Maybe I'm just a crazy foreigner. Hell, maybe I'm just a crazy American. But where I come from, when it gets hot we generally go like this:
A: Damn it's hot.
B: I'll turn on the air-conditioner.
A: Okay, thanks.
*is cooler*
Don't have AC? The convo then goes like this:
A: Damn it's hot.
B: I have an extra hand fan, want one?
A: Okay, thanks.
*is cooler*
Now, people not from the USA, land of the free and home of the air-conditioning-units-in-every-building, perhaps you can shed some light on this. Is this not the general way things go when you're hot? You...try and cool off? Kind of like when you're cold you try and get warm? Are we just being CRAZY AMERICANS again?
Cause my school has now banned fans in the classrooms. I don't mean electric fans. I don't mean the little battery-powered hand-held fans.
I MEAN FUCKING UCHIWAS. THAT YOU HOLD IN YOUR HAND AND WAVE IN YOUR FACE.
We are not allowed to bring them to class. Why? Because they're a distraction? Because not all the students have them and that'd be unfair (<--btw the crackass excuse for why, even though we HAVE AC in the teachers' office it's never turned on: because it'd be UNFAIR. Fuck unfair, I'm a teacher, they're kids. They can deal)?
Nope.
Because they think we should bear the heat, that it makes you stronger.
What in all the flying FUCK? HOW IN GOD'S NAME DOES THAT MAKE ONE IOTA OF SENSE?
Oh my goooood I can't wait to get out of this hickass backwards town and into Tokyo where I get to sit on my ass online all day, fixing English, in an AC/heated 10th story building with a panoramic view of Tokyo right outside my window, *pnish* and Nagayan minutes away, Tenchou around the corner, my husband within rock-throwing-and-concussing distance.
Wow, Japan. Just when I thought I couldn't, "HOW ON EARTH DID YOU GET TO BECOME ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL NATIONS IN THE WORLD?!" at you any more...
A: Damn it's hot.
B: I'll turn on the air-conditioner.
A: Okay, thanks.
*is cooler*
Don't have AC? The convo then goes like this:
A: Damn it's hot.
B: I have an extra hand fan, want one?
A: Okay, thanks.
*is cooler*
Now, people not from the USA, land of the free and home of the air-conditioning-units-in-every-building, perhaps you can shed some light on this. Is this not the general way things go when you're hot? You...try and cool off? Kind of like when you're cold you try and get warm? Are we just being CRAZY AMERICANS again?
Cause my school has now banned fans in the classrooms. I don't mean electric fans. I don't mean the little battery-powered hand-held fans.
I MEAN FUCKING UCHIWAS. THAT YOU HOLD IN YOUR HAND AND WAVE IN YOUR FACE.
We are not allowed to bring them to class. Why? Because they're a distraction? Because not all the students have them and that'd be unfair (<--btw the crackass excuse for why, even though we HAVE AC in the teachers' office it's never turned on: because it'd be UNFAIR. Fuck unfair, I'm a teacher, they're kids. They can deal)?
Nope.
Because they think we should bear the heat, that it makes you stronger.
What in all the flying FUCK? HOW IN GOD'S NAME DOES THAT MAKE ONE IOTA OF SENSE?
Oh my goooood I can't wait to get out of this hickass backwards town and into Tokyo where I get to sit on my ass online all day, fixing English, in an AC/heated 10th story building with a panoramic view of Tokyo right outside my window, *pnish* and Nagayan minutes away, Tenchou around the corner, my husband within rock-throwing-and-concussing distance.
Wow, Japan. Just when I thought I couldn't, "HOW ON EARTH DID YOU GET TO BECOME ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL NATIONS IN THE WORLD?!" at you any more...
