timeon's past comments

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    timeon

    Do they have mixed Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts? Can the leader of Boy Scouts be a woman? Why not?

    Posted in: Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys, but not leaders

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    a very unfortunate accident, the girl was riding a bicycle and therefore the reaction time for the driver was even shorter. a moment of negligence and two lives are destroyed.

    Posted in: Truck driver arrested after hitting and killing girl at intersection

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    to put things in perspective: Shinjuku station alone is used by 3.5 million people / day (statistic in 2007, probably more now). What is the number of people using the train all over Japan during one year? 200 incidents is ridiculously low

    Posted in: Violence against train station staff still rife

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    "Foreign residents caught driving without a license, using their cars to carry paying passengers, jumping a red light for a second time, or breaking the speed limit by more than 40 kilometers per hour"

    These are serious offences and may grant deportation even in less stricter countries. But the law that you need a university degree and a minimum income in order to get a driving license is absurd.

    Posted in: Kuwait deports 1,258 expats for traffic offenses

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    this story seems strange, at least to me. so the mother leaves the two play alone in the river, notices they were swept away and decides to call for help (instead of going into the river herself) and another women who happens to pass by wades into the river and saves them?

    Posted in: 2 children almost drown in river

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    Jeff, you need a prescription for Melatonin in Japan

    Posted in: What do you do to overcome jet lag?

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    can somebody please create the Japan OL Association? I would surely subscribe to their newsletter.

    Posted in: Japanese Lolitas plan world domination

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    when I was younger, I used Pizzatime's strategy. It didn't really work, but I was not travelling that much and mostly for pleasure, so it didn't really matter. Nowadays I have to travel a lot, mostly for business, so I use sleeping pills. 2-3 nights and things are back to normal

    Posted in: What do you do to overcome jet lag?

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    Japanese news say that she "touched" （接触）the train as it entered the station. No gates. She is from Fukushima, but I don't know it anything can be speculated based on this

    Posted in: Woman hit by bullet train at Sendai station

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    nandakanda, that was a nice punch in the liver area. a sure recipe for a KO, it smashes the brains out of you. Kono was more aggressive, but Solis was smarter, better technique, great defense and counter attacks. and I think also stronger punches. well deserved victory

    Posted in: Solis beats Kono for WBA super flyweight title

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    LAcajun, have you even watched the fight? Have you seen the punch? It was a superb left hook in the liver, Parra could not get up for about 10 minutes.

    Posted in: Down and out

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    No. Then again, I'm the boss :) however we go out and celebrate stuff, bonenkai, hanami, new dudes joining the team, etc.

    Posted in: At your workplace, do you feel pressured to go drinking with your boss after work?

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    a wild guess, but something tells me that is was not the bill, but the guy who she was taking with that prompted this rage. two lives lost, one forever, one forever in jail

    Posted in: Woman stabbed to death over argument about cell phone bill

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    ok, I checked the Japanese news. They say that a group of 7-8 Japanese and a group of 10 Chinese started fighting. At some point, one of the Chinese produced a knife and stabbed two Japanese guys in the chest and stomach causing serious injuries, and cut a Japanese woman on the hand. The cause of the fight is under investigation, and the guy is arrested for attempted murder. The place of the fight is reported as Nishikawaguchi 1 chome.

    Posted in: 3 stabbed in drunken brawl between Japanese, non-Japanese outside station

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    How about Todai? I was always too lazy to do the paperwork for PR, maybe this is my chance (if the procedure is simplified for graduates)

    Posted in: Mayor wants permanent resident status for overseas students who graduate from Kyoto Univ

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    AU, I think these guys were already affected by the brain-eating bacteria. I remember the guy who did a similar thing a few years ago (also Brit), the guy had some mental issues and got away easily, despite becoming violent during the arrest. These guys did not do anything too serious, so they will be probably just send back home after a night at the Koban and maybe a fine

    Posted in: 2 British men arrested for trespassing in imperial compound

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    I doubt it was racially motivated. Nishi-Kawaguchi is a prostitution area and gangs are always running wild around. One of the worst places in Saitama, and we are talking about Saitama here. The fact that the guy carried a knife with him suggests that these guys, whatever their nationality, were not the office worker-type

    Posted in: 3 stabbed in drunken brawl between Japanese, non-Japanese outside station

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    Magnitude was 6, which may not seem big, but it also does not reflect how badly it shakes. The Japanese scale was lower 6, which is damn scary (I've experienced a lower 6 once, at 4 am, and hope to never experience one again). The fact that it was early in the morning probably reduced the casualties.

    Posted in: 24 injured after M6.3 quake hits western Japan

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    Orange, it was alkaline. You can buy at any store an alkaline solution for clogged drainage "pipeman"), that's what the guy probably used. I hope her eyes are ok, alkaline is very dangerous for the eyes.

    Posted in: Woman's face burned with alkaline solution in store attack

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    wait, I thought that everybody who has a child receives an allowance. And various free stuff for child care, such as health check, medicines, etc. I do, after I pay lots of taxes. I don't gamble, but I do spend a lot of money on alcohol-related entertainment. Is that illegal?

    Posted in: There's no way to tell if a person is habitually squandering their money. They could be reported for simply playing pachinko and surveillance would extend to their daily lives.