tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post6607869925351339816..comments2023-04-23T13:10:44.188+09:00Comments on this is how she fight start: Balance of Tradekamohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10785763841038321633noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-75700337770276363222013-07-01T07:13:55.643+09:002013-07-01T07:13:55.643+09:00Bluff it out. Pretend that you're seeing how g...Bluff it out. Pretend that you're seeing how good they are at spotting mistakes. Usually works for me...kamohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10785763841038321633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-59149428841993392982013-06-28T22:10:00.761+09:002013-06-28T22:10:00.761+09:00back in the day i was sent to a speech competition...back in the day i was sent to a speech competition with the briefing that these were publc workers. the firs speech was about health care and i thought the woman speakig was a doctor. i had to ask each a question after their speech and i asked "as a doctor, whats the biggest health problem you come across?". turns out i didnt know what "public worker" meant. boy was my credibility as a judge smashed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-27441514258881880062013-06-15T23:48:49.443+09:002013-06-15T23:48:49.443+09:00Hey, I was just wasting time at lunch and clicked ...Hey, I was just wasting time at lunch and clicked on 'Japan Times' due to a seizure. If you look at all the crap I have linked on right and left columns of my blog you can see that I cast my net wide, if not deep.<br /><br />You are all not crap, goes without saying.<br /><br />'Devil's Advocate', 'Socratic Method', "arguing a position that you [don't] necessarily hold", 'Scientific Method': these are the intellectual glories of Western culture against which nearly every other tradition can only hold up 'The Appeal to Authority'. This also sets Japan apart from 'Western' countries. Would once have added 'The Rule of Law'... but it hasn't been a good decade for us with that, so let's move on. Sure these are "honoured more in the breach than the observance" but they aren't appreciated and barely conceivable in a Japanese context.Ἀντισθένηςhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06199983680204710885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-57858185750902854472013-06-15T22:27:20.987+09:002013-06-15T22:27:20.987+09:00What's ironic is that after the horse has turn...What's ironic is that after the horse has turned itself into an ass by refusing to drink, it suddenly needs your help to keep from drowning. <br /><br />"Shut up. Shut up!" Oops. Looks like it's too late...Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09661426960326013304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-33070485552748575132013-06-15T21:48:06.435+09:002013-06-15T21:48:06.435+09:00I've had the bones of this post on file for a ...I've had the bones of this post on file for a few months now. Sod's law that when I do decide to finally flesh it out it's in a week where something perfectly related happens and I miss it entirely. I almost wish Ant hadn't made me aware of it.<br /><br />I was under the impression that arguing a position that you didn't necessarily hold was a fairly fundamental skill for a lawyer? Doesn't bode all that well. Still, good luck to her. You only lead a horse to water, after all.<br /><br />And as for the last question I was going to ask, I see you've already answered it in some style. Cheers for that.kamohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10785763841038321633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-79842842322918180672013-06-15T18:27:59.945+09:002013-06-15T18:27:59.945+09:00"Oh, man. Thanks for posting that. It complet..."Oh, man. Thanks for posting that. It completely passed me by. I really, really should have found a way to tie it in to everything here."<br /><br />I was wondering...waiting. :)<br /><br />I just showed the door to an excellent student trying to be an International Law Attorney. She said my "Devils Advocate"/Socratic teaching style got on her nerves some times. O.K. tell me what you'd like?<br />"Not that" she replies.<br />Elaborate for the sake of having a Goddamned conversation please.<br /><br />"Like that...I don't like that"<br /><br />Wow...nice elaboration. If Uniqlo ever sells skin please buy some because your's is not thick enough. You don't have the guts or interest to engage in a debate about something you have strong feelings about....and your taking up prime real estate. You're done here.<br /><br /><br />**Her brother is at Todai and her younger bro is a future Doctor if he wishes since he is smarter than Todai boy. Sis? ..she will latch on or not since she is 3rd year H.S. and needs to get ready for an interview. She sidestepped the Center by getting a TOEIC 700. Took 3 tests but she is at the table waiting to be served partly because I insisted/demanded the TOEIC starting in H.S. grade 1. <br /><br />Her engines are primed and ready for launch...my job is done. Hopefully she pulls the stick out of her ass before it interferes with her future financial potential.<br /><br />I'm not a fucking babysitter....and fuck speech contests in the ass.....the first time I saw one and the kid who won was so animated he looked like he had turrets I never looked back. If he pulled that shit in Hawaii people would think he's insane.<br /><br />Now I did suggest the design of a "Conversation contest" with 8 potential surprise topics and 36 questions within each. It sonded/sound genius to me but nobody wants to be pushed that hard :(Chrishttp://badboyinjapan.blogspot.jp/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-5709776590229280832013-06-15T13:56:00.966+09:002013-06-15T13:56:00.966+09:00One of my ESS kids wants to be an air traffic cont...One of my ESS kids wants to be an air traffic controller, so realises English is necessary and joined. Little things like that are just enough to keep the hope alive.kamohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10785763841038321633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-46213497176430030842013-06-15T13:51:54.010+09:002013-06-15T13:51:54.010+09:00"Why you are laughing? Shut up!"
Oh, ma..."Why you are laughing? Shut up!"<br /><br />Oh, man. Thanks for posting that. It completely passed me by. I really, really should have found a way to tie it in to everything here.<br /><br /><a href="http://hanlonsrzr.blogspot.jp/2013/06/japanese-diplomat-gets-laughed-at-for.html" rel="nofollow">http://hanlonsrzr.blogspot.jp/2013/06/japanese-diplomat-gets-laughed-at-for.html</a>kamohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10785763841038321633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-65119370259433088692013-06-14T20:19:34.482+09:002013-06-14T20:19:34.482+09:00I teach a bit of a musical child prodigy, and sinc...I teach a bit of a musical child prodigy, and since I told him that if he masters English he'll be able to give better introductions on the international stage he's really come out of his shell...Ἀντισθένηςhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06199983680204710885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-53659390324535785652013-06-14T12:56:59.848+09:002013-06-14T12:56:59.848+09:00"students wanting to use English to explain J..."students wanting to use English to explain Japan to the world"<br /><br />They can't even explain Japan in Japanese half the time. What the world wants to know about Japan doesn't need to be explained by anyone really... The world wants to know when the next PlayStation or Ghibli movie will be released. Or how they can buy up Japanese bonds waiting for the bond market to crash...<br /><br />I'm really f@#king impressed when I meet a Japanese student who says something like "I want to be an astronaut and English is necessary..."<br /><br />Will Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07927492067445164618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-62622407100950427132013-06-14T11:07:33.926+09:002013-06-14T11:07:33.926+09:00Borg or Mentat.Borg or Mentat.Ἀντισθένηςhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06199983680204710885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-88654177968316998552013-06-14T08:57:23.715+09:002013-06-14T08:57:23.715+09:00Dude, we were separated at birth:
- we have an ide...Dude, we were separated at birth:<br />- we have an identical take on ALTdom and speech contests (and did you find the boys were judged more favourably than the girls by the local 'educators'?)<br />- Sandman<br />- I did not have to Google 'Bletchley Park', but I would have added a Borg analogy to the locals<br />- Have I not, on my own blog, said as much as:<br /><br />"I didn't ‘win’ the argument because I’m better at arguing, I ‘won’ because I had better arguments. I ‘won’ because I was right. Or at least more so than she was... Japan has many great ideas to export to the world; it also has many poor ones and some that are flat out odious. Sometimes it’s not that ‘people don’t understand Japan,’ it’s that they do understand and just disagree."<br /><br />Fuck me if the Japanese as a nation, and as individuals (wife) don't revert to 'ad hominem' in a piss-poor attempt to deflect criticism: the surest sign of fallacy.Ἀντισθένηςhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06199983680204710885noreply@blogger.com