Monday May 28, 2012

GDemmons's past comments

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    GDemmons

    AKB is the epitome of Japanese civilization! I mean, what other country could come up with an idea to take a unch of young, scantily clad girls and make them into a sensation? Well, yeah, of course Larry Flint, but who else? I clicked on this link to see the comments. I do not come to JT for news. This site has the worst journalism I have ever seen, well, I suppose it is to be expected in a country that thinks harmony exists only in a group where a bunch of fearful slaves mindlessly obey a master. And when she says that she tried to remove emotion from her voice, what she meant was that she subverted her instinctive "Sugiwa, mecha kawaii stoppo desu".

    Posted in: Yamanote line in Tokyo features AKB48 train

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    GDemmons

    Great investment. So who cares? Why don't Japanese scientists do something that will actually help the world? If you are diminished to the point that you think it is a good idea to send someone who you talked to over the phone money, then you should not be living on your own. I do not have much sympathy for people who lose money in phishing scams. Financial Darwinism if you ask me.

    Posted in: Nagoya Univ, Fujitsu develop world's 1st technology to analyze phone conversations

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    GDemmons

    I cook at home and have as large or small a portion as I like. If you think that spending ¥3,500 for lunch is normal, then you are an idiot. Local yakitori restaurant in my Kyoto neighborhood costs about ¥2,000 per person for big portions of food, the largest yakionigiri ever over a couple of hours of snack/eating/drinking. Oyaji on Onmae-dori near Nakadachiuri street intersection. I have eaten in a lot o places in Japan, and I have not been to many laces where the food was worth what you paid. Also, given that Japan imports more than 60% of its food and wastes more food than almost every other country, shouldn't people be more concerned about what a waste Japanese food is? Mottainai...not!

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    GDemmons

    Outta her in a couple of weeks, back home to energy surplus, cheaper food, reasonable housing prices and costs! Sorry about missing out on the fun of energy savings. Turn off all the drink vending machines, for dog's sake!

    Posted in: Edano says Japan facing power shortage in summer

  • 0

    GDemmons

    Cricky, the world market for purikura is on the edge of a massive explosion!

    Posted in: LDP members oppose putting 'everything on the table' at TPP talks

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    GDemmons

    bajhista, you do understand that America made Japan the success it was by offering it preferred status for many years so that American companies had a gullible 100,000,000 strong marketing opportunity? Japanese companies are not the best anymore. And Japanese rice is no better than Calrose. You do not understand genetics. Calrose is the exact same product. Genetics determines the contents of a plant. Proper farming techniques provide efficiency.

    Posted in: LDP members oppose putting 'everything on the table' at TPP talks

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    GDemmons

    The rice here is named japonicas, and it is the same short-grained rice as is grown by more efficient means everywhere else in the world. Te same willl happen here as in Korea. People will switch to cheaper wheat products. Japanese are afraid of competing in anything because they do not kow how to innovate. The average population suffers, but who cares as long as the idiots in government still rule this sinking ship, it will never change. Buy your overpriced rice, dummies.

    Posted in: LDP members oppose putting 'everything on the table' at TPP talks

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    GDemmons

    Silly. Who cares. He has had an apartment here for many years. I hope his citizenship and the sale of his NY apartment will somehow bring peace to the 300,000 Tohoku refugees.

    Posted in: Donald Keene obtains Japanese citizenship; shows off 鬼怒鳴門 as his name

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    GDemmons

    This will allow companies to dowhatever they like and not be forced to do things right at the outset. This is one area of litigious societies that actually is sort of effective. Screw up, get sued, go bankrupt, send executives to jail. Here, however, all of these guys are friends, so it's harder...poor TEPCOexecutives...the pain they must feel. Too bad the samurai tradition is dead here. Otherwise, we would've watching a lot of belly slicing now!

    Posted in: Noda says no individual to blame for Fukushima nuclear crisis

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    GDemmons

    As a former Investment Advisor back home in Canada, I can tell you that brown-nosing is what you have to perfect in the industry. Anyone who thinks that you get rich in that business in any other way knows nothing. But you have to do it for clients. This story is totally fabricated, however entertaining. Anyone who works in a Japanese office where locals spend most of their time bending over, literally, jumping nervously for the bucho, and tripping over themselves when called upon by senpai knows that efficiency and productivity in Japan is not important. Any news service that prints a story like this with the caveat above is not a news organization anyway.

    Posted in: Foreign staff at Tokyo brokerages find flattery gets them everywhere

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    GDemmons

    Marijuana is not an addictive drug, but like all substances that we introduce to our bodies, there is the possibility of a certain level of dependence. Idiotic drug laws in Asia do nothing to serve society. Of course, if anyone in this country or in any other Asian country knew anything about science they would know that marijuana has been shown to increase brain cells http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051010/full/news051010-12.html

    Posted in: On trial

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    GDemmons

    typo...that should be 'bow'...

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    GDemmons

    lol...there will be a news conference. The directors will all come out, now deeply and say Gomenasai repeatedly. No one will ask them anything. They will then be given a stern talking to. The next time they do it, they will be in BIG trouble.

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    GDemmons

    Please tell me which herbs and Flowers fromTibet were used. Is the music traditional Tibetan music? Perhaps cymbals? Ragdun trumpets? I would have to know more about what they used, because I have lived in a Tibetan monastery where traditional instruments were used. It would be very uncomfortable to get a massage while listening to a gyaling or 16 foot long ragdun.

    Posted in: CHI spa at Shangri-la Tokyo takes you to world of Tibet

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    GDemmons

    China and Japan are both products of illiterates who could not understand what the Analectics of Confucious were actually about. China spends a lot of time being critical of Japan in order to deflect from its own atrocious policies and behaviors, old and current. The people of Tokyo elect this joker because they are slaves who are disgruntled, over-worked, unable to raise their families properly, and are addicted to energy drinks and online shopping. When they hear someone as dumb as Ishihara puking his rhetoric, it allows them to vent, because they are too spineless to do it themselves.

    Posted in: Ishihara agrees with Nagoya mayor's Nanjing massacre denial

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    GDemmons

    @JGal - As per Jonathon Swift: "I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasie, or a ragoust."

    Posted in: Amazon Japan profiting from slaughter of whales, dolphins: investigation agency

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    GDemmons

    the govt has dragged its feet getting these people taken care of and I get dumped on...lol! I am sorry, guess I was just trying to help Japan retain mentsu by not being more generous than they are to there own people!

    Posted in: Robot seals heal hearts of tsunami survivors

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    GDemmons

    Shumatsu...sorry, my wife and her friends had bake sales to fund the purchase of household appliances which were brought to the peopl there last summer. I teach in a high school and do not have enough holidays to do anything like that, so I just donate money.

    Posted in: Robot seals heal hearts of tsunami survivors

  • -1

    GDemmons

    Yeah, the third largest supply of oil in the world...we are running low. I worked in the business. I have seen what is happening. I chuckle when I read statements like 'selling our assets' because anyone who knows how business and govt works knows that A foreign controlling interest in a Canadian company may have the power to siphon its profits out of the country, big deal. It is a grave misunderstanding to think that that has much of an affect on our economy as a whole. Citizen Mel is a nice, well-intentioned guy, but he profits from his alarmist diatribe.

    Posted in: Mitsubishi buys Encana BC gas assets

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    GDemmons

    lol...you have no idea what you are talking about. NAFTA has proven to be a great piece of legislation for Canada. It has enabled countless numbers of people to start up new businesses and take advantage of the NA market. I once railed against NAFTA when I was an investment advisor for RBC. If you are old enough to remember, it foretold of the end of healthcare, free education, and no more social services. None of those things have happened. Harper sucks, but the things that Mulroney did that were unpopular are why Canada passed through the recent economic disaster virtually unscathed...but haters don't think about these things, they just want to imagine Shangri-la on their terms. I am not dismissing your comments, I just wish you would look at the whole picture. Encana needs this investment badly. It is a great Canadian company that has been a great investment for people who have taken charge of their own investments for a while now. I hope this enables them to hang tough.

    Posted in: Mitsubishi buys Encana BC gas assets

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