The pics thread

Big because bigger is always better. Which is the reason I've switched from a modest 1200 calories a day to about 40,000. Go big or go home.

Haha the self-deprecating remarks are all a joke, if I really thought I was gross or hideous I wouldn't post pictures of myself on the Internet, I'd be posting close-ups of my eyes or hold the camera directly above my head.

@unknown I liked your Ed Gein joke a lot.

@Systematic_Riffage I feel violated that you've dug up that photo from my childhood!

@Vitor woah you're a badass
 
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I LOVE that wolf eel shot you posted, Cythraul!

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Bet you can't tell where my sweater ends and my skin begins! HURR HURRR
You have thick glasses, and most Asian people aren't yellow.:p
How'd you learn English being in Japan? We have Japanese classes here at my college, I never took one though, I took Spanish instead. So as a reuslt, I have no idea how Asian languages work.
 
I am American, so I learned English by speaking it as my first language. I work in Japan as an English teacher.

Asian languages work the way other languages work. As for the main East Asian languages, Chinese and Japanese share characters but the grammar is wildly different, Korean uses hangul letters and vocab derived from Chinese but the grammar is similar to Japanese.

Japanese has 2 "alphabets" and a system of several thousand kanji/Chinese characters. unlike Chinese where each character has one reading, in Japanese the same character can be read a whole bunch of different ways depending on context and placement in a word. It's a stupid language and I generally dislike the way it sounds.
 
I am American, so I learned English by speaking it as my first language. I work in Japan as an English teacher.

Asian languages work the way other languages work. As for the main East Asian languages, Chinese and Japanese share characters but the grammar is wildly different, Korean uses hangul letters and vocab derived from Chinese but the grammar is similar to Japanese.

Japanese has 2 "alphabets" and a system of several thousand kanji/Chinese characters. unlike Chinese where each character has one reading, in Japanese the same character can be read a whole bunch of different ways depending on context and placement in a word. It's a stupid language and I generally dislike the way it sounds.
:lol: I think it's funny you teach people who know the "stupid language". Spanish syntax was ass backwards to me at first, totally different to what I speak. Like instead of saying that tall man it's "Esa alta hombre" adjective/verb. And it's mine. "Es de mi", which translates to it's of mine.
What are hanging letters?
I like language learning in general, though all I've learned are Germanic and Romance languages. I guess I'll have to try a Slavic, non-Indo European language(ie. Basque, Finnish, or Sami), and an Asian one.
 
Oh is it? I don't actually know Chinese, but I've heard people who know Chinese griping about Japanese because in Japanese kanji have too many different meanings and readings. I stand corrected.

I don't know what hanging letters means.

Japanese is a stupid language and Japanese people are cool but their English education system blows, they learn from elementary school through high school but probably 90% of the population is non-functional outside Japan.
 
@ Kramp. I have to say I like your glasses, it's a good style and if there were 10 japanese women in a row and you'd had glasses and they wouldn't, then I'd recognize you.
 
Thank you Onder, your praise is as the Carpathian Mountains are to creating shadows over Transylvania. I wish to channel Buddy Holly and look like I am not mentally handicapped.

I'm also like 10 cm taller and probably 500 kg heavier than most Japanese women (being an AMURRRRICAN and all) so you could pick me out in a crowd no problem!
 
I can pick out Japanese women because my grandpa threw them into camps when I was younger.

Yeah that was in pretty poor taste; I sorry.

edit: Should I talk shit about the English instead?
 
I am American, so I learned English by speaking it as my first language. I work in Japan as an English teacher.

Asian languages work the way other languages work. As for the main East Asian languages, Chinese and Japanese share characters but the grammar is wildly different, Korean uses hangul letters and vocab derived from Chinese but the grammar is similar to Japanese.

Japanese has 2 "alphabets" and a system of several thousand kanji/Chinese characters. unlike Chinese where each character has one reading, in Japanese the same character can be read a whole bunch of different ways depending on context and placement in a word. It's a stupid language and I generally dislike the way it sounds.

How intriguing. I'm a linguist, so this kind of nerdy stuff is appealing to me.

I need to get me a teacher's diploma as well so I could educate the uncivilized nimcampoops here. Dunno, maybe next year. So far, I'm merely a multi-tasking clerk at an insurance agency, doubling as a freelance editor for a recording company that sends me recorded Kabbalah lectures from the USA to transcribe or printed out files of said transcriptions to correct.

Ah, you should see our office at the insurance agency. Whenever the boss is out on a meeting, the place becomes a kindergarten. We play hide and seek, "midget and giant", sing songs and the ultimate guessing game of "what the fuck is written here", making up funny alternatives on the double while trying to decipher the cryptic handwriting of many left-handed agents.