Nessie said...

Nessie at 04:39 PM JST - 24th April

Is titanium yellow?

Posted in Bladeless blender at 04:39 PM JST - 24th April
Nessie at 09:54 AM JST - 24th April

Sarcasm, ouch! Hemmingway may have survived, but his prose didn't.

Posted in Japan’s best-known novelist fails to deliver—again at 09:54 AM JST - 24th April
Nessie at 09:50 AM JST - 24th April

And on whose behalf are these lawyers suing?

Posted in Chinese lawyers file suit over CNN 'goons' comment at 09:50 AM JST - 24th April
Nessie at 09:49 AM JST - 24th April

Should o' said "goons and thugs with Philadelphia lawyers."

Posted in Chinese lawyers file suit over CNN 'goons' comment at 09:49 AM JST - 24th April
Nessie at 07:50 PM JST - 23rd April

but don't hotels do that any way?

Yes, exactly. The hotels are required to check. This story is just to show the nervous nellie j-troglodytes that the coppers have us uppity outsiders well in hand.

When I'm asked for a passport and I produce a gaijin card, hotels just wave…

Posted in Nagano hotel association told to check foreign guest IDs ahead of torch relay at 07:50 PM JST - 23rd April
Nessie at 05:15 PM JST - 23rd April

The ward office will obviously have the right to double-check your passport when you renew your gaijin card, as the gaijin card and your ability to carry it is based off the passport and the visa inside it and has the passport number displayed on it.

Yes but does the…

Posted in Roughed up by the cops in Shinjuku at 05:15 PM JST - 23rd April
Nessie at 05:12 PM JST - 23rd April

The correct response to "Passport" is "No thank you, I already have one."

Posted in Roughed up by the cops in Shinjuku at 05:12 PM JST - 23rd April
Nessie at 04:51 PM JST - 23rd April

"God bless these two Marines who made the supreme sacrifice "

They didn't make the supreme sacrifice. They were supremely sacrificed.

Posted in Suicide car bomber kills 2 U.S. Marines in Iraq at 04:51 PM JST - 23rd April
Nessie at 04:39 PM JST - 23rd April

As a cyclist I support this 100%.

Of course, it should hold for drivers, too, and the practical effect will be to give the cops yet another pretense for fishing expeditions.

Posted in What do you think of attempts by police to get people to stop using cell phones and listening to music while riding bicycles? at 04:39 PM JST - 23rd April
Nessie at 04:34 PM JST - 23rd April

When I'm vacationing abroad and going out and about, I'll take a color photocopy with me and leave my passport in the hotel safe/friend's house. The fake undercover cop who is actually a brazen identity thief may get some private info when you show him the paper but not your…

Posted in Roughed up by the cops in Shinjuku at 04:34 PM JST - 23rd April