cleo said...

cleo at 01:41 AM JST - 5th April

Sarge - 'slapped upside the head and fined' doesn't teach an unfeeling moron not to be a sadist. Maybe a taste of their own medicine will cure them.

WJT - Are you seriously suggesting that a cat and a sadistic piece of teenage garbage are on the same level? The…

Posted in 2 teenagers arrested for killing cat by setting it alight at 01:41 AM JST - 5th April
cleo at 08:59 PM JST - 4th April

A storm in a teacup. Watch the video, it's nothing.

Posted in Australian PM says salute to Bush was a joke at 08:59 PM JST - 4th April
cleo at 03:36 PM JST - 4th April

Oh Nessie, just because there's a trashy headline, no one's forcing you to read the trashy 'news' underneath it.

Hiko - Tie me kangaroo down sport?...But that was decades ago..... at least he isn't injecting them.....

Posted in Which celebrities are you sick and tired of reading or hearing about? at 03:36 PM JST - 4th April
cleo at 01:19 PM JST - 4th April

electric2004 - Sounds like fun! Being able to read the alphabet makes much more sense than being able to recite it, which is what most Japanese parents mean when they boast that Junior-kun 'knows' the alphabet. ganbaru seals - ah, I remember sticking those all over my kids' books. Happy…

Posted in Gov't unveils new English education textbooks for elementary schools at 01:19 PM JST - 4th April
cleo at 12:35 PM JST - 4th April

sarcasm -

Every child with the ability to learn its native language has the ability to learn two or even three languages at a very early age, given the right environment. It's once the crucial learning window has started to close that they hit trouble and decide that they aren't…

Posted in Gov't unveils new English education textbooks for elementary schools at 12:35 PM JST - 4th April
cleo at 11:03 AM JST - 4th April

greenteaonsens - No one is pretending that 'all is well'. Yes, this kind of stuff is happening more, yes it is a problem and yes it needs to be tackled. But women (middle-aged or otherwise) who kill children are not 'typical'.

typical |ˈtipikəl| adjective having the distinctive qualities of a…

Posted in Mother arrested for strangling 4-year-old daughter in Tokyo at 11:03 AM JST - 4th April
cleo at 10:58 AM JST - 4th April

None. I don't read trashy magazines, and my telly has an Off switch.

Haven't heard anything about Rolf Harris in years. I wonder how he's doing.

Posted in Which celebrities are you sick and tired of reading or hearing about? at 10:58 AM JST - 4th April
cleo at 10:55 AM JST - 4th April

I'm curious to know what would happen if these two were doused in pesticide, set alight and thrown out of a window. I volunteer to conduct the experiment.

'Cat phobia' - yeah, unbelievable claptrap.

Posted in 2 teenagers arrested for killing cat by setting it alight at 10:55 AM JST - 4th April
cleo at 10:49 AM JST - 4th April

Typical middle-aged Japanese woman

Yeah, all the middle-aged Japanese women I know make a habit of strangling at least two toddlers every day before breakfast.

Get a grip. If it were typical it wouldn't be news.

Posted in Mother arrested for strangling 4-year-old daughter in Tokyo at 10:49 AM JST - 4th April
cleo at 10:46 AM JST - 4th April

sarcasm - As others have pointed out, many many people do learn their second or third languages at a very early age, with no lasting detriment to their first. My own two have been bilingual from the first; in their toddling years they often produced a kind of mixed baby-Japlish…

Posted in Gov't unveils new English education textbooks for elementary schools at 10:46 AM JST - 4th April