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I effin HATE them!! It's so monotonous when you drive anywhere because of all the fields and my family thinks I'm unamerican because I hate corn.

I just learned that Emo means Potato.

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me usually


me after gore day in stage makeup
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me for my loli-phase
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and yes I know my camera is awful but unless you are gunna get me a new one, don't say anything about it!! D<

Not to be ragging on you, it's nothing personal, but I've always had a problem with this idea, that if you don't vote, you have no right to complain. Everyone always has a right to complain, when you're in a large society like ours. If you're in a little village with two dozen people, then yeah, you never have any right to complain if you don't involve yourself, but when there's so many people. Ugh, I'm rambling.

Let me put it this way: There are a lot of states that definitely go one way in the election. New York, for instance, will go Democrat, and Texas will go Republican. So, if you're a Democrat in Texas, and you don't vote in this election, I don't think you should be punished. That person can complain. Realistically, their vote didn't count worth much. Even if every Democrat voted for Obama in Texas, the state would still go to McCain!

But really, what bugs me about it is, just because a person isn't involved, then he can't complain one bit? If I don't have any children, does that mean that I have no right to judge a person's child-rearing abilities? Does that mean that, simply because I have no children, I cannot see a mother smack her son across the face repeatedly and say anything bad about her?

Now, I think voting is very important, for all sorts of reasons, but saying that if a person doesn't vote, he has no right to complain, that just bugs me. Not a lot, but I'm tired, and I felt like saying something right now. Above and beyond all else, I think people should vote, even if they just write in Ralph Wiggum. Hell, that'd be awesome. But a lot of people don't have faith in the whole election process, what with the electoral college and all that, and I can't say they're horrible people just because they don't vote. If you're living in a country run by a shitty president, you have a right to complain, no matter what. Besides, a president who seems good could turn to complete shit after a year or two in office. The people who voted for him still have a right to complain.

You'll be able to understand most things after a month.
You'll have a horrible accent when you talk.
You get laughed at.

Pretty average things. It just happens.
Or you can get a guy who can speak japanese, talk english all the time, and when some (stranger)japanese guy tries to talk shit, Simultaneously stand up and get the guy who can speak japanese to translate.

"Hi"
-"He wants to kill you"
"How about a drink on me?"
-'He said he wants to rip out your guts and drink it"
"Or lunch?"
-"He said he'll get his friends with guns"

Japanese people tend to ignore/stay away from foreigners anyway, so you won't really have a problem.

First off, any American who doesn't vote better keep their mouth fucking shut after the election when whoever wins starts pissing them off. I'll put it as simply as possible, if you don't take part in the decision making process, you have no right to complain about the results. I don't like either candidate, but I'm still gonna vote. The chance of a third party winning, with all the attention that the election is getting, is very low, but you still have that option.

From what I have seen and experienced, most local citizens tend to hold foreigners in distaste, especially during bad times, where everyone is competing for the same job.

Maybe that would have been too obvious? :P

Also, you appear to be brethren of the awesome. :lol:

In a moral point of view, no it would be a terrible thing to sell your vote. millions of people have died for the sake of democracy (yes, people around the world). It would be a shame to have their lives to be taken like a joke.

Mastering the language is a must if anyone was to live for a long period of time in Japan and to find and work at a job, and you'll have to give up your previous nation's citizenry in order to live in Japan. Apparently they don't allow dual citizenship.

... you do sound like an arrogant prick sometimes, but we can forgive that. I'm sure we've all sound arrogant on these forums at one point or another, just some more than others.

mnx is correct. There are at least 3 different sets of the Japanese alphabet that you'll have to learn: kanji, katakana, and hiragana. Then you'll have to increase your vocabulary, learn the grammar which is ass-backwards from the romance/latin-based languages, and learn to speak, read, and listen fluently. You can't compare Japaneses to say French or Spanish or even German because at some point they're all interrelated but the Asian languages are not but to themselves.

Well, could be turned off again.

let's see you try and failed HARD.i'm not trying to demotivate you or something,but i'm telling you,it's impossible to learn japanese in 2 month,no matter how genius or motivated you are.

i've seen many tried to master it in a year,and still failed badly at level 1 Noryoku-Shiken(the godfather of all japanese language exam) required to enter a college or apply for a permanent job.

let's face the reality,dude,it's hard enough to read kanji,let alone writing it.

but hey,if you succeded,try mandarin next.

Wow, I'm not sure if that is awesome or insane.

But "because the culture of Japan is awesome" is a good reason to move there. My uncle lived there for 5 years and loved it, but eventually had to come back to the US because his company was bought out and he lost his position. He did say a lot of people bashed the US though, although he was in international sales and worked with people from a number of East Asian nations.

@Fiery: From your political views and the sentiments, I assume you want to go to a country where there is much more libertarianism and much less government spending than the US. However, I'm not sure what democratic country you would go to.

In terms of Welfare spending as a percentage of GDP, the U.S. is one of the lowest developed democracies democracies. Ireland, Mexico, and South Korean rank lower the the US, and Japan ranks slightly lower than the US if you count public schooling as welfare spending.

The US also has one of the lowest Central government debts as a percentage of GDP. Only Ireland, Norway, Luxembourg, Australia, and the Czech Republic are lower in that statistic.

I got these facts from the OECD's most recent available data.

Pretty much all of Europe is out. Switzerland is rather libertarian minded about rights, but still has a bit of a welfare state(I lived there temporarily in the past). They also have one of the strictest immigration laws. Basically, they don't want anyone coming to live there.

Japan has more socialist policies than the US at this point, including what amounts to something very similar to the universal healthcare proposed by Hillary Clinton. They also have mandatory employment insurance, health insurance, pension insurance, and accident insurance, as well as general government welfare.

In terms of laissez-faire capitalism, the US is still one of the most deregulated and least taxing governments of developed democracies.

Is it ironic or on purpose that you hate mold, and your name is "fungus"?