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You want to hate the players. I choose to hate the game. Go after the people…
Posted in: Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
Apparently the skirts are longer, but girls roll them up around the waist to make them…
Posted in: Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
marcels It,s not the first time we,ll be reading this kind of panty related crime and…
Posted in: Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
Like many items from Fukushima it is no wonder that there are traces of radioactivity in…
Posted in: Gov't panel discusses contaminated crushed stone used in buildings
Ah yes TEPCO press releases and they have been so factual and timely in the past.…
Posted in: TEPCO blames high reactor temperature reading on broken thermometer
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Nessie
Good ones from Cleo, especially the last one.
Posted in: Why do so many Japanese women take photos of their food at restaurants and post it on Facebook or their blogs?
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Nessie
I've seen better, Ivan.
Posted in: Why do so many Japanese women take photos of their food at restaurants and post it on Facebook or their blogs?
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Nessie
I like Uniqlo, but I wonder if they'll adapy their colors to overseas markets. Good stuff, but often in ugly hues.
Posted in: Uniqlo to open two mega-stores in New York
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Nessie
One thing’s for damn sure: They should stop sending all those Islamic-Americans to internment camps.
Posted in: NYPD monitored where Muslims ate, shopped, prayed
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Nessie
I don't have any calories in my crotch.
Posted in: Japanese underpants burn calories in your crotch
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Nessie
God only knows.
Posted in: Husband, wife die after falling into pit on Ishikawa beach
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Nessie
So this is a tasting dinner and they don't mention what wines will be served?
Posted in: Duca di Salaparuta Wine Dinner
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Nessie
@steve
You sure you're out with your wife, and not a "niece", Steve? (wink wink)
@everyone
Anyway, it's bad form to be downvoting Steve for having an unpopular opinion. Enough groupthink around here already.
Personally I take pictures for several reasons. I'm a guy, for the record. (That's not a reason.)
The first is recon, so when I go a place I can show friends what's on offer. This is good for the restaurant, unless the presentation or portions are poor. The second is that Japanese are pathetic at describing dishes. What did you have for dinner? "Nimono, yakimono and yudemono." Completely useless description. Photo solves that. Third is that Japanese are obsessed with presentation, so a photo is appreciated. If the restaurant has rules against photos, I'm more than happy to comply, but this has never happened. More often the waiter will ask if I want him to take a photo of my gf and me.
Anecdote time (stay with me)...
I remember in Hakodate at a famous local burger joint called Lucky Pierrot, one guy ordered the Lucky Burger, a chin-high stack of a dozen patties on an overdressed bun with all the trimmings. (Cleo, read on at your own risk.) No way to eat that fleshtower without looking like slaughterhouse worker-of-the-month. Anyway, when they bring it out, they ring these handbells, like Salvation Army Santas. Everyone looks up at this Babel-burger. A customer sidles over and asks to photograph it. One by one, every other customer in the shop, including my friend, goes over for a shot. The customer looks half proud and half embarrassed. His date was much less happy with the attention.
Posted in: Why do so many Japanese women take photos of their food at restaurants and post it on Facebook or their blogs?
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Nessie
Rrrrrr photo bad, me smash photo, rrrrr
Posted in: Why do so many Japanese women take photos of their food at restaurants and post it on Facebook or their blogs?
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Nessie
They do care about Ramadan. 'Tis the season when their brand of killing is extra effective at propagating their brand of terror and their brand of Islam, or so they think.
Posted in: 29 dead in suicide bombing in Iraq mosque
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Nessie
Wake up and smell the o-cha, Mr. Chopricana: More than a few blamer nihonjins have lost their confidence in this country.
Posted in: Noda to become Japan's next prime minister
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Nessie
Maybe he was wishing for a hole in one.
Posted in: Husband, wife die after falling into pit on Ishikawa beach
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Nessie
Pamelot has a point about the states having primary responsibility, although Bush's cronyism didn't help matters.
Posted in: Hurricane Irene shuts down New York
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Nessie
Papasmurf is correct. It's common knowledge that she has had plenty of work.
The only people who can keep a straight face and say Seiko's looks are natural are people who have less successful cosmetic surgery.
Posted in: Seiko Matsuda, Kyoko Koizumi to costar in ad for first time
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Nessie
Yes, but double-jeopardy is a concept alien to Japanese justice.
This is what happens when you can't browbeat a confession out of someone.
Posted in: Convicted Nepali anxious for retrial but prosecutors in no hurry
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Nessie
Abandonment of a corpose is a class d felony in parts of the US
194.425. 1. A person commits the crime of abandonment of a corpse if that person abandons, disposes, deserts or leaves a corpse without properly reporting the location of the body to the proper law enforcement officials in that county.
2. Abandonment of a corpse is a class D felony.
Posted in: Suspect admits dumping body parts in Osaka park
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Nessie
@smithinjapan
Summer too, which is why I chose to live near a river and within biking distance (20k) of the beach. Also, cold showers.
Posted in: Freezing winter looms for Tokyo post-Fukushima
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Nessie
@cleo
My name has an apostrope, which is used on my passport but not on my Japanese ID documents or Japanese bankbook. You can imagine the bureaucratic rigamaroles with that one.
Posted in: Maehara says he got Y590,000 from foreigners in 2005-2010
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Nessie
雪国 representing!
This means my electric costs here will be lower, right? RIGHT?
Posted in: Freezing winter looms for Tokyo post-Fukushima
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Nessie
Funerals are expensive here, Edojin.
Posted in: Suspect admits dumping body parts in Osaka park