The Chat Thread (Read OP)

[Diamat]

Any hole's a goal.

I cannot agree. Have you seen some of these holes?

 

[Diamat]

I have a child, AKAR.

 

[Flinn]

technically speaking they are not holes...

however, my grandfather used to say "in times of war, every hole is a trench".. yes, he was a wise dude, much wiser than me

 

[Cookiegod]

Any hole's a goal.

One Irishman's hole is another Irishman's goal.

 

[Flinn]

We use that same expression here

lol, it's the same the world over

 

[Ferdiad]

One Irishman's hole is another Irishman's goal.

Get a 15 pints deep and ing the uggos in the back of ur car looks like a reasonable decision to any man, like who among us hasn't done that?

 

[Ferdiad]

Dad not being a virgin is a plus in my book.

 

[Cookiegod]

you know what else is good? your joke.

 

[Ferdiad]

akar and cookie ur some funny men ill tell u what haha some pari of comedy man on the big stage

 

[Inkie]

Un trou et un trou, une bite n'a pas d'oeil.

Or in non-romantic English, a hole is a hole, dicks don't have eyes.

Fortunately I was already onboard the airplane by the time everyone's recommendations trickled in. Suffice it to say, Japan had its charms and downsides. The public transportation system was chaotically designed - a true nightmare. I compared everything I saw in Japan to Korea. My conclusions are as follows:

Where Japan is better:
-Cleanliness
-Odor
-Self-Presentation
-Beds
-Hotel rooms
-Saltiness in food
-Perversion
-Beef


Where Korea is better:
-Public Transportation
-Convenience Store Selection
-Packaged Ramen
-Cost of living
-Beer
-Food Balance
-Money (no ing coins everywhere)

So what you're basically saying confirms my theory that Korea is the poor man's Japan

Also yeah, what the is up with those beds?

And also the public transportation system here is the bee's knees, Diomod.

 

[Diamat]

And also the public transportation system here is the bee's knees, Diomod.

You're gonna change your mind once you see the Seoul public transportation network. From a Western perspective, yes, the Japanese system is great, especially due to its cleanliness. But when compared to Seoul, Japanese public transportation is no match. The Seoul subway is even cleaner, more comfy, and better organized.

 

[Commissar Caligula_]

Sorry I haven't been very active boys, but Flinn assassinated me cos I revealed the truth about him changing the votes on the Bloggers Award.

 

[Inkie]

You're gonna change your mind once you see the Seoul public transportation network. From a Western perspective, yes, the Japanese system is great, especially due to its cleanliness. But when compared to Seoul, Japanese public transportation is no match. The Seoul subway is even cleaner, more comfy, and better organized.

Yeah it's possible that it's not the number one, but still - chaotic/a true nightmare is a bit much considering it's the biggest city in the world and it's public transit system is widely held to be one of the best.

Got to say though, taxis here are ridiculously pricey, especially compared to in Korea.

 

[Inkie]

Tokyo is.

 

[Inkie]

Population of the whole metropolitan area. Also area is second biggest, I believe.

 

[Cookiegod]

My country is several times bigger than all of Japan, and we don't have to deal with earth quakes and only a few unexploded nuke drops, yet Tokyo has twice as many people living in it as my entire country.

 

[Cookiegod]

Oh yeah?! Then why did Tennessee name a city after it?

 

[Inkie]

Wikipedia says that there's several cities ahead of it in regards to population. Notably Chongping, Beijing, Shanghai and Karachi.

Do we need to send a few more nukes over there, Inkie?

Strictly Tokyo Metropolis is only a small sliver of the whole city though, which when taken in its totality as the Greater Tokyo Area is number 1 at 38 million.

My country is several times bigger than all of Japan, and we don't have to deal with earth quakes and only a few unexploded nuke drops, yet Tokyo has twice as many people living in it as my entire country.

What's even more surprising is that it was already the world's biggest city when Japan was mostly closed off from the world in the 19th century. Thriving economy, excellent aqueduct system supplying people with clean water from nearby mountains, good hygiene and waste removal, lack of animals in the city etc.

This is when Britain, arguably the most advanced country in the world at that time, had the Great Stink of London and thousands of its inhabitants dying of cholera.

 

[Lord Oda Nobunaga]

Akar, I think you mean Chongqing, not Chongping you bigot. Or Ch'ung-Ch'ing as we true Chinese say.
How did Chongqing get that big anyway? It is literally a city in the middle of nowhere but it has a population of over 30 million.

 

[Cookiegod]

Akar, I think you mean Chongqing, not Chongping you bigot. Or Ch'ung-Ch'ing as we true Chinese say.
How did Chongqing get that big anyway? It is literally a city in the middle of nowhere but it has a population of over 30 million.

Easy: It's not located nowhere, but on the confluence of Yangtze and some other river, and between mountains, so that people can't really avoid passing through the city. Similar things go for most other cities as well. The dominating factors for most of them are 1) water & 2) mountains, if there are any. If these factors aren't dominating the landscape enough, such as in semi-northern France, you can see a very interesting pattern there, with cities somewhat evenly spaced out and forming lots of triangles in between.

Anyway, Chongqing is hard to avoid. It's Chengdu after it that's hard to sell as it really has nothing west of it.

 

[Lord Oda Nobunaga]

So you be saying that... because it was a city in the middle of nowhere it attracted all of those people in that far off barbarous corner of the world? Makes sense.

 

[Cookiegod]

You said its in the middle of nowhere. I say nowhere starts after Chengdu.

 

[Inkie]

Anyone seen American Factory? Was pretty great IMO.

 

[AqD]

Anyone seen American Factory? Was pretty great IMO.

The picture looks quite depressing.

I like American Made a lot more, very bright like classic american dream!

 

[Ferdiad]

When you have 1.5 billion people it's incredibly hard to not have cities of 30m people.

Some chinese cities have very generous "metro" areas and .

 

[Flinn]

Sorry I haven't been very active boys, but Flinn assassinated me cos I revealed the truth about him changing the votes on the Bloggers Award.

seems I didn't kill you enough, just pass over here at 5:00PM and I should have some spare time to kill you better

 

[Ferdiad]

Slippery like a raver after 3 yokes at a techno rave.

 

[Lord Oda Nobunaga]

Ferdiad why would you call me a manlet? I am actually a brainlet I'll have you know!

 

[Ferdiad]

It's okay bby I love u any height

 

[AqD]

To show my friendliness to new posters (reps welcome!), here is some explanation of the discussion above ^^^

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This is brainlet, which Lord Oda Nobunaga (who's neither lord nor oda) self-claims to be:

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And this is a manlet Ferdiad believes Lord Oda Nobunaga belongs to, with his cute friends:

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