bamboohat said...

bamboohat at 09:09 AM JST - 7th November

Unfortunately for so many of the desperate for attention people in Japan, (and the world, for that matter) giving them the right amount of attention is all it takes to deceive. Somebody with a solid intentions of deception for money can have a pretty easy time at it.

Especially ANY…

Posted in Suspicious deaths of 2 more men linked to woman in Tottori at 09:09 AM JST - 7th November
bamboohat at 08:58 AM JST - 7th November

this is truly shocking. I had been following this story and actually held out some hope she might be found ok. I hope she didn't suffer, physically or emotionally.

Posted in Woman's head found on Hiroshima mountain that of missing student at 08:58 AM JST - 7th November
bamboohat at 04:08 PM JST - 6th November

mostly the new H1N1 strain of influenza A,

I call reporting foul.

As previously pointed out, since there is nothing different about the treatments between new flu and normal flu, most docs aren't doing the test to determine the specific kind of flu. They just check symptoms, and say, yea,sure,…

Posted in No. of flu patients to top 6 million mark soon in Japan at 04:08 PM JST - 6th November
bamboohat at 04:04 PM JST - 6th November

I need me a couple of thermal tops, and uniqlo is the perfect place to get 'em. warm and sensibly priced. I bought a bunch last year but I can only find two of them. Oh well. Maybe I'll bump into one of these models there....

Posted in Keeping warm at 04:04 PM JST - 6th November
bamboohat at 09:16 AM JST - 6th November

...flashing commuters since May. Because many of the reports came from young women driving past the area, police placed a policewoman in her 20s

wow, those j-stones are really on top of things. Almost six months to catch the guy.

And why in the world was a plainclothes officer doing…

Posted in Fukushima flasher caught red-handed by female police officer at 09:16 AM JST - 6th November
bamboohat at 09:14 AM JST - 6th November

I don't want to sound alarmist, but this looks like jihadists have infiltrated the US army.

I think "jihadists ideas" is a more appropriate term. I don't think they are sending in sleeper agents ala Tom Clancy just yet. If they were, that would be an awful lot of planning…

Posted in Army psychiatrist kills 12, wounds 31 in shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas at 09:14 AM JST - 6th November
bamboohat at 09:09 AM JST - 6th November

I like movies. I see lots of movies. If it's made by QT, I'll see it. Some I'll even watch several times over the course of several years (pulp fiction, kill Bill I).

As far as two hours of entertainment, QT's movies are worth the price of a movie ticket.…

Posted in What do you think of Quentin Tarantino as a filmmaker? at 09:09 AM JST - 6th November
bamboohat at 09:05 AM JST - 6th November

Missing your kids baseball game is regrettable.

Showing up late to the office Christmas party is regrettable.

Forgetting your wife's anniversary is regrettable.

A state sanctioned murder of an innocent man is a horrible injustice that demands rectification.

At least in countries that do more than merely pretend to value…

Posted in Public safety chief shows regret over execution at 09:05 AM JST - 6th November
bamboohat at 09:02 AM JST - 6th November

The only gals I see in my neck of the woods wearing kimonos are at least sixty years old.

Where do these kimono wearing model types hang out?

Posted in Embracing the Japanese aesthetic at 09:02 AM JST - 6th November
bamboohat at 03:54 PM JST - 5th November

True Fact: There is a huge online market of erotic fiction for women. And by far, the best selling genre is where the vampire comes in, swoops the woman off her feet, and makes mad vampire love to her.

The whole twilight series is mind pornography for teenage girls. Strong…

Posted in Hollywood gushes bloodsuckers in vampire boom at 03:54 PM JST - 5th November