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As a vegetarian going to Japan, what do I need to know?

>> No.1615284

Look for Shark Fin.

>> No.1615289

I hear tofu is pretty cheap there.

>> No.1615290

>>1615282
Drown in your ideals first,

Die later.

>> No.1615291

If I hadn't deleted my thread it should have been archived as proof of how intelligent/funny /jp/ anons are!

>> No.1615292

They eat meat. Mamely, yours.

>> No.1615303

>>1615291
Your thread was a shit thread anyways.

>> No.1615306

>As a vegetarian going to Japan, what do I need to know?

Soylent Green is people.

>> No.1615309

No matter how much you explain, Japanese will never understand people not eating fish. To the Japanese, fish count as vegetables.

>> No.1615313

>>1615309
so basically i'm fucked?

>> No.1615323

http://markcity.blogspot.com/veg.htm
2 seconds in google.

>> No.1615328

>>1615323
thx anyway

>> No.1615330

eat only rice balls

>> No.1615344

>>1615330
Otome would approve.

>> No.1615345

>As a vegetarian going to Japan, what do I need to know?

The Japanese think vegetarians are faggots, too.

>> No.1615359

>>1615345
No they don't.

>> No.1615371

>>1615359
Regardless of the stereotyping of an entire culture, fish is considered a staple part of the diet.

>> No.1615389

Hasn't it been proven humans are designed to eat meat and you are more healthy if you do?

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1615398

Damnit why does this troll thread get more legitimate replies than my serious one.

>>1615371
This doesn't make them see others as "faggots"

>> No.1615414

>>1615398
fu i'm being serious here
i even asked it on /ck/

>> No.1615428

Well either way, good luck. Hopefully /ck/ enjoys helping people unlike /jp/

>> No.1615448

>>1615414
And the serious answer is that vegetarianism is almost non-existent in Japan. Everything will contain meat or fish products. Enjoy your plain rice.

http://www.theforeigner-japan.com/archives/200404/vegetarian.htm

>> No.1615845

you will be hungry, you will have a hard time finding food or a restaurant

prepare to eat meat broth and fish sauce anyway

>> No.1615851

>>1615845
>prepare to eat meat broth and fish sauce anyway
this

also, enjoy patronising a people who think it's ok to eat animals while they are still alive

>> No.1615880

>>1615845
fish sauce has no fish...

>> No.1615898

>>1615880
Fish sauce is created by boiling fish, fish offal, fish skin and fish bones, straining it so only the soluable (the fats, proteins and the teeny weeny bits of fish...they give it colour...are left)

So yes, fish sauce has fish

>> No.1615903

>>1615880
that's the dumbest shit ever posted here

actually i'd like to say that's true, but /jp/ is remarkably stupid

>> No.1615937

About eating things while they are still alive: shits delicious and very healthy, They also sell live lobsters in Japan restaurants, you can pop them open and see their hearts beating while eating pieces of them. I think eating something while it is still living is natural, all of the smartest and strongest animals like dolphins eat their food alive so why shouldn't we? Sometimes I believe that I am devouring part of the creatures soul thereby increasing the power of my soul, when you eat something that was killed earlier the soul leaves the body so you are eating just a empty shell.

>> No.1615948

>>1615937
>Sometimes I believe that I am devouring part of the creatures soul thereby increasing the power of my soul, when you eat something that was killed earlier the soul leaves the body so you are eating just a empty shell.
Oh athens... And I suppose you cackle maniacally when you're eating.

>> No.1615952

>>1615937

>> No.1615960

>>1615937
Man I'd eat everything alive if you could increase your power level that way. Like Magwa from Last of the Mohicans eating that dude's heart after smacking the shit out of him.

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>>1615937

>> No.1615985

I'm not a vegetarian, so I can't really relate, and perhaps I'm missing something, but couldn't you buy vegetables and rice(and noodles and stuff like that), cook them, and eat them?

>> No.1615998

>>1615937
lol
seriousreply cooking your food means your body saves energy that it'd otherwise use to break down the raw meat, this freed up energy is what enabled cavemen to evolve out of the ranks of monkeys by having enough surplus energy in the body to support a larger brain hth

>> No.1615996

>>1615948
Yes. I am prone to delusions of grandeur.

when I was younger I used to dream about this fictitious 'empire' I had. I basically imagined EVERYTHING about it, every little detail, the administration, where the administration was housed, how the electoral and judicial systems worked, how large and effective the army was and so on.

My proudest moment of leading my empire was when I constructed an entirely new Forum near the center, I constructed 3 HUGE neo-classical buildings, one to house the parliament (only people of a certain IQ could vote), one to house the supreme court and the other to house the Emperor's Palace. All on either side of the huge square.

>> No.1616025

>>1615996
I did the same, but my society never moved passed farming. A man's success was based on how well his crops were. Government was nonexistent in day-to-day life except for the daily meetings held by the heads of each household (I'm pretty sure the only time I've made some sort of government was during the war against the pigs). There were technological advancements (golem-like vehicles (mechs before I knew about mechs)), but most of the technology was stolen from the inteligent, but frail rat people.

>> No.1616053

>>1616025
That's pretty awesome. I mean, my society still praised the values of a good solid day's work in the fields. Toiling away and so on. I think me (The Emperor) composed a number of treatises on agriculture. The greatest feeling of course was when your troops were arrayed in front of you in the Forum, so many thousands of them, all in their dress uniforms/armor.

Truly, in my mind at least, I was the most powerful man in that world.

>> No.1616064

>>1616053
Did you have a queen? What was she like, athens-san?

>> No.1616074

>>1616053
It would've been nice if I was the most powerful, but if I remember correctly, I've failed my people plenty of times during my military campaigns against the pigs. Casualties were incredibly high. The only reason my society survived as long as it did was because of our siege abilities. Our focus on agriculture led to huge surpluses in food and our archers and spearmen made sure that no pig got pass our castle walls alive.

>> No.1616076

>>1616064
I didn't actually think of a Queen, I mean, I thought up of everything technical, the whole mechanics of Government, the cartography of the Empire and world. But no Queen.

>> No.1616081

I like how athens is carefully constructing an elaborate and highly insane troll persona. At this point it must be like living as another person, always in character and fleshing out new details daily. We've learned his history, what's damaged his psyche, how he became what he is today.... he's trying to build a mythology.

I definitely believe you about the delusions of grandeur, athens. I still hate what you're doing to the board, but I can't help but be impressed by the scope of your ambitions.

>> No.1616089

>>1616074
Failed military campaigns were quite common for me too. I tried to lead a punitive expedition against this kind of fish-like people with scales, but one of my army-groups got cut off and annihiliated and the other two were routed, I managed to salvage some men and lead them back to friendly territory though. I remember reaching the wall that seperated my own Empire from the fish-people's empire, it was a feeling of intense relief.

I think we developed some experimental weapon after that and just exterminated them all with cannon.

>> No.1616094

>>1616081
I'm not joking.

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>>1616076
Did you also dream of having an empire that only contained "aryan" people? If you did you're nuts.

>> No.1616099

athens, buddy, you won't ever measure to USENET trolling masters. Quit trying, you're far too obvious.

>> No.1616105

>>1615996
I'm high above average IQ, I wouldn't let me vote.

>> No.1616106

>>1616094

I believe you. It's consistent with the type of personality that would develop such a persona anyway. Plus I believe you base your troll persona upon your real beliefs, just with lots of embellishment and flourishes and amped up fervor.

>> No.1616109

>>1616099
All USENET trolling was just with bots and shit though.

>> No.1616110

>>1616099
Man, nobody has been at that level for years. That's just an unfair comparison.

>> No.1616112

>>1616081

But at least when /jp/ is finally a wasteland, we can take comfort in knowing that it was all orchestrated by someone with way too much time on their hands.

>> No.1616116

>>1616089
Isn't that amusing. Most people during their childhood believed that they were invincible, but there we were failing and endangering our own people. Perhaps we were a little off with our thinking...

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>> No.1616132

This thread is pretty awesome.

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>>1616089
>>exterminated them all with cannon.

>> No.1616141

>>1616112

Yes, at least it was brought down by one of us. Even if he is just a Quisling who does most of his damage by inviting in the foreign barbarians. Still, he has that certain Bond villain flair.

>> No.1616152

Did this empire business go on in your head, athens?

>> No.1616170

>>1616106
You are a very clever man. But pretty much everything I've ever revealed about myself (masters student for example) is true.

>>1616116

We were humanitarians though. Careful planners. Working out the mechanics of government while everyone else was working out the mechanics of masturbation.

...Well ok that's a lie, we had probably worked out the mechanics of masturbation several years earlier than everyone else.

>>1616105

Technically my self-insertion character was able to vote because he had an IQ of 180. But to hold office you needed an IQ of 150 and my IQ irl is mid 140s. So I shouldn't have been able to hold office, technically speaking, let alone be the Emperor.

Oh, and the Emperor was elected for 30 year terms by the Council of Elders. I had a very elaborate constitution.

>> No.1616179

I think Athens has completely lost his mind. I would still suck his cock, though.

>> No.1616184

>>1616152
Naturally.

>> No.1616203

athens-san, I think you should write a book. You have so many interesting ideas, I bet it would do very well.

>> No.1616207

>>1616170
>Careful planners.
Only on the defense. On offensive campaigns, the basic command was "fight 'til death" and anyone that retreated was executed on the spot by a higher ranking officer. The high casualties probably came from that. A country of blood-thirsty farmers...
>>1616184
I used Lego pieces.

>> No.1616211

>>1616170
A masters in what exactly.

Also, IQ doesn't really mean that much, and is usually a vestige for idiots who have nothing more to cling on to other than their own wasted potential.

It's nothing to boast about.

>> No.1616219

>>1616203
Well I wouldn't mind winning the nobel for literature, but I'd prefer to write about history. I probably will do it at some point though (write a book that is).

>> No.1616227

>>1616207
>A country of blood-thirsty farmers...

Sounds like Rome, didn't do them too badly, heh.

>>1616211
Masters in Classical History. I want to become an academic.

Anyway, IQ not only correlates with earnings but with pretty much every social indicator available. The science behind it is solid and it has real-world implications. This much is obvious.

>> No.1616233

>>1616227
Are you really Greek?

Say something in Greek

>> No.1616238

MOLON LABE LOLOLOLOL SPARTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>> No.1616244

>>1616233
oxi, den eimai ellinas....

/sarcasm

>> No.1616245

>>1616227

I have, or had, an IQ of 152, and I'm dumb as fuck. Maybe I got dumber and dumber as I grew up or maybe IQ means nothing, but either way personal experience teaches me not to base much on it.

>> No.1616246

>>1616227
Yeah, that's because people with high IQs generally tend to have higher aims in life than those with lower IQs.

But it isn't a big thing. I hear about plenty of MENSA members who only have that to their name, whereas those who aren't geniuses, end up being academics and insanely successful in life.

As long as you're not a complete and utter retard, it's pretty much down to how determined you are until it's doing something new and mindbreaking.

The correlation probably is true, it still doesn't mean that IQ is the best form of discrimination between good people.

>> No.1616247

>>1616245
No, it means you're a lazy piece of shit with no personality who could have become something easier than anybody else.

>> No.1616252

>>1616246
>As long as you're not a complete and utter retard, it's pretty much down to how determined you are until it's doing something new and mindbreaking.
Would that this were not true, alas.

>> No.1616263

>>1616247

Hey, I have a personality. It's fine if you want to insult me but there's so much you can say that would actually be true, you don't have to come out of left field like that. Jerk.

>> No.1616265

this thread is pretty bad... you really do attract too much attention athens, not really your fault in all fairness this time though.

>> No.1616275

>>1616247
But in Athens flawed view of the world, even people like that lazy Anon would be allowed to vote.

Whereas someone a doctor or academic with above average, IQ, but not of a 'genius' level wouldn't or whatever Athens sees as worth of voting.

His system sucks fucking dicks.

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