Saturday, July 21, 2012

Brave

I hope that the movie Brave is going to come subtitled. Usually with animated movies they tend to just dub it in Japanese so int he past I've had no luck with them. But I really would like to see the movie. It'll come to Japan in two weeks. Is it out already in Canada/US? I bet I could figure that out for myself with a quick Google search. To Google! ... I find it oddly convenient that when I type in "Brave release date" into Google's search bar that I don't need to even click on any links before I get the info.

Oh, pfft. It's been out for a month already?! Japan! Why are you sooooo slooooow???

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Japanese TV is weird. Everyone knows this. But why go up to random people (In London) while riding on the escalator and just go "You know football?" "You know baseball?" And have them give you this odd look and go "....Y-yes?" And then they converse in Japanese until the TV host goes "Oh, okay!" to the English speaker and then move on. What is the point??
Well for this one guy they ended it with "You look like Beckham" .. Who's Beckham? ... To Google! ... Google tells me David Beckham is an English football player. Thank you Google.

I seriously only know half of what's going on. The host (same person) is now wearing pink and one of those over the shoulder "I'm showing off how rich and rich I am" scarves. And they seem to be showing how many gay people are in England. And... either there is a large population of gay people in England or they are making it seem like it is. Oh, they found a gay Japanese person. Japan is iffy about people who are not straight. You can be a TV person and be gay or have a gay persona and that seems to be fine but despite that and other trends that show a level of tolerance, it seems that a lot (if not all) conceal their sexuality with many even marrying the opposite sex. Not as terrible as some places where you can be beaten for it, or have the death sentence thrown at you (As I just learned while they were interviewing gay couples in London - it seems to be a popular option in many countries)... I suppose it's times like these that I appreciate Canada. Canada's far from perfect, but at least you don't have to be famous or a comedian for people to accept your sexuality. (Also no death sentence!)

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