Comments by "Harry \x22Nic\x22 Nicholas" (@HarryNicNicholas) on "Life Where I'm From" channel.

where my ex wife's family live they have in their front garden - an american airforce base with fighter jets and helicopters circling overhead 24/7, a golf driving range, a car park and a small cemetary / shrine. japan is an amazing place when it comes to building codes.
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@sagarshrestha2358 apparently yes.
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@ritz5102 they're paranoid about germs. it's not a bad thing, but the japanese always take things one step too far, like gidt giving, if you don't give gifts all the time people stop talking to you.
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whenever i mention the low crime in japan to my (ex) wife she reminds me her family house has been burgled twice. organised crime is prevalent, but personal crime is almost non existent, when we were there i saw someone had left an expensive camera on a wall and when i asked my exwifw should we hand it over to the police she said no, just leave it the people who forgot it might remember and come back and it would be safe for a few days!
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11:11 i noticed this when i was there, a shrine next to a bowling alley next to a hospital next to an oil refinery next to a golf range. my in laws house is opposite the air force base, a golf range, a carpark with a mini cemetary in it.
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not japanese, hmm. i think it's natural that "other" is viewed with suspicion, and that nationalism feels like a good thing, and, you and i may never BE japanese in that we didn't grow up their and have it "in our blood" but time to go home? home is where you feel at home, i felt more at home with my japanese in-laws than when i am at home with my direct family. to be told to "go home" is not to be aware. very few people are from where they are from, the japanese are chinese immigrants, the british originated in africa along with everyone else. "go home" isn't at all wisdom.
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@isurrenderall5544 the first years at school are spent teaching social behaviour, the kids clean their classrooms every day, it can become obsessive my ex wife used to complain about japan having too may old fashioned rules, but it does make for reflexive cleanliness, like washing your hands at the shrine and washing before you have a bath.
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lol. i ask my friends how much japanese they know, and when they say none i tell them "what's japanese for door? - door" "what's japanese for button? - button" "what's japanese for table? - table" "what's japanese for spoon? - spoon" lots of western words have been adopted because things like doors, spoons, tables and tellybee (!) weren't in japan before they opened the borders. so japanese know a lot of english (ingorish) without realising it, english is everywhere. when i was there with my now ex wife we wanted to go on an excursion but it was fully booked, but the people in the travel agency kept running round trying to make something happen for us until i had to order them to stop, that were determined to help. i forget the author but i read a book aobut an american who moved to japan, he got lost at a station and asked a stranger for help, the stranger had no english but was so determined to do something the author said "i was sure this guy would take english lessons and spend years getting it right so he could help me" and the japanese seem to be kinda like that.
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@amirulhakim9898 lol.
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at the start of the lockdown i helped a friend ship his stuff from the other side of croydon, where i live, to australia, where he was stuck. i hadn't been out of the house for weeks when i first went over and on the way back i walked criss crossing streets to the bus stop. i work in computer graphics and a popular technique for "blowing stuff up" is called voronoi fractures, and on my walk i noticed the pavements had cracks in, and the cracks followed a particular pattern, the simplest being a "Y" shape and then more variations. also the roads had just been surfaced so the street marking were crisp and new, so i took a load of photos of cracks and road markings and they got a lot of attention on instagram, so for the last two years i've - got on the bus and each day gone one stop further and walked and taken photos, got on the tram and gone one stop further every day, got off and walked, and now i've exhausted the tram and buses i'm using the train, at the moment the suburban tracks and doing the same. the point of all my rambling here though is to say it's surprising things like drains and paving, bricks and tiling are so similar to what we have in the UK, japan has more ornate manhole covers i believe, but looking and the roads the bricks and tiles could be interchangeable. i'd love to go and take pictures of japanese road markings! love the calligraphic stop signs!
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@faridchelbi7316 try to learn english i have NO IDEA what you are talking about, i may even agree with you but i'll never know.
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i was just saying, watch the video on the legal system, the japanese are quite hard nosed about crime. if you get arrested you get detained and can only see counsel when the police decide and although they don't use "rubber hose mentality" they make life very uncomfortable until you confess, even if you think you are innocent, they have a 90% sucess rate with confessions, and in fact if you do confess you get a small fine or a short stay in jail, as opposed to being isolated and harrassed in the police station, if you confess it's actually easier than going to court, so most people confess. you can be arrested for being the victim in a fight...crime is low because the japanese take policing very seriously.
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our son went to japanese school one morning a week, the kids there all passed japanese GCSE a year early, and i don't know of any disciplanary issues, the parents were involved too. i recal sports day as being great fun, parents kids and teachers all got involved, there was music, food and every sport, and agin races for parents as well as kids. on the other hand the state school sports days were the most boring thing i can imagine - i keep suggesting we need more cross over between international schools and state schools, even the private school our son attended was lame on sportsday in comparison. one was enjoyable and i looked forward to, the other a chore.
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lol, when my son came back from japan the last time (we have family there) he brought me kit kats, and i'm like, what? i can get these down the road. of course now i know better. he could've got me gold plated kit kat tho'
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i have never done a DNA, but my family, mum dad and grandparents all, as far as i can tell, come from southampton, hampshire, england. i have been mistaken for tukish, when i was in turkey, and australian (cos of my accent) in california. my (now ex) wife used to accuse actors of "not being real japanese".
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@LifeWhereImFrom i went to a conference in dallas texas back in the late 80's and decided to drive up the east coast. in the end cos of car drops i drove from dallas, along the coast to new orleans, back to dallas, flew to new york, drove south th north carolina, then north as far as maine and the only people i spoke to were motel staff. i was stared at nce or twice when i was in japan, but nothing uncomfortable, and generally people were - if anything - over friendly and helpful. i like the story an american writer told of asking someone for directions, they couldn't speak english, but the writer said he was convinced the guy would have taken up a course and learned in order to be helpful.
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ditto. my japanese in-laws were the best.
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you used to be able to do that in the UK, nowadays it's hit and miss and you're more likely to lose your things than not.
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my in-laws live in kanagawa! yatai!
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my brother in law drove us from kanagawa to disneyland tokyo and what surprised, and frightened the hell out of me, was when we were overtaking in the middle lane of a seven lane highway, we had two lorries over take on both sides and converge on our lane....
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the comment about wheelchairr access caught my eye, i haven't seen a video on that?
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it's his job. when they pay you to know, then you can feel guilty.
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Hernando Malinche as with ALL religions. you think god writes the scripts personally? it's all show. shinto is my favourite religion, but it's all just people poncing about in fancy dress, just in the west you can get killed by it.
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when i was there with my (now ex) wife we stayed at a variety of places, part of her job is organizing accomodation for japanese VIP's visiting her company in london, uk, so when we were in japan we travelled a little and stayed in hotels and ryoken. it didn't take long for me to get used to communal bathing, no one else seemed to care so after a while neither did i. japanese breakfast was a little difficult for me, luckily even the most traditional place we stayed had toast and tea. the best experience was arriving at a ryoken in the snow, we were the only guests, the staff had waited for us to arrive cos we were late, but a traditional ryoken and sliding doors opened out to a garden covered in snow.
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lol. i got that just in time, i was typing jinjas then realised, oh, this guy's irish.
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