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Evil Frenchies' Rude Behavior Freaks Japanese Into Asylums

 
 
Lash
 
Reply Mon 23 Oct, 2006 04:34 pm
Japanese Rendered Insane Due to Parisian A5sholes

I mean--how long does a person have to wait to write headlines like that?

Laughing

'Paris Syndrome' leaves tourists in shock
Japanese visitors found to suffer from psychiatric phenomenon

Updated: 1 hour, 20 minutes ago
PARIS - Around a dozen Japanese tourists a year need psychological treatment after visiting Paris as the reality of unfriendly locals and scruffy streets clashes with their expectations, a newspaper reported on Sunday.

"A third of patients get better immediately, a third suffer relapses and the rest have psychoses," Yousef Mahmoudia, a psychologist at the Hotel-Dieu hospital, next to Notre Dame cathedral, told the newspaper Journal du Dimanche.

Already this year, Japan's embassy in Paris has had to repatriate at least four visitors -- including two women who believed their hotel room was being bugged and there was a plot against them.
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Lash
 
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Reply Mon 23 Oct, 2006 04:34 pm
I just wanted to say, "Suck it, Frenchy."
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patiodog
 
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Reply Mon 23 Oct, 2006 04:44 pm
I knew MSNBC was a parody of a real news outlet! I knew it!




Just waiting for solid evidence on CNN and FOX now. I mean, if Wolf Blitzer and Geraldo Rivera aren't proof enough...
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Lash
 
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Reply Mon 23 Oct, 2006 04:45 pm
Hey!

FOX is ON TOP OF IT!!!

Laughing
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patiodog
 
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Reply Mon 23 Oct, 2006 04:47 pm
On top of a big steaming pile of male bovine fecal matter, you mean, a mountain of **** CNN and MSNBC are working hard to scale and that we can only hope will collapse under its own weight and swallow the bunch.

In a hundred years we can go look at the verdant meadow there and contemplate the horrors of a bygone age.
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Lash
 
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Reply Mon 23 Oct, 2006 04:49 pm
But, the poor crazy Japanese!! You are insensitive to their plight!!!

<or you're a mean Frenchy!!>

<arches eyebrow distainfully>
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patiodog
 
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Reply Mon 23 Oct, 2006 05:00 pm
I have a hard time buying this story. Can't the reporter have been hoodwinked?

I mean, who ever heard of Japanese tourists?
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Mon 23 Oct, 2006 05:02 pm
I can only laugh..
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Lash
 
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Reply Mon 23 Oct, 2006 05:03 pm
patiodog wrote:
I have a hard time buying this story. Can't the reporter have been hoodwinked?

I mean, who ever heard of Japanese tourists?
Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing

Sounds made up, I know. Very Happy
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Mon 23 Oct, 2006 05:04 pm
At least they didn't run into the Train Defecator..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,1929486,00.html
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patiodog
 
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Reply Mon 23 Oct, 2006 05:08 pm
http://www.vomarts.com/images/artists/hagio-white-kabuki-02_angry.gif





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At least they didn't run into the Train Defecator..


If you think that's bad, you've never ridden the Paris Metro in July...
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Mon 23 Oct, 2006 05:16 pm
I'm blessed with virtually no sense of smell. Well, sometimes it's a good thing, more often a serious lack.

Gotta say, travelers in the US may also run into distressful stuff, here and there.

But, yeah, the Paris thing seems out of context. But tourist clumps often only go to the Tourist Places. It's helpful, as one can try to avoid them with some ability to predict their whereabouts. This not re the Japanese tourist, but any of them. (You may detect a bias on my part.)
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Lash
 
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Reply Mon 23 Oct, 2006 05:25 pm
ossobuco wrote:
At least they didn't run into the Train Defecator..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,1929486,00.html

OH MY GOD!! This is hilarious!!

An excerpt from osso's link:

Transport police are hunting for an "exceptionally antisocial" man who has been defecating on trains across the country, causing tens of thousands of pounds-worth of damage.

All I can see is a mountain of poo "tens of thousands of pounds worth"...
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nimh
 
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Reply Sat 6 Jan, 2007 09:03 pm
Alternate story on same topic (I'd copied it into some Notepad file so f*ck it, I dont care you've already covered it, I am going to copy/paste it! :wink: )

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'Paris Syndrome' strikes Japanese

Wednesday, 20 December 2006

By Caroline Wyatt
BBC News, Paris

The reality of Paris does not always live up to the dream
A dozen or so Japanese tourists a year have to be repatriated from the French capital, after falling prey to what's become known as "Paris syndrome".

That is what some polite Japanese tourists suffer when they discover that Parisians can be rude or the city does not meet their expectations.

The experience can apparently be too stressful for some and they suffer a psychiatric breakdown.

Around a million Japanese travel to France every year.

Shocking reality

Many of the visitors come with a deeply romantic vision of Paris - the cobbled streets, as seen in the film Amelie, the beauty of French women or the high culture and art at the Louvre.

The reality can come as a shock.

An encounter with a rude taxi driver, or a Parisian waiter who shouts at customers who cannot speak fluent French, might be laughed off by those from other Western cultures.

But for the Japanese - used to a more polite and helpful society in which voices are rarely raised in anger - the experience of their dream city turning into a nightmare can simply be too much.

This year alone, the Japanese embassy in Paris has had to repatriate four people with a doctor or nurse on board the plane to help them get over the shock.

They were suffering from "Paris syndrome".

It was a Japanese psychiatrist working in France, Professor Hiroaki Ota, who first identified the syndrome some 20 years ago.

On average, up to 12 Japanese tourists a year fall victim to it, mainly women in their 30s with high expectations of what may be their first trip abroad.

The Japanese embassy has a 24-hour hotline for those suffering from severe culture shock, and can help find hospital treatment for anyone in need.

However, the only permanent cure is to go back to Japan - never to return to Paris.
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dadpad
 
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Reply Sat 6 Jan, 2007 10:10 pm
Interestingly enough France is considered "one of the hardest" student exchanges.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sun 7 Jan, 2007 01:15 am
I've styed some months ago in hotel in Paris, which was mostly occupied by Japanese tourists.

... ... ...
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Roberta
 
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Reply Sun 7 Jan, 2007 01:55 am
My only unusual experience in Paris was on the Metro. A man was transporting a live chicken in a paper shopping bag. The chicken and the other passengers seemed unfazed.

Otherwise my Paris experiences were wonderful. Helpful and friendly natives. Gracious restaurant proprietors. Was I in the right Paris?
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CalamityJane
 
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Reply Sun 7 Jan, 2007 11:22 am
I think we should form an intervention group for Lash and send
her to Paris for 5 days to face the "enemy". Laughing
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Lash
 
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Reply Sun 7 Jan, 2007 03:37 pm
I'd be fine in Paris. I'm not inordinately sweet and sensitive--like the poor Japanese who lost their minds at the hands of nasty Frenchies.


Very simply--I think it would be fun to see who could out-rude who if I found myself the innocent victim of the usual French behavior...

<casts wary eye across the pond>
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Lash
 
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Reply Sun 7 Jan, 2007 03:41 pm
Not long after I started this thread, I noticed two Asian students attempting to start friendships at work. I kid you not--all I did was approach them and share names and pleasantries--and I speak to them by name when I work.

They go out of their way to find me and greet me. <Much smiling and bobbing>

Frank and Lee.

Please be nice to anyone who may possibly be Japanese.
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