just venting, airing out, talking shit, personal beefs, problems, anger management, and etc thread

[xbuzzerx]

I'd post that I'm not a fan of cilantro, but I can't think of anybody here who probably wouldn't have guessed that already. I have an extremely poorly developed palate.

I do like a Japanese restaurant here in town called Domo. With a name like that, you might expect nothing but California rolls and teriyaki chicken. But it's run by a northern Japanese guy who specializes in "northern Japanese rural cuisine". One notable thing about the restaurant - no soy sauce on the table. I was told that adding soy sauce after the dish reaches your table implies the cook doesn't know what the fuck he's doing.

Oddly, the restaurant is mainly a sidelight for the owner - the place is mainly an aikido academy, and many of the students live above the dojo and work in the restaurant.

Lex

That's definitely how "real Japanese chefs" are. Americans are really used to the "variety menu" type of one-stop Japanese food restaurants where the cook isn't really a specialist at any one thing. You pretty much know the place is authentic if they don't leave out a lot of seasonings for you and if the menu is pretty limited to one area of food-- tempura chefs, sushi chefs, teppan chefs etc. are considered totally different training and specialties in Japan, even ramen and udon chefs are separate despite both being noodle soups. So usually restaurants have either ramen or udon but rarely both. If they have both it's like a Japanese Dennys as far as quality.

This place near me with a tempura chef from Japan got (in)famous on yelp for putting this sign up, which they later had cast in metal for outside by the door:


Also at this placed if you asked for a different kind of seasoning salt or soy sauce or whatever... the chef WOULD ask you what was wrong with the way he prepared it and put you on the spot.

 

[G-Lexington]

California pizza rolls? Um, no thanks.

I watched this video awhile ago where a bunch of people got together and tried absolutely every pizza combo mentioned in the original cartoon of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. So there's all these college and post-college folks trying to eat anchovy butterscotch pizza, and sausage pizza with vanilla ice cream, and pepperoni marshmallow. I think they found one combination that was decent enough, but at that point, their taste buds might have simply abandoned them.

Lex

 

[xbuzzerx]

That's correct. Ramen restaurants only specialize in ramen.

http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/futa...G8LmZTxX4BR-lY0lERjUeA#G8LmZTxX4BR-lY0lERjUeA

This is Futaba's entire menu. While they do serve other dishes, they are often ordered as sides for the soup.

Have you ever had Santouka, GC? Despite the fact that many of them are in Mitsuwa food courts, it's frequently ranked as the best ramen in SoCal and I think it's one of the best if not the best chain ramen in Japan.

 

[refujiunderground]

Everyone but 2 people in my facebook have been around me many times in real life so... for most people I don't think posting a pic is any big "reveal" or making themselves naked. My facebook is almost entirely coworkers, school friends, RL friends and relatives. I would imagine it is for most people. It's not as scary as people make it sound. Somehow people afraid of it make it seem like you get on there and then you have to let every random person who only knows you online come read through all your info and see all your pics.

well, believe it or not, dunno if facebook is like myspace where people can hack into people's private pages and steal photos but from what i saw on myspace, i refuse to believe that facebook is safe like that. especially considering how employers are on there and etc, not going to take that chance again. made an ass out of myself on myspace and being that there's family on facebook, not going to take that risk. would rather keep my craziness a secret. if you hang around me long enough where i get comfortable letting everything out, you'll see that crazy side like how my brother and my homeboy do.

i swear whoever is the lucky guy that becomes my boyfriend is going to deal with what my brother, my homeboy, my mother and etc deal with too. he can't be my boyfriend if he can't deal with me like that. someone really has to like me in order to deal with that. you know, that's one reason why i'm not on facebook spewing my inner thoughts, acting a fool and saying crazy things because people will misunderstand and take them the wrong way instead of just seeing that i'm just being me. they may think that i'm crazy when i'm just joking around being silly because they're used to seeing me in a certain setting, behaving myself, acting normal.

 

[xbuzzerx]

I think so, but wasn't too much of a fan of it. What ramen is better is debatable. Chin-Ma-Ya was one my favorite.

If anything, Daikokuya is one of my other favorites in little Tokyo. But I still prefer Chin-Ma-Ya.

Chin Ma Ya was my favorite by a mile. Their spicy broth actually was its own broth and not just "here's our normal broth with sriracha or chili oil stirred into it." It's irreplaceable. I really hope they reopen.

 

[xbuzzerx]

well, believe it or not, dunno if facebook is like myspace where people can hack into people's private pages and steal photos but from what i saw on myspace, i refuse to believe that facebook is safe like that. especially considering how employers are on there and etc, not going to take that chance again. made an ass out of myself on myspace and being that there's family on facebook, not going to take that risk. would rather keep my craziness a secret. if you hang around me long enough where i get comfortable letting everything out, you'll see that crazy side like how my brother and my homeboy do.

i swear whoever is the lucky guy that becomes my boyfriend is going to deal with what my brother, my homeboy, my mother and etc deal with too. he can't be my boyfriend if he can't deal with me like that. someone really has to like me in order to deal with that. you know, that's one reason why i'm not on facebook spewing my inner thoughts, acting a fool and saying crazy things because people will misunderstand and take them the wrong way instead of just seeing that i'm just being me. they may think that i'm crazy when i'm just joking around being silly because they're used to seeing me in a certain setting, behaving myself, acting normal.

Well yeah I mean I guess it's possible refuji and I heard someone else say much the same thing to me in private but it's like... it comes down to a point of, why would anyone want to do that just to steal your pictures? That's the way I look at it. There's 1 pic of me up on JUB. What horrible damage is anyone going to do to me with it? And on Facebook like I say it's really just people I know.. to me there's greater risk here at JUB than Facebook, since you can just.. not add anyone you don't trust, and until you add them you can block them from seeing anything on your page whatsoever. Including the pics.

 

[refujiunderground]

Well yeah I mean I guess it's possible refuji and I heard someone else say much the same thing to me in private but it's like... it comes down to a point of, why would anyone want to do that just to steal your pictures? That's the way I look at it. There's 1 pic of me up on JUB. What horrible damage is anyone going to do to me with it? And on Facebook like I say it's really just people I know.. to me there's greater risk here at JUB than Facebook, since you can just.. not add anyone you don't trust, and until you add them you can block them from seeing anything on your page whatsoever. Including the pics.

well, who knows? you might have a secret admirer, might have someone think that you're hot so they need to save a pic or for masturbation purposes. hehehe but back to what you're saying though, you know what people's motives are. not going to front, i've saved pics of people from time to time for whatever reason. sometimes i have a crush on them so i save their pic for that purpose to look at them and go like :inlove: and other times, i save a pic for the purpose of getting off. sometimes, i think that the person that took that type of pic with themselves with an ass shot or of themselves naked wants someone to wank off to them.

hell, even the people that you trust on facebook can unintentionally get you into some drama. i know one of my homeboys warned us to not tag him in any photos. don't know what the story behind that was about but i get where he was coming from with that. heard about many people getting thrown under the bus because they were tagged in a photo doing something stupid, cheating on their wives, husbands, and etc. that tag option on facebook causes problems. sometimes, people get carried away because they feel like being brave so they toss themselves to the wolves.

 

[xbuzzerx]

well, who knows? you might have a secret admirer, might have someone think that you're hot so they need to save a pic or for masturbation purposes. hehehe but back to what you're saying though, you know what people's motives are. not going to front, i've saved pics of people from time to time for whatever reason. sometimes i have a crush on them so i save their pic for that purpose to look at them and go like :inlove: and other times, i save a pic for the purpose of getting off. sometimes, i think that the person that took that type of pic with themselves with an ass shot or of themselves naked wants someone to wank off to them.

hell, even the people that you trust on facebook can unintentionally get you into some drama. i know one of my homeboys warned us to not tag him in any photos. don't know what the story behind that was about but i get where he was coming from with that. heard about many people getting thrown under the bus because they were tagged in a photo doing something stupid, cheating on their wives, husbands, and etc. that tag option on facebook causes problems. sometimes, people get carried away because they feel like being brave so they toss themselves to the wolves.

That's the thing-- and it was much the same answer I gave to Johann's concerns about Facebook, what Facebook means trouble for is people doing things they shouldn't be and having a lot of pics taken of it. Yeah, if you ditch work to go to a concert and you let friends put up pics of you smoking pot at the concert and post it and your boss is friends with you on facebook-- you could get in trouble. Same thing with cheating on people.

I chaulk most of that up to stupidity. If you're going to do bad things don't have your mistresses and friends and coworkers added all together-- or don't let them see what the other groups are posting. Or don't do stupid things at all. I will never understand when someone is cheating on their girlfriend or boyfriend with someone else in their extended circle of acquaintances, has their cover blown on facebook from a picture or post or someone changing their relationship status on their profile, and then blames Facebook for it. lmao.

 

[G-Lexington]

My life is something of an open book, and it's amazing how few people are interested in what's inside.

Lex

 

[ixthrock]

My life is something of an open book, and it's amazing how few people are interested in what's inside.

Lex

y'ever think there may be a lil cause and effect goin' on? If you wear it all on your t-shirt, we don't need to buy tickets for the movie.

 

[xbuzzerx]

My life is something of an open book, and it's amazing how few people are interested in what's inside.

Lex

Be more mysterious about it, and make elements of it contradict.

That's the recipe.

 

[G-Lexington]

Be more mysterious about it, and make elements of it contradict. That's the recipe.

I guess I should tackle two things here.

First off, my comment wasn't meant as a complaint or poor-me comment. (And for the couple who took it as a go-ahead to diss me via comment and PM, hey, you're welcome. ) It was simply factual, and meant to latch onto the conversation about "people find things out on facebook". I don't have any issue with letting people know all about me there, or in real life. No, I won't go into heavy detail about my job problems, or my depression, or my hemorrhoids, or what have you - not because I'm embarrassed by them, but because I'm guessing that nobody wants to read about them in much detail. But I'll certainly mention them in passing. When I was grappling with depression, my family knew, my friends knew, my co-workers knew, and myspace knew. (Facebook was some distance off.) Again, I didn't post long statuses about it, but I WAS upfront about it.

And I don't want it to sound like people didn't give a rat's ass - they did. I got a lot of support from all quarters. But they didn't treat this piece of information like it was valuable. Because it wasn't. A secret's only worth something if other people don't have access to it. Nobody's whispering to someone else at work that I had a roast beef sandwich for lunch, because anybody who cares would know that. Nobody's whispering to someone that I'm gay, either, for exactly the same reason.

But to address the way it was misread - that I'm uninteresting. Hell, I could've told you that. I have acquaintances that think the government monitors their every move, and if so, I REALLY pity the guy assigned to me. Reading books, watching old movies, listening to movies, jogging in his living room, chatting with friends about all sorts of nothing - you're liable to die of boredom before the first day ends. If my life were a reality show, you'd need six months of tape to get a decent 30-minute episode.

But the thing is - I'm crashingly boring only from the outside. I'm not living my life to be interesting to others. You have to put up with some posts of mine a couple times a day, whereas I'm stuck with myself for a lifetime, with no breaks. So I decided years ago to befriend the gargoyle and try to make him happy. Which is why my life is interesting mainly to an audience of one. And since that guy is really enjoying what's going on, I'd say the life is a complete success.

This isn't to suggest I CAN'T be interesting to others. When I do go out and interact, I usually have a great time, and people tend to invite me back. I've got plenty of friends. I've got people who think I'm interesting and funny and whatever else. That doesn't mean you have to, of course. For all I know, those who think I'm worth knowing just don't know how crashingly uninteresting I am yet, and those who think I'm NOT worth knowing are just quicker on the draw. But however it is, I'm cool with it. I don't mind being boring to you, so long as I'm not boring to me.

Lex

 

[pat grimshaw]

fair enough.

 

[xbuzzerx]

A secret's only worth something if other people don't have access to it.

So you're basically telling me to allow ample time to pass and value to accrue on showing ass pics?

 

[G-Lexington]

So you're basically telling me to allow ample time to pass and value to accrue on showing ass pics?

You have a peculiar way of cutting through the bullshit and getting to brass tacks. Yes, that's precisely my point. However, I'd suggest PMing me an ass pic first, just so I can suggest how much time/value they might conceivably be worth.

Lex

 

[xbuzzerx]

You have a peculiar way of cutting through the bullshit and getting to brass tacks. Yes, that's precisely my point. However, I'd suggest PMing me an ass pic first, just so I can suggest how much time/value they might conceivably be worth.

Lex

Are you a licensed and bonded ass assessor?

 

[G-Lexington]

I'd like to think I'm an asset to the Ass Assessor Association. To assign an assistant to this assessing would be asinine.

Lex

 

[xbuzzerx]

I'd like to think I'm an asset to the Ass Assessor Association. To assiduously assign an assistant to this assessing would be asinine.

Lex

I improved your quotation.

 

[G-Lexington]

I improved your quotation.

Assuredly.

Lex

 

[ixthrock]

buncha stuff
Lex

I hope you didn't think I was dissing you. Sure, I misread your comment, in that I read it as a general "venting" as per the thread title as opposed to a response to a specific post. I'd hoped I was committing a rarity, a reversal-of-roles, as it were - actually offering advice to the gargoyle. It wasn't meant as a critique. I'll send you an ass pic if you really think it would help.