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Teaching English In Japan Is Awesome and Sometimes Hilarious

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  • BowZzer, on 08/06/2008, -4/+54I have thoughts about womans. They make my pants tight when I see them in pants. After I wear pants I take them off in front of womans. The womans usually run to cop officer. I run to the home house where I have more pants.
    • addiktion, on 08/07/2008, -3/+1me wang bigger then you wang.
      • lamiaconfitor, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0I doubt it, people with big ***** don't have to tell anyone.
      • twisterrust, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Does your Teacher Like it? Thank you
      • sv650touring, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1well, I can't speak on behalf of everyone, but my buddy has a big *****, and will work that fact into the conversation within 5 minutes of meeting someone. What he neglects to mention is how ugly it is - even by ***** standards. ***** looks like a baby elephant trunk.
      • ZeeZee2k, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1You've seen his *****?
    • rjam710, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Do comments all start at 0 diggs now? And why the hell is there a captcha!?
      • edwartica, on 08/07/2008, -0/+7because otherwise the terrorists have won!
    • likwidtek, on 08/07/2008, -2/+1I rika da pants.
  • grey580, on 08/06/2008, -7/+1Lost in translation I guess? lol
    • KingGorilla, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0I think he conveyed what he meant.
    • bravo1995, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Translation: women give him boners.

      He got the message across just fine.
      • shinyplastic, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0he's saying he wears boxers everyday and enjoys looking a girls' underwear.
    • flashpointbob, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1what the Japanese call 'pants' we call 'underwear'
      • fajitamelt, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Really?
      • yuutokun, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1Why the hell is flash getting dugg down. What he says is true!!
      • Smuikas, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1@fajitamelt truly. "pants" gets japanified into "pantsu," and the general meaning is underpants. Slacks, jeans, and whatnot, are called "zubon," as in: boku no zubon wa chotto kitsui na (these pants are a little too tight).
  • grey580, on 08/06/2008, -8/+2Lost in translation I guess? lol
    • fatrandy13, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0I think he conveyed what he meant.
    • Scriabin, on 08/07/2008, -1/+0I think he conveyed what he meant.
  • xgambetx, on 08/06/2008, -11/+5***** you! two of my friends died talking about pants
    • max420, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1 I'm lost, when did this meme start?
    • monsterenergy, on 08/07/2008, -1/+0No...
    • Synyk, on 08/07/2008, -2/+0***** that meme. Two eyes will be gouged out next time I hear it.
      • fatrandy13, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0***** you! two of my friends died getting their eyes gouged out!
    • kiput, on 08/07/2008, -1/+0Not funny. Anymore.
    • smacksaw, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1It's like when Cartman kept farting on Kyle - eventually it became funny again.

      This is funny because all of the people who bury it and get pissed off. The only thing worse than not liking a joke is being made a joke of. I post that very thing just to ***** with people. It's amazing how many people get their panties in a bunch over it. The joke is no longer about "***** you, two of my friends died", it's how many people you can actually make comment or bury that meme.
      • Gioleb, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0*pants. Get their pants in a bunch.
      • CodeRedPDX, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Oh, its funny cuz peple get mad? Well then Iraq must be a hilarious place. Come on, enough metacomedy already.
    • Brad324, on 08/07/2008, -0/+3***** you! Two of my friends died being total douchebags!
    • mikesbaker, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0what is sad is how many people who are doing this don't even know where it stated. also to correct response to this stupid meme is
      BUT WILL IT PLAY CRYSIS!!!
    • xXIrsotehkewlXx, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0NO xgambetx. NO. BAD xgambetx. Now go to your room and think about the stupid ***** you have posted.
  • lucy22, on 08/06/2008, -1/+8This is hilarious.
    • ChileanGoD, on 08/07/2008, -0/+4Try to read it with the voice of GLaDOS in your mind. It just gives it that little extra funny.
    • blckngldhwk, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Correction..."This is hirarious!"...

      P.S. I have a rarge correction of cataracts.
  • Loky, on 08/06/2008, -1/+7hahaha... this made my day...hahahaha
  • Kanuhduh, on 08/06/2008, -1/+4Should have gone with Google Language Tools.
  • roybemename, on 08/06/2008, -1/+18It amuses me that he knows the word "abnormal", yet struggles with basic english.

    But then again, I spose someone who starts a written statment with "i will talk about pants" has been reffered to in that way many times before.

    • jazzmess, on 08/07/2008, -0/+2I have a feeling he looked up "hentai" in his Japanese to English dictionary, and it had 'abnormal' there, so that's what he used. That's the problem with translating from a dictionary, you get the literal meaning rather than the connotation.
      • bossywalker, on 08/07/2008, -1/+0Wtf? Are you saying he wanted to write "Am I hentai?"

        Why has digg added captcha? There are better ways to prevent spam.
      • Psythik, on 08/07/2008, -1/+0Yeah what the heck's up with the captchas? It's like 2006 all over again.
        Besides, since when have Digg's comments system ever had a problem with spambots?
      • VegaObscura3, on 08/07/2008, -1/+0***** you! Two of my friends died trying to prevent spambots
      • thursdayevryday, on 08/07/2008, -1/+0hentai in japanese means abnormal/perverted
      • Redequlus, on 08/07/2008, -1/+1***** you! Two of my spambots died trying to kill your friends!
      • ORBAT, on 08/07/2008, -1/+0***** you! I want to you two and your friends.
      • theRIAA, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1yes, you are very right.... ^^^?
    • PhoenixAvatar2, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Sometimes language books use less known words because they are needed to convey the meaning of the sentence but need to git into the grammar structure that's being taught.
    • hunterknight, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0that comment was hilarious....I'm sure he does get called abnormal a lot based on the way he opened that paper...among other names as well
    • ShakeWell, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0You'd be surprised at the vocabulary of some foreign students. I have known quite a number of Asian students who know a ton of English words (from cramming for TOEFL and such by memorizing hundreds of words a day), but still struggle with simple grammar and everyday usage of the language.
      • RobotBuddha, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1Yep, it's far easier for most adults to memorize a huge amount of words than to get syntax down.
    • Cephas72, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0It amuses me that you also struggle with basic English - "reffered" (referred), "statment" (statement).

      Careful when dumbing someone down for not understanding basic English, when the English of most people on Digg isn't that great either.
      • juicebag, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Those are typos. It's the same thing.
      • jacquesm, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0not to mention 'spose'
      • DryMaltExtract, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Those are not typos. Teh, would be a typo.
    • palmy523, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Understanding basic English and knowing how to write words in English, and know what the words mean, are two totally separate things.

      I know alot of Spanish words and their translation to English, that doesn't mean I can put together a sentence in Spanish very well.
    • fascistpig, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0If you think "abnormal" requires advanced English skills, then I feel more amused by you. Spose? Statment?
    • andybaumgar, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1he probably has a dictionary.
  • bstockwell, on 08/06/2008, -1/+8This sentiment was best put by either bug catcher or youngster on the road to Mt Moon in pokemon blue/red: "I like shorts, they are comfy and easy to wear"
    • 801NvizioN, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0I always saved right before that fight so I could see it over and over.
    • foofightrs777, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1Why are people digging this down? Digg has lost its roots. :(
      • Yusami, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Digg lost its roots a long time ago, dood. All Digg is right now, at least on the front page, is a bunch of people wishing they were 4chan.
      • wallyballs, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0You all got diggs from me for the pokemon thread. may the digg spirit live on.
    • Vanira, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0That's one of the NPCs whose line actually stuck with me.
    • chrisxkelley, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Wow, I just laughed so hard I almost cried... haha.
      (and it's a youngster)
    • MrJagil, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Dugg for pokemon reference. Best. Game. Ever.
  • p106peppy, on 08/06/2008, -1/+2I guess the apreciation of pants istruely cross cultural.
  • woofer1125, on 08/06/2008, -1/+1.... what!?
  • scubaman5000, on 08/06/2008, -1/+37"Am I abnormal?"

    No suguru, I get excited when girl's pants are seen too.
    • legor17, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Pants in English sounds like pantsu in Japanese. Pantsu = panties.
      Suguru would be abnormal if he DIDN'T get excited.
      • Fmunkey, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0I think that may be what he's refering to, lol.
      • deadmann, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0In 'English' that is what pants means. As opposed to trousers.
    • passedoutghost, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0I get excited when the girl's pants are on my bedroom floor...
      • prleet, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1no, you already unloaded your load by the time she finishes taking off her pants....so she might as well put it back on.
      • pigducksheep, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Then I guess you don't get excited very often.
  • terencec, on 08/06/2008, -2/+1so thats why Japan has "used school girl panties" vending machines.
  • WickEd101, on 08/06/2008, -0/+44Suguru, you animal.
  • davidmiller72, on 08/06/2008, -0/+1a young samurai

  • shimmi147, on 08/06/2008, -3/+2Those crazy Japs
  • Enlefo, on 08/07/2008, -2/+5LOL, my friend just left to go teach engrish in japan... I gotta send this to him.
    • Chadbr0chill17, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Haha, I'm studying right now for the same thing. I hope I get some kids with a sense of humor like his.
    • scojerroc, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0JET programme ftw
    • MrJagil, on 08/07/2008, -1/+1Maybe he should start out by teaching you some...
    • bearcat8543, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0dugg for engrish
  • Netik09, on 08/07/2008, -5/+2You don't mess with the Zohan.
    • chrisxkelley, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0That makes absolutely NO sense.
    • Thanks4TheTacos, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0You don't giggle at the Zohan!
  • johnnywatkins, on 08/07/2008, -0/+3Hahaha. Love it. I hope this kid makes it to the Super Duper Happy Hour.
    • redfan, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Don't you mean Happy Smile Super Challenge Family Wish Show?
      • lamiaconfitor, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0I prefer Battling Seizure Robots
      • wonderbriefs, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0I prefer Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show.
  • Benjamin10, on 08/07/2008, -0/+2I'm all about the pants romance.
    • lamiaconfitor, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Pants truly are mans' romance.
  • BlueSkyfish, on 08/07/2008, -1/+18I'm surprised the land of tentacle rape understands the concept of abnormal.
    • Tralobyte, on 08/07/2008, -2/+0You mean Greece?
    • fascistpig, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1Well, it would be abnormal to one who views "tentacle rape" as normal. I bet he's asking himself, "How do you insert the tentacles?"
  • MattNF, on 08/07/2008, -0/+3Dugg for "Thank you.".
  • batmanz, on 08/07/2008, -1/+0I spy an aspiring pants ninja.
  • mrmayor92, on 08/07/2008, -1/+0win
  • andoru, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1That's totally pants.
  • MrM4nager, on 08/07/2008, -1/+0Girls' pants excite me too. I guess we're both abnormal.
  • MidnightRIder77, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Man, I totally buzzed up this article on Yahoo.

    /***** yahoo for copying digg.

    • monsterenergy, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1"Man, I totally buzzed up this article on Yahoo. "

      Uhh...what does that mean?
    • superman787, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0i tried typing /***** to my gf...she wasn't satisfied
      • DephexTwin, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1Try typing /romance to her pants.
  • eggballs, on 08/07/2008, -1/+0herro
  • chubbybubba, on 08/07/2008, -1/+0You are abnormal suguru, the magic is underneath the pants.
  • SirRealist, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1"Pants are man's romances"

    Catchy. I'm thinking...t-shirts and bumper stickers. Let's do it!
    • kilogrammatic, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0It does have something of a proverb-y feel to it. I'd get one.
    • coyote1284, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Fortune cookie
      /in bed
  • mingleTwat, on 08/07/2008, -1/+0suguru is the frend of me. suguru tell truth to people of world. suguru '08
  • MrM1yagi, on 08/07/2008, -3/+1This is the actuar transration;

    Herro, my name is Suguru. I wirr tark about pants. We put it on everyday. I am putting on the boxer pants. Pants are important things. It get excited when girr's pants are seen. Am I abnormar? Pants are man's romances. Does the teacher rike it?
    • 801NvizioN, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Thanks for the translation..
    • MisterRik, on 08/07/2008, -1/+0Ah, offensive racial stereotypes. Is there nothing you can't lower. You sir are buried.
      • Gman1223, on 08/07/2008, -1/+0Why is it racist? The Japanese and to a lesser extent, the Chinese generally pronounce L as R.
        They would pronounce Eric Clapton "Eric Crapton" .

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engrish

        Read up on it. You stupid *****.
      • DephexTwin, on 08/07/2008, -1/+1Yeah, it's not like it's in their genetic makeup, and it is true. They just don't have both of these letters. It is no more racist than "vat do you vant" is racist against Germans. My Taiwanese colleagues in my department always joke about how I raise and lower my eyebrows when I attempt to use the tones in Chinese. That's not racist against whatever race I am.
    • passedoutghost, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Wow, that's not racist at all!
    • coyote1284, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0"Fried Rice, you plick!"
      • ishotthedoor, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0shoudn't that be "Flied Lice" if you were making fun of the racial stereotype?
      • coyote1284, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0It's a quote from a movie, I just forget which movie right now, where an Asian was correcting someone who was making fun of the stereotype.
      • ishotthedoor, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Oh, I see. Just looked it up, its Lethal Weapon 4

        Martin Riggs: Flied lice?
        Uncle Benny: Flied lice? It's fried rice, you plick.

  • wakeupmrfox, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0My Japanese friend was writing a paper about observed differences between Americans and Japanese. My favorite line was "...American girls wear insufficient clothing".
  • Telmarine, on 08/07/2008, -2/+0Why do we have to enter CAPTCHAS in all comments now?
    • Halsfield, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0been that way for a while, at least for me.
    • Psythik, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Because Kevin Rose suddenly imagined that there was a spambot problem in the comments system?
    • TehProphet, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0That is ***** *****, i think I've been a member long enough that it is pretty obvious I'm not a bot.. why does EVERYONE have to do this? Comment spam isn't even a very big issue, happens maybe a couple times on each front page article, and it always gets buried.. it's far less annoying than the captcha.
    • proliance, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0No, just you.
    • bearcat8543, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0hopefully it will deter at least a few lazy people from posting "***** you, my friend died blah blah blah".
    • justice7, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0captcha just showed up for me too, and i've been around for quite some time.
    • singularityv, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0***** CAPTCHAS.

      No, seriously, this needs to be a Digg meme. Just like how ***** NDA is a twitter meme.
    • DeadFox1, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0stupid captchas.... anR4C
  • bluemist, on 08/07/2008, -1/+0I hear "Man's romances" (otoko no roman) a lot in Japanese shows. In other words, it implies "fetish".
  • MrGold79, on 08/07/2008, -2/+0***** beatniks
  • thaiguy429, on 08/07/2008, -1/+0must be a ronin
  • quiggibub, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1Sad thing is, this persons grammar was better than most high school students' in this country.
  • theleong, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Haha hillarious.

    It makes a tad more sense when you realize that in normal Japanese they use the English word "pants" to mean underwear.
    • Severys, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1As an Englishman, pants = underwear.
  • rukeypoo, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0...........................................................................
  • alex7575, on 08/07/2008, -0/+2I don't know if you guys got this, but when talking about "pants" I think he was talking about "pantsu" (that's how they pronounce it) which means underwear in Japan and incidentally in Korea
    • The_Orichalcon, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0I think the whole "boxer pants" thing means he was talking about... pants.
    • fevredream, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1In fact, pants is used to refer to underwear in England and many other English speaking countries as well. Hence the Japanese and Korean use of the loan word for panties makes perfect sense if you're not from the US.
      • alex7575, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Thanks fevredream, that was something "I" didn't know.
  • nightfright, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1GaijanSmash.net

    awesome blog from an American teaching English in Japan
    • Clbck, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1It's gaijinsmash.net

      And yeah, it's funny stuff.
    • KaiSe7eN, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1JET FTW!!
    • Philbert, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1I was just going to post this, I've been reading his articles since they were on Outpostnine.com. I actually stopped when he switched sites, the new site didn't seem to have anything in any particular order and it made much more sense to read it all in order.

      The old site:
      http://www.outpostnine.com/editorials/teacher.html
  • budster1, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Guys.....I'm 'panting' like crazy reading all these !!!!!!
  • tibblesnbits, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Haha, the same things happen in Thailand. I'll put one up sometime..
  • akuma, on 08/07/2008, -1/+2I taught English in Japan at a "Marine Products High School" (the school kids were sent to when they flunked the high school entrance exam) and I had a student who would say nothing to me in English but Pants. What did you have for breakfast? Pants. What is the weather outside? Pants.

    I loved that kid.
    • empraptor, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1For benefit of others.... He did that probably because he thought he was saying "underwear" which is what they call them there.
    • freedomwv, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1HaHa if I could digg this more than once I would. I know exactly what you are talking about. I teach English in Japan and funny stuff like that happens all the time.
  • Ramenhood, on 08/07/2008, -1/+1Reminds me of Spanish

    Me llamo Eric. Yo soy Americano. Como estas? Los pantalones es en la esquela.
    • KaiSe7eN, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Jorge quieres ser hardcore, pero su mama no lo dejes.
  • jazzmess, on 08/07/2008, -1/+0I love that the kid literally translated "hentai" into "abnormal"... now that's lost in translation!
    • ieatyourdog, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0hentai = wierd/pervert

      sukebe = pervert
  • xtractor, on 08/07/2008, -1/+0Is this legal?
  • ShellShock11, on 08/07/2008, -4/+11. Make a letter in poor english
    2. Claim the letter is from a Japanese student who is just learning english
    3. ???
    4. Profit
    • fevredream, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0.....Or actually live in Japan and have a blog about your experiences teaching English there, post something funny from said blog on Matadorstudy.com, and then have someone else post it on digg. Alas, not everything is fake. Or funny when put in meme-form.
      • thailand1972, on 08/07/2008, -1/+0Because he teaches English in Japan doesn't mean it's not fake. I've taught English in Japan (was there 3 years) and this looks either totally fake (English native wrote it) or the Japanese student is just taking the piss himself - the point is, it doesn't look like some innocent Japanese pantsu fetishist writing about his hobby.
      • fevredream, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1I don't know about you, but having lived and gone to school in Japan myself, including interacting quite a bit with kids there, I can more than easily envision some elementary school kid (or an older one) writing this in English class just to get a rise out of the gaijin teacher.
    • superman787, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0lies, no normal man could think of something this amazingly awesome!
    • Piontek, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0hi
    • gbhall, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0These are getting lame now (no offense)
  • gimmeslack12, on 08/07/2008, -1/+1"Pants are man's romance".
    Pure gold...
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