soothsayer said...

soothsayer at 10:04 PM JST - 18th May

A standard can of premium beer in Japan costs 300% more than in North America, which makes no sense at all.

Nope, just LOTS of yen.

Posted in Beer, beer-like shipments down for 2nd month at 10:04 PM JST - 18th May
soothsayer at 06:25 PM JST - 18th May

The typo thing is an urban myth, according to wikipedia.

Yamauchi wanted to primarily target the North American market, so he mandated that the game be given an English title. Miyamoto decided to name the game for the ape, whom he felt to be the strongest character.[1] The story of…

Posted in With Wii Fit, 'Mario' creator Shigeru Miyamoto wants you to work up a sweat at 06:25 PM JST - 18th May
soothsayer at 07:51 AM JST - 18th May

Dr Jones,

@soothsayer: So everybody who is against your lynch justice is of low intelligence and has questionable taste? interesting indeed! For you obviously only black and white exists if you understand my comment as a defensive stance.

Let's just say that my outbursts were frustration against a government who…

Posted in Ruling parties agree on bill criminalizing possession of child porn at 07:51 AM JST - 18th May
soothsayer at 07:26 AM JST - 18th May

I take it the PTA stands for Parent Teacher Organization. If so, then they ARE keeping up with the times. They don't want their kids exposed to violence and crude language and behaviour, which is why the show gets such a bad rating, I'd guess.

Posted in PTA says 'London Hearts' is worst TV program at 07:26 AM JST - 18th May
soothsayer at 01:43 PM JST - 17th May

How come questions like this are posted without any evidence to support them? Come on, JT, show at least a

little

professionalism!

Moderator: We don't need "evidence" when we ask questions in the Have Your Say section. The purpose of the section is simply to throw out topics for readers…

Posted in How come so many young people today don't know how to cook? at 01:43 PM JST - 17th May
soothsayer at 01:40 PM JST - 17th May

dr jones,

Not that I want to defend any pedos

Yet you do with every other word in your post, and have the gall to call the rest of us naive! One wonders about your tastes, not to mention intelligence.

Posted in Ruling parties agree on bill criminalizing possession of child porn at 01:40 PM JST - 17th May
soothsayer at 07:43 AM JST - 17th May

‘‘Nobody is allowed to own or keep child pornography,’’ and stipulates a prison term of up to one year or a fine of up to 1 million yen for violators, the members said.

I guess the man on the street will still have to just go and deal out true…

Posted in Ruling parties agree on bill criminalizing possession of child porn at 07:43 AM JST - 17th May
soothsayer at 05:50 PM JST - 14th May

Driver arrested again, huh?

Yep. It ain't weird, by the way. smartacus. As doedel and Altria say, it's just stupidity, and institutionalised stupidity at that. Which is par for the course in this country, it often seems.

Posted in Man dies after being hit by truck, several cars in Ibaraki at 05:50 PM JST - 14th May
soothsayer at 05:45 PM JST - 14th May

Fair dinkum!

Ah, now I get it. This is to depict how their parents are getting seriously ripped off by a private school system that is really nothing more than creative accounting to show school averages greater than those of public schools. It's hard to imagine the significance and justification…

Posted in Schoolgirls at 05:45 PM JST - 14th May
soothsayer at 05:17 PM JST - 14th May

Heh. It's obvious.

Heh. Go to Lourdes.

Posted in Vatican: Believing in aliens does not contradict faith in God at 05:17 PM JST - 14th May