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I would explain it but 'a vacuum in your hair' doesn't make any sense to me :blush: Moreover, every single person I've told that I have a vacuum in my hair has given me the following look: :o How can there possibly be a vacuum in your hair? Is hair like a container of some sort? :clueless...

In the summer, definitely Finland. Especially in July.

Somehow I get the feeling that you're saying there's nothing witty about irony? I think that atleast one common thing the French and British style of humour seem to share is that they can both be seen as 'elite' humour - they can be understood only if a person is aware of certain things. What I...

I think it's pretty evident by just looking at the songs presented by Finland that we don't take it very seriously. Or that we just can't make any proper songs :p Finlande: zero point! :wave: There are a couple of rules that almost always apply: - the good song never wins - the winner must...

I think it's difficult to specify whether there is thinking without words or not because I already have words for things so of course I'm bound to apply them to my thoughts even though they wouldn't have been verbal. Then there's always the question whether feeling is thinking - is thinking a...

Hm... Maybe you could explain it with pressure from other nations rather than Christianity? If you think about Germany, it's surrounded by other countries demanding it to come clean with its war crimes... Not quite the case with Japan, maybe... Besides, don't many of the 'main' religions share...

I don't claim to have any first-hand experience of WW2 since I'm too young for that - how about you? How about the post-2WW generations of Japanese people? As a Chinese person you are probably aware that China has a history of jailing people for saying the wrong things and they government is...

I am quite aware of the fact that Japan committed war crimes - they not only killed civilians they tortured them. You might also consider Hiroshima and the Americans' idea of it as 'testing'. It's a very different thing to present a claim about war crimes than to disguise it as another claim...

If you're looking for faults in the Japanese society, you should atleast give some valid proof for your claims. I can think of flaws in the Japanese society but what I don't do is to singulate Japan as the only nation that does this. Discrimination, war crimes - we can find these elsewhere as...

The last thing I read was The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon (for the second time) and before that The Dark Room (Anhitsu) by Junnosuke Yoshiyuki. I liked both.

Exactly - in Japan, the idea of Japan and its people as an entity did not really exist before the Nation State. Before that the ordinary people had little or no idea who the emperor was. It's true that Japan has many invented traditions, such as the kimono for example, but I suppose you could...

I love 'Jeeves and Wooster'! ^-^ And that makes me think of the old guy in 'The Fast Show' who speaks with an incomprehendable upper class accent and ends his speech with '..and of course i was very, very drunk..' :hihi: I cna't think of any favourite words form English but in Finnish my...

I wrote more on this but my pc crashed and naturally I lost everything, so here's a concised version: Imitation is one of the most basic thing in the human nature - we learn things through imitation. I wouldn't say, however, that the Japanese only imitate things. They adopt bits and pieces...

I agree - I find conversations like that rather pointless. Unless you're a politician with a cause, of course ;P People who continously play the devil's advocate give me a rather cold and calculative impression of themselves - maybe they can even come off as smug. I do admit that I can be very...

About 70% of them applied to me, so I suppose I'm not too gifted either ^^; Just like Shas said, I'm just probably a thoughtful and creative person... I suck in math, too >_< I can be a really curious person, though. In both senses of the word :P

Since I was just assigned to write an essay about lexical phonology, I just have to answer ;P This is post-lexical phonology, though, but somewhere near the theory anyway! I say them as in options 1.1, 2.1 and 3.1. But then again, I have a British accent ^^; Just curious, why such a question?

I think ideaphoria, color perception and discrimination and music aptitudes suit me the best. And vocabulary, of course, but I think that was something in addition to the aptitudes...? Numerical aptitudes are something that I definitely don't have! :blush:

I've never quite understood why don't people just have a cabinet where you can leave your dishes to dry? :clueless: So much more convenient and it saves time. After they're dry, you can put them where they belong. It looks like this

I was just about to point out that we have a sort of genkan, too... The type of the entrance hall depends on what kind of house you live in but I would say that all Finnish houses have somekind of an entrance hall and its main purpose is to store outdoor clothing, shoes and stop dirt and cold...

I went to visit a friend the other day and was kind of shocked when he said I didn't have to take off my shoes once we got inside. He's not Finnish but in Finland, like in Japan, you almost always take off your shoes once you enter someone's home. So you can maybe understand why I say I was...