On this tricentennial post, may I once again remind everyone to not feed the trolls? Have a good day.
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On this tricentennial post, may I once again remind everyone to not feed the trolls? Have a good day.
I like to think that in my case (American), my education has prepared me to see the world as a place where there is a diversity of cultures and lifestyles, so why not travel/live elsewhere if one...
You have a few options. People who don't work cannot get credit cards, my J wife says.
1. See if Amazon.co.jp will let you make an order to be delivered COD and not require a credit card number. ...
Will everyone please stop feeding the trolls, especially those who claim to leave for a week, yet don't?!
http://www.wikihow.com/Deal-with-an-Internet-Troll
Do not feed the trolls.
1. Being able to buy something and pay in installments.
2. Not having to have cash on you (dangerous).
3. Not having to risk ATM bandits.
4. Credit rating for loans.
5. Ties to frequent flyer...
thanks for the site, HC.
I am interested in both sites, actually, to pass along to others on the teachers' blog I edit here. I wonder how much this guy actually knows, though. He wrote:...
I've been posting helpful advice on this and half a dozen other forums for more than a decade, thank you. The fact that I point out a piece of reality which is negative (and which people seem to try...
pipokun,
The situation you described does not fit my friend. I already said he contacted the credit card company, and they would not explain why, nor "help". Done deal. Sucks, but done deal.
Just what the heck is this supposed to mean? What "advice" are you referring to?
Yup, and my friend was vice-president of his company for almost 20 years.
Hermit Crab,
Point taken about bettering your odds. Would you at least accept my point, too, that despite bettering your odds, thee are going to be cases where foreigners will not get a credit card...
Hermit Crab,
I understood what you wrote (more receptive vs. guaranteed). I responded only to show to support the fact that it is not guarantee.
My friend is long over it, but I still think this...
pipokun,
Yes, a lot of what you wrote about qualificatoins for a card are valid. I won't bother to look deeply into my friend/coworker's situation, but I can easily tell you this:
He is not a...
My friend had all of those requirements. Opinion now?
Doesn't matter. Every credit card company has its own rules. Coworker of mine has lived here for over 20 years, owns property, built his own house, speaks fluent Japanese, has Japanese wife and...
Get used to it if you intend to live in Japan. It's offensive to many of us, but it's a fact of life.
Does anyone else but me see the connection between these two lines of thought?
Yup, in parts of the USA, too. It's called road repair.
More self-contradictory gibberish.
5 vs 24? Pick.
Politeness has nothing to do with it. It's all curiosity based on a (still) insular mentality.
I agree to a point, but have you watched the quiz shows here? Some of the questions center around...
You don't give us much to go on here, and that doesn't mean you have to spill your guts to a bunch of anonymous forum posters, but we don't know anything about your situation.
My main point,...
When I took my first Japanese language course in the USA, the teacher herself inadvertently demonstrated a cultural communication problem.
She called a student by name to come to the front and...
Does anyone else realize that this thread was actually a year old until A21-Muhajid Toor revived it? Don't expect answers from last year's posters.
Do I think Japan is a perfect place? No. Neither is my home country.
Do I dislike either one? Pretty general blanket statement, to which I will also say no.
Are there elements I dislike about...
Believe what you want, Dave. Quoting my brief responses to endlessly repeated questions is hardly a reason, especially since you don't even know the tone of my voice or the look on my face when I...
Chopsticks compliment:
"It's not that hard."
Language compliment:
"No, not really."
Maybe for you. I've been here 10 years and still get people who know me saying how well I use chopsticks and how good my Japanese is, and asking if I can eat certain Japanese foods. Sheesh. Get a...