10 Japanese Travel Tips for Visiting America

Mental Floss ^ | February 18, 2014 | Therese Oneill

[Slings and Arrows]

Get ‘em into a good barbeque joint and I’ll show ‘em sharp.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

The Tex-Mex stuff is abominable. You need homemade, pure, Mexican cousine. The Tex-Mex is watered down for y’alls tastes. Not even hot. I say, if the food does not burn all the way in, causing you to sweat, and burns on the way out too, then it was not spicy enough.

[metmom]

Drive in Buffalo (NY) and you will.

That’s where I learned to drive and it has served me well.

I can handle traffic anywhere.

Funny thing is, when I moved out into the sticks and actually met courteous drivers, I was shocked.

I had to learn to unwind behind the wheel

[Slings and Arrows]

You may find this article interesting.

http://www.constitution.org/2ll/2ndschol/64kjgc.pdf

[Slings and Arrows]

Haven’t been there in long time. G-d is gracious.

[Impala64ssa]

In Boston and NYC using turn signals is a sign of weakness.

[daniel1212]

In Japan we believe that there is no free time during the weekday. Only the weekend.

That is not surprising. Culture here has changed in this regard as well.

[daniel1212]

Certainly never drove in Massachusetts. When I was still living in NJ, I thought the way they drove to be psychotic (never mind downright rude) when I visited Boston.

I think it has become better, but many of the roads being old cow paths does not help, while Miami seemed worse to me, esp. the bus drivers.

[daniel1212]

This article avoided the elephant in the room; the US as a police state. By far, the US has the highest incarceration rate per capita in the world.

At least as per official reports. But that is partly due to the moral degradation of the culture. http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/RevealingStatistics.html

[Darren McCarty]

Manners with cars in America are really damn good. Japanese people should be embarrassed when they look at how good car manners are in America. You must wait whenever you cross an intersection for the traffic light. People don’t get pushy to go first. Except for some people, everyone keeps exactly to the speed limit. America is a car society, but their damn good manners are not limited to cars.

Where do they drive? LOL.

[Jack Hammer]

In the Boston area, there is someone named Jack Hammer who is happy to give pleasure to any and all Japanese females.

Just knock on his door 24/7 and you will get whatever you desire.

[Darren McCarty]

More due to making everything a felony these days. There are too many laws.

[Future Snake Eater]

I was an observer for a Japanese Infantry Platoon when they were at Fort Lewis, WA, for an exercise in our urban training site. They were definitely more regimented in their planning but it lacked a basis in reality. In particular, their platoon leader briefed that a mission with multiple, separate moving parts would begin at a certain time. We stepped in and told them that that would instantly cause their plan to fail since one can never be sure that every part would be ready on time. This really threw them for a loop, but they adapted for the most part, kind of.

I came away from that experience not really being worried at all about a WWII redo. This ain’t your grandfather’s Japanese Army...

[GeronL]

boinking kids and kiddie porn have their own special places in reserved in hell

[a fool in paradise]

11. Elvis has left the building.

[Slings and Arrows]

He's gone to Finland.

[GeronL]

It is very sick

[a fool in paradise]

And young people are dressed in hip hop clothes that say "I want you to pay attention to me!"

Isn't that "soliciting"?

[a fool in paradise]

In the U.S., they do not have a sense of superiority if they are able to drink a large amount. Rather, if you drink a lot, there is a sense that you cannot manage yourself. There is something close to contempt toward someone who must drink a lot to be drunk. To drink alcohol habitually is to have alcoholism. Alcoholics are weak people mentally, to be one means you have spanned the label of social outcasts that can’t self-manage.

Cue the athletic training motivational slogans:

[a fool in paradise]

7. They tend to horse laugh, even the women. It’s how they show they’re honest.

It's impolite to point this out.