cleo said...

cleo at 11:35 PM JST - 15th July

They aren't newspaper delivery men, the article calls them 'delivery agents' by which I imagine they mean the yakkish boors who come pushing boxes of cheap washing powder into the genkan and then by one means or another try to weedle you to sign up for three years' delivery of…

Posted in 2 Yomiuri newspaper delivery agents arrested for allegedly raping woman at 11:35 PM JST - 15th July
cleo at 02:36 PM JST - 15th July

Sarge - It's special Japanese reckoning. The top prize is 200 million and the next-number prize is 50 million; since people tend to buy blocks of tickets rather than single Sarge-like tickets, they reckon that if you have, say, Winning Ticket Number 99 chances are you also have 98 and…

Posted in at 02:36 PM JST - 15th July
cleo at 01:06 PM JST - 15th July

DanManjt -

I did respond, you apparently disapprove of either my response or the way I framed it. That's your choice.

Let's try to put things in a form you are willing to accept (you see how reasonable I am? and pleasant?) :-)

The right to free expression does not…

Posted in Tatami rooms don't agree with G-8 visitors at 01:06 PM JST - 15th July
cleo at 12:38 PM JST - 15th July

I suppose it depends on how 'unwell' she had been feeling. Splitting headache, violent stomachache, heavy nausea, too dizzy to stand - yes, give the baby to someone else and go lie down is the obvious step to take. But maybe it was just a general feeling of tiredness after…

Posted in Mother, 1-year-old daughter drown in hot spring in Toyama at 12:38 PM JST - 15th July
cleo at 12:07 PM JST - 15th July

most places don't allow small children.

Never heard of that.

Posted in Mother, 1-year-old daughter drown in hot spring in Toyama at 12:07 PM JST - 15th July
cleo at 12:05 PM JST - 15th July

lol. Danmanjt, you really are clutching at straws. Give up.

Posted in Tatami rooms don't agree with G-8 visitors at 12:05 PM JST - 15th July
cleo at 11:58 AM JST - 15th July

shouldn't the prize money be a little more than that?

There are 40 top prizes(200 million), 80 next-number prizes (50 million), 3960 wrong-group prizes (100,000), 80 2nd prizes (100 million), 400 3rd prizes 10 million), 4000 4th prizes (500,000), 400,000 5th prizes (10,000), 4 million 6th prizes (3,000), 40 million…

Posted in at 11:58 AM JST - 15th July
cleo at 11:44 AM JST - 15th July

I took my kids to spas when they were babies and they loved it. Common sense tells you not to put them in the scalding baths (heck, Mum is isn't going in those!), and the tinies find the cooler (but still hot) springs very soothing.

Actually the last few times…

Posted in Mother, 1-year-old daughter drown in hot spring in Toyama at 11:44 AM JST - 15th July
cleo at 09:20 AM JST - 15th July

Whats the point?

I'd rather have PETA there than the dogmeat vendors.

Posted in China says banners, slogans not allowed in Olympic venues at 09:20 AM JST - 15th July
cleo at 08:58 AM JST - 15th July

Ask yourself, would you really want someone like PETA at your olympics

Yes?

Posted in China says banners, slogans not allowed in Olympic venues at 08:58 AM JST - 15th July