Monday May 28, 2012

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    glycol57

    Interesting how there is an article in JT right now about the "self-centered zombie" generation .... those who just assume that their own immediate wants and gratification takes precedent over everyone and everything else. This kid wanted to see something burn, so he set it on fire. Why would anyone get upset ? HE is the center of the universe after all ... what HE wants comes FIRST, right ?

    What's he going to be like at 15 ... at 25 ? Rape robbery mayhem and murder ???

    Seems Japanese kids may be taking after their American counterparts. The USA is full of sociopathic little ME-monsters these days at every level of society. And yes it's rape, robbery, mayhem and murder every day in the news with a picture of some punk with that "Why are you messing with ME ?" look on his face. Perhaps there's something to be said for the application of a stout branch to the backside of errant narsissic youths - before they're too old to learn.

    Posted in: 10-year-old boy detained for torching Nagoya temple

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    glycol57

    I'm amazed at how many people think their nasty view of life through a lens of western/US/Talibanistic sexual hang-ups is necessarily how the rest of the world views such affairs. Just another manifestation of "cultural imperialism".

    Peeping up skirts is "naughty", even in Japan, but really it's just not that important in the bigger scheme of things - worth a slap in the face instead of endless moral posturing from atop a high horse (usually delivered by hypocrites).

    In short, relax. Breath. Get some perspective ... and quit telling Japanese how they're supposed to think about love and lust as if they're idiot children.

    Vive la difference!

    Posted in: Cop caught taking up-skirt videos during anti-pervert campaign

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    glycol57

    One (very) small step towards sanity.

    Alas the power of the 'puritan' cult is still strong in the USA ... not to mention the power of the alcohol industries, the drug-testing industry, police and prosecutor lobbies, the for-profit prison industry, the 'drug-war' supply industries ............

    This is one 'war' that has caused ten times more problems, on many levels, than what it proposes to fight against. That it has continued for so long is proof that there is big money in oppression.

    Posted in: Obama administration loosens guidelines on marijuana prosecution

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    glycol57

    25 pairs of panties ??? !!!

    OK, I could see maybe one or two ... to satisfy his relatively harmless little fetish or, perhaps as Klein2 said, to satisfy a humourously kinky old 'tradition' ... but 25 pairs ???

    Don't fire him ! Let him come to work and mysteriously find a pair of dirty size extra-extra-large panties in his police locker every day for the next several years instead. ;-)

    Posted in: Cop arrested for stealing girl's underwear during investigation

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    glycol57

    "English" is a composite language, bits and pieces of many others - words, phrases, spelling and grammar - thrown together over the centuries with little respect for any linquistic "rules". This makes it very powerful and extensible - capable of meeting any need - but also makes it incredibly difficult to learn.

    Indeed one NEVER truely learns "english" because there are too many dialects, none more "correct" than any other. Americans born in New York or Florida often find great difficulty understanding people living just a few hundred miles away in central Kentucky, for example - and we're talking about people living in the same half of the same country.

    Given this truth, Japanese should not be so quick to believe they are receiving inferior english-language education. "Book English" is not how anyone, anywhere, ACTUALLY speaks "english". Neither "British English" or "Australian English" or "central-southwestern-rural USA english" constitute "correct english" for pronunciation or vocabulary purposes.

    If you travel to an english-speaking country, so long as we can understand you (more or less) we will not think badly of you. In a short time you will pick-up how english is spoken in that area and fit in nicely.

    People who study Japanese in American schools often learn a very strict, formal, 'academic' version of the language that undoubtably pains the ear of the average Japanese citizen. This version of Japanese does make them comprehensible however, which is good enough for many purposes.

    Learning "book english" in school cannot yeild perfection because 'perfection' does not exist in this case. However, it will give you a usable foundation to build upon, just as the abovementioned 'formal' Japanese is a foundation upon which to learn 'conversational' Japanese.

    If you anticipate traveling to, or doing business with, some particular english-speaking nation, I would suggest taking the initiative yourself by acquiring radio and television news programming from that area so you can learn how english is spoken THERE - the cadence, the accent, the slang and the common phrases. For the USA, "midwestern english" seems comprehensible to all (most American TV news people use, sometimes actually have to study, "midwestern english").

    Oh ... and in a crisis ... WRITE what you may be incapable of saying. Written english is much more 'portable' than the spoken language.

    Best of luck.

    Posted in: What's wrong with the way English is taught in Japan?

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