oreoreda said...

oreoreda at 10:45 AM JST - 20th February

BBLeo I hope you're trolling, because almost every sentence you write in your two posts is hysterically funny and utterly ludicrous. Saying the Vietnam conflict brought us the 'filthy leaves' probably tops them all, though.

Posted in Crimes linked to cannabis, marijuana spreading in Japan at 10:45 AM JST - 20th February
oreoreda at 06:48 PM JST - 18th February

He is definitely not banged up for life, the Japanese phrase for his sentence is muki choueki (lit. "imprisonment for undefined term")...kwatt is right he could be out in 20 years or even less. If I remember correctly the record for shortest prison stay after being given muki choueki is…

Posted in Man gets life term for killing female neighbor, mutilating body at 06:48 PM JST - 18th February
oreoreda at 03:18 PM JST - 17th February

Great city but nasty drivers.

Posted in Fukuoka: Japan's most architecturally forward-thinking city at 03:18 PM JST - 17th February
oreoreda at 10:24 AM JST - 17th February

The irony is the store would probably have thrown away the onigiri at the end of the day anyway.

Posted in Man arrested for stealing rice ball after taking part in ramen contest in Yamagata at 10:24 AM JST - 17th February
oreoreda at 10:08 AM JST - 17th February

Finally catching up. When's Europe going to catch up?

So Eire, Italy, the UK, France and Switzerland aren't in Europe? All these countries (as do most western European countries) already have smoking bans, duh.

Posted in Governor proposes Kanagawa smoking ban ordinance at 10:08 AM JST - 17th February
oreoreda at 06:29 PM JST - 16th February

Tired and emotional on the world stage, another of Todai's fine upstanding generational politicians (he also has some interesting ideas about the place of women in society and struggles with reading kanji too). Perhaps the party should stop his grog and make him wear a headband with kinshu ("on the…

Posted in Finance minister under fire for sloppy behavior at G-7 meeting at 06:29 PM JST - 16th February
oreoreda at 10:37 AM JST - 13th February

The man looks shell-shocked at the sight of a real, actual woman; he came to Akihabara to escape all of that.

Posted in Kristin Kreuk at 10:37 AM JST - 13th February
oreoreda at 02:34 PM JST - 12th February

I remember this incident, quite horrific. It's curious how the man is mentally able to be a salaryman but has "intellectual disability" that means he is not responsible for stabbing a woman to death and trying to do the same to another.

tkoind2: the other popular ruse these days seems…

Posted in Man pleads guilty to stabbing spree at Hachioji Station building at 02:34 PM JST - 12th February
oreoreda at 12:56 AM JST - 11th February

Great news. Now we need to exclude all the hypocrites who owe their lives to the fruits of modern scientific research (e.g., drugs, vaccines, surgery) but make sarcastic comments about those striving to make progress, from benefiting from it.

Posted in Researchers cure mice with damaged spines using human iPS cells at 12:56 AM JST - 11th February
oreoreda at 03:31 PM JST - 6th February

Let's hope other labs can reproduce these experiments and confirm the results of the Keio group. If it turns out so this is an amazing feat, I'm surprised there aren't more comments.

Posted in Researchers cure mice with damaged spines using human iPS cells at 03:31 PM JST - 6th February