Recent Comments on All Posts

Sarge at 04:10 PM JST - 9th August

"coffee will now cost up to 120 yen"

Still WAY cheaper than just about everyone else.

Posted in McDonald's Japan to raise prices by 2.5% at 04:10 PM JST - 9th August
Sarge at 04:08 PM JST - 9th August

Pukey - Tee hee! Me too! But I still have to pay 18,000 yen for the freakin' fuel surcharge! Grrrrrr!

Posted in Vacationers' exodus peaks at Narita airport at 04:08 PM JST - 9th August
sdmsec at 04:07 PM JST - 9th August

Russia is forced to intervene cause its citizens are endangered there.

Why don't the Russian "citizens" go back to Russia? Oh, I guess they're really just "honorary citizens" - a pretense to allow for the current situation. These so-called Russian citizens never really were Russian citizens were they?

Would this…

Posted in Russia, Georgia head toward war over South Ossetia at 04:07 PM JST - 9th August
Sarge at 04:04 PM JST - 9th August

If the Japanese women's volleyball team wants to win a medal, they'll have to beat the USA tonight.

Posted in China opens Olympics spectacularly at 04:04 PM JST - 9th August
Pukey2 at 04:03 PM JST - 9th August

mikihouse:

I thought that was Indonesia!

Posted in Philippine policeman charged in shooting death of Japanese man at 04:03 PM JST - 9th August
Pukey2 at 04:00 PM JST - 9th August

Bwa-ha-ha!!

I bet even Timbuktoo had live coverage!

Posted in NBC delays Olympic coverage by 12 hours, angering U.S. fans at 04:00 PM JST - 9th August
smithinjapan at 03:55 PM JST - 9th August

SuperLib: I'm impressed! Nicely put, and I hope it is so.

Undecided: I do indeed like to say it, and I say it here.

Posted in U.S. team creates stem cells of 10 incurable diseases at 03:55 PM JST - 9th August
Pukey2 at 03:53 PM JST - 9th August

I read somewhere this week that, at current rates, all Americans will be overweight by 2050 or so. There'll come a time when airlines just can't discriminate in US because everyone will have a bit of excess baggage.

Posted in How airlines deal with 'customers of size' at 03:53 PM JST - 9th August
sdf_crew_member at 03:52 PM JST - 9th August

whose right in this situation?

I guess civil war has no right side but there are wrongdoers on both.

sdf crew member "No, the title is absolutely correct." Right, it is now, I agree. It wasn't before JT changed it, just before you saw the present title.

Unaccounted option... I've…

Posted in Russia, Georgia head toward war over South Ossetia at 03:52 PM JST - 9th August
Pukey2 at 03:49 PM JST - 9th August

tee hee hee. I'll be having my summer vacation after the rush has finished.

Posted in Vacationers' exodus peaks at Narita airport at 03:49 PM JST - 9th August