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pizzaboySep. 01, 2008 - 10:28AM JST

shower, shower, shower...

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pizzaboyAug. 30, 2008 - 10:47PM JST

High points: Canadian Simon Whitfield getting the silver in the men's triathalon. Japan softball downing the USA. Japanese men going medal-less in baseball. USA 4 x 100 men's AND women's teams with the MASSIVE choke-jobs.

Low points: having to watch the olympics on Japanese tv, where all they show are the Japanese athletes (98% of the time) and NO BASKETBALL shown on basic cable tv, what an absolute FARCE!!!!!!!

Posted in: What, for you, were the highlights and low points of the Beijing Olympics?
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pizzaboyAug. 25, 2008 - 11:48PM JST

in that case i'd rather just see the score. don't need to see more americans gloating anyways. bye-the-way, my wife once signed up to pay nhk while i was off at the gym :( 20,000 comes out of my account every summer. thinking about closing my account now to dodge em.

Posted in: U.S. beats Spain for men's basketball gold
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pizzaboyAug. 24, 2008 - 09:17PM JST

That's Japanese tv that I was referring to.

Posted in: U.S. beats Spain for men's basketball gold
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pizzaboyAug. 24, 2008 - 09:17PM JST

Wonder if having Jose Calderon would have made the diff for Spain. He's a great defender and penetrator etc.

I looked and couldn't find the game on tv, an absolute farce that it wasn't shown (if i'm correct in assuming).

Posted in: U.S. beats Spain for men's basketball gold
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pizzaboyAug. 22, 2008 - 08:20AM JST

all i saw was a team wallowing in their tears as they unwillingly accepted their silver medal. I agree though, lame system where a team who loses in the semi-final (japan) is allowed a backdoor and got their way to the gold medal game. Don't agree with that at all. Is is b/c there's a lack of teams? Or is it a "girls rule" just like how they're not allowed to lead-off and only play 7 innings...

Posted in: US softball team loses gold to Japan
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pizzaboyAug. 15, 2008 - 10:06PM JST

Congratulations to Michael Phelps -- probably the greatest Olympic athlete ever, AND he is over 16 -- that's more than we can say for some of the Chinese gymnasts...

braggadocio and accusations of cheating by other countries who are doing well, now that's not american at all! sarc

Posted in: Phelps makes it 6 Olympic golds, 6 records
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pizzaboyAug. 02, 2008 - 09:26PM JST

We have never heard of anything as crazy as this incident.

um, perhaps a fellow by the name of Robert Pickton will refresh your memory...

Posted in: Canada bus attack suspect appears in court
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pizzaboyAug. 01, 2008 - 10:48PM JST

This doesn't surprise me either. a lot of sick things occur in Canada, despite what some posters in here would like to believe, and are clearly in denial.

Posted in: Canada bus attack leaves man decapitated
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pizzaboyJul. 31, 2008 - 07:08PM JST

I am shocked and ashamed = I am jealous.

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pizzaboyJul. 31, 2008 - 08:46AM JST

hahahahahahaha, if they only knew how demeaning this practice actually is.

Posted in: Pole dancing
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pizzaboyJul. 27, 2008 - 09:49PM JST

by smithinjapan:

it's happening elsewhere in the world EVERY DAY as well

i agree

Posted in: Jilted man arrested for stabbing ex-girlfriend, torching apartment
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pizzaboyJul. 25, 2008 - 08:27PM JST

agree with you guys. I'm not from the UK, but saving major dough from not having to own a car (company pays for train commuting) and all that goes along with it: insurance, repairs, maintenance, soaring gas prices etc, getting taxed WAY LESS, etc.

Posted in: Tokyo 2nd most expensive city for expats after Moscow
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pizzaboyJul. 25, 2008 - 08:12PM JST

smithinjapan:

Well, it's no stabbing, but thus continues the trend of senseless daily violence in this country

this is pathetic, when do you ever give it a rest? constantly trying to make Japan look bad. Why don't you end it with "the world" or add Canada as well, since that's where you're from. A LOT worse things happen over there.

Posted in: Man arrested for dragging girlfriend with car in Saitama
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pizzaboyJul. 25, 2008 - 07:09PM JST

like usaronin said, the woman was cheating on him, he saw red, was in shock etc. I live in Saitama (over 4 years), love the place, I go for regular bike rides around saitama and sometimes down to tokyo, and have NEVER witnessed any crime (except for those hot-rods on their motorbikes who speed through red light, whom I've chased down and confronted), although I've def'y seen my share of nutbags and bad drivers, and even WORSE BIKE-RIDERS. Everytime I go riding it's like a death-trap. VERY defensive riding even though I pick up some high speed and ride a lot of the major roads. I see a lot of cops with their chests held high while standing outside their Kobans, but rarely see any action being taken towards all the driving offenses. I was surprised however to see a seatbelt trap once around a corner in Kuki, they busted a woman with her mother (ba-chan) holding their baby in her arms in the front seat (no seatbelts either, hahaha).

Posted in: Man arrested for dragging girlfriend with car in Saitama
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pizzaboyJul. 21, 2008 - 09:18AM JST

Note: that girl on the left doesn't actually have blue hair. Just a wig. I've met her several times and it's actually black.

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pizzaboyJul. 15, 2008 - 09:31PM JST

by smithinjapan: No matter what, a driver takes at least part of the blame in any accident. It doesn't even matter if they're stopped and waiting at a light and someone rear-ends them -- insurance companies take at least 5% of the blame.

Anyway, waste of a life. Poor guy should have just tried to realize there are plenty of fish in the sea, hard as that can be to realize. And man... lying there waiting for a car to hit you... sheesh.

thank you once again for summing everything up so perfectly, why should anyone ever need to comment?

Posted in: Man killed by car after arguing with girlfriend over whether to break up
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pizzaboyJul. 08, 2008 - 03:03PM JST

i agree with hughgarse and others, if all he was doing was just looking up as he was walking up the stairs, it should be ok. He was probably hanging around at the bottom of the stairs on a regular basis, and received complaints or something. It's impossible to be arrested for simply looking up a gals skirt while walking up the stairs.

Posted in: School teacher arrested for peeping up student's skirt in Oita
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pizzaboyJun. 21, 2008 - 07:24PM JST

cool, thx for the additional insight molenir :)

Posted in: Man convicted of murdering Japanese tourist in Grand Canyon sentenced to life in prison
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pizzaboyJun. 21, 2008 - 09:54AM JST

Actually there are quite a few women of various nationalities who travel to foreign lands alone

the fact that more than one women does it means it's ok is a "rather silly" notion.

it's rather silly to accuse the victiom of naivety in travelling alone in the United States

really now, are you saying that certain places aren't more dangerous than others for foreign women (or any women for that matter) to be all by themselves? Or that it's ok for women to be off galavanting anywhere they please and there is no possibility for them to run into a mentally disturbed person when there's no one around to offer help? Would you let your mother/sister/daughter do that trip on her own?
Seems like this women isn't the only naive person out there.

Like Molenir stated with his fantastic description, this area is def'y out there. Sounds like some places are quite dangerous as far as the risk of physical danger is concernd. This person was def'y not smart to go there alone.

Posted in: Man convicted of murdering Japanese tourist in Grand Canyon sentenced to life in prison