1

My definition is it's the anime equivalent of a person who is learning klingon, and who goes out in public dressed like this

2 First, Andy's link is NSFW. Second, are you sure you linked to the right thing? What in hell has Haruhi got to do with Klingons?

3

Well, hey, I'd be pretty disturbed by someone that dressed up as Haruhi and went around spouting Klingon, too.

In a related matter, the website was slow to load, so I recongized it before anything NSFW loaded, and killed the browser.  Bad Andy. Bad! Bad!

4 I thought weaboo was just a synonym for "J-List customer".

-j

5

Apologies to anyone in trouble with their boss! 

Trouble with drinking while online, it made sense in my head while typing, shall try again;

'A weeboo is the anime equivalent of a star tek fan who learns klingon and goes to conventions in full costume.'

 

6 A weaboo is not anime specific. It's a Westerner who pretends to be Japanese (sort of like a furry who clips on a tail). He may as often as not be into other aspect of Japanese exotic, although usually indeed it centers around Japanese sex industry and thus J-list.

7 Part of the problem is that the original thread title doesn't have much to do with the content of that thread. It says "Weeaboo" and then spends a lot of time talking about guns that don't appear in any Japanese anything (if it was really a list of weeaboo weapons, surely the MG42 would be on it?)

That said, Steven's mostly right. You can be an anime fan, even a hard-core anime fan, without being a weeaboo; the latter is when you're using chopsticks to eat mashed potatoes, ending sentences in "w", and subtitling things with "just according to keikaku" with a note saying "keikaku means plan". It's the crossing of the line where your enjoyment of things Japanese is actually interfering with your ability to not be a freak.

8 All I know is that it may be a cause of bankruptcy. Corporate executives are concerned.

9

Don't be cruel. Peter sells things other than sex toys and porn. (Though I suspect that's the majority of his business.)

Still, I've never bought anything from him. (I was tempted to get Maritan from him, though.)

10 I've bought quite a lot from J-List over the years (including items in his core business (even gave a female co-worker a Hello Kitty "massager"...)), and the primary reason I don't buy much there now is a combination of outgrowing his inventory and the increased usability of Amazon Japan.

-j

11 http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=weeaboo sums it up pretty well.  I'm sure you'll all be shocked to hear that it evolved into a meme in the swamp of /b/.

12 ...and I clearly need to post links more than once in a blue moon, lest I forget what goes where...