Wednesday February 15, 2012

JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION

SimondB's past comments

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SimondBSep. 25, 2011 - 09:03AM JST

The debris has no toxic contamination, but there could be sharp edges, NASA officials have said

Sounds like something my mother used to say when I was a child.

Posted in: Fallen satellite most likely in Pacific: NASA
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SimondBSep. 06, 2011 - 09:29AM JST

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My cooking may not be the most tasty in the world but me and my husband enjoy taking pictures of our dishes and post them in our livedoor blog for the delight of our close friends. Most of the people we know love to have a good conversation about food and wine. There is nothing wrong about posting pictures of food as long as its your own or you ask permission if the dish belongs to someone else. Manners please.

To those who cook and take photos of their cooking and post them in their blogs: You have my respect!! It's really a wonderful and healthy hobby~~　（＾＿＾）

Well said. My wife does this all the time and puts them on her Mixi blog for her friends. What the hell is wrong with that? Saturday brunch I made Irsih potatoe cakes topped with smoked salmon and poached egg along with a side salad and a drizzle of olive oil and balsamic for effect. Looked a picture and became one. response from most of her friends is 'wish my husband could cook'.

Can't imagine why this could possibly annoy some people anymore than a picture of a lovely lake/beach/temple that they visited and posted on their blog.

Blimey, some people should get a life!

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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SimondBSep. 03, 2011 - 05:39PM JST

yes spring in Nz can be very changable. In Auckland in particular expect plenty of rain. but are these not hard men? Also in the south island expect occasinial frost and earthquakes. Should be just like at home.

Posted in: Japan feels the cold at rugby World Cup
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SimondBAug. 29, 2011 - 04:59PM JST

Seems incredible that after all the money spent to bring the worlds best sprinters to an athletic meet that you would disqualify the worlds quickest man for a false start. What about the punters who paid good money to see this race?

Posted in: Yohan Blake is 100-meter world champion after Bolt jumps gun
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SimondBAug. 25, 2011 - 03:19PM JST

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"a memorial to the 1986 U.S. airstrikes on the compound in** retaliation for a bombing at a German disco frequented by U.S. servicemen"**

A claim which the US quietly later admitted he was not responsible for.

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Posted in: Libyan rebels offer $2 mil bounty for Gadhafi
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SimondBAug. 21, 2011 - 03:41PM JST

tickets to first tier league European soccer games are cheap enough for most unemployed trash to afford

Err pattie Cake, try an afternoon out at Stamford bridge, Old Trafford or the Emirates and then come back and tell me how affordable they were.

Posted in: Belgian soccer match halted after Fukushima taunts
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SimondBAug. 21, 2011 - 03:01PM JST

Blimey, have any of you ever been to a top league football match? This is standard stuff. Some are better than others. When David pleat (who I think was the Spurs manager at the time) was questioned about kerb crawling, as he walked to the dug out someone threw a blow up doll from the crowd. Also I am just old enough to remember the first black player, Clyde Best, West Ham (I think) to play in the English (then) first division. Back then outrageous insults to blacks were totally acceptable. Even two decades later the great Liverpool midfielfer John Barnes had to endure people throwing bannanas at him. Wayne Rooney had to put up with death threats when it was rumoured he might move to city. Plus he really had it laid on when his wife temporarly left him when it was revealed that he was having a fling with a prostitute. The chant at that time was "no woman no Kai (his son)".

If you want to play in the top leagues, earn the big money and adulation then you have to take the crap that sometimes goes with it. Good players use abuse to motivate them and then give the finger to the crowd when they score a wonder goal or save a penalty. Apart from anything else, what on earth must have his team mates thought about his weeping. Showing his weakness means other opposistion fans are sure to repeat this. Best thing he can do is wear a no-nukes logo on the back of his jersy.

Posted in: Belgian soccer match halted after Fukushima taunts
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SimondBAug. 18, 2011 - 10:09AM JST

TheQuestion should check his facts. Aghanistan (or the Taliban at that point if you like) did offer to hand over OBL to a third country. Specifically they said he could be handed over to the Saudi's. Given the close (almost obscene) ties between the US and the Saudi Royals I do not think it would have been hard for the US to end up with OBL in their custody, or at the very worse have unfettered access to him. But GW Bush, bless his little cotton brain cells, said give him directly to us or else. And we all know where or else led us to don't we?

Posted in: Terrorist attacks a universal television event
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SimondBAug. 17, 2011 - 04:16PM JST

I can only think from some of the sanctimonuos dammantions of the parents from some posters that they have never had children. I had two girls born within 18 months of each other. Do you think I never had disasters with them? Cathy with her hand stuck to her face with super glue? Was I wrong for not having the glue under lock and key? Char with her arm stuck up a drainpipe? these things happen with kids. A misstep and down between the train and the platform. I can understand these things happen.

Posted in: 2-year-old boy falls onto tracks at Nagoya Station
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SimondBAug. 17, 2011 - 03:58PM JST

Who would have thought it would turn like this...

Well I for one am not surprised. And this is just the tip of the iceburg. Think back to the early days of the Afghanistan invasion (long time back now). So many conferences in plush hotels around the world where governments pledged billions to rebuild Afghanistan. And now, all these years later and billion upon billions of dollars spent, still a basket case. If you stop banging your head against the wall it suddenly stops hurting.

The US and UK can stay in Afghanistan for another 20 or 30 years if they want, but at the end when they call it a day it will still be a feudal backward country. And that is the way they like it. They willl be glad to see foriegn troops go but oh boy, will they miss that aid they are living off.

At that point they will struggle along with donkeys and their version of religion until some other idiot country some time in the future trys to bring enlightened democracy to them. Then we can start the pledges of aid again and the cycle continues.

BTW, how is that democracy programme going in other parts of the Middle East?

Posted in: $360 mil lost to insurgents, criminals in Afghanistan
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SimondBAug. 17, 2011 - 10:32AM JST

And America has been living in fear ever since. Remeber those bizzare people using plastic sheeting and duct tape to make their homes safe from germ warfare attacks in the aftermath? The lasting legacy of 9/11 is the rush to war against those not involved. And still the wars continue.

Just hope they don't go through the reading of all the names again. or if they do can they tag on the 100,00 + who have died as a result of the consequent american response.

Time to get over it and reflect on the whys of it happening. And sorry, it was not because they hate your freedom - of which much you so easily gave away.

And I still want to know why the debris of the "lets roll" plane was spread over 10KMs if it crashed in one piece.

Posted in: Terrorist attacks a universal television event
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SimondBAug. 12, 2011 - 09:55AM JST

At least "humans and fish can co-exist"

Now remind me, who said that?

Posted in: Life in a bowl
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SimondBAug. 06, 2011 - 08:15AM JST

I guess the 300 day rule is based on the absurd japanese notion that a pregnancy lasts 10 months. Lets say a man finds out his wife is having an affair with the guy next door. He gets a divorce then the woman finds she is carrying her lovers child. The ex-husband is legally the father! Madness!. Or they divorce and she gets pregnant to someone else in the first month. The ex is the father? Apregnancy last 270 days, NOT 300.

Posted in: Okayama woman sues over 'sexist' marriage laws
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SimondBAug. 04, 2011 - 04:33PM JST

Hippo, I can only guess that you have been wallowing in Japanese waters for a limited time. Pedos are in every country but in all cases it is hidden. Perhaps that is why you think it does not happen in Japan.

Posted in: U.S. charges 72 over 'nightmare' child porn network
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SimondBJul. 17, 2011 - 04:47PM JST

SamuriBlue is quite right.The far right and tea party fanatics in goverment are willing to let America default on their debts to bring Obama down. If the US defaults on it's loans then why would any other country be worried about paying debts. It could start a domino effect that strikes scores of countries around the world. If America can't, or won't pay its bills then who will lend them money in the future? The dollar will become worthless.

Posted in: Congress seeks debt result, Obama goes to public
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SimondBJul. 11, 2011 - 05:45PM JST

As a young boy I remember the NOTW as being the biggest barstard newspaper in my delivery sack on my paper round. Wasn't a tabloid size rag back then. And popular round where I lived.

Posted in: UK's News of the World bids farewell to readers
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SimondBJul. 08, 2011 - 06:20AM JST

japan's finest

Posted in: Police sergeant arrested for drunken assault on train
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SimondBJul. 06, 2011 - 10:28AM JST

Like a previous poster I look at her wrists and arms, stick like torso and wonder......she was a bikini model? For what? 12 year olds? Stick insects?

Posted in: Aki Hoshino promotes next-generation KFC store
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SimondBJun. 02, 2011 - 10:03AM JST

During my 9 years in Japan I was the only gaijin in the office so was able to get away with a lot. But we moved to a new building down by Tamachi station. It was only 5 stories high but very wide. Our offices were at the back end on the third floor. So at the end of the day instead of walking the length of the building to the lift, going down and then walking the lenght of the building again towards the station I'd go out the back door and down the fire escape. After a while a memo came from the building's custodian that people were not to use the fire escape to leave the building. When I say fire escape I mean wide solid stairs not a ladder down the side. Despite words from my boss and colleagues I continued to use it. So then the custodian did an office by office meeting and explained to every one that the fire escape had to be clear in case of fire therefore people were not to use it when there was not a fire in case there was a fire. And the thing that stunned me was that everyone but me accepted this twisted logic.

Posted in: Employees reveal absurd company regulations
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SimondBMar. 11, 2011 - 12:28PM JST

I hope the people in Washington and Tokyo can also find the courage to tell the people that the party is over and the bills have to be paid.

Yes, the bills have to be paid. By the people who by and large did not create them. Who was at the party that is now over? ENRON anyone? Bankers big bonuses? Electicity price exploitation in CA? Why should the less paid living within their meagre budgets now have to pay for others excesses?

If I go a big binge spending money I don't actualy have other than on paper, will you bail me out when the party is over? Thought not. So let's attack those nasty unions who - God forbid - try to improve peoples lives. What on earth are they thinking? **

Posted in: Wisconsin approves anti-union measure