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[yumi]

Yesterday, while biking down the main thoroughfare in Hakodate, I saw a girl wearing a shirt that said

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[flamingophoenix]

Hey, I waved around a glowstick at a musical performance Saturday night and I'm not a tool! :-P

Also I waved around a fancy-schmancy wedding-reception-table candle at a wedding reception the week before on Saturday night. Does that count?

[yumi]

My vicious animosity extends only to cell phones. Thou art vindicated.

[kagejim]

The scary thing is a lot of those girls--the ones who wear crazy shirts--don't have any clue what the english words mean. They just think forgeign languages are kinda cool or something. Just ask one next time you one.

[flamingophoenix]

Well, really, it's just like American people who get kanji tattooed on them because it looks cool. It's the fascination with a different writing system.

[yumi]

The Mainichi Shimbun, in their weird section wherein a gaijin with snarky wit and one of the best jobs ever gets to translate all of the sex-and-strange-happenings-news, had an article about randy Japanese women and how they get themselves off. One of the quotes:

"When I see all those complicated kanji with lots of brush strokes, it turns me on like nothing else."

I do believe that says it all.