Intensevil

beautiful stuff as always. this thread should seriously be stickied along side rezz's one

brilliant pics, love this kind of stuff

Something i've had on my mind for a while that i just cant figure out. On a track if someone crashes while attempting to make a pass whos fault is it? eg: 2 cars coming up to a right hand corner. The car on the outside (1) is lined up for the proper racing line and the car on the inside (2) is lined up on a bad racing line. Car 2 is able to pull off better braking and cuts into where car 1 would have driven near the apex, at this point both cars are even. Now say car 1 were to hit car 2, whos fault would it be? Would it be car 1's fault for turning into car 2? The reason im wondering this is because a while ago i went gokarting and got up the arse of this girl who would keep taking the smoothest line possible. I was able to match match her on the straight and actualy go faster through most of the course than her but was unable to overtake. The only place i could overtake was at the left on the end of the main straight. But I didnt try it because i was sure she'd just dart accross from the outside and smash into me. I eventualy spun out after trying to pass her on the out side

The actual people invovlved in track sanctioned drift days are a great bunch. Their very helpfull and really tollerable of the other types of cars that are involved. Its the crowd that spectates and the keyboard drifters that give everyone else a bad name and its really a shame to be tainted because of a few peopel who lack common sense. Personaly i cant wait to get back out on the track again both drift and circuit racing. They both involve a high level of skill and both can be hugely entertaining for myself and spectators

the kanji for touge actualy consists of UP, DOWN and MOUNTAIN. So its not just a down hill thing. And just because drift lacks the vital time element that most motorsports have doesnt mean it is not a motorsport. Its a competitive event involve vehicles with motors in them, ie a motorsport. But if u refuse to call it a motor sport then more power too you, just dont get on a high horse how circuit racing has more respect behind it because no one really gives a shit about that crap, its all EGO. We all enjoy cars to some degree so theirs no point looking down on others because the aspect of their cars taht they enjoy is different to your on views. Methinks you've taken the Pyramid of speed a bit too literally

wtf kind of parking is that in the last sakura picture?

Great pics man. Barely ever see stuff like this on the net so top job! and Both your cars look soo dam clean. Good luck with the move back to aussieland

Whats this nearly identicle story you speak of?

thats nothing to complaign about mate, i got a 2.4ltre atmo motor thats going through 17ltres per 100km... and im a freaking pizza boy!

Thats kind of what i was getting at. It's a word where the culture that uses it kind of defines whether its derogatory or not. I know that americans see it as a racial slur not an abbreviation. But in australia barely anyone uses it in that context

kraut = german Kraut actualy means cabbage, the term is derived from sourkraut (sourcabbage). I have 2 german parents but was born in aus and i take no offence if someone calls me a kraut, if anything i'd be proud of it (proud to have german heratige, not proud of what the country has done in the past)

I think i'll just play it safe and use nihon-jin/japanese

I came across an interesting thread on gaijinpot.com and the general consensus was that you should never say this word because it's highly racist in the same context as the "N" word regarding african americans. Apparantly the racism associated with the word stems from WW2 (military propogander used racism to boost local morale and stuff) and has filtered through the years and stuck with this word. However I don't see any problem with the word because whenever i use it, it's just an abbreviation or shorterning of the word japan much like the word aussie or brit, it's just easier to say jap than japanese and i guess its become habbit. So whats the deal with it? Is it an outright racist word, racist through context or just an abbreviation for lazy guys like me who cant be stuffed with more than one sylabul?

That 13g rx7 (can see it on city performance website) actualy has a 13g engine in it, which is a factory mazda race engine with factory peripheral ports.

so is it subbed in english yet?

most definatly can

ATM im just teaching myself with resources from the internet, but that can only go so far. http://japanese.about.com/ use this to get the hiragana and katakana alphabets and remember them. For me i find that looking at the symbols then writing them down in their romaji form and matching them up to their hiragana form works but you could also make flip cards (romaji on one side, hiragan on the other). Just whatever works best for you. Once i've got those memorised i'm going to start to translate slabs of hiragana text. basicly its a practice thing, you gota get yourself to remember and recognize things instantly. I dont recomend watching anime as a way to learn japanese because a lot of it is informal and very context sensative which gives the wrong impression because the subbers dont usualy explain the context, its just a given.

do a search and all will be revealed

Any reports on the "nakana" series of books? I've heard mixed opinions from amazon

This is mainly directed at University students but i'd like a few recomendations on the text books that you guys use to learn japanese. I asked someone from melb uni a while ago and he said theirs one book that pretty much teaches you everything and that it's really good but i've forgoten the title of it. many thanks

i guess a lot of it stems from japan being a monocultural society. In australia foreighers fit right in, half the time you wont even notice someones from another country untill they talk. And even then, if they have learned the language their pretty much one of us. It's because we are exposed to all sorts of people from all nations our entire life's, right from when we goto kindergarden through to the job place, its in the australian culture to accept other races. Japan seems to be the complete opposite, a monocultural society that isn't exposed to foriegners to the extent as australia. This is reflected in the society status or lack thereof that foriegners get treated to, which sadly IS a form of racism. Some peopel can turn a blind eye to this and accept it and others cant. Coming from a caucasion family i've never experienced any racism and what little remarks have been thrown in my direction didnt bother me in the slightest. However i probably wouldnt last very long in a non caucasion dominated society where the peoples ideals and morals differ from my own. At the end of the day i think australia IS the best country to live in the world. There are a few small issues (High tax, water restrictions, inconsistant police force and inadequate police force, technologicly inept, government thats only concerned with money rather than the peoples well being... etc) but all countries face problems of some sort. These are minor gripes when you think of the freedom and the society we have though. It's a country where everyone fits in, where everyones opinion is as important as the next, where we have a great education system, where land and housing is cheap, where the beaches are the best in the world etc. Japan is probably a great place to visit but Australia is a better place to live

lol my mistake, that was streeter :zap:

Wherever you go there are goign to be a whole bunch of bad things occuring in the country, its a fact of life that people cause misery wherever they go indirectly through their actions. The trick to keeping your self happy and crap is to turn a blind eye and not get dragged too deeply into all the horrible things in life. You said people living in japan indefinatly put on blinkers, well ignorance is bliss but it seems that your too perceptive. I've been diging through a few of the older posts in this forum and one of your main reasons for leaving australia was because of the dull and boring I.T. carreer sector of your life. Well it looks like the tables have turned and you've lost your passion for teaching. Looks like you've got your mind pretty much made up though. If you dont mind me asking just what is it makes you want to leave japan? The bad economy? job insercurity? constant racism? gaijin factor etc?

aarrrgh upload the link first then post it, i keep d/ling half uploaded files

ta for that, i'll host it on my ftp