Happy birthday brother Herman, hope all is well and may this year be better than 2023.

Quote from: Brent on December 21, 2023, 07:30:37 PMI am mostly German, but mother's mother was Japanese. Born in Japan, came to Canada as kid and was interned during World War 2. I wish I knew more about that part of my heritage.

You seem way more humble than Mel, knowing the fact almost everyone is pretty obsessed with Japan and Germany these days and it's hard not to.

Quote from: TheProwler on December 21, 2023, 01:45:57 PMI have a pretty large sports card collection.

I have a nice coin collection.

I have a decent comic book collection.

I have a stamp collection.

My wife has collections of different types of figurines.

They are all nice hobbies.

But they are all low-key type of hobbies.

Not a high enough level of excitement to satisfy most active people.

Which is why I also play music, play hockey, play basketball, hike with my dog, play baseball, and participate in a long list of other fun activities.

Poor Boring Joe.

I concur too, collection can be enjoyable sometime but still lacks the thrill, I did forgot to mention another thing I'm addicted too, not sure does it count as a hobby but truth to be told it's simply driving my car and running a business. 

Quote from: DKG on December 21, 2023, 10:22:43 AMThat isn't saying much though, lol.

Lol tbh I'm not too familiar how the Japanese government runs domestically, but all I know is when it comes to dealing with the CCP and their ultra nationalist trolls, Japan does it the right way with their zero tolerance policy, lol.

Quote from: JOE on December 20, 2023, 11:04:35 PMDo ya like Hockey Cards, Zetsu?

If so, tharz an auction in January for an original set of Parkhurst 1951-52 series. That's 105 cards up fer grabs.

They say the estimate is $30,000 and up for the lot.

https://sports.ha.com/itm/hockey-cards/sets/1951-parkhurst-hockey-high-grade-complete-set-105-/p/50067-264005.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515



$30,000/105 = roughly $300 per card on average.

Mind you, that set could go for much higher.

Like $40,000 or $50,000, eh?

Stil, that's a heckuva lot cheaper than a Honus Wagner vintage baseball card which goes for $1 million or so these days. And that's just fer one card not a set.



So hockey cards seem like bargain by comparison.

In the scheme of things $30,000 for the most expensive hockey card aint much.

But i've heard a certain Wayne Gretzky rookie card has gone for $1 million as well

I remember buying some hockey and basketball cards when I was a kid, though it was more of a trend among the other kids and just didn't wanted to feel left out.  Later then started collecting some $2 bills, and a few coin and stamps but that's pretty much it. 

You can say there's not much hobbies I'm fond of, aside from keeping quails, pigeon and saltwater fishes. 

Quote from: Frood on December 20, 2023, 11:00:05 PMI've never dated them either but have mates divorced from them and I've worked with a couple of young Sheila professionals fresh out of Uni.

In my own experience, they were (those two) solely focused on position and reputation... but they were inexperienced as hell and wouldn't listen to practical experiences aka past mishaps that I witnessed in my tenure in a company which  changed hands.

They (both engineering grads) were like "we need to do this/these things"...

...I was like, "it was tried. It almost killed twice. It's off the table."

And then they pulled up their "engineering" degrees... (mind you, they were 22 and 24 years old at the time, I was 28)...and told me in no uncertain terms that they were highly trained professionals and I was just a set of hands, therefore we would be be trying to cut 90-130 millimetre thick industrial mining rubber with a hand circular saw...



          

I didn't bother trading subtle insults back at that point. I just went to the owners and said "you ever seen a carpentry circular launch out of a cut at 70 kilometres per hour and nearly decapitate or halve a person?"

20 minutes later, those young Japanese cunts were so mad, they left.... they went home "sick"...

That's very anti Japanese culture.

But... fuck em.. I tried to be delicate and supportive in the beginning... then the claws and egos came out, and I had to go John Wayne in the Quiet Man.

Bitches never forgave me after that..

Sorry to hear about your experience with those 2 twats, you've saved their lives but looks like they wanted face instead instead of feeling feel grateful that no one got seriously injured. 

I have only hand saw a few about human height trees nor know much about much sawing, but when you mentioned the part they wanted to cut a big piece of rubber with a electric powered saw does kind of makes my ass a bit clenchy.

Look like they'll eventually have to learn the hard way.  Sadly Japan's peer pressure or bullying problems will never go away thanks to those 2 dumbasses, which they're better off sweeping floors or making coffee.

I always ask my 2nd brother the same question when I was a kid, and he always reply back the same answer saying "If you think worth it, then that's how much it is worth to you"

But holy smokes Joe, $900 for a set of antique hockey cards is still pretty steep even if I have a crave for collections.

Quote from: Frood on December 20, 2023, 10:05:06 PMThey can be extremely high maintenance and judgy though. 

Lol I mean to say the ones working in the movie or red light industry, though I never dated a Japanese girl but what you say does resemble their sophisticated culture and high quality products, lol.

Quote from: Herman on December 20, 2023, 09:58:20 PMI remember in the mid eighties, the Japanese PM was Yasuhiro Nakasone. He was war criminal. A commissioned officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy. He was stationed in Indonesia. He was the first naval officer to organize and force local gals into sexual slavery known as comfort women.

Also, as pm in the eighties, he made the comment that the US cannot compete with Japan because of large populations of Blacks and Hispanics. He was a character.

He might not be PC, but I gotta admit he have more brain cells than the whole democrat and liberal party combined.

Quote from: Herman on December 20, 2023, 09:44:38 PMFolks would be drinking it if it smelled like nacho cheese.

I'm not much of a drinker, but some cheese and nacho could always do the trick.

*hint* I'm quite a fan of cheese and nachos. 

At first I thought it was nacho cheese cologne from seeing the photo first before reading the thread title.

Quote from: Brent on December 20, 2023, 06:49:05 PMThe Japanese right has balls.

There's no doubt about it, considering Japan is a nation known for having world war II military officers and generals that "decided" to even bring their coffins with them overseas, meanwhile the average person will just hope to live another day, but for the Japanese knowing death is certain from a evaluation of intelligence but still don't give a damn, it's hard not to respect them.

Quote from: Herman on December 17, 2023, 09:27:37 PMI like Japanese gals. They are kinky.

I concur brother, life is not the same without Japanese women, lol.

Quote from: Brent on December 17, 2023, 02:33:41 PMThey don't last long, but there are more power outages now compared to about twenty years ago.

I don't mind them much, but being a person that love desktop PCs to upgrading $8000 worth of electronic gadgets on a saltwater fish tank is something I need to consider about, lol.

Quote from: DKG on December 17, 2023, 11:54:45 AMThere is a strong green movement in Japan, but it is pragmatic. Our green movement is controlled by marxists.

Even Japan's most right wing government 20 years ago seem more sensible than Justin Trudeau.