You're telling me that the guy who became CEO in 2005 is just now the fall guy? He may have come in the clean up Idei's mess, but he hasn't exactly done a very good job with that, now has he?

Is nobody going to mention the gigantic human disaster that was Howard Stringer?

Yeah, I think you should hang your *bleep* in shame for this unnecessary comment.

I'm from the States and I didn't touch chopsticks until I was in college, but I mean seriously, it's actually harder to eat most things with a fork. You can pick up grains of rice with chopsticks with no problem.

I know. Japanese people always say, "How can you not like Doraemon?" To which I reply (rough translation): "Nobita is the most pathetic, worthless excuse for a human being I have ever seen. And he's like, the main character!"

They need to have a law requiring video game systems to have a button that temporarily stops gameplay. They could call it a "stop button."

If the food is crappy but the service is just fine, I usually leave a better than average tip. It's not the wait staff's fault, after all.

I tend to assume that I'm right, but I also tend to believe that a third party will only agree with me if he or she happens to be intelligent. And that handily explains my opinion if the third party doesn't agree with me.

Are you sure about that? I have never bought a DS game that didn't have a point slip in it.

I'm talking about people in Japan...

Damn, I gotta go get me some bargain bin DS games to rack up some points!

The anime was good too, but there are so many hilarious things hidden in those lists which only flash on screen for a second in the anime.

Ugh, I'm not that desperate for girls.

OK, here's an idea: let's just call everything earthen?

I've been reading a lot of articles about Sony in Japanese business magazines (they have them lying around the office for when things aren't too busy—because we are blocked from using the real Internet at work, but I digress).

And a McDonalds in Japan is an American McDonalds? Or does that not count if it's a separate corporate entity?

A convenience store in Taiwan is a Taiwanese convenient store. Family Mart is a Japanese-owned convenience store in Taiwan.

As long as I'm only splitting it with one person, I still make a profit. And what are the odds that two other people will win, huh?

Wait, the odds are 175.7 million to one? Damn, I'm gonna go out and buy 175.7 million lottery tickets. I can't lose if I've got every possible number combination!

I always just say, "I think that if you perform a cost/benefit analysis on that one, you'll find that it's not worth the time and effort." That usually shuts them up.