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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
NO!! I had this very problem when I was in Japan. No hostel bed is ever long enough to sleep comfortably.
Any taller than six feet, and you best stretch out on the floor. I'm dead serious.  |
Yeah, taller than 6 foot and you might have a prob. I'm 5'8" so I was ok.
On pocari sweat:
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The reference to the bodily fluid resulting from perspiration in the name of the beverage tends to have a certain offputting or humorous connotation for native English speakers. However, the name was chosen by the manufacturers originally for the purpose of marketing the product as a sports drink in Japan, where people generally do not mentally translate names appearing in English and are therefore not bothered by the connotation. It was largely derived from the notion of what it is intended to supply to the drinker: all of the nutrients and electrolytes lost when sweating.
The first part of the name, Pocari, is from the word ぽっかり [pokkari], which is a mimetic -と adverb glossed as 'lightly' (e.g. 雲が空にぽっかりと浮かんでいた, "a cloud floated across the sky"). [2]
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Aquarius in Japan was pretty good too.
The trains are awesome basically because you can show up at any time of the day, say I need to go here and have a train show up to take you there in less than 20 minutes usually and you'll get there within a few hours.
They're efficient, always on time and there are plenty of them that if you miss one, the next one isn't that far away, even the shinkansens, which I did once in Osaka, they're clean, they're fast, they're just plain awesome.