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Jack Krown's avatar

I need to know what purple Arabian building is.

While I cannot say that I have ever, or likely will ever, visit Fuji City, an industrial dump is precisely what I’d expect simply from the name. The locals likely couldn’t resist destroying something in the shadow of national greatness.

I’ve never had good Filipino food. The restaurant owners seem to not know that cooking oil must be changed.

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Julian Smith's avatar

Yeah, I'm not quite sure why Fuji became a location for so many industrial complexes. It's still pretty far from Tokyo and quite a distance from Shizuoka.

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Gianni Simone's avatar

A Filipino friend of mine once took me to an all-you-can-eat diner near Ofuna and it wasn't half-bad. Mostly meat stuff. But don't take my word for it, I'm not a gourmet.

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Gianni Simone's avatar

Skegness... I don't know the place, but I like the name. Skegness... It sure sounds like a dump!

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Julian Smith's avatar

Back in the late 1980s/early 1990s "Skeggy" (the nickname for Skegness) was used to describe anything disgusting, e.g. "The inside of you bag is so skeggy, you really need to clean it out!"

My grandparents lived just up the road from Skegness, and I actually liked it when I was a child - tacky is fine for kids!

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Gianni Simone's avatar

Yep, I'm pretty sure the local Fuji kids love that Arabian abomination too.

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