Comments on: Hospital Festival in Front of Our House http://www.longcountdown.com/2008/09/06/hospital-festival-in-front-of-our-house/ Nick Ramsay blogging from Gifu, Japan. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:15:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Tori http://www.longcountdown.com/2008/09/06/hospital-festival-in-front-of-our-house/#comment-7119 Tori Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:50:12 +0000 http://www.longcountdown.com/?p=706#comment-7119 <blockquote>I mean with all the nutters I see daily riding the subways and trains I figure you have to be pretty far gone to be institutionalized. </blockquote> LOL!!!! That's hilarious

I mean with all the nutters I see daily riding the subways and trains I figure you have to be pretty far gone to be institutionalized.

LOL!!!! That’s hilarious

]]> By: Nick Ramsay http://www.longcountdown.com/2008/09/06/hospital-festival-in-front-of-our-house/#comment-6983 Nick Ramsay Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:09:04 +0000 http://www.longcountdown.com/?p=706#comment-6983 They probably have to admit themselves into hospital. :???: They probably have to admit themselves into hospital. :???:

]]> By: Steve in Nagoya http://www.longcountdown.com/2008/09/06/hospital-festival-in-front-of-our-house/#comment-6980 Steve in Nagoya Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:27:39 +0000 http://www.longcountdown.com/?p=706#comment-6980 I realize I'm probably boarding the Japan Bashing Express Train with this, but I have to ask, how batsh!t crazy does one actually have to be to land themselves in a looney bin here? I mean with all the nutters I see daily riding the subways and trains I figure you have to be pretty far gone to be institutionalized. I realize I’m probably boarding the Japan Bashing Express Train with this, but I have to ask, how batsh!t crazy does one actually have to be to land themselves in a looney bin here? I mean with all the nutters I see daily riding the subways and trains I figure you have to be pretty far gone to be institutionalized.

]]> By: Tori http://www.longcountdown.com/2008/09/06/hospital-festival-in-front-of-our-house/#comment-6948 Tori Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:05:25 +0000 http://www.longcountdown.com/?p=706#comment-6948 “Having never experienced someone so weird, the Japanese mental patients gather around the foreigner.” I wanted to roll on the floor laughing after reading that! This reminds me of a flat that I lived in for awhile in Kanagawa. On the route from the flat to the train there was a mental institution of some sort. And after a bizarre incident on the train I have the feeling that some of the patients were allowed to come and go as they pleased. An obviously mental challenged man keep bothering a Japanese lady asking her if she was ok (with no regard for proximity). This started on the train platform and then carried on inside of the train. No one was doing anything about it so I went over there and said "She's fine!" in Japanese and he went scurrying off to the other side of the train. I guess it is easier as an outsider to stand up for someone. Interestingly Rich Pav of HerroFlomJapan had a similar experience: http://www.herroflomjapan.com/2006/10/05/this-is-what-a-chican-looks-like/ “Having never experienced someone so weird, the Japanese mental patients gather around the foreigner.”
I wanted to roll on the floor laughing after reading that!

This reminds me of a flat that I lived in for awhile in Kanagawa. On the route from the flat to the train there was a mental institution of some sort. And after a bizarre incident on the train I have the feeling that some of the patients were allowed to come and go as they pleased.

An obviously mental challenged man keep bothering a Japanese lady asking her if she was ok (with no regard for proximity). This started on the train platform and then carried on inside of the train. No one was doing anything about it so I went over there and said “She’s fine!” in Japanese and he went scurrying off to the other side of the train.

I guess it is easier as an outsider to stand up for someone.
Interestingly Rich Pav of HerroFlomJapan had a similar experience: http://www.herroflomjapan.com/.....ooks-like/

]]> By: Nick Ramsay http://www.longcountdown.com/2008/09/06/hospital-festival-in-front-of-our-house/#comment-6936 Nick Ramsay Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:14:33 +0000 http://www.longcountdown.com/?p=706#comment-6936 I can imagine it now, "Having never experienced someone so weird, the Japanese mental patients gather around the foreigner." :-P I can imagine it now, “Having never experienced someone so weird, the Japanese mental patients gather around the foreigner.” :-P

]]> By: Honor http://www.longcountdown.com/2008/09/06/hospital-festival-in-front-of-our-house/#comment-6935 Honor Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:54:29 +0000 http://www.longcountdown.com/?p=706#comment-6935 Hi Nick, First time for me to respond to one of your posts - but this one is a must. Do you know the far side cartoons? Sounds like you've just added another sketch. I'm the one who always attract the weirdos sitting down next to me on the plane. Interesting post. Hi Nick,

First time for me to respond to one of your posts - but this one is a must. Do you know the far side cartoons? Sounds like you’ve just added another sketch. I’m the one who always attract the weirdos sitting down next to me on the plane. Interesting post.

]]> By: Keith http://www.longcountdown.com/2008/09/06/hospital-festival-in-front-of-our-house/#comment-6934 Keith Sun, 07 Sep 2008 06:02:05 +0000 http://www.longcountdown.com/?p=706#comment-6934 Some of the people in the photos look more genki than Japan's ministers of government! Wonder if they would consider going into politics. Nick could you pop across and ask them pleeeeease???????? Some of the people in the photos look more genki than Japan’s ministers of government! Wonder if they would consider going into politics.
Nick could you pop across and ask them pleeeeease????????

]]> By: Nick Ramsay http://www.longcountdown.com/2008/09/06/hospital-festival-in-front-of-our-house/#comment-6931 Nick Ramsay Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:40:04 +0000 http://www.longcountdown.com/?p=706#comment-6931 If you look again at <a href="http://www.longcountdown.com/2008/05/09/japan-disaster-prevention-information/" rel="nofollow">this video</a>, in the second view, you can clearly see the beautiful trees that lined the street, blocking the view of the hospital... all but a memory now. :( If you look again at this video, in the second view, you can clearly see the beautiful trees that lined the street, blocking the view of the hospital… all but a memory now. :(

]]> By: Nick Ramsay http://www.longcountdown.com/2008/09/06/hospital-festival-in-front-of-our-house/#comment-6930 Nick Ramsay Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:37:50 +0000 http://www.longcountdown.com/?p=706#comment-6930 Thank you, Mike. That's a very good (and happy) point. Thank you, Mike. That’s a very good (and happy) point.

]]> By: Mike http://www.longcountdown.com/2008/09/06/hospital-festival-in-front-of-our-house/#comment-6928 Mike Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:30:50 +0000 http://www.longcountdown.com/?p=706#comment-6928 That's nice that there was such a good turnout. :) That’s nice that there was such a good turnout. :)

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