Eligible women in Kinokuniya bookshop - should I investigate?

[JakeOfAllTrades]

It has come to my attention that there are a lot of women, hot ones sometimes, who come to browse the Manga shelves at Kinokuniya in the city. Many of them are Japanese, but can speak English because I've seen them reading English language manga and speaking English to their friends.

I know you probably won't support me in this, but I think it's worth talking to some of these ladies, they have some taste in common with me (apart from the yaoi reading ones) and I'm sure a good conversation could be had with them.

Do you think it's worth a try?

[Dixie]

I would assume it's worth a try.
Personally I always thought guys hitting on me based on what I was looking at in a store was kind of stalkerish.

[wobzire]

Yes you should! In fact you should base all of your decisions in some way upon your favorite forms of Japanese media!

[Grislygus]

I'm reminded of my mythology professor, who happened upon Victorian pornography in a bookstore display when she was five months pregnant, read a portion, and began laughing uncontrollably, only to see a tiny, terrified man in wireframe glasses peering around a shelf at her (which caused her to laugh harder).


Moving on. Let's be honest here, what exactly do you have to lose? Do it, fopmop.

[Sam]

Haha, don't waste your time kid.

[wobzire]

Hey, whatever keeps him off the street right?

[Grislygus]

He needs to get on the street and get fucking laid already

[Dixie]

Can you set up a video camera for this? I'd like to see how it goes.

[Tadao]

This will be his best experiment yet!

[Sam]

He needs to get on the street and get fucking laid already

He can't get laid because that involves making loud noises, which he is deathly afraid of. :rolleyes

[Yukiko]

:love :love :love

I would be to shy to talk, but I would listen to you and try to sneak my number in.

[Sam]

Yukiko do you think it would be romantic to sit in the manga section of a bookstore and read manga together?

[Yukiko]

OMG, I think that would be so cute! But only if we sat close to gether so I could lean on him a little. :blush

[MetalMilitia]

Yukiko, which would be less creepy; if JOAD was reading tentacle rape manga or paedophile schoolgirl sex manga?

[Sam]

BONUS QUESTION: On a scale of 1 to 10 how creeped out would you be if he pointed at one of the scenes in the tentacle rape manga and said "We should try this."

[Tadao]

SUPER BONUS PRIZE QUESTION: What if it was Yaoi?

[Yukiko]

Jake doesn't read that trash! You guys don't even read what he writes!

[wobzire]

That is true.

[DevilWearsPrada]

JoaT, settle down now. I know your fictional disorder combined with your japanophilia, and obvious oedipal and various other complexes is causing you to act like a giant internet cunt, but posting as an asian girl all of sudden who says she digs fugly social outcasts complemented with posting some chicks picture... I mean, it's embarassing to watch because it's so desperate, not to mention extremely obvious

[DevilWearsPrada]

Also, please don't start raping young orientals

[Sam]

Jake doesn't read that trash! You guys don't even read what he writes!

I must not be a high enough level to comprehend a level 7 wordsmith. :rolleyes

[LordSappington]

Jake doesn't read that trash! You guys don't even read what he writes!
DO YOU EVEN KNOW HIM IN REAL LIFE? SERIOUSLY! JUST MOVE IN WITH HIM ALREADY AND STOP TRYING TO DEFEND HIS NONEXISTENT HONOR >:

[Jeanette X]

Ahem.

Okcupid.com.

Good place to start.

[JakeOfAllTrades]

OK, now this is getting interesting.

There's this Japanese otaku girl I've seen before in that bookshop who noticed me today and smiled at me, shyly peeking up from her manga. You think I'm making this up, but she was wearing this tartan jacket that really stood out, her glasses were the same as before, but I've never seen a woman wear a tartan jacket like that. What's more she looked good in it, at least to me.

I never told you about the first time I met her because you guys I knew would make fun of me about it (which you have already done having read this thread). So I left you in the dark. Guess I really have betrayed you guys, and not in the Train Man sense either.

So she knows I exist, and she smiled at me. If I had more time in the shop I would have talked to her, but I was "cock-blocked" by the fact my Dad was waiting for me in the Cafe. Yet I do know she comes in to that shop every friday. Heh. That's why I'm quite happy today, and not really flaming anybody. Not that I intentionally flame, sometimes I get carried away with the e-napalm here because of who people think I am.

Seriously. Meganekko Otaku Girl in Red Tartan Jacket. No joke.

[Neen]

Lots of people smiled at the elephant man. No joke.

[Chojin]

She SMILED at you? Shit, dude! Buy a ring!

[RaNkeri]

Did she also blush and moan "Jake-kun" while looking at you?

[Sam]

DID A GIANT TEAR DROP FORM UPON HER FOREHEAD?

[Grislygus]

So she knows I exist, and she smiled at me. If I had more time in the shop I would have talked to her, but I was "cock-blocked" by the fact my Dad was waiting for me in the Cafe.

"DAD! NO! NO! NOOUURRRNGHHHH NO NO NO! WANT! EEEEAUUUUUAAARRRGH DAMN IT! ASS! NO!"


Not that I intentionally flame, sometimes I get carried away with the e-napalm here because of who people think I am.

That's a relief, you should be more careful with the blistering linguistic assaults, trigger. Not that you have the intellectual capacity to understand sarcasm or other social cues, having a mental disorder and all

Seriously. Meganekko Otaku Girl in Red Tartan Jacket. No joke.

Okay, apparently "nekko" means cat person, which adds a hilarious twist to the fantasy

[RaNkeri]

"DAD! NO! NO! NOOUURRRNGHHHH NO NO NO! WANT! EEEEAUUUUUAAARRRGH DAMN IT! ASS! NO!"

:lol :lol

[Fathom Zero]

meganekko involves glasses, I know this much.

[Pub Lover]

Hay Jake, just talk to people more, okay? Walk up to them, stick out your hand and say "Hello, my name is Jake! How do you do?" You will be laughed at and embarrassed, but do not give up, because just once it might not be so bad.

[JakeOfAllTrades]

I have decided to stop posting new information about my adventures in love for the time being. By the way, Train Man had more than his fair share of haters teasing him as he was progressing in his path to love.

There's a difference between a playful joke at me and downright hatred. My condition predisposes me to taking things too literally, and it's hard for me to tell when you're just clownin'. I barely managed to come back here to post this message because I was afraid the trolling would destroy my optimistic courage about asking this girl out.

[Fathom Zero]

You remind me a lot of this friend I have. He's nervous about relationships, too.

I say kick ass. The worst thing you can do is to not have tried. Trust me, no matter what you may think now. The worst they can do is say no. Rejection sucks, but setting yourself up for failure is inexcusable.

[Pub Lover]

Also, smile.

[RaNkeri]

It's always better to regret something you've done, rather than regret something you haven't done

[executioneer]

bullcrap

[Chojin]

seriously.

i'll never get the blood out of my clown suit.

[JakeOfAllTrades]

So I talked to a few friends I actually know about it, and I've decided as romantic as my Train Man plan was, my love life has never worked out that way. I always get further when I follow the advice of the friends I've trusted for years.

That and I've been a bit moody today. This happens when I'm about to ask out a girl, wondering whether she will reject me or accept me. I've gotten a girl's phone number before and I believe it can happen again. The trouble is the self esteem.

It's not that I don't value the advice you've given me. You've helped me toughen up a lot and think about how to approach this girl. But what happens after that? I think that's something I'll have to learn to do without the help of a forum group.

So I'm logging out for a couple of days and if anything good happens maybe you'll hear about it. I won't tell you the girl's name or where she lives, or anything like that. That's just basic privacy. Densha Otoko's love interest was dubbed "Hermes" because he got Hermes teacups from her. Let's call this girl I'm trying to woo "Yomiko" because she looks a lot like Yomiko Readman from Read or Die, only with a different jacket and slightly shorter hair.

So I'm logging out, maybe you'll see me commenting on articles every now and then, but I don't think I'm ready to come back to the forums unless something interesting happens for you to hear about.

If the worst case scenario happens, rejection, you'll probably make fun of me for being such a naive romantic. I've been rejected before, and each time it gets particularly harder to talk to anybody about it every time it happens because I think people don't like hearing about people's failures, only successes in love.

I think I have another condition, the human one. As I get older talking to girls will become easier, and it will be easier to take criticism. But don't expect me to tell you if I got owned by this girl straight away. It will take time for me to confess that. At the same time I probably won't tell you whether I succeed either, I'm a busy man and have lots of things to do.

[Fathom Zero]

Good luck. I mean that.

[Pub Lover]

Jake, I hope it goes well for you, but try and just have fun. She doesn't have to be the one, no matter how romantic that would be.

"Yomiko" ... looks a lot like Yomiko Readman from Read or Die, only with a different jacket and slightly shorter hair.
If she changed her hair & jacket would you be able to spot her again? :eek

As I get older talking to girls will become easier, and it will be easier to take criticism.

Haha! No, it doesn't. :tear

[Sam]

This is like watching another Pub Lover being created. :(

[neojester12]

Sam...?

Wha-What.
Hold On.


What's going on?
WHAT THE FUCK, MAN?

[Yukiko]

You tell them Jake! Show them that you don't need them! I will continue to read your blog and cheer you on!!

[JakeOfAllTrades]

Ok, so I talked to my knowledgable friends about what to talk about with her, and I found out that Hot Gimmick is not yaoi, saving me some embarrassment. She's a girl otaku, but not a fujoshi.

Past few days have been driving me crazy. I barely know what is what when it comes to what this girl looks like anymore, she's like a blend of a number of things I remember about her that breaks apart like a dream image.

I really shouldn't have come back here knowing Tadao was going to insult my mother, because I need his help too. Help me by not provoking me right now, because I'm really anxious about what's going to happen next and whether it will get further than "Hi there".

I'm not even convinced I want to tell you anything more if it goes wrong, because you'll just hammer me down when I'm at my weakest point, when I get rejected by a girl it's another knock to my self esteem, and I don't need you guys mocking me when I've tried my best.

[Tadao]

All I want is an apology.

[MetalMilitia]

I'm not even convinced I want to tell you anything more if it goes wrong, because you'll just hammer me down when I'm at my weakest point, when I get rejected by a girl it's another knock to my self esteem, and I don't need you guys mocking me when I've tried my best.

Maybe we're just breaking you down so we can build you back up in our own image.

[Sam]

LIKE THE WORLD TRADE CENTER :neva4get

[Colonel Flagg]

Help me by not provoking me right now, because I'm really anxious about what's going to happen next and whether it will get further than "Hi there".

Someone PLEASE buy this guy a $10 hooker.

[JakeOfAllTrades]

By the way guys, I talked to her and it turned out great. Otaku girl is now my girlfriend. Fo' shizz. Sorry I took so long to reply, I guess I had a lot to deal with at the time. My new girlfriend is lovely and turns out her uncle works in manga in Japan, which is why she has otaku tendencies.

[MetalMilitia]

I THOUGHT I WAS YOUR GIRLFRIEND JAKE?!

[Tadao]

This is the best fiction short story you have written to date. You just might get another award!

[MarioRPG]

My new girlfriend is lovely and turns out her uncle works in manga in Japan,
There is no emoticon to display how I felt when I read this.

Oh wait: :rolleyes:

[JakeOfAllTrades]

Seriously, her uncle really does work in manga. However, I was sad to hear that her last name, Azuma, does not mean she's related to the creator of Azumanga Daioh. You might think I'm making this up but it's things like the disappointment of knowing your girlfriend isn't related to the Azumanga Daioh guy that makes reality sink in. Just like how her first name is Yomiko but her last name isn't Readman. I should count myself lucky she's my girlfriend at all, she's by no means the perfect woman but I'm not the perfect man either. Azuma is a common last name, she tells me, just like how a lot of people with the family name Kurosawa aren't related to Akira Kurosawa.

[Sam]

SO WHO HACKED JAKEOFALLTRADES' ACCOUNT?

BECAUSE THAT IS NOT JAKEOFALLTRADES TELLING THAT STORY.

>:

[JakeOfAllTrades]

A week can change a lot about a person. So can another person who loves you.

[The Leader]

Too bad no one cares about you. :tear

[Grislygus]

Fake Girl: "No, I''m not related to Azumajah Dio"
JOAT: "What? WHAT?!"
Fake Girl: "It's a fairly common name!"
JOAT: No! NNNNERRGH"
Fake Twirl: Look, I-"
JOAT: JUSTIFY YOUR EXISTENCE RIGHT NOW"
Jake's Girl: "Not everyone named Kurasawa is related to Akira Kurasawa!"
JOAT: "DAMN IT"
Sake Nearl: "I'm actually a man"

JOAT:". . ."

"Well, okay. I guess you're good enough"

[Tadao]

I bet he used my bump into her technique.

[DeadKennedys]

Seriously, her uncle really does work in manga. However, I was sad to hear that her last name, Azuma, does not mean she's related to the creator of Azumanga Daioh. You might think I'm making this up but it's things like the disappointment of knowing your girlfriend isn't related to the Azumanga Daioh guy that makes reality sink in. Just like how her first name is Yomiko but her last name isn't Readman. I should count myself lucky she's my girlfriend at all, she's by no means the perfect woman but I'm not the perfect man either. Azuma is a common last name, she tells me, just like how a lot of people with the family name Kurosawa aren't related to Akira Kurosawa.

Sometimes I want to use a funnel to pour acid into your rectum.

"I'm so sad that a girl gave me the time of day, but she doesn't fulfill my filthy otaku idealizations about Japanese people: supa supa kawaii pocky eating chibi manga authors!" Count yourself lucky if she'd even think about putting a funnel in your ass.

お焦げ

[JakeOfAllTrades]

So I've been reading this thread, and I should have been clear that I love my girlfriend even if she isn't related to the Azumanga Daioh creator. She's been very patient with me, which is saying a lot because although sometimes I think I know what she would think about something, it's safer not to assume anything. She phones me a lot, she asked me which library she should get a job in. I told her the State Library and various university libraries have good funding, so she should go for those.

We've had two fights, but we've resolved them. If anything I'm glad she doesn't put up with any crap, and so far I'm learning a lot from her.

You guys might hate me, and not even think my girlfriend is a real person, but really a lot's happened since I last logged in. I've learnt a lot about myself and how to develop my social skills.

[JakeOfAllTrades]

Oh, and next time, don't take my words out of context. I wasn't saying that I wouldn't love her if she didn't meet my expectations. Half the fun in seeing her is learning new things from her.

[Grislygus]

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n157/grislygus/animalman.jpg

[Grislygus]

I





AM NOT

[Grislygus]

AN ANIMAL

[Sam]

I think what really happened, was Jake got hisself a state worker to take care of him, and he is CONFUSING THE SITUATION.

[Zhukov]

What did you guys fight about? Was it petty things that just annoyed you, or do you think it was anything more serious than that?

Do you really love her?

[executioneer]

she wasn't even real (http://www.i-mockery.com/forum/showthread.php?t=69700899) :x

[Grislygus]

I think my post is the funniest now that she turned out to be a hallucination

[Dixie]

I want what Jake's been smoking.

[MetalMilitia]

cock

[LordSappington]

Maybe he believed in himself too hard. All your flaming for nothing. :(

[Tadao]

All your flaming for nothing. :(
:confused:

[LordSappington]

Fine, fine, mocking.

[Grislygus]

Another possibly entertaining thread ruined by the Jewborgs

[LordSappington]

Eh, does he even really post anymore?

[Grislygus]

It was tainted from the get-go