glaring around and loudly telling the kids to be quiet if they made the slightest sound.
After the movie I saw them yelling at the theater staff about the noise. You can’t go see a KIDS movie at 11am and then cry kids are enjoying it
my cramps are really really really bad like can’t move, can’t work etc bad and they’ve been that way most of my life. i’ve mostly just accepted that my body just hates me but recently my therapist suggested i go to a gynecologist to help me figure out what to do about the pain. so now i need to go through the hassle of finding a gynecologist that isn’t a man, and won’t downplay the pain i experience like what happened in the states. just…sigh. someone scoop my uterus out.
I was excited to go to a lake that is famous for water sports, nature and swimming. We arrive after a 2 hour drive with a baby and find out “you are allowed to swim, but not really and not over here, but sometimes we see people swim here, but it’s dangerous cause of boats, but horizontally it’s fine?!” Which is it? I was exhausted by the time we had lunch and just I don’t get these rules! I should’ve just fucking jumped into the water from a pier until some ojisan would start yelling at us!!