Himajin's past comments

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    Himajin

    14:57, sorry.

    Posted in: M8 earthquake hits Russia's Far East

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    Himajin

    http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/20130524063205395-240628.html

    Yes, according to JMA's map. Click back to 14:47 this afternoon.

    Posted in: M8 earthquake hits Russia's Far East

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    Himajin

    The effects health? Of losing an hour of sleep once a year? Try jet lag from a 13 hour trip....on a separate note, it makes me laugh in the US when I'm at a conference and someone complains about jet lag when they're two time zones away from the conference venue...

    Posted in: Gov't considers setting clock ahead by two hours

  • 2

    Himajin

    The system here is not much better than China's.

    300 in the US have been exonerated by DNA testing.

    Posted in: Wrongfully convicted Nepali man asks for apology from the Japanese government

  • 0

    Himajin

    choiwaru, what are you basing that on?

    Posted in: Nankai Trough quake predicted to cause 1,800 fatalities on Izu and Ogasawara islands

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    Himajin

    People walk their dogs mainly so that the dogs cAN urinate and poop

    My dog does not urinate on walks unless he has my permission. Not going at all is the idea...peeing on every shrub, weed and lamppost is territorial marking and he doesn't need to mark the whole neighborhood as his own, that leads to fights among the males when they all do it. If our walk is very long and he needs to, he sits and looks at me, and won't go until I say it's ok, so if the spot is inappropriate we continue until we are somewhere he can pee without it being someone's property or where someone else will walk. It took a few training sessions but nothing particularly taxing. He also sits at each crosswalk and won't cross without an Ok. I've almost got him to stop pooping on walks, he's not doing the whole thing, but sometimes sneaks just a bit...I think that for him, it's marking behavior as well, not 'having to go'.

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

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    Himajin

    That's if it's a 9.

    Posted in: Nankai Trough quake predicted to cause 1,800 fatalities on Izu and Ogasawara islands

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    Himajin

    This sort of activity has a long tradition in Japan and is known as yobai or "night creeping"

    Yobai was consensual sex under cover of night, not picking a random house and cutting someone's clothes off.

    Posted in: Man arrested for cutting off women's clothes as they slept

  • 1

    Himajin

    Some of the crows that hang around near my house could probably take care of your average cat....

    A huge crow chased my 6-kilo cat down the street, pecking at his back. Crows are nasty!

    Posted in: Which are more loved in Japan: Cats or dogs?

  • 2

    Himajin

    6 rolls of tape to brush a cat?

    Oh, no sorry! Six consecutive applications of tape to my hand, not 6 rolls of tape....a roll lasted us a while. Sorry to have been vague.

    Posted in: Which are more loved in Japan: Cats or dogs?

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    Himajin

    "They puke...everywhere, wherever they happen to be, whether on your couch, bed, dinner table, computer keyboard, wherever, sometimes several times a day. They also shed fur like crazy"

    It's very often the second problem that's causing the first, perhaps you need to groom the cats more often, and/or look into some fur ball remedies.

    Our cats didn't tolerate a brush well, but masking tape wrapped around my hand was absolutely fine, they didn't realize they were being brushed. Grabs everything, too. Our Himalaya/tora mix took 6 rounds of tape before the tape would cease to be covered.

    Posted in: Which are more loved in Japan: Cats or dogs?

  • 0

    Himajin

    'wrong'

    Posted in: 28 dead as police clash with Islamists over blasphemy law in Bangladesh

  • 2

    Himajin

    200,000 wring-headed persons is quite a few, Yousuf, and until people stop making excuses nothing will change.

    Posted in: 28 dead as police clash with Islamists over blasphemy law in Bangladesh

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    Himajin

    1 in 80? anything to back that up with?

    Posted in: Teacher suspended for taking part-time job as call girl

  • 2

    Himajin

    From the American Heart association..

    "Margarine is by no means void of artery clogging fat. The controversy with margarine lies with its level of trans fat, largely a man-made fat. Trans fats are formed when hydrogen is added to vegetable oils, making the oil more solid and less likely to spoil. This process is called hydrogenation or partial hydrogenation and allows stick margarine to be firm at room temperature. Trans fats have been shown to increase the "bad" cholesterol (LDL) similarly to saturated fats, and they tend to lower the "healthy" (HDL) cholesterol when eaten in large amounts. What's more – trans fats may make our blood platelets stickier. While no standard intakes of trans fat have been set, one tablespoon of stick margarine packs a whopping 3 grams of trans fat and 2 grams saturated fat."

    I switched to butter years ago.

    Posted in: For butter lovers

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    Himajin

    He's writing....

    Posted in: Boston suspects planned Times Square attack: NY mayor

  • 2

    Himajin

    When my son was small, he dubbed it 'Hage Dance' ;-D

    Posted in: Häagen-Dazs to close last store in Japan on Thursday

  • 0

    Himajin

    Kobe's Haagen closed about a year and a half ago, but I didn't think anything of it. Foreign restaurants and fast food places have a poor track record here. We've had, and lost, Tony Roma's, Arby's, A&W, Cinnabon and others over the years. We now have BQ, and I hope they stick around.

    Posted in: Häagen-Dazs to close last store in Japan on Thursday

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    Himajin

    Now you're just being silly.

    Posted in: Second Boston bombing suspect in hospital after being captured

  • -1

    Himajin

    No, we don't know this. That's speculation on your part.

    No it isn't . His uncle said so , live on TV, as did one of his neighbors. He went to Russia dressed as an American and clean-shaven, and when he came back he had grown a full beard and was wearing traditional clothing. He became more and more vocal about religion, and had his wife start to wear the hajib (and she's Italian-Portuguese, converted). He told he uncle he was no longer going to devote time to work, school or boxing, but 'do God's work'.

    Posted in: Second Boston bombing suspect in hospital after being captured

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