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Brun Ugle
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 Message 41 of 297
11 December 2012 at 5:50pm | IP Logged 

Solfrid Cristin wrote:
None of the names you mention are remotely recognisable. Harakiri would work, sensei would work,
samurai would work, lotus would work if you want something more peaceful (she says, sticking her nose
where it doesn't belong again :-)



Your nose is always welcome. I seem to be sticking mine into your team's business a lot too.

I agree that we need something recognizable to outsiders as being something distinctly Japanese. But I do hope to avoid committing harakiri this year.


stifa: Shame on you. How can you not know what MIR is?! It was a hugely famous Russian space station. And it only came down about 10 years or so ago, so it's not exactly history. I guess you're just a lot younger than Cristina and I. Maybe it is history to you.




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 Message 42 of 297
11 December 2012 at 5:51pm | IP Logged 
True. They could google it. They'd learn a nice japanese word!

Btw, if I remember well, zen is not exactly the japanese word, but Zazen is. I haven't
checked that out for ages so I can't assure anything, but I'm pretty positive.

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 Message 43 of 297
11 December 2012 at 5:55pm | IP Logged 
Zen is very much associated with Japan though. So I think it could work. It would be a bit of peace to balance all the annihilation.
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 Message 44 of 297
11 December 2012 at 6:02pm | IP Logged 
I was only half my age ten years ago, and my history book had stuff from 2006 in it
when I did Vg3 History in 2010/11.

Googling MIR I kind of recognise it though - I've just forgotten the name of it..
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 Message 45 of 297
11 December 2012 at 6:50pm | IP Logged 
Well I think harakiri is the wrong kind of annihilation, sensei isn't right because we're all students, and as a 30 year old female office worker, samurai just feels plain wrong :)

I'm trying to think of some useful suggestions. But all I can think of is food. Sushi, sashimi, wasabi, tofu, udon, soba, ramen, katsu, daikon, mochi, donburi, yakitori, okonomiyaki. Mmmm, now I'm just making myself hungry.
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 Message 46 of 297
11 December 2012 at 7:53pm | IP Logged 
How about Tamagotchi?

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 Message 47 of 297
11 December 2012 at 8:06pm | IP Logged 
g-bod wrote:
Well I think harakiri is the wrong kind of annihilation, sensei isn't right because we're all students, and as a 30 year old female office worker, samurai just feels plain wrong :)

I'm trying to think of some useful suggestions. But all I can think of is food. Sushi, sashimi, wasabi, tofu, udon, soba, ramen, katsu, daikon, mochi, donburi, yakitori, okonomiyaki. Mmmm, now I'm just making myself hungry.



I'm a nearly 40-year-old female used-to-be-office-worker, and I wouldn't mind getting my sword out and being a samurai or a ninja or something.

Team sushi? At least they would know it was Japanese.

Tamagotchi, I'm not so sure about. I don't know if people even remember them. They might have been in stifa's history book though :D

Pokemon is probably fairly well know around the world, but I think I'd rather be a samurai than a pokemon.


We could be the Karate Kids....


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 Message 48 of 297
11 December 2012 at 8:21pm | IP Logged 
We only called those "datadyr" in Norwegian. :p

And Pokemon isn't automatically reminding me of Japan, even though the island names are
taken from Japanese ilands'.


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