Already this year, Japan‘s embassy in Paris has had to repatriate at least four visitors — including two women who believed their hotel room was being bugged and there was a plot against them…cases include a man convinced he was the French “Sun King”, Louis XIV, and a woman who believed she was being attacked with microwaves…
Ch’yeah, it’s Paris’s fault. Look, I may not be the best example in the world, so don’t look at me (can you believe I just said that?) but lots and lots of people go to Paris every year and don’t end up baying at the moon or invading Russia. It don’t matter what the Journal du Dimanche says, Paris is infuriating, but it does not have quite the same effect as an overnight in Innsmouth. Let’s talk about pre-existing conditions, here.
Around a dozen Japanese tourists a year need psychological treatment after visiting Paris as the reality of unfriendly locals and scruffy streets clashes with their expectations, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
“A third of patients get better immediately, a third suffer relapses and the rest have psychoses,” Yousef Mahmoudia, a psychologist at the Hotel-Dieu hospital, next to Notre Dame cathedral, told the newspaper Journal du Dimanche.
Has anyone considered the possibility that Japan is simply offshoring a lot of unstable people recently?
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Funny, they offshored a lot of unstable people in 1931-45 too and may have had similar problems.
But they didn’t get as far as France that time!
Ergo, which apparently rules out the Parisian connection
Indeedy. It seems they’ve lost that streak of practicality in the last sixty or so years.
Climb Mount Niitaka, I always say . . . .
I bet that gets you a lot of stares when you drop Grandma off at the Daughters of the Confederacy meetings.
You think that’s bad? Try when I’m covering the Fleet Reserve Association annual beer bash.
oooh baby! Need an assistant? I love me some drunken sailors, but then who doesn’t?
Drunken 60-ish sailors? Surrre, come on down. And maybe we’ll stop by the Sons of Confederate Veterans so you can hear me yell, “Hey, wheah de white wimmen?” Remember, technically I’m mixed race >;^D>
I don’t hang with you people.
Anothah way da MAN keeps us undah his foot!!!!!
Speaking of feet: Is it true what they say about you?
Maannnnnnn!!! When whitey done stuck his nose in ah fam’ly tree, even that saying went to hell >B^D>
Well I’m sure you’d wow them in Japan, if that helps.
Yep, I’m sure I’d be the subject of many an off-color joke.
And scene…