One trip on a NYC subway and he'd scurry right back to Japan, thankful that there only the women eat and put on makeup in public:

"Women start applying make-up here, there and everywhere in the carriage as though they're sitting in front of the mirror of their dressing board at home! Office ladies are slathering on foundation and you can see their office face appearing right before your own eyes. I bet you'd never see this happening in a carriage where there were men around," Shukan Post rants.
The men's magazine continues in the same up-in-arms tone: "You can even see some women eating! And others blab away for ages on their mobile phones. There's no end to their poor manners."

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The Cartoon Network launches a guerilla marketing campaign in 10 cities and an ever-vigilant Boston shuts down in a panic two or three weeks later. The perpetrators were arrested. Why is no one stating the obvious? If terrorists were going to blow up bridges and tunnels, they wouldn't be making their bombs look like Lite-Brites. Someone's selling one on eBay.

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"Radar's Teddy Wayne called recruiting stations around the country disguised as a veritable Breakfast Club of misfit would-be soldiers, all dramatically unqualified or unattractive for service in some way: a flamboyant gay man concerned with the availability of hair pomades in Iraq; a bed-wetting mama's boy who wants to bring his own alarm-rigged plastic sheets; a martial arts freak desperate to unleash throwing stars and nunchakus on Osama; a meth dealer who has "hypothetically" done every drug in the book; a chronic IBS sufferer who subsists mostly on celery; and a lobotomy patient whose side effects include problems with "Decision-Making Ethical Opportunities." A couple of generations ago, the military would have rejected them faster than you can say quagmire. But despairing recruiters have some serious quotas to meet. And for the promise of a fresh, warm body, it seems they're willing to overlook a few flaws."

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