AA Gill

[R Leo]

Anyone ever heard of him?

Read: http://www.travelintelligence.net/php/articles/art.php?id=1001179

I work for a Japanese corporation and am continually amused/confused/pissed-off by Japanese culture. Gill's article is as good a reason as I've ever read explaining the Japanese condition.

Originally Posted by AA Gill

"You don’t have to go to Japan to have an inkling that the Japanese are not as the rest of us are. In fact, they’re decidedly weird. If you take the conventional gamut of human possibility as running, say, from Canadians to Brazilians, after ten minutes in the land of the rising sun, you realised they're off the map, out of the game, on another planet. It’s not that they’re aliens, but they are the people that aliens might be if they’d learnt Human by correspondence course and wanted to slip in unnoticed."

for more, look in the right sidebar of the above page or, go here (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/global/) and search on "AA Gill"

[Botnst]

Extraordinary essay. It verges on Dr Strangelove yet without the humor.

[R Leo]

Originally Posted by Botnst

Extraordinary essay. It verges on Dr Strangelove yet without the humor.

You're just making-up that stuff as you go along.

[Botnst]

Speaking of which, i made some chili on Monday before I found I had no black beans. Pi$$ed me off.

But I loaded it down with cayennes from my garden so that's how I get the atomic connection to this thread.

Como esta' frijoles?

Trans: How you bean?

[R Leo]

Originally Posted by Botnst

Como esta' frijoles?

Trans: How you bean?

My 'ol man says something like that..'como usted frijole cabrito?'
OR, how you bean kid?


Fine here. Just trying to get back into the groove after a month away.

[A264172]

Originally Posted by R Leo

... Just trying to get back into the groove after a month away.

Where you bean? Hope you got to get away and have some fun... least partly.

[A264172]

"You don’t have to go to Japan to have an inkling that the Japanese are not as the rest of us are. In fact, they’re decidedly weird. If you take the conventional gamut of human possibility as running, say, from Canadians to Brazilians, after ten minutes in the land of the rising sun, you realised they're off the map, out of the game, on another planet. It’s not that they’re aliens, but they are the people that aliens might be if they’d learnt Human by correspondence course and wanted to slip in unnoticed."

Reminds me of Hunter Thompson and the recent thread in his name as well.

[R Leo]

Originally Posted by A264172

Reminds me of Hunter Thompson and the recent thread in his name as well.

Yeah, AA Gill's style reminds me a lot of HST. Similar to Anthony Bourdain too. Of course, HST was, and will always be master of writing out to (and beyond) the edge. I try hard but, my travelogues only sniff the zephyrs of what Gill and Bourdain have done.

Originally Posted by A264172

Where you bean?

Finland and China. Was gone a month and a day without having to drive, cook, make a bed or do some mindless, bull***** nonsense for a nincompoop in Fukuoka. If my employers had realized what this was going to do to me, they would have never aggreed to let me stay away so long.

[Botnst]

HST? Nothing to it: Sniff less zephyrs/more glue.

Gill is a genuine talent.

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[A264172]

Originally Posted by R Leo

...Finland and China. Was gone a month and a day without having to drive, cook, make a bed or do some mindless, bull***** nonsense for a nincompoop in Fukuoka. If my employers had realized what this was going to do to me, they would have never aggreed to let me stay away so long.

Wow. Now thats a trip. I would love to get to those surrounds some day. You'll have to tell us a few tales when you get the time.

[suginami]

Originally Posted by Botnst

Speaking of which, i made some chili on Monday before I found I had no black beans. Pi$$ed me off.

But I loaded it down with cayennes from my garden so that's how I get the atomic connection to this thread.

Como esta' frijoles?

Trans: How you bean?

But by adding beans, you no longer have chili.

The FDA definition of chili doesn't allow beans. Beans are considered a filler.

If you put beans in chili, you have chili with beans. If you go in your supermarket, and you look at canned chili, you will find chili and chili with beans.

I also participated in chili cook-offs as a kid, and beans are a big no-no with the international chili cooking society.

[Botnst]

Originally Posted by suginami

But by adding beans, you no longer have chili.

The FDA definition of chili doesn't allow beans. Beans are considered a filler.

If you put beans in chili, you have chili with beans. If you go in your supermarket, and you look at canned chili, you will find chili and chili with beans.

I also participated in chili cook-offs as a kid, and beans are a big no-no with the international chili cooking society.

Another apparently rational man with his brained sucked-out by the anti-bean-ites.

Chili is just a flavored sauce served with beans & rice.

B

[A264172]

Originally Posted by Botnst

...

Chili is just a flavored sauce served with beans & rice.

B

That might describe every thing ever ete in the state of Lousianna.
I eat mine with beans and rice btw.

[suginami]

Originally Posted by Botnst

Another apparently rational man with his brained sucked-out by the anti-bean-ites.

Chili is just a flavored sauce served with beans & rice.

B

The nisei and sansei (third and fourth generation) Japanese Americans eat chili (without beans) and serve it over a big bowl of rice. It's absolutely delicious.

[Botnst]

I keep trolling for that Chili purist Texan but he ain't biting.

Might have to cast it wider with a mention of macaroni. I don't think he has the self-control to resist. The danger is that it will be the final straw -- something he should know an awful lot about by now. He might bale.

B