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mrsynik's past comments

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  mrsynikApr. 06, 2011 - 03:10PM JST

  Having sex with a Japanese can get you irradiated.

  Oh dear, better pass me a lot of iodine tablets!

  Posted in: Japan's disaster becoming contagious abroad

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  mrsynikApr. 04, 2011 - 03:38PM JST

  I won't be losing sleep over the lack of J-Curry. Don't mind it now and again, but I prefer my curry not to taste bland - give me an Indian or Thai curry instead.

  Posted in: Popular curry restaurant runs out of stock due to quake shortages

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  mrsynikMar. 31, 2011 - 12:00PM JST

  The constant repetition of scenes of chaos, destruction etc and being told by the relevant anchors that this a terrible catastrophe is technically known as 'disaster p-rn'. Sadly with each disaster, the voyeuristic stance some media outlets, particularly those Murdoch owned, just gets worse and worse.

  Posted in: Images of disaster in Japan lend visual power for news networks

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  mrsynikMar. 16, 2011 - 02:36PM JST

  please keep this going after the crisis has finished.

  Posted in: NHK World Livestream

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  mrsynikFeb. 23, 2011 - 05:54PM JST

  I'm waiting for someone to publish a "Stress free guide to STAYING in Japan".

  Chapter 1 should be "Dealing with the idiot's on the trains"

  Posted in: The Stress-Free Guide to Leaving Japan

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  mrsynikFeb. 23, 2011 - 02:31PM JST

  26,360yen one way?

  Yes, it quickly empties your wallet too.

  Btw it has been overlooked that there are no Jiyuseki Cars on the new E5's and since December it's not been possible to take a Jiyuseki Car north of Sendai on the Tohoku Shinkansen. This little price gouge by JR East forcing people to take a reserved seat, even at non busy periods hasn't been mentioned anywhere.

  Posted in: Hayabusa shinkansen offers first class speed and service

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  mrsynikFeb. 23, 2011 - 12:01PM JST

  On one side is the Tokyo metropolitan government, led by the people’s hero, the lovable and famously open-minded (cough, cough) governor himself, Shintaro Ishihara.

  I'm glad Mr Scott said this with tongue-in-cheek. I was about to revisit my lunch again otherwise.

  But yes, the p-rno laws in this country are quite strange. Always bewildered when at a l-ve motel and the p-rn comes up at why people would pay for the blurred out stuff. I could use a clever pun to describe what I think of it but it would get deleted.

  Posted in: What’s really at stake in Japan’s revised pornography laws?

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  mrsynikFeb. 21, 2011 - 01:43PM JST

  They turn a trip to Costco into a fun day out.

  Pretty sad day out - jostling with lots of other irritating people going to an over-sized supermarket. I'll stick to Hanamasa like someone else above has mentioned.

  Posted in: Costco reshapes wholesale industry

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  mrsynikFeb. 18, 2011 - 01:51PM JST

  Notice the photo shows only what you get in First and Business Class? Completely absent is the grotesque crap that passes for "food" in cattle class. Picture paints a 1000 words doesn't it?

  Posted in: Delta dining

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  mrsynikFeb. 09, 2011 - 05:09PM JST

  Is that really important? I'll answer that - NO. It's a sad end to a young life - too bad that so many young people around the world feel the need to end their lives like this.

  Did I say it wasn't sad? I'll answer that - NO.

  Next time, try being smart to someone else.

  Posted in: Boy, 14, killed by train in Nikko following school disciplinary warning

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  mrsynikFeb. 09, 2011 - 02:05PM JST

  Which line? Tobu or JR East? Yet again JT fails to tell the full details.

  Posted in: Boy, 14, killed by train in Nikko following school disciplinary warning

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  mrsynikFeb. 09, 2011 - 12:35PM JST

  Its all about bottoms on seats, not range - hence their use of huge aircraft such as this and presently 747's on these routes.

  Posted in: Korean Air to launch A380 flights to Tokyo, Hong Kong

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  mrsynikFeb. 07, 2011 - 03:48PM JST

  I'm sure Alan Partridge would be having a tribute session to Thin Lizzie called 'The last big thick slice of Thin Lizzie' on Norwich Radio.

  Posted in: Thin Lizzy guitarist Gary Moore dead at 58

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  mrsynikFeb. 07, 2011 - 01:48PM JST

  Yet one more reason to avoid this airline.

  Posted in: Qantas to increase int'l fuel surcharges

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  mrsynikFeb. 07, 2011 - 01:45PM JST

  They argue that the public has a right to know the royal family better than the largely uncritical, one-dimensional picture in the mainstream media.

  I agree with this point. While hard working people's tax money goes to fuel the extravagant and mostly lazy lifestyles these select few have, they ought to be under the most scruitiny of all. Same goes for all Monarchies, especially the British one.

  I'd prefer to see them gone and their money gone to help the hobo's around Ueno Koen for example.

  Posted in: Japanese tabloids make hay of royal family foibles

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  mrsynikFeb. 03, 2011 - 12:02PM JST

  The trunk of her car

  Groan. It's called a boot in Australia.

  Nothing on the Japanese news, but I guess no-one can get their crews in there.

  What a surprise, probably not interested. They could always have used the ABC's footage with a voice-over/subtitles. I saw a piece by I think Fuji TV a few weeks ago running around Brisbane and interviewing local diaspora about their not collected garbage. Guess they were just a fly in-fly out crew.

  Posted in: Northeast Australia survives cyclone's onslaught

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  mrsynikJan. 25, 2011 - 04:49PM JST

  A marauding monkey Just like a patient is "rushed" to hospital, monkey's "maraud". All the best media cliche's can be found here at JT.

  Posted in: Marauding monkey captured after daring cage break

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  mrsynikJan. 25, 2011 - 02:27PM JST

  3RENSHO, thanks for posting that. It boggles the mind that these articles never tell you the time and channel.

  Indeed, don't bother with this site if you want full details about news. Anyway my money is on SK to win it.

  Posted in: Asian Cup clash is another chapter in Japan-South Korea rivalry

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  mrsynikJan. 25, 2011 - 09:59AM JST

  All Delta has to do is pay me 10 Yen and I'll never fly on them again. That's a win-win situation if ever there were one.

  Posted in: How much would you take not to fly? Delta wants to know

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  mrsynikJan. 19, 2011 - 09:53AM JST

  What part of Nagoya was this in? Again JT fails to give us the full details of the story.

  Moderator: Naka Ward.

  Posted in: Man stabbed to death; another injured in Nagoya street brawl

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