[2007-06-16 09:55:26] <flamingspinach> oh lol I went to japan today
[2007-06-16 09:55:27] <flamingspinach> (true story)
[2007-06-16 09:55:49] <flamingspinach> I didn't get to say anything japanese to anyone though
[2007-06-16 09:55:55] <flamingspinach> which is probably a good thing since I sort of suck at it but
[2007-06-16 09:56:11] <flamingspinach> when a person asked for my passport I was like "hai"
[2007-06-16 09:56:18] <flamingspinach> and then she was like
[2007-06-16 09:56:34] <flamingspinach> *thinks* "o do you know japanese I better talk to you wait shit I'm just checking your passport"
[2007-06-16 09:57:12] <flamingspinach> hmm.... hmmmmmmm.... PASUPO-TO... hai............. douzo
[2007-06-16 09:57:14] <&tgies> flamingspinach: alaoal yeah gross
[2007-06-16 09:57:16] <flamingspinach> and I was like
[2007-06-16 09:57:17] <flamingspinach> "ok"
[2007-06-16 09:58:02] <flamingspinach> then I was in the plane and there was this old guy blocking my way so I waited for a while and he sort of moved out of the way so I was like "sumimasen"
[2007-06-16 09:58:11] <flamingspinach> but he didn't hear me so I was like sumimasen susumemasen
[2007-06-16 09:58:19] <flamingspinach> and he was like "o suman" and moved
[2007-06-16 09:59:00] <flamingspinach> alol oh and in the airport there was some flight attendant type dude
[2007-06-16 09:59:08] <flamingspinach> who was speaking japanese into a fOnE
[2007-06-16 09:59:13] <flamingspinach> and pacing around
[2007-06-16 09:59:25] <flamingspinach> and the only way to describe how he was talking would probably be "the gay accent except japanese"
[2007-06-16 09:59:28] <flamingspinach> it was pretty Odd
[2007-06-16 09:59:36] <&tgies> flamingspinach YEAH THAT.
[2007-06-16 09:59:45] <&tgies> some tokyo fucks seem to do that and I am like What.
[2007-06-16 09:59:47] <&tgies> what airport was this
[2007-06-16 09:59:52] <flamingspinach> he was like on the VERGE of saying "atashi" I swear
[2007-06-16 09:59:57] <&tgies> alaolaaolaoal cool
[2007-06-16 10:00:13] <flamingspinach> he was calling someone about someone named "shiga-chan"
[2007-06-16 10:00:14] <bofh> atashi = ?
[2007-06-16 10:00:20] <&tgies> there was an fsp kid who did that but I think he was gay
[2007-06-16 10:00:20] <flamingspinach> and how he/she was late for work
[2007-06-16 10:00:27] <flamingspinach> bofh: feminine first person pronoun
[2007-06-16 10:00:29] <&tgies> bofh: feminine first-poesiohjkdh
[2007-06-16 10:00:32] <&tgies> flamingspinach leave
[2007-06-16 10:00:46] <flamingspinach> and I was like "hehe 'shiga-chan'"
[2007-06-16 10:00:51] <flamingspinach> then he called this self-same shiga-chan
[2007-06-16 10:00:53] <flamingspinach> and was like
[2007-06-16 10:00:57] <flamingspinach> shiga-cha~n
[2007-06-16 10:01:02] <flamingspinach> and I was like "hehe 'shiga-chan'"
[2007-06-16 10:01:18] <flamingspinach> and the weird part was that he suddenly turned up near our departure gate later on and was like
[2007-06-16 10:01:21] <flamingspinach> (in English)
[2007-06-16 10:01:25] <flamingspinach> "PLEASE STEP MORE IN THE RIGHT."
[2007-06-16 10:01:32] <flamingspinach> and grinned and nodded at everyone
[2007-06-16 10:01:34] <&tgies> ALALAOAL AWESOME!
[2007-06-16 10:01:34] <flamingspinach> it was great
[2007-06-16 10:02:29] <flamingspinach> also lol there was an announcer on the plane
[2007-06-16 10:02:29] <&tgies> it's an acronym
[2007-06-16 10:02:34] <&tgies> flamingspinach which airport
[2007-06-16 10:02:52] <flamingspinach> her name tag said "K. Kuroi" and apparently her mother was on the plane or something
[2007-06-16 10:02:55] <flamingspinach> tgies: NRT
[2007-06-16 10:03:09] <&tgies> Ick
[2007-06-16 10:03:10] <flamingspinach> and uh the captain would be like
[2007-06-16 10:03:17] <flamingspinach> saying something in english
[2007-06-16 10:03:30] <flamingspinach> with a lot of sort of circumstantial Politeness Factor
[2007-06-16 10:03:45] <flamingspinach> which the translator basically decided to convey using "gozaru" in every Fucking sentence
[2007-06-16 10:03:47] <flamingspinach> Ever
[2007-06-16 10:03:53] <&tgies> that is the craziest fucking airport
[2007-06-16 10:04:11] <&tgies> flamingspinach commercial airline pilots are samurai
[2007-06-16 10:04:47] <flamingspinach> I mean stuff like "yeah we're going to have to ask you to wait for juuuust about 5 to 10 minutes, as though the problem has been resolved there is still some obligatory paperwork which we must unfortunately fill out with airport mechanics as witnesses
[2007-06-16 10:04:49] <flamingspinach> "
[2007-06-16 10:05:09] <flamingspinach> and then there would be a pause of like 30 seconds
[2007-06-16 10:05:13] <flamingspinach> as the translator digested this
[2007-06-16 10:05:17] <flamingspinach> and then a couple of sentences
[2007-06-16 10:05:54] <flamingspinach> which were PROBABLY (I couldn't really tell she was speaking pretty fast and also making mistakes and backtracking) something to the effect of "paperwork must be filled, please wait for 10 minutes"
[2007-06-16 10:05:59] <flamingspinach> with a Lot of Gozaru
[2007-06-16 10:06:02] <flamingspinach> it was pretty funny
[2007-06-16 10:06:21] <flamingspinach> I mean seriously I could barely understand a thing about what they were saying
[2007-06-16 10:06:36] <flamingspinach> except when it came to stuff like altitude or temperature in which case I could pick out the numbers
[2007-06-16 10:06:52] <flamingspinach> and also when the english guy said something with a "but" in it I was basically waiting for a "gozaimasuga"