Or a woman for that matter. This is a 30 year old man acting like he's 14.

I enjoy watching Japanese cartoons once in a while but holy shit just delete the entire industry if this dweeb is the target audience.

  • PaulSmackage [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    I went to a conference in japan, and one of the guys on my team was a weeb. He got real upset when we used the trains to get from the hotel to the centre instead of driving there. Can't combine car-centrism with useful public transportation.

      • PaulSmackage [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Guy literally never went anywhere without his car, and expected it to be the same there. I explained to him the route and stops we'd be taking by train, but he didn't like the idea of that. Rented a car the entire time, and was late every single time. The worst was when he tried to drive to ishikawa while we took the train (3hr by train, 6 and a half by car). Absoluely baffling behaviour.

          • PaulSmackage [he/him, comrade/them]
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            3 years ago

            I had two highballs and some okonomiyaki by the time he got to our hotel in ishikawa. It was very funny to hear this guy comparing our day to day to what his cartoons look like.

            • Weedian [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              Please give us more stories this is absolutely hilarious

              • PaulSmackage [he/him, comrade/them]
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                3 years ago

                So, i was part of a group sponsored by komatsu to come to japan. We were there to go to an expo that was full of mining farming, oil field, etc. equipment. I didn't know this guy at all, but he was part of the group i was in. I got seated next to him on the flight from bc to tokyo. He asked me if i was interested in japan, its culture, whatever. I said i liked watching movies from there, like kurosawa and Naruse. He asked if i liked anime, which i said not really, but i liked yamato, akira, stuff like that. He then listed off nearly a dozen series that he'd been watching to get ready for the trip. I ordered two beers. He then spent the rest of the flight reading this english to japanese manga book on his tablet. When i woke up, i found out he had designated himself to be the translator for our group. The pain started immediately as we got off, as he stiffly thanked the staff as we got off the plane.