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flammenwerfer
dano2002 I disagree with that, Rugby is a worldwide sport, you have named 5 central American nations in your post above, thats not worldwide.
A sevens tournament is all over in two days and requiring only one stadium. Perfect for the Olympics. Anyone of a dozen teams is a medal contender too, which makes it far more interesting than the predictable outcomes of baseball. Baseball only has 8 teams at the olympics, because of the long games, 8 teams is far too narrow.
Countries almost guaranteed to play if possible Australia* Canada* USA South Africa* Romania Georgia Italy France* Ireland Britain* South Africa* China Japan Argentina* Uruguay Namibia New Zealand* Cook Islands* Fiji* Samoa* Korea* Kenya* Tonga.* Uganda* Tunisia* Russia* UAE
Those countries are widely distributed geographically, and many are small nations that have a good chance of medalling such as Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga.
Compare that distribution to say Handball which should be dropped too, which is predominantly a European Sport France, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Croatia, Spain, Iceland, Russia, Slovenia. 9 out of 12 teams at the last Olympics were European.
Volleyball and Basketball are much more international.
Posted in: Which sports would you like to see dropped or added to the summer Olympics in future?
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gondola?!? I believe the North American term is 'zipline', the British term is 'aerial runway' and the Australasian word and my favorite is 'flying fox' Gondola is something very different.
p.s. where are all the usual JT suspects berating the parents for poor parenting and lack of supervision?
Posted in: 7-year-old boy loses forefinger in Shizuoka park accident
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Drop Soccer, baseball gone for 2012 huh? thats good. How about softball? drop that too and field hockey. team sports with many players and long matches dont need to be at the Olympics. Basketball and volleyball just slip in.
Hammer, discus and shotput are the pure classical athletic discliplines, they will never be dropped.
Add. Rugby sevens (games are only 20mins), downhill mtn biking, bike trials, and Sasuke/ninja warrior/extreme obstacle course!
Posted in: Which sports would you like to see dropped or added to the summer Olympics in future?
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rjd_jr - exactly, nice to read a balanced sensible reply.
Posted in: 1-year-old girl loses finger in escalator accident at supermarket in Hiratsuka
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Very critical on here today aren't we all?, we don't know the circumstances so why get sanctimonious and jump to conclusions? 6 years old and 4 years old, these aren't babies and if playing together don't necessarily need 100% supervision, I sure didn't get it when I was that age that playing with older neighbours, he we played in the woods! think back to your youth, was your mother watching you like a hawk 100% of the time? did you play near water when you werent supposed to?
They were at a park, probably one with a playground, where the boys were most likely playing there when the mother when to get a drink, knowing japan at a vending machine. If the boys were mischieveous I am guessing they went to play near the pond (their mother maybe even told them not not too - who knows). If this mother left them at the ponds edge and went away, then yes she deserves a slap about the head, but I doubt she was that negligent.
Many ponds I know in Japan near playgrounds are fenced off, or have barriers, did the boys climb over the barrier? we don't know there are only 6 lines of text in the story, there is so much about the background that we don't know and is up for conjecture.
parental supervision all over the world can be appalling, its very easy to get critical when you live here as its the only parenting you are seeing on a daily basis, but take a good look when you go back to your home country and see the shocking parenting going on there. Some parents are great, some are terrible in every country. Water is everywhere, fenced and unfenced and mischievous kids can quickly go from a safe place to a dangerous one.
There must be same great parents on this board, and some great future parents, best of luck suprevisieng your kids like hawks their entire childhoods....
Posted in: 4-year-old boy drowns in Fukuoka pond
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williamsmith - hit the bullseye with the Chinese, ask an airline cabin attendant who are the worst passengers, most will tell you its the Chinese. Mao has a lot to answer for with his classless society, he made it "classless" in all possible senses of the word.
Loud obnoxious Americans, drunk hooligan-esque Brits, know it all Australians, rude classless Chinese, arrogant French....plenty of groups renowned for their bad behaviour.
Posted in: In your experience, which country's tourist groups tend to behave badly wherever they go?
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oba-hans chatting loudly about inane things in oba-han voices and these are the same people who are the first to complain about others (esp young people) for what they see as rude behaviour. damn hypocrites.
Seat hogs, your bag doesn't need a seat. Also the bench seats that take 6 people and 5 people are sitting evenly spaced on it making it impossible to sit down without making a fuss...
People bumping into you doesn't need an apology, its a given that you will get a bumping on crowded train and virtually no one will apologise, its kind of an unwritten rule if you haven't noticed - get over it!
Posted in: What behavior by train passengers bugs you the most?
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"always", but he wasnt always rightwing, he was quite left for quite a while until he became disillusioned with the left (and who can blame him there...)
Posted in: Actor Charlton Heston dies at 84
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I always rated him as an actor, he had some great performances over the years, Ben Hur and POTA. He certainly embroiled himself in controversy with his NRA activities, critics will be finally able to pry the gun from his cold dead hands now.
He was quite politically active and liberal in his younger days: He was also an opponent of McCarthyism and racial segregation, he also opposed the Vietnam War. It wasnt until the 1980's that he went conservative.
He had an interesting life for sure. RIP
Posted in: Actor Charlton Heston dies at 84
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flammenwerfer
man this guy had nothing on Saruhashi and his pimpin' penthouse palace in the former Nova HQ. A bed couch and shower? Saru had a the whole floor !
Posted in: Chancellor's secret sex room revealed in court
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also 49,350!?? a quick search on kakaku showed they are available from 32,998yen
Posted in: Digital noise canceling headphone
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from Gizmodo website... "Update: Since several companies sell digital noise canceling headphones, I asked Sony what exactly made these a world's first.
They admitted that they weren't sure why there are other headphones advertised as digital noise canceling, since they all use an analog mechanism for equaling out the sound. These do an analog to digital conversion using a digital signal processor with three filters. That should, in theory, result in far better sound since the sound gets cleaned up with digital EQ before you hear it."
so there you have it, if we can believe that then Bose have been lying to us for years
Posted in: Digital noise canceling headphone
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its bad, but wouldnt go so far as the worst in the world, India for one is running for that title.
Posted in: Fraudsters running scams ahead of digital TV switchover
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60photos a second! come again! .....I just searched the net and its true, wow I am impressed, thats 60fps for full res and 1200fps at lower res! wow what a quantum leap in technology. A canon Eos 1-D (big powerful and expensive pro SLR) can only crack 5fps.
Posted in: High-speed digital camera
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While barbaric, I wouldnt quite compare it with whaling. The seal population is apparently exploding, they are not endangered like most whales species (despite the efforts of certain grops to tell us whales are not endangered)
If the oceans were jam packed with whales, I personally would be too upset if Norway Japan et al hunted some of them and vice versa if the Seals where endangered I would be concerned about the seal hunt.
Baby seals are cute with big round eyes and the thought of someone killing one especially by clubbing is abhorent by many, but would so many care if baby seals were ugly creatures?
If you find clubbing seals abhorrent, dont ever go to a slaughterhouse and see how cattle, pigs and sheep are "dispatched". People with double standards about killing animals makes me laugh. If you are a true PETA type who abhors the slaughter of any animal for human consumption then I respect your convictions and arguments a lot more than the "I like steak but clubbing cute seals is a disgrace crowd"
Posted in: Canada seal hunt marred by deadly boat accident
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I was just thinking about this chaps comment "I can go to prison if I kill someone" I was thinking more along the lines "you can go to hell if you kill yourself".
Posted in: 18-year-old arrested for pushing man to death from train platform at Okayama
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The music! argh! Midori denki with their "Saints go marching in" song and Joshin with their Hanshin Tigers song playing over and over ad nausuem. Never been into a Yamada, the former two rule the roost where I live along with K's Denki. Another shop that is excruciating to spend more than 5mins in is the "OK Bottleworld" a cheap liquor store and supermarket. They have this country music syle tune with the words OK repeated incessantly.." Ok Ok nan demo sorou, Ok Okay okay! nanika iikoto ata hi ha blah blak OK OK chiki ichiban....blah blah... ok ok ok ( you get my drift) its truly is the worst 5-10mins of my week, prices are so cheap in that shop so I am forced by my tightwad tendancies to brave the trip though...
Posted in: Yamada Denki won't open on New Year's Day
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Good man
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paper planes capable of re-entering the atmosphere and doing mach 7...reminds of the famous Seinfeld stand up routine about watermelon seeds
I'm very impressed with this seedless watermelon product that they have for us. They've done it. We now have seedless watermelon. Pretty amazing. What are they planting to grow the seedless watermelon, I wonder? The melons aren't humping', are they? They must be planting something. How does this work? And what kind of scientists do this type of work? I read this thing was 15 years in development. In the laboratories with gene splicing or, you know, whatever they do there... I mean, other scientists are working on AIDS, cancer, heart disease. These guys are going: "No, I'm going to devote myself to melon." "I think that's much more important." "Sure thousands are dying needlessly but this..(spit). that's gotta stop."
substitute hypersonic paper plane with seed and thats about it...
Posted in: Japan to launch paper plane from space
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With the Gravatar you have to have the same email address as here and also once you chosen your avatar to use you have to click on the avatar on the gravatar site, just uploading it not enough, you have to click and confirm it: two steps not one.
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