Great wakeup call, eh?chocobojoe wrote:I'm glad you're still alive.
The most violent, nude (and rude) awakening I've had lately was my cat sticking his tail in my mouth at 5:30 AM. Nothing like an earthquake, but still pretty unpleasant.
Holy crap earthquake
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Imagine having the fire alarm go off at your building three times in one night when you have a fitness test at 6 am.LikeableRodent wrote:Yeah. Stupid thing had to strike at 11:30 at night while I was sleeping.Riot wrote:Another 7.4 earthquake today! Ouch =(
Thing is, it's not just how much the big quakes shake that's scary--it's that they're really frickin' loud. Usually, you'll hear a loud deep rumbling both somewhere and everywhere. A few seconds later everything starts shaking. And I mean everything starts shaking. And sometimes stuff starts falling.
So imagine the sound of everything everywhere violently shaking, and on top of it the earth beneath and surrounding you is screaming out in this really loud, deep rumble. Then imagine that you were nice and naked and comfortable under your comfy warm sheets and got woken up by all this.
And that was my night.
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Pretty sure anybody who lived in Read dealt with that on a weekly basis. We were always going outside in the snow at 3am in our undies. Apparently it's like a tradition. It was no earthquake but out there in the snow sure was a girthquake.
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Yeah seriously Read was the worst when it came to hipsters pulling fire alarms.
Adam do you have a bed or a tatami mat?
Adam do you have a bed or a tatami mat?
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Adam do you have clothes or a Tanooki Suit?
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Uh, I lived in dorms for three years at Purdue. One particular year someone had an affinity for setting trashcans on fire in the dorm, so I'm well-acquainted with dead-of-night fire alarm pulling, though I must say not the night before a fitness test.DAVE101 wrote:Imagine having the fire alarm go off at your building three times in one night when you have a fitness test at 6 am.
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I assume you mean a bed or a futon. Tatami is flooring, so hopefully you're not sleeping directly on the floor.Merk wrote:Adam do you have a bed or a tatami mat?
I sleep on a futon (a Japanese futon, not the American style).
Clothes, no tanuki suit. I don't like fur...Riot wrote:Adam do you have clothes or a Tanooki Suit?
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I'm sorryLikeableRodent wrote:... at Purdue.
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I am not familiar with the differences in American and Japanese futons...
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Take your American futon off the frame and lay the mattress on the ground. Now it's a Japanese futon.
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Ok, so Adam is sleeping on a tatami mat then?
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AMERICAN FUTON:
JAPANESE FUTON:
TATAMI MATS:
JAPANESE FUTON:
TATAMI MATS:
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Merk should know all about American futons since Jen makes him sleep on the couch.
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Snap back!Riot wrote:Merk should know all about American futons since Jen makes him sleep on the couch.
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Uh, I'd call that an Ikea bed, not a futon.chocobojoe wrote:JAPANESE FUTON:
ACTUAL JAPANESE FUTON LAID OUT ON TATAMI MATS
You're supposed to lay out the futon before going to bed then fold everything up and put it in the closet in the morning. I'm lazy, so about 70% of the time I just leave mine out.
Traditionally, you use a futon in a washitsu (Japanese-style room) and a bed in a youshitsu (western-style room). Washitsu will have tatami mat flooring and sliding doors (either fusama, shouji, or both).
It's pretty rare to see anything but a futon used in a washitsu and anything but a bed used in a youshitsu.
And for completion, here's a tanuki suit:
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That shitsu cash.
I learned a little bit more about Japan today. Adam needs to make a weekly post on educating you-gaijin-Americans on Japanese culture. I know nothing outside of video games and California rolls.