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    Baibaikin

    Hendrix was my first rock concert and it s nice to have bits of history

    Wow. Now that had to be a tough one to beat.

    Posted in: 1969 Hendrix telegram: Can Paul come to play?

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    Baibaikin

    Haven't seen the Hamburglar character for a long time. Is he still around?

    Posted in: Three men rob McDonald's of Y2 mil in Shizuoka

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    Insufficient nursing staff in hospitals and care facilities can also mean that nurses work horrendous shifts. Changing adult diapers aside, I can only imagine how difficult it must be to have to deal with violent or otherwise troublesome patients on top of sleep deprivation. I'm sure even the saintliest of nurses have a tipping point. There's obviously a lot more to this story than meets the eye.

    Posted in: Psychiatric patient dies after being assaulted by male nurse

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    Baibaikin

    @cleo - No idea why you got all the thumbs down. I'm a firm believer that it is the responsibility of dog owners to train them to behave as best they can. If people haven't got the time or the inclination to do that, they shouldn't have a dog.

    Posted in: City's poop patrol making slow progress against negligent dog owners

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    @Devil It's not so much the 'tradition' aspect (which would appear in this case to be limited to a very small area) as the fact that none of the posters are surprised that a big, captive bull got one over on its puny owner. Not quite a Darwin Award, but perhaps in the same league as a circus performer who puts his head in the jaws of a lion.

    Posted in: Man gored to death in bull ring

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    Baibaikin

    "...and are only told of their impending death a few hours ahead of time."

    Sure, but the fact they are on death row should be a bit of a hint that the gallows are beckoning. And as @sensei258 points out, murder victims generally aren't expecting to have their lives taken from them.

    As for rival gangsters, well, it could be argued that they buy into that kind of life style, but we can't be shooting people willy nilly in restaurants.

    Posted in: 2 inmates hanged, bringing number of executions to 5 under Abe

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    Baibaikin

    @hoserfella I don't doubt it. I imagine riding in the RR is somewhat less 'biscuit tin'-like than the Alto.

    Posted in: Jump in my car

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    Baibaikin

    That's a mean chuck of metal. WIth all the bloody traffic lights in Japan, though, the driver of this Roller will be stop-starting at the same pace as all the Suzuki Alto drivers, while consuming gallons more high-oc.

    Posted in: Jump in my car

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    Baibaikin

    As @borax and a couple of others pointed out, despite being decked out in body armour with 'forked spears', the police looked pretty hopeless. Don't they have tazers here? A quick zap to the gnads would've subdued the knife-yielding, girlfriend-threatening, amphetamine-fuelled, young car thief yankee.

    Posted in: Man arrested after 7-hour standoff on rooftop

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    Baibaikin

    Mental anguish?! It seems to me that this man should stop Googling himself.

    Can we assume that Yafuu, which is certainly the preferred search engine among every Japanese person I've met, doesn't autocomplete in the same way?

    Posted in: Tokyo District Court tells Google to stop autocomplete words

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    Baibaikin

    Can't wait to see how his father is going to rescue him from the aquarium!

    Posted in: Fish survives 8,000-km journey from Japan to America on boat washed away by tsunami

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    After a mere 7 years doing the Tokyo commute, I'm still in the 'GET OUT OF MY WAY!' frame of mind. It gets me down, so I hope to develop Ichiro Tanaka's approach if I choose to do it for the long haul.

    Posted in: Veteran strap-hanger gives upbeat advice for surviving daily commute

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    Baibaikin

    Nice pins.

    Posted in: Top Marc

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    Baibaikin

    Very amusing article, and very true. Faux beer is best avoided and should be featured in guide books for newbies in Japan.

    Posted in: Japan’s greatest faux beers - happoshu

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    Baibaikin

    I'm very surprised she made it on to the flight in Narita with scissors in her bag. Surely someone there deserves to have their wrist slapped.

    Posted in: Dropped scissors causes chaos at Naha Airport

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    Baibaikin

    Those are some impressive cherry trees, and beer mask man is undoubtedly going to have some fun.

    As some posters have pointed out, the whole reserving a piece of park if you're not even there is pretty cheeky. Get there early in the morning with a box of supplies and camp out until your friends arrive. That's the decent thing to do.

    Posted in: Join the party

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    Baibaikin

    Potential health monitoring benefits for old people or those who are likely to be endangering themselves by watching naughty stuff on their phone... .

    Posted in: Fujitsu smartphone can take your pulse

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    Baibaikin

    I'm with @Probie. Most of the time the 'otoshi' is something unpalatable, so I always refuse it. No waiter has ever told me I have to have it.

    @Wakarimasen A few hundred yen isn't going to spoil my evening, but it's a waste of food and money if the takowasabi, or whatever is plonked in front of me, isn't eaten. The izakayas don't care if you then spend a few thousand yen on the rest of your evening.

    Posted in: Japan’s curious compulsory appetizers

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    Baibaikin

    Until the leadership stops acting beyond the laws of the land(s) and starts handing paedophile priests over to the real authorities for the punishment they deserve, no-one should take them seriously. And that's only the tip of the iceberg.

    Posted in: Argentine Jorge Bergoglio elected Pope Francis

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    Baibaikin

    Geez. The Russian bedside manner must be pretty shoddy if they're looking to Japan for good patient care. Tough love all around.

    Posted in: Russian doctors and nurses don't have enough sympathy toward patients. We want to 'import' this from Japan.

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