[emanuer]

Thank you for your advice, I fully agree. I cannot edit my comment anymore, so I actually think about just deleting it.

Edit: I am surprised to find; I mistakenly assumed I have the ability to delete my comments. That seems new...

[pasbesoin]

I enjoyed your comment, as I have enjoyed many comments here on HN that quite thoughtfully and often eloquently take the time to provide a personal context and, yes, anecdote, to a more generally reported circumstance.

Don't worry about it. I -- for one ;-) -- think your comment was appropriate and useful, in this context.

(For example, it provides me with some additional insight to my own occasional interactions with Japanese culture. Most useful, to me.)

Nor do I mean to be overly critical of the critiquing response. Yes, we do need to be aware of anecdote versus corroborated fact. But, as one other respondent has commented, we make some assumption that those on HN can judge this for themselves.

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This comment meant in good spirit, all around. And yes, it's just my opinion.

[josephagoss]

Yeah after a while the comments become immortal.

It's a pest when you post something only to realise a little while later that perhaps it should have been written differently or not written at all.

Happens to me all the time.