listing random things

Updated and condensed 23/12/05

Still lacking contributions from Elizabeth, Peta, Damon and Caroline and MPE's!

- Butter flavoured potato chips
- Teriyaki Boyz
- $2000 puppies
- 20 second zen exhale
- 6000 homeless in Ueno Park
- Yodobashi: God's gift to Geeks.
- I-Dog (cute or irritating….?)
- Koala...She's my Bitch
- Showing your neck is sexy
- Giving someone the finger either doesn't mean anything in Japan, or is THE most offensive gesture possible: I'm still not sure.
- Japanese girl's try to avoid becoming a xmas cake
- Factory uniforms make people look like serial killers.
- Butt-welded pipes are important
- The waitress at Denny's
- The world's smallest beer at Denny's
- Cuttlefish: A cruel joke, or something more sinister?
- So called 'coffee' from vending machines.
- Drunk guys shouting at us to drink beer at Tokyo University
- Hot sweet sake
- The Beatles Live 155
- Brainwashing Candy (Caroline……)
- Joypolis: Not quite as kinky as it sounds - but fun nevertheless
- Girls’ Box at Joypolis (what was this?????!!!)
- OJ in a cup in a bag: Overpackaging gone mad in a city with no bins.
- Smiling Robot Tour Guide at Toyota. Someone accidentally set her to 'Slow Walk' that day.
- Production line at Toyota- makes human’s seem terrifyingly redundant…….
- Showering together at the Crazy House Ryokan. It wasn't gay - I swear.
- Blood Type Fortunes
- Lucky charms for anything
- Nightinggale Floor Boards
- Ninja walk to avoid making nightingale floor boards squeak!
- Gum Syrup
- Cider meets Condensed Milk
- Panda Hotrods
- Geisha in an elevator in Hakone
- School Uniforms in Chigasaki
- Screaming children in high school in Chigasaki
- Signing pencil cases in Chigasaki
- I would like plastic model ... if it actually existed
- Vending machines
- 1 yen coins -damn they're annoying still have a small pile of them!
- construction hats
- huge glasses
- Aomarushin tempura
- Ginza
- Shibuya
- Akihabara
- Ueno Park
- Momiji leaves
- Kinkakuji
- ferris wheels
- love hotels (inc. Hotel “Pay-up”)
- Palette Town
- B-Flets!
- NTT
- Sakamoto Kyu "----da da da da da da da -aruko -ooooo"
- kimonos
- phone cards
- pim, pim pom
- Damon ----“Hey U..S..A!!!!”
- crunky
- air crunky
- dars
- ghana
- pinky
- nara
- crazy deer
- 23rd floor at mitsui
- 24th floor at mitsui
- tsukiji fish market -need i say more!!???
- eri-chan
- samurai
- ninja restaurant
- MPE's
- Family Mart
- Aoyama -itchome!!!
- Lesson No. 9!!! -adverts with Big Bird
- Astro Boy poster saying to stop illicit drugs!!!
- Wanted posters in sub-way equpped with helpful artist’s impressions of the effect of the ageing process….
- McDonalds Happy "Sets"
- Wham! xmas carols
- "popstar"
- I can't tell if the coffee at the *chemicals was bad or if the chemicals in the coffee were bad
- Scary smiling ladies with pink dresses and pink lace shoes
- Toyoda
- Steam cooked food thanks to sharp (to help control the pervading obesity problem in Japan- NOT!)
- The outfits of the two guides at Tokyo metro government (a bizarre cross of James bond henchmen and flight attendants)
- Skytime “Yuzu” (choose JAL for this reason alone!)
- Kirin Beer
- Crunk U
- Beer from vending machines
- Ramen
- Slurping noodles is ok, if not obligatory
- Tom Cruise, Last Samurai AKA Damon
- Apple Tea
- Soba Noodles
- Surgical Masks to stop colds spreading
- Opthamologist treatment for Pirate Eye
- Red Dragon : ingredients illegal in 37 countries, but not Japan
- Bins not being present, despite the streets being oddly clean
- Those comfortably uncomfortable bean pillows at Okatami Ryokan
- Not being handed samples of tissues or vouchers for karaoke
- Fake glases
- Graphic design T shirts, Graniph
- Being harrassed physically and sexually by deer (peta knows what I'm talking about)
- That brilliant guide at Hakone
- Fuji san hiding
- Hello Kitty EVERYTHING
- Izakaya
- Yoshinoya
- Aussie beef in Yoshinoya
- suuumimaasseeeeenn!!! (when calling for a waiter in a restaurant)
- Falling down stairs at the champagne club (Beth…..)
- Vomiting in Salsa Club (Sorry B!)
- Being chased by menacing African from Salsa Club
- Mopping up vomit with ineffectual cloth at Salsa Club
- Nap time at the ambassadors (sorry C!)
- Pinky peach mints
- Pianissimo Peche/Duos/Capri/Rose
- Wardrobe malfunctions (i.e. Beth and my trouser leg, Adelle and her heel...)
- Gaspanic cafe (huh?)
- Keith cakes
- Shouting out "Keith!" at the train station
- Being deafened when Adelle found Keith
- Charades with crazy ryokan ladies
- Drunken man passed out on genkan in Hakone
- Hankyu
- Sankyu Berry Muchie
- Happy Smile Christmas
- 200 Yen Dlinks
- Lets enjoy
- watering kiss mints
- bed up
- roppongi
- yoko san
- harajuku
- wah-oh-nine (109)
- hell-o
- it’s beautiful, it’s art, it’s new, it’s the vibe, it’s life….. yeah it’s just life
- melty kiss chocolate
- pocky
- pocky mens
- clorets
- CC Lemon
- Hot Vitamin
- pork buns
- AM PM
- Dogs in clothes
- hottokennai (MAKE POVERTY HISTORY - IN JAPAN)
- Uni-Qlo
- Pedestrian Paradise
- screaming irritating boy at Kabuki
- ineffectual translation and commentary at kabuki
- fish flavoured “candy” biscuits at kabuki
- host family generosity
- MOS Burger
- Turry's Coffee
- natto ("not suitable for foreigners")
- limosine buses
- chigasaki breeze
- volcanic sand
- karaoke
- as you can
- healin' feelin
- fake food (that one is for you caroline!)
- metro train (especially in peak hour)
- green tea
- okonomiyaki
- fresh whitebait
- umeshu AKA "prum wine"
- sho-chu
- free sho-chu from drunk salarymen
- asahi
- free asahi from drunk salarymen
- cassis
- sickening cocktails with 0.05% alcohol (or thereabouts)
- sho-chu RTD's
*sorry!- alcohol interlude*
- ecocement
- ecocement coffee (so environmental!)
- nippon steel
- gion
- geishas
- odaiba lemonade bottles with ball bearings
- yellow candy wrapped in dissolving rice paper (what was that called again??)
- braille footpaths
- opthamologists who smell like tomato sauce
- ninja restaraunt
- Harry Potter (say with Japanese accent!)
- "let's go people"
- ladies night- champagne included!
- chicken bizarro
- chicken abstracto
- tokyo style
- M-FLO (especially Vanessa)
- gingko trees (male AND female y'know!)
- gingko nuts
- egg custard
- onsen
- modesty towels
- modesty toilets
- heated toilet seats
- miscellaneous buttons in toilets
- hard gay
- japanese television generally!

PS- If you feel offended that I removed your comment- it was to save space- and because it must be really irritating for people to read "double-ups"!