danieru in tokyo: Pants

Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Pants

And who wears them. For example, Dom does not.

So i've moved into a house which is split into 2 apartments, each 3 bedroom. The people in each apartment get on well with each other and yabber a lot. Turns out they are all girls. So i'm kinda worried about living with so much oestrogen, but shogenai. Girls talk about relationships. A lot. Or maybe it's because they see me as a probable 'safe-guy' (read: homosexual) who they can have these kind of conversations with. God knows. Anyway, you get the picture. So after moving in with so many girls, you get to know very quickly who the Mother Hen is. I reckon - despite her denials - it's Haruka. And so I explained to her that I reckon she Wears The Pants with respect to her boyfriend. It was a pill not swallowed lightly.

In fact, two weeks later, the retort arrived. Mina cooked dinner for us all, and as I tried to share out the Scotch, explaining that I had lived in Scotland for far too many years, Haruka seized the moment to break into a humiliating and rascist; yet congenial impression of a skirt wearing bagpipe playing Scotsman. Hilarious for all the wrong reasons. Apparently, I wear the skirt. I'm too nice. If she says Go, I say OK. Followed up with a description of how, when deciding to let me live with them, they said to themselves "we share apartment, why dont we share the guy?". Kowai. And so I know that it's the right moment to be lasooing a plane heading East. Great Scott, Marty, i'm flying backwards over the international dateline. I land before I fly.

- posted by Daniel @ Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Comments:

Good god, you're in the strongest possible position to gain insight into the female Japanese mindset. If they want to share you, you'll just have to sacrifice yourself for the greater good ; )

On another topic, thought you might enjoy this

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/06/my_selfabsorbed.html

Quote: "There are three qualities I want to have:

1. Success
2. Honesty
3. Humility

At most, logically, I can only have two of the three qualities."

# posted by

Aaron : 7:54 AM

Air - If you get numbers 2 and 3, then you also get 1 and so you have all 3.

QED.

D'Ru - I was going to post some indignant comment about how on earth do you have any idea about what underwear I wear, but then I realised what you meant - so I decided to remain silent.

# posted by

Dominic : 6:54 PM

Dom remains Silent - commando style.

As soon as you have deemed yourself successful, you are no longer humble. And probably not honest.

dan

# posted by

Daniel : 10:32 PM

ok - but if you suceed in being honest and have humility then you have acheived success at those things.

It depends what you want to succeed at.

Have you met any Llamas yet?

# posted by

Dominic : 11:51 PM

There are two things that you can mean by the term ´Llama´. Being Dom, I assume you mean nothing more than an innocent reference to the South American mountain animal. In answer to your question, No, I have not seen any yet. But I have handled a crocodile. Kowai!

# posted by

Daniel : 5:05 AM

ok - so what is the other meaing to the word Llama?

# posted by

Dominic : 6:10 PM

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