conqueror_of_Uranus said...

conqueror_of_Uranus at 03:53 PM JST - 31st October

tmarie, I meant to say that while we condemn the lazy underachievers who make obviously poor choices, the genuinely unfortunate make us feel rather uncomfortable.

Though people wallow in self-righteous superiority while deriding someone foolish enough to place himself in his current situation, the genuinely unfortunate underprivileged trigger a different…

Posted in Japan's burgeoning class: Working poor at 03:53 PM JST - 31st October
conqueror_of_Uranus at 02:53 PM JST - 31st October

tmarie, maybe this dude is lazy or just naive, but some people just have no chance, no support, and no hope.

You just never hear of them, because it hits too close to home.

Posted in Japan's burgeoning class: Working poor at 02:53 PM JST - 31st October
conqueror_of_Uranus at 02:51 PM JST - 31st October

On the same note; I'd like to hear people who say that "life is what you make of it" and other motivational feel-good BS say that to a starving third-world orphan.

Sure, tell him that one day he can be an astronaut, or a politician, a movie star or football…

Posted in Japan's burgeoning class: Working poor at 02:51 PM JST - 31st October
conqueror_of_Uranus at 02:46 PM JST - 31st October

tmarie, not everyone has a nice farm home out in the countryside to go home to.

Not everyone moved to Tokyo because they got bored of their town out in the sticks. Not everyone has parents that ever loved, or even cared about them. Not everyone even has parents. Some…

Posted in Japan's burgeoning class: Working poor at 02:46 PM JST - 31st October
conqueror_of_Uranus at 01:02 PM JST - 31st October

Doesn't make me wanna go to Mcdonalds anytime soon, however....

Posted in Hoshino, Minami promote McDonald's-Coca-Cola campaign at 01:02 PM JST - 31st October
conqueror_of_Uranus at 12:48 PM JST - 31st October

Freakenese at 06:29 PM JST - 30th October

Anybody know the history of pot in Japan? How far back does it go? I would love to see some ancient Japanese painting with a Samurai smoking a fat blunt.

During the feudal era in Japan, marijuana was smoked by the rural…

Posted in 2 Keio students nabbed for dealing cannabis on campus at 12:48 PM JST - 31st October
conqueror_of_Uranus at 02:19 PM JST - 23rd September

Thailand is notorious for banning movies that portray their nation as anything else than is approved by the royal council.

Movies such as "The Beach", "Anna and the King", and "The Diary of Bridget Jones 2" were banned in Thailand.

Posted in Japanese film on child prostitution pulled from Thai film festival at 02:19 PM JST - 23rd September
conqueror_of_Uranus at 07:50 PM JST - 14th September

There are many countries where recreational marijuana use (by default: possession of less than 5grams of resin, or 8grams of marijuana) is either decriminalized or largely ignored by law enforcement.

Spain, France, Portugal, Germany, Most of Scandinavia, West Australia state, Nepal.... There are about the same amount of countries that…

Posted in Should marijuana use be illegal? at 07:50 PM JST - 14th September
conqueror_of_Uranus at 07:40 PM JST - 14th September

Japan seems to be the only nation in the region that doesn't have a shoot to kill policy.

The last time Japan fired upon an intruder was when the Coast Guard sunk a NKorean drug-runner/spy-vessel, only after a 16 hour chase and being fired upon with assault rifles and RPGs.

Posted in Unidentified sub enters deep into western Japan territorial waters at 07:40 PM JST - 14th September
conqueror_of_Uranus at 10:46 PM JST - 6th September

Blimey, i don`t understand all this. Why was North Korea kidnapping Japanese people.

Was they trying to get ransom money from the Japanese government, because they are skint? Or was it anotha reason?

-AlfGarnett

Japanese citizens were kidnapped by the North Korean govt to be cultural and language advisers for…

Posted in N Korea tells Japan of delay in launching abduction probe panel at 10:46 PM JST - 6th September