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likeitis
I always wonder how a couple of overweight guys in diapers slamming into eachother got to be of such cultural importance. Then you have the good old penis festivals. On what basis do you think those got their start?
Old traditions change. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they morph into news ones. Just sit back and enjoy the process. Festivals are made for fun, not some stodgy notion of preserving the past even if its no fun anymore.
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likeitis
It certainly is abnormal. They should not be sitting on the sidelines pining from afar. They should getting phone numbers and going on dates rather than endure maddening frustration from a distance.
Guys in other countries would not be so patient. Therefore, they would either entirely remove themselves from the situation, or fulfill their fantasy nicely or not so nicely.
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likeitis
Agreed. Expecting medication to solve all your problems is just asking for trouble.
For the first time in my life I had serious trouble with the sugi pollen this year. I once had an itchy eye that swelled up for me rubbing it, but that was 17 years ago. My solution? Cleaning out the inside of my nose with saline and q-tips, brushing off and coating my nosehairs will olive oil, and stop over-trimming my nose hairs because I was. Nosehairs are your natural filtering system. I also got some fine black sponge, like is used for sponge paint brushes, and cut them to fit snug in my nostrils (almost invisible). I had limited success with those, but I started late and had not worked myself into habits, like breathing through my nose only, enough to make it really work. I also did not wear them all the time. Overall though I think my condition improved from my first bad reactions and I got over it all faster than other allergy sufferers. Next year, I will be ready.
But really, the Japanese government needs to stop fooling around and get those over-planted sugi trees cut until the natural population of the things is regained.
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likeitis
I am thinking it is not so much your opinion as your lard laden diet. A lot of Westerners seem to have their tongues so coated with fat that they cannot taste anything but fatty foods that exceed the layer already on their tongue. This is part of Ebisen's theory I believe:
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likeitis
Its ok. Once people like yourself get used to it, I am sure you can find another group to look down on and start making wild excuses for doing so. Some of those excuses might even stick despite all reason. Then you will declare them moral.
But at least somebody here has finally admitted that one of the core problems is simply their own personal discomfort.
Now I will introduce the concept that there are some people in the world who simply need a group of people to consider lower than themselves so that they can hold their own heads up all day. Those people tend to be conservatives, and any wild excuse will do so long as their little weakness of needing to look down on someone else is not discovered. Witches, gays, burakumin, untouchables, communists, jews, blacks, Chinese, hippies, immigrants, they have all had their time. Who is next? Some people seem to be bucking for Muslims.
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likeitis
Not it does not, not either allegation. Its just a simple question. The only place it has a negative context is your head. In other words, any possible snipe in there is either directed at you or totally unintentional, but still hitting you.
Now answer the question: Do you really think that you or anyone else is going to go gay just because it becomes acceptable? Or, if that question is too charged for you, how about this one: Do you think that you would become strongly attracted to severely obese women if it became a popular fad? How about flat-chested ones? Hairy ones? Ugly ones?
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likeitis
If you cooked it like Uncle Ben's, I bet it was horrid. I think you should accept the fact that from the isolation of your Appalachian mountain hut there might be a great many things about the world you simply will not be able to suss out for yourself. Other cultures have done a great many little things you should have some more reverence for, and an appreciation that you may not know it all after all.
Next time you want to know about Japanese food, ask a Japanese to make you some. And no, the local Japanese restaurant knock-off run by Chinese will NOT do.
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likeitis
You have 100 people eat the two and they rate them from one to ten. One gets an average score of 75 percent, and the other 85 percent. The other is 10 percent better. Next!
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likeitis
Another fallicious post to add to your collection.
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likeitis
I will agree that there are dangers. But your apocolyptic assessment is WAY overboard. There was a time when people were shocked by Playboy magazine. They too cringed about how it was immoral and deviant and how it would destroy society. It is possible to allow all sorts of behaviors without society collapsing. The key is control. I wish people like yourself would be reasonable and preach control instead of telling us society will come to an end.
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likeitis
I guess marriages where one partner is sterile are wrong too. I guess we could also throw in couples who don't make kids because they don't want to, and throw them in even if they adopt instead.
I can agree that the primary logic behind marriage is to raise kids, but making it a requirement for a "correct" marriage is EXTREMELY small-minded.
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likeitis
Yes. But they do not tattoo a suspect's forehead with the word "suspect".
Lack of manpower on particular cases. More manpower would be great. You do not mind footing the bill personally do you?
Actually, it is police work; japan style. Its not perfect, but seems to work well enough in Japan. I certainly prefer this sort of news to "two cops shot dead in Lousiana and perp shot to death also".
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likeitis
Morally wrong? Is that double talk for "It gives me the creeps and cracking down on it won't hurt me one bit?"
I don't think the majority gave a second thought to morality except on how to twist it into an excuse for being unfair.
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likeitis
A little pre-emptive. At the time of your post, there was no debate.
But, we both knew it was coming. So I say to you that, in fact, the people who truly do not care about the victims are all opposed to gun control. (That is not to say all opposed don't care though.) So look around you. There are some very selfish, fallicious and frankly evil people in the anti-gun control camp. Some here would fit that bill I think.
On the pro-gun control side, the only people who don't care about the victims are concerned about themselves and their families. And they may or may not like guns. The difference is that they are not blindly in love with them.
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likeitis
I seem to remember posting a link to those statistics an information not so long ago.
In fact the ban was 32 years old, passed in the mid-seventies. For ten years of the ban murder rates were stable. Then, as crack-cocaine hit the streets in the mid to late 80s, it rose until D.C. became murder capital of America in the 90s. As the crack epidemic subsided, so did murder rates. Nothing much to do with the handgun ban, unless you believe the combination of mass use of crack cocaine plus the mass ownership of handguns would produce a low murder rate. Personally, I am thinking that all the rifles and shotguns in D.C. would be more than adequate to do the job if so. They did not.
The murder rate of D.C. is now back to what it was before crack. And this occured BEFORE the lifting of the ban, so obviously, the trends are not related. So no matter what happens, be surprised.
But I am sure that those who do not care at all about the lives of people, but care very much about their guns, will conveniently forget all that being as their consciences leak like sieves.
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likeitis
There are no graves at Yasukuni. There souls of the dead are supposedly enshrined there, not their bodies.
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likeitis
Would that include people executed for war crimes after the war was over? This the core problem with Yasukuni you know, because it honors them right alongside actual war dead.
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likeitis
On the contrary, the attitude about militarism in Japan is very much the business of Japan's neighbors and vice-versa. They have every right to voice an opinion and be concerned.
The Japanese sure did not mind making their militarism the business of even very far flung neighbors back in the first half of the 20th century!
Japan's neighbors are not going to wait until its too late again for a long time to come.
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likeitis
I think its because liberals fart into the wind in their own special ways. Trashing Castro just seems like a collosal waste of time, particularly with others doing it so actively. I too cannot see anything to do but tolerate him, even if I hate him as much as any other dictator. Actively opposing him has not been very productive. So much so that is actually a little embarrassing to remember just how much of a failure U.S. policy toward Cuba has been. I certainly have no desire to pick at it.
But David Duke is definitely an internal and real American problem. He is at the center of embarrassment for all us Americans, although I am not completely sure that he is the actual cause. There is a lot of group think and bandwagoning going on. Duke's actual words are getting lost in the mob frenzy.
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likeitis
Anyone who refuses to try brown rice is wrong. Not liking the flavor would be ok, but not trying is wrong. Its not a smart policy either. Brown rice is far more nutritious, and I like the flavor and texture too. And its not like it reeks like natto or blue cheese either.
Anyway, all credit to you for mentioning texture. No matter how bland anyone might think rice is, I think everyone can fathom the fact that reconstituting dried up rice via automatic cooking by a machine can either be done well or not by that machine, and that it might cost some cash to get a machine to do it just right.
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