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I see white people
Perhaps the dumbest man alive: CNN's Anderson Cooper
So after many many hours of travelling and about 6 or 7 passport inspections I'm back home safe and sound.. or maybe just safe. Never really been sure if I'm sound. I had a three hour stop over in Newark's "Liberty International Aiport" where I bought a nifty George W Bush '04 T-shirt at this cool souvenire store specializing in political junk. Should go well with my Governor Jesse Ventura shirt I got at the airport in Minneapolis. Anyway, the jet lag hasn't set it yet it seems so I'm feelin' good and ready to live it up in the T dot! My loving mother was kind enough to stock all the cupboards with all my favorite junk food, and has already cleaned and mended all my clothes. As for culture shock, well I still haven't bowed accidentally or driven on the left side of the road by mistake so I guess I'm doing good. A couple of things have already starting bugging me about being back home though. I wasn't even out of the airport parking garage before my mom started bugging me about my future career. So much for "avoiding life". Also, I've learned that not being able to speak Japanese or understand it has its advantages. Hugh pointed out to me at the airport how weird it was to be about to make out bits and pieces of conversation in the ambient sound around us, where before in Japan it was all just noise. This can be kind of annoying really, and the stupidity of those around you becomes much more obvious. This also goes for TV. I'm sure Japanese TV is just as stupid if not dumber and more annoying than American or Canadian TV, but since I can't understand it I'm never really bothered by anything I see. Since coming back here, every other channel has something or someone on it that bugs me. I guess you can't really appreciate just how stupid American television really is until you've been cut off from it for a while. In Japan I've downloaded lots of American shows, but they are mostly cool cable shows or retarded but interesting reality shows. It's the news programs, political pundits, fishing shows, entertainment news shows and the like that make up 99% of what's on TV and they are also by far the worst offenders of spewing idiocy onto the airwaves. I did watch a cool show today about airplane crashes on Discovery though.
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Welcome back to the Western Hemisphere! So what things are you glad to have while you're back, besides realizing that TV you can understand sucks and that people are stoopid. This is why I just read the paper. That and I don't have cable.
I bet you don't get all the heavy breathing on American TV that you get on Japanese TV. That's what gets on my nerves. Seth: 2% milk and yummy junk foodGreengrass: You should get cable. All the best shows are only on cable. Network TV and for that matter most newspapers are quite useless in my view
Luke: Heavy breathing? What? Do you get some kind of porno channel I don't get? How do I tune in?
Yes western television is stupid, that why me send you western rear back to your homeland where stupid people belong ahahahaha. Next time you see one of those samurai shows, for example the one on monday nights (if it still runs) listen to the dialogue. It's like a competition to see who can sound the huskiest. 
2% milk? What do they drink in Japan? And don't say rat milk. Japanese drink mostly 3.5% to 4.5% or so milk. You can get skim and 1.5% some places, but it tastes weird for some reason. It was funny.. plus it will be a great collector's item someday 
I See White People".. ROTHFLMAO 8-)There were actually alot of folks from 'out of town' at the Tokyo Game Show last week too..!!! The ultimate event for Games, Geeks and Girls. *_*
Have a good trip, cya on the flip-side.
Lars.
Jamie, what makes you say that Anderson Cooper is the dumbest man alive? And what's the "I see white people" thing? Am I missing something? Anderson Cooper makes Carson Daily look like Noam Chomsky. As for 'I see white people', yes you are missing something. 
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