You know you've lost your gaijinity when...

[vkladchik]

This has probably made the rounds, but I thought it was pretty funny.

http://labaq.com/archives/50779932.html

Appears to be a translation (interesting for the ones it leaves out...) of this:

http://web2.airmail.net/will/japan2long.html

[becki_kanou]

Ha! I remember this list making the rounds of the JS majors back when I was at uni, but it was interesting to read it in Japanese. The translator seems to have mis-interpeted quite a few of the jokes though...

[Mike Cash]

Those have been floating around forever and get (needlessly) started anew every time some gaijin wakes up and realizes that he's been here oh-my-gosh a WHOLE YEAR NOW!!! and feels a need to start a list to dust a little of his gaijin crust off onto lesser beings.

I must admit I'm surprised to see a Japanese language version of it.

[furrykef]

...you think the opposite of red is white.

No, that's if you've been drinking wine too much.

Then again, if being in Japan drives you to drink...

EDIT:

...you watch the grocer's with interest to see when the price of mikans will break.

Funny that the "greengrocer's apostrophe" (putting an apostrophe before "s" where it doesn't belong) happens to appear on the word "grocer" in particular. Wonder if that's not coincidental.

- Kef

[two_heads_talking]

This has probably made the rounds, but I thought it was pretty funny.

http://labaq.com/archives/50779932.html

Appears to be a translation (interesting for the ones it leaves out...) of this:

http://web2.airmail.net/will/japan2long.html

As long as you aren't Japanese, you will never, ever lose your gaijinity.. the more you change, the more you stay the same.. lol

[furrykef]

I thought that was half the joke