JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Financial Advisor
- Select Asset Management KK, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥100,000 ~ ¥999,999 Paid Training Commission Based
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- Corporate Business English Trainers
- ACT Systems, Inc.（株式会社アクト・システムズ）, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥269,500 ~ ¥280,000 / Month
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
- Berlitz Japan, Inc. (ベルリッツ・ジャパン株式会社), Kansai
- Salary: ¥125,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month
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IvanCoughalot
I think I just developed diabetes. What is wrong with these people?
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IvanCoughalot
Steve - bingo. Absolutely correct.
It seems as though there's an innate compulsion to dress in an ersatz approximation of what they think a mother should wear, then hang around in a coven of like-minded nitwits concocting reasons they have a hard life. Then as soon as hubby comes home from a day of labour (which, by the way, he automatically assumes to be his duty - to put bread on the table, also known elsewhere as being a responsible member of society), bam, both barrels.
If you get ignored, it's a good day. Other than that it's outright hostility.
And regardless of Cleo's little tant above, nobody's saying it's easy to be a mother. What we're saying is it would be nice were these mothers to understand who's on their side, and that working every hour God sends to give your family a nice life and yet spending every available moment with his family, trying to make memories worth having, is perhaps not really deserving of outright contempt.
Unlike being a joyless harridan.
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IvanCoughalot
Doesn't widening a probe cause discomfort? It seems to on the Japanese videos I've seen...
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IvanCoughalot
Not being able to see the difference between "Just having a lazy day on Sunday" and "Being under house arrest".
When we have a day with no specific plan, she wants to sit indoors from morning till night in silence other than the screeching coming from the TV. I propose going out for a stroll and she looks at me like I've suggested a threesome.
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IvanCoughalot
What also annoys me is the fact that my wife is always so tired she can't be bothered to play with me and our daughter when I get back from working all day, even if it's just a quick card game or snakes and ladders, but she's able to find sufficient second wind to sit up until one a.m. watching fat people eat noodles and shout.
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IvanCoughalot
Patrick - mine's got that one as well. She wants me to buy into her myth that not working for eight years, but staying at home to look after one well-behaved, healthy child - who is out at school from 7:30 am until 4 pm, by the way - is some form of Herculaean labour so exhausting that she's incapable of basic human interaction by the time I get home.
I could understand her being tired if the kid was on dialysis or severely disabled, or out smashing bus shelters up and in and out of court every week, but she's as good as gold and wants nothing more than playing with when she's finished her homework. But I'm expected to believe this not only requires superhuman effort, but also makes it a physical impossibility to go out and get a part-time job.
Yet when I point out that she might be able to redirect her efforts to more productive tasks than going over the entire carpet with a lint roller every day - and I'm not joking there, she does that - I'm the bleeding bad guy.
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IvanCoughalot
Metamorphosising from a buxom quasi-nymphomaniac who laughed and made me laugh all the time into a lipless, apronned harpy.
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IvanCoughalot
Living in mortal dread of what other people might think, other than her husband, whose opinion she disregards out of hand and constantly.
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IvanCoughalot
Having all the joie de vivre of a sodding dementor
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IvanCoughalot
Taking any situation life offers us and choking any possibility of joy out of it with constant whining, obsessive worrying and sheer rancid misery.
"Oh look! It's snowed! Quick, let's get our kid to the park!" "Ehhhhhhh? It's cold. It's too cold. Wet too. Windy too. Dangerous, janai?" "Oh, for f..."
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IvanCoughalot
Superlib - interesting argument. You seem to be suggesting that the validity of the case made for WMD was almost irrelevant, so long as it got the job of regime change done.
I'm not pro-Saddam. I'm fully aware he was a Bad Man. So please don't call me pro-Saddam. There is no reason whatsoever to do so, and calling anyone who disagrees with you pro-Saddam is as disingenuous as the verbal gymnastics Blair employed.
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IvanCoughalot
This thread is about Blair, and why his name is a synonym for deception in the UK. We know the Bush wing can't get enough of him because he did as he was told. But that doesn't get you many brownie points among the people whose children you send off to die.
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IvanCoughalot
So the lesson you're advising we learn from this is that if someone gets away with a crime, the rest of us should just suck it up. Nice civilisation you build that way.
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IvanCoughalot
Define what you mean by a Big Fat Zero. Are you saying it is a forgery?
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IvanCoughalot
Why do you think that the document from which that quotation was taken is called "The Downing Street Memo"?
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IvanCoughalot
And he knew his intelligence was wrong, "But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy" (to instigate regime change).
So no, I'm not lying, and when I tell a lie it doesn't cause the deaths of thousands of people.
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IvanCoughalot
atamant
I'm surprised this is news to you. Google "Blair 45 minutes"
From the BBC website 24 September 2003
The dossier is published with a foreword from Tony Blair, which says: "The document discloses that his military planning allows for some of the WMD to be ready within 45 minutes of an order to use them."
The prime minister tells MPs the intelligence concludes that Saddam Hussein "has existing and active military plans for the use of chemical and biological weapons, which could be activated within 45 minutes, including against his own Shia population".
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IvanCoughalot
That's going to be a long list. Here's a couple to start with:
Because he misrepresented the threat posed by Iraq. He told the House that he knew Saddam has battle-ready weapons ready to strike Britain, and could do so within 45 minutes;
Because he kept his Attorney General (lord Goldsmith) out of the loop in order to avoid any inconvenient disagreements, at the same time pretending time and again that he was operating under legal scrutiny and acting in the remit of international law;
Because he had the dossier making the case for war rewritten to produce the illusion of a greater urgency than there was;
Because he committed the nation to war in private conference with the US President, not after parliamentary process;
Because he now pretends to give two hoots for the people of the region his policies have shattered.
That'll do for now. I know he "seems" sincere. He may well "strike you as someone with a strong moral compass". That's what he's good at. We all believed him at one time or another because he's a very convincing liar. But he is a liar.
Now you explain why you think he's trustworthy.
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IvanCoughalot
I'm not convincing? What's not convincing is Blair's crocodile tears for the millions whose lives he destroyed.
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IvanCoughalot
Priceless. You keep digging, pal. This has got to be a wind-up.
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