grafton said...

grafton at 07:57 PM JST - 10th October

SmithinJapan

Your stance is just as well known and seems to be designed to ridicule anybody that disagrees with you rather than try and see an alternative view than your own. When writing an answer to Sabiwabi I used what I knew (and I’m sure you would agree) would rub…

Posted in Iran to 'blow up the heart of Israel' if attacked at 07:57 PM JST - 10th October
grafton at 07:21 PM JST - 10th October

ReikiZen at 05:31 PM JST - 10th October

“I vote my dog Caesar as a candidate. Do I hear any objections Woof Woof.”

Yes, I do object, my cat got in there first and has a far better world philosophy than your Caesar. Plus he can wash behind his own…

Posted in Japan congratulates Obama for winning Nobel Peace Prize at 07:21 PM JST - 10th October
grafton at 09:53 AM JST - 10th October

What I hate is when people can’t get their heads around positive and negative.

Example being when Americans say “I can be bothered” when what they really mean is that they “can’t be bothered” and what is this nonsense of using “then” when they should be using “than”? I accept…

Posted in Which words or expressions annoy you the most when you hear them repeatedly used by other people in conversation? at 09:53 AM JST - 10th October
grafton at 09:38 AM JST - 10th October

The story is nothing, a waste of space. But the post here are positively frightening. I could never understand how the Germans found guards for the death camps, now I am beginning to realise I live in a world where just below the surface of the people around me there…

Posted in High school student caught with cannabis resin at 09:38 AM JST - 10th October
grafton at 09:14 AM JST - 10th October

bamboohat at 08:57 AM JST - 10th October

“They should give the Nobel to Truman for making the decision to drop the nuke, ending the war early and saving millions of lives.”

I know the Norwegians have made themselves look like total idiots but I don’t think even they would…

Posted in Japan congratulates Obama for winning Nobel Peace Prize at 09:14 AM JST - 10th October
grafton at 09:09 AM JST - 10th October

“Iran has not started a war in a very long time (centuries?) and they have made it clear they will not do so in the future.”

I could quote you a large number of speeches made by Hitler where he says that he has no intention of starting a war.…

Posted in Iran to 'blow up the heart of Israel' if attacked at 09:09 AM JST - 10th October
grafton at 08:42 AM JST - 10th October

So the occupation didn’t end in 57 after all.

Posted in U.S. says it won't renegotiate Futenma relocation plan with Japan at 08:42 AM JST - 10th October
grafton at 08:37 AM JST - 10th October

I am thinking of putting my cats name forward for next years peace prize, all he ever does is sleep and eat and you just don’t get much more peaceful than that.

Posted in Japan congratulates Obama for winning Nobel Peace Prize at 08:37 AM JST - 10th October
grafton at 08:30 AM JST - 10th October

Klein2 at 12:24 AM JST - 10th October

I understand only too well what guns can mean to an individual, I used to collect them, I liked them as incredible little machines, which is what they are and I am a quite good gunsmith. But I have never gone out…

Posted in American transit passenger with handgun arrested at Narita at 08:30 AM JST - 10th October
grafton at 08:07 AM JST - 10th October

‘‘It was an abject act against democracy that utilized the anonymity of information technology. I hope there will not be a second case,’’ said Matsuzawa is a released comment.”

I take this to be a dreadful translation of mindless bureaucratic drivel. The man was probably drunk and make an impossible…

Posted in Man held for threatening to shoot Kanagawa governor over smoke ban at 08:07 AM JST - 10th October