Wednesday February 15, 2012

UnagiDon's past comments

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    UnagiDon

    Damned if you do, damned if you don't, sometimes by the same poster.

    Posted in: Japan eyes sending more troops to East China Sea

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    UnagiDon

    frontandcentre;

    To clarify, I did say "eikaiwa" as opposed to all English teachers as I too have met some good ones who are serious about it. I've just found the ratio of losers to non-losers to be far higher amongst the eikaiwa crowd, probably more so for the long-termers.

    As for your assumption about my employment, you'd be wrong and I dont post here that often.

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    UnagiDon

    I didn't know Shane MacGowan was in town.

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    UnagiDon

    I'm really torn on this issue. On one hand, fewer eikawa "teachers" in Japan would be a good thing, as the overall quality of the gaijin population would be consequently bumped up. On the other hand, Japan is doing my country and others a valuable service by taking on the underachievers of the Western world and giving them a job. What a dilemma.

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    UnagiDon

    flatearther;

    I wish my country's military would leave Japan, then I wouldn't have to read the nasty anti-U.S rants posted here.

    I think nasty anti-US rants would be a sad fact of life even if all US forces left - JT posters are not known for rational thinking.

    Posted in: North Korea threatens to shoot down Japanese spy planes

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    UnagiDon

    Maybe next time he could try staying for a couple of months during the rainy season, commuting from a 2DK in Saitama.

    Why? The lifestyles of English teachers are of no interest to FT readers.

    Posted in: Is Tokyo really top dog in global rankings?

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    UnagiDon

    Well-said Griffin. Japan is a safe country relative to others, but drunken idiocy will not result in Zen-like tolerance. Plus personal anecdotes count for squat, as does the paranoia and xenophobia a few posters have displayed.

    Posted in: Japanese urged to take pride in their safe society

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    UnagiDon

    No more Conchords? It's Murray I'll miss the most.

    Posted in: 'House' is world's most popular TV show

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    UnagiDon

    JeffLee;

    Interesting interpretation of my comment.

    I wasn't interpreting it, nor did I even refer to your comment, so don't know how you got that impression.

    provided some background and context

    You mean like "Monocle's founder is a hard-core Japanophile, whose trendy/artsy magazine has an odd obsession with the shinkansen, the city of Fukuoka and other Japan-geek subjects. His livable "surveys" always seem to reflect his own Japano- Euro-centric preferences. Hmmm."? I'd hardly call that context, but rather an ad hominem and strange considering the few Japanese cities in the ranking..

    Methinks you're the one with the chipped shoulder

    I merely have a strong and visceral reaction to stupidity, hypocrisy, and people who feel the need to comment on something when they haven't even read it, so I probably should spend less time reading JT comments.

    Posted in: Is Tokyo really top dog in global rankings?

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    UnagiDon

    Smith;

    Obviously you're right - trolling for a reaction from my at 2am by interjecting yourself into a discussion and contributing nothing but ad hominems against me could hardly be construed as "hysterical". My bad.

    Posted in: North Korea threatens to shoot down Japanese spy planes

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    UnagiDon

    gogogo;

    It says NEAR Musudan-ri, and again, that is according to the Korean Central News Agency. Trusting them is hardly a wise idea.

    Posted in: North Korea threatens to shoot down Japanese spy planes

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    UnagiDon

    kanadamanada;

    YUP!

    So shooting down civilian airliners is okay, gotcha.

    Read the article. Nobody said it did???

    My mistake, that wasn't asked of you specifcally. Just pointing out that several here have acted like it HAS occurred, tkaing the words of that pargaon of honest journalism, the Korean Central News Agency

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    UnagiDon

    One question about all those talking about "unreported crime" - where is all this unreported crime being reported, given that you all seem to know so much about it?

    Posted in: Japanese urged to take pride in their safe society

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    UnagiDon

    Smith;

    Was Korean Airlines Flight 007 a spy plane flying over North Korea? Ummm.... nope. Any other unrelated examples you want to bring up to make your undermine your argument?

    Apparently it was related enough to Kanadmanada's post (violating airspace deserves a shoot-down) which my comment was in response to, and which he/she answered "yes" to, so perhaps it is your slightly hysterical reply to my comment which is unrelated?

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    UnagiDon

    If Japan is flying in NK airspace, then they deserve to be shot down.

    So presumably you were okay when Korean Airlines flight 007 was shot down by the Soviets for being in their airspace. They deserved it, right?

    By the way, where does it say that any Japanese military aircraft actually did enter NK airspace, rather than "near" it?

    Posted in: North Korea threatens to shoot down Japanese spy planes

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    UnagiDon

    As always, the knee-jerk monkeys here on JT overlook the fact that these livability studies are for the wealthy expat types living on nice salaries and benefits packages, i.e. not you. You may continue to slag Tokyo based on your own as #1 based on your own miserability index, which is probably more a reflection of yourself than the environment around you.

    Personally I found Tokyo a great place to live, however much we dispute whether it's #3 or #23.

    Posted in: Is Tokyo really top dog in global rankings?

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    UnagiDon

    Conspiracy theories, apologists for North Korea, and the odd stab at "Japan", just another typical day on JT...

    Posted in: North Korea threatens to shoot down Japanese spy planes

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    UnagiDon

    some of you are still lookking at Japan thru rose-tainted glasses, others like me are not

    Correct, you're looking at Japan through crap-coloured glasses, which is just as bad, if not worse.

    Posted in: Japanese urged to take pride in their safe society

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    UnagiDon

    Forgot to clarify that said export version of the F-22 would be for Japan, naturally.

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    UnagiDon

    The awesome aircraft that Secretary of Defense Gates wants to end production of.

    A House of Representatives committee sent Gates a letter last week suggesting the line be kept open to allow an export version of the F-22 at a cool $290 million per plane, so Lockheed-Martin may still be in the gravy if their lobbying pays off.

    Sexy looking plane, regardless of the cost.

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