Well done for helping out with the cat. :) You might get advice/help here.... http://www.arkbark.net/?q=en/

Rather naive, surely?? What about the foreign copyright organizations that actively pursue the odd few pirates? If they pick you up, the J...

Your bad what...?

I LOLed to read you aspiring linguists discussing 'Keltic'? I checked the world atlas and even wider afield (Wiki) but couldn't find 'Keltic'...

No. Japan is not the real world. If you think it is, see a therapist....

Agreed. Lost count of the number of 'macho' gaijins (even into their 50s! 50s FFS! Grow up!!) I know who think they're supercool playing around...

This. Don't be a dummy and begin your posts with 'This'. It ain't the ____ing Gettysburg address and even He didn't start with 'This'...

OP. You have a job, not a gig. Maybe that's what's confused you and caused your problems...

If your definition of a master is someone who posts one-liners on GP you really need to get out more...

No. The wife has studied economics deeply. I know coz she's always demanding and I'm always supplying...

If they haven't visited your house yet, you should contact them immediately to arrange a mutually convenient time to visit and discuss payment.

The problem with all these responses is that we start from the logical Western concept that a Japanese Ministry of Education would actually know (or...

This narrows it down. Do you prefer to be scum or a limp-wristed wimp...? I'm a scum man, myself....

This. It's really dumb to begin a sentence with 'This'.

I'm quite fond of that part of the rules, too....;) You gotta love Japan and its 'rules'....

Basically, when the NHK guy knocks at your door and asks you to pay (assuming you were daft enough to not recognize an NHK collector at your door in...

I think a huge increase in JET, plus a massive expansion of TOEIC from elementary to university is the way forward for English language education in...

Actually, following our earlier conversation and my very fluent and sexy Japanese the wife has just asked me if we can have an early night....

P.S. The wife tells me my Japanese is very sexy. Eeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

The flip side of the coin. Gaijin who speak and 'are' Japanese too perfectly, with all the false modesty, pretend hesitations and exaggerated...

When did this thread change from 'the low yen' to stockmarket weekly digest...?

Also, WHAT does she not like about it? And if you're living in somewhere like Brum or a council flat in Brixton, I'd want to emmigrate as well......

Is 'cheap visa' really an important consideration when deciding which country to live in? Your budget must be really tight...