cleo said...

cleo at 10:53 AM JST - 3rd November

...but it was intended as a clear-cut statement of fact and a demand that I be excluded from Alphaape's 'we'.....

But I can see how the plesiosaur mind might take it....

touché Nessie!

:-)

Posted in S Carolina shooter feared 12-year-old trick-or-treater was robber, police say at 10:53 AM JST - 3rd November
cleo at 10:36 AM JST - 3rd November

But "cliff diving"! Why ban cliff diving?

I imagine someone high up decided that activities that get the adrenaline pumping leave the young folks 'high' so that then they go off looking for mischief in schools and residential areas. I would have thought that arranging activities where they could work…

Posted in U.S. Marines ordered not to enter some public places in Okinawa at 10:36 AM JST - 3rd November
cleo at 07:48 PM JST - 2nd November

A man walking two dogs would not play chicken with a minivan.

But if they were big dogs and he didn't have proper control over them, it's possible that they might pull him into the road in front of a vehicle. The article doesn't mention that possibility, though; it just…

Posted in Man held over fatal hit-and-run in Chiba at 07:48 PM JST - 2nd November
cleo at 07:41 PM JST - 2nd November

We still have a tendency to want to kill each other.

There's that we again. Who is 'we'? I no more have a tendency to want to kill anybody than I have a history of smoking dope, nor do the people I interact with every day. Count me/us out of…

Posted in S Carolina shooter feared 12-year-old trick-or-treater was robber, police say at 07:41 PM JST - 2nd November
cleo at 03:55 PM JST - 2nd November

Helter Skelter -

A ban on guns will only affect law abiding citizens who use them responsibly for protection against people like this.

Please explain how a 12-year-old is supposed to use a gun responsibly to protect himself from 'people like this' who blast away through a closed door?

The…

Posted in S Carolina shooter feared 12-year-old trick-or-treater was robber, police say at 03:55 PM JST - 2nd November
cleo at 11:09 AM JST - 2nd November

WMD - Who is 'we'?

Posted in Doshisha student says she bought cannabis from Brazilian at 11:09 AM JST - 2nd November
cleo at 02:10 AM JST - 2nd November

give up their ability to defend themselves.

Right....the ability to defend themselves....

...from 12-year-old kids?

Are people living in the US really so afraid of each other? Is the average American really such a scary being that his neighbours need guns to protect themselves from his children?

Posted in S Carolina shooter feared 12-year-old trick-or-treater was robber, police say at 02:10 AM JST - 2nd November
cleo at 06:51 PM JST - 1st November

What happens to the chicken after laying this monster size egg?

She sits down very carefully.

And broods over the size of her family.

Posted in 2nd egg emerges from giant chicken egg found at Shiga high school at 06:51 PM JST - 1st November
cleo at 01:53 PM JST - 1st November

in the last 12 months more marines in iraq have died in motorcycle accidents than have died in combat.

Maybe asking the US to leave is part of an Iraqi road safety drive.

Posted in Iraq wants all U.S. troops gone by end of 2011 at 01:53 PM JST - 1st November
cleo at 10:40 AM JST - 1st November

Sarge -

How do you know the founding fathers, two centuries later, wouldn't find bits of the constitution that needed revising/updating? If it were intended to be taken as written in stone, how did it manage to get so many amendments attached to it? Is everyone who proposed/voted in favour…

Posted in Across the globe, Americans gear up to vote at 10:40 AM JST - 1st November