frontandcentre said...

frontandcentre at 10:31 AM JST - 27th May

timorborder - agreed. Learning to speak English properly is surely more of a priority for the Scots. As soon as Ronaldo transfers to Parkhead they'll all want Portuguese lessons and start eating churrasco. Daft!

Posted in Nakamura factor sparks Japanese language interest in Scotland at 10:31 AM JST - 27th May
frontandcentre at 10:29 AM JST - 27th May

Funny how her marriage to Tommy Mottola - head of Sony Records - "coincided" with her rise to stardom. There's no doubt she's a great singing talent, but I have my doubts about her as a person. I appreciate people like this to remind me of why I NEVER want…

Posted in at 10:29 AM JST - 27th May
frontandcentre at 10:24 AM JST - 27th May

Hey! It's OK everybody! The idiot responsible got "reprimanded"! (a fate worse than being fired, surely)

...so there's no possibility at all that this will EVER happen again

Posted in Unsuspecting passenger returns cannabis after sniffer dog test botched at Narita at 10:24 AM JST - 27th May
frontandcentre at 02:25 PM JST - 13th May

...and it is rumoured that the Pope is in fact a Roman Catholic..

Posted in Memorabilia dealer says OJ Simpson confessed to him about killing ex-wife at 02:25 PM JST - 13th May
frontandcentre at 02:23 PM JST - 13th May

What a pity more of the global warming deniers, fairy-story-believing Bible bashers and their ilk don't read up a few more facts in Wikipedia before commenting here

Posted in Once shunned by academics, Wikipedia now a teaching tool at 02:23 PM JST - 13th May
frontandcentre at 02:20 PM JST - 13th May

I'm glad no-one was seriously hurt, but how much difference is this story going to make to the morons that I see every day doing something almost as daft - cycling along busy roads wearing headphones...?

Knowing human nature, probably none

Posted in 9 injured in car-bus collision in Nagasaki; car driver says she was using cell phone at 02:20 PM JST - 13th May
frontandcentre at 11:17 AM JST - 12th May

umbrella - banning oil futures trading would hurt fuel consumers as well as speculators, because they are a hedging tool as well as a speculating one. It's wrong to say that futures trading inevitably causes prices to rise, just look at the whining there's been recently about speculators shorting the…

Posted in Japan to strengthen monitoring of speculative money on oil market at 11:17 AM JST - 12th May
frontandcentre at 03:03 PM JST - 8th May

Revisiting the article, one thing I'll say is that the first sentence represents a poor choice of words. This may have been an unjustified attack, but it was not a "random act of violence" - because by Ron Scott's own account prior to the punch there had already been some…

Posted in A punching bag on the Odakyu line at 03:03 PM JST - 8th May
frontandcentre at 02:46 PM JST - 8th May

jerseyboy - In my opinion, Hugh was less of a fool than Ethan. Liz Hurley's ropey, to be honest. After 6 years with the same woman, even if it's Uma, well, the seven year itch would explain it. The grass is always greener on the other side

Posted in Ethan Hawke opens up his life at 02:46 PM JST - 8th May
frontandcentre at 04:44 PM JST - 7th May

rdjsr:

How's the pro-immigration side of that debate going?

What has immigration got to do with the circumstances of this crime? Nothing we know about. As you are probably aware, foreigners in Japan commit fewer crimes per capita than Japanese do.

I think it's a shame that anyone should try…

Posted in Nepalese man held on suspicion of killing wife, tossing baby daughter's body in river at 04:44 PM JST - 7th May