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My "quoting" is not working well, apologies. > Always this kind of complains are coming, only…
Posted in: Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
My "quoting" is not working well, apologies. > Always this kind of complains are coming, only…
Posted in: Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
In reply to tamarama: Did you receive a sentence in Japan, tmarie? Are you a prisoner…
Posted in: Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
@fadamor its widely rumored by others who've sang the anthem televised that she "nailed it" in…
People are human, and come built with faults, including addiction or obsession genes.
Posted in: Why do some celebrities self-destruct due to substance abuse?
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Coligny
Why pay a fortune to visit a polluted dump run by an unelected dictatorship when you could be relaxing on a beach in Thailand for a fraction of the price?
Or stay in Japan to have the same environment...
Rajakumar... thanks for the candid touch... that more frightenning than refreshing but i'm sure you did your best..
Posted in: Hotels in Beijing hurting despite Olympic fever
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Coligny
Yes but woman in Japan don't know about fragrance either... It's goes with their unsophisticated general behaviour. Like Toyota cars... Somewhat the same, somewhat different but in fine you don't care...
BTW for a denial of the non sweating japanese girls myth I recommend any movie with Yua Aida... (at least I wuz told...)
Posted in: Don't sweat it
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Coligny
Yep, the translator was really good in his job. And they always claimed that the story were unverified and might be completly made up. It was really a pleasure to read them.
Posted in: What do you think of the Mainichi's decision to cease publishing its WaiWai tabloid tidbits section on its English online site following complaints that it portrays Japanese society in a negative light to the world?
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Coligny
She seems smarter than ever... make you miss Aki Hoshino aka the Goldfish Stare Queen. At least when she play balls even clothed like she jumped out of bed late she's not "singing".
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Coligny
Death penalty is an easy exit. And if justice got it wrong kinda impossible to reverse... It's somewhat barbaric... well fitting into japanese society in fact... subtlety is still scarce up here...
Posted in: Are you in favor of the death penalty?
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Coligny
Living with the family is part of the fun in this country. I insisted against my wife so we go to live with her parents; nicest people i've ever seen and since I work from home it give me people to see during the day. Allow to be in bigger house, do some carpooling, use less energy and water and much less stress in case someone is sick or injured.
Posted in: Experts have their say on Akihabara rampage
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Coligny
gogogo: Much more than you think, especially in japan, especially in the category of people who might buy this product. Until now it was ok for companies rebranding cheap chinese products (like elecom) to get away with buggy driver only for windows and never more mature than an 1.01 release. Today the wind has already turned. And either supporting linux or coming clean about the spec of the product to allow independant developers to fill the gap is what differentiate success from failure. If the maker is at least a little smart their webcam will follow the UVC norm and therefore de-facto be supported by mac OSX and Linux.
Posted in: Revolving USB webcam
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Coligny
For those thinking my comparison to movie is stupid. Let me phrase it differently:
You don't report on a situation before assessing it. Here the situation was clearly still developing and it seems that there was an uniformed police officer nearby. In this case, it's not even about training or else, it's just that you back up, try to understand what's going on and then try to see if / what you can do.
Posted in: Akihabara victim was dialling 110 when she was attacked
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Coligny
I don't remember ONE single war or action movie where the soldiers don't take cover before calling for support. This death is so stupid. Not that the others were making any sense, but here sh1t was already hitting the fan and she stood like a sitting duck.
Posted in: Akihabara victim was dialling 110 when she was attacked
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Coligny
Sound like the name of a crappy satellite TV package...
Posted in: Tokyo Sky Tree unlikely to take root
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Coligny
For Meitetsu at least 4, The airport shuttle (new train express and a old banger that stop at every combini on the way), the Toyohashi terminus, a local line and some another (toyokawainari I think).
Don't remember having or reading about any problem...
Posted in: New Fukutoshin subway line plagued with trouble for 1st three days
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Coligny
pffff... My cat can also fake to be interested in my conversation... and it just cost me a can of "Mon Petit"...
Posted in: Hostesses
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Coligny
Illsayit... those words are english... but the way you put them together, they just make no sense...
Post partum... without any psychological councelling it's not really coming as a surprise...
It's getting boring to see how late japan is compare to the first world countries...
For energy preservation, everything started in europe in the 70' is just starting now (so around 40 years late, and they are dumb enought to pretend to be on edge and a model for the rest of the world)
For psychology... let see...1900/1920 for europe... Japan is still nowhere to be found in this game so let say around 100 years late...
Politician will continu to blame weak individual and not being a good fighting japanese while having themselve never fought for anything since they got the power from their family name... Babies will continue to die...
It a lose lose situation with only 1 player who, in order to add insult to injury consider that he should be a role model for the rest of the planet... insular inbreeding is really starting to take its toll...
Posted in: Ibaraki woman arrested for drowning 13-day-old son in bathtub
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Coligny
Typical filling article... Kept in a secret vault for the dreaded day where there is not even something to say about dog makeup in Japan...
2 theories behind the author... either she's for real and is not known among her friend for her great spirit but is a blast in someanother field. OR... it's a bloke paid to write said filling articles...
Posted in: Stereotypes ’R’ Us
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Coligny
Sarcasm123... overhead wire are much more vulnerable, (wind, traffic accident, quake, easy sabotage, lightning.) it's just cheaper, so people rationalize it with the usual "it's japan so it's for the quakes" which is beyond ridiculous. In my little harbor town here, they are burrying everything. The town was pretty even without lowering your standards because it's a japanese town. But now it's getting quite gorgeous.
Posted in: Power lines
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Coligny
You mean before the company was put before the law ? Like some abusive husband...
Yea, the company is losing the place as the center of the universe, because they now use and abuse their workers like expandable material. Nothing is driven by passion anymore, the corporate drones do everything to steal the merit from the real workers, while the company is milked to satisfy the bigger shareholders. Engineers are no longer naming their invention. Which product today can still be linked to its creator ? Renault, Nissan -> badge engineering Toyota -> carpet bombing engineering Audi -> adding insult to injury engineering
Posted in: The company is losing its place at the center of the employee’s universe.
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Coligny
All I see is bored housewives... and a taxi driver...
Posted in: Free metabolic syndrome check
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Coligny
Maybe even worse than that, because I never had nukular missile warhead fuse stuffed in my cheezeburger...
Posted in: U.S. Air Force leaders ousted in historic shake-up after nuclear, other mishaps
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Coligny
Maybe if japanese doctors werent actually just a mob of quacks... But with a university system where you just need a little money to have your diploma, it's not going to stop...
Posted in: The problem of malpractice has received a lot of media coverage, and so patients have developed an excessive amount of mistrust toward hospitals.
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Coligny
Would it be to much to ask if I wanted to see a map of the new line with relation to the others ?
And last time I checked, the women only cars are also for disabled people. There was a scandal few month ago when few hysterical women threw a tantrum because of a guy in a wheelchair rightfully boarding one of those cars.
Posted in: New subway line to open in Tokyo on June 14