Ninjadmin
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children of the atom?or atomes of the children?
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carmella chihuahua
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I like it. 
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DrCarnage
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me too
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bbob
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it's good but i can't focus properly on it. not sure why.
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DrCarnage
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you're going blind. thats why
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bbob
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maybe... long sighted maybe.
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bbob
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Japan's is a culture of cute. Everywhere you turn, there is some infantilized icon being force-fed to a society that seems to gorge on silly banality like artificially sweetened mother's milk. The most visible symbol of cute gone wild is of course Hello Kitty, which is plastered on everything from cheap handbags to couture clothing. But there's also the doe-eyed innocents found in so much anime, and those annoying Pokemon gorgons, which you might find plastered on your Boeing 747 the next time you hightail it to Tokyo.
Japan's psychedelic underground has engaged in a sustained rearguard assault on this culture of synthetic charm for more than three decades now, battling callow materialism with an iron cudgel of liberated
Just wanted to upset ninjadmin 
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Ninjadmin
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our interpretation of japan from the west is just a cartoon of their cartoonish interpretation of us
i find japan fascinating, especially the 'hyper-real' thing, the maddest thing when i went there was that it really is like that. you see 500 year old buddhist shrines next to ridiculously big shopping malls, or dudes sleeping in internet cafes and then having a shower and a shave in the internet cafe and going to work
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bbob
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oh japan. want.
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DrCarnage
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I regret not going to Japan when I was in China.  I'll defo go when im next in the far east.
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Ninjadmin
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i am thinking of getting a job there
it would be cool to go somewhere more different than korea, but at the same time...japan...i've wanted to live there since i was about 8
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DrCarnage
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I think once I get a (proper) teaching qualification and a couple of years experience i'll go back to the east probabley Hong Kong. I wanna work in Japan but don't think the missus would like it Chinese are a delicacy in Japan, aparently.
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flick
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| Ninjadmin wrote: | our interpretation of japan from the west is just a cartoon of their cartoonish interpretation of us
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that is actually the best sum-up ive ever read on this.
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Ninjadmin
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