Comments on: Disappointing times for Heartland women

By: RMilner

RMilner — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:42:46 +0000

I’m somewhat late to this party.

I was in Heartland before Christmas for a couple of beers with a work colleague (videogames industry so we didn’t look anything like bankers.)

I got hit on by a Japanese lady within 15 minutes. She was in her 30s, but I am in my 40s, so it would have been fair enough and I’m sure I could have taken her somewhere nice that same evening. However I am too married to be doing with that stuff so I blew her off.

There certainly are Japanese gold-diggers. One of my wife’s friends was one. She was constantly moaning that she couldn’t find a good boyfriend — her definition of good was rich. In the end she did find one and they are now happily married with a son.

By: ini

ini — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:07:55 +0000

I guess there’s a symbiotic relationship going on at Heartland. Much like a Jaffa and his Goa’uld..
it’s up to the reader decide who’s the Jaffa there

By: Heartland’s Heartbroken Gold-Diggers « Gaijin Tonic

Heartland’s Heartbroken Gold-Diggers « Gaijin Tonic — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:00:39 +0000

[...] via Japan Probe [...]

By: Catch the Chicken

Catch the Chicken — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:21:26 +0000

… and of course it is entirely written around the basis of -money hungry Japanese girls looking for rich western boyfriends-.
Not much about how the party is over for the boys who also palyed at this game and exploited the girls for an easy fling.

… but then again it is written for the western media, therefore there is only thier angle to be promoted.

By: Level3

Level3 — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:27:39 +0000

Sorry but this story just reminds me of anything written by Philip Glass (of “I made up just about every story I wrote using fake interviews with imaginary people that nobody could fact-check, got famous, then got caught” fame)

By: BM

BM — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:17:19 +0000

And a real shame for the men who can’t get any action.

By: jb

jb — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:00:59 +0000

only been there a few times but the first time i went there i definitely spotted a pair of gold diggers on the prowl. personally i think it would be wonderful if, after ten plus years at the very top of society’s (dubious) pecking order, those in the financial services industry get taken a few pegs down

By: gab

gab — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:17:16 +0000

money hungry!

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:39:04 +0000

I like that place because you can stroll in and leave 10 minutes later with a woman, whether you’re a banker or not, just by pretending to be one.
The fact that the ladies there are shallow and superficial makes me feel much less guilty when I’m sneaking out of the love hotel at five in the morning!

By: Haf

Haf — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:25:27 +0000

I never felt an urge to go to such places.
Also I don’t think I’d ever want to socialize with such shallow and money/foreigner-obsessed women.

By: Catch the Chicken

Catch the Chicken — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:05:57 +0000

I went there once, and didnt last too long.
Too many girls looking for foreigner boyfriends made the palce seem sleazy.

… and there were too many foreigners.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:00:01 +0000

Being only 26 now, at the time I was in my early 20s, so maybe I attract a different crowd? It was pretty packed the one and only time I went. I can’t say whether or not the conditions were normal.

By: klimmer

klimmer — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:45:08 +0000

No dis-respect intended but I hardly see 30 year old women there. They are mostly late 30’s looking to date a white man.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:26:24 +0000

I went to that place once while waiting to see Spiderman 2 during the 3 a.m. special showing at the Virgin Theaters nearby. I happened to be in a suit because I’d gone there after an interview for a job (definitely not a banking job). I was practically mobbed by 30-year-old Japanese women looking to start up a conversation, but you could read this creepy sort of gaijin-obsession in their expressions. All I wanted was a (Pepsi?) Heartland beer and a place to chill out before watching some Spiderman.

However, it was a much better atmosphere than most of the other places in Roppongi (or the whole greater Tokyo area, for that).

By: ST

ST — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:04:05 +0000

And somewhere in the distance, you can hear the mournful sounds of the world’s smallest violin.

By: Montsan

Montsan — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:32:56 +0000

Pity.

By: Seth

Seth — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:42:40 +0000

My heart bleeds.