You know that former white supremacist that goes around talking to them now, he said it often has nothing to do with other people or color and more to do with some inner issues and they choose to make that their club and feel part of something and feel superior. So yeah, they probably needed a lot of love in the past…

Orange is the best, PMY is garish, only a few cars can pull it off.

Can we just take turns punching him in the face?

I can’t believe anyone believes Drumpf is religious, he sounds like he’s mocking them or has no clue when he talks about it. He was probably snorting coke off hookers in a limo on wall street in the 80's, doesn’t feel like he has really changed at all. They just use him to get legislation they want, if they can get…

If he wasn’t a zombie?

Yeah I first lived there when the world cup was coming and they made more signs in our alphabet. I lived at Utsukushigaoka so it was a big one. My wife is from Kawaguchiko so it’s kind of country, but her mother’s side is rich and I never got the feeling they were very country. Her other grandpa was a cop. I’ve given…

My wife works for a Japanese company here in SF, she is always speaking Japanese at work. It really depends on your partner, she is not interested in running a Japanese school when we are alone haha, we will probably never live there again so I can get buy with the basics for travelling when we go back to visit…

Well that is true, they will be polite even if they don’t always mean it. People have a different personality at work I find, then after work you see them change much more than in other cultures. You know you meet the customer service person and they are super nice and helpful, even 7 Eleven has better customer…

Well as I recall Nirvana is grunge and punks are way different. These people are just sad sacks.

I speak some, I used to be better when I was always there. My wife speaks excellent English so it’s tough.

Yeah my Irish friend gets lots of attention.

Yeah the smiling thing, I will just come out and say I’m a guy in the union in SF that makes all the shows happen. Recently we opened up an apprenticeship and more females have come into the union. We had a guy, that I think is total scum, tell one of them to smile when he saw her, kept it up. Eventually another guy…

I honestly think it’s because they are nervous about people they have no experience with, they are so closed off for the most part and their culture is not in your face like the Chinese. It’s like going up to an introvert, Osaka people are more talkative though.

I’m white and I travelled to remote China, they walk right up and stare at you, it’s like the Seinfeld close talker. No idea of personal space haha. People give you long looks in Japan, kids stare at me outside Tokyo.

Yeah Roppongi and Shibuya mainly I guess, they had a crackdown on undocumented workers, they used to just get rid of them, now I think they put them in jail for a bit, then send them back. I knew lots of musicians that would live there and play clubs on tourist visas.

Yeah I don’t think they really care, they like what they are and they don’t want outside intervention, so that has never really changed. They are very interested in many foreign things but they generally absorb it and put their stamp on it. Like low riders and Harleys!

Well I’m white and married to a Japanese woman, I lived there for years. There are guys on street corners from Africa dressed up like they are from LA, NBA clothes etc... tell people they were, they are into all sorts of things. So the Japanese public sees that first, then most have never really met a black person.…

Well I still have four other gears and now I can travel to classic rallies without revving my engine so high. Are you serious??

Revs way too high on the highway if you want to get somewhere a few hundred miles away.

Are you high, my 240 has a 5 speed swapped in and it is much better. Also disk swap in the rear is a huge improvement for safety and mountain/coast driving.