ACrowe said...

ACrowe at 09:02 AM JST - 7th September

A lot of the drinks contain taurine (タウリン) in addition to copious amounts of caffeine and, yes, sugar. The more expensive variety also have royal jelly and ginseng in them.

Do they work? Yes, but not as well as Modafinil, which was sadly designated a Class A psychoactive drug in…

Posted in What do you think of so-called energy drinks? at 09:02 AM JST - 7th September
ACrowe at 08:32 AM JST - 7th September

Caught red-panty-handed!

I like to think that I've got both a healthy libido and a fertile imagination. And yet, I cannot fathom how a man can get his rocks off stealing a woman's skivvies. It does indeed take all types to make this world go round.

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ACrowe at 02:26 PM JST - 13th June

Ugh, the end of humanity is nigh.

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ACrowe at 10:19 PM JST - 22nd January

. . . when these leaders call do they have some interpreter in on the call to translate or do they fumble away with possible misinterpretations and faux pas raising their head at every turn ?

They've got translators at both ends of the telephone line: one translating J…

Posted in Bush bids farewell to Aso, other leaders at 10:19 PM JST - 22nd January
ACrowe at 10:27 PM JST - 15th January

Who is this translating dynamo, Taro Fujimoto? Most of the articles I've read this evening have been translated by him. My hats off to you, sir.

Posted in Weighty issues for Osaka Gov Hashimoto at 10:27 PM JST - 15th January
ACrowe at 07:33 AM JST - 9th January

The once privately owned studios of Hollywood are now, by and large, subsidiaries of major entertainment and media conglomerates more interested in stock performance over the short term than in producing quality feature films. The creative drive has fallen by the wayside as companies try to bump up their stock…

Posted in Why are Hollywood remakes of classic films, "The Day the Earth Stood Still" being a recent example, generally inferior to the originals? at 07:33 AM JST - 9th January