• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
    19·
    10 days ago

    All the surplus American people in Japan are employed being the “American guy” in the office who is kept on to tell the boss his idea is stupid because he’s just a clueless gaijin who doesn’t know that you don’t do that.

      • logging_strict@lemmy.ml
        1·
        10 days ago

        how would you recommend to aspiring clueless gaijin to train for that?

        Serious question looking for exercise routine to improve my offensiveness and undesirability

  • makeshiftreaper@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    10 days ago

    Not what the meme implies but yes. I went to a place in Akihabara that was mostly just one dude at a counter grilling and smoking food. He didn’t speak English so the nice Singaporean gentleman next to me was translating for us. It was a great meal

    • Cort@lemmy.world
      14·
      10 days ago

      The tiny hole in the wall places that Japan’s zoning laws permit are soooo cool. Like 4 chairs in the whole place and 2 are reserved for regulars. They’re like studio apartments, but it’s a restaurant.

      • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
        10·
        10 days ago

        Post american revolution v2, I’d love to see our zoning laws disappear to make way for things like this

        • will_a113@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          10 days ago

          If the US got rid of zoning laws our cities wouldn’t look like Tokyo, they’d look like Dallas. And believe me, one Dallas is more than enough.

              • ...m...@ttrpg.network
                1·
                10 days ago

                …well everything folks have lamented about dallas is still true, but it’s not the result of unregulated development…

                • will_a113@lemmy.mlEnglish
                  1·
                  10 days ago

                  I visited both in a row over the summer on business and the misery just kind of ran together in my brain — and I’m saying that as a south floridian,mind so I have a certain tolerance for stupidity and pain.

            • will_a113@lemmy.mlEnglish
              5·
              10 days ago

              I think the only rule they had when “planning” Dallas was “there are no rules”. Zero zoning rules means one giant skyscraper in the middle of a mile of strip malls, multiple city “centers”, vast areas of it are competely unwalkable due to lack of sidewalks and/or what are basically highways running through them, and no mass transit to speak of. It’s like they took 5 shitty, small cities and glued them together with more shitty city material.

            • sudoer777@lemmy.ml
              4·
              10 days ago

              I’m in Dallas and it fucking sucks, tons of suburban sprawl, tons of roads but public transit is barely functional and hard to design efficiently, a lot of the roads don’t even have sidewalks or they just randomly end, the roads are designed in a way that promotes aggressive driving making it even more dangerous for cyclists and pedestrians, the local business scene here is depressing outside of restaurants and entertainment but there’s like 20 Walmarts.

                • svc@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
                  3·
                  10 days ago

                  dang… it’s just this: My guess is that the person originally mentioning Dallas is contrasting the city’s suburban sprawl and lack of public transit to Tokyo’s urban density and bustling nightlife.

                • logging_strict@lemmy.ml
                  3·
                  10 days ago

                  this one will load

                  the house sizes and spacing between houses is highly correlated to the girth of an average citizen.

                  So everything is as it should be and your eyes cannot unsee that

                  Get on the treadmill would solve the urban sprawl

    • logging_strict@lemmy.ml
      1·
      10 days ago

      The chef was screwing a FOB white girl so he’s honorary American, not authentic Japanese.

      Gotta ask these things up front, “no pork” and “are you or have you ever screw an FOB”?

      Otherwise it’s not authentic Kobe beef from a Sannomiya station cow. JR not hanshin and definitely not Hankyu.

      (in a low suspicious voice cuz never discussed in loud voice) Or that local subway that goes who knows where