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Greetings from Japan

Posted: 2003-01-28 11:16am
by jegs2
On the tail-end of an Army exercise here in the Land of the Rising Sun. Thought I'd drop you all a line...

Posted: 2003-01-28 11:17am
by XaLEv
Bring back a few Hello Kitty vibrators and sell them on EBay.

Re: Greetings from Japan

Posted: 2003-01-28 12:32pm
by Knife
jegs2 wrote:On the tail-end of an Army exercise here in the Land of the Rising Sun. Thought I'd drop you all a line...
If you don't mind, what island? Oki? Grab some Yaccasoba and stay away from the Habu saki.

Posted: 2003-01-28 12:36pm
by Darth Wong
Good to hear from you! Hope your weather is nice; it was -21 degrees C yesterday morning here when I got up (-6 degrees F), without wind chill.

Posted: 2003-01-28 12:40pm
by Colonel Olrik
Darth Wong wrote:Good to hear from you! Hope your weather is nice; it was -21 degrees C yesterday morning here when I got up (-6 degrees F), without wind chill.
Sunday I went to the beach. Got a bit sunburnt. Right now, it's about 24ºC


:twisted:

Posted: 2003-01-28 01:04pm
by TrailerParkJawa
Hi Jegs! Make sure you protect us from the North Korean Kim Jong II mecha. :wink:

Posted: 2003-01-28 01:33pm
by Admiral Valdemar
Colonel Olrik wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:Good to hear from you! Hope your weather is nice; it was -21 degrees C yesterday morning here when I got up (-6 degrees F), without wind chill.
Sunday I went to the beach. Got a bit sunburnt. Right now, it's about 24ºC


:twisted:
Let's hope Spain doesn't invade you or something. :P

Oh and enjoy any freetime you have, jegs2. :)

Posted: 2003-01-28 01:41pm
by ArmorPierce
Bring me back some Japenese made porn :D

Posted: 2003-01-28 02:01pm
by Coaan
ArmorPierce wrote:Bring me back some Japenese made porn :D
:P
Winmx does that just fine

Posted: 2003-01-28 02:43pm
by SAMAS
ArmorPierce wrote:Bring me back some Japenese made porn :D
Forget the porn. Just bring the schoolgirls! :wink:

Posted: 2003-01-28 02:46pm
by Utsanomiko
I'll pay good money for you to bring back Gundam model kits. Holy crap, why are those things only $20-$30 each when video games are selling new for almost $75?!

Posted: 2003-01-28 02:50pm
by Coaan
Darth Utsanomiko wrote:I'll pay good money for you to bring back Gundam model kits. Holy crap, why are those things only $20-$30 each when video games are selling new for almost $75?!
Welcome to Capitalism.

:?

Posted: 2003-01-28 02:57pm
by Utsanomiko
Bah, i think it's a basic supply/demand thing. I've got no qualms with our/their system.

What bugs me is that not only are American models so shitty in manufacturing, we have to sell the good import kits for twice the retail price.

Posted: 2003-01-28 03:19pm
by Coaan
Darth Utsanomiko wrote:Bah, i think it's a basic supply/demand thing. I've got no qualms with our/their system.

What bugs me is that not only are American models so shitty in manufacturing, we have to sell the good import kits for twice the retail price.
:P
basically standard business policy...sell the shit stuff to those who need it and the good quality stuff to those who have enough currency to purchase a small island and such

Posted: 2003-01-28 05:00pm
by Exonerate
Bring back one of their vending machines. There's nothing they don't sell in those things. Literally.

Hope you enjoy your stay. I hope you can manage to understand the mangled English which permeates from its populace...

Posted: 2003-01-28 05:03pm
by Utsanomiko
Exonerate wrote:Bring back one of their vending machines. There's nothing they don't sell in those things. Literally.

Hope you enjoy your stay. I hope you can manage to understand the mangled English which permeates from its populace...
Hey, it's not 'mangled English', it's 'katakana engureshi'! :P

Posted: 2003-01-28 05:23pm
by Larz
Enjoy, don't drink to much saki in the company of strangers!

Posted: 2003-01-28 07:19pm
by The Dark
Colonel Olrik wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:Good to hear from you! Hope your weather is nice; it was -21 degrees C yesterday morning here when I got up (-6 degrees F), without wind chill.
Sunday I went to the beach. Got a bit sunburnt. Right now, it's about 24ºC


:twisted:
Bah...we hit about -8 degrees C in Lakeland last weekend (including wind chill, was about -4 pure temperature). According to a friend who lives there, it snowed at Daytona. Weird stuff.

Posted: 2003-01-28 07:35pm
by salm
enjoy the food. :)

Posted: 2003-01-28 07:37pm
by phongn
The Dark wrote:
Colonel Olrik wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:Good to hear from you! Hope your weather is nice; it was -21 degrees C yesterday morning here when I got up (-6 degrees F), without wind chill.
Sunday I went to the beach. Got a bit sunburnt. Right now, it's about 24ºC


:twisted:
Bah...we hit about -8 degrees C in Lakeland last weekend (including wind chill, was about -4 pure temperature). According to a friend who lives there, it snowed at Daytona. Weird stuff.
We on the Gulf Coast hit around 27F. No snow, of course.

Re: Greetings from Japan

Posted: 2003-01-29 10:07am
by jegs2
Knife wrote:
jegs2 wrote:On the tail-end of an Army exercise here in the Land of the Rising Sun. Thought I'd drop you all a line...
If you don't mind, what island? Oki? Grab some Yaccasoba and stay away from the Habu saki.
On Hokkaido -- quite cold here most of the time. Counting down the days til I return to CONUS...