Ah_so said...

Ah_so at 11:22 PM JST - 2nd October

I have just seen the Japanese Olypmic bid on bbc.co.uk. It is so poor, so without passion that it can only help it lose votes. The Rio one has girls in bikinis - great.

Rio should get it. Madrid, Chicago, Tokyo are just too predictable and unexotic.

Posted in Hatoyama urges IOC to choose Tokyo as 2016 Olympic host at 11:22 PM JST - 2nd October
Ah_so at 07:14 AM JST - 28th September

I am a member of Twitter, but have only ever Twatted once. Could not see the point. No idea how it could ever create the advertising revenue to justify its existence.

Posted in Something to tweet about: Twitter valued at $1 billion at 07:14 AM JST - 28th September
Ah_so at 07:11 AM JST - 28th September

Celebrity drug users and abusers in North America are a dime a dozen.

Exactly. There are also a lot of prescription drug abusers in North America - one star collects so many prescriptions it seems to be some kind of Basic Instinct for her. Kate Moss got done for coke,…

Posted in Celebrity drug offenders face public humiliation at 07:11 AM JST - 28th September
Ah_so at 07:02 AM JST - 28th September

Looks so much nicer than the tattoos I saw on the wannabe yakuza in the onsen in August.

She can come to my onsen any day.

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Ah_so at 06:58 AM JST - 28th September

It is still Japanese curry - quite unrelated to anything from the Indian sub-continent.

Spicy Indian food looks like it will never catch on in Japan. Kare Raisu is always advertised as though it comes from France or Italy; a connection I have never quite grasped.

Posted in 100-hour chicken curry at 06:58 AM JST - 28th September
Ah_so at 08:45 PM JST - 22nd September

Poor fella has probably been hard at work for months. And at 66... It wouldn't have been easy!

Not sure about that - the pears grow all by themselves. The hard work is the picking and someone else did that for him!

Posted in 2,000 pears stolen from trees in Ibaraki at 08:45 PM JST - 22nd September
Ah_so at 07:29 PM JST - 22nd September

Flu jabs do work, although it does not provide a guarantee that you will not get flu or that the jab itself with give you a (usually minor) dose of flu.

Posted in 7-year-old boy dies of new-flu infection in Shiga at 07:29 PM JST - 22nd September
Ah_so at 10:12 PM JST - 21st September

The LDP's pump-priming measures over the last 10 years have done little but provide the facade of continued wealth, when in fact all it is based on is borrowed money at low interest rates.

Japan needs to look at what sort of country it wants to be in 20 years…

Posted in Beware Japan’s new political beast at 10:12 PM JST - 21st September
Ah_so at 04:53 PM JST - 17th September

I preferred "City Hunter" for learning Japanese. If I wanted childish toilet humor I'd teach in an elementary school.

The humour really is not that childish - as I wrote above, you need a certain maturity to appreciate the books, something that is lost in the anime.

Posted in 'Crayon Shinchan' cartoonist missing at 04:53 PM JST - 17th September
Ah_so at 04:49 PM JST - 16th September

Crayon Shinchan books helped me to learn Japanese - the manga strips, in their excellent 3-page format, with furigana over the kanji, are written for both adults and children, but only the adults can truely appreciate the humour. The pictures provide excellent clues as to what is going on if…

Posted in 'Crayon Shinchan' cartoonist missing at 04:49 PM JST - 16th September