papasmurfinjapan said...

papasmurfinjapan at 02:47 PM JST - 28th July

Well I don't buy "high quality" eggs, so I guess this doesn't affect me. My eggs usually cost 1 yen when I buy over 2000 yen of groceries on "Egg Tuesday" at the local supermarket.

Posted in High-quality egg prices to rise in August at 02:47 PM JST - 28th July
papasmurfinjapan at 12:17 PM JST - 28th July

it may be manufactured, but i still prefer her music to anything komuro tetsuya or tsunku ever churned out.

Posted in Ayumi Hamasaki to release best-of album to mark 10th anniversary of debut at 12:17 PM JST - 28th July
papasmurfinjapan at 12:02 PM JST - 28th July

WilliB party pooper :)

But seriously, if this is the corrected version of the english, what was the original engrish?

Posted in at 12:02 PM JST - 28th July
papasmurfinjapan at 11:45 AM JST - 28th July

Ahh they corrected the english on the side of plane, it used to have engrish on it.

What did it used to say?

FRY WITH ME?

I suppose that could work too, given the Hindenburg disaster...

Posted in at 11:45 AM JST - 28th July
papasmurfinjapan at 12:46 PM JST - 25th July

If "priority on family" means leaving work on time, spending quality time with your spouse and kids etc. then great. But I doubt that's what it means at all.

It could just as easily mean "My number one priority is my family, and that is why I stay at work…

Posted in 33.7% of Japanese say they put priority on family over work: survey at 12:46 PM JST - 25th July
papasmurfinjapan at 12:33 PM JST - 25th July

I bet he's wondering "how the hell does Sonomanma Higashi have so much time to fit in his almost nightly TV appearances?"

At least he seems to be taking his job seriously which is a good sign.

Posted in Weighty issues for Osaka Gov Hashimoto at 12:33 PM JST - 25th July
papasmurfinjapan at 11:23 AM JST - 24th July

The NPA once tried to fully enforce the ban out of safety concerns but dropped the plan in the face of strong opposition from users

What a toothless tiger the NPA is.

Mums tell the NPA to shove their new law up their bums, and they do. hahaha

What other…

Posted in Ban on riding bicycles with 2 kids to be lifted at 11:23 AM JST - 24th July
papasmurfinjapan at 09:54 AM JST - 24th July

I don't worry about cancer, but I sometimes get a strange, probably scientifically unfounded sense of foreboding that sticking my phone in my jeans pocket next to my crotch for 12-15hrs a day may be affecting my reproductive potency.

Posted in Do you worry about the risk of getting cancer from long-term cell phone use? at 09:54 AM JST - 24th July
papasmurfinjapan at 08:55 AM JST - 24th July

Never heard of anyone working at this.....What exactly is it?

Maybe I am mistaken, but I presume it is not recycling per se, but the exporting of used Japanese cars and electrical goods to less affluent nations. I have heard it can be quite rewarding for the middle man.

Posted in High-level skills abroad don't guarantee job in Japan at 08:55 AM JST - 24th July
papasmurfinjapan at 02:56 PM JST - 23rd July

Well I suppose you could say you are getting two books for the price of one! But at this price I guess it really is two books for the price of two. Have to hate to lug that thing with me on the train ride to work.

Posted in Japanese translation of final Harry Potter novel goes on sale at 02:56 PM JST - 23rd July