2010-08-27, 08:46 | Link #4162 | |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
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http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl...=&oq=&gs_rfai= For an odder collection of hairwear (and street fashion): http://www.google.com/images?q=japan...w=1372&bih=808 But you're right in that it is a bit odd that it seems to be made so much of in anime. It isn't as if the exposure of the forehead is unknown.
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2010-08-27, 22:05 | Link #4163 | |
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New question: who is the Administrator of Animesuki? As in, the Big Boss, the CEO, the Don, the (possible) Father or Mother? Last edited by Kudryavka; 2010-08-27 at 23:30. |
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2010-08-28, 01:08 | Link #4164 | |
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2010-08-28, 19:26 | Link #4166 |
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Is is weird for people at my age to discuss worldwide sociopolitical issues at length? I find that even on and off this forum, the only people whom I talk to about G20, economy and political issues are often in their late 20s and over that, mostly 10-20 years older than me.
Anyone else around my age group (18-23) give me blank stares when I mention things like Tea Party, subprime meltdown, foreclosure, general elections, financial statement, gold standard, etc. So what would be a normal conversation topic for people around my age?
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2010-08-28, 21:38 | Link #4168 | |
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I feel you. I'm not good at conversations either. But there must be people out there who share your interests
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2010-08-28, 23:13 | Link #4169 | |
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If you want a 'real'' normal conversation topic, use weather, sport result or any others meaningless subject. But if you want a real conversation, first addapt your subject to the group, trying to talk of geopolitic with a group than was talking of the latest talkshow will probably end up as a fail.
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2010-08-28, 23:28 | Link #4170 | |
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But in your case, I can imagine that your friends aren't up to date on American history (Tea Party), since I don't think you're in America. If you have all those other issues in your country, then I'm not really sure why they don't know, unless they're blissfully ignorant. |
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2010-08-29, 04:08 | Link #4171 | |
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2010-08-29, 06:31 | Link #4172 | |
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Location: Singapore
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Back in my university days, international students at London School of Economics used to complain that the moment Singaporean students get together, they invariably talk about only two things: politics and national service. Growing up, being a member of my secondary school and junior college's debating societies, I was constantly involved in verbal sparring over the rights and wrongs of government policy. As a literature, history and economics student, the topics up for debate ran the gamut, from the freedom of expression, the difficulties of judging right and wrong over subjective issues, the need to balance economic objectives with the need to achieve social justice, and so on. Among the few friends I still keep in touch with regularly, I was once accused of being opinionated and argumentative. More recently, they now accuse me of being political correct for refusing, by default, to side with their decidedly anti-establishment points of view. So, no, it's not weird to be engaged by such topics — there are people who love discussing such issues. But, most certainly, they make up only a very small minority. It's usually the case that people here prefer to avoid argument, as it usually generates a lot of hurt feelings over matters that most of us don't have direct control over anyway. So, why bother? |
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Maybe I should start hanging out with different people. Thanks for the answers guys.
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2010-08-30, 10:43 | Link #4174 | |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
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I can head for the pubs around many of the better colleges and find plenty of 18-23 aged types who can discuss such things competently. And they aren't especially "nerd" (unless we're going to define *anyone* who intends to be successful as a "nerd" -- see the Intellectual/anti-intellectual thread). On the other hand.... yeah, I see plenty of "blank stares" regardless of the age group.... sometimes I call it that "bread and circuses" stare. The Human race has a kind of 80/20 split in cluelessness/clues -- your objective is to find others in the 20% bracket.
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2010-08-31, 19:56 | Link #4178 | |
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2010-09-01, 11:56 | Link #4180 | ||
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I have come to see how actually many young adults have no interest or bother to discover how things work, be it a "science" (Engineering, theoretical science, etc) or "art" (Economics, political, etc) system. They are just interested in the shortest direct method to the end result - the worst method to use for achieving personal success IMO. Sometimes I wonder why there is a lack of interest in "discovery" of the world and the surroundings we live in, I never bothered to ask this question since I doubt I could get any real answers. Maybe I could give it a try here, writing something in text could probably yield some good philosophy or insight I myself never thought of.
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