Area66 said...

Area66 at 03:59 PM JST - 21st May

I'm 67, and at one point I lived smack in The Haight. Hair down below my ass, bell bottoms and Huarachi sandals, beard, and an attitude to match all that.

When I got done playing, I worked, started a successful company (that I still own, though I'm 'retired' now).

So…

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Area66 at 11:38 AM JST - 16th May

Either way you look at it, you must admit that once again Greenpeace has found something to blubber over.

More seriously, I happen to more or less agree that there is a problem with whaling, but I virtually never agree with Greenpeace's methods of resolving anything.

Posted in Greenpeace files complaint over alleged whale meat embezzlement at 11:38 AM JST - 16th May
Area66 at 12:34 PM JST - 5th May

To soothsayer, I can only add 'Ditto'... and point out that your post here doth prove you a sayer of sooth.

Posted in Japan peace groups to unveil WWII monument in Guam at 12:34 PM JST - 5th May
Area66 at 12:23 PM JST - 5th May

The 'Slide' factor... "The more likely the ingredients between the buns have of 'sliding' out when you try to bite into the burger, the better the burger will be". This factor applies to virtually all sandwiches.

To phrase it another way, "The more of a mess it makes to eat,…

Posted in What differentiates a really good hamburger from an average one? at 12:23 PM JST - 5th May
Area66 at 12:20 PM JST - 25th April

I think attempting to deal with much of anything in 'moral' terms is doomed to a very inconsistent outcome, at best. There are simply about as many moralities out there as there are people.

I think we would all do well if we returned to simply attempting to teach the…

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Area66 at 01:01 AM JST - 22nd April

I didn't see any action in WWII, I was a tad to young. But I caught the tag end of Korea, and did several tours in Vietnam, and I have an insight, that while not pretty or kind (to either side) may help some of you understand what is done…

Posted in Back in the 1940s, every newspaper, every magazine, the movies, the radio, everything was geared that the Japanese were short, myopic, everyone wore glasses, they all had buck teeth, they were all interbred, they were rapists and they were just evil people. We had that drummed in our head. When I look at movies from the 1940s that I saw as a kid, they're absolutely ridiculous. You never saw such evil people. at 01:01 AM JST - 22nd April