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offline KEYFUMBLER from DUBLIN (Ireland) on 2004-07-05 07:14 [#01266710]
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.... well i'm back in work but seriously fucking jet-lagged
so don't feel like saying much at all except: WOWSERS
TROUSERS.

i hope to have some funky snaps online by weeks end.

i'm wrecked!



 

offline JAroen from the pineal gland on 2004-07-05 07:25 [#01266714]
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sweet. did you cut peoples heads off and flip out hard in
general?


 

offline KEYFUMBLER from DUBLIN (Ireland) on 2004-07-05 07:30 [#01266715]
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no decapitations..... but i did get thrown around by my
earlobe! Training with 60 year-old japanese master teachers
is like fighting with a shadow. just wehn you think you've
hit the guys, he's locked up youyr entire body with his
little finger. mad!



 

offline cie jiks mawp from motion to descend (Australia) on 2004-07-05 07:40 [#01266725]
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this cool very.

*everyone* remember: fear is the path to the darkside. fear
leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to . . .
suffering.


 

offline Dannn_ from United Kingdom on 2004-07-05 07:46 [#01266733]
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I didn't know Japan was a hallucinogenic. Do you smoke it?


 

offline scheme88 from Tokyo (Japan) on 2004-07-05 07:48 [#01266736]
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welcome home keyfumbler

btw, is your avatar a ko-gal? :)



 

offline KEYFUMBLER from DUBLIN (Ireland) on 2004-07-05 07:56 [#01266751]
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no... just a school girl on a train. i do have some snaps of
ko-girls though. They're strange women eh? Fashion victims
with fake orange tan and too much eye makeup!

scheme88.... your country is absolutely amazing. you should
be proud... clean, polite, efficient, quiet, colourful,
safe, tasety, healthy etc etc. Well done!


 

offline Key_Secret from Sverige (Sweden) on 2004-07-05 07:57 [#01266754]
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tell me stories! Are you glad to be back or do you miss
japan already?


 

offline KEYFUMBLER from DUBLIN (Ireland) on 2004-07-05 08:26 [#01266775]
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story 1:

i was in a little traditional bar, sitting at low tables,
with 2 mates being served sake and yakitori (skewerd meat &
veg)by the mama-san. In the same room were 2 working guys,
chilling out after their long days graft. We ended up buying
each other dirnks and passing around a phrase book so we
could shoot the breeze in a drunken fashion. At one point,
my married mate says to them, "my pals here love japanese
women and are looking for wives". We indicated it was true,
for the craic and next thing you know the lads have their
sisters on the phone and are willing to get us out partying!


We sort of avoided the whole issue after a while as we
didn't want to cause shitstorm in this small town where we
were training and got on with our food. 20 mins later, a
drop-dead gorgeous girl walks in... its one of the sisters.
She spoke great english and was saying how we should meet
the next night for some drinks and stuff. We drunkenly
agreed to all this and had a good laugh with them but ..
when the next night came, we were too fucked from training
and especially the baths afterwards to go out and meet them
again. We felt bad and were curious at how we'd get on but
it had been a long day and in the end, i doubt anything
would have seriously happened. Still it was a nuts night all
the same and she was a honey!


 

offline Key_Secret from Sverige (Sweden) on 2004-07-05 08:28 [#01266777]
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gotto love thoose japanese ladies!
damn... you make me wanna goooooooooo now!


 

offline KEYFUMBLER from DUBLIN (Ireland) on 2004-07-05 08:32 [#01266780]
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Key_Secret:

its the coolest place ever! you hardly even need japanese to
get around or eat out, although obviously it helps.

its so nice going out and about and people really trying to
help you out. we had so many occasions of people just coming
up and asking were we lost. When the girls would shyly
giggle into their hands, you just melted...


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2004-07-05 08:42 [#01266783]
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haha, very convenient to have sisters.
you took many pictures i hope? :)


 

offline KEYFUMBLER from DUBLIN (Ireland) on 2004-07-05 08:50 [#01266792]
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i took rather a lot of shcool girls snaps and feel very
pervy cos of it..... they all looked 19 to me!

the whole music thing was a disaster though. i basically
didn't have the time to go hunting donw the decent record
stores. I should have just grabbed some random j-pop crap at
HMV to bring home but ended up spending the last of my cash
on swords and shit.

my only encounter with Japanese music was the amazing poppy
breakbeat stuff i heard at a toyshop. i'll pay more
attention next time........


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2004-07-05 08:56 [#01266796]
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coz, um, 19 is ok? :)

shame about the music though...i bet it would be great to
attend some gig, those japs know how to have fun
apperantly...


 

offline JAroen from the pineal gland on 2004-07-05 08:59 [#01266797]
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you are obliged to post those here!


 

offline VLetr from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-07-05 09:50 [#01266857]
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this sounds awesome. more stories. more! make some shit up
if you don't have any others, i want:

(a) schoolgirls,
(b) giggling into hands, and
(c) swords.


 

offline scheme88 from Tokyo (Japan) on 2004-07-05 10:18 [#01266870]
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thanks man :)
i wanna eat yakitori after a long time....


 

offline KEYFUMBLER from DUBLIN (Ireland) on 2004-07-05 10:39 [#01266885]
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story 2:

i was in this amazing japanese bathhouse, an "onsen", that
was on the 6th. 7th and 8th floor of shopping center with a
rollercoaster on the roof. Anyhoo, apparently natural hot
springwater is pumped from below this building into the
baths, which were seperated by gender ("awww").

This place was super-slick... loads of stone and wood
fittings and plants everywhere. We we given braclets with
sensors which gave us access to billable areas and lockers
and shit. When you entered you were given fresh towels, a
kimono and jammies. The first thing you did after you stored
your clothes away was spend about 30 minutes scrubbing every
single inch of your bod. You sat in a cubicle which had a
shower head, shampoo, soaps, razors, oitments, tweesers and
everything. We saw guys washing themselves completely about
4 times... this was all before you even enter the baths
themselves.

Just before you entered you could have a steam shower that
was like kind of futuristic teleporter that sprayed lovely
steam form your legs to your head and back down again. The
only thing missong was a laser beam and perhaps a rotating
platform. This got rid of any excess soap you may have
missed. You took your 10 inch square towel and went into the
main bathing area.

Fuck me it was the bathing equivalent of Willy Wonkas
Chocolate factory. Plunge pools here, seaweed baths there.
Saunas of various intensity, hot springs you could biol an
egg in and jacuzzis that practically made love to you
("steady on old bean!")

After a while of floatting my cares away in a vapour-filled
hothouse of mistiness, i noticed the room with the massage
tables and the girls sitting sitting around swinging theri
legs. I noticed guys were going in and out naked and
unashamed so i thought i'd follow suit. One of these little
angels had a bit of english and managed to tell be mssages
started in 15 minutes and it was 5000 yen for half an hour.
I promised her i'd be back went to lounge in the salt-water
tub for a while.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2004-07-05 10:43 [#01266891]
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so basically you need a manual to take a bath?
nice story though...what was the massage like? :-)


 

offline KEYFUMBLER from DUBLIN (Ireland) on 2004-07-05 10:48 [#01266898]
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The girls were fully clothed but not afraid to look down at
your strange western ginger-pubed nether region and smile as
if they just noticed a rather interesting tatto or
something. i though "get me face down on that massage table
quick" before things got a little eh, awkward... and luckily
enough she instructed me to laydown. The next half hour was
pure pleasure as she kneeded and squeezed most of my body
into a soft pulp mass of relaxation. All my arousal was
dispersed euqally over my body and i floated out of there to
sink into a not spring batch before leaving. Leaving
required anoither suite of showers and a lst 20 minutes and
what looked like a massive line of filmstar mirrors with
hairdryers, cotton buds, aftershaves, talcs, lotions and
oils. I was well and truly pampered beyond measure and me
and me mates rode the train home cleaner than we have ever
been.

Japan... they know how to bathe!!


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2004-07-05 10:51 [#01266902]
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hahaha, man, you should publish a book!


 

offline KainiIndustries from over the roof floats billy on 2004-07-05 11:51 [#01266933]
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Goddammit, you lucky, lucky bastard. Sounds utterly
fantastic.


 

offline Key_Secret from Sverige (Sweden) on 2004-07-05 13:42 [#01266995]
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what I've thought about lately is, yeah Japan = awesome...
but maybe it's other countries that actually suck?
I mean there must be people living in Japan and waiting for
"good times" to happen.
Maybe Japan is just average, and all other places suck.
Well average is good enough for me anyway :)
so I have to go there!

more stories, KEYbuddy.


 

offline JAroen from the pineal gland on 2004-07-05 13:46 [#01267000]
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its all relative...


 

offline KEYFUMBLER from DUBLIN (Ireland) on 2004-07-06 05:11 [#01267592]
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here's an odd story:

On the flight on the way home i found myself sitting beside
this hot french chick. I was pretty tired after spending
half the day getting trains to the airport. By the way, if
you're in Japan and need to get to Narita Airport,
don't get the "Narita Express". By "espress" they
mean it doesn't stop at all 40 stations between Ueno and
Narita... just 20 of them!

Anyway, i was too tired to dive right into chatting up
Amelie or whatever her name was, at the start of an 11 hour
flight so i just watched a movie - "Shaun of the dead"..
classic.

So this Norwegian dude on the other side of her, starts "so
what were you doing in japan", and "its a great country" and
shit. She was a quite sort of thing, which turns out to have
suited my viking friend for he proceeded to explain to her
his passion for hydrogen fuel cell technology and how
amazing the conference in Tokyo was. "They're so efficient"
he said. "Water's the only by-product" he enthused. "Of
course the infrastructure isn't available yet" he added
disappointedly.

I smirked to myself at my Norse nemisis and vowed to wow le
chic with my witty irish charm. - sometime after the movie
finished and when a suitable casual moment arrived. The
movie ended and the meal came so there was mutual eating and
silence for a while, soon after sleepiness got the better of
me and i dozed off.

When i awoke, i saw that the clever lassie had managed to
whip her British Airways blindfold on and was apparently
fast asleep facing well away from mr. Thor and i noticed
what a delightfull heaving bosom she had pointed in my
direction. This flight was working out p r e t ty well.

Then it all went the shape of a pear. My nordic pal leaned
over hot-lips aqnd started to shite on to me about his
engineering adventures. What can you do with somebosdy who
insists on waffling like that? As he was talking, i had to
look at him which was freaky cos the girl was rightthere ..
"asleep". He then took out his laptop and showed me photos


 

offline pOgO from behind your belly button fluff on 2004-07-06 05:18 [#01267612]
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That's what you get when you hesitate !

You should have gone straight for the kill !


 

offline Key_Secret from Sverige (Sweden) on 2004-07-06 05:19 [#01267617]
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... still waiting for the end of that story?
or was that the end there? "...photos" doesn't seem like an
ending to me.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2004-07-06 05:19 [#01267618]
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hahaha...why didn't you start explainig him about xltronic
:)


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2004-07-06 05:20 [#01267620]
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i think he got cut-off there :)


 

offline Key_Secret from Sverige (Sweden) on 2004-07-06 05:20 [#01267623]
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yeah...


 

offline KEYFUMBLER from DUBLIN (Ireland) on 2004-07-06 05:22 [#01267627]
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of engines and cars and shit. There were graphs too for fuck
sake! I'm sorry if i find it hard to tell somebody i'm
completely uninterested in their life.. i just can't do it!
Eventually he stopped and shut his powerbook off and asked
me what i was up to in japan. At this stage i should have
just lied but with jet-lag, nausea and all, i couldn;t think
straight and told him i was doing some martial arts stuff.
WRONG! He then told me all about his kickboxing facination
and i nearly cried. This guy looked about 40 years old and
had this really sad, pathetic personality. The way he talked
so passionately it was like it made his fucking day to
finally be listened to. I have visions of this guy
purposefully taking international flights to the four
corners of the globe just so he can bore people on planes.

The worst part was to come. He proceeded to tell me why he
took up kickboxing. A few years ago he aquired for himself a
small little puppy. One day when he brought it out for a
walk, everyone admired it and thought it was cute. Kids
would come up and pet it and old grannys would smile. He
said a young guy stopped to pet the dog..... and ended up
suddenly prising its jaw aprt, killing the thing with shock!
This guy was telling me this with tears in his eyes saying
how he was traumatised for months and how he took up
kickboxing to protect himself from such evil again.... and
he had nver told anyione this. I was a bit stunned and
weirded completely out and fucked off down the back of the
plane for a walk and some sort of escape. FREAKY!!!!

I didn't talk to him again and the french chick didn't take
her blidnfold off till we landed. I said "hi".



 

offline JAroen from the pineal gland on 2004-07-06 05:22 [#01267629]
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He then took out his laptop and showed me photos

hahaha thats really the climax of the story


 

offline JAroen from the pineal gland on 2004-07-06 05:24 [#01267630]
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i bet she was awake all of the time, but pretended to be
asleep just to .. protect herself.

yeah.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2004-07-06 05:25 [#01267631]
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heh, just what i wanted to say...

anyway, another fun story...i'll put this thread in my favs,
it's brilliant :)


 

offline Key_Secret from Sverige (Sweden) on 2004-07-06 05:28 [#01267640]
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yeah this is a good thread. sorry about the plane-boredom.
But it must have been special, this guy telling -you- this,
he'd never told anyone else. Sorry about his dog.
More stories (and photos :) please!


 

offline KEYFUMBLER from DUBLIN (Ireland) on 2004-07-06 07:14 [#01267758]
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One of the main students of the grandmaster i was training
under is a guy who gets the most punishment off sensei. If
there's a particularly nasty arm lock or muscle strike or
something that is being shown, well this guy, lets call him
Toshiro for the craic, will have it done to him. He's well
used to pain and having himself totally incompacipated. Its
not a sadistic thing but a practical learning experience
for Toshrio and us watching it. dislocations have occured
but sesei is also a bone doctor and our friend always bounce
back anyway.

An Ozzy friend of his told us a story at the Dojo about
Toshiro.

He works for a crew that install pacinco machines in Tokyo.
Now pacinco is sort of like vertical pinball and is found in
huge pacinco parlours everywhere. People spend all day in
there winning little steel balls that they can exchange for
prizes. The Yakuza run these gaming halls at a massive
profit. They're not strictly illegal cos you don't win money
but everybody knows that behind every pacino parlour is a
litttle place you exchnage your prize for cash - everybodys
happy.

As a pacinco installer boss, Toshiro deals with the Yakuza a
lot and therefore with the cops who dealwith them. One day
he was in an unfamiliar part of town, had finished sorting
out a big pacinco parlour and got pulled over by the local
police.
There had been some trouble with the cops and the local
Yakuza and Toshiro was about to get cought up in it. The
cops hauled his ass in and proceeded to beat the shit out of
him. "Who do you work for" BAM! "What are you doing in this
area" TWAK! All he could do was say he knew nothing and take
the beating..... which was easy because it was like a tickle
compared to an average class with sensei.

So he evntually got let go, stumbled to his car with broken
teeth and battered ribs and drove off towards home. except
he didn't make it. The local Yakuza had seen him being
pulled over and were waiting for him to be let go. They
stopped his car and brough him back top their HQ. cont...


 

offline KEYFUMBLER from DUBLIN (Ireland) on 2004-07-06 07:17 [#01267759]
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.. "what did you tell them?" BAM! "What did they ask?" TWAK!
All Toshiro could do was take the beating and wait. When he
finally got let go from there and went home, he went
training that night and showed everybody his bruises and
broken bones. Sensei fixed him up and then through him
around the dojo like a rag-doll.... "only i can really beat
you up, Toshiro" he said.

fucking nuts!


 

offline zaphod from the metaverse on 2004-07-11 02:29 [#01272972]
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i'm there right now. its lush.


 

offline Key_Secret from Sverige (Sweden) on 2004-07-11 06:08 [#01273053]
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haha I thought I had already commented on this..
but I really enjoyed reading that story. :)


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2004-07-11 06:12 [#01273056]
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this makes all those hollywood action flicks look like true
stories.


 

offline Doomed Puppy from on and off and on and off and on 2004-07-11 06:25 [#01273072]
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Awesome story!!!! Like it was from a Takashi Miike film.


 


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