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randygo · Post by **randygo** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 10:53 pm

http://bbvegas.mywowbb.com/forum4/59.html

atomic_(no)afro · Post by **atomic_(no)afro** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 11:48 pm

Like rats fleeing from a sinking ship...

ATA

Cabinfever · Post by **Cabinfever** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 11:49 pm

it's a bit like a falling regime: send in the palace guards to shoot the protestors

xander · Post by **xander** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 12:04 am

It's like this in Japan. I just spent two years in that shitehole. How dare you complain about a large Nippon corporation!!! Where is your spirit of national pride?!?!

Of course, they have yet to figure out that not everyone is Japanese...

Peel · Post by **Peel** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 4:40 am

Rednroll · Post by **Rednroll** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:19 pm

Last one out of the Sony forums be sure to turn off the lights.

Stupid American Pig · Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:10 pm

Japan is a strange place for sure. Only Japan could get away with having "japanese only" or "no foreigners allowed" signs out side of restaurants...

Rabid · Post by **Rabid** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 5:56 pm

S_A_P® wrote:Japan is a strange place for sure. Only Japan could get away with having "japanese only" or "no foreigners allowed" signs out side of restaurants...

Yes. I really thought that was strange. Can you imagine what would happen if that sign went up in the US or Europe?

james0tucson · Post by **james0tucson** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 6:07 pm

randygo wrote:http://bbvegas.mywowbb.com/forum4/59.html

I tried to read the forum thread, but I could not understand what the issue was.

I got as far as someone quoting the First Amendment.

When Sony becomes a government agency I'll read further.

james0tucson · Post by **james0tucson** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 6:08 pm

Rabid wrote:
S_A_P® wrote:Japan is a strange place for sure. Only Japan could get away with having "japanese only" or "no foreigners allowed" signs out side of restaurants...
Yes. I really thought that was strange. Can you imagine what would happen if that sign went up in the US or Europe?

There are signs all over San Francisco advertising for roommates that specify sexual orientation, age, and race.

Rabid · Post by **Rabid** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 6:22 pm

There is a big difference between advertising for a roommate and banning people from your bar or restaurant.

Confession - as a child I often wondered why there were so many signs restricting people who mine coal of steel for a living from bars and restaurants. What do they have against minors?

Stupid American Pig · Post by **Stupid American Pig** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 6:24 pm

Rabid wrote: Confession - as a child I often wondered why there were so many signs restricting people who mine coal of steel for a living from bars and restaurants. What do they have against minors?

DHR53 · Post by **DHR53** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 6:36 pm

You mean underaged miners?

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 6:43 pm

Rabid wrote:
S_A_P® wrote:Japan is a strange place for sure. Only Japan could get away with having "japanese only" or "no foreigners allowed" signs out side of restaurants...
Yes. I really thought that was strange. Can you imagine what would happen if that sign went up in the US or Europe? :-o

I'm ashamed to say I don't have to imagine. I've been there.

When I was young, there were signs very much like that outside restaurants, bathrooms, on water fountains, and more. Except they kept certain American citizens out of American institutions.

Until last year (truth!) you could still see such a sign, barely legible after most of the paint had flaked off, outside Beverly's Restaurant on Route 301 in Caroline County, Virginia: "For Coloreds Only." Thank goodness it's finally collapsed permanently. But I still can't drive past the place without remembering those days. And something deep inside me wrenches painfully around every time.

May all similar signs fall soon, wherever on this grubby little ball of dirt they may be.

Meffy

james0tucson · Post by **james0tucson** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 7:18 pm

Rabid wrote:There is a big difference between advertising for a roommate and banning people from your bar or restaurant.

I know of a natural food store in Puyallup Washington that has a sign, "hippies use side door", and they're serious.

I cancelled a gig once at a club that wouldn't let me in wearing boots.

As a child I saw quite a few white/colored facilities; I even went to a high school that had been a black-only school before. It's not uncommon in the south to find old buildings that have more plumbing (bathrooms and wet wall coverage) because they were *designed* with separate bathrooms and water fountains, and lots of restaurants still have front and side entrances, left over from a design consideration when they were built to have separate doors for segregation.

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