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I think they should focus on stabilizing both the Japanese economy and the government before considering…
Posted in: Rome's 2020 Olympic bid scrapped, leaving Tokyo, 4 other cities
you anti-smokers are ridiculous, live and let live! I have no objection when banning smoking at…
Posted in: Smoke-free laws lead to less smoking at home
Some author I'd read a while back was cautioning Democrats against routing for Santorum too seriously.…
Moar tariff restrictions!
Knowing the US, they must weigh heavily on the issue!! (Sorry, couldn't help myself ;).)
Posted in: U.S. weighing steep nuclear arms cuts
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I like the "just giggled" response to questions about love life. J-birds are tops.
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Nice! I never see these Western blokes when i am out and about. Where are they hiding?
Posted in: Tokyo Girls Collection
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Acid isn't a stimulant, it is a hallucigenic. speed most likely. It's pretty cheap in japan, I like the name of the town it happened in - sums the guy up perfectly.
Posted in: Man arrested for drug use after driving on Hokkaido train tracks
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They get money or just a bunch of silver ball bearings?
Posted in: 3 men, brandishing baseball bats, rob Oita game parlor
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Nice work if you can get it.
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Who was the judge at the competion for Miss Mister Donut. I bet it was Frubert T. Bunn , an acknowledged expert in matters to do with pastries and baking.
Posted in: Miss Mister Donut
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Look good but lacking in brains.
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Typical arrogant religious loons who do as they please with no real concern for others.
Posted in: 10 U.S. Baptists charged with kidnapping Haiti children
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Tkoind2: Intellectuals (if communists and marxists can be called that) destroyed Russia. Cambodia. Plenty of African countries....... And you say you worked in banks for 20 years. But you also lay into bank employees with a vengeance. Not all bank employees are involved in lending or trading or selling. Many are in IT or HR or whatever - to them the bank is just an employer like say.... General Motors. Oh, wait, GM also took state money. TAX em all.
Posted in: The punishment of banks: To whose benefit?
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Banks and bank employees are also taxpayers, in most cases huge taxpayers compared to other corporations and people. One copuld argue that the bailout - for those who took it - was just them getting back something on what they paid. As for the low rates and state support for the economy helping banks make money, that is incidental. The Govt. isn't keeping rates low to help banks but to help voters (homeowners, employees, etc).
Posted in: The punishment of banks: To whose benefit?
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We should all acknowledge that, whatever else we whine about on JT, the lack of violence (and general good behaviour) on a night out is a major plus!
Posted in: Cheers! British drinkers toast new shatterproof pint glass
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OL's earn peanuts. hostesses earn decent money. They get to dress well, have nails and hair done and do a job that is actually envied by many women and they are admired by men. Sounds like a J-girl's dream..... They fulfil a need in a society where many married or dating couples scarcely communicate. Leave the hosties alone!! If they move onto taking koney for sex, why not? It's their lives and their bodies.....
Posted in: Ginza's hostesses feel the economic pinch
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Lots of things that are not dangerous are illegal....... soft drugs for example. Drink driving is illegal precisely because it has the potential to cause harm to others.
Posted in: Man arrested after applying for driver's license renewal while drunk
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Glad they got an expert to enhance my viewing experience.
Posted in: SMAP singer Masahiro Nakai to be TBS' main commentator for Winter Olympics
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But it's cheaper to rent a bra or underwear than to buy! 14 x 500 = 7,000 yen plus the 3,900 is 10,900 yen. And it costs 13,000 yen to buy? And you can keep it when the rental is done? Makes no sense.
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Back from the dead. More flexible than the big 2
Posted in: Softbank profit soars; buys stake in Ustream
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Picture please. To put the story into context. Although a 19 year old visrgin in NZ is pretty unusual already.
Posted in: New Zealand girl auctions her virginity to pay for tuition
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She's rubbish. Couldn't even win the beauty competiton. 9 months in France/ Bet she was fluent by the time she left...... She could try dating one of the ubiquitous French blokes that hang around "classy" clubs in tokyo....
Moderator: There is no need to insult Ms Chibana. It only reflects badly on yourself.
Posted in: Kurara Chibana to re-learn French on NHK
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If family laws in Japan are so unfair, how come I am being made to pay child maintenance for akid who I didn't want with a woman I never want to see again and who got knocked up purely of her own volition (sure, I was involved but not aware of her intentions)?
Posted in: U.S. warns Japan child custody laws could harm bilateral ties
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We should learn from history but we should also quit living in the past.
Posted in: Japan, China still at odds over 'Rape of Nanking'