The video you have waited your whole life for

Somebody you know on Japanese TV

I will not say who it is, because I don't want to ruin the illusion for some of you.

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Originally Posted by shidoshi

The video you have waited your whole life for

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thread did not deliver. ban, plz.

don't ban, plz. that was pretty cool. and you looked like you were trying to shy away from being interviewed. very entertaining.

No, the interview was totally by choice. I think it was just that I was nervous about having to try to speak in Japanese (which I'm still far from great at) while on live TV.

It also cracks me up watching myself when I'm first shown. Japan has this thing about when you can eat off of a plate that is sitting on a table, and when you're supposed to hold the plate/whatever up, so I looked around, saw everybody else holding their plates, and quickly grabbed mine.

I'm speaking for the guy in the video, of course, because obviously it isn't me.

That intro made me think of how neat it would look with a Law and Order score. "This is my story" dun dun!

The blazing red hair was a surprise. I always pictured you with chestnut or auburn for some reason.

I also thought that it was pretty funny that they seemed surprised you like to cook.

Japanese men can't cook, unless their job actually requires them to do so. Hence the surprise.

Very nice, your Japanese is better then mine. And it's nice to see someone else accidently slipping into casual speech when they shouldn't.

That was awesome.

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Originally Posted by bbobb

Very nice, and your Japanese is leaps and bounds above mine. And it's nice to see someone else accidently slipping into casual speech when they shouldn't.

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This, really, is the bane of my Japanese speaking. I learned polite, then went to Japan and had everybody speaking casual which I didn't understand, so then I started picking up stuff in the casual form, and now a lot of it is just a mess inside my head. Since most of my conversation was with college kids, and my girl, my brain usually thinks in casual now. So when I have to speak in polite Japanese, I have to concentrate a lot more and be sure of what I'm saying.

And, of course, the more you think about it, the more you over-think it, and the more likely you are to make mistakes.

Also, I said "chotto" way too damn much.

So why were you interviewing that white guy?