zaichik said...

zaichik at 06:02 AM JST - 3rd July

[pedant]The Manic Street Preachers are Welsh, not English.[/pedant]

Thanks, Ersby - you've saved me having to write that. I saw the Manics at Fuji Rock 9 years ago....

Gogol Bordello are bluddy brilliant and I'm told they're particularly good live.

Posted in Japan's summer music juggernaut rolls on at 06:02 AM JST - 3rd July
zaichik at 06:42 AM JST - 1st July

can only bereave

I think the word you're looking for is grieve rather than bereave.....

Posted in Arson-murder case shrouded in mystery at 06:42 AM JST - 1st July
zaichik at 07:52 AM JST - 19th June

No age limit on transplants in e.g. the UK, and there certainly hasn't been a rash of people snatching kids to steal their organs.

Posted in Lower house OKs bill to scrap age limit for organ transplants at 07:52 AM JST - 19th June
zaichik at 06:25 PM JST - 18th June

The mobile network gets overloaded in the event of an earthquake, so wouldn't be much use anyway - both the landline and the mobile networks dropped out for ordinary users for a few hours after the Chuetsu Earthquake in 2004, so emergency services could make essential calls. And what child…

Posted in Ishikawa moves to bar some school children from having cell phones at 06:25 PM JST - 18th June
zaichik at 06:17 PM JST - 18th June

Very sad indeed.

It's not only children that this can happen to - we had a case at work a few months ago where a man managed to reverse over his adult daughter while backing out of his drive. She survived, but she was in hospital for ages....

Posted in 1-year-old girl killed after father backs car over her at 06:17 PM JST - 18th June
zaichik at 09:32 AM JST - 2nd June

That's nice dear. How do you find time for anything else?

Methinks she exaggerates slightly....

Posted in Marie, at AIDS awareness concert, says she has sex five times a day at 09:32 AM JST - 2nd June
zaichik at 09:14 AM JST - 2nd June

Another murder in Nagano - bit disconcerted to find that Nagano's turning into Saitama.....

Posted in Strange phone call directs police to Nagano crime scene at 09:14 AM JST - 2nd June
zaichik at 08:31 PM JST - 27th May

I would pay **millions **to see someone say "mazui!!!")

Me too - could be fun to make a satirical program taking the p out of these shows.

I was rather fond of a J-drama called Let's Go Nagatacho, which was taking the p out of the government of the…

Posted in Idiocy versus intelligence on Japanese quiz shows at 08:31 PM JST - 27th May
zaichik at 02:41 PM JST - 27th May

I can't see the point of Japanese quiz shows, because it's only ever tarento on them and they don't exactly need the prizes - better to go to some average member of the public.

And making their voices sound squeaky and abnormal

True, but that is perhaps because they…

Posted in Idiocy versus intelligence on Japanese quiz shows at 02:41 PM JST - 27th May
zaichik at 12:49 PM JST - 25th May

Funnily enough, something similar happened to a Japanese friend of mine here in NZ - an elderly lady drove through the window of the McDonalds where my friend was having lunch. Fortunately my friend only suffered minor injuries....

Posted in Woman crashes car into Saitama convenience store at 12:49 PM JST - 25th May