The latest yawning cultural void to concern 2ch is why Americans never use umbrellas, as well as the converse issue of why it is the Japanese “fall ill if they get so much as a drop of water on them.”
The exchange begins with a English language discussion of why Japanese think Americans shun umbrellas, and why they are such effete little cowards for using umbrellas themselves:
“They’re right. I’ve never seen anyone use an umbrella here. If you have a car, who needs one!”
“I’ve not met one since grade school.”
“I think there might be a problem with the subs, but it’s true in any case.”
“Americans use them. It’s Canadians who don’t bother.
“We’re not like some Japanese person who falls ill if so much as a drop of water gets on them. We don’t need them.”
“I just wear a jacket, fuck umbrellas.”
“Nobody here uses them. I’ve never seen one. You can see people in hats and waterproof work clothes though.”
“I’m an American woman. The last time I touched one was years ago. I’m not a kid, a little bit of rain won’t hurt.”
“Umbrellas are for homos.”
“Exactly. Men shouldn’t use them.”
2ch is, as ever, unimpressed by barbarian criticism:
“You’re a homo if you use an umbrella? As expected of the land of Schwarzenegger…”
“They just love homos there.”
“The rain here is different.”
“I hate to say it, but we’re afraid of the radiation.”
“Hinto: black rain [the name given to the deadly radioactive ash contaminated rain which fell after Japan was A-bombed]”
“Our rain causes cancer.”
“You’d expect this from people who wear shoes in their homes.”
“They just have transient wet mists over there. It’s not like the long continuous rainfall in Japan.”
“You’ll regret going bald, hairy barbarians. Isn’t it unpleasant being soggy in any case?”
“This is why they are all bald.”
“America is arid so you’d quickly dry off.”
“If it rains, just don’t go out, then you don’t need one.”
“They do seem to prefer raincoats…”
“Anyone living near their bases can see – they never use umbrellas.”
“What kind of juvenile imbecile thinks it’s cool to be wet.”
“Try living a year in Japan and tell me if you still say that stuff.”
“I read about an English person who came to Japan and was surprised that everyone used umbrellas. Over there only rich people used them.”
“I laugh at all the pathetically sensitive Tokyoites who use umbrellas even when it snows.”
“America is a car society and that probably explains everything. Japan is different.”
“I was surprised when I first went to Europe – nobody used umbrellas…”
“Japan’s dampness will keep you so sodden you’ll find mushrooms growing on your body.”
“America, consider the possibility of an umbrella sharing event!”
“Westerners must not understand all the scenes in anime and manga where people catch colds after getting soaked. It seems only Japanese associate catching colds with the cold. Their pointing out Japanese as catching colds just by getting wet suggests as much.”
“I see.”
“Over there they already pointed out colds are caused by viruses not the rain or cold.”
“So why do you catch them? Your immune system is weakened by the chill?”
“It may be because Americans are very hot. Japanese eat 1900kcal a day, Americans 3790. So they are giving off twice the heat.”
“That’s just why they are so fat.”
“How each nation copes with rain:
English: “I’ll open my umbrella”
Japanese: “I’ll open my umbrella”
American: “I’ll increase my calorie intake”
We could make this into one of those jokes…”
“They are using all that fat to output enough heat to evaporate the raindrops which fall on them. That’s why they eat such retarded amounts.”
“It’s said Japanese buy over 100 million umbrellas a year, that’s insane.”
“You can’t understand such an uncaring race. They even have women strutting around with no bras on.”
“Don’t compare your rain to ours. Not only will ours make you bald, it’ll irradiate you as well.”
“So they won’t use an umbrella but they’re only too happy to extend a nuclear umbrella…”
For those wondering, large numbers of Japanese really do seem to believe rain causes baldness (there is no scientific evidence that rain, acid or otherwise, causes hair loss).
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Real men and women take in the rain. An depending the situation, we'll look attractive.
Then again most would think of you as a dumbass who forgot to bring an umbrella
If you live in countries where you only have two seasons - extreme heat and extreme rain, then it sucks to be the one who doesn't have an umbrella.
i sometimes just ignore the rain and act like it is a sunny day
It is true, anime makes the Japanese out to have immune systems as weak as a day old kitten. Spend a night without a blanket over you and you'll end up with pneumonia.
For real i've never understood this. They get a drop of water on them, they end up with a deadly sickness. Or like you said not sleeping with a blanket and you die.
The hell. Is that true yankees?
It´s pretty normal to use an umbrella in germany.
Einspruch!
I always get the feeling it's something like a 50/50 ratio. While some use an umbrella, there also are quite a few who just zip their jackets and carry on whatever they were doing
I thought men in raincoats and hats only existed in Holly Wood as well. Americans are... different.
Maybe? I live in New York and people alwyas use umbrellas here.
well mostly for girls ... i hardly ever used one (maybe when it was puoring like crazy) otherwise i hardly ever used the ones my mom gave me on rainy school days
So many inappropriate comments to make about Germany, so little time.
This is true. Very few people in Vancouver use umbrellas and it rains half the year. Most people just use their hoods.
Yes, people adapt to their environments. If it rains most of the time, then you just get used to it.
That is bullshit. At least half the people in Vancouver use umbrellas when it is raining.
Are you serious? I've been living here my entire life and NEVER seen that many people using an umbrella. Walk in to a bus on a heavily rainy day. 1 out of 20 people are holding an umbrella with them.
Clearly you're blind or something.
People in Van do use umbrellas since it rains pretty bad at times. Or maybe you're one of the poor people on the buses that reek of BO and hobo stench.
Those are the junkies and poor people. Look at anyone that works in an office or downtown. There's tons of people using umbrellas.
i’ve been living in japan for 4 months now and i have to admit... i’ve started using umbrellas... the rainy season (right now) can get pretty annoying.
Brings back memories of my schools days, if you were a lad and had an umbrella you'd be shunned as a fag and laughed at. But for girls it's Ok. Even as an adult you see woman all the time, but very rarely see men.
school days... my mother often gave me a umbrella when it was already raining but i hardle ever bothered to use it
homophobic much? is this like western men like to stare at hairy macho dudes?
>"You’re a homo if you use an umbrella? As expected of the land of Schwarzenegger…"
Someone needs to show 2ch that South Park episode regarding the use of the word "fag".
And they need to update them about the current governor apparently. xD
i was asking myself that some weeks ago, and got to the conclusion: "JAPAN IS COOL", here in my country the normal temperature for everyday is 32° to 29°, today in Tokyo is 21° to 19°.
Sorry if i make no sense, i am still learning English.
That's just nonsense, many places in Europe are the same or worse. You don't see us run around with those things.
I find it double funny because people standing under waterfalls is an often used motif in anime. They can handle a whole waterfall but not a few drops of rain, what a joke.
“So they won’t use an umbrella but they’re only to happy to extend a nuclear umbrella…”
Aww.. looks like someone's great grandparents didn't get to see August 7, 1945.. :(
You know, some of the people on 2Ch really get on my nerves. They are just some of the most bigoted people I've ever seen. And that's saying something, seeing as I live in the Midwest.
The people who started the argument were the westerners in this case. Calling Japanese weaklings for using umbrellas.
I know it's a pain to use one if you don't have the patience, but to insult a people for bothering to use them was just as bad as 2Ch people.
i wouldnt call it bad as if you were a young boy in my region you would be called weak for using one (and other boys at school might laugh at you)
Get with the girls and build a harem then.
Indeed though most of these arguments are started by pathetic net nerds
The 2ch idiot says western people are ugly barbarians yet he's busy jacking off to a picture of a blonde girl
The idiot from 4chan says Japanese are pussies but he's shit scared of and kisses his Japanese gf's(who is too good for him anyway) dad's ass
Irony hahaha these people start such arguments but make no contribution society
I agree with the german guy who posted here
If we see it's raining and we can find an umbrella we use one, if we're outside and it's starts raining "ah fuck it"
とりあえずごめんなさい
by 2ch民
Some of people here on sancom are same douchebags .
SC is filled with douchebags. =)
As a person living in east Asia, the belief that rain will make you bald has some backing up.
In some countries or cities like mainland China and those developing countries, the pollution and the amount of dirt in the air emitted by cars and coal factories gets brought back to the ground by condensation. (Studied in Chemistry class)
This means that the rain is dirty, and the rain carries petrochemical materials, pesticides, burnt coal extracts and other filthy stuff like that.
Try getting wet in the rain, and drying off, then sweating yourself, and wipe your face with a towel and see if it isn't black or yellowish. That's pollutants that cause hair loss and even blindness. If you say there's no proof of this, try living in Hong Kong, Japan, Philippines, etc.
Polluted rain is unhealthy but there has been not correlation found with polluted/acid rain and hair loss.
Sheer paranoia.
Even if I said it from experience?
That's the ‘post hoc, propter hoc’ fallacy.
It usually not rain a lot here, but if you going out when it's rain you should used Umbrella, people just think that is just such a pain.
Becuase no one used it that doesn't mean you shouldn't do that too.
“It may be because Americans are very hot. Japanese eat 1900kcal a day, Americans 3790. So they are giving off twice the heat.”
Rofl, so consuming more calories makes you hot??
Fat people in general require more cooling off than fit people.
I lived in Washington State for over 15 years before moving to Florida. Both states well-known for the rain. When you live in an area for so long where rain is common place, you get used to walking around in plain clothing without an umbrella. I used my heavy jacket and hood when it downpours.
However, I do know people around here that use an umbrella, and I think "good for them". Everything in this world is more or so, based on personal preference. Who cares if you use an umbrella or not, deal with it. There will always be someone different from you.
well, it most certainly doesn't make you aesthetically pleasing, but it does make you the other hot.
To the fat comments so what?? I'm 5'8 and weigh about 150lbs, thats 68kg I think. Which is pretty small here. But you know what? I'd rather be 6'1 and weigh 220lbs(99kg) than 5'3 and weigh 110lbs(49kg). We play numerous different types of sports here, so looking like little girls on the courts/fields will not help your chances of getting picked for teams. Have fun trying to keep yourself warm in the rain, while I'm driving in my car with a heater on.
Your comment had absolutely no relevance to anything.
Congratulations! You've won the "most retarded comment of the thread" award! On sancon, that takes some doing.
Toriko as it originated XD
too many fatties in america they'll never be cold.
Oh wow. That was original. rofl
1900kcal that's almost nothing I probably would literally die of a horrible death by wasting away if that was all I could eat.
Well I'd probably kill the person who was foolish enough to deprive me of food first.
Heck even my little sister who was told by her doctor she's too skinny eats more calories a day then that.
Here in Sweden we sometimes use umbrellas but it's not as common as rain-jackets though. I brought one to school once only because it poured, nobody said anything but I was the only one with one. Mostly people just don't give a fuc* and wear wet clothes.