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DEWJ21 | How to Politely Vomit in Public
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Last Friday I went out for a couple of beers with a mate of mine. Not something I do much, it must be said (I'm somewhat of a hermit). But occasionally it's good to get out. Unwind. We didn't start until quite late… and naturally then, coming home was quite late too.
So there I am. Waiting for the train home. I'm stood at one end of the platform.
All of a sudden I notice a guy stumbling past me.
Must have been, what, about 21? Probably a university student. He's absolutely wasted. Can barely walk.
He goes right up to the corner of there platform...
… then takes several plastic carrier backs out of his pocket.
He puts the bags on the floor to make a kind of sheet, with one more bad lying on top. Next he takes a packet of tissues and puts them down next to the bag Takes his jacket off, folds it nicely and puts it on one side of the sheet.
Finally he sits down and proceeds to empty the contents of his stomach into the bag.
After about five minutes of retching and vomiting...
… he uses the tissues to clean up, puts everything into another bag, gets his jacket on, then picks his makeshift sheet, and puts that into the bag too.
Then he's gone.
A British student would just vomit all over the place.
Not the Japanese though. And it's this kind of polite consideration for others that I love about this country.
The point here is quite simply that if you want to understand Japanese, you've got to understand things like this. Just knowing the language isn't enough. Because the cultural drive that makes people "considerately" vomit in public DEFINES the way people speak.
Same for English.
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Julian
P.S. Of course, much better would to to simply not drink until you vomit of course.
But hey, young people will be young people.
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