This is the most stupidious thing i ever heard of...

[Czernobog]

I am still confused over whether to say は or が in these kinds of situations.

This is the best fairly straight-forward and easily comprehensible explanation I've heard:

[MrEco]

If someone thinks for themselves and wants to wear or not wear anything because they found a good logical reason for it, I'm fine with that.

My main problem is being forced to wear something for some bullshit reason. The vast majority of the time people wear fancy clothes is because of tradition or because someone demanded they wear it.

People don't typically choose to wear fancy clothes just to hang around the house and relax. They wear them out of obligation or for so they can be viewed highly by others out of ignorance. That's when I will lose respect for and think less of you. But no matter what I think, I wouldn't demand someone to wear or not wear something, unless it was somehow harming others. For example, someone who has STD's and they are out in public, nude.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Oh crap. Inazuma. Making sense. Being right. Maybe those Family Radio people aren't so crazy...

[hashiriya1]

I honestly don't know if you're joking or not, but w/e:
"This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard of"

I wasn't joking. English really isn't his first language. That has been established on this forum, but since it's impossible for everybody to know or care about that, I thought I would say it again.

[hashiriya1]

サラリーマンのバカヤロウｗ

I am at work and my work computer doesn't have Japanese typing capabilities, but the "no" should be a "ha (wa)" or "ga", depending on your emphasis. Otherwise it just says "salaryman's idiot/asshole/moron/fuckwad/imbecile/etc, etc" Maybe that's what you meant!

The salaryman life ain't so bad. I survived it. Some of the OLs were cute, so that helps you during a 10 to 12 hour shift.

I always wondered about that myself. I have heard many people say 誰々のバカ on Japanese TV and thought it should be a はor が myself. Have I been hearing things wrong all these years or do they really say の?

I learned my Japanese from video games and anime so I didn't have a lot of things properly explained to me. I learned from watching other people.

It's more of a childish/kiddie way to talk. Using の the way you did with salaryman didn't fit within the context of the thread, so that is why I corrected you. You can actually say it the way you typed it, but in a more fitting context.

One good rule of thumb with　は and が is that you use は when you are emphasizing whatever comes before the は,　and opposite with が. There is more to it than that, but your head will explode.

My main problem is being forced to wear something for some bullshit reason.

Yeah, it's stupid...but I will never complain about the 女子高生s I see riding their bikes home.

[Czernobog]

Yeah, it's stupid...but I will never complain about the 女子高生s I see riding their bikes home.

I keep getting older, they stay the same age. Yes they do, yes they do.

[Ivo]

Yeah, it's stupid...but I will never complain about the 女子高生s I see riding their bikes home.

I think I don't need to read Japanese to make a solid guess that was "school girls".
Japan: land of the rising upskirt (or was that sun?).

I wonder why they insist on those awkward uniforms.

Ivo.

[Haoie]

They're cute! In an incredibly impractical way. Like all fashion I guess.

[ZeroAX]

My tenth grade year we lived in New York and all the kids at school cared a lot about how folks dressed. I just dressed like I normally did in Alabama, which wasn't particularly nicely because clothes just weren't that important. So my pants weren't as baggy as everyone else's. Most of the students I interacted with regularly at some point actively made me feel uncomfortable because of the clothes I was wearing.

I'm not necessarily for school uniforms, but I just wanted to point out that people are pretty darn superficial, and kids are even worse.

Those kids are huge losers. Their parents probably never loved them, so they don't have faith in what they are, and need to, not only define themselves and try to stand out with something as stupid as clothes, but also take everyone else down cause deep down they have an inferiority complex.

Honestly, I have never met a (really) happy person who was mean.

[Hobie-wan]

My tenth grade year we lived in New York and all the kids at school cared a lot about how folks dressed. I just dressed like I normally did in Alabama, which wasn't particularly nicely because clothes just weren't that important. So my pants weren't as baggy as everyone else's. Most of the students I interacted with regularly at some point actively made me feel uncomfortable because of the clothes I was wearing.

I'm not necessarily for school uniforms, but I just wanted to point out that people are pretty darn superficial, and kids are even worse.

Thankfully my phase of wanting to wear 'cool clothes' only really lasted 6th, 7th, and part of 8th grade. I wore a lot of hand me down clothes in elementary school so I had a little bit of sensibility built in when the hormone craziness started. My mom wouldn't buy the expensive stuff that was in style, and I eventually came to terms with it. Then in high school I hung out with the goth kids as musical tastes lined up with them and I fit in with them pretty well. I didn't dress very gothy, but they didn't care too much.

[Luke]

Thankfully my phase of wanting to wear 'cool clothes' only really lasted 6th, 7th, and part of 8th grade.

Lucky you, my parents allowed me to dress in 'cool clothes' all through high school. They also allowed me dye my hair peacock blue without a blink. That led to my best friend calling me Gonzo for a month ("you're a weirdo with a big nose and blue hair"). But one cool thing about the blue hair incident is when I played hockey, I would drip blue sweat from my helmet onto the ice, and would leave blue streaks where I skated which led to some pretty cool "designs" on the ice.