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Yen rate will go back over 100. Yay for me.
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What's all this complaining about N American beers. Like others said, there are a million and one microbreweries brewing both headless and headful beers, thank you very much.
And for the budget-minded we also have such classic standbyes as, for example, Golden Anniversary. A very cheap and economical beer.
Anyone remember their ad-line, celebrating said economicality?
"Golden Annie! It's the beer to have, when you're havin' more than one!"
This foam machine is unnecessary. You can just pour different and you will get more head. If you don't and you need a machine, it means your beer is flat.
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more or less sure except for #6
consequences? and even if any, others with proclivities will not fret to much about being on notice, imo.
It's a harsh world.
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well fair enough. we wouldn't want to get any more off topic or anything. like I said, imo, the poster could get a harrassing charge or stalking charge, but the groper is to me the real criminal.
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What an amazing coincidence. Because every time I buy a new camera, the first thing in my mind is, "I gotta test this thing out before I actually have to use it to take any "real" pictures," and I always thought that sneaking into the opposite sex's toilet at an elementary school would just be the simplest, easiest way to test out the camera and see how to work it right. Boy am I glad this guy got caught first, because I just hadn't realized that that might be like an inappropriate way to test a new camera.
Like, after his test in the bathroom, what was his true aim for using the camera?? Weddings and Bar Mitzvahs?
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frungy, i would think that is a different phenomenon. i have seen stuff like what obeejuan posted a link to. (very interesting research, which showed changes in attitudes over age, among other things, and did not just come up with one conclusion about desire to form like-seeming groups) i think this is more human-relationship, and group stuff, than immediate physical danger of poison berries.
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o please they were always brutal criminals, whatever honorable way of doing things they had may have gotten worse in the last hundred years, but they were always there to use force to get their way and get profit and use weak ppl to get profit.
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Lowly
we want more why here.
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Lowly
ok blendover,
but now imagine walking down the street and there is a guy sitting on a bench muttering, maybe homeless, and he's saying "attack him! gotta gettim! go gettim! attack him!" we see these ppl everyday. how about a disgruntled 7th grader at school, he just feels himself slighted in some way, and now he's going around trying to get everyone to hate on somebody that he chose to hate, and he wants everyone else to hate him too. even in the adult world this exists often enough with some disgruntled employee trying to get ppl to complain about someone else at the workplace that they don't like.
my point is, in none of these situations, including the homeless guy's, would we say the person is doing something "good". but on the other hand, if a third party goes up and attacks someone, the mutterer can't really be seen as to blame for the attack.
what is different about the internet? anonymous muttering. you choose to listen to nonsense, and it is you who is choosing to listen to nonsense.
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Easy solution- just don't use Facebook or anything else online. Yeah we need certain things in the modern age, but limit yourself to a cellphone and email and you are less at risk of having a digital footprint. When it comes to social media, sharing photos online, I am leery.
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Was this article a misprint?
Fined = Fired ?
Because, for one thing, why would they fine him?
Missing from this story is how the cops found out. We need a complete coverage here. "A girl had sex with a guy for money. Later the pimp said he'd hooked up 30 clients."
Like, what happened?
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blendover-
I don't like what the guy wrote on the net and certainly wouldn't encourage others to follow suit. But I would not compare the criminality of it with a singer in a riot because the singer is a) there (in person), b) the center of attention and the reason for all those ppl to gather, if not possibly their idol, and therefore has a powerful influence on the situation and c) holding a mike.
Anonymous internet postings are something we should all be blase about by now not something we should get worked up over or take seriously or at face value.
I am not sure I feel comfortable in this situation giving the responsibility for the crime to the internet poster. Maybe a charge of harassment or infringing on someone's privacy or stalking? But the crime itself isn't his doing.
(mods- please leave blendover's post up, we know you don't like examples with analogies anymore, but in this case, it is an important debate on what role the internet vs. real-life events takes in our lives).
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Lowly
Well, older climbers are at greater risk because their bodies aren't as strong, but anyone who is not experienced, and especially if they grew up in an urban environment, is at risk when they head out into the mts the first few times.
(Well, every time, but after you are used to it, it gets a little less risky.)
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Stalking is a really hard crime to deal with, cops need laws being broken before they really have any leeway to move. Or they need better stalking laws here in Japan.
Wait, wait, What??!
Wait, what?!
Repeated problems related to a scary guy making threats, and they want to file charges for assault, i.e. something real in an escalating situation, and they won't even investigate or file charges because they are going on vacation?
Sorry, the police apologists on this thread this time have no leg to stand on...
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Well, I don't think she owes me an apology, Ms. Wada.
Let her sleep with who she likes.
If she feels the urge to apologize to her husband or her boyfriend, I think she should feel free to go right ahead and do it, but if she had her reasons, it's really up to her whether she does or not.
In the end, not my business, nor yours, Ms. Wada.
Non-event.
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I know a lot of the comments are jokes, but a lot of the "monks are supposed to be pure/ Buddhism lets you get beyond desire" comments are very funny. Imagine a Japanese person saying that kind of thing about Christianity in America.
There are sincere buddhists just like there are sincere Christians, but any otherworldly or perfect or absolute image of Buddhism is just your own "prejudice". Any organization run for hundreds/ thousands of years is going to be about justifying and preserving itself as much as it is about "helping" any of its members. And any big organization will have messed up ppl in it like this story.
magnus-
And monks who drink beer not being "real" monks- I'd like to know what a real monk is, and how it is that you can know it for a fact!
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pasanewa-
shame, mental instability, any number of other reasons.
why did he have a knife? was this part of something bigger, or was he just a lone wacko?
But More To The Point--
The cops are either grossly negligent by providing means to suicide (confiscating belts and shoelaces in the US is standard, as is having no exposed "things" in the room to hang yourself with in the cell. OR they killed him and this is a cover up.
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Lowly
guys, victim of what?
your flesh will break down and rot very easily in water never mind salt water. you will be parts in no time. if any fist or crabs or sharks or whatevah is there to eat you, you will be parts even faster. there is no way to know from a bone in water if it was murder, man-caused accidental, suicide, or swimming and drowning. or even dead already and dumped into the sea, or sucked in by an overflown river somewhere.
or like I said, from one of the big earthquakes the last few yrs.
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dont worry tamarama,
if there is a surge, it will only be for a season or two.
But I think that most onsen have been thought about this way for centuries, and other research at other universities has confirmed it before this, so this is a drop in the bucket so to speak of research. if anything ppl will just want to go to onsens in general after hearing this.
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@mark
could be anti-enjo kosai too
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Whatever, man,
I never thot she was born into the Imperial family. I said I wouldn't want to be born into it, then used her as an example of how hard it is to be a member of it, tho she wasn't born there. My most humble of apologies for not making that sterling clear to you, and further for implying that you had any ability to infer what I might want to say, which is that it is not a fun life in the Chrysanthemum throne room. The others who are not as visibly crazy as her may be better able to handle it, better able to hide it, got less hazing than her, etc. But they do not have a free and easy lives, that is for sure. But hey, some ppl actually like living their life in a military setting, some like living alone in the Alaskan tundra, some like living in big polluted cities. To each his own. And to you too. Goodbye.
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