JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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cleo
Most pregnant women sail through the 1st and 2nd trimesters, indeed, through the whole pregnancy. Some don't. For all we know she's one of the unlucky ladies who have problems - could be anything from worse than normal morning sickness to a threatened miscarriage, who knows? No need for her to paste up her medical records.
Posted in: Meisa Kuroki cancels appearance at March 4 event for fans
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cleo
Jefflee, how do you imagine central heating and thick insulation would stop little children playing with lighters their dim parents left lying around the house?
Posted in: Two sisters, aged 5 and 3, perish in Tokyo fire
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cleo
Yahoo News is saying the fire was probably either started by a cigarette the 21-year-old mother didn't put out properly before she left, or the children were playing with a disposable lighter left close to an ashtray on the kotatsu.
The lighter was the old type, not the new childproof type that's supposedly regulatory now; both parents are smokers (how on earth can a couple of kids barely into their 20s and with two young children afford to burn money???) and it seems the parents knew the children 'liked to play with the lighter'.
The five-year-old died of smoke inhalation, and the three-year-old suffered burns all over her body.
When I started reading this thread I felt angry at the usual slagging-off of the parents and groundless speculation based on no information. Well, now we have the information, and I feel even angrier. Stupid, stupid, parents. Having babies at 16. Leaving the babies home alone. Smoking. Stupid, stupid, stupid parents.
Posted in: Two sisters, aged 5 and 3, perish in Tokyo fire
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cleo
We used to expect and trust the the nuclear power plants are built to the highest safety standards able to withstand powerful earthquake and tsunamis. Now we know better.
Posted in: Fukushima faces increased quake risk, scientists say
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cleo
Bear with me, Sushi.
You're assuming that the man was quite happy to ride in the aeroplane (he probably was) and so cannot complain when he finds out the parachute he was assured was 200% safe is full of holes (and the people who pushed it on him knew it was full of holes, but who cares, it's cheaper that way assuming you never need to use it) and that his cheap, clean efficient trip actually included a free-fall jump in the small print.
Problem with the nuclear option is that it wasn't planned, and not only the earthquake; planning properly for nuclear safety, storage of nuclear waste and the cost of clean up in the event of an accident would have made it impossible for anyone to claim it was cheap, clean or efficient.
Posted in: Fukushima faces increased quake risk, scientists say
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cleo
Bit like saying a man who jumps out of an aeroplane with a lacy doily for a parachute is perfectly safe until he hits the ground.
Posted in: Fukushima faces increased quake risk, scientists say
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cleo
They could make it look (and probably taste) better if they left out the tea. Then it wouldn't be dessert oden, but Japanese-style fruit compote.
I could live with that. In fact, I think I'll try it at home.
No tea.
Posted in: Try some dessert oden
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cleo
Are you telling us the harpoonists have no proper professional training, only what they learned at their daddies' knees? And their daddies before them? No wonder you're so forgiving of the abysmal time-to-death-rates in the whaling industry.
Tamarama - very good point about the hippy emotions.
Posted in: Confrontation
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cleo
When an industry is shut down whatever the reason, it's ipso facto dead. The moratorium means there can be no legitimate commercial market for whalemeat; economically it's dead. It's only our taxes and lies about 'research' that keep it afloat.
We're not talking about training as a mariner. We're talking about training as a whaler. DS wanted SS to provide 'education/training programmes for whalers so that they can make a living'. It seems you agree with me, for different reasons, that there is no need for any such training, and certainly no need for SS to provide it.
I've made no comments about 'mariners'. My comments were about people who are stupid enough to train for professions and industries that no longer exist.
I thought we were talking about the FBI and how good they are at defining terrorists (not very).
Posted in: Confrontation
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cleo
Training to work in a dead industry is dumb. Or do you also admire people who demand public subsidies to work as chariot grease jockeys, entrail readers and henge builders? That it's high-risk as well as dead-end only makes them dumber.
And what criminal charge was thrown at Cat Stevens or John Lennon? Pacifism? Peace-lovin' song lyrics? (Never been on the defendant's side of any criminal charge, but if the charge is being anti-war and/or anti-mindless cruelty, I plead guilty.)
The FBI as an organisation is not a joke. With the weight of the US government behind it, it can do a lot of damage and upset people's lives. It's 'definitions' of what makes a terrorist (♪give peace a chaaance~♫) are a joke.
Posted in: Confrontation
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cleo
AmericanForeigner has it wrong again! You're supposedly a happily married man - it's OK to accept giri-choco in the spirit it's given. Take them home and share them with your wife. When you come across a lady offering you chocolate with 'true feelings' and she isn't Mrs AF, she's the one you need to refuse.
Posted in: My frugal Valentine: Romance in a recession
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cleo
How very, very sad. I can understand people stuck in boring jobs, or confined to bed, etc., being bored - but if they're retired and sprightly enough to get out to the games centre, there are so many other things they could be doing. What a waste of a retirement. Time to be bored when you're stuck in an urn under a rock for all eternity.
People who get bored probably have no imagination.
Posted in: We're bored. We have nothing to do. I don't have anything to say to my husband anymore. It's much better to come here than just sit in the house watching TV all day. We need some excitement, too.
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cleo
The 'hunt' aka commercial whaling has been no-go for over a quarter of a century. Whalers who after all this time still haven't realised they're in a dead industry, and especially those who trained after 1986, are probably far too dumb to be trained for anything else.
Lots of people have, including Cat Stevens. FBI (the people who hounded John Lennon for being 'anti-war', remember) definitions are a joke.
Posted in: Confrontation
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cleo
All the time the harpoon vessels have spent dogging the SS ships is time they have not spent killing whales. True, SS has not been able to catch up with the factory ship and sit on its tail, the manoeuver that successfully brought the whaling season to an early end last year; but the whalers have been operating at no more than one-third capacity. SS are claiming that the harpoon ships have spent a total of 64 days following SS ships (as of 9th Feb); at an average of 8 whales per harpoon ship per day, that's over 500 whales that the YM, YM2 and YM3 have missed.
The factory ship meanwhile has been moving fast to try and keep out of range of the SS drones; if they're moving fast, they're not stopping much to pick up dead whales. When the whalers finally head back home and the number of whales killed is announced, and the icr is wailing once again about the obstruction of their 'perfectly legal research' we'll know how successful SS has been this season. Possibly not as well as last season, but every whale short of the 'quota' is a whale saved.
Word also has it that, as further proof that the 'research' excuse is paper-thin, the whalers have returned to last year's 'survey' area (apparently they're supposed to alternate areas in alternate years in order to get 'balanced' survey results), thus showing clearly that simply killing as many whales as possible is much more important to them than getting valid research data.
Posted in: Confrontation
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cleo
The vacuum storage bags come in large sizes, big enough to a duvet in. Or a body.
Does your computer have no dictionary?
Posted in: Man attempts suicide after police find mother's corpse hidden in vacuum bag
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cleo
No need to play Polyanna, Munya.
But surely this is a good point for Akihito to step down, enjoy the rest of his life and let his sons take up the slack.
Posted in: Emperor to have heart bypass surgery next Saturday
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cleo
Sorry, but your argument doesn't hold up. If I object to unlabelled GMO, does that mean I mustn't eat anything because I don't know if it's got GMO in it or not? (That's the whole point of the protest....) Or if a local textile factory has been found to have been pouring pollutants into the river the police can't prosecute because the police uniforms are made from cloth produced by that factory?
These people aren't protesting about electricity. They're protesting about a particular source of electricity that politicians and power companies have assured them is safe, clean and cheap - and that has been shown spectacularly since 3/11 to be not safe, not clean and not cheap. Now they know the truth is the time to protest the evils of nuclear energy, is it not?
Saying people shouldn't complain now about stuff they didn't know about/weren't aware of before because they believed the politicians and power companies is like saying parents shouldn't complain when they find out radioactive beef and milk has been served in school dinners because, well, they didn't complain when the kids were eating those radioactive dinners. Why would people complain about the unthinkable before it becomes plain that the unthinkable has happened and will continue to happen if people don't speak up?
A bit like being in favour of money but opposed to getting it by robbing banks.
('JT heavyweight', ey? Maybe need to go on a JT diet...)
Posted in: No nukes
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cleo
The one who gets the gold is understandably happy; the one who gets the bronze is glad she didn't come fourth and get nothing; the one who gets silver is always a bit sad that she didn't quite make it. (Though really Mao-chan and anyone else who gets a silver medal has really done very well indeed.)
Posted in: Ice queens
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cleo
Looks like 'seriously' has taken on a new meaning.
So, 655321, would you say that people who object to Nike sports shoes being made by children in sweatshops should therefore refuse to wear any kind of footgear or play any kind of sport? That people who are concerned about the next earthquake, instead of quake-proofing their houses, should not live in a house at all, but just sleep out in the open in readiness?
I hope those who think nuclear power is a good thing are ready to store their share of the nuclear waste for the next ten thousand or more years. And my share too, cos I don't want it.
Posted in: No nukes
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cleo
Maybe you haven't noticed that even with most of the NPPs off line, there is still plenty of electricity? And yes, people are 'refraining from using electricity' to help - shop lighting is reduced (making a much more pleasant environment), vending machines have their lights switched off, and at home people are using hot water bottles instead of electric blankets. Are the same people who insist we need nuclear going to take responsibility for the lives disrupted by Fukushima, for the health problems that will be appearing 10,20 years down the road, for the removal of the glowing mess that is now Daiichi? How?
Posted in: Thousands in Tokyo march against nuclear power