Azrael said...

Azrael at 11:31 PM JST - 25th October

I have used AU services for 6 years now; this is my last school year and I wanted a new headset because my six year old one broke down this month. I was told I cannot have a new headset unless I sign up for two more years! In any…

Posted in KDDI's sales, profit decline for April-Sept period at 11:31 PM JST - 25th October
Azrael at 09:35 PM JST - 25th October

"Atashi wa kankenai. Warui wa ano hito da," it's typical, in Japan and everywhere else. There's a Ramensu duo's skit called The Japanese Tradition: Sushi (it's subtitled on YouTube) where they poke fun at people that eat sushi made of endangered species saying, "I am not the bad one; the…

Posted in Antifur rally marches through fashionable Tokyo streets at 09:35 PM JST - 25th October
Azrael at 06:05 PM JST - 25th October

Kyolicious's interpretation seems sound. Just to comment perhaps the sign means, don't exchange more than one presentation card with a new acquaintance. Maybe it's a graphic sign equivalent to those in shops saying, we don't exchange money. Honestly I don't know; the guy in the sign looks like a pimp…

Posted in Sign of the times at 06:05 PM JST - 25th October
Azrael at 02:05 PM JST - 25th October

I don't think it'd be prudent to include the US in the East Asian Community.

Posted in Japan sees ASEAN at core of East Asian community, but stresses U.S. ties at 02:05 PM JST - 25th October
Azrael at 10:40 PM JST - 17th October

Hephatsheput at 07:47 PM JST - 17th October: This makes me furious. Are these 8 people claiming their countries are perfect? Don't they have problems to work on in their own countries? Japan makes its own laws, and should not cave to foreign pressure.

Don't you realize those 8 countries…

Posted in 8 ambassadors urge Japan to solve global child custody disputes at 10:40 PM JST - 17th October
Azrael at 04:29 AM JST - 17th October

Whatever happened to sound pollution? Traffic emissions and sound have been classified as pollutants decades ago - and now that a solution arises, it's bad? This is absurd. At least if traffic sound becomes a must, change it! Why must it be "car-like?" A modern sound would be nicer.

Actually,…

Posted in Carmakers to be obliged to fit engine-like sound device in hybrids at 04:29 AM JST - 17th October
Azrael at 12:27 AM JST - 17th October

I think it's very kewl and useful. I checked it out on Amazon, it has quite a lot of recipes. To this date I know very little Japanese cooking and this seems a fun and relaxed way to learn more things.

Posted in The Manga Cookbook at 12:27 AM JST - 17th October
Azrael at 06:22 PM JST - 16th October

... I have to admit that is one excellent posterior.

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Azrael at 05:17 PM JST - 16th October

Blacklabel at 08:10 AM JST - 16th October: Azrael: So, all these women working in sex joints, hostess bars, as strippers, making adult movies, etc didnt make a CHOICE to do that as a better way to make money compared to working a real job?

Blacklabel: I am glad you…

Posted in Let’s talk about you-know-what at 05:17 PM JST - 16th October
Azrael at 04:03 AM JST - 16th October

Japan is in the Victorian age in more than one aspect. Sexuality here in Japan is eerily alike to sexual attitudes in England's Victorian period (wow the 1800s). There is a sexually strict and repressed front, and a libertine and depraved backstage, coexisting in apparent harmony. However as history has…

Posted in Let’s talk about you-know-what at 04:03 AM JST - 16th October