There aren't many mentallers wandering the streets of Japan.
Well, not that many obvious ones, anyway...I think they must still lock them away a la Victorian style.

But I did see a very entertaining one on the train home from work one day. He was wandering up and down the carriage; every now and again, he would whip his travel pass out and shove it in the face of some unsuspecting passenger before wandering off again.

This was quite entertaining in itself, but what made him even more attractive to the avid Nutspotter was the fact that he had two, large, bloody clumps of toilet roll sticking out of each nostril. They were rather dry and crusty - I suspected this was either the result of a rather ancient nosebleed, or blood from somewhere else.

Of course, he spotted me as I knew he would, the only gaijin in a sea of Japanesey faces. He lumbered up to me and everyone watched us from behind their papers. He stood in front of me, swaying and pointing, and the bloody tissue looked alarmingly precarious in its nasal hidey-hole, so I suddenly shrieked, 'FUCK OFF' at him. He screamed, ran down the carriage, shedding toilet roll as he went and disappeared at the next stop.

Now I travel on the number 29 nightbus in London and can only dream of such happy, bloody lunatics.
( thealternativefact, Thu 7 Aug 2008, 15:11, 3 replies)

You do get some weird fuckers here, don't you?!
The thing that pisses me off the most is that a large percentage of them think they can speak English. Just FUCK OFF!!! How the fuck do you know I speak English anyway?? I could be fucking French for all you know!
I've been here 9 years and whenever it happens it just makes me all the more pissed off.

Japan must have the largest percentage per capita of weirdos in the world.

I'm in Tokyo. Where are you?
(Mr.Dog was in love again on, Thu 7 Aug 2008, 15:28, closed)

Hey Mr Dog
I'm safely back in London now - was out in Sendai a few years back teaching Engrish.

The thing that used to piss me off the most?
Drunken business men on their third nomikai of the night saying, 'Aah, you use chopstick bery well.'
I used to reply, 'And you're shit fucking hot with a knife and fork. Well done you.'

Bloody miss it all though. Am jealous of your Tokyo status - am planning to take a holiday in Japan as soon as I can scrape the funds together!

Edit: the more I read your reply, the more it makes me laugh.
( thealternativefact, Thu 7 Aug 2008, 15:33, closed)

thanks
I know what you mean. For fucks sake are chopsticks REALLY all that hard to use? NO? So why do they compliment you??? I'll use the knife and fork line next time ;)

Tokyo is full of pervs and mongs and just plain weirdo-types.
(Mr.Dog was in love again on, Thu 7 Aug 2008, 15:55, closed)